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One tangent on Morden (not related to the Trilogy per se), and his role vis a vis the Shadows (and the nature of individual Shadows themselves): With the Shadows that accompany him, it seems like he's actually leading them, that they are very deferential to his judgment in situations. There's...

All the baseball-themed stuff in DS9 was a bit of an irritating distraction for me, probably because I'm not a big fan of the sport (unlike American football)--but it was particularly quirky for Sisko because by that time it was an all-but-dead sport as one of the eps hinted (only a few hundred...

Well, "Objects at Rest" included Londo bearing that certain "gift" to the Sheridans' soon-to-be-born son... which figures significantly in the Centauri Trilogy, and (though unseen) the events we see in Sheridan's flash-forward in "War Without End". But series-ending "goodbye" shows are almost...

Didn't psi cops have "bloodhounds" working with them in their posses, who were IIRC lower-rated telepaths who assisted in the chases (particularly the more dangerous ones) and provided added psi power for creating illusions/deceptions in the minds of their targets, as needed? Plus of course more...

Oh yes, very much so. At that point, he'd already had some pretty high-level dealings with Earth (with Vice-President-turned-President Clark of course, and I'm sure he made his rounds among other powerful people there at that time, as seems to be the way he operated). And I'm pretty sure his...

One thing I didn't like in the trilogy--the implication that Morden was coerced to work for the Shadows because they were holding the prospect of recovering his wife and family (disappeared in some starship accident) over his head. In the show, he certainly acts like he enjoys his work very...

Actually, according to Wiki (and I've read this elsewhere too), the A component of 40 Eridani (also known as Omicron2 Eridani, or by the proper name Keid) is supposed to be the star Vulcan orbits. It is a K1V star (just slightly hotter than the K2V Epsilon Eridani), in a system also containing...

Bumped this thread because I've been considering buying and going through the seasons of this show, like I did B5 this past year. I had seen only a small smattering of episodes of B5 before buying the Season 1 DVDs, and became rather pleasantly surprised that I would like that show so well...

Just watched this for the first time. Meh, probably a C from me. As for the weapons system, I was wondering WTF too. Maybe that the Rangers did it that way because they wanted to impart the mind-body-spirit discipline aspects of martial arts onto space warfare or something weird like that...

It's not like they endorsed what Jack the Ripper was doing--they did make him understand somehow the error of his ways. That was the point--if the wrong kind of person tells himself he's taking up some "righteous cause", the results can be the total opposite of anything righteous. They just...

I always assumed "snakeheads" were Narns.

One thing I wondered, is if Bunny was supposed to be Talia after her cover was blown. Her physical description in the book seemed to hint it could be. She was a P-12 though, and I don't remember what rating Talia was supposed to be (or if it was a lower rating than the "real" unprogrammed Talia...

Sort of like an Episode poll thread, only about the books. I've so far read the Centauri Trilogy, this trilogy, and "To Dream in the City of Sorrows", in that order, and I think that the Technomage Trilogy was the best written of all of these, and gave some good insights into a lot of key...

What's wrong with aliens? Other than the Fermi paradox thing, but most people don't give that much thought, do they? Or is it simply not the "in" thing in science fiction anymore... in which case I say so what, if they're done right they can become "in" again--artists should help shape what's...

From the product description at Cafe Press, this sounds like a bunch of interviews, unused scripts, and a various hodgepodge of stuff related to the show and its airing. I'm wondering if there will ever be actual novels continuing the story line and whatever arcs JMS envisioned within it. I...

That was one of the most beautiful moments of this series. One moment of perfect beauty.

Well, I just got the Centauri Trilogy (I was actually lucky enough to catch the full set of three on Amazon for a reasonable price under $20, rather than some ridiculous $50+ price for just the third one that I'd seen there before, so I jumped on it) and have read through book 1, so don't give...

Since I first went through B5 after buying the season DVD packages, I supected Sheridan must be still alive, since he was one of the characters pictured on the Season 4 cover. But I wondered if it'd be something like Sisko after the end of the DS9 series, [DS9 spoiler] where he supposedly would...

This episode and "Sleeping in Light" were, I think, the only two episodes that brought a tear to my eye. The passing of Legends, indeed.

Is there a problem? Anyone else jump a little in their seat when they first heard that? Lol. Also, is it ever said anywhere else (a book or whatever) what that writing on Ulkesh's ship, when they encountered Sheridan on his space-walk, said? That was one incredible scene. I thought it would...