Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space Nine-"Mind War" vs. "The Forsaken"

10/05/2021 45 min Temporada 1 Episodio 7
Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space Nine-"Mind War" vs. "The Forsaken"

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Mind War S1 E6 (2 Mar 94) v. The Forsaken S1 E17 (23 May 93)-The great rabbit is on the lawn in Donnie Darko (2001)-Walter Koeing played navigator Chekov in seasons 2 & 3 of the original Star Trek (1966-69) & guest starred in the Baywatch spoof Son of the Beach (2000-2)-Koeing’s parents were Russian Jewish immigrants from Lithuania to Chicago-Alfred Bester is a great golden age sf writer who wrote the novels Demolished Man (1953) (a version of Dostoevsky Crime & Punishment [1866] but w/ telepathy) & Stars My Destination (1956) (a version of Dumas Count of Monte Cristo [1844] but w/ teleportation)-Alfred Bester’s work on the original Green Lantern spanned 1943-7-The scale of the Sigma 957 walker reminds Bob of the weird fiction of H.P. Lovecraft & Matt of the DC comics character Spectre (the best Spectre run, by John Ostrander & Tom Mandrake, ran 1992-8)-JMS wrote about 2 dozen episodes of the cartoon Real Ghostbusters (1986-91). His better comics runs include his run on Thor (2007-9) & the early part of his run on Amazing Spider-Man (2001-7) while the worst stuff include his runs on Brave & the Bold (2009-10) & Superman (2010-5)-Matt’s subsequent browsing confirmed that Digipets premiered in ‘97-Bajoran Militia uniform colors are command red, security brown, operations gray, & engineering green/gray-Bester’s salute is a reference to the all-time great English show The Prisoner (1967-8), influential on both Babylon 5 & Twin Peaks S3: The Return (2017)