Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 2, Episode 5 - "Cardassians"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Cardassians," plain, simple Garak is back, though there is nothing plain nor simple about the young Cardassian he's spotted on DS9. The kid's name is Rugal and he was raised on Bajor, as a Bajoran. Things get even less simple when Gul Dukat gets involved. And all pretense of simplicity gets shot out of an airlock when Rugal's biological father turns out to be a high ranking politician on Cardassia. Will Rugal get to go home with his father? Or will he have to go home with his other father? And will this be the episode where Miles O'Brien finally stops hating all Cardassians just because they're Cardassian?
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:05.0 | Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Episode 291, Cardassians. Welcome into 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 examine an episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:42.0 | picking it apart for morals, messages, and |
| 0:44.8 | meanings and seeing whether the whole thing holds up to the test of time. |
| 0:49.0 | This week, Cardassians. This is the episode of Deep Space Nine with Cardassians and you won't see many of those. |
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| 1:34.0 | John, correct me if I'm wrong. |
| 1:37.0 | This is the first time that we've actually seen Cardassians. |
| 1:40.0 | Yeah, so weird, right? |
| 1:42.0 | I mean, there's been so much talk of them. I feel like even ever since T&G. |
| 1:47.0 | I believe it was Mark Twain who said everybody talks about Cardassians, but nobody ever does anything. |
| 1:52.0 | It was, it was Mark Twain. Yeah. |
| 1:55.6 | Yeah. Yeah. Times Arrow. Yeah. Times Arrow right and we were all like what is he |
| 2:00.7 | talking about Cardassians? We won't see them for like 400 years |
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