Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7, Episode 15 - "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang," the mob moves in and pushes Vic Fontaine out of his own club. It's only a hologram, right? To Vic's friends, he's more than that, and they cook up a heist to put the mob on ice.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast. |
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| 0:40.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry's Star Trek Podcast, episode 426, what a bing, bautabang. And the Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:13.7 | I'm Norman Low. |
| 1:15.1 | And I'm John Champion each week on Mission Log, |
| 1:18.1 | we size up an episode of Star Trek, |
| 1:20.9 | then we look at all the details, bring in all the key players, and finally, execute |
| 1:26.2 | a foolproof plan to pick apart the morals, meanings, and messages contained therein. This week, bada bing, bada bang. |
| 1:35.0 | The one where one's favorite hologram is in trouble and he needs the help of his real world friends. |
| 1:41.0 | I'll be right back with trivia and Norman will tell you |
| 1:44.7 | how to get in touch with us but first a word from our good friends over at |
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| 2:05.6 | the Orville, Stargate, and even Space 1999 and more? |
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