Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 20 - "Shattered Mirror"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Shattered Mirror," not content to stay in their own alternate universe, Smiley and Jennifer Sisko hatch a plan to lure our Benjamin over to help beef up their version of the Defiant. They use Jake as the bait which accounts for a strange mother and son reunion. Also, the Mirror Universe is bad for Ferengi.
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:04.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by listeners like you. |
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| 0:12.0 | Patreon.com slash Mission Log. |
| 0:15.0 | Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 353 shattered mirror. Welcome to another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Norman Lough. |
| 0:47.0 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:49.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we explore the morals, meetings, and messages of every episode of Star Trek. |
| 0:57.3 | This week, shattered mirror. |
| 1:00.1 | Once again, we stepped through the looking glass. |
| 1:03.0 | Wait, is this the same fairy tale? |
| 1:06.0 | No, it's my mistake, my mistake. |
| 1:08.0 | My apologies to you, John, my apologies to the listeners. |
| 1:11.0 | No worries, no worries. |
| 1:12.0 | Shattered mirror on the wall. |
| 1:14.0 | Who's the fairest Jennifer Sisko of all? |
| 1:18.0 | That's closer, right? |
| 1:20.0 | You're getting there. |
| 1:21.0 | You're getting there. |
| 1:22.0 | With each step, Norman, you're getting there. Okay. So, and while I sort that out, here's something that I actually know very intimately and want to tell you how to contact us. |
| 1:33.0 | So Mission Log relies on your participation, |
| 1:35.0 | so that's why we want to hear from you. |
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