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This has got to be one of the worst Babylon 5 episodes I’ve ever seen. It was co-written by Harlan Ellison and directed by Janet Greek. They both need putting out of my misery in my opinion. This was a good story ruined by poor characterisation and a patronising script.

The show opened well, a deep space probe was destroyed by a group of unknown spaceships. But the probe managed to beam back some info to Babylon 5. Captain Lockley is woken from sleep by Lt. Corwin and informed of the attack.

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Babylon 5: S05E05: Learning Curve

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Episode Review, Tony Fawl

This was a relatively good episode, the storyline was a lot tighter and although it suffered yet again from the introduction of another poor character, on the whole, sci fi SadGeezers should enjoy this one.

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Babylon 5: Cultures: Brakiri

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Race Rating, Tony Fawl

The Brakiri are a night-dwelling race who, like the Gaim has risen in prominence because of membership of the InterStellar Alliance. Previously they have had alliances with the Shadows but after fighting their wars for them, the Brakiri looked to the Army of Light

Click to hear Lyta say, 'Captain, they're pissed.'

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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Lyta Alexander

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Biography, Patricia Tallman, Tony Fawl

Lyta interned with the PsiCops, but wasn’t rated high enough to be one herself (all PsiCops are P12). Her rating is that of a P5 (not particularly high). She became Babylon 5’s first commercial telepath in 2257. Her Psi rating is now a lot higher thanks to her association with the Vorlons.

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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Alfred Bester

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Biography, Psi Cop, Psi Corps, Tony Fawl, Walter Koenig

Bester is an absolute tosspot and well played by Walter Koenig of Star Trek fame. He really looks the part doesn’t he? He is a high ranking Psi Cop and completely dedicated to the Psi Corps. He has one of the highest telepath ratings on Earth.

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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Morden

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Biography, Ed Wasser, Shadows, Tony Fawl

The best thing about Mr. Morden is that he is dead. Don’t you just hate it when you do a review of someone and they die in the next episode. He got clobbered soon after a delightful conversation with Vir on Centauri Prime in Season 4.

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Babylon 5: Cultures: Shadows

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Race Rating, Tony Fawl

The Shadows are thought to be the oldest race in the Galaxy. Their real name is supposed to be 10,000 characters long and unrepeatable by humans. A bit impractical don’t you think?

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Babylon 5: Cultures: Vorlons

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Race Rating, Tony Fawl

One of the best things about the Vorlons is that nobody knows much about them. They are uncommunicative and more than a little aloof. You wouldn’t pick a fight with a Vorlon, then again, you wouldn’t buy one a drink either.

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Babylon 5: Cultures: Narn

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Gxan, Race Rating, Tony Fawl

The Narn are a much-persecuted race. They were relatively peaceful and well ordered with an abundance of natural resources.

Councilor G’Kar
Leader of the resistance, visionary, poet and ‘headbanger’.

Then in 2110 the Centauri invaded and enslaved them. The Centauri considered themselves the ‘master race’ and treated the Narn little better than donkey droppings.

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Cultures: Golgafrinchams

6th June 20083rd June 2019 SadGeezer Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Race Rating, Tony Fawl

The Golgafrinchams are a cool bunch with a hoopy history. Everything else about them is actually boring. They are a little stupid, pompus and almost extinct.

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Cultures: Vogons

6th June 20083rd June 2019 SadGeezer Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Race Rating, Tony Fawl

Vogons are one of the most unpleasant, ugly, artistically incompetent and nauseatingly priggish races in the universe. They aren’t actually evil as such, but if you ever wanted to get a lift from one, for instance, FORGET IT!

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Science: Babelfish

6th June 20083rd June 2019 SadGeezer Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Speech Translation, Technology, Tony Fawl

The Babel Fish is small, yellow, leechlike and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brainwave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and the excreting telepathically a matrix from the conscious frequencies and nerve signals…

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Science: Deep Thought

6th June 20083rd June 2019 SadGeezer Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Technology, Tony Fawl

Deep Thought (no relation to Deep Throat although the very reverend Douglas Adams no doubt intended us to contemplate such an idea) was constructed by a race of pan dimensional mega beings as a supercomputer.

