Category: Babylon 5
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The Ethics of Waiting: Babylon 5’s “Mind War” and Star Trek: Voyager’s “The Gift”
The Star Trek: Voyager episode, “The Gift,” (1997) was clearly largely influenced from the Babylon 5 episode, “Mind War” (1994). In both episodes there is a.) the build-up/evolution of psychic...
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Anti-Utopian Leadership
What is clear is that utopian science fiction offers us insights into what can be, and dystopian science fiction presents the most abysmal than can or is likely to come...
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Father Figures in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 and the Knowing of Our Shared Responsibilities
Avery Brooks said on a number of occasions that he accepted the role of Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine because of the depiction of the ever-present father...
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Attraction to Light: Light as Communication and Imagined Evolution
In the Babylon 5 season 4 episode, “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars,” (1997) we are given a possible image that takes place a million years into the future where humans...