An Empires Lullaby

Join us as Briar watches through Matt's favorite Star Trek, Deep Space 9, as Matt tries to convince her it's the best. Uploads weekly.

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 8 10/26/2020

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 8 Detective 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: /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/16541810

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 7 10/12/2020

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 7 CW: policing, the fascist Cardassian occupation of Bajor /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/16366586

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 6 09/21/2020

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 6 In 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! /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/16087601

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 5 09/07/2020

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 5 CW: disability, accommodations, ableist frameworks /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/15910148

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 4 08/31/2020

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 4 CW: Surgery, invasive medical procedures /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/15814307

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 3 08/24/2020

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 3 Starfleet tries to hold the fort on DS9 while Kira and Dax smuggle key evidence to the Bajoran prov. government. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/15734813

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 2 08/10/2020

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 2 CW for The Circle: Torture /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/15555725

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 1 08/03/2020

An Empire's Lullaby 2 - Episode 1 CW: concentration camps, forced labor, genocide /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/15459692

An Empire's Lullaby Bonus Episode 05/18/2020

An Empire's Lullaby Bonus Episode It'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. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/14459294

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 19 05/11/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 19 In 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 little extra time in the writing room. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/14377472

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 18 05/05/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 18 This 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 will not be going into the graphic details of any genocides, real or in the show, however, Deep Space 9 has scenes where characters go into graphic detail about the conditions in the Gallitep labor camp. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/14293337

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 17 04/27/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 17 In 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. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/14156468

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 16 04/20/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 16 Deep Space 9 plays host to a group of illustrious ambassadors - including Lwaxana Troi, who has her sights set on Odo. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/14065463

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 15 04/14/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 15 Everyone's imaginations are becoming real. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/13988105

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 14 04/06/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 14 When 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. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/13862669

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 13 03/30/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 13 Jake 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. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/13757816

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 12 03/24/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 12 It'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. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/13672694

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 11 03/09/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 11 In "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. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/13464218

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 10 03/02/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 10 It's episode 10! And half of it is all about dads, dads, dads~! /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/13367711

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 09 02/24/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 09 In 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. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/13270403

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 08 02/10/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 08 "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. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/13085378

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 07 02/03/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 07 Episode 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 episode. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/12999083

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 06 01/27/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 06 In 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, arguing that Q a B-tier trickster. Neither Q nor Sisko are taught humility, though Q might have learned to respect Sisko. The Ferengi are given room to breathe, and be fleshed out characters rather then one note villains. The effects of Gravitons is questioned. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/12894086

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 05 01/20/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 05 O'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. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/12801659

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 04 01/13/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 04 In 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. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/12710510

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 03 01/06/2020

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 03 Matt and Briar discuss Major Kira's skills of manipulation and the relationship between Dr. Bashir and Garak. Matt muses about Bajor's potential real-world parallels again. Briar is disappointed in Odo's inconsistent ability to replicate fine details and the fact that she's exhausted and sick in this episode really doesn't help soften the blow. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/12629651

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 02 12/09/2019

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 02 Matt and Briar discuss "A Man Alone." /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/12325103

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 01 12/03/2019

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 01 Cardassians and ethereal Prophets. Linear time? Matt and Briar talk about the ending of "Emissary," and Briar is disappointed. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/12259295

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 00 11/26/2019

An Empire's Lullaby - Episode 00 Matt and Briar introduce themselves and remark on the opening of Deep Space 9 and its main characters. /episode/index/show/anempireslullaby/id/12178556

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