Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 16 - "Bar Association"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Bar Association," working at Quark's Bar is tough, but Quark doesn't seem to care. When Rom has had enough, he's inspired to do something that breaks thousands of years of Ferengi tradition - unionize!
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:16.3 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 349 Bar Association. Welcome to another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:48.0 | And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we explore the morals, meanings, and messages, and at times take a look at the |
| 0:56.0 | ugly truth regarding Ferengue workers' rights in the 24th century. |
| 1:01.0 | The truths being ugly. I mean, not necessarily the Ferengue being ugly. I mean not necessarily the Ferengue being ugly, although there was that one leery-eyed guy. |
| 1:08.0 | There's always a leery-eyed guy. And this week, Bar Association, where John and I go on strike, but we realize we have no |
| 1:16.4 | lines to pick it, and technically we would be our own scabs since we are already recording. |
| 1:21.5 | So we decided this was a terrible plan. However, we have kept all of our contact |
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| 1:57.8 | But before we get into Bar Association, it is once again time for the man who sets the highest bar for Mission Law Trivia, John Champion. |
| 2:07.6 | I thank you, Norman. Trivia for Bar Association. |
| 2:11.4 | The story is by Barbara J. Lee and Jennifer A. Lee. The |
| 2:16.6 | Ram starts a union pitch? Well that was the one-line pitch that sold this story. |
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