Babylon 5
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I loved season one. It certainly got me hooked on the show.
Half of season one was Star Trek.
Weird shit, reset, weird shit, reset, weird shit reset.
That used to be a good thing.
Weird shit, reset, weird shit, reset, weird shit reset.
That used to be a good thing.
Signs and portents...
The other Evil Popeye (in River of Souls) is probably the weirdest role that Martin Sheen has ever played.
Sure, why not? Earth doesn't have a death penalty although there is the death of personality thing. I don't know if that would get applied to these two since they are aliens but unless they were under some kind of diplomatic immunity they would face charges. If they did this in their ambassador's quarters the business would fall under their laws letting the couple go home with the body. If it is Earth law, it falls to Sinclair to decide what to do. I suspect he might let this fall under diplomatic immunity and buried the whole thing to protect Franklin and the station since the procedure was technically illegal and violated the aliens rights.
But was it weirder than Martin Sheen?
I don't see why they wouldn't.
They acted within the cultural norms of their species. Earth really has no jurisdiction.
He didn't look like Popeye at all.
Why is everyone assuming I was talking about Earth?
I was referring to the Shadow War.
It might depend on whether or not their world allowed a Shadow base to be put there. Or was otherwise influenced, as the Vorlons were quite ready to destroy Centauri Prime to kill only Mollari.
I don't recall their world being listed as one of the ones hit by the Vorlon planet killer while Ivanova was doing her onscreen reports throughout B5 during those last couple episodes of the Shadow War, but I could be wrong.
I don't recall their world being listed as one of the ones hit by the Vorlon planet killer while Ivanova was doing her onscreen reports throughout B5 during those last couple episodes of the Shadow War, but I could be wrong.
IIRC, we have no idea where the Believers' home planet was.
So it's entirely possible that the Shadow/Vorlon war didn't reach them at all.
So it's entirely possible that the Shadow/Vorlon war didn't reach them at all.
Why would the shadow War be confined to a tiny fraction of the Galaxy?
Unknown space, by even Minbari space charts is well known to the Shadows and Volrons.
So there were probably other faraway and mysterious galactic communities as large as the one we were watching, also dealing with the Shadows kicking over anthills.
Alexander the Great was was 300 miles from the border of China when he said "#uck this, I've seen everything, I'm going home."
Or does space travel not work like that in Babylon 5?
The Cortez was chartmaking, dropping beacon transponders and building jumpgates.
Wasn't Cortes a %ucking monster?
I'm guessing that at some point after now, someone re-whitewashed History?
Maybe the Cortez was named after a different Cortes?
Unknown space, by even Minbari space charts is well known to the Shadows and Volrons.
So there were probably other faraway and mysterious galactic communities as large as the one we were watching, also dealing with the Shadows kicking over anthills.
Alexander the Great was was 300 miles from the border of China when he said "#uck this, I've seen everything, I'm going home."
Or does space travel not work like that in Babylon 5?
The Cortez was chartmaking, dropping beacon transponders and building jumpgates.
Wasn't Cortes a %ucking monster?
I'm guessing that at some point after now, someone re-whitewashed History?
Maybe the Cortez was named after a different Cortes?
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You're not the only one. Killing a child? And for a reason like that?
Correction... I find the idea very satisfying.
I mean, I do kind of get it...it's easy to mock others' beliefs for being silly, rather harder when its your own beliefs being brought under the microscope.
And I still think Franklin handled the whole thing terribly.
I'm just not sure what a better solution would involve, or whether one was even possible.
And I still think Franklin handled the whole thing terribly.
I'm just not sure what a better solution would involve, or whether one was even possible.
It's interesting to note that doctors seem to have far more 'no-win' scenarios than starship or station commanders.
They do, but it seems it's reserved for military (or possibly political) crimes like mutiny and treason, where the proscribed penalty is death by exposure to space.
Their ambassador is prominently seen hanging around the War Room in "The Long Night" when Sheridan dispatches Bryan Cranston on his suicide mission to draw the Shadows to Coriana VI, he's the big guy with the beard, so they were probably part of the Army of Light/reformed League/Proto-ISA.
I'm not mocking their beliefs. People, or aliens, can believe whatever they want.
It's murdering a child that was going way past the line. You don't murder children. Period.
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