>I remember an episode of Babylon 5 which revolved around the Corp
>searching for a guy with telekinesis, and at the end the show he
>vaporized or disintegrated or ascended to a higher level of existence
>or something in a Spielbergian light show.

Yeah - that was the first Bester episode (I believe it was entitled "Mind War"). Wasn't that one awful? "I am... becoming." Yeah. You're becoming the MacGuffin character on a season-3 episode of Star Trek. "My... God, Bones. What did we just... witness?" Bleagh. I realize it introduces a few important concepts and we get to see a Psi Cop get schletzed, but between the "Where No Man Has Gone Before" ending and that horrible, horrible "Do you know what it's like when telepaths make love, Commander?" scene (nice touch having the tram go into a tunnel right then, guys), ye gods, what a terrible episode. Shiver. Shudder.

Not as bad as "Infection", and certainly not as bad as The Worst Hour Of Television Ever Made (Star Trek: Voyager episode #132, "Threshold" - the only episode of that show I ever watched, if you're curious), but... ew.

>>Certainly pyrokinetics
>>exist in the galaxy as a whole, but not many and none so far from
>>Earth stock.
>
>Are these individuals or a sub-species or an entire species (I'd hate
>to run into those)?

It's possible there's such a thing as a pyrokinetic species, but I can't think of one offhand. I was referring to individuals of other psionically active races (including other human stocks, since Earth and her colonies represent only one of many all-but-identical human races), and very infrequently-found individuals at that.

--G.
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