Deep dives into art and media. We did five years dissecting Deep Space Nine with The Rules of Acquisition. Star Trek is overrated. We went in on David Lynch. That was fun. Now? Biding our time. It happens when it happens.
Episodes
Wednesday Jun 20, 2018
Wednesday Jun 20, 2018
I Have No Children, but I Must Time. Classic Star Trek "Stuck on a planet" problems.
The DS9 crew gets in a time loop and now have to worry about "killing" 8,000 of their descendants.
We have a lot of different ideas for how to blow out and follow some of the ideas in this episode.
Time share “LA Swinger” Odo.
Let’s talk about Odo and Kira, with a small sidebar to Sex and The City.
Poor O’Brien. So many Mollys.
How would this have been if stretched to a mulitple episode arc? If this were a modern TV show how might this have been handled differently?
How do alien genetics and inbreeding work?
Bashir, please don’t do anything untoward with your great great grandaughter.
Where does personhood start when dealing with temporal mechanics?
The Sons of Mogh learn that enemies can be abstract ideas.
Why the reliance on pioneer agricultural civilizations?
Avoiding a pat ending.
IMDB doesn’t like the race stuff.
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Wednesday Jun 13, 2018
Wednesday Jun 13, 2018
Klingon yips. Worf takes a leave to go on a Klingon adventure with his BFF Martok, but Martok has some leftover issues from his two years with the Jem'Hadar.
We all liked this one! What’s ISB’s beef?
Bring on the toxic masculinity! But stay for how much we talk about how great Dax is. But don't be too offended when James calls Bashir names.
Go out of your way to scold Wade for his poor pronunciation, Klingonese speakers.
“General” Martok… how’s that work in a naval structure where you “captain” a ship?
Klingons: Very smart about their dumb violence.
Imagine if a show really went into depth about how diverse all these Klingon houses are? Gee, imagine if that were an actual thing.
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Wednesday Jun 06, 2018
Wednesday Jun 06, 2018
Moooogie. Gird your Lobes!
Love songs and boner jams. Or not. Scratch that. No Andrea Martin in this one, to Wade's chagrin.
Quark visits his mom, could James explain Ferengi weirdness to his dad?
Has DS9 taken a step backward into Episodic television after pulling off successful serialized arcs?
Bouncing from B to A plot and Rules of Acquisition.
Proverbial “Ear massaging” as a relaxing focus technique as internet speeds are getting faster in the 90s: Is there a correllation?
Is there a point in this episode, that makes this and Important Episode for the Ferengi arc of the series?
James is dubious. Are we making allowances for a syndicated scifi show in the 90s? Probably.
Is this really where Quark starts Urkel-ing the show?
Flaws of the Nielson/sweeps model.
James sees flaws in ISB’s critique of Capitalism.
This episode has some flaws in how the climax is resolved.
“Go back into the closet where you belong?” Just what did they mean by that? (probably nothing)
Pew pew pew - Action figures - The End.
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Wednesday May 30, 2018
Wednesday May 30, 2018
Tekeny Ghemor shows up again [who?] and Kira goes through some feels. Dad's real and fake die.
James and Hugh have some serious trouble getting on board for this story. He’s not really her dad!
Cardassians are like bulldogs when it comes to syndromes.
Ol’ One Arm makes an appearance in the good ol’ cave set.
WEYOUN! And Dominion corporate culture.
Does Dukat dodge the mug? Is the dress blue or yellow?
Hugh hates scenes where they explain the protagonist’s feelings to them.
Elder abuse!
How fun would this episode be if it were all Weyoun?
James and Hugh have some ideas on what would make this episode better.
Is this episode still stuck in an episodic mindset even if it’s kind of a sequel to Second Skin? Is this episode a transitional fossil from previous eras of television?
Who can get us Wallace Shawn before Chapo Trap House does? Gird your lobes for next week!
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Thursday May 24, 2018
Thursday May 24, 2018
High af Sisko to Boner Jams and everything in between:
Greg takes us way back to Rapture (1:00)
If you want to understand the Prophets, understand Prince.
