Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 11 - "Waltz"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Waltz," wounded and stranded on a barren planet is the last place Captain Sisko wants to be. Stranded alongside a violent Gul Dukat who is losing his mind just makes matters worse.
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| 0:27.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 396, Waltz. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm John Champion. And I'm Norman Lough each week on Mission |
| 1:05.2 | Log we sit in a cave and listen to the voices in our head so we can shout out what |
| 1:10.1 | we've learned about morals, meanings, and messages. |
| 1:13.4 | Today's episode, Waltz, or as the Germans might say, |
| 1:17.8 | vaults. |
| 1:19.2 | It's the one where, uh, there's dancing? dancing? |
| 1:23.0 | Well, not literal dancing, but it's more of a psychological back and forth between |
| 1:27.0 | Cisco and Decott. |
| 1:28.0 | You know, they talk, but it's a waltz just without the music. |
| 1:33.0 | Right, just like that. |
| 1:35.0 | Okay, I tell you what, I'll get ready for trivia |
| 1:38.0 | while you tell people how to reach us |
| 1:40.0 | and then we'll waltz through the discussion after that. |
| 1:44.0 | There are voices in my head but it's not me. |
| 1:48.0 | And if you know that, good for you. |
| 1:51.0 | But here's something you may not know. |
| 1:52.0 | Mission Log is a |
| 1:53.3 | conversation about star trek and that's why we want to hear from you use mission log |
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