Chris & Matt Talk About That

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode In the Hands of the Prophets. We are joined by our friend, Gary. Topics include the coexistence of societies with differing beliefs, Deep Space Nine's lack of serialized character progression, and whether beliefs in the metaphysical and physical realities conflict.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode Duet. We are joined by Chris’s wife, Lela. Topics include the difficulty of caring about the characters in this first season, the Federation's role as peace officers, the nature of prejudice, collective guilt, and breaking the cycle of revenge through forgiveness.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode Dramatis Personae. We are joined by Nash Family Bacon's very own Mike Nash. Topics include DS9's first season's obsession with high concepts, the meaning of building a clock, having the shields on by default, and blazing our names across the stars.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode The Forsaken. Topics include the personality of artificial intelligence, showing vulnerability, whether anyone can make a show like The Next Generation nowadays, and the different ways to make a personal connection.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode If Wishes Were Horses. Topics include baseball (yes, Chris talks about a sport), the cognitive nature of fantasization, how each person’s fantasies differentiate, the dangers of living within an imagined reality, and, oh yeah, we talk about this DS9 episode. 

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode Progress. Topics include Rom's salary, individual rights versus collective prosperity, Kira's character progression, whether holodeck bullets are lethal, and self-sealing stem bolts.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode The Storyteller. We are joined again by our bacon merchant friend, Mike. Topics include Bashir's new love interest, DS9's contradictory relationship with humanism, imposter syndrome, old men shouting at clouds, and The City on the Edge of Forever.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode Battle Lines. This episode we are once again joined by our long time friend Cody. Topics include retributive justice, post-traumatic stress disorder, the power of forgiveness in ending cycles of hatred, and differential magnetomers.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode Vortex. Topics include Deep Space Nine being so different than other Star Trek shows, Odo's bizarre biological nature, Colm Meaney's film The Snapper, and skipping Neelix scenes.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode The Nagus. Topics include characterization in Star Trek episodes, imagining Ferengi society, our education system, influencing friends, and the pope of materialism.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's wonderful and majestic episode Move Along Home. Topics include sarcasm in podcast descriptions, games being a simulation of reality, first contact not being what it used to be, Allamaraine, and sending Odo home. This week we are joined in studio by our guests Mike and Ashley. Please enjoy the sporadic tones of th...

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode The Passenger. Topics include the psychological game of a procedural TV show, that it's good to want things, archiving brain patterns, vintage phaser collectors, and whether this is the last episode that we see the real Bashir.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode Dax. Topics include the symbiosis of the mind, body and soul, the nature of being, pick up artists in space, and accepting that your reincarnated friend is still dead.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode Q-Less. Our friend Cody joins us for the discussion. Topics include conventions, the fourth wall, pugilism, tritium gas, and never going home again.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode Captive Pursuit. Topics include civilization's concealed savagery of man, the Prime Directive and its subjectivity, respecting a person's code of honor, and Odo's taste in paintings.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode Babel. Topics include our guest Mike's great love for the film Generations, going out to eat when you have a replicator at home, aphasia, transporter phobia, and Chris and Mike's supranatural parallel thoughts on O'Brien's suffering.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode A Man Alone. Topics include reincarnation of the soul, clone abortion, English common law, the 18th and 19th Amendments, and Bashir's guide on how to pick up women. Special guest star Lela provides a woman's perspective on this episode.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's episode Past Prologue. Topics include terrorism, espionage, and Sisko's greatest sin.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's pilot episode Emissary. Matt reads way too into things and Chris teaches us about Miranda class Starships.

Chris and Matt Talk About That. "That" being Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, its place within Star Trek, and the nature of science-fiction as a genre.