Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7, Episode 25 & 26- "What You Leave Behind"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "What You Leave Behind," while the fleet sets course for Cardassia, Julian and Ezri weigh out their new relationship, the O'Briens plan a return to Earth, and Sisko confronts his destiny.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:37.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek |
| 0:41.0 | Podcast, episode 436, What You Leave Behind. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek |
| 1:09.7 | podcast. I'm John Champion. |
| 1:11.7 | And I'm Norman Lau Lau and this isn't just another episode of |
| 1:16.0 | Mission Log in fact it's a pretty important episode as we have reached the very |
| 1:21.5 | end of Deep Space Nine with the series finale, |
| 1:25.1 | what you leave behind. |
| 1:27.1 | So as we prepare to leave D.S. 9 behind, we would have let all of you know what we're up to. |
| 1:34.6 | This episode of the podcast will attempt to focus on the story told in the finale. |
| 1:39.4 | We'll mine it for discussion points and morals, meanings, messages, you know, the old mission log way that we do, and then we will break things up a little bit. |
| 1:49.0 | Yeah, John, you're right. Soon we'll be bringing you some special episodes to send off |
| 1:53.2 | DS9 in style, interviews, and retrospectives of the series as a whole so stay tuned. |
| 1:58.8 | And oh by the way very importantly then we will take a a little break because |
| 2:04.9 | podcaster prerogative is what we get to do and then we will be back to kick off Voyager |
| 2:12.0 | But for this week, for this episode, |
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