The Pod-Wraiths: A Star Trek Deep Space Nine Podcast

This week on Deep Space Nine, a Federation ambassador brings newly-promoted Captain Sisko orders to take the Defiant on a patrol of the Tzenkethi border, where a destabilizing coup has just taken place, but everything is not as it seems. After this week we'll be taking a brief hiatus before starting season 4 Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Jadzia Dax performs the Trill zhian’tara ritual, which allows her to meet previous Dax hosts, while Nog applies to Starfleet. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week we’re talking about Season 3, Episode 24, “Shakaar.” Teleplay by Gordon Dawson and directed by Jonathan West. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Quark’s mother violates Ferengi law by earning profit. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, dudes rock! I mean, Sisko builds a replica of an eight hundred-year-old Bajoran spaceship, and tries to use it to prove that Bajoran explorers could have made it to Cardassia without developing warp drive. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Odo begins an investigation after a bomb destroys Garak's tailor shop, the Cardassian-Romulan fleet enters the Gamma Quadrant, and Sisko goes against Starfleet orders to rescue Odo. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, in the “mirror universe,” Sisko must persuade the alternate version of his dead wife to join the Terran Rebels, or he will watch her die a second time. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, after an alien assault leaves Bashir unconscious, he is trapped inside his mind. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, After receiving a minor dose of radiation poisoning, O'Brien inexplicably begins experiencing a series of jumps into the near future. Meanwhile, a Romulan delegation arrives on the station, expecting an intelligence report on the Dominion. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Grand Nagus Zek has become a philanthropist, and Quark worries that he may have gone insane; Bashir is nominated for a prestigious medical award. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, an ancient Bajoran prophecy of doom complicates the first joint Bajoran, Cardassian, and Federation science mission: an attempt to establish a permanent communications link through the wormhole. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, while searching for a Maquis raider on an unstable moon, Kira is trapped in an expanding crystal formation that threatens to engulf her if Odo cannot set her free. Meanwhile, Nog attempts to persuade a skeptical Commander Benjamin Sisko to write him a letter of recommendation to join Starfleet Academy. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, after a serious accident, Bashir struggles to save the life of Vedek Bareil while Kai Winn concludes a peace treaty with Cardassia. Jake and Nog reluctantly explore the differences between Federation and Ferengi cultures. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, trapped three hundred years in the past, Sisko, Bashir, and Dax find themselves confronting one of the darkest hours in Earth's history. With history itself at stake, Sisko must risk all to see that the Bell Riots reach their inevitable conclusion, even if it means sacrificing his life. Elyse isn’t able to join us this week This week we’re joined by a friend of the pod, Karen - Karen is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, and appears on the Alberta Advantage podcast. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Ambassador Lwaxana Troi visits the station to attend the Bajoran Gratitude Festival, resulting in an outbreak of passion throughout the station as people admit their secret feelings for others. This week we’re joined again by a friend of the pod, Tessa, of podcasts Monkey Off My Backlog and Nanny Ogg’s Book Club. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, when Commander William T. Riker from the Enterprise-D arrives on Deep Space 9, he takes a liking to Kira, who gives him a tour of the Defiant. But Riker is not who he says he is, attacks Kira, and steals the Defiant. This week we’re joined again by the managing editor of the MovieJawn.com website, and friend of the pod, Ryan. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Jadzia falls in love with a scientist on a planet whose inhabitants shift between this universe and a plane of pure energy, re-emerging every sixty years. Back on DS9, Quark tries to obtain a holo-image of Major Kira for an erotic holosuite program for a wealthy patron. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Sisko, Jake, and O’Brien accidentally trigger an old Cardassian security system that believes the Occupation is still going on and the station has been taken in a Bajoran workers’ rebellion. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Quark finds an abandoned Jem’Hadar child, and Odo is the only person who can control him. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Kira is kidnapped by the Cardassians, who try to convince her that she is really one of them. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Jadzia Dax is plagued by disturbing hallucinations that allude to the dark past of the Dax symbiont. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Odo learns about his people while on his homeworld. Back on the station, Sisko discovered that the price the Federation is willing to pay for peace with the Dominion may be too high. This week friend of the pod Lozy fills in for Matt Producer's Note: there were technical difficulties with elyse's mic so the sound quality is a little different this week. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Odo learns about his people while on his homeworld. Back on the station, Sisko discovered that the price the Federation is willing to pay for peace with the Dominion may be too high. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Sisko takes an untested Starfleet warship into the Gamma Quadrant in an attempt to find the Founders of the Dominion. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, on a camping trip in the Gamma Quadrant, Sisko, Jake, Nog, and Quark encounter the ruthless soldiers of the Dominion, the Jem’hadar. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Cardassians arrest Miles O’Brien for working with the Maquis. Miles is put on a Cardassian trial, where the verdict is known before the trial begins: guilty. This week Ryan the managing editor of MovieJawn joins us Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, Kira’s lover is accused of collaborating with the Cardassians during the Occupation. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

