Kickers of Elves

This week Hugh has some Invasive Procedure facts we left out from the original version.    A trill episode! Deep Space Nine has been evacuated, but for completely different reasons than last episode! Jon Glover is a mediocre trill, but he wants a slug of his very own...Dax's slug! He assembles a ragtag team of Western tropes, a confederate and a hooker with a heart of gold, to run a badly planned...

Star Trek goes Star Wars? Blasphemy! What is Wade even going on about at the end of this? But this is an action packed episode where Kira and Dax fly a small X-wing sized ship, and encounter a muppet spider - someone found it at a yard sale (really). Lots to unpack in this one. Wade thinks it's a little weak in the scene transitions; James thinks there's some filler. Oh, and Stephen Weber shows up...

Hugh revisits the Circle. Make Bajor Great Again! Part Two of the "Li Nalis Trilogy." But rather than figuring out his character, this episode actually focuses more on Kira being kicked off the station. On Bajor, Bareil shows her a homemade porno from the Prophets, but we prefer the sexual energy between the old people because... more Frank Langella! The sexiest of Skeletors. Sisko is a stand up g...

Season 2! Wait for the end, where James looks back on his former liberal ways. Resetting from season one. More Bajor politics! Kira sets out to save a war hero. Because an earring. Is he a real hero or looking for a way out? Liberty Valance. Kira and O'Brien take a trip to Star Trek's favorite rock quarry. Is Li Nalas something to hang this three episode arc on or do they forget about him for most...

CALAMITY! In this remix Hugh addresses our first "calamity episode," Big 2016 energy, and how the world we inhabited back then was both similar and very unlike the times we find ourselves in now. That's it! We're at the end... ...of the first season; thank the Prophets. If you believe in that sort of thing. Two pretty good episodes back to back; are they realigning the show to be... good? Is it a...

On the patreon you'll find extended discussion about the Corona virus situation's impact on our lives. The full talk is half an hour on the American failed state, isolation, parenting, men about to have an emotional breakdown, and how things are for James in Covid-19 ground zero California, and Wade in NYC. https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-difference-34959980 Also, we talk Devs and Alex Garland...

No time for ridicule, this is A Very Special Episode! Kira duets with a Cardassian, and three white guys from the bible belt get uncomfortable talking about the Holocaust. From post Cold War relations to The Man in the Glass Booth, Adolf Eichmann, and the Banality of Evil; how can art, and specifically science fiction, best approach some of these prickly topics? Lot's to talk about, and we might n...

How does an Adult Swim show hit the same notes that James wants from Star Trek?  Kickers of Elves patrons can hear the full audio:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/34423144 and check out Joe Pera Talks to You over here:  http://www.adultswim.com/videos/joe-pera-talks-with-you

Another space day. Another space possession. Or not. Another space virus; this one turns people into paranoid jerks. We dissect this episode it and try to fix it as best we can. Some may like it more than we do... James has things to say about Ira Behr. Wade can't remember Rudy Ray Moore's name, but this episode is not about that. Sadly. Looking back, James talks about the podcast as a romantic re...

Don't you hate it when Star Trek gets political? Oh wait, we're not even talking Star Trek here.  Don't worry, it'll be over in three minutes. Not even long enough to hit skip on your podcast player. If you want more, there's a lot more of this discussion to hear.  Check out the Kickers of Elves Patreon  where we have all sorts of additional content covering movies, TV, politics and all the other...

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 Pic...

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" hi...

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.com https://podcasts.appl...

Just as we've progressed on Kira throughout the podcast, James has progressed his ideas on "Progress" Listen, and be amazed as we praise Kira's performance. Niners, be confounded by how little we actually talk about self sealing stembolts! Bajoran politics: Kira has to evict an old man from the Shire. Jake and Nog do a red paperclip story; the Ferengi hate land? We go on a tangent about what Marin...

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 n...

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 h...

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 Jon...

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? Li...

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...

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 int...

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 goo...

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. Everyone's favorite (or least favorite) Trickster Space God boards the station with Picard's ex girlfriend to help remind you this is a spin off of that Star Trek show you really liked. Remember? Nudge nudge. Wink. Come for the TNG characters, stay to hear us talk about Fer...

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...