Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 25 - "Bread and Circuses"

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🗓️ 15 August 2013

⏱️ 64 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Bread and Circuses," Kirk, Spock and McCoy trace the lost spaceship The Beagle to a planet a lot like Earth. But on this planet, the Roman Empire never fell.

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.5	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 54.
0:10.5	Bread and Circuses. Greetings, citizens, and welcome to another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:32.8	The public execution normally scheduled for this time will not be witnessed now,
0:36.6	so that instead we may bring
0:37.7	you an examination of the messages, morals, and meanings of the Star Trek episode, Bread and Circuses.
0:43.6	I'm Canray, but you can call me Amicus Briefus.
0:47.7	And I'm John Champion, but you can call me Biggest somethingus.
0:53.4	Oh, that's very interesting. I have a friend named Biggest somethingus. Oh, that's very interesting.
0:54.9	I have a friend named Biggest somethingus.
0:57.8	Oh.
0:58.6	Let me ask you a question, John.
0:59.9	Yeah, go ahead.
1:00.5	Do you think it's funny when I talk of him, a friend?
1:04.5	Biggest, somethings.
1:07.3	I'm a big fan of Mel Brooks.
1:09.3	Wait a minute.
1:09.8	Was that Mel Brooks or was that Life of Brian? Oh, my gosh. I'm a big fan of Mel Brooks. Wait a minute. Was that Mel Brooks or was that Life of Brian?
1:13.2	Oh, my gosh.
1:14.8	See, here's the problem now.
1:17.1	The pop culture trap that is my brain.
1:20.4	It's a trap.
	...

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