Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 23 - "Profit and Lace"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Profit and Lace," chaos erupts on Ferenginar when Zek loses his power - all because he supports the right of women to wear clothes! When Ishka is waylaid, Quark has to step in as the voice of the future of female Ferengi finance.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast. |
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| 0:14.0 | joined today at patreon.com slash mission log |
| 0:18.0 | This episode is also brought to you by Slugok, the Drink of Choice for the Farringi |
| 0:24.4 | Commerce Alliance. Slugokola, it's the slimiest cola in the galaxy. |
| 0:31.8 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 408, profit and lace. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman Lough. |
| 1:05.0 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. We watch an episode of Star Trek, |
| 1:09.7 | eventually heading them all, and examining it for the morals, meanings, and messages therein. |
| 1:16.4 | This week, Prophet and Lace, the One Where Quark gets inspired by Zeck to do his best impression of a Ferengi female in order to save the |
| 1:25.6 | Commerce Alliance. Heels are worn. Hilarity ensues? |
| 1:30.9 | Oh, I bet it does. In fact, there's not a doubt, fire-ing in my mind about that. I tell you why, why don't you tell people where to reach us and that it's on to trivia. |
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| 2:12.8 | And now here is John Doubtfire with this week's trivia. |
| 2:17.0 | All right, well thank you for that, Tutsi. |
| 2:19.6 | Trivia for today's episode, Prophet and Lace. |
| 2:22.1 | It was written by Iris Stephen Barron Hans Baimler, but as |
| 2:25.2 | always that's not the total picture. The writers had always been looking for ways to |
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