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Star Trek Discovery Season 2 Premiere – Oh, Brother

The wait is over! Star Trek Discovery Season 2 has begun!

Left adrift without his regular cohosts, Wade has assembled a rag tag team of scabs to watch Star Trek Discovery.

With no baggage from last season, or even much familiarity with Trek fandom itself, what will Sean Perrotta and Glen Hall have to say after watching just one episode? Will it totally ruin the Kickers of Elves brand if they actually love this show?  

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Two Short Treks and a Baby

Before the launch of Season 2 of Star Trek Discovery, Wade talked with his brother and sister in law, Lane and Courtney Bowen about the last two Short Treks before the big premiere.

Did a lack of conflict or Complications dim “The Brightest Star”?
What worked about “The Escape Artist?

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The Reckoning

Reckoning with a Bajor episode that goes full Ghostbusters. We get on a Kim Kattrell tangent. Hugh Crawford does the math. But wait, it’ll pay off later in the podcast. Instead of our regular polar opinionsA decidely mixed bag of an episode. Odo reduced to “the good boyfriend.” Is the Nurse Ratched cadence infectious to other actors? Hey, remember those Pah Wraiths? Without Mad Men would we have a John Slattery Admiral? Seems like we’d rather talk things other than this episode. Why doesn’t Sisko get more political power or utility out of being the emissary? Is Sisko unrealistically weak amongst the Bajorans? It’s a decidedly mixed bag of an episode. Or is it not? Let us know what you think! 917 408 3898 And check out the Kickers of Elves Patreon for bonus content! patreon.com/kickersofelves