About this episode

Alice and Skyler discuss DS9 season five, episode eight, 'Things Past,' covering various topics including art, character decisions, and more.

This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode eight, "Things Past." Topics include enriching the art-museum-going experience with some live commentary, the way Alice was like a certain element of Mulholland Drive at the start of the record this week, getting jealous about the Artemis II astronauts, book talk, dialing back the "Odo as a solid" story decision, Bashir and Worf collaborating on being uninformative, Levar Burton absolutely going off, and much, much more! Listen!! To hear episodes early and without ads, check out: https://www.patreon.com/treksandthecity Follow the show on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/treksandthecity/ Links to some other fun things mentioned in the episode: Tana French's Website: https://tanafrench.com/ The "Children of Time" Series: https://adriantchaikovsky.com/children-of-time-children-of-ruin-children-of-memory.html Walkin' About : https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/walkin-about/ Hyperfixed : https://www.hyperfixedpod.com/ The Noah Wiley Walk Through Video About The Craft Contemporary (Not The Folk Art Museum, Skyler Was Mistaken. He Was Also Mistaken About Which Wiley Founded It, It Was Founded By His Grandmother…

Topics covered

• DS9
• episode discussion
• art commentary
• book talk
• character analysis
• space exploration

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