Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 1, Episode 14 - "The Storyteller"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Storyteller," the Sirah is the one person who can prevent a terrifying sky-monster from destroying a quiet Bajoran village, but he's dying. Enter the man who would be Sirah... Miles O'Brien! Can he save the villagers while saving himself from a job he doesn't want?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:43.0 | A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:46.0 | Episode 281 The Storyte |
| 0:49.0 | Teller The Wow, welcome in to Mission Log aoddenberry Star Trek Podcast, I'm Ken Ray? |
| 1:16.8 | Wait, wait, no. |
| 1:18.4 | Okay, Ken, you've really got to sell it to people, like this. I'm John Champion and this is Mission Log. Okay, yeah, I'm bringing |
| 1:29.5 | you morals and meanings and messages of every episode of Star Trek. |
| 1:39.0 | Okay, better. We're getting better. Now I really want to hear you punch it up like |
| 1:43.6 | gather round dear listeners while we tell the tales of adventures and the far |
| 1:49.5 | reaches of the galaxy. And may your puny souls be spared the wrath of the Yeah, that, okay, it's kind of taken a dark turn. |
| 2:03.0 | Entrails. |
| 2:04.0 | Yeah, way, way, way too dark. |
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