Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 7, Episode 8 - "The Siege of AR-558"
Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast
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🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, "The Siege of AR-558," Starfleet isn't about to give up the Jem'Hadar communications post they've captured. The toll is high though, in morale and lives. Captain Sisko and the Defiant crew show up to see if they can provide some needed relief and tactical advantage.
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| 0:37.0 | Mission Log, a Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast, episode 319, the Siege of AR 558. Oh, Welcome into another episode of Mission Log, a Rotary Star Trek podcast. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm John Champion. |
| 1:11.7 | And I'm Norman Lau. Each week on Mission Log we hunkered down |
| 1:15.7 | Dig in and brace ourselves as we take a look at each and every episode and film in Star Trek to seek out the morals, meanings, and messages |
| 1:25.2 | contained therein and see if they have withstood the test of time. |
| 1:29.8 | This week, the Siege of AR 558, the one where Cisco comes face to face with the horrors of the Dominion War on the front lines. |
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| 2:15.3 | comments on an upcoming episode of Mission Log. And now here is John Champion |
| 2:20.4 | with your trivia. Today's episode is written by Iris |
| 2:25.1 | Stephen Bear and Hans Bymler and yes it was their concept in an episode that |
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