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Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Playing God Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 17: Playing God. In this episode Dax gets the dullest intern imaginable. Kira and Miles are trying to rid the station of Cardiassian voles and Sisko is forced into a life or death decision because we beamed something foreign onto the station. AGAIN. Playing God This week we learn that Curzon is really King of th...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Shadowplay Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 16: Shadowplay. In this episode Odo and Dax happen upon a little village of people wearing funny hats and white robes. Their sensors aren't functioning as they try to figure out a mystery involving disappearing villagers. And we finally have some B-stories back at the station! We also have some familiar-faced gue...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Paradise Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 15: Paradise. In this episode Sisko and Miles are on an away mission together and end up trapped on a planet where technology doesn't work. We do a lot of over analysis of this episode, especially focusing on leadership (good and bad). While we've had several recent episodes where there just wasn't much to talk abo...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Whispers Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 14: Whispers. In this episode Miles returns from an away mission to find that everyone is acting a bit squirrely. He can't get a straight answer from anyone about what's going on and even Molly is behaving strangely. Since Odo is away, he starts listening around corners and doing his own investigating! Whispers Thi...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Armageddon Game Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 13: Armageddon Game. In this episode we have some Julian/Miles angst, a deadly bio-weapon and some shockingly crazy hair. No seriously, LOOK AT THE HAIR. Armageddon Game Julian and Miles are on a mission to help the T'Lani and the Kelleruns destroy their stockpile of deadly biomechanical gene disruptor weapo...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: The Alternate Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 12: The Alternate. In this episode the Bajoran scientist who studied Odo arrives at the station and everyone keeps calling him Odo's dad. Everyone except Odo, that is! Dr. Mora is played by guest star James Sloyan who has played other characters in the Star Trek universe! The Alternate While everyone is annoyi...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Rivals Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 11: Rivals. In this episode someone new is hanging out on the station and as usual, we don't think to blame him immediately for a new problem we have. Guest star Chris Sarandon plays Martus Mazur as a slightly smarmy El-Aurian who likes to charm little old ladies out of their money. But luck isn't always on his side....

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Sanctuary Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 10: Sanctuary. In this episode we beam some flaky skinned people into Ops without asking ourselves whether or not we should beam flaky skinned people into Ops! Why do we do that? Fortunately, they don't bring a new virus to the station, but they do bring a little chaos as the universal translator struggles with th...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Second Sight Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 9: Second Sight. In this episode Sisko is seeing double. He keeps bumping into a mysterious woman on the promenade to whom he feels very drawn. The mystery deepens when she doesn't reveal any information about herself and she keeps disappearing. Let's get Odo to help! Second Sight A terraforming scientist playe...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Necessary Evil Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 8: Necessary Evil. In this episode we appear to flashback to a time when DS9 was part of a Dickens play...no not quite that far...but the station is under Cardassian rule and it's all pretty grim. Odo meets Dukat, Kira and even Quark for the very first time as Dukat strong-arms him into investigating the murd...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Rules of Acquisition Hello Star Trek fans! We have arrived at episode 7: Rules of Acquisition. There's a whole lot of Ferengi going on in this one. Maybe a little bit too much? But we also have Tongo, The X-Files and lobe augmentation to discuss. Thank goodness for some humor here and there because otherwise this episode hits some very low points. Just going to issue a war...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Melora Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 6: Melora! Ensign Melora ( Daphne Ashbrook ) from a low-gravity planet arrives on the station and she needs some special accommodations to get around. Bashir takes an extreme interest in her and wants to help increase her mobility and he also wants to date her (because he's Bashir). Meanwhile, Crazy Joe Davola is aft...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Cardassians Hello Star Trek fans! Welcome to Season 2 episode 5: Cardassians! This episode focuses on war orphans left behind by the Cardassians when they withdrew from Bajor. Sisko finds himself in the middle of a custody battle that seems to have piqued the interest of Gul Dukat. Dukat seems overly concerned about the plight of a single orphan that he (supposedly) didn't...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Invasive Procedures Hello everyone! Welcome to Season 2 episode 4: Invasive Procedures! Hot off the 3-part season opener, we slide into a standalone episode starring none other than Lionel Luthor...well actually it's John Glover who is well known for playing Lionel Luthor on Smallville and most importantly LA slimeball Brice Cummings in Scrooged (his most important role)....

