Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 14 - "One Little Ship"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "One Little Ship," the incredible shrinking runabout takes a fantastic voyage into the innerspace of the USS Defiant after the Jem'Hadar take Captain Sisko and his crew hostage.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast. |
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| 0:20.2 | and more mission Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 399, one little ship. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm |
| 0:54.7 | Norman Low. And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. We take both a macro and |
| 1:01.2 | a microscopic look at each and every episode of Star Trek to see if their morals, |
| 1:06.0 | meanings, and messages scale in size over the test of time. |
| 1:12.2 | This week, one little ship, the episode the No, no, no, it's not that one. I'm sorry. |
| 1:23.2 | Uh-oh. |
| 1:23.8 | Um, okay. |
| 1:26.7 | The one where the crew of the enterprise try and decode the word keratin |
| 1:30.6 | from a strange signal. |
| 1:31.8 | Is it, no, no, no, it's not not that one either |
| 1:35.5 | Well, geez John you'll have to make me feel small about it. I mean, hold on a second here it is I got I got it |
| 1:41.7 | The one where almost every other scene contains a double entendre. |
| 1:46.9 | Okay, close, but no Freudian cigar. |
| 1:50.3 | I tell you what, why don't you do the thing so we can get onto the other thing |
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