The Ascent
The Delta Flyers
The Delta Flyers
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 94 minutes
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The Delta Flyers is hosted by Garrett Wang, Robert Duncan McNeill, Terry Farrell & Armin Shimerman. In each podcast release, they will recap and discuss an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
This week’s episode, The Ascent, is hosted by Garrett Wang, Robert Duncan McNeill, and Armin Shimerman.
The Ascent: When the Runabout crashes on a barren planet, the freezing temperatures and lack of amenities induce Odo and Quark to get along or die.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Delta Flyers journey through the wormhole with Quark Decks and their good friends, Tom and Harry Kim. |
| 0:17.6 | Join us as we make our way through episodes of Star Trek Deep Space 9. |
| 0:21.8 | Thank you, Tom Paris. |
| 0:23.1 | Your host for today are my fellow Trek actors, Armand Shimmerman, Robert Duncan McNeil, |
| 0:27.9 | and myself, Garrett Wong, for the complete and exciting version of this podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | Please check out patreon.com. |
| 0:35.5 | That's p-a-t-r-e-on.com forward slash the Delta Flyers and sign up to become a |
| 0:41.2 | patron today. Harry Kim, I want to go with your full character. You can start saying that from now on, |
| 0:46.6 | yes. If you want to include the middle initials, remember there's S and L as well, |
| 0:51.1 | Harry S-L-Kim, which I jokingly said stood for Sushi Lovin, because they never told me |
| 0:56.6 | what S.L. meant. So it could be anything. I like sushi loving. Hi, Armin. Hi. I didn't have a |
| 1:03.5 | last name. So, or maybe I didn't have a first name. You're like Cher. You're an icon. You |
| 1:09.0 | don't even need a last name. I've always told people on the one show on Star Trek, I didn't have a last name. And on the other show, on Buffy, I didn't have a first name. No, that's true. They put it in together. What was your last name on Buffy? Snyder. Principal Snyder. And he had no first name. Just Snyder. Cork Snyder. Cork Snyder is great. Snyder. Is that the way with all Ferrenki? |
| 1:30.9 | They have no... first name just snorke mccre snider cork snider is great cork Snyder is that the way with all farengi |
| 1:30.9 | they have no family name there's no i don't know there there's never been a farangie with two names |
| 1:37.3 | and and they're almost invariably one syllable names yes wrong gna g quark right one syllable names and Yes. Ron, g, gawk, quark. Right. One syllable names. And not too. Interesting. |
| 1:47.7 | Which I suppose is indicative. It's a terrible way to look at this, but of our height that we're just short. |
| 1:54.3 | Oh. I did notice in this episode, Surak grew so much. |
| 2:00.8 | Yes, sir, and we haven't seen Jake and Nog together for a while. |
| 2:04.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:05.6 | And to see Sirak in this episode, how tall, he's tall. |
| 2:10.4 | He's tall. How tall is Sirak? Six foot three? |
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