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Topic ID: 164
Message ID: 5
#5, RE: On other kinds of psionics
Posted by Matrix Dragon on Oct-23-01 at 04:31 AM
In response to message #3
>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.

I remember that one. Yuck. Second episode of B5 I ever saw, and it almost put me off the series. Thankfully, I only saw it for the first time a few months ago (The wonders of sci-fi in Australia people) and SOS convinced we to keep watching, if only to figure out all the references that were popping up.

Matrix Dragon