Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 19 - "In the Pale Moonlight"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "In the Pale Moonlight," Captain Sisko struggles with a difficult decision that could turn the tide of the war with the Dominion. How easy is it to compromise one's morals if it could save billions of lives - especially when someone like Garak is there to encourage him?
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:21.3 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 404 in the pale moonlight. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 0:56.0 | And I'm Norman Lough. Each week on Mission Log, we look right into the morals of an episode of Star Trek and ask ourselves, |
| 1:04.5 | would we have done the same thing? |
| 1:07.0 | Would you and can you live with yourself in the morning? |
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| 2:04.9 | And now with a perfect, isylenier, optolithic rod full of trivia. |
| 2:11.3 | Well maybe it's fake, I'm not sure, but the trivia is real and here's John |
| 2:14.7 | Champion with it. |
| 2:15.7 | All right, today's story in the pale moonlight is by Peter Allen Fields and it's great to see |
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