>Actually, not to piss on your parade, but Roger made several large
>mistakes, the biggest of which was authorizing the mistreatment of a
>princess of Gamilon.

He could probably get out of that by claiming that he didn't actually KNOW this at the time he began... but yes, that's a bad one, too. Once he did the deep scan and hit THAT little tidbit, he should have pulled back and been the soul of decorum.

If we want to point out his BIGGEST mistake, it's not actually HIS - it's the Psi Cops in general. Their entire attitude of superiority, so that when people actually RESIST them, or foil their plans, they all seem to lose their cool and become irrational.

Which begs the question of just WHY? The whole concept of repressing their telepathic powers through training feeding back in the way that Surak taught a number of the Vulcans to avoid with cthia? Really, in B5 and in this episode, as soon as someone proves to be more capable than they'd expect, the PsiCorps member in question immediately drops the ball. They lose their focus and it all goes to Hell. Or is it just that the Psi Corps mentality of 'telepaths are superior to normals' is so completely OVERRIDING of anything else that the first shove against the structure makes it all come down?

Granted, I'm currently hoping for a scene when Tremayne deep-scans Zoner. It should be instructive, if short and painful (for Tremayne).

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Geoff Depew - Mephron
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(They won't give me LARTs, they say that's restricted to Michael.)