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I was thrilled to be asked back to join The Pensky Podcast to for one last conversation about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I joined Wes and Clay as their coverage of the seventh season winds down, as the pair prepare to jump into the so-called “Final Chapter.”

I got to talk about Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges, which is one of my favourite Deep Space Nine episodes ever produced. Arma Enim Silent Leges is the last episode to air before the multipart closing epic that launches with Penumbra, and feels like as worthy a capstone to Deep Space Nine as its companion piece Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang. It’s an exploration of moral compromise and realpolitick, but also about the practicalities of planning for a postwar status quo. It is a clever, ambitious and effective episode of Deep Space Nine, a thoughtful exploration of the show’s core themes.

We also had a lot of fun saying the title out loud multiple times.

You can find more from The Pensky Podcast here, and listen to the podcast by clicking the link or just listening below.

You might be interested in our reviews of the seventh season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine:

• Image in the Sand
• Shadows and Symbols
• Afterimage
• Take Me Out to the Holosuite
• Chrysalis
• Treachery, Faith and the Great River
• Once More Unto the Breach
• The Siege of AR-558
• Covenant
• It’s Only a Paper Moon
• Prodigal Daughter
• The Emperor’s New Cloak
• Field of Fire
• Chimera
• Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang
• Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
  • Supplemental: The Pensky Podcast – Season 7, Episode 16
• Penumbra
• ‘Til Death Do Us Part
• Strange Bedfellows
• The Changing Face of Evil
• When It Rains…
• Tacking Into the Wind
• Extreme Measures
• The Dogs of War
• What You Leave Behind

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