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

Wade waxes on about romance and looking back on this episode. In the interest of checking off all the obligatory characters from ST: TNG, Lwaxana Troi shows up in this episode! But wait! It's actually pretty good! She gets more intimate with a gooey Odo than she ever did with Picard. Is she more interesting without her daughter? Bashir is Pete Campbell. Technobabble. Obrien gets a puppy. Can't Picardly Wait?  https://patreon.com/kickersofelves https://twitter.com/kickerspodcasts  

Hugh talks Colm Meaney on leprechauns and nerds out on some baseball statistics. More like "If Wishes Were Horses#!t." Yes, after last week's praise, we're back into the gutter! Obrien meets WHATISCERTAINLYNOTALEPRECHAUN. Nope, it's just another Alien of the Week. As Peter Dinklage said in Living in Oblivion: "Want to make it weird? Oh, put a dwarf in it." So we get "the Man from Another Place" himself, Michael J Anderson as a guest star. We talk about that, some other things, the Julian Problem, and the one good thing to stick around from this episode: Sisko's baseball. Not mentioned, but for new Star Trek commentary, check out Can't Picardly Wait

Check out the first episode of the newest pod from Kickers of Elves. Except with Replacements for James and Hugh. Is Star Trek Picard a good show? Hack trope garbage built to mine IP?  Some sort of quantum form existing in both states at once?   Check out new episodes as Picard airs in its own feed alongside A Discovery Home Companion. http://discoveryhomecompanion.libsyn.comhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cant-picardly-wait-a-star-trek-picard-podcast/id1275425963https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/bogmad-media-2/a-discovery-home-companion-a-star-trek-discovery-podcast  

Just as we've progressed on Kira throughout the podcast, James has progressed his ideas on "Progress"

One episode. Two stories. That. Don't. Interact. At. All. One podcast, two versions. Recorded. Years. Apart. Wade feels rusty. Is he? Nobody likes Julian, even O'brien, but things get set up for later. They yell at a smoke monster. Missourians know river politics. Wade is maybe puerile in what he notices in the set dressing. Jake and Nog hit on a girl. James talks libertarians. Hugh introduces a new segment, where we perhaps insult any listeners who are responsible for the IMDB episode ratings. Hope you're not offended. We love you... Speaking of... Rate us! https://patreon.com/kickersofelves https://twitter.com/kickerspodcasts  

Miss us?  The ROA Remix episodes will keep coming, but regular listeners might like to hear new discussion from the three of us?  And we're not even arguing in this one.   Before watching the new Witcher show on Netflix that everyone else is talking about we talk about the book series by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski.  Patrons can hear us on the regular, talking about a variety of subjects at https://patreon.com/kickersofelves.  Dropped this week are two other conversations, about Rick and Morty and TV, plus video games. Is Death Stranding gaming's Gravity's Rainbow?

Stick around to the end when Hugh goes all in on Opaka, IMDB scores,  and more. Jonathan Banks! Plays a pissed off alien. Which he can pull off pretty well as you might imagine. Kai Alpaca, the Space Pope from the premiere comes back and sets things into motion... But mostly we're excited to see Jonathan Banks. That's Mike from Breaking Bad if you don't know who that is. Why don't you know who Jonathan Banks is?

Hugh guides you through the vortex, and reflects on NYPD Blue, Nana Visitor's career, and his cohosts beer consumption. This week a couple of Gene Simmons steal a faberge egg, are double crossed by a space junkie, who turns out to actually be a space Mormon -who wears Odo's cousin around his neck- and everyone takes a trip to the least turbulent "vortex" in the galaxy. Does that make sense? No? Listen and figure out just what the heck I'm going on about. Plus: "Candy Man Caveman" and Wade's self loathing. https://patreon.com/kickersofelves https://twitter.com/kickerspodcasts https://kickersofelves.com  

Uh oh. Hope you like the Ferengi. Our dang podcast title and artwork feature them so we can't throw stones. Wallace Shawn guest stars as a wrinkly talking "coin purse." Ferengi Juggalos!? Wade gets off topic and weird about Andrea Martin. Manservant Punk Rock Ronald Reagan. Education and racism are discussed, among other things. OH, and hope you like My Dinner with Andre, cuz Wade finally watched it for the remix, and he's insufferable. 917 408 3898 https://patreon.com/kickersofelves https://kickersofelves.com  

In this very special "remix" episode James provides the long hidden secret behind Move Along Home and its writers.  Then later he shares some of his thoughts on why it works in ways that later "bad" episodes of Deep Space Nine don't.  

Julian gets possessed by the ghost of Hannibal Lector doing a bad Bela Lugosi impersonation. Maybe? Hugh tries to do a voice in this episode, and regrets it four years later in the "remix" portion of this episode.  Also: Some background on Technobabble There's gotta be a reason for what happened in the episode we talk about. Just how are we supposed to feel about that character, anyway? And we introduce "Angry Nerd Corner" (Wait, that's this whole show, right?) Go check out Hello Cruel World by the Tall Dwarfs... for no reason.

Dax is on trial. Or rather, a deposition or something. Stick around til the end, when Wade reflects back on this early episode and where the pod goes. Plus what other podcasts that might be coming up. How do you fix a character like Maria?? Well, you make her a good character but don't make her try to impress anybody. But OH WAIT. We're talking Dax here. Not West Side Story. This is actually a good episode. LISTEN! (Was somebody drunk when they posted this description?)

It's a Q episode! Stick around for the end when James looks back at his feelings on the episode, DS9, and podcasting in 2015.

Run! It's the most dangerous game, and the most dangerous way to re-listen to a pod from four years ago.  Wade podcasts stuffed inside a box. Hugh looks back on the episode.  

The crew of DS9 gets infected with an aphasia virus, and we can't quite find the words... Wade finds plenty to talk about after listening to this episode.TV Pre and Post the time of Difficult Men. Sex positive Dax is back, and Odo is embarrassed, but we don't buy it. How do you fix episode? James has some good ideas. Hey, don't bother with the tumblr, why not check out https://kickersofelves.com or better yet https://patreon.com/kickersofelves  Or just https://twitter.com/kickerspodcasts