Avery Brooks acting, and… no we don’t think David Lynch is racist. We have no evidence to think David Lynch is a racist.
Twiggy! and his season 4 white album. (17:30)
Hugh’s fav David Lynch is Donald Glover…
Warren on Bashir and headcanon (21:17)
Trigger Warning: A Discovery Home Companion Interlude (29:25)
James reflects on Disco after watching The 100.
Tom serenades James with a Romulan boner jam and discusses "In Purgatory’s Inferno" (38:05)
Thanks to Deep Space Nine for the Trump administration?
Konstantya in an email on her own Romulan boner jam (42:20)
After some more discussion on sexy aliens…
Kristin! On Eddington’s negative sex appeal (47:20)
Sexual chemistries. and brothers? What the heck?
James sees unusual things in Frasier.
Give us your thoughts and/or alien boner jams! Bajorans don't count. Maybe we'll allow Orions
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Wednesday May 23, 2018
Wednesday May 23, 2018
Cousin Gaila comes to bail out Quark by selling weapons and introducing some accented guest stars.
Does this Quark episode take the character anywhere?
Quark and Dax: just like our relationships with our partners.
Ferengi stock market shenanigans.
How can one person keep losing money like this? How can this even be a thing?
Does Star Trek Deep Space Nine have an homage problem?
James is starting to wear thin on status quo Star Trek filler episodes, and a spirited discussion ensues.
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Wednesday May 16, 2018
Wednesday May 16, 2018
Bedroom eyes lead to bedroom milestones for Odo!
Based on The Narrow Margin... of engagement?
Plus: A small Holodeck “hey, we never said James Bond” plot.
What episode was this again?
A problem DS9 has that other Treks don’t?
Odo is over Kira?
What makes eyes “bedroom” and does Odo really have that?
The height of Tarantino-ism.
Let’s talk about LARPing. Different from “creative anachronism”?
What about furries? (23:40)
The Deed!
Return of James’ nipple corner!
Let’s get to the bottom of changeling/humanoid sex.
We ruminate on actors, and American History X.
Voicemails will return at some point. Promise!
Let us know how you feel, especially if you miss the vm segment.
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Wednesday May 09, 2018
Wednesday May 09, 2018
Welcome Voyager’s "Richard [sic] Picardo", and Julian Bashir's parents!
But Bashir… we gots opinions.
Hugh’s issues do not reflect a “rejection of Gene’s vision.” He doesn’t like how it was implemented.
A new kind of Special Man?
“Wholeness”?
A reflection on Bashir not being that great of a doctor.
Bashir’s dad is a revelation.
Leeta and Rom have a B plot though.
Should Leeta just tell Rom how she feels and get it over with since he can’t? Is the objectification of her in this a little… weird? James explains maybe the source of where he reads his innuendo?
Bashir’s dad the chav.
What are the trekonomics of getting an illegal procedure done "out of network" in a post scarcity Federation?
Ohwaitaminute. Just how dumb was six year old Julian again? Have the writers never met children?
How do we sit with the revelations in this episode after this watching? What about where these revelations lead?
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Wednesday May 02, 2018
Wednesday May 02, 2018
Part two of Worf and Garak being awesome.
Dukat: Still a jerk. Right over from the last ep. Is this a new episode or more of a continuation of one long episode. Lets talk about these titles.
Why doesn’t the Dominion kill its prisoners?
Other runabout questions we might not have answers for… yet. Nerds hate plotholes.
Let’s rehash some Ziyal arguments from last episode.
But Worf.
Kitomer re-accords: Where’s president Joe Camel? Odo, also conspicuously absent.
Chekov’s Breen, Romulans, and James has a type.
But Worf. Best of Klingons, even with what he’s learned from the Federation. Even when him and Martok recite a Kanye tweet to praise Garak.
Jem’Hadar and Klingons; White Trash and Donald Trump. Bashir gets a stembolt reference.
The gangs all here, every power in the Alpha Quadrant.
A couple small nerd corners.
