Babylon 5
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Re baseball on B5: It's a rotating O'Neill colony - a 5-mile long rotating tube. As Ivanova said, the "ground" is rotating at 60 MPH. Did I mention rotating? So when Sheridan bats the ball down the axis of the tube, shouldn't the ball arc to the left or right as the ground, ya know, rotates sideways?
Think of it this way:
If two guys are on a train traveling at 60 mph, standing perpendicular to the train's direction of movement, and they throw a baseball between them, the ball doesn't leave the first guy's hand and then swing to the pitcher's right just because the train as moving to the pitcher's left. It flies straight from the pitcher's hand to the catcher's hand, in a line that is perpendicular to the forward movement of the train. Motion is relative.
So you're saying he's a member of the DNC?
IIRC, jms intended to wipe our a species, but hadn't decided which, and eventually went for the one where the make-up made them least useful.
The Lumati's insistence that they would not wish to be involved in the affairs of less-developed races (and their resulting behavior towards the "inferior") is widely believed to be a "Take That" to some interpretations of Star Trek's Prime Directive.
I’m not sure what the intent is, but in 2021 they feel like more honest ruling class humans, who saw through the trick and learned from humans they should be less honest about it.
If the intent was to make fun of the PD I don’t quite see it. The worst interpretations of the PD are motivated by fear of negative consequences of interference, not a belief in superiority.
If the intent was to make fun of the PD I don’t quite see it. The worst interpretations of the PD are motivated by fear of negative consequences of interference, not a belief in superiority.
Really? It seems that JMS might have had real grudge, since there is supposedly jab against it in Crusade as well.
Yeah, that was in the episode Visitors from Down the Street, a spoof of The X-Files.
Mind, this is just an opinion but my feeling is that it wasn't a grudge against Trek or the Prime Directive as much as it might have been a dig at fans who'd decided, quite vocally, that the Trek ways were How Things Should Be. I'm reminded of JMS telling how he was ragged on for having the hand links when 'everybody knows' that in the future communicators would be worn on the chest. When a certain vision like Trek's had been prevalent for so long, it wasn't always easy for people to accept something different, even in small things.
Ah, that explains such moments as,when Garibaldi visits G'Kar in lockup and asks how he's doing, G'Kar answers, "Well, I'm using my six week sentence in jail for assaulting Ambassador Molari by writing..."
Something like that, but it was actually the makeup that allowed the actors to emote more effectively. It could've been the Drazi who were wiped out, but their faces were stiffer than the Markabs', and the Pak'ma'ra were never in the running because they just had a solid mask with a little articulation in the tentacles.
Sorry - But it was on his mind!Oh, not this shit again...
^ That's just a harmless joke. 
I mean, JMS never seriously thought DS9 ripped off B5. That's just an urban legend.
Even that time he killed off General Hague because Robert Foxworth was double-booked and chose to do DS9 (Homefront/Paradise Lost) instead? Water under the bridge.
I mean, JMS never seriously thought DS9 ripped off B5. That's just an urban legend.
Even that time he killed off General Hague because Robert Foxworth was double-booked and chose to do DS9 (Homefront/Paradise Lost) instead? Water under the bridge.
I would think recaps would actually be good for people who hadn't seen the show before, since it would allow them to go in with at least some idea of what's going on.
Another joke, right?^ That's just a harmless joke.
I mean, JMS never seriously thought DS9 ripped off B5. That's just an urban legend.
Even that time he killed off General Hague because Robert Foxworth was double-booked and chose to do DS9 (Homefront/Paradise Lost) instead? Water under the bridge.
Was thinking more in terms of the notion that "JMS never seriously thought DS9 ripped off B5. That's just an urban legend." That's wrong, wrong, and by the way, really wrong.I think the jms quote from when Andrea decided to leave and he killed Talia off probably also applies: "Never cheese off the writer."
One thing about the Markeb plague episode, they played it like Dr Franklin’s cure was too late to do any good. But didn’t he prevent the sane think from happening to the Pak’Mara? It was proven the disease was transmissible to them.
That's true, but given Franklin's personality, he will still see it as a failure because he couldn't save everyone. It's a big driving step toward his constant stim use.
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