Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 1, Episode 3 - "Past Prologue"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Past Prologue," an old friend of Kira's from her militant days seeks asylum on DS9. But is he seeking asylum? Or is he looking for a way to strike a blow for Bajor? Also, it's the Duras sisters! What are they doing here?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:38.0 | Mission Log, a Rodinberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 270. Pass Prolog. prologue. Welcome into Mission Logger Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 1:02.4 | And I'm Cam Ray each week on Mission Log we watch an |
| 1:06.1 | episode of Star Trek taking it apart from messages morals and meanings and |
| 1:10.3 | seeing whether all of it stands the test of time. |
| 1:13.0 | This week, past prologue, not a man alone. |
| 1:18.0 | Uh-oh. |
| 1:20.0 | Uh-oh? |
| 1:22.0 | Uh-oh? Uh-oh? Not really. |
| 1:23.0 | Kind of, but not really. |
| 1:25.0 | I watched a man alone in preparation for today's show because Netflix told me that I should. |
| 1:31.0 | That is incorrect. Yes because Netflix is incorrect. Correct. Yeah, they |
| 1:38.5 | didn't order thing. Do you know I actually had to go online and look it up? |
| 1:42.0 | Oh good for you. That's that's what you should do. Do you know I actually had to go online and look it up? |
| 1:43.0 | Good for you. |
| 1:44.0 | That's what you should do. |
| 1:45.0 | Oh, like a freaking caveman. |
| 1:46.5 | I was out there saying, wait a minute. |
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