Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 17 - "Accession"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
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🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Accession," great news! A long-lost Bajoran poet emerges from the wormhole convinced he is the Emissary. Bad news though, he's wasting no time in using the power of faith to upend Bajoran society. Sisko will have to take things back into his - and the prophets' - hands.
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:06.0 | This episode of Mission Log is sponsored by Mint Mobile. |
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| 0:17.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 350, Accession. Welcome to another episode of Michilogue a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:44.8 | And I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:46.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we explore the morals, meanings, and messages, and even the |
| 0:50.6 | deep probing questions of belief, presented in at least a few episodes of Star Trek. |
| 0:55.8 | This week, accession, the one where the emissary meets the emissary and then they have an |
| 1:02.4 | an aissary off is that is that how you settle it or maybe a |
| 1:06.4 | dance off or you just ask mom and dad to settle it once and for all I will find out |
| 1:11.1 | what are you doing emissary you doing? Emissary off, bro, Emissary off. |
| 1:14.8 | That's the way it happens, I'm certain. |
| 1:18.4 | The throw down, like two DJ's. |
| 1:20.7 | Or Dejahras, if you will.J.Jajara's if you will. |
| 1:24.0 | Oh, nice. |
| 1:27.0 | But before we jump into the serious questions of Bajoran theology, |
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