u/Hypnotician

I just rewatched "Exogenesis," and while the episode might be a bit mid (though it introduced Carrie Dobro before she took on the role of Dureena Nafeel in Crusade), there was something I caught all the way back, the very first time I ever saw this episode.

The episode begins with a shuttle, in fact the Shuttle Dyson (mentioned at the end in the departure lounge) as the shuttle elevators lower the little boat into the depths of the station.

The dialogue begins around 2:40.

Babylon Control: Shuttle Dyson, you're our last shuttle for today. Locking off for now. Please remind your passengers about out Customs procedures prior to debarkation.

Shuttle Pilot: Roger