Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 15 - "Sons of Mogh"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
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🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Sons of Mogh," Worf's brother, Kurn, has a simple request - kill him. So Worf does, or at least he tries to before Odo and Dax can save him. Kurn is only made more miserable so is there a resolution to save a life and save face?
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:05.0 | Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 348, Sons of Moog. Welcome to another episode of Mission Log, a Rod Mary Star Trek Podcast, I'm John Champion. |
| 0:34.0 | And I'm Norman Lough. Each week on Mission Log, we explore the morals, meanings, and messages, and choices, or lack thereof, |
| 0:42.0 | contained within each and every episode of Star Trek. |
| 0:45.4 | This week, the Sons of Moog, the one where we're reunited with the... |
| 0:51.4 | The Sons of Moog! Hey, it's Moog. Hey it's Moog sons it's those the scrappy Moog boys. |
| 0:56.8 | Norman they're back those irascible Moog boys. Good to see you know what again a completely different show right now is they |
| 1:06.0 | actually did something called the daughters of Mogh but those would be the |
| 1:09.5 | daughters of Doris yes yes yes we got to know them for a while, but too bad no more of them. |
| 1:16.7 | You know what the daughters of Doras did that I'm going to do for you right now is that they were |
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| 2:05.1 | Now at this time because I still have the choice to make my own decisions |
| 2:10.4 | before anyone else decides to rewrite my brain and choose them for me. |
| 2:16.1 | I choose for all of us now to listen to John Champion for this week's trivia. |
| 2:20.5 | Well, thank you, Norman. |
| 2:21.6 | I think he might be, you know might be indicating the direction of the conversation this week. |
| 2:25.4 | Be very interested to see where that goes. |
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