Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7, Episode 1 - "Image in the Sand"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Image in the Sand," a few months working at the family restaurant have been good for Ben Sisko - noodling away some jazz on the piano - until a vision from the prophets sets him on a path to find a missing orb and the mystery of a woman's face on the dessert planet Tyree.
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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. |
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| 0:21.2 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, Episode 412, Image in the Sand. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Lock, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:53.0 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:55.0 | Each week on Mission Log, we combed through each grain of sand and every episode of every Star |
| 1:01.0 | Trek series ever, searching for the morals, meanings, and messages |
| 1:05.3 | contain therein and seeing if these episodes stand the test of time. |
| 1:10.4 | This week, Image in the Sand, the one where Cisco is trying to get his |
| 1:15.4 | emissary groove back, while Wharf tries to get by with a little help from his |
| 1:19.7 | friends. I'll be back with trivia in just a moment as soon as Norman tells all of you how to reach all of us. |
| 1:27.0 | Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek and that's why we want to hear from you. |
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| 1:47.5 | Send us an email at Mission Log at Rotenberry.com. |
| 1:50.5 | And remember, we may use your comments on an upcoming episode of Mission Log. |
| 1:56.2 | And now, like the sands through the hourglass, so are the details in John Champions Trivia. |
| 2:03.7 | Thank you for that kind introduction, Norman. |
| 2:05.4 | Here we go, Trivia for Image in the Sand. |
| 2:08.5 | Well, it was an episode written by Iris Stephen Barron, Hans Baimler, |
| 2:11.9 | and we definitely should not be surprised here that Ira and Hans are picking up from where they left off in season six. |
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