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🗓️ 6 September 2012
⏱️ 36 minutes
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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, “The Naked Time”, breaking a sweat leads to multiple breakdowns on the Enterprise. Singing! Swordplay! Kirk is torn between two lovers!
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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0:00.0 | Now entering nerdist.com. |
0:05.1 | The Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
0:09.6 | Episode 5, The Naked Time. Hello boys and girls, cats and kittens, people, and other people. |
0:32.7 | It's time for another edition of the Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
0:36.5 | From the Empire State, I'm Ken Ray. And from the Golden State, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. From the Empire State, |
0:37.7 | I'm Ken Ray. And from the Golden State, I'm John Champion. Every week on the mission log, |
0:43.7 | we do one thing. Take apart an episode of Star Trek and answer a few questions about it. |
0:49.4 | What's the moral? What's the meaning? And does the episode as a whole stand the test of time? |
0:54.5 | And while we will recap each episode before we dive in, |
0:57.7 | it'd be much more fun if you were watching along with us. |
1:00.4 | And the cool thing about the 21st century is there are so many ways to watch tales of the 23rd century, |
1:04.6 | including Netflix streaming, Amazon Video on Demand, and of course on DVD or Blu-ray. |
1:09.8 | And if you're playing along at home, |
1:11.6 | oh yeah, you know what time it is. It's naked time. Watch out. For the record, I would like to say |
1:19.3 | that I am fully clothed while recording this episode. Not me, buddy. Well, I knew that was coming. |
1:24.6 | I knew it. So, Ken, let me ask you, if you were to ever touch a drop of alcohol, because that is kind of the analog in the story, as McCoy points out. |
1:36.3 | And I know that you are as pure as the driven snow. |
1:39.3 | But if you were to ever touch a drop of alcohol, would there be one thing about your personality |
1:45.0 | that would manifest itself to say, you know, take over a starship or, you know, get the sword |
1:50.5 | off the wall and start fighting imaginary villains with it? Oh, dude. You know, it's funny, |
1:55.6 | actually, when they came to the alcohol analogy, I was like, hey, I've been that guy. Hey, I've |
2:00.4 | been that guy. I mean, it depends on the hey, I've been that guy. Hey, I've been that guy. I mean, |
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