Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 13 - "Far Beyond the Stars"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
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🗓️ 22 April 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Far Beyond the Stars," Captain Sisko inhabits the life of Benny Russell, a frustrated science-fiction writer in 1950s Harlem.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:22.4 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 398, far beyond the stars. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion, and I'm Norman of looking at an episode of Star Trek in search of the morals, meanings, and messages. |
| 1:04.6 | This week, Far Beyond the Stars, an episode of Star Trek that takes place in another time |
| 1:10.0 | and another place. |
| 1:11.3 | New York City in 1953 and asks us to consider who is the dreamer and who is the dream. |
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| 1:51.6 | But the bigger question is right now, John, is who is the trivia? Or what is the trivia? But I know that John is the trivia master and here is this week's trivia. Thank you for that. So far beyond the |
| 2:04.0 | stars is a story that was conceived by Mark Scott Zickry and we've mentioned |
| 2:09.6 | Mark before way back in the T&G days and we pointed out that he got the story credit for the |
| 2:15.5 | season 4 episode first contact. You may also recall from that time that we |
| 2:20.6 | mentioned that he is known for having written the Twilight Zone Companion book. |
| 2:25.3 | This episode of DS9 had a pretty unique story cycle though and it all starts with a pitch |
| 2:30.2 | Mark had written in which an alien was using Jake to explore humanity |
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