Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7, Episode 12 - "The Emperor's New Cloak"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Emperor's New Cloak," Gand Nagus Zek decides to open up some new business opportunities in the mirror universe and is quickly taken hostage. It's mirror Ezri who recruits Quark and Rom to help bust the Nagus out, if only they can steal a cloaking device.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 1:31.2 | I'm Norman Lough. And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log. |
| 1:35.4 | We follow Star Trek episode by episode wherever it may go, whatever universe it may |
| 1:42.0 | occupy and we search all around for morals, meanings, and |
| 1:46.9 | messages. |
| 1:48.4 | This week, the Emperor's new cloak, the one where morals are in short supply, and ethics get stabbed, literally and figuratively. |
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