Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5, Episode 6 - "Trials and Tribble-ations"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Trials and Tribble-ations," the most fearsome adversary of the Klingons return - tribbles! Relive the days of miniskirts and bar brawls when the crew of the Defiant find themselves saving Captain Kirk's life. Only he'll never know.
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| 0:50.1 | Podcast, Episode 365 Trials trials and triple actions. The Welcome to another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:20.7 | I'm John Champion. |
| 1:22.4 | And I'm Norman Lough. week on Mission Log we take a look at every |
| 1:26.0 | episode of Star Trek in order and by season diving deep to find the morals |
| 1:30.5 | meanings messages and nostalgia contained within. |
| 1:35.0 | This week, Trials and Tribulations, one of the most beloved episodes of Star Trek inspired |
| 1:42.3 | by one of the most beloved episodes of Star Trek inspired by one of the most beloved episodes of Star Trek. |
| 1:45.0 | Now John and I can wax nostalgic all day long in our preamble, but in order to keep our |
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