Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 1, Episode 19 - "Duet"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2018
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Duet," Major Kira suspects that the Cardassian bookkeeper on board DS9 is guilty of war crimes. Is Marritza who he claims to be, or is he the other, more notorious person he claims to be? Can Kira see past her need for vengeance and learn compassion for this Cardassian?
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| 0:23.0 | A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Episode 286. |
| 0:29.0 | Duet that. Welcome into Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. I'm Can Ray and I'm John Champion each week on mission log we |
| 0:57.0 | investigate deeply picking apart an episode of Star Trek and search |
| 1:00.8 | for morals, meanings, messages and seeing if the whole thing stands up today. |
| 1:06.0 | This week, Duet, the one where Kira catches the butcher of Galatup. |
| 1:11.5 | Or does she? John's got trivia coming up in a bit but first. But first, a word from the clothing section. It's the Mission Log fashion line. |
| 1:21.2 | Inspired by lines for Mission Log, lines you see to me and here's a look at my |
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| 1:33.0 | See what Carl does actually is, Carl is a designer, he's an illustrator, he's a very talented |
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