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: The Siege Hello everyone! Welcome to Season 2 episode 3: The Siege! This is the action-packed finale of the 3-parter that opened season 2. We continue on with our high-powered guest stars of Louise Fletcher , Frank Langella and Richard Beymer though only 2 of them are coming out of this episode alive! And we finally see some teamwork both on the station and on an away miss...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: The Circle Hello everyone! It's time for Season 2 episode 2: The Circle! This is the second episode in a 3-parter and we are digging it so far. We've got all of our high-powered guest stars here in Louise Fletcher , Frank Langella and Richard Beymer . Plus we've got migraine triggers, naked prophecies, the axis of evil and great bangs. Oh yeah and we also debate the greate...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: The Homecoming We are back! And it's time for Season 2 episode 1: The Homecoming! We finished season 1 on a high note with 3 good episodes in a row; so how does season 1 start? Well it starts with the first of a 3-parter and some high-octane guest stars. We meet Minister Jaro played by Tony award winning actor Frank Langella and also Li Nalas played by Golden Globe nominat...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Season 1 Wrap Up Welcome to episode 20 of Rebinge DS9 where we wrap up the entire first season! In this episode of the podcast we talk about what we loved and didn't love about season 1. We also go through our mail bag and read some of the emails and tweets that we've been getting from you! Season 1 Wrap Up To wrap up season 1, we each list our top 5 and bottom 5 episodes....

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: In the Hands of the Prophets Welcome to S1E19 In the Hands of the Prophets. In this episode of DS9, we meet Vedek Winn, also known as Evil Winn on this podcast. She's come to the station to push church into Keiko's school and shout "blasphemy" at anyone who will listen. She is not nice and she causes lots of chaos. In the Hands of the Prophets This is a dense episode and w...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Duet Welcome to S1E18 Duet. In this episode of DS9, an unknown Cardassian arrives at the station seeking medical treatment. The trouble is, his condition only exists in survivors or soldiers of a forced labor camp called Gallitep. Kira wants the guy's head on a stick, but Sisko is being cautious. We take a very deep dive into the details of this dialogue-heavy episode. Due...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Dramatis Personae Welcome to S1E17 Dramatis Personae. In this episode of DS9, everyone is acting weird. Kira is on some kind of power trip. Miles has gone into full "protect Sisko" mode and Bashir seems to be playing both sides. Meanwhile, what is Odo to do? Dramatis Personae We don't have a B-story in Dramatis Personae. Instead, we ship the kids and Keiko off to Bajor on...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: The Forsaken Welcome to S1E16 The Forsaken. In this episode of DS9, we get a visit from Lwaxana Troi, a well-known and loved Star Trek The Next Generation character. She is up to her usual antics here, chasing after one of our crew members. In a related story, the station is yet again put at risk by some very bad plans, including just downloading files from a rogue probe-l...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: If Wishes Were Horses Welcome to S1E15 If Wishes Were Horses. This is a peculiar episode where imaginations are running wild and also coming to life. Miles has to put up with Rumpelstiltskin (yep, you read that right) and Julian has to put up with a clingy Jadzia (you kind of asked for it, Julian). If Wishes Were Horses While Odo is dealing with a blizzard and emus running...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: Progress Welcome to S1E14 Progress. This episode is a beautifully nuanced story of Major Kira's struggle between her past, her present and the future of Bajor. We get another high powered guest star in Brian Kieth. And because we love a good B-story, Jake and Nog are up to some shenanigans back on the station. Progress? Brian Keith plays a Bajoran deeply entrenched in his...

Rebinging Star Trek DS9: The Storyteller Welcome to S1E13 The Storyteller. Julian and Miles head to Bajor on their first away mission together and it pretty much goes as you might expect. There is a lot of eye rolling involved (from Miles, of course). Meanwhile back on DS9, Jake and Nog are busy chasing after a girl involved in some serious business. The Storyteller In this episode, Miles tries to...