Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 2, Episode 4 - "Invasive Procedures"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Invasive Procedures," Verad is one of the 9-in-10 Trill who doesn't have a symbiont living inside him. He can't seem to get over it, though, and he's got his eyes on what Jadzia has... Dax. Can he steal the symbiont from her and escape to the Gamma Quadrant? If he does, what becomes of Jadzia?
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:24.0 | A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | Episode 290. |
| 0:29.0 | Invasive Procedures procedures. Welcome into Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Ken Ray and I'm John Champion each week on |
| 0:56.2 | Mission Log we watch an episode of Star Trek taking it apart from messages |
| 1:00.6 | morals and meanings, |
| 1:02.9 | and seeing whether the episode stands the test of time. |
| 1:06.4 | This week, invasive procedures, |
| 1:09.6 | or, as I like to call it, Dax 2, because, well there's two Daxes, first of all in this episode, |
| 1:17.4 | three if you count the little guy that hops between the two of them. |
| 1:20.2 | Right, Dax 2 Electric Guelloo! |
| 1:22.2 | You go. |
| 1:24.0 | And then also it may bring up, you know, some of the same stuff. |
| 1:26.0 | Although if you want to boil it all down, |
| 1:28.0 | I would say the reason I call it Dax 2 is, |
| 1:31.0 | reasons. |
| 1:32.0 | John's got trivia coming up in a moment, always a fun part of the show, but first I'm going to tell you how to get in touch with us. |
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