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Submarine fight! Farmer Hogget! -er Hanok.  

It's a pretty good by the books Star Trek episode. The Defiant is under attack, and everybody from DS9 gets paired with a buddy to work on his or her character beats.

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Love isn't confusing, but Trill are. 

But first some Magnolia subtweeting and a little more business up front.

Other topics discussed:

Quark doesn’t understand magic tricks.

Is this gay, or just aliens being complicated (hint: it's both)

Trill worldbuilding and rules. Why does the Reassociation taboo make sense?  And suddenly we have an idea for an amazing villain species

Trek fans, more conservative than twitter would have you believe?

The most on screen chemistry since we last saw Out of Sight.

Why doesn’t history give this episode its due?

History corner on gay representation in television.

“Everybody brings their personal bull$#!t

We go long, but end with big news for the podcast!

We REALLY want to know what folks think of this episode!

Bajorans, love, and Breen!

OH and Dukat needs to find someone...

A sidebar for our millenial viewers explaining Victor French, Michael Landon, and Highway to Heaven

Tumblr Takedown: Cardies don’t have tails

Dukat’s uncomfortable justification for how the Cardassians helped Bajor. All the uncomfortable things.

Dax and Bashir and the Coen Brothers?

Comedic bits and camraderie 

Sisko deploys his weirdness! 

(50:00) Voicmails!

Kate helps us with DS9 books. We talk some Nog comics. What do Eastman and Laird have to do with trek comics? Absolutely nothing.

And closing it out, Twiggy calls and makes Wade further ruminate on his feeble mortality.

Sometimes you’re middle aged, sometimes you’re full twelve year old.

All yelling and complaints (and whatever else you want to say):

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Jem'Hadar Junkies! Hugh watched Hippocratic Oath. You won’t believe what happened next! Hugh crawford gives a 10/10 to Julian Bashir! (Enough with the clickbait) What happens when couples fight? Julian and Miles crash on a planet and their relationship is tested. Meanwhile, Worf has some moral questioning and learning of his own to do regarding "shades of gray" on DS9. 55:20- Voicemails and Emails!  Eric from PA asks a question about The Visitor that we cut from our podcast on that episode.

The One Where Everyone Cries. Or: Catcher in the Wormhole.

What can we say? Season 4 is pretty good so far.

It's Benjamin Sisko's turn to come unstuck from time, but not unstuck from Jake.  This one is all about fathers and sons. 

And Tony Todd, who is amazing as old Jake.

55:20 Time for voicemail

We talk more Worf from Way of the Warrior

Did your podcast feed freak out? Here's a quick note and a call with some potential Becker spoilers...

Worf!  

We are all Worf

Voicemails, or Whatever We Call This Segment (1:15:00)

A new caller asks about … The Orville

Plutoburns has some preemptive thoughts on this episode

Greetings from Season 4! There's a lot of Tetryon emmisions in subspace causing temporal disruptions. Technobabble technobabble. Here's some of your voicemails about Season 3, yet we're recording from a later point in the timeline in which we've watched a few episodes of Season 4. But don't worry, we've gone out our way to follow the temporal prime directive and avoid major spoilers. We receive a PlutoBurns transmission from way back containing his thoughts on “Explorers.” Voyager and Enterprise captains are discussed, along with womens’ hairstyles. Warren Cantrell (@10rant) defends Bashir. Another Austrailian listener, Carla, has some more Bashir thoughts, plus we talk some Enterprise. Adam P Newton gives us his White Album and Wade reveals the history of his pronunciation of “@DryveTyme” Get excited for Season 4 and give us a call! 917 408 3898

Happiness is a Warm Phaser. It's that time when we cut out all the filler, and devise our perfect contemporary season of Deep Space Nine from the extended "double album" of classic American Television. No voicemails this week, we're on vacation!