Empok Nor

The Delta Flyers

Science Fiction, Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Fiction

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The Delta Flyers is hosted by Garrett Wang, Robert Duncan McNeill, Terry Farrell, and Armin Shimerman. In each podcast release, they will recap and discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

This week’s episode,Empok Nor, is hosted by Garrett Wang, Robert Duncan McNeill, and Armin Shimerman.

Empok Nor: A foray to an abandoned Cardassian space station for needed parts finds two Cardassians in stasis tubes, and a drug that turns Garak into a killer.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone.
0:10.2	Welcome to the Delta Flyers Journey Through the Wormhole with Quark, Dax, and their good friends, Tom and Harry.
0:17.4	Join us as we make our way through episodes of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine.
0:21.8	Wow. That's a lot. It is a lot. And I'm saddened to think that we are almost towards
0:28.3	the end here, at least closer to the end than we were at the beginning. Don't even say that,
0:33.1	Armin. Don't even talk about it. We don't even want to think about it. I can't believe we've
0:37.1	gone through these episodes. It's incredible. It's flowed by. We don't even want to think about it. I can't believe we've gone through these episodes.
0:38.6	It's incredible. It's flowed by. We've almost finished the fifth season. Yes.
0:43.4	There's only seven seasons. I know. And when I was reviewing this one, I said, wait a minute. This is almost the end of season five. It really did creep up on all of us, I feel. It really did. But it was an amazing
0:56.8	adventure. Amazing adventure. I've learned so much. Me too. Do you remember, though, that feeling as you
1:03.4	got to like the end of season five shooting the series? And we typically thought, oh, seven years is what
1:09.5	they did back then. So I remember around the end of season five as we started going into season six, I was like, oh my gosh.
1:18.2	You know, it's two years of filming left, but only two years.
1:22.0	We were well beyond halfway through, you know.
1:25.7	What was your feeling then?
1:28.9	What were you feeling at that point? Bittersweet, I think, you know, it's a similar... What was your feeling then? What were you feeling at that point?
1:30.9	Bittersweet, I think, you know.
1:37.9	I think excited to move on to other projects and try other things, but also there was a lot of security and comfort in having a steady job.
1:41.7	Yeah.
1:42.0	Well, there wasn't security for me because I was in the midst of negotiating my contract.
1:46.2	Oh.
1:46.5	So there was a lot of trepidation.
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