Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7, Episode 3 - "Afterimage"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Afterimage," Ezri Dax is having a difficult time acclimating to life on DS9. She might stay, she might go, and in the meantime she's got her hands full with the emotional and psychological needs of the people around her.
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| 0:48.6 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 414, after image. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:23.4 | I'm John Champion. |
| 1:24.6 | And I'm Norman Lau. |
| 1:25.9 | Each week on Mission Log, we look at an episode of Star Trek, |
| 1:29.4 | examining it for morals, meanings, and messages, and seeing if the whole thing stands the test of time. |
| 1:36.2 | Or sometimes like this week we look inward and we see if our delicate psyches can find the strength to carry on with the task at hand. |
| 1:47.0 | In just a moment, Norman will tell you how to get in touch with this, but before then, |
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