Kickers of Elves

Garak is actually introduced.  Things get turned around. Terrorists and Spock are discussed.  Hugh reflects.

Garak is introduced.  Lets revisit the second episode and cringe at what doesn't work and think about what does.   Future-James reflects some on DS9 and what kind of stories we might want for future generations.

Don't trust linear time! It's all just one eternal moment to the prophets, and here we are back at the beginning.  Welcome to the Rules of Acquisition remix.  It's the same ROA that you may know, but this time we're giving you some additional commentary on how it feels to travel back in time and listen to versions of ourselves from those before-times, back when our innocence was still intact.  In...

A change in format!  Hugh talked to listeners about the sexiest of Scottish Ghost Candle Stories, Star Trek: The Next Generations "Sub Rosa" Want in on next month's roundtable discussion?  Go to https://patreon.com/kickersofelves  for more info!

Voicemails?! Remember those?  So do we! What has happened since last we updated? How have our lives changed forever since we finished watching every episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?  What else is in store from Kickers of Elves on the RoA feed?   Hugh has some deets. What is The RoA Remix?  What is this about these TNG roundtables?  Is this the end voicemails?  No! First Ben from the UK has a...

What is going on with the podcast this week?  Your questions will be answered! Patrons can hear us talk Tarantino: https://www.patreon.com/posts/once-upon-time-29126552 And check out the unlocked Dune podcast at the Hashish and Superiority Book Club: https://kickersofelves.com/hsbc/

We’ve gone through every. single. episode. of Deep Space Nine. Now what?  Where’s the White Album for Season 7?  We go into details and reflect on the thesis of the podcast and where we ended up with that. Wade did a White(ish) Album, and tried to pull a “How would we fix it,” all the way from the begining of the pod to fix the ending.  What is Star Trek DS9 actually about?  TNG vs DS9:  What is t...

The Last DS9! Buckle up for a long ride and prepare to say goodbye to your space friends. Does the finale hit all its marks?  Half? Enough to be effective and make you a little emotional at least? What great shows is this finale closer to than we are now?  Flight of the Concords for instance came out closer to the DS9 finale than we are to FotCs.  The Sopranos is just starting up.  Where were we w...

The end is nigh upon us!  The Ferengi are getting a new Nagus!  The Cardassian rebellion has been crushed! Or has it?  The Alliance Fleet has to make a decision.   What was Peter Allan Fields contribution?  Nobody’s saying!  How do we feel about where this leaves some of our characters?  Rom, go on Chapo!  Quark, Sam Malone, and Making Ferengenar Great Again, and Jim from the Office.  Is the Feren...

Miles and Jule’s excellent adventure. It was the best of Julian, it was the worst of Julian.  Sloan gets  caught! Via exxxtreme measures. Oh, and Odo is dying. Putting to rest whether Julian is a good physician.  O’Brien, reduced to a wingman, or something more?  What imaginitve vistas could have been?  What do the writers dislike about this episode and what does Wade love?  Speaking of love…  For...

Odo is sick.  The Klingons and the Alliance have a problem.  Empires of all sorts must change or be destroyed.   Have you tacked before?  Tacking into themes.    Bobby Moynihan Cardasssian: What’s his actual name? Oh wait, is this the culmination of the post TNG  plot for the Klingons?   Worf: Avatar of regime change.  Clicking Clocks and ticking tocks.       What was Voyager going to do with thes...

Dot dot dot.   A lot is poured into this episode.   Kira joins the faculty at terrorism school, Julian digs up some Section 31 dirt, and more! Did this episode take interesting concepts and make them tedious?  We’re divided!  Was there a better way to get Kira into a Starfleet uniform?  We gotta go back to what we said about non agression pacts.  These shows love to get outsider characters into th...

The Dominion War and Books. Ezri and Worf get home. Earth is attacked. Solbor! Nooo! Oh and something happens to the Defiant.   The one with all the research. Arrested developement and juvenile culture.  Tabletop! Why no Jim and Pam- ing?  Superstore can do it, why can’t DS9 Sam and Diane at all?  The pepper burning scene?  We’ll give ya that one.    So everybody still takes the husband’s name in...

