Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 4, Episode 9 - "The Sword Of Kahless"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Sword Of Kahless," Kor returns to DS9 with the ultimate quest in mind: bring back the Sword of Kahless that will unify the Klingon Empire. That is if only he and Worf can stop fighting over it like a couple of children. Does Dax have to put them in their place?
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| 0:15.6 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek |
| 0:18.1 | Podcast, episode 343, The Sort of Kales. Welcome to another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm |
| 0:45.2 | Norman Lau. And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we explore the |
| 0:50.0 | meandering caves of Star Trek ducking into darkened rooms and blowing off the cobwebs to reveal |
| 0:56.6 | the morals, meetings, and messages of every Star Trek episode ever. |
| 1:02.3 | This week, the Sword of Kales, where the living legend and Dhar |
| 1:07.5 | Master Corps returns with a quest to find the one, I mean the Sword of Kales, one sword to rule them all, well at least |
| 1:16.6 | Corin Wharf. |
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| 1:59.0 | But before we embark on this most epic of quests, John has some trivia that will shake the very |
| 2:05.0 | foundations of legend in a way never before heard by the ears of mortal beings, or |
| 2:10.4 | at least you are listeners. |
| 2:11.6 | Hey it's trivia for the sword of Kalese. |
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