Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 2, Episode 18 - "Profit and Loss"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Profit and Loss," an old flame of Quark's happens by DS9. She's a Cardassian, but not just any Cardassian. She's teacher to a couple of students with radical ideas. This gets the interest of Garak the tailor. But he's not just any tailor. An outcast of his home world, he'd kill to get back to Cardassia. Literally.
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 |
| 0:10.0 | 304, Profit and Loss. 3. Welcome in the Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we watch an episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:41.0 | taking it apart for morals and meanings, ideas and ideals, and seeing |
| 0:46.0 | whether it all stands the test of time. |
| 0:48.9 | This week we go back in time to when Ferengi were real men. Cardassians were real dames. |
| 0:55.3 | And around every corner, somebody work in an angle. |
| 0:58.8 | Providence Loss starring Quark as Humphrey Bogart, Natima as Ingrid Bergman, and other characters as other people from |
| 1:06.4 | Casablanca. I've got trivia coming up in a bit, but first. |
| 1:10.1 | But first, I'm going to let you know how to get in touch with us. Mission Log Pod is the address to find |
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| 1:30.8 | Our email address is Mission Log at missionlogg podcast.com and please |
| 1:39.8 | do remember we may use your comments on an upcoming episode of Mission Log. |
| 1:45.0 | Tip of the hat, dot for the old chafoe to some old timey type movies and stuff, John, I'm assuming, around that, there's got to be a bit of trivia. |
| 1:57.6 | You might think so, so let's get to it, shall we? |
| 2:00.3 | Profit and loss was written by Flip Cubler and Cindy Marcus. |
| 2:05.0 | Brand new names to the show this week. |
| 2:08.0 | Flip and Cindy are a husband and wife creative team. |
| 2:11.0 | This episode was their first professional sale in Hollywood. |
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