Is this a point where the show pivots to being something new?
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Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
Wednesday Apr 25, 2018
The Dominion War approaches! Are we in the best "3 song run" across all the "albums" of DS9?
Is there something different about Bashir? Oh boy, Ziyal: You look different.
Wade and James have wildly different ideas about the nature of Garak and Ziyal’s relationship. The best Worf stuff… ever?Chekov’s Breen. Sisko has an idea for the wormhole Kira doesn’t like, should Dax have had something to say about it?The Dukat we knew all along. Garak and Tain come to terms. Does Wade like this better a childhood story than what we got with Worf?
Not to switch properties, but let’s talk about that Leia costume.
Closing with horrific internet memes.
We get a little ahead and confused about what’s in this episode and the next.
The dangers of explaining a characters past, i.e. the Wolverine Problem.
No voicemails. But we have a proposition re: “hate money”
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Wednesday Apr 18, 2018
Wednesday Apr 18, 2018
Sisko tracks Michael Eddington down and Trekkers everywhere were divided.
Our beloved Peter Allen Fields returns!
Sisko is angry!
Who breaks bad in this episode?
The ethics of escalation.
Oh, the Victor Hugo. Should Star Trek hold their tongue before throwing shade at the writing of female characters?
"Not enough!"
A Civil War reference from James.
No voicemails this week, but stick around til the end for some details on what might get James and Hugh to watch Season 2 of Discovery
"My Favorite Mutiny" by The Coup
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Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Wednesday Apr 11, 2018
Son of Odo?
It's an episode all about parenthood. Odo discovers a little pile of goo and goes through all the feelings a humanoid can feel. Kira gives birth to a son of O'Brien, while her boyfriend gets a little jealous. A and B plot symmetry!
A tidbit blows our minds and bums us out.
Odo has a bad back- A digression on mattresses.
Bajoran birthing practices… are odd.
GONG.
in Voicemails (45:37)
PlutoBurns is bored by The Ascent. Were there more interesting stories missed in that story, perhaps a courtroom drama? Roddenberry rules and storytelling discussed once again. What about Dogma 95?
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Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
Bryan Fuller makes his Star Trek debut. With a riff on the Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None, previously titled Ten Little Indians, previously titled something even more Problematic
Kira's friends are being murdered, but by who?
“The Prophets will take care of him”… Will they?
Worf is brings the light fun to the episode for once. He knows many things.
Where’s Shakaar while folks from the Shakaar resistance are being killed?
Sisko ain’t got patience for Worf.
Just how much technical know how does it take to press shirts for Cardassia?
Silence of the Lamb-ing was very fashionable at the time.
Are these the best of the doldrums of any season of DS9 to date?
Voicemails (43:30)
Stefan calls to tell us about an episode near universally derided bye everyone but Hugh and James, and Wade has to reiterate just why he thinks that Worf scene on Risa was so bad.
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Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
Sisko gets high.
Or is that a simplification of a more complicated story and issues? Join us for some arguing about Starfleet's actions when faced with god-aliens. Sisko is "touched by the prophets" and discovers a secret city, and a lot of actually important stuff arguably happens in this DS9 episode.
New uniforms! Is Bajor finally joining the Federation?
“Optics of the admiral”
Kai Ratched returns and has a turning point of her own.
Oh and Kasidy returns from the clink.
But of course the episode has to end with some classic Star Trek "right to die" questions.
in voicemails (45:07)
John from PA gets us talking about Star Wars without even asking you to contribute to our patreon.
Alex from Minneapolis sets the record straight about Ray Wise's Star Trek appearance.
And somehow we get talking about kratom?
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Wednesday Mar 21, 2018
Wednesday Mar 21, 2018
Odd couplings! Odo and Quark crash land on a dump of a planet and nearly die climbing a mountain.
But first Nog returns! We cover the B plot and ask the question: is Jake Sisko the Rory Gilmore of DS9?
What is Nog doing back? Does Starfleet send away their unwanted cadets?
James has some rap references to make and TOS references to point out.
