Deep Space Wine: A Star Trek Deep Space Nine Companion
Like a fine wine, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has only gotten better with age. Join us as we recap and decode every episode of the overlooked stepchild of the Star Trek universe. Each episode we share a bottle of wine, wind down, and then wind ourselves up again with our strong opinions about DS9. Because, in our social experience, people love nothing more than when someone talks at length about Star Trek or wine.
Episodes
22 episodes
Season One in Review: The Golden Jumja Awards!
Yes, it's the award show you never asked for but didn't know how badly you needed. In this DS9 Season 1 retrospective, Lily and Cole bestow awards for acting, costumes, makeup, props, and more -- including best and worst episode (but spoiler: n...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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1:15:05
In the Hands of Your Podcasters: IN THE HANDS OF THE PROPHETS (1.19)
Jumja sticks! Sexy Vedeks! The Sydney Opera House as fashion accessory! It’s the explosive season finale of DS9, and Lily and Cole are as fired up as a schoolhouse on fire. Showrunner Michael Piller intended “In the Hands of the Prophets” to se...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:41:52
The Duality of Man, the Banality of Evil: DUET (1.18)
Intended as a low-budget ‘bottle show’ to save money before the season finale, ‘Duet’ devotes most of its runtime to two characters steeped in conversation with each other. But this dense story and its tug-of-war between justice and vengeance h...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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1:35:44
Sound and Fury: DRAMATIS PERSONAE (1.17)
Is this unhinged tale of intrigue, betrayal and horology giving more Shakespeare or soap opera? We say both, and all the better for it. And though there's plenty of camp silliness on the surface, naturally Lily and Cole dive deep. Cole sees the...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:28:12
...The Rest Is Drag: THE FORSAKEN (1.16)
Get your Kleenex ready - it’s time for the episode that makes all of us melt into a puddle. And if you haven’t got your pail nearby, thank the drag gods that Lwaxana Troi is here to scoop you back up. Lily and Cole deep-dive into Lwaxana’s drag...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:25:20
Manifest Density: IF WISHES WERE HORSES (1.15)
Thought this episode was nothing but Rumpelstiltskin and rabid emus? Think again! Lily plumbs the depths of the station residents’ imaginations to psychoanalyze their deepest desires and greatest fears, uncovering some surprising insights along...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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1:25:29
Cogs in the Wheel of PROGRESS (1.14)
What’s one stubborn farmer standing in the way of progress for an entire planet? Everything or nothing, depending on how you measure value. Nog and Jake spend the episode measuring it in wrappages of yamok sauce, bars of latinum, and gross of s...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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1:18:42
DAVID LIVINGSTON: Exclusive Interview (Part 2)
In the second half of our conversation with Star Trek director and producer David Livingston, we turn a spotlight on his directorial credits 'The Nagus' and 'The Storyteller.' Along the way he shares behind-the-scenes casting insights, re...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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52:28
DAVID LIVINGSTON: Exclusive Interview (Part 1)
If you watched any Star Trek in the 80s, 90s, or 2000s, you've seen David Livingston's name countless times on the bottom of your TV screen. Working behind the scenes from the very first episode of The Next Generation, he quickly graduated to t...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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50:30
Of Syrah and Oatmeal: THE STORYTELLER (1.13)
🧙♂️ A good story can be a powerful thing—it can rally us around a shared cause, give us hope, or even vanquish our fears. But of course, a story is nothing if it’s not told well. In this tale of monsters and myth-making, the medium is the mess...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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1:13:59
A Special Place in Hell: BATTLE LINES (1.12)
Kai Opaka, the spiritual leader we all deserve, returns to DS9 to suffer a tragic crash and embrace a messianic destiny. We trace the episode’s influences from Greek mythology to the New Testament to Dante’s Inferno. Also covered: Sisko’s daddy...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:06:56
Don't Hate the Changeling, Hate 'The Game': VORTEX (1.11)
In "Vortex," Odo gets an unwitting lesson in manipulation and seduction from a wily stranger promising him answers about his origins. So today, Lily schools us in every pickup tactic the episode pulls straight out of the pickup artist playbook....
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:12:26
Never Trust a Sicilian (or a Ferengi): THE NAGUS (1.10)
The Godfather meets The Merchant of Venice meets West Side Story meets … the inconceivably talented Wallace Shawn. But first, we need to address the golem in the room: just how problematic are the Ferengi? 🍷 <...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:33:26
Move Along, Homer: MOVE ALONG HOME (1.09)
It's the episode everyone loves to hate -- but would it be so Allama-wrong if we sort of loved it? Get out your klon peeg sticks and join us for a riveting game of chula — or what Sisko and company might call the world’s worst team-building exe...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:24:38
Space/Off: THE PASSENGER (1.08)
Yikes! What possessed a certain actor in "The Passenger" to give us this, uh, questionable performance that will live on forever in infamy? (Unlike the supervillain Vantika, as hard as he tries.) In their review, Lily and Cole decide that...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:16:07
Keiko's Mom's 100th: DAX (1.07)
Who are we with and without our memories? And are we always sentenced to inherit intergenerational trauma? It’s debate club hour on DS9, and Lily and Cole are going deep. We also propose an in-universe explanation for why Jadzia acts like such ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:16:19
XOXO Gossip Chief: Q-LESS (1.06)
Two familiar faces from the Enterprise arrive on DS9, and O'Brien is ready to spill all ☕️ the ☕️ tea! 🍷 Wine pairing: "Love Sick Puppy" Dolcetto from Vino Volta Wines❤️ Find us on Insta: deepspacewi...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:06:39
View Hallooo!: CAPTIVE PURSUIT (1.05)
Recreational hunting is the target in this episode that, for exactly once in the whole show, lets Chief O’Brien have some fun. Meanwhile, Doctor Bashir is permitted half a line of dialogue, which is no more than Season 1 Bashir deserves. And Li...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:12:14
Freudian Sips: BABEL (1.04)
Cole gets triggered by airborne viruses, quarantines and lockdowns, while Lily has apparently repressed the entire COVID pandemic. (Who else is jealous of her?) We also briefly dip into the Old Testament before tracing the evolution of the rom-...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:04:50
The Tempest and the Wormhole: PAST PROLOGUE (1.03)
Lily and Cole hail Star Trek as modern-day Shakespeare, only with more Klingon cleavage. Also featured: Moral Foundations Theory, seasonal color palettes, and everyone’s favorite plain, simple pansexual tailor, Garak. 🍷 Wine pairin...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:13:33
Best Friends Club: A MAN ALONE (1.02)
Lily invokes Atticus Finch and completely changes Cole’s mind about this multi-layered episode involving a very tennis-obsessed murderer. We also dare to ask the question: is it still champagne if it’s bottled on Koris I? 🍷 Wine pair...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:13:12
Starfleet Savior Complex: EMISSARY (1.01)
Cole contextualizes DS9’s 1993 pilot against the collapse of the Soviet Union; Lily mocks Jake’s onesies and Captain Sisko’s weird intonation choices. But we’re both thrilled to discover that “Emissary,” like a great wine, is bold, rich, and ev...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:39:22
