Latest Deepspace9 Podcast Episodes
S1 E3 "Holo-ween"
Deep Space X: A Star Trek RPG Inspired Podcast - October 31, 2020 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsDuring the ancient Earth holiday known as "Halloween," Cmdr. Aster rallies his senior officers to celebrate. To do so, they participate in a holosuite program designed by the Wadi, a Gamma Quadrant species with a knack for elaborate games.
An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 8
An Empires Lullaby - October 26, 2020 04:00 - 18 minutesDetective Maza from Gargoyles guest stars on Deep Space 9 and Sisko is smitten. Briar tries not to go on tangents about dopamine and epigenetics. Matt talks about the cultural origin of terraforming. Visit Mixolydian Gray on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-561680672
S1 E2 "Idol Threats"
Deep Space X: A Star Trek RPG Inspired Podcast - October 24, 2020 10:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWhile inspecting the station's specialized shuttlecraft, the USS Kestrel, a gigantic multi-limbed statue appears near DSX. Claimants challenge Cmdr. Aster and the crew, including the Ferengi merchant Rankle. Dr. Tamura and Gul Boket fight for answers.
An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 7
An Empires Lullaby - October 12, 2020 04:00 - 20 minutesCW: policing, the fascist Cardassian occupation of Bajor When Quark is shot an nearly killed, Odo investigates his attempted murder and is reminded of a murder from five years ago. Matt and Briar talk about Odo's past, his responsibility, and his position of authority within an occupation....
S1 E1 "Statue of Limitations"
Deep Space X: A Star Trek RPG Inspired Podcast - October 10, 2020 10:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsIn the premiere of Deep Space X, the senior officers, Cmndr. Aster, Dr. Tamura, and Gul Boket, consider a strange request from a group known as "The Siskans;" religious followers of the famous Starfleet Capt. and Emissary of Bajor.
S1 E0 "Masks of the Drama"
Deep Space X: A Star Trek RPG Inspired Podcast - October 10, 2020 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsFrom the Brothers Pimm, a new Star Trek inspired actual play tabletop podcast, Deep Space X. Taking place at the turn of the 25th century on the far-side of the famed Bajoran wormhole, we follow Cmdr. Jeremy Aster, Dr. Felix Tamura, and Gul Ran Boket in the alien intrigue of the Gamma Quadrant.
Deep Space X: Trailer
Deep Space X: A Star Trek RPG Inspired Podcast - October 05, 2020 23:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsA special trailer for the new podcast from the Brothers Pimm Society, Deep Space X. Deep Space X is a Star Trek inspired actual-play podcast. Get a taste of the galactic action.
An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 6
An Empires Lullaby - September 21, 2020 04:00 - 15 minutesIn this episode, Grand Nagus Zek returns and sends Quark and a waiter at Quark's bar on a quest filled with capitalism, love, and surprise twists! Dax is a good LGBT ally. Quark isn't straight. The straights aren't alright. Briar muses about the opposing worldviews of dismantling capitalism a...
An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 5
An Empires Lullaby - September 07, 2020 04:00 - 22 minutesCW: disability, accommodations, ableist frameworks Ensign Melora arrives on DS9 and the senior officers are bad at handling the accommodations she needs. Matt and Briar use life experience to talk about what Starfleet does wrong, what they do right, and how to do it better.
An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 4
An Empires Lullaby - August 31, 2020 04:00 - 26 minutesCW: Surgery, invasive medical procedures In the midst of a space storm, someone comes to steal Dax away from Jadzia. Tim Russ and John Glover guest star. Matt points out the contemporary allegory to white male entitlement. Briar points out how Jadzia's character is mistreated.
An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 3
An Empires Lullaby - August 24, 2020 04:00 - 25 minutesStarfleet tries to hold the fort on DS9 while Kira and Dax smuggle key evidence to the Bajoran prov. government. Briar talks about palukoo and refutes Sisko's approach to Li Nalas. Matt. Matt gushes about relationships, and uncovers something shocking about the moon in this episode. Derek Ho...
An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 2
An Empires Lullaby - August 10, 2020 04:00 - 35 minutesCW for The Circle: Torture We welcome our first guest, Will Nguyen (@BoomerNiner on Twitter) as we watch The Circle. Will brings a specifically Marxist framework to our leftist podcast, and -among other things - explains how The Circle fails as a class revolution for Bajorans. Briar keeps gu...
An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 1
An Empires Lullaby - August 03, 2020 04:00 - 12 minutesCW: concentration camps, forced labor, genocide An Empire's Lullaby is back to rewatch season 2 of "Deep Space 9"! This season premiere introduces the beginnings of a Bajoran civil war. What might be the first Star Trek 3-parter on syndicated television kicks off with Major Kira rescuing a Ba...
An Empire's Lullaby Bonus Episode
An Empires Lullaby - May 18, 2020 04:00 - 16 minutesIt's our Season 1 retrospective and Q&A episode! Matt and Briar answer a handful of questions submitted by people. Matt reveals a secret project to be completed, and hoarse Briar is slightly hoarse, of course. Please enjoy this bonus episode, we'll be back for Season 2 in a week (or two).
