Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 1, Episode 15 - "Progress"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Progress," Major Kira works to avert a crisis, while Nog and Jake pursue an opportunity. Kira trades the stubbornness of the past for her chosen path, while Nog and Jake trade yamok sauce for self-sealing stem bolts, which they then trade for land. Kira proves something to herself, while Nog proves something to his uncle.
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:05.0 | Mission Log, A Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode |
| 0:11.0 | 282. Progress, or Episode 282. |
| 0:15.0 | Progress or Progress, |
| 0:37.0 | Maybe. Welcome into Mission Log a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 0:38.0 | And I'm just an old podcaster, |
| 0:40.0 | sudden my ways, able to go gruff and tough, rough and tumble, able to seem sexist and arrogant, |
| 0:47.0 | while still lighting a spark of insight and warmth at a folksy down-home manner, but you can call me Ken Ray. |
| 0:57.0 | Each week on mission... |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, I remember this one time. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. Yeah, it was nice. |
| 1:07.0 | Okay. |
| 1:08.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we watch an episode of Star Trek, taking it apart from messages morals and meanings and |
| 1:14.1 | seeing whether the episode stands the test of time. This week progress or is it |
| 1:19.6 | progress the one where Kira meets a set in his ways, gruff and tough farmer, and works to make him a disfarmer. |
| 1:28.0 | I've got trivia coming up, but first. |
| 1:30.0 | But first, a word about the Mission Log Pre-Pé de Porte Collection. |
| 1:35.0 | That means ready to wear en francé, which means in French, |
| 1:40.0 | en francé. |
| 1:41.0 | Somers here in the northern hemisphere, time to get outside and let your geek flag fly, |
| 1:47.0 | which you can do with our mission log and trek-themed stuff. |
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