Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 3 - "The Changeling"

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🗓️ 14 March 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "The Changeling," The Enterprise encounters Earth's first deep space probe, but something is different. Instead of discovering new life, it wants to wipe all wipe out all imperfect life. How will Kirk and crew escape?

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.6	Mission Log, a Rodenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion.
0:33.7	I am Ken Ray. Each week on Mission Log, we watch one episode of Star Trek, then take it apart for messages, morals, and meanings, trying to determine whether it stands the test of time. I am Canray. This week, we're watching The Changelang. I am Ken Ray. You are right, John. We are watching The Changelang. I am Ken Ray. Are you going to do that for the
0:57.7	entire episode? I am Ken Ray. Probably not. I am Ken Ray. That's my nomad imitation. Oh, really? I've been
1:09.8	working on that all week.
1:11.0	What do you think of it?
1:12.0	It's great.
1:13.2	I'm glad to have the old Ken Ray back and not the Nomad Kenray.
1:16.6	Should I try different like reeds every time I do it?
1:20.2	I'm Ken Ray.
1:21.4	You know I was thinking, John?
1:22.4	Blah, blah, blah.
1:23.8	I am Ken Ray.
1:25.7	I wonder if they tried that with Nomad.
1:27.5	They tried different reeds for Nomad.
1:30.3	Hey, a nomad and my mission is to eradicate anything that's impure out of the galaxy.
1:37.4	I'll be making my way to the Alpha Quadrant.
1:39.6	Well, they started in the Alpha Quadrant.
1:41.4	I'll be making my way to Earth a little later.
1:44.0	They tried out airline pilots, you're saying.
1:46.9	They did.
1:48.0	But a smooth airline pilot.
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