Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 18 - "The Immunity Syndrome"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

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🗓️ 27 June 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Immunity Syndrome," the Enterprise is on the hunt for a single cell organism. Won't be hard to find - it's 11,000 miles long. Sure it's alive, but can the Enterprise kill it?

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.4	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 47.
0:10.5	The Immunity Syndrome. Welcome in to another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Can Ray.
0:34.0	And I, I don't feel like doing a show today.
0:38.1	I'm tired.
0:39.4	I'm irritable.
0:40.6	I'd rather just turn this thing around and go home.
0:43.4	John Champion, come on.
0:45.0	Our mission is to explore all of the episodes of Star Trek one by one
0:48.4	and suss out the morals, meanings, and messages within.
0:51.1	We're not just here to turn away at the first time of trouble.
0:55.1	Plus, I've got some stuff that'll pick you right up. And the first one's free.
0:59.3	Cool, then. Yeah. Yeah, if we're talking about stimulants and staying with the show,
1:05.8	then it can mean only one thing. It means we're talking about the immunity syndrome, the episode
1:09.4	where the enterprise encounters a giant single-celled space amoeba. Well, I hate to correct you, but if we're
1:16.7	recording and talking about stimulants, then that's what we're talking about. Oh, okay. Oh, I forgot.
1:22.1	There's a whole of the show we do when we're not recording. I'm not saying I'm just, you know.
1:29.4	Yeah. The'm not saying I'm just, you know. Yeah.
1:30.4	The immunity syndrome, here we go.
1:34.0	Like I said, it's a giant space thing that the enterprise encounters.
1:38.2	And, you know, a giant thing that we encounter every week on the mission log is our trivia.
1:43.9	Do it. So without further further ado if you'll let
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