Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 6, Episode 26 - "Tears of the Prophets"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Tears of the Prophets," Sisko gets the go-ahead from Starfleet to lead an offensive against the Dominion, but the prophets warn him that it may not go as planned. On DS9 Dax plans for a baby while Bashir and Quark drown their sorrows in Vic's club.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | This episode of Mission Log is brought to you by listeners like you. |
| 0:12.3 | Supporters on Patreon join us today at |
| 0:15.4 | Patreon.com slash mission log aoddenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 411, Tears of the Profits. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman Lough. |
| 0:55.0 | And I'm John Champion and Pled our joy to one and all. You know what we do here, |
| 1:01.0 | celebrating and reflecting on a single episode of Star Trek each one |
| 1:05.2 | in turn as we examine it for morals, meanings, and messages contain therein. |
| 1:11.8 | This week we are turning our attention to Tears of the Profits and |
| 1:15.8 | offering a handkerchief if necessary. I'll be back right away with trivia of |
| 1:21.9 | the Profits as soon as Norman tells all of you |
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| 1:54.0 | I love that you started off with the celebration greeting, so we're celebrating trivia now with John Champion. |
| 2:01.0 | Hey, this is nothing but a celebration ahead? |
| 2:02.9 | What could possibly get in the way of the fund that we're having on this auspicious occasion? |
| 2:09.2 | So Tears of the Profits was written by Iris Stephen Bear and Hans Byaimler, so naturally those two would get the |
| 2:15.2 | lion's share of credit for shaping this story and script as we wrap up season six. |
| 2:20.7 | But everybody on the staff realized that they had a lot of housekeeping to do in terms of tying up some story and production elements and also setting up what would come in season 7. |
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