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Science: Sirius Cybernetics Corp.

6th June 20083rd June 2019 SadGeezer Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Technology, Tony Fawl

The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is responsible for the development of the most popular range of domestic and industrial robots. The marketing division defines a robot as “Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with.”

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Science: Infinite Improbability Drive

6th June 20083rd June 2019 SadGeezer Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Technology, Tony Fawl

This is the latest way of travelling through space without out the need for all that tedious jumping in and out of hyperspace. The principal of generating finite amounts of improbability are so bloody obvious that I wont go into them here.

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Babylon 5: Character Bios: John Sheridan

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Biography, Bruce Boxlietner, Tony Fawl

Sheridan is now the President of the Alliance. he is still based on Babylon 5 but has relinquished control of the ship to the new Captain Lockley. He does however have control of political decisions on the Station.

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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Ambassador Delenn

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Biography, Mira Furlan, Tony Fawl

Although Ambassador Delenn (played beautifully by Mira Furlan) seems to be righteous and aloof, she is also a bit of a rebel. She was once a member of the Minbari ruling body (the Grey Counsel), and underwent a physical transformation that gave her human characteristics (like hair).

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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Marcus Cole

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Biography, Jason Carter, Tony Fawl

Marcus Cole is one of my favourite characters, not just because he’s a Brit, but because he’s a bit wacky. The part is played so well by Jason Carter that I suspect he isn’t acting very much. Nevertheless, I cringe at some of the stuff he comes out with.

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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Londo Mollari

6th June 20082nd June 2019 SadGeezer Babylon 5, Biography, Peter Jurasik, Tony Fawl

Of all the characters in the series, I feel most affinity for Londo Mollari. He is played exceptionally well by Peter Jurasik and is probably marginally ahead of Ivanova as being the wittiest of the Babylon 5 characters. He has certainly got a questionable history of double dealing, assassination and subversion. But he seems to carry it off with such wit.

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Firefly: S01E11 & 12: Serenity

6th June 20088th June 2019 SadGeezer Episode Review, Firefly, Tony Fawl

Pretty good I thought. If it had been allowed to air it would have stopped many sci fi geeks like myself wondering if the series would be as crappy as the first episode! In the end, the pilot set the scene very well.

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Character Bios: Marvin

6th June 20086th June 2019 SadGeezer Biography, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Tony Fawl

Marvin is a manically depressed robot and the prototype product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. He has a ‘brain the size of a planet’ and a personality that makes you want to kill it!

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Character Bios: Ford Prefect

6th June 20086th June 2019 SadGeezer Biography, David Dixon, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Tony Fawl

Ford Prefect is played perfectly by David Dixon. If you were to meet him in a pub, he’d be telling some story about the Triple Breasted Whore of Erotogon Six!

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Character Bios: Slartibartfast

6th June 20083rd June 2019 SadGeezer Biography, Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Richard Vernon, Tony Fawl

This man is a Magrathean crinkly coastline designer.
Slartibartfast is played handsomely by the heavyweight actor, Richard Vernon.

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Cultures: Magratheans

6th June 20083rd June 2019 SadGeezer Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Race Rating, Tony Fawl

A world inhabited by humanoids that produce custom built planets to order.

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Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy: Cultures: The Earth that Was

6th June 20083rd June 2019 SadGeezer Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Race Rating, Tony Fawl

A planet that doesn’t exist anymore. It was populated with lots of people that looked a bit like you and me.

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Farscape: S01E01: Premiere

6th June 20088th June 2019 SadGeezer Episode Review, Farscape, Tony Fawl

A Pretty good opening episode full of nervous apprehension and action. As a pilot show, this had almost everything.

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Farscape: S01E04: Throne for a Loss

6th June 20088th June 2019 SadGeezer Episode Review, Farscape, Tony Fawl, Zhaan naked

Not the best of episodes I guess, but there were some good moments and some funny dialogue. Most of us will remember this episode I think, because of Zhaan’s brief absence of clothes.

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