Episode Notes

Jude bucks for a promotion. Justen is sleepy.

The Forsaken: Wait, what is that music? It's... it can't be. It's Lwaxana Troi! The most DTF character in Star Trek. The Lwaxana/Odo pairing is spectacular. "The thin beige line between order and chaos" nearly killed Jude. Sisko is in dad mode all day. Has Odo ever had "the talk"? Lots of great one-liners this episode.
O'Brien Suffers Level: a new puppy.

Dramatis Personae: Alien fuckery! A new clock for Sisko! Nothing else in this episode matters in the least bit. At least the actors had fun. O'Brien Suffers Level: the audience suffers worse.

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Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.

Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.

Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings.

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Original reworking of the Deep Space 9 theme by audioquinn, who stresses that this particular war crime is not their fault.

This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

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Episode Notes

The Storyteller: Get in the minivan, Bashir! Horny teens should not be in charge of negotiations. O No My Bukkit. DS9 learned important lessons from TNG in terms of how to treat teenage characters--specifically, let them be cringe and celebrate it. Ferengi kinks. Justen strays into blasphemy. O'Brien Suffers Level: Dal'Rok

Progress: Let's talk about eminent domain. What the hell do self-sealing stem bolts do? Invisible seaming techniques. The long-term payoffs of this episode should have been better than they were. Jake gets a lesson in profit. Kira gets a little radicalized.

If Wishes Were Horses: Turns out that O'Brien CAN tell a good story. Bashir's fantasy is hella problematic, because we all know he's a bottom. Random space phenomenon that appears once and never returns, yaaaay. O'Brien Suffers Level: Rumplestiltskin?

Also: Baseball.

BabSpace9 is a production of the Okay, So network.

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Justen can be found at @justenwrites

Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.

Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.

Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings.

Clips from the original show remain copyrighted by Paramount Entertainment and are used under the Fair Use doctrine.

Music attribution:

Original reworking of the Deep Space 9 theme by audioquinn, who stresses that this particular war crime is not their fault.

This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Find out more at http://babylonpod.page

Episode Notes

Vortex: A... changeling? Odo--authoritarian, utilitarian, or just childfree? Good old ass-forehead trek aliens. Klingon shift! Jude trips over the plot from season 4-7.

Battle Lines: Kira's "secret" Cardassian file. Artificial purgatories are kinda shitty. The procedural plot is REAL BAD, the plot-plot is kinda hard to watch. Killing off the space-pope after two appearances?

O'Brien Suffers level: Ochre Runabout destruction count: 1

BabSpace9 is a production of the Okay, So network.

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Justen can be found at @justenwrites

Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.

Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.

Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings.

Clips from the original show remain copyrighted by Paramount Entertainment and are used under the Fair Use doctrine.

Music attribution:

Original reworking of the Deep Space 9 theme by audioquinn, who stresses that this particular war crime is not their fault.

This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Find out more at http://babylonpod.page

DIE Wrap-up with Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen first came to attention as a comic creator with his 2006’s Phonogram, with Jamie McKelvie. Jamie and he formed into a gestalt monster that rampaged against the next fifteen years of comics, culminating with critical and smash hit the Wicked + the Divine.

When not with Jamie, he has co-created books such as DIE, The Ludocrats, Once & Future, Three, Uber and more. When not making his own worlds, he has worked on Marvel Comics biggest books, such as Uncanny X-men, Young Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, Star Wars, Eternals and Darth Vader, (where he co-created Doctor Aphra).

In a previous life he was an award winning pop-culture critic and journalist, and co-founder of Rock Paper Shotgun.

The best way to keep up to date with what he’s doing is his newsletter. He hates writing about himself in the third person, yet somehow he perseveres.

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Justen can be found at @justenwrites

Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.

Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.

Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings.

Clips from the original show remain copyrighted by Paramount Entertainment and are used under the Fair Use doctrine.

Music attribution:

Music: The Horror Maschine 1 by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/43-the-horror-maschine-1 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Find out more at http://babylonpod.page

Episode Notes

Boss Fight: The group opens up. Also the characters open up. The context of people's lived experiences informs the media they make. Justen and Ana force Jude onto a soapbox.

Open Table: Explain the fucking backstory. Chuck's heroic sacrifice is almost enough. The merits of a good ending. It's clear that Kieron Gillen knows modern games.

BabPod: DIE is a production of the Okay, So network. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justenwrites Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art. Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast. Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings. Music: The Horror Maschine 1 by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/43-the-horror-maschine-1 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Find out more at http://babylonpod.page

Episode Notes

Spoiler warning: Headphones moment from 46:10 to 47:53, and from 1:00:21 to 1:00:55

Move Along Home: Game time! Also, yes, Nog should probably not be teaching sex ed to a humon. What Trek character would be a good sex educator? Quark makes Odo blow on the dice, the horniest thing we've seen so far. Klon Peags? Dax hits her stride. Does Starfleet Academy turn you into a lunatic?

The Nagus: Porny Giggles. Ferengi corpse NFTs. Side note: how were NFTs not a Ferengi b-plot? O'Brien Suffers level 5.5. Jake is teaching Nog to read? heart-eyes. Ferengi culture is built on middle managers... They should be gross, but they escape it by being ridiculous.

BabSpace9 is a production of the Okay, So network.

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Justen can be found at @justenwrites

Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.

Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.

Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings.

Clips from the original show remain copyrighted by Paramount Entertainment and are used under the Fair Use doctrine.

Music attribution:

Original reworking of the Deep Space 9 theme by audioquinn, who stresses that this particular war crime is not their fault.

This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Find out more at http://babylonpod.page

Episode Notes

TPK: The funniest possible Lovecraft explanation--and the only master who appears to be aware of his outside self. Personal horror is to evoke interesting responses, not traumatize the audience. BabPod lore!

Lines and Veils: Wow did Sol get screwed. The Grandmaster gives Mysterio vibes. The d20's origin mirrors the Fair Gold. Different grades of disaster queers.

BabPod: DIE is a production of the Okay, So network. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justenwrites Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art. Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast. Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings. Music: The Horror Maschine 1 by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/43-the-horror-maschine-1 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Find out more at http://babylonpod.page

Episode Notes

Jude would take a bad Trek theme over Picard's theme, but hates ENT. There's some time travel in this episode because we had to re-record it nearly a season later.

Dax: Dax and... Bashir? are in charge of Engineering? How wide is the Trill definition of "you"? Odo works better as a private detective than as an officer of the "law". Bashir is just immature, not full fedora. Is Garak a power bottom? Maybe, but Julian is not a top. Imagine being 200 and being around a hyperactive puppy dog 20 year old. The Dax trans narrative was not explicitly intended but it's amazing how directly it hit the mark. O'Brien Suffers level: Raktajino.

The Passenger: Odo, you must take this intern. No one could have seen this twist. This is a pretty beige episode. It seems too early in a series to do the "this character is acting out of character" trope.

We are joined by Velvet Dragon! Velvet is a trans lesbian and literal actual dragon. Find her on twitter and bluesky @VelvetTheDragon and on the Clever Corvids Podcasting Network.

BabSpace9 is a production of the Okay, So network.

Connect with the show at @babylonpodject

Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon!

Justen can be found at @justenwrites

Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.

Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.

Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings.

Clips from the original show remain copyrighted by Paramount Entertainment and are used under the Fair Use doctrine.

Music attribution:

Original reworking of the Deep Space 9 theme by audioquinn, who stresses that this particular war crime is not their fault.

This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Find out more at http://babylonpod.page

Episode Notes

Justen tells a Games Workshop story.

PVP: Interesting choices. Silmarillion reference. No one noticed that Sol got bamboozled. Sol would have loved Nobilis. Vampire might have fixed a lot of this group's issues. Sorry Grant. RIP Dour.

THAC0: We're on a boat! Howard Phillip Lovecraft is here. Jude would very much like Gygax not to make an appearance. Call of Cthulhu is not the kind of game where you get attached to your character. Sooner or later we're all spaces.

BabPod: DIE is a production of the Okay, So network. Connect with the show at @babylonpodject Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon! Justen can be found at @justenwrites Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art. Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast. Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings. Music: The Horror Maschine 1 by Sascha Ende Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/43-the-horror-maschine-1 Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Find out more at http://babylonpod.page

Episode Notes

Babel: O'Brien Must Suffer level Orange. Ominous Blinking Device time! Jude had severe empathy-pain for O'Brien. Sisko knows that Kira will always blame Cardassians first. Quark arguing he's an essential service is so 2023. It's very strange to have a Star Trek show that has currency.

Captive Pursuit: Oh the 1990s, when being a sexual predator was a fun quirky character flaw and not a straight up bad thing... The Worst Predators make an appearance. The Ferengi are a "complex species", aka kinda gross. Odo gets Worfed a few times. The Bucket! It's a Good O'Brien episode.

Q-Less: O'Brien Must Suffer again. Oh look, two of Picard's exes in one episode, must be sweeps week. Q is more fun when he's trying to do something interesting, rather than just getting back with HIS ex. You get real real bored when you're a god. Sisko is the most straight (but not narrow) captain. Bashir didn't show up to the game session.

BabSpace9 is a production of the Okay, So network.

Connect with the show at @babylonpodject

Help us keep the lights on via our Patreon!

Justen can be found at @justenwrites

Ana can be found at @The_Mianaai, and also made our show art.

Both Ana and Justen can also be found on The Compleat Discography, a Discworld re-read podcast.

Jude Vais can be found at @eremiticjude. His other work can be found at Athrabeth - a Tolkien Podcast and at Garbage of the Five Rings.

Clips from the original show remain copyrighted by Paramount Entertainment and are used under the Fair Use doctrine.

Music attribution:

Original reworking of the Deep Space 9 theme by audioquinn, who stresses that this particular war crime is not their fault.

This show is edited and produced by Aaron Olson, who can be found at @urizenxvii

Find out more at http://babylonpod.page