Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 10 - "The Magnificent Ferengi"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
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🗓️ 2 April 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Magnificent Ferengi," Moogie has been kidnapped! Quark and Rom have a tough task ahead of them: to rescue their mother from the Dominion with the help of a rag-tag group of fellow Ferengi.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:21.0 | Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 395, the Magnificent Thuringi. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:57.0 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. |
| 1:00.0 | We round up the old gang, come up with a plan, and then go heading into an episode of Star Trek |
| 1:05.4 | to find the morals, meanings, and messages. |
| 1:09.4 | This week, the Magnificent Ferengi, the one where a group of Ferengi help Cork rescue his mom from the Dominion. |
| 1:16.7 | Ooh, ooh, wait, the Magnificent Ferengi. It's a title parody based on the 1960 John Sturgis film The Magnificent Seven, which was based on the |
| 1:26.3 | 1954 Kurosawa film Seven Samurai. |
| 1:30.1 | It's time for the mission log title game. |
| 1:33.2 | I'll go first, a fist full of Latinum. |
| 1:36.7 | Oh, that's good, but how about this? |
| 1:39.2 | How about weekend at Kivans? |
| 1:41.5 | Oh, okay, all right, you're going that direction. |
| 1:43.6 | Uh, Kivans brain. |
| 1:45.2 | Ooh, well played, sir. How about Gala, unchained? |
| 1:50.0 | Nice, nice, okay. I'm going with |
| 1:51.8 | the quark and the Dead. |
| 1:54.0 | Oh, that's pretty good, but I got a better one for you. |
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