The Nexus #79 - "In the Pale Moonlight" / "Tsunkatse" (Patreon)

It's the annual patron-curated edition of our Star Trek re-cap show! 

First up on DS9, it's the fan-favorite episode "In the Pale Moonlight"! This total-banger episode originally aired back on April 15, 1998, and finds the DS9 gang knee-deep in the Dominion War, where Captain Sisko goes against everything he believes to make some moves to win the war for the Federation. His idea? Get the Romulans involved in the war through lies and misdirection—like a magician! Was Picard waterboarding gleep glops during the Dominion War? Where was Riker in all of this? How fabulous is Andrew Robinson on this show? And should they really have had Sisko doing a Ferris Bueller through the whole thing?

Then, across the galaxy on Voyager, it's the wild episode "Tsunkatse"! Originally hitting UPN on February 9, 2000, this episode was used as a way to cross-promote WWE's Smackdown program, which also aired on the UPN network. So that's why we've got wrassling superstar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson guesting as a gleep-glop gladiator with forehead ridges of some kind. We've also got Seven of Nine being forced to fight him in these PPV fight nights, Janeway getting her vacation interrupted, legendary character actor Jeffrey Combs portraying a Space Vince McMahon-type guy, and one of the most high stakes plots in Trek history... Neelix getting a sunburn?

The Nexus is a WHM podcast where the guys futilely go through two Star Trek series at the same time. Thank you so much for continuing to support this weird thing we do—we couldn't do it without you!

Cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.