Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 1 & 2 - "The Way of the Warrior"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2020
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Way of the Warrior," just another quiet day at Deep Space Nine when the Klingons show up asking for shore leave. How many Klingons? How about ALL the Klingons. They're up to something, but we're not sure what so why not invite one more to the party - our old friend Worf.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:05.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by listeners like you, supporters on Patreon. |
| 0:11.0 | Join today at Patreon. |
| 0:15.0 | Mission Log. |
| 0:16.0 | Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, |
| 0:20.0 | Episode 36, The way of the warrior. Welcome to another edition of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm John Champion each week. |
| 0:49.0 | Our mission continues, examining every episode of Star Trek, picking apart the morals, meetings, and messages |
| 0:56.2 | contained therein. |
| 0:58.0 | This week, kicking off season 4 of Deep Space 9 with The Way of the Warrior, aka how Wharf got his groove back. |
| 1:07.0 | And to do this story justice, no mere single episode can contain Klingon Honor of this magnitude. |
| 1:14.0 | It's Star Trek, but longer. |
| 1:16.6 | It's a super-sized episode tailor-made |
| 1:19.8 | for a fairly large tonal shift in the series. Nicely done. |
| 1:24.0 | How Worth got his groove back. |
| 1:25.0 | I love playing the alternate title game right away. |
| 1:28.0 | I dig it. |
| 1:29.0 | Hey, I would love to drop some trivia on you and on our listeners, |
| 1:32.0 | but before I do that why don't you tell the people |
| 1:35.7 | listening at home or we're in their cars or in their showers I don't know where they |
| 1:39.9 | listen to us how they can chat with us well Well, if you'd like to contact us, please isolate your subspace carrier waves for the following contact frequencies. |
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