Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 3, Episode 26 - "The Adversary"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Adversary," Commander Sisko finally makes captain, though there is little time to enjoy it. He and senior staff are being sent to the border of Tzenkethi space to head off possible hostilities. But things may not be as they seem. Was a colony really attacked? Has there really been a change of Tzenkethi government? Is that REALLY Ambassador Krajensky?
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| 0:19.4 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. |
| 0:23.2 | Episode 335 The Adversary Oh, Welcome in the Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Ken Ray. |
| 0:50.6 | And I'm John Champion. The mission of Mission Log is to watch Star Trek, to analyze Star |
| 0:57.2 | Trek and to talk about Star Trek. Does the episode hold up? What message is it trying to impart does it stand the test of |
| 1:05.6 | time this week the adversary the one where Cisco gets promoted to captain. Ha, what a pip! |
| 1:14.0 | Also, there's a shapeshifter trying to ruin everything. |
| 1:17.0 | Like, seriously, start a war, ruin everything. |
| 1:21.0 | John's got trivia coming up in a bit, but first. |
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