Odo’s porn habits. Talk to us about Vulcan Love Slave.
Love and hate. Quark and Odo style.
But what if Odo had a different kind of story bout being humanoid?
Voicemails (39:00):
Kate on "...Nor battle to the strong."
Tom from Cleveland has some thoughts on "Let He Who is Without Sin..."
Expect more calls about Risa going forward!
Wednesday Mar 14, 2018
Wednesday Mar 14, 2018
Terok Nor? James finds it a Terok Bore.
On the way back from an occupation convention Odo, Sisko, Dax, and Garak all get Quantum Leaped back 9 years to before Odo was chief of security, and Kurtwood Smith held sway. Things start getting all wibbly wobbledy with the timeline and reality and just what exactly is going on here?
We're divided on the quality of this one, even if we aver that season 5 is still going strong overall.
Hold on after the rewatch meter IMDB ratings, where we once again ask the question, "How would we fix this?"
(47:10) We have the return of your voicemails!
These are all on Trials and Tribble-ations, and for the sensitive among you, there may have some Discovery talk:
Kristin on Discovery and trials.
We talk about our formative days watching TAS, the Monkees and Lancelot Link, secret chimp. Love of the lore and execution.
Greg from NC has the nerd corner solution to our McCoy scene discussion.
BuckyWTGoodHair on Disco’s appeal to nostalgia.
Make the show that you want to see.
And we end with American Gods, and the kind of thing you may have come to expect from us.
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Wednesday Mar 07, 2018
Wednesday Mar 07, 2018
Put on your spandex aerobics outfits. We're going to Risa!
Worf is the worst boyfriend. Why is Dax with him again?
Is this… waitaminute... a good episode?
Bild Lilli horgons. Is Risa a planet of sex workers? Planet Vegas? Without Capitalism? Anarchist Vegas?
Vanessa Williams guest stars as the woman who killed Curzon.
Now. Let us objectify Bashir: A different bodytype for a different era.
Leeta makes Quark and Julian do a double take (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOSejS1SSY)
Nog and Ted Cruz’s internet habits.
Gotta be a secure man to be with Dax.
That Worf scene. We have opinions.
Things suddenly get serious, but ok not that serious.
Sorry for the lack of Voicemails again this week. We got way too excited talking about the time Dave Mathews guest starred in an episode of House. But give us your calls! We promise we want to hear them.
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Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
Wednesday Feb 28, 2018
Gotta go back in time.
No, not to our new Fatty Arbuckle-cast. Back to the Enterprise! The "first" one.
The DS9 crew gets to revisit everyone's favorite era to revist, judging from recent TV and movies. With the magic of developing technology and effects.
Lets get some Discovery thoughts out early. Except we'll get back to that over and over again. There's some spoilers if you haven't had some of Star Trek Discovery's obvious surprises spoiled for you.
We reeeally nerd corner the difference between Discovery and Tribble Trouble Fake-Klingons.
How much do we know about our great grandmothers? Either way, we don’t feel about them the way Bashir does about his.
Did Emony Dax Harold and Maude McCoy at Ole Miss?
Leaning in to the fan service. Easter Egging vs Embodying.
Greatest American Hero? Is that our next podcast? [NO]
Who are reboot shows catering to?
Overall, we enjoyed this "Opposite of the Jake in a hole with a dying man screaming at him" episode.
No voicemails this week, as we really overdid the nerd-cornering in this episode.
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Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
Wednesday Feb 21, 2018
Oh great. Another body possession trope? Why waitaminute, we loved this one!
Keiko O'Brien isn't herself, and Miles has to follow instructions lest the ghost possessing her does throws her off a ledge or nosebleeds her to death. Just how well does this episode turn up the heat to boil the frog that is a stressed out Irishman?
Pah wraiths. Huh. First we’ve heard of those.
Plust, a B plot that interacts: Rom, the smartest idiot in the room.
Paradise Lost? The Possesion clause in Federation Law. We go long this week so no voicemails.
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Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Wednesday Feb 14, 2018
Red Badge of Courage on the Western Front.
