The Rules of Acquisition: A Star Trek Deep Space Nine Podcast

Two podcasts mirror each other.  One maybe died.

You don't think we can be nice? We can be nice.

Get lost in the edgy 90s.  Don't murder your wife.  

This is a special podcast! And for us it's a symbol of our individuality, and our belief... in personal freedom. 

Heineken? F- Heineken! Drink in the episode art. Don't you look at me. Listen to the podcast.  

This podcast about David Lynch's Dune [or is it Alan Smithee's?] is from our 2018 Patreon bonus series "Much A-Dune About Nothing" but it pretty well covers our thoughts on the film.

We are not an animal. We are a podcast.

We get into David Lynch’s work, starting at the beginning.  We watched the 2016 documentary David Lynch: The Art Life  and Eraserhead. James has some “textured” audio in this one. 

Faces smudged with pod, your hosts explain what is going on with the future of this podcast and Kickers of Elves.

Prince Humperdink is a grifter! Wade is embarrassed to like this one. O’Brien and Bashir: Mango Habanero sauce. We do a lot of talking about Julian Bashir as an “unlikeable character” in the pre-Soprano’s era There’s a Bella Union to Quark’s Swearengen’s Saloon… cept no part of this slush pile script is exactly on par with Deadwood, sorry Star Trek Discovery writer Joe Menosky. SPACE RACQUETBALL. Stick around to the end to hear Wade talk trash at other podcasts and then just talk what may be gibberish.

Hugh looks back on this Season 2 episode with some extra research. Oatmeal faced reverse space Mormons! And that's not even meant as a pejorative. Exploration of the universal translator is appreciated, but does it clutter up the rest of this episode where a matriarchal society lands on DS9 and pulls a Battlestar Galactica on Bajor? Just what is Boner from Growing Pains doing? What could have been a great exploration of responses to a refugee crisis turns into a wonky episode of Star Trek. Some "fun" scenes, but unrelated to the central theme of the episode. Would a two parter be better? Is this description making any sense? Our computer voice is a little perplexed... https://www.patreon.com/kickersofelves https://kickersofelves.com https://twitter.com/kickerspodcasts

Hugh and James talk up top on a pamphlet for the left.  Also we talk about Beavis and Butthead and class.   Trigger warning: No Star Trek content contained within! Miss us? This is the kind of thing we talk about on the patreon.  Those ROA remixes will keep trickling in, we promise.   https://patreon.com/kickersofelves  

This DS9 episode could have used a second pass... Hugh gives the podcast a second pass and has to mention Kanye, Colm with John Huston, and ... Dune? What starts with a great father/son scene about that time Picard blew up Ben Sisko's wife devolves into mooning over a woman with no personality and a penchant for disappearing. A man reignites a dead sun with science we are dubious about. But the episode is almost worth watching just for Chief O'Brien's eye rolls alone. https://www.patreon.com/kickersofelves?filters[tag]=Dune https://kickersofelves.com https://twitter.com/kickerspodcasts  

Terok Nor? More like Terok NOIRE! How did Odo go from doing the “Cardassian Neck Trick” in parlours to being a constable on board a Bajoran space station? A flashback episode will answer that. Kira is pretty great. We spend a lot of this episode gushing over how we think Peter Allan Field is the best thing to happen to Star Trek Deep Space Nine. But is there something missing from this episode? Wade rambles about this episode and embarrasses himself again.  

Meanwhile, over at Can't Picardly Wait