Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 11 - "Friday's Child"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

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🗓️ 9 May 2013

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "[Episode Title]," Kirk, Spock and McCoy head to a planet peopled by a warrior race to negotiate mining rights. But there are Klingons about, luring the Enterprise away and leaving our landing party in peril. What's to be learned on Cappella 4?

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.8	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:09.4	Episode 40, Friday's Child. With open hands and hearts, we welcome you to another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:34.5	Freshly returned from another diplomatic mission, I'm Ken Ray. And I'm John Champion,
0:39.9	and I have had it about up to here with diplomatic missions to secure mining rights on
0:45.0	another planet. Instead, just for today, Ken, I think I'm going to kick back and I'm going to
0:49.6	look at the morals, messages, and meanings within Star Trek. You sure you don't want to just have fun with an episode of Star Trek?
0:56.6	Oh, could we?
0:57.9	I don't know.
0:59.2	Let me ask you, John, which episode would you like to examine for morals, messages, and meanings today?
1:04.7	Well, you know, I'd say something clever, but I guess it all has to depend on the day of the week,
1:09.5	on which somebody is listening to this episode, and I would tie it into the title.
1:13.2	The title would be Friday's Child.
1:15.3	You may be listening to it on a Tuesday or a Thursday or a Monday, but for today, for today we're talking about Friday's Child.
1:22.7	Yeah, it's Friday and I'm in love with Star Trek.
1:26.0	That thing, though, that, okay, so Friday's child, that's from that thing.
1:29.8	That's from that poem that...
1:32.2	It is from that poem.
1:33.2	That we all kind of know.
1:34.4	We all pretty much know what the deal is with the day that we're born.
1:36.9	Like, what day were you born, John?
1:38.6	What day the week?
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