Part Three of the final arc!  Ezri/Worf: Still captured.  Dukat/Winn: Trouble brewing.  Sisko/Kasidy: Marriage is war?  Damar's story is getting good. The episodes run together.   Kai Ratched becomes a satanist.    Who was giggling while writing this? Understanding mature relationships.  Who’s getting cocky?    Frank Langella, now there’s a man with chemistry.  We make some Game of Thrones compari...

Sisko's space mom doesn't want him getting married. Kai Winn gets a gentleman caller.  Ezri gets a love interest she's barely talked to in any of her featured episodes.  All the plots have romance. Yay? Dukat has a plan.  What is our least favorite part of this episode?  Is this a Dan Brown novel for Wade?   Is everyone out of position for the end?  So what is going on with Kai Winn?  How clear is...

It’s the final countdown y’all.  Worf gets lost. Sisko gets some land and also engaged.  Plus there's a war on. They’ve dabbled with serialization, how does DS9 kick off the longest arc any Star Trek had attempted?  What approach did the writers take to assembling the story?  What mandates and rules did they have to adhere to?  Setting aside the rewatch meter.  What kind of shows have we soured on...

In times of war the law falls silent. WE DO NOT.  Julian is contacted by Section 31 to run some spy shenanigans at a conference.  We end up discussing more than just this episode, and trying to decipher if DS9 overall is portraying a hard moral philosophy or not. This is a Jean le Carre story apparently?  What kind of moral position is Deep Space Nine trying to sell  us?  Three options are posited...

We got holodeck shenanigans. Sisko has good reason to not want to go to not visit the 60s.  We revisit the career of beloved actor Mike Starr. Waitaminute. Do people not like Vic?  Finally: An episode not based on an old movie, right?  What was the reason behind the memorable Sisko scene in this?   The “jack in the box” concept is interesting.   A TJ Hooker connection!  Spencer for Hire!   Were th...

Odo meets one of his people, and their intimate relationship causes some tension with Kira. Sex vibes for days.  For all that creators have acknowledged in the DS9 doc and elsewhere that the show could have done better with LGBTQ issues, is this episode an example of exploring those questions? Or more about marginalized identites in general?  We may not be the best equipped to talk about it, but w...

A killer is on the loose, but does it take a killer to catch a - oh this is something we've seen before. What is the bad part of this episode?  Is there any part of it that isn’t just a take on Silence of the Lambs?  Did Anthony Hopkins ruin 90s villains with creepy slow talking?  What does it say when Davey Crocket scenes pop the most? What’s going on with Vulcans this season?  What’s going on wi...

The Nagus is Missing in the Alternate Universe and Quark and Rom need a cloaking device for the Regent. It’s the final Mirror Universe episode of Deep Space Nine, and we couldn’t be more upset.    Two of our favorite things. The Mirror Universe PLUS Ferengi shenanigans!  Get ready to talk about evil bisexual tropes.   Hugh was right about problems in the mirror U since season its first reappearanc...

O'Brien is missing from Deep Space Nine, and also from most of this episode.  To find him Ezri must go home to face her family and the ... the toxic effects of capitalism? The sequel that definitely nobody asked for.    Not even the writers apparently.   What happened here?  Who is owed an apology?  Audra Come Home.  Where does this episode sit next to other season’s low points?  Is this episode a...

Nog has some very understandable issues to deal with.  Maybe we do too? Is this the best holodeck episode ever?  Is that damning with faint praise?  What makes a holodeck episode anyway?  Vic Fontaine. Oh Vic. OH  MY, how some people hate you. How does this episode’s representation of a hologram character exist within the entire Star Trek franchise?  How long til the show smartens up about the swi...

Hey remember how cults were all the rage in the 90s?   Kira Nerys does.  Should she be more ready to disengage from Dukat's tiresome shenanigans at this point?    What cult is this? Koresh or Applewhite?  Say what you will about this, it has a hard target.  Dipping into a warm bath of cults.  The Jesus Movement vs more repressive religion of the 80s/90s. Heaven’s Gate Aum Shinrinko and Raelians. ...

War is hell.  Sisko and crew get put in the middle of it. What does the end of History and the 90s have to do with this episode?  WELL WE’RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IT. Salts vs Boots.  Tuco Salamanca!  Will Robinson! Neoliberalism!  Why was this such a hard episode to get made?  Is this a facile argument about war in general?  Is the question of whether the war is just or necessary an important one to a...