Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 18 - "Rules of Engagement"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Rules of Engagement," it's the heated action of an extradition hearing when Worf's actions are debated by a Klingon lawyer and Captain Sisko! Watch out for flying verbal jabs and character witnesses! Is that an appeal to logic in front of a Vulcan adjudicator?
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:28.6 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 351, Rules of Engagement. Welcome to another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm |
| 0:55.6 | Norman Lau. And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we explore the |
| 0:59.8 | morals, meanings, and messages of each and every episode of Star Trek. |
| 1:05.7 | This week, Rules of Engagement, otherwise known as A Few Good Klingons, where John and I discuss |
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