SUPPLEMENTAL: Looking for Utopia at Comic-Con

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

Arts, Performing Arts, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Convention season means catching up with listeners, fellow podcasters and trying to hash out some big ideas brought up by Star Trek. This episode, we invite you to listen to the panel at San Diego Comic Con presented by Larry Nemecek, "Is utopian Star Trek passé"? In the last fifty years, has Star Trek lost its idealistic roots? If so, is that a function of the writers or audience expectation? And what does utopia look like anyway?

Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray

Welcome to Mission Log, a Roddenberry Entertainment podcast where we explore the Star Trek universe one episode at a time. Each week, Mission Log examines a single episode of Star Trek, diving into its ethical subtext, metaphors, and cultural significance. From the show's most iconic moments to its hidden gems, we analyze what makes Star Trek one of the greatest science fiction sagas of all time...

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0:00.0	RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network.
0:06.0	Mission Log Supplemental. Number 50.
0:09.0	Looking for Utopia at Comic-Con. Welcome into this supplemental edition of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek
0:31.2	podcast. I'm Ken Ray and I'm John Champion. Now each
0:35.6	week on Mission Log we pick apart an episode of Star Trek examining it for
0:40.0	morals, meanings, messages, and seeing whether the whole thing stands the test of time.
0:45.4	And that is not what we're doing today.
0:48.6	Ooh, I was so ready for you to say that, yes.
0:51.3	Because it's convention season, and if there's not what we say
0:54.3	during convention season it is that is not what we're doing today we
0:59.6	we started that bit the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, 2016.
1:04.0	Yeah, and boy, it never gets old unless you're one of the people who listens to it every
1:09.0	time that we do it.
1:10.0	But hey, you might even get to hear us do it live if you join us at STLV.
1:15.4	Well, now hold your horses, Mr. Champion, because we're not talking yet about STLV.
1:20.8	I say it's convention season. We just in the past few days got back from San Diego
1:27.2	Comic-Con which was just like a one big nutty comic-filled thing if you were like at one end of the absence.
1:37.0	Well it's like a whole convention full of, well let's see, there's movies and TV shows and anime and comics.
1:47.0	And there are comics in there too.
1:49.0	Toys, collectibles, yeah.
1:51.0	Art.
1:52.0	I know you saw a couple of paintings that you were like, oh man, if I hadn't just spent that $5,000 on food, I might buy that painting.
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