This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode nineteen, "Ties of Blood and Water." Topics include lizard privilege, the very big movies Skyler knows about, how to snag yourself an ovenful of hot plastic, cat heart health interventions, this episode returning to the "bad episode name" Star Trek naming convention, characters showing up just to die, drunk Vorta, and much, much more! Also, apologies, Skyler's laptop basically told him it could no longer continue being a laptop at a certain point in the record, so, things get a touch wonky toward the end of the episode. But? The episode is still good!! Listen!!!

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Links to some other fun things mentioned in the episode:

The Full "Bespoke" Scene From Confess, Fletch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr2CbIjw3yk

The Onion's Dinosaur Piece: https://theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-dinosaurs-had-quinceaneras/

The Gorn: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Gorn

Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1XWJN3nJo

The Chicken Recipe Skyler Mentioned: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dasr7S6Rdos/

The "Pea... Tear... Griffin" Bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoCnwJm1iBo

Episode Memory Alpha: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Ties_of_Blood_and_Water_(episode)

Produced by Skyler Hanrath

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