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Season 4
S4E2 - Not a Metaphor at All
S1E03: Past Prologue; S1E04: A Man Alone
Episode Notes
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.
S4E3 - Correct Horse Battery Staple
S01E05: Babel; S01E06: Captive Pursuit; S01E07: Q-Less
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.
S4E4 - Kira-Sisko Bureaucratic Tag-Team
S1E08 Dax; S1E09 The Passenger
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?
S4E5 - The Emily Post of Starfleet
DS9 S1 E10: Move Along Home; DS9 S1 E11: The Nagus
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?
DIE wrap-up with Kieron Gillen
It was all for you.
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.
S4E6 - Morn should keep his big mouth shut
S1E12: Vortex; S1E13: Battle Lines
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.
S4E7 - Tonal Inconsistency
S1E13: The Storyteller; S1E14: Progress; S1E15: If Wishes Were Horses
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.
S4E8 - Sacred Bong of Rix
S1E17 The Forsaken; S1E18 Dramatis Personae
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.
S4E9 - More Hated than Vince McMahon
S1E19 Duet; S1E20 In the Hands of the Prophets
Episode Notes
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.
S4E10 - How's your Business Dick
S2E01: The Homecoming; S2E02: The Circle; S2E03: The Siege
Episode Notes
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".