Note: This show periodically replaces their ad breaks with new promotional clips. Because of this, both the transcription for the clips and the timestamps after them may be inaccurate at the time of viewing this transcript. 00:00:00 Music Transition Dark Materia’s “The Picard Song,” record-scratching into a Sisko- centric remix by Adam Ragusea. Picard: Here’s to the finest crew in Starfleet! Engage. [Music begins. A fast-paced techno beat.] Picard: Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the USS Enterprise! [Music slows, record scratch, and then music speeds back up.] Sisko: Commander Benjamin Sisko, the Federation starbase... Deep Space 9. [Music ends.] 00:00:13 Music Music Record scratch back into "The Picard Song," which plays quietly in the background. 00:00:14 Adam Host Welcome to The Greatest Generation: Deep Space Nine. It's a Star Pranica Trek podcast by a couple of guys who are a little bit embarrassed to have a Star Trek podcast. I'm Adam Pranica. 00:00:25 Ben Harrison Host I'm Ben Harrison. [Music fades out.] 00:00:27 Adam Host We're just bringing you the embarrassment, hot and ready. [Ben laughs.] You know, the thing about our podcast, Ben, is that when a customer is ready to have it— 00:00:36 Ben Host Yeah. 00:00:37 Adam Host —uh, they don't have to wait for it to be cooked. 00:00:39 Ben Host No. [Laughs.] 00:00:40 Adam Host It's hot and ready for them. Like, immediately. 00:00:42 Ben Host Yeah, it—we are the Little Caesars of Star Trek podcasts. [Laughs.] 00:00:46 Adam Host It's true! We just gotta—look at behind me. Where's my camera? 00:00:50 Crosstalk Crosstalk Ben: Oh, yeah. The—just look for the red light. Adam: Look at—look at all these podcasts behind me! [Ben laughs.] 00:00:54 Adam Host You can have any one of these! 00:00:56 Ben Host Yeah. You can even have The Greatest Discovery, which is another Star Trek podcast that we make! 00:01:02 Adam Host The embarrassment is distributed like so many pizza toppings. 00:01:05 Ben Host Yeah. 00:01:06 Adam Host Unevenly, I should say. [Ben laughs.] One of the ways that we're kept in check is by being reviewed. We appreciate the—the thousands of reviews that this show has earned over the years. 00:01:18 Ben Host Three, specifically! Three thousands! [Laughs.] 00:01:21 Adam Host Three—three thousand reviews. And that's—I mean, that's worth some kind of celebration, right? 00:01:26 Ben Host It sure is! 00:01:27 Adam Host So good job by us. 00:01:28 Ben Host Yeah! 00:01:29 Adam Host We've got 3,000 reviews. We've sort of warped the review system for a purpose, though. And that purpose lately has been to try to do a semiregular Q&A session on our Maron Open. 00:01:43 Ben Host Yeah! 00:01:44 Adam Host And I think we're gonna try to do that again today. 00:01:45 Ben Host We are! And you know, first of all, thanks to everyone who has left a five-star review. You totally rule. And, uh, in your face to everyone that's left a one-star review! You totally drool. 00:01:57 Adam Host I mean, these people made us the number one Star Trek pizza podcast in the world. [Ben laughs.] For that, we are grateful. 00:02:06 Ben Host You want me to pick some questions out of the hat and throw 'em at you, Adam? 00:02:11 Adam Host Oh, yeah! Yeah, that sounds great. Like a pie to the face, hit me— [Ben laughs.] —with a Q for my A. 00:02:18 Clip Clip Music: Joyful, triumphant, brass-heavy Star Trek: The Next Generation soundtrack music. Riker (TNG) What do you think? Data (TNG): [Gleeful] I hate this! I love it! It is revolting! Guinan (TNG): More? Data: Please. [Music stops.] 00:02:25 Adam Host Why don't you lay one on me? My body is ready! 00:02:29 Ben Host Alright! This first question says: "What are y'all's favorite Starfleet uniforms? Any era, any show." 00:02:35 Adam Host I mean, it's hard to beat action jacket–era Captain Picard Starfleet uniform. [Ben laughs.] I think it's great. 