Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 7 - "Starship Down"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Starship Down," ever have one of those days where you're trying to save a stranded vessel but you're fighting off attack ships while your crew is separated and there's a hull breach and a torpedo stuck in your mess hall?
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| 0:00.0 | RPN, the Rotenberry Podcast Network. |
| 0:05.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by listeners like you. |
| 0:09.0 | Supporters on Patreon, join today at Patreon.com slash Mission Log. |
| 0:17.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek |
| 0:19.4 | Podcast episode 341, Starship Down. Welcome to another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:46.6 | And I'm John Champy on each week on Mission Log, we take a deep dive, risking |
| 0:52.2 | crushing pressures and inevitable decompression sickness |
| 0:55.4 | all in an effort to parse the morals, meetings, and messages in every episode of Star Trek. |
| 1:01.5 | This week, Starship Down, in which the Defiant must fight off Jem Hadar |
| 1:06.2 | ships. Oh, oh, oh, oh, it's been a long time on Mission Logs since we had a round of the alternate |
| 1:12.0 | title game. I'll go first, the |
| 1:14.0 | U.S.S. defiant and the terrible horrible no good very bad day. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm gonna risk a little bit more here. I'm gonna try well how about these how about |
| 1:22.1 | Odoss defiant or I'm going to try, well, how about these? How about |
| 1:22.8 | Oh, Doss Defiant? |
| 1:24.4 | Or perhaps, Run Sisko, Run Deep Space Nine? |
| 1:28.8 | Or Balance of Kira. |
| 1:31.4 | How about this, John, how about this? |
| 1:32.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:33.7 | The hunt for Red Corktober. |
| 1:36.8 | Whoa, whoa, I defer. |
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