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 19
An Empires Lullaby - May 11, 2020 22:16 - 20 minutesIn the finale of DS9 Season 1, a Bajoran spiritual leader with lofty political aspirations arrives to shake things up on the station. Matt and Briar compare the issues Vedek Winn brings up to real-world conflicts between faith and secularism to point out what works, and what could have used a li...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 18
An Empires Lullaby - May 05, 2020 16:45 - 17 minutesThis episode deals with war crimes, particularly concentration camps, forced labor, and genocide, as well as questions of structural complicity. Our discussion explores these topics further, working from both the episode’s fictional depiction and the real-world parallels to the Holocaust. We wi...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 17
An Empires Lullaby - April 27, 2020 04:00 - 10 minutesIn episode 17, the crew members start to adopt caricature-ish personalities. Rene Auberjonois carries the episode, but Matt and Briar carry on with their nitpicking. With only two more episodes left in season 1, our Q&A is approaching fast! Please send us questions, comments, and the like!
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 16
An Empires Lullaby - April 20, 2020 16:24 - 14 minutesDeep Space 9 plays host to a group of illustrious ambassadors - including TNG alumna: Lwaxana Troi, who has her sights set on Odo. Complicating the diplomacy, an unidentified probe appears from the other side of the wormhole, and downloading its computer causes havoc with DS9's systems! Bria...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 15
An Empires Lullaby - April 14, 2020 19:39 - 11 minutesEveryone's imaginations are becoming real. Rumpelstiltzkin! A demure Jadzia Dax obsessed with loving Dr. Bashir! (not to be confused with the real one) A baseball player in a onsie uniform: Buck Bokai! Matt and Briar talk about shared reality and Simulacra and muse about trained emus.
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 14
An Empires Lullaby - April 06, 2020 04:00 - 16 minutesWhen Kira is forced to remove a farmer from a Bajoran moon, she finds her loyalties divided. And when Jake and Nog start a futuristic version of "The Golden Bird" the tone of the show is also divided. Matt teaches Briar about the predominant culture of Bajor. Briar just wants more ecological...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 13
An Empires Lullaby - March 30, 2020 04:00 - 12 minutesJake and Nog help a state leader act her age, and even give her some of the help she needs to negotiate with the leader of a rival faction. And when Dr. Bashir fails to save an ailing old man on Bajor from death, O'Brien is roped into fulfilling his role in the village. But who's that staring ...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 12
An Empires Lullaby - March 24, 2020 01:08 - 9 minutesIt's a Bottle Prison Episode! On the Kai's insistence, Sisko makes the questionable call to take her into the gamma quadrant. Matt and Briar discuss the role of prophecy in Bajoran Society, and the crisis of faith Kira finds herself in. We're both feeling a little under the weather this episo...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 11
An Empires Lullaby - March 09, 2020 04:00 - 11 minutesIn "The Vortex," Odo finds out just a little bit more about his origins from a scruffy stranger. Sisko fails at diplomatic relations with an isolationist people. And Matt and Briar kinda just aren't feeling it. Also: Is the twinned Miradorn phenomenon cultural or telepathic? Why are Faberg...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 10
An Empires Lullaby - March 02, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutesIt's episode 10! And half of it is all about dads, dads, dads~! In "The Nagus," Quark becomes Grand Nagus and navigates political intrigue and attempted assassination. Commander Sisko shares fatherly talks with other dads on the station, and Jake gets up to secrecy! Also: Is there more t...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 09
An Empires Lullaby - February 24, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutesIn what might be Briar's most controversial favorite episode: "Move Along Home", DS9 is visited by the mysterious game playing Wadi. Quark displays surprising empathy. The senior officers are forced to act like children. We name-drop jammerreviews. Odo blows on Quark's dice for luck. And Bria...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 08
An Empires Lullaby - February 10, 2020 05:35 - 14 minutes"The Passenger" takes Matt and Briar on a whirlwind ride of paranoia and sci-fi possession - as long as they don't think too hard about it. Two individual stand-ins for the Federation get humbled, and Briar gloats. Once again, Matt dips into what makes technobabble work. Commander, how do I he...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 07
An Empires Lullaby - February 03, 2020 18:33 - 14 minutesEpisode 7 Dax takes an existential look at the nature of Jadzia Dax's personhood. Briar is beginning to wonder if Starfleet has any kind of Human Resources department or sexual harassment policies. Matt talks about how to debate. Bajoran gavels are cool, and we are *VERY PROFESSIONAL* this episo...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 06
An Empires Lullaby - January 27, 2020 05:00 - 15 minutesIn DS9 episode "Q-less"; Matt learns what Marvel movies feel like to non-comic book fans. Q, the inter-dimensional super-being, returns to the series along with Vash, and a host of other call backs to The Next Generation. Briar is unimpressed, and argues that Q a B-tier trickster god. Neither Q ...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 05
An Empires Lullaby - January 20, 2020 05:00 - 14 minutesO'Brien makes a friend from the other side of the wormhole and goes on an adventure. Briar accidentally calls O'Brien "Brian." Briar and Matt muse on shield polarity and on the scope of the Prime Directive. They do not come to a solid conclusion. The moral of this DS9 episode is that fox hunt...
An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 04
An Empires Lullaby - January 13, 2020 05:00 - 10 minutesIn DS9 episode "Babel;" O'Brien is run ragged. And thanks to a Cardassian device, a deadly virus sweeps the station that causes people to babble. An investigation into the pathogen reveals a twist: the sabotage was Bajoran in origin! Major Kira saves the day with petty-ness. Also, Commander S...