00:02:43 Ben Host Yeah. 00:02:44 Adam Host Vest may be a second. It's crazy that one character has gotten so many great Starfleet uniforms to wear. 00:02:50 Ben Host He got many, many variations. I liked a lot of the different era uniforms they put him in for [pronouncing the colon] Star Trek: Picard, also. 00:03:00 Adam Host Right. 00:03:01 Ben Host I also really have a soft spot for the TOS, like, Khan and higher movie uniforms. 00:03:08 Adam Host Yeah. 00:03:09 Ben Host I really like those. I think that maybe my biggest problem with those is that—like, I kind of feel this with, like, most military uniforms, which is that I can't, like, at a glance, decode what somebody's rank is. 00:03:20 Adam Host Mm. 00:03:21 Ben Host In the same—like, I think that the simplicity of detecting someone's rank in anything from TNG through, you know, Voyager, is something I really appreciate. But the—from a looks standpoint, you know, having that flap open with some blood on it? 00:03:41 Adam Host Bloody flap! Love it. 00:03:42 Ben Host On the—[laughs]—on the Wrath of Khan uniform? That's a hot look. 00:03:46 Adam Host I love a bloody flap. 00:03:48 Ben Host Yeah. 00:03:49 Adam Host It's something that you just never—you know what? There wasn't a lot of blood, in Next Gen–era TV or movies, right? 00:03:54 Ben Host [Laughs.] Yeah. 00:03:56 Adam Host And when you did get it, what did it look like? It was Tasha Yar's weird splotch blood on her face. 00:04:01 Ben Host [Chuckling] Right. 00:04:02 Adam Host That didn't look like blood! That looked— 00:04:03 Ben Host Get some green Romulan blood from time to time, or just some, like, dried-on blood. 00:04:10 Adam Host It seems like space would be a dangerously bloody place. 00:04:12 Ben Host Yeah! 00:04:13 Adam Host I'm with you. I mean, if we're gonna go TOS, that era is my favorite. It's the necks that do it for me. The sky-high vampire neck on the— 00:04:22 Ben Host [Laughing] Uh-huh? 00:04:23 Adam Host —on the jacket of Wrath of Khan? I mean... 00:04:25 Ben Host Yeah! Oh, man. That's a hot jacket. 00:04:26 Adam Host How high can it go? Yeah. 00:04:28 Ben Host Now that's an action jacket. [Both laugh.] You know, though, like, I would say that the TNG movie uniforms that they are now wearing on Deep Space Nine in this era of the show may be my all-time fave. 00:04:43 Adam Host All-time! 00:04:44 Ben Host 'Cause I think that they kind of combine some of the stuff that I love about that TOS uniform and the stuff that I like about the TNG uniform. 00:04:50 Adam Host They have a good drape. 00:04:51 Ben Host Yeah. 00:04:52 Adam Host Don't they? Part of what makes early-season TNG a little bit hard on the eyes— [Ben laughs quietly.] —is that, like, adults don't tend to wear leotards. 00:05:02 Ben Host [Stifling laughter] Uh-huh. 00:05:03 Adam Host Outside of a very specific context. 00:05:05 Ben Host Right. 00:05:06 Adam Host And everyone on that show is wearing a leotard on TV. 00:05:09 Ben Host Yeah. Yeah. 00:05:11 Adam Host And as soon as the garments get thicker, and they get darker— 00:05:15 Ben Host Yeah. 00:05:16 Adam Host —I think it's better for an adult body. 00:05:19 Ben Host Mm-hm. 00:05:20 Adam Host Wearing something like that. 00:05:21 Ben Host Yeah, it's a more tailored look. They don't always look like they're about to break out in Jazzercise. 00:05:26 Adam Host Right. Or like, go off the top rope at someone. 00:05:30 Ben Host [Laughs.] Alright. Here's another one: "Hypothetically, what would be your plot for the ideal Deep Space Nine episode that we never got, or haven't gotten yet?" 00:05:41 Adam Host You know where we are in DS9, and I think everyone who's listening to this episode knows where we are. They also know I haven't seen any episode past this one. 00:05:50 Ben Host Yeah. 00:05:51 Adam Host Ben, my pitch for the ultimate episode of Deep Space Nine goes like this. 00:05:55 Ben Host Okay. 00:05:56 Adam Host Major Kira dumps Odo.