Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 3 - "The Visitor"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Visitor," after Benjamin Sisko dies in an accident, he visits young Jake Sisko on DS9. Years later, the elder Jake is visited by a young writer looking for a good story.
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| 0:20.3 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry's Star Trek Podcast, episode 337, the visitor. Oh, Welcome to another edition of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:49.8 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:51.7 | And I'm Norman Lau. And I'm Norman Lough. |
| 0:53.3 | Each week our mission continues examining every episode of Star Trek, picking apart the |
| 0:58.1 | morals, meanings, and messages contained therein. This week we take a look at one of the most emotionally powerful episodes of Deep Space Nine with The Visitor. |
| 1:10.0 | Well, the visitor not named Nana, even though she was technically the only visitor in the production |
| 1:17.0 | I never mind |
| 1:19.7 | but before we settle into this episode with a nice cup of tea and a warm blanket by a crackling |
| 1:25.5 | fire, John, could you please let the listeners know how they can reach us so they don't stumble |
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| 1:35.2 | My pleasure. |
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