Kickers of Elves

We revisit a pretty good episode, and -because we're old now- Hugh reminds some listeners who  Ted Kaczynski was. Cool Hand Benjamin. Sisko and O’Brien crash land on a planet of space Luddites. More Space Amish? Nope. Space hippy cultists. But did this episode have a point that could have been explored more? Classic trek, where a Captain- er commander- is tortured to see what he is made of. But it...

Things aren't what they seem for O'Brien. Is this a M. Night Sham, or is it like that Rick and Morty episode? Maybe Parallax View, or a certain most famous of scifi noirs? Just how would this plot play out as an episode of The Americans? Oh it's a mystery! Or is it? We slide stealthily into a nerd corner conversation on teleporters and cloning. Can Hugh get over his dislike for Colm Meaney's furro...

Hugh revisits Armageddon Game, and also revisits A Stitch in Time, which came up in this episode. More O'Brien and Bashir bromancing. Two races with ridiculous hair are the worsts hosts ever. How do they repay a favor? Kill the guys doing you a solid. Not cool, bro. After getting rid of what we're told is the ultimate doomsday weapon -but that appears a run of the mill biological weapon, with a na...

The ROA remixed!   Yeah, we're still doing these. The Rules of Acquisition may be over, but we'll still be looking back at it from time to time. Hugh revisits The Alternate, and tries to see just what Wade was talking about here...   Odo's Dad! (kinda) Is this a horror movie? Father issues, the stuff popular filmed entertainment is made of! What happens when the DS9 crew goes to an abandoned plane...

We may have moved on from DS9, but Star Trek does still sometimes come up from time to time. Tired of waiting for episodes of the podcast?  We talk a variety of subjects and update regularly for patrons. Here's a short conversation we had about Worf.  Also for free on the patreon this week: you can hear some of our thoughts on the Loki Disney + show.  Patrons can hear even more.   Check it out at...

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.   Get ready for some renovations.  We're changing the name of the podcast and moving to a new format.  What will we be covering first?  We're delving deep into David Lynch: first with an exploration of all of the films, then we'll cover that other prequel to modern tv, Twin Peaks.

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....

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...

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 ep...

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? Wa...

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Here's just a smidge from the latest content at https://patreon.com/kickersofelves Go ahead and ignore if you're mad at the lack of Trek.    Here's that WaPo Article

Another teaser where these jerks don't even talk Star Trek. James and Hugh talk about The Punisher's computer guy, America's Chernobyl, and mostly Richard Power's The Overstory.   Want more of these conversations? All the juicy personal drama is over behind the paywall. Check out the Kickers of Elves patreon at https://patreon.com/kickersofelves  

Title track!   24th Century Buttslap!  Hugh looks back on this episode and provides some Mark Singer Facts at the end. Does this Deep Space Nine episode live up to the hype? Maybe not. There are a lot of rules in this episode, and we get the first mention of the Dominion. Plus a lot of rehashed Shakespeare plot from a play two of us performed way back in our high school days. Plus some good old fa...

More like "Meh, Lora", huh?  Wade Looks back on this episode and tries not to embarrass himself. DS9's resident pickup artist, Julian Bashir "falls in love" and has some zero g space sex. We really lay into Julian in this one. We debate some more alien physiology, including turkey wattles and mouth handles in addition to what a lady who grew up flying might look like. How bout that David Foster Wa...

  Whilst Julian and Garak flirt at the replimat, a Cardassian boy boards DS9, bites Garak, and sets off a story wherein we actually start to appreciate the character of Julian Bashir. Not nearly as much as we enjoy Garak or Dukat, however. Race issues! Down to a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner scene. This is perhaps the best episode that we've watched since Duet. Also: Why do we love these space nazi...