Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 3, Episode 7 - "Day of the Dove"

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🗓️ 10 October 2013

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "Day of the Dove," St. Elmo's fire forces a fight between a ship of Klingons and the crew of the Enterprise. St. Elmo's fire as in a ball of lightning, not the movie from the 1980s. That would be an AMAZING episode of Star Trek. Anyway, we're on the verge of war. But why? And what can be done?

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0:00.0	Now entering nerdist.com.
0:05.6	Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast.
0:31.3	The show where an alien life form pits two Star Trek fans against each other to fight it out for his own amusement.
0:37.0	So then if we don't do the show, what happens?
0:40.0	Alien Life Force just goes away?
0:42.9	Dude, I'm just so mad at you right now. I can't even think about that.
0:48.7	Ken, I don't want you to be mad. I just, I just want to give you a slap on the back and
0:53.1	laugh in the face of our controlling alien life force.
0:56.4	I think that will solve everything.
0:58.8	Yeah, be careful how hard you slap me, though, because I could start the whole thing over again.
1:02.3	Hey, by the way, you mentioned my name, Ken. You said, I'm Ken Ray.
1:06.4	And I'm John Champion. And today we're talking about Day of the Dove, in which an alien life force pits Klingons and Starfleet against each other for its own amusement.
1:17.8	Well, Klingons and Starfleet and occasionally Starfleet and Starfleet and one Vulcan on the ship against everybody. Oh, it's, I mean, there's, if you're itching for a fight, oddly enough, Day of the Dove is mostly for you.
1:30.6	Yeah, there's a lot of conflict. Yeah. Yeah. And as you mentioned, Day of the Dove, well, obviously a reference to something peaceful there, but not a lot of peace to be found in this episode, as we will see.
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2:09.8	Remember, we may use your comments in an upcoming episode of MissionLog.
2:14.9	All right, let me set the scene for you.
2:16.8	We're getting ready to analyze this whole show, figure out the messages, morals and meanings.
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