We ran an introduction to Liberation Martial Arts (LMA) for striking academic workers at the University of California, Irvine. These are the highlights.

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This episode was recorded on September 19, 2024.

Scott and Sam recap the season 4 finale, "Broken Link," and discuss how Garak justifies genocide as self-defense. Space colonizers are taking a page out of the US and Israeli playbook.

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This episode was recorded on September 12, 2024.

Scott and Sam recap "Body Parts" and discuss colonial capitalist debt and death.

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This episode was recorded on September 12, 2024.

Scott and Sam recap "The Quickening" and discuss disease and germ warfare as Western colonial tools and the US soldier mentality to cancer treatment.

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This episode was recorded on September 12, 2024.

Scott and Sam recap "To the Death" and discuss how culture, drugs, and disassociation have been used as means of control.

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This episode was recorded on September 1, 2024.

Scott and Sam recap "For the Cause" and discuss how just as Killmonger was right, the Maquis are right. ACAB includes the Federation. We're a different kind of Trek show.

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This episode was recorded on September 1, 2024.

Scott and Sam recap "The Muse" and discuss how DS9 really doesn't understand consent.

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This episode was recorded on August 22, 2024.

Scott and Sam recap "Shattered Mirror" and discuss Sisko's sexual assault and how Trek fandom does a lot of bypassing.

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This episode was recorded on August 22, 2024.

CW: The episode and our recap have discussions of self-harm

Sam and Scott recap "Hard Time" and discuss the US settler-colonial prison system, the Western biomedical diagnostic model, and the trauma-informed lens to mental health.

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This episode was recorded on July 11, 2024.

Scott and Sam discuss "Rules of Engagement," in which Worf is charged with destroying a Klingon civilian transport and faces an extradition hearing in which the Klingon Empire seeks to have him tried in Klingon court.

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