This week on Deep Space Nine, an accident inside the wormhole sends Kira and Bashir into the "mirror universe", where Klingons, Cardassians, and Bajorans rule over their Human slaves. This week we’re joined again by Lozy Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme Podcast Edited by Melissa

In this special episode, Matt and Elyse take over the SAM WATCHES STAR TREK series from our friends at the MONKEY OFF MY BACKLOG podcast

This week on Deep Space Nine, Bashir tries to help when Garak suffers painful headaches from an implant in his brain. This week we’re joined again by Anya Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Sisko tries to rescue Gul Dukat, stop the Maquis terrorists, and prevent a new war with the Cardassians. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme This week we’re joined again by our friend Tessa

This week on Deep Space Nine, when a Cardassian freighter explodes at the station, the Cardassians blame Federation colonists in the new Demilitarized Zone. Guest: Tessa from Monkey Off My Backlog and Nanny Ogg's Book Club Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, three old Klingon warriors reunite on Deep Space 9, seeking Curzon Dax, with whom they entered into a blood oath to one day exact revenge on an enemy for killing the warriors' firstborn sons. Finding Jadzia as worthy a warrior as they felt Curzon to be, she joins the Klingons in completing their vendetta. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Quark is reunited with his lost Cardassian love, but he learns that she is a member of the Cardassian underground. This week, we’re joined by, a friend of the pod, Anya Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, while hosting her first Trill initiate Dax discovers a tiny, expanding protouniverse that threatens to destroy the Bajoran system. Elyse quotes Zack Handlen's May 2012 review in this episode. https://www.avclub.com/star-trek-deep-space-nine-playing-god-profit-and-l-1798172992 Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Dax and Odo investigate the mysterious disappearance of several colonists in the Gamma Quadrant. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Sisko and O’Brien are trapped on a world with no advanced technology, and the human colonists living there are determined to keep it that way. Guest: Doug Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, upon returning from a mission to the Parada system, O’Brien begins to notice the crew acting strange around him and suspects there may be some unknown influence at work. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, O’Brien and Bashir help to rid two races of their biological weapons, however, both governments want to ensure no technical knowledge of the weapons can survive. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, the Bajoran scientist who used to be Odo’s teacher (or “daddy” if you will) arrives with evidence of others of Odo’s kind. Editor's Note: This was the last episode recorded before matt learned that he had two weeks of janky audio because he recorded on the wrong mic. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Quark feels threatened when a con artist arrives on the station and opens up a competing bar. Meanwhile, Chief O’Brien is determined to beat Doctor Bashir at racquetball. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, a group of refugees comes through the wormhole in search of Kentanna, their fabled homeworld. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

Happy New Year! We're Back! This week on Deep Space Nine, Sisko falls in love with a woman visiting the station, but she is not what she appears to be. Editor's Note: Always remember to triple-check your recording settings. If you don't it will be a month later, you'll feel good that you had the audio in the can, and then you'll go to edit it and realize you recorded with the wrong mic setup-Matt Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, An attempt on Quark's life re-opens a five-year-old murder investigation. Matt confused the Theatrical Cut with the Director's Cut of BLADE RUNNER. Just swap those words out and his comments will make more sense. MATT AND ELYSE'S SELECTED LIST OF SUGGESTED FILM NOIR OR NEO-NOIR GILDA THE MALTESE FALCON MULLHOLLAND DR. SUNSET BLVD BLADE RUNNER NOTORIOUS THEIF BREATHLESS DOUBLE INDEMNITY MOMENTO HEAT THE ASPHALT JUNGLE Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Grand Nagus Zek assigns Quark to initiate negotiations with a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, but Quark’s new associate is not what he seems. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Doctor Bashir ends up falling in love with a new officer when he develops a way for her to function in a high gravity environment. Meanwhile, Quark receives a death threat from one of his former associates. Editor's Note: I was running low on time this week so I did some auto production with a bot instead of manually cleaning it up like I usually do. So you may hear some background at times from hot mics. Sorry!-Matt Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Garak and Doctor Bashir investigate abandoned Cardassian war orphans on Bajor. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, a desperate Trill tries to steal the Dax symbiont. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Sisko tries to prevent the Circle from taking the station and Kira and Dax take proof that the Cardassians are the real force that is arming the Circle to the Bajoran government. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Sisko and Odo work to reveal the real force behind the Circle's coup. Editor's Note: Iwan Rheon is Welsh. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme

This week on Deep Space Nine, Kira rescues a Bajoran Resistance hero from a Cardassian labor camp; an extremist group calls for all non-Bajorans to leave Bajor. Follow the show on Twitter and Instagram: @podwraiths We wanna hear from you! Email us at podwraiths@gmail.com Please remember to rate and review the show! thank you to dj empirical for our theme