Jake and Bashir get stuck behind enemy lines and Jake realizes maybe he's not the bravest guy.
This episode hits a lot of our buttons. When exactly did we start enjoying Dax this much? Sisko has some fatherhood scenes; what do the father's on the podcast think? Civil war knowledge gets trotted out. Vietnam. Lots to cover in this episode!
In voicemails (47:05):
Season 4 White Albums! From Eric, Stefan, and Adam.
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Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Lookin for love. A whole lotta love in this one. Of various sorts.
Things that have been building up for many episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine come to a head. Grilka from House of Quark returns. Horniness abounds.
James' favorite B plot. Hugh is uncomfortable. Wade wrote down a lot of Klingon but contains himself.
Farce fulfilled finally.
Science fiction full circle with Cyrano.
Of course we get into certain sexual anatomy questions…
The Sam and Diane Issue.
The return of Voicemails! (59:13)
Paul from Ireland has more thoughts on the Maquis.
Wednesday Jan 31, 2018
Wednesday Jan 31, 2018
Stuck on a planet with casualties.
A classic Trek morality play?
It's a return to dealing with the Dominion when Sisko and an away team find a crashed Jem Hadar ship. A new Vorta emerges.
Who is Panthro's sister?
Are the best episodes of Deep Space Nine on the station or off of it?
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Wednesday Jan 24, 2018
Wednesday Jan 24, 2018
Season 5 commences!
And the guys gets to play Klingons!
After the season 4 finale Sisko has to go undercover. Sisko, Obrien, and Odo get into various degrees of character and Michael Dorn gets to laugh at everyone for experiencing what he gets to deal with every day of shooting. Which actor got out of this due to a latex allergy? Who was the most miserable, Brooks or Meaney? How much fun are Martok and Gowron?
Voicemails (46:47)
Eric finds new ways to dislike The Muse that we never even considered.
Bucky likes the Quickening.
And a new listener has us appreciating strong female characters and reminding us how we felt about some of these characters in the 90s before our more recent re-watches. Thanks Poppy!
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Wednesday Jan 17, 2018
Wednesday Jan 17, 2018
White Album time! Will our choices lead to a fight as bad as those had by the Beatles?
Season 4 complete! Can we narrow down this fantastic 26 episode season of television into a streamlined 12 episode run, similar to more recent "prestige" television? We've done it for every season so far; is season 4 easier or more difficult than we imagined it would be?
What criteria does each of us use? Will vital episodes be cast aside? Will ire be stoked?
Near the end of the podcast we talk about book adaptations and other issues regarding recent television.
In voicemails (48:10), it's a Twiggyflow Trifecta!
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Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
Wednesday Jan 10, 2018
Odo Must Suffer! In the season finale Odo suddenly falls ill after Garak tries to play matchmaker, and the only thing to do is to try and find the changeling homeworld.
There's a lot of just hanging out in this episode that is also very consequential to the story of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Sure, Big Things Happen, but the Ops crew still has time to joke about Kira's pregnant sneezing, Miles' being laughed at in his own home, and Garak's time as a murderous gardener.
And being the very much adult and grown up podcast hosts that we are, we spend some time of our own hypothesizing on just what kind of equipment a transformed Odo is packing.
AND A RETURN TO VOICEMAILS (48:28)
On For the Cause and the Maquis:
Greg from North Carolina gives us a call to remind James that he is wrong.
Tom from Cleveland compares the Maquis to petulant children.
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Wednesday Jan 03, 2018
Wednesday Jan 03, 2018
Quark is dying! Of "Dork syndrome"
James hates Ferengi Ebay.
But first, the B plot.
What is Obrien’s hook? Does the Kira pregnancy work in this episode beyond being an interesting fix for a production problem? Just how are things going to develop with the O'briens and Kira?
Back in the A plot, there's some disagreement over whether this is a high quality Ferengi episode. Is this an important point in the Ferengi arc of the series, or an episode where Quark makes a no-brainer decision?
In the end, we stumble into a Nerd Corner
We go long on this one!
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