SUPPLEMENTAL: The One with Dr. Anand Swaminathan

Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Roddenberry Entertainment

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🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Mission Log welcomes an extended interview by our partner podcast, Shabam!, with Dr. Anand Swaminathan discussing the complicated issues around coronavirus. Logically, it's Trek-related too! Hear how The Wrath of Khan ties in and stick around for Dr. Swami's fun Leonard Nimoy story.

Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao

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0:00.0	RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network.
0:07.0	Mission Lock, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, supplemental number 59, the one with Dr. Onan Swami Nathan. Welcome into a supplemental edition of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast, I'm John Champion.
0:34.7	If you listen to Mission Log, you know that we go to an effort to make it timeless, as evergreen
0:39.7	as possible.
0:41.0	So you could pick out an episode from now or from five years ago and
0:45.0	still hear a discussion of relevant ideas. We are living in interesting times
0:50.0	though. The threat of the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes,
0:54.6	COVID-19, has upended our professional and social lives, damaged economies on a
1:00.5	large scale, and frankly, given us a world where we're faced with new dangers and
1:05.4	ambiguous answers. Our partner podcast, Shabam, here on Rodenberry, talk to Dr. Anan Swami Nathan recently to get some perspective on what we like to talk
1:16.6	about, morals, meanings, and messages, or more specifically the ethics of how we treat each other during this new threat.
1:25.0	Give it a listen and stick around for Dr. Swami's fun story about meeting Leonard Nimoy.
1:30.4	I promise it'll make you smile. So I'm here with my friend Dr. Anun Swami Nathan.
1:34.0	He's an emergency medicine doctor who works at St. Joseph's Hospital in Patterson, New Jersey.
1:38.0	He's joining me today to discuss Spock's famous line in Wrath of Khan.
1:42.0	The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one, in the context of the
1:46.6	coronavirus pandemic.
1:48.1	Now in the movie, Spock ends up sacrificing his life to save everyone on the enterprise which is not an easy choice but the
1:53.7	logic of his decision was simple in reality though is it that simple there are
1:57.8	different needs different groups of people it seems like it could be too
2:00.9	simplistic what do you think, Swami?
2:02.5	No, I agree.
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