Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 22 - "By Any Other Name"

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

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4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "By Any Other Name," beings from the Andromeda galaxy take human form, then take over the Enterprise for the 300-year journey home. But has being human changed them. Are they still Andromedans?

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.6	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 51.
0:10.5	By any other name. Welcome in to Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Ken Ray, and my descendants will complete the podcast journey laid out before us.
0:36.9	And I'm John Champion, and my descendants will make fun podcast journey laid out before us. And I'm John Champion.
0:38.6	And my descendants will make fun of Ken's descendants along the podcast journey laid out before us.
0:44.3	And really, I would have it no other way.
0:47.5	This week, the name of the show is By Any Other Name.
0:51.0	And that's the name of it.
0:52.2	No matter what other name you try to give it.
0:54.4	Hey, John, what's the name of next week's show?
0:56.6	I don't know. Third base.
0:59.7	Yeah, it's Abbott and Costello meet Captain Kirk.
1:02.5	Except Abbott and Costello had timing. We've got timing. Yes, we do. It's just not in sync,
1:08.7	but, you know, we'll work on it. Maybe, maybe our, our grandchildren's
1:12.3	grandchildren will have this together by the time, by the time this show is over. Hey, if you're genetically
1:17.8	programmed for comic timing. Well, they may, they may or may not be, but we can get to that
1:22.9	later. If your grandchildren's grandchildren would like to get to get in touch with us, by the way,
1:28.1	there are a few ways that they can do that.
1:29.4	Or heck, if you want to, why don't you do it?
1:32.7	Facebook, Skype, and Twitter at the handle Mission Logpod.
1:36.0	Or you can call us 323-522-5641.
1:40.3	That number again, 3-2-3-5-2-6-41.
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