Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 2, Episode 6 - "Melora"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Melora," there's a visitor on DS9 - Ensign Melora Pazlar. She comes from a low-gravity planet which means she's got some physical disadvantages in the space station's environment, but everyone there is glad to help her out. Except Melora doesn't want their help. In fact, she's rather dismissive of everyone until a certain Doctor tries to break through her barriers and possibly treat her disability. Also, someone tries to kill Quark.
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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 292. |
| 0:12.0 | Milora 292. Melora. Welcome in the Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Kan Ray. |
| 0:35.0 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:37.0 | Each week, we watch an episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:40.0 | taking it apart for meanings, morals, and messages |
| 0:43.6 | and seeing whether the whole thing holds up today. |
| 0:46.2 | This week, Melora, the one where Dr. Bashir does a passable impression |
| 0:50.9 | of Will Reicher and a spot-on impression of Jordi of the Forge. |
| 0:55.0 | I've got trivia coming up in a moment, but first. |
| 0:58.0 | But first, I'm going to tell you how to get in touch with us. |
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| 1:27.0 | and please do remember, |
| 1:29.0 | we may use your comments on an upcoming episode of Mission Log. So Melora, John Melora. |
| 1:35.6 | Yeah, I'm guessing like many episodes of Star Trek that there is trivia tied to this episode, this episode, Melora. |
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