Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7, Episode 5 - "Chrysalis"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
Roddenberry Entertainment
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "Chrysalis," Bashir helps Sarina, one of the genetically-altered foursome, to break out of her unresponsive state. The sudden change comes with new emotions and puts Bashir in complicated ethical territory.
Hosted by John Champion & Norman Lao
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a Roddenberry Podcast. |
| 0:08.0 | This episode of Mission Log is sponsored by listeners like you. |
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| 0:17.0 | Mission Log. |
| 0:18.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 416, Chrysalis. The Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotenberry Star Trek podcast. I'm Norman Lau. |
| 0:53.4 | And I'm John Champion. |
| 0:54.8 | Each week on Mission Log, we examine an episode of Star Trek, |
| 0:58.3 | taking it into our care, and then determining |
| 1:01.2 | if the whole thing stands up, and if the morals, meanings, and messages can be released back out into the world. |
| 1:08.0 | This week, Chrysalis, the one that reunites us with the characters from statistical probabilities in order to have |
| 1:16.1 | Dr. Bashir do something very improbable, statistically speaking anyway. |
| 1:21.6 | John will chime in with trivia in a moment right after I tell all of |
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| 1:54.8 | And now here's John Champion with this week's trivia. |
| 1:58.8 | With my very improbable trivia. |
| 2:00.6 | No, no, no, no, no. |
| 2:01.1 | Now we're on to Chrysalis. |
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