Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 2, Episode 8 - "Necessary Evil"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Necessary Evil," Quark gets recruited by a dangerous dame for a box job that almost leaves him a stiff. Can a gumshoe like Odo solve that and a years old murder mystery? They both point to a con that moved a lot of lettuce to a lot of sharpers. Let Rom pour you some hooch - it's going to be a bumpy ride...
Hosted by John Champion & Ken Ray
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:04.0 | This episode of Mission Log is sponsored by the official Star Trek Discovery Stars |
| 0:09.0 | Collection, all new Starships in a larger size format and officially authorized by CBS Studios. |
| 0:15.9 | Subscribe today and receive the U.S.S. Shen Show for only $9.95 with free shipping. |
| 0:22.4 | For details, visit Eagle Moss.com |
| 0:25.4 | slash Discovery Starships. Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast Episode 294 Necessary Evil Oh, He was the kind of show that talked about Star Trek a lot. |
| 1:00.0 | It poured over ideas and ideals and ways that made some happy and others sick. |
| 1:05.0 | It said its name was Mission Log, a Rothenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | But I wasn't so sure. |
| 1:13.0 | No, it is Mission Log. |
| 1:16.0 | A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. I'm Ken Ray. |
| 1:20.0 | He said his name was Ken Ray, which would seem to make me John Champion, or would it? |
| 1:29.0 | This week Necessary Evil, the one where Odo learns to journal. |
| 1:34.4 | Oh, and Quark nearly gets killed, and we learn a lot about the past shared between the |
| 1:38.5 | major and the constable. |
| 1:41.3 | John's got trivia coming up in a bit, but first. |
| 1:44.0 | Oh, but first. A word from Egel Moss, the official Star Trek Discovery |
| 1:49.9 | Starship's collection. Ken, you and I might have talked about these in the past a bit. |
| 1:53.7 | Just as a refresher, a reminder, these are the models that are officially authorized by |
| 1:58.1 | CBS Studios. They're made from quality weighty materials, like you got your die cast metal and ABS materials and |
| 2:06.6 | they are so accurate because they're based on the C.G models actually used in production |
| 2:11.8 | of the latest Star Trek series that would be |
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