Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 22 - "For the Cause"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "For the Cause," it's great to see Captain Sisko settling into a happy relationship with Kasidy Yates - until Odo and Eddington accuse her of smuggling supplies to the Maquis. They'll need to have a talk. Also talking are Garak and the only other Cardassian on DS9, Tora Ziyal - that is unless Kira has her way.
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| 0:18.8 | podcast episode three hundred fifty five |
| 0:22.2 | for the cause. The Welcome to another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:49.0 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. |
| 0:53.0 | We explore the morals, meanings, and messages of each and every episode of Star Trek. |
| 0:59.0 | This week, for the cause, where we take a closer look, but not quite a six-hour inspection of an episode that sheds a great deal of light on the complexity of duty, obligation, and loyalties. But rest assured, one thing you can count on is the wealth of |
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| 1:58.5 | episode of Mission Log. |
| 2:01.8 | And now with a trove of trivia made as clear as to Bailey in Glass, here's John |
| 2:07.1 | Champion. Thank you, Norman. Trivia for today's episode for the cause. We have a story by Mark |
| 2:15.0 | Jared O'Connell. Here's an occasional trek |
| 2:18.1 | contributor who has pitched a few stories that made it to air. He didn't |
| 2:22.3 | get the on-screen credit, but he did have |
| 2:24.9 | the original story pitch for the sixth season T&G episode Timescape. Shortly |
| 2:31.1 | after, his stories started getting picked up for DS9. Second Sight, |
| 2:35.2 | and Meridian both came before this one. Interestingly, he said that the |
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