Past Prologue: This episode really gets going as the first post-pilot plot. Bashir is an amazingly dumb twink. Sisco's default setting is "Fuck the Cardassians". Jude loves a sexy lizard.
A Man Alone: A lot of info about writers rooms and credits, sorry. Keiko/Miles trouble! "Take time to be comfortable with your discomfort"--Star Trek repeats Trans Rights. Law vs Justice! Lynch mobs probably came from Cardassians. Poor clones.
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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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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.
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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
Find out more at http://babylonpod.page
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.
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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
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.
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Justen can be found at @justenwrites
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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
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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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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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
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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
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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
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.
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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
Find out more at http://babylonpod.page
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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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.
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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
Find out more at http://babylonpod.page
CW: Discussion of actual not-amusing war crimes, and religious extremism.
Jude gets a promotion!
Duet: People with the appelation "The Butcher of..." are always delightful people. This episode is packed with powerful performances, and the actors are up to the task of lifting this very heavy material. Bajor gets a lot of complexity that other species do not.
In the Hands of the Prophets: Space Karen is back! Bajoran/Federation relations take a hit over education, but to be fair it's hard to teach about religious practices when the deities do in fact appear to exist. Jude twigged to Neela's nature immediately because O'Brien isn't supposed to be a sex symbol. Sisko Dad Mode on religions is an important and well written/acted one. O'Brien Suffers level: Religious War
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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.
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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
Find out more at http://babylonpod.page
Yes, it's a three-parter, but all three are GREAT. Welcome to season 2 of DS9.
The Homecoming: Call your factions one thing and just roll with it. Every character choice for O'Brien is "working class hero". Gul Dukat's statement is basically "we're sorry we got caught." Wait, is this a B5 episode?
The Circle: Kira's hunka hunka monk. The Bajoran monasteries must constantly be ordering 55 gallon tubs of baja blast lube. "Here is our traditional garb, the banana hammock". Odo deputizes Quark? Nothing says Bajoran independence like Cardassian torture.
The Siege: Nasty fascist republican sex. Benjamin "Not on my watch, motherfuckers" Sisko isn't having the Federation's limp-dick hands-off approach. Nog and Jake are best boys. Trill are psychic-type and thus weak to bug type. Julian is dramatic. Jadzia gets even more depth. Odo and Quark are the two most married characters in Star Trek.
O'Brien Suffers level: Ride or die for Kira.
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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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