Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 2 - "Who Mourns for Adonais"

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🗓️ 7 March 2013

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Who Mourns for Adonais," The Enterprise confronts its most powerful super-being so far. Can getting away be as simple as choosing to not believe in it?

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.3	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, kneel before us, and we will promise you a lifetime of serenity, peace, and happiness.
0:37.7	But defy us, and you will promise you a lifetime of serenity, peace, and happiness. But defy us, and you will be punished.
0:41.4	I'm John Champion.
0:42.8	And I'm Ken Ray.
0:44.4	Each week, what we do on Mission Logge, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast is watch one
0:48.8	episode of Star Trek and trying to suss out the messages, morals, and meanings from that
0:52.9	episode.
0:53.7	This week, the question, what of Lazarus?
0:57.2	No, I'm sorry.
0:58.0	No, no, no, please, no, please no.
1:00.5	Who mourns for Adonai?
1:02.5	This is the episode where the Enterprise crew gets to confront a Greek God.
1:07.0	You don't do that every day.
1:08.7	Yeah, well, they choose to confront a Greek God. You say get to. It's not like we're all dying to do that every day. Yeah. Well, they choose to confront a Greek god.
1:11.1	You say get to.
1:12.4	It's not like we're all dying to do that.
1:14.0	That's not like my goal in life.
1:16.1	No?
1:16.5	Yeah, there's plenty of other stuff to confront.
1:18.1	I'm not waiting around for...
1:20.0	I want the Norse gods, actually.
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