Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7, Episode 20 - "The Changing Face of Evil"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Changing Face of Evil," one person's true face is revealed, another crosses the line to permanently side with evil, while a third emerges from the shadows to the side of good.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast. |
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| 0:17.5 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry's Star Trek Podcast, Episode 431, The Changing Face of Evil. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 0:52.2 | I'm John Champion. |
| 0:53.4 | And I'm Norman Lough. Each week on Mission Log, we read every sacred tone and text of Star |
| 0:59.5 | Trek from the series to the movies and see if they would stand the test of time |
| 1:03.8 | and try to find the morals, meanings, and messages contained therein. |
| 1:07.8 | This week, the changing face of evil, the one where evil changes faces from bad to worse and from evil to good. |
| 1:17.4 | I'll be back with trivia in a moment right after Norman tells you how to engage with us. |
| 1:24.6 | Mission Log is a conversation about Star Trek and that's why we want to hear from you. |
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| 1:52.1 | And now after pouring through tone on the Rodenberry YouTube channel. |
| 1:53.0 | And now, after pouring through tomes and tomes and |
| 1:56.4 | tomes and hopefully not burning any of the sacred texts, |
| 1:59.0 | here is John Champion, with this week's trivia. |
| 2:02.0 | Hey, we're going to keep it short and sweet for this week's trivia. Hey, we're going to keep it short and sweet for this week's episode, The Changing Face of Evil. |
| 2:07.6 | It was written by Iris Stephen Bear and Hans Beimler, and we mentioned before the rather interesting writing assignments that had led us into |
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