Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 2, Episode 19 - "Blood Oath"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Blood Oath," three Klingons bound by a blood oath drop by Deep Space Nine and find their old friend Dax. Though it's a new Dax, and she's not necessarily bound by the same blood oath, she agrees to join their mission of vengeance. Will she uphold the blood oath?
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| 0:16.9 | mission log a rodenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | Episode 305. |
| 0:26.2 | Blood Oath Welcome. Welcome into Mission Log, A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:48.2 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:49.6 | And I'm Can Ray. |
| 0:51.3 | Each week on Mission Log, our Mission Log Mission is to watch an episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:56.0 | taking it apart in Mission Log style for messages, morals, and meanings. And seeing whether the whole |
| 1:02.2 | thing stands up to viewing and reviewing for Mission Log fans of Mission Log. |
| 1:07.0 | This week, it's Blood Oath, the episode where three classic Klingons return and an errand of vengeance, |
| 1:13.8 | also known as Blood Oath, the one where Deep Space Nine |
| 1:17.3 | permanently ruined Star Trek by changing the look of the Klingons, |
| 1:21.5 | and there was never a Star Trek again. |
| 1:24.0 | I feel you on that. |
| 1:26.0 | Though I was thinking that this week, Blood Oath was the one where they say the title of the episode |
| 1:32.0 | more times than an episode of Mission Log says the name Mission Log. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, there is that too. Oh, also see Booby Trap. |
| 1:40.0 | I've got trivia coming up in a bit, but first. |
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