Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7, Episode 14 - "Chimera"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2021
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Chimera," Deep Space Nine has a visitor: a changeling named Laas. Like Odo, he's been living away from the Great Link his whole life. Unlike Odo, he's ready to ditch these inferior humanoids and return to the Link after exploring the galaxy, and he wants Odo to go with him.
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| 0:55.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 425, Kymera. Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm Norman Lau. |
| 1:28.0 | And I'm John Champion. Each week on Mission Log, we establish a link with every single molecule of Star Trek |
| 1:35.7 | from the episodes to the films in order to seek out the morals, meanings, and messages |
| 1:40.9 | contain therein. |
| 1:42.6 | This week, Kimerra, the one where Odo's loyalties |
| 1:46.2 | are put to the test by one of his 100 Wayward kin, |
| 1:50.5 | who sounds like |
| 1:53.6 | can't place the face, |
| 1:56.0 | sounds like Worlitzer? |
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