Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 12 - "The Deadly Years"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

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🗓️ 16 May 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Deadly years," we all hope we'll grow old gracefully. But what if we were forced to grow old in 72 hours or less?

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.5	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:09.0	Episode 41, The Deadly Years. Welcome in to Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:31.5	I'm Ken Ray.
0:32.9	And I'm John Champion.
0:34.2	Mission Log is the show where we pick apart every episode of Star Trek to search for the morals, messages, and meanings.
0:42.4	And I'm Ken Ray.
0:45.0	I don't want to make this uncomfortable for you, but you already introduced yourself.
0:51.2	I'm well aware of that, Joe.
0:54.1	Okay.
0:55.3	If you'd like to reach us, you can catch us on Facebook, Skype, and Twitter at the handle MissionlogPod, or you can call us at 323 522-2-6-41.
1:04.3	That's 3-2-2-2-6-41.
1:07.8	You can email us, Missionlog at Roddenberry.com, and you can check out our homepage,
1:13.1	Missionlogpodcast.com.
1:15.6	Remember, we may use your comments on an upcoming episode of Missionlog.
1:20.4	And we should also tell people, Jack, that they can reach us on Facebook and, I forget the rest, Kenrae, co-host, send that off.
1:33.4	What episode are we doing today, John?
1:35.2	Well, I'm glad you asked, Ken.
1:37.3	And today's episode is The Deadly Years, where the crew of the Enterprise find themselves facing an interesting foe. It is their
1:46.7	own age and mortality. Good. I think I may have seen that once or twice. Right. Hard to remember.
1:54.7	Well, I tell you what, before we get into the story recap, how about I drop some trivia on you?
2:00.0	Might as well. Okay, I got a little bit for you.
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