Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5, Episode 5 - "The Assignment"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Assignment," another rough patch for Miles and Keiko O'Brien? That doesn't sound right. Maybe it will pass on its own. Or maybe it's the ancient pah-wraith that has taken up residence in Keiko's body and is ordering Miles to sabotage Deep Space Nine.
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| 0:40.8 | Use the promo code Mission at checkout for 20% off all books and graphic novels. a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast, episode 364, the assignment. Oh, Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:20.2 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 1:21.5 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log we examine an episode of |
| 1:25.4 | Star Trek picking it apart for morals, meetings and messages and seeing whether or |
| 1:30.6 | not the whole thing stands a test of time. |
| 1:34.1 | That is, we'll do all of that if you answer exactly as I say and make this easy for all of us. |
| 1:39.3 | What? |
| 1:41.3 | What did you say? |
| 1:43.0 | nothing. |
| 1:45.0 | Just get into the rest of the show. |
| 1:47.0 | Today we're talking about the assignment where there are just a lot of innocent engineering projects happening on board deep space nine nothing |
| 1:54.9 | to worry about here just like our podcast finish on time and nobody gets hurt. |
| 2:02.4 | John I'm a little worried about you. |
| 2:04.0 | Something seems a little off tonight. |
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