Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 26 - "Broken Link"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Broken Link," Odo is called home to rejoin with the Great Link. It's not a happy reunion, of course. He's being judged for killing one of their own. Since the changelings are new to all this, the punishment they hand out is sure to be unique.
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| 0:39.3 | episode 359, Broken Link Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 1:05.0 | And I'm Norman Lough. Each week on Mission Log, we use every bit of our concentration to keep our |
| 1:10.0 | composure in order to examine every episode of Star Trek looking for morals, meanings, and |
| 1:15.7 | messages. |
| 1:16.7 | This week, Odo goes back home, not under the best of circumstances. It's broken link and I can't believe it. We've made it to the end of season four of deep space |
| 1:28.8 | Nying applause applause applause way to go all around. |
| 1:33.5 | Yes, we made it. |
| 1:34.5 | Oh, by the way, quick programming note |
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