Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 1, Episode 20 - "In the Hands of the Prophets"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "In the Hands of the Prophets," a Bajoran spiritual leader takes issue with classes taught to schoolchildren on Deep Space Nine. But is it religious conviction or ruthless ambition that drives the contentiousness?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:22.0 | Mission Log. |
| 0:24.0 | Mission Log. A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast |
| 0:27.0 | Episode 287 |
| 0:29.0 | In the Hands of the prophets. Welcome into Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Ken Ray and I'm John Champion each week on |
| 0:56.5 | Mission Log we examine a single episode of Star Trek taking it apart for the |
| 1:01.4 | morals, meanings and messages and seeing whether the whole thing holds up today. |
| 1:06.0 | This week, in the hands of the prophets, the one where science and religion clash. |
| 1:12.0 | Your science and religion clash. |
| 1:13.1 | Or science and a religious leader do. |
| 1:15.1 | Anyway. |
| 1:16.5 | John's got trivia coming up in a bit, but first. |
| 1:19.0 | Oh, but first. |
| 1:20.2 | Just a little reminder about another show that we do. It's Mission Log Live |
| 1:25.0 | every Tuesday night. Ken and I get together with you to talk Trek. Now sometimes we talk |
| 1:32.4 | Discovery, sometimes we talk about everything else. |
| 1:35.4 | Science fiction, science fiction. |
| 1:38.7 | Politics, psychology, toys, comics, fandom, and fan films. Oh, the list, it just goes on and on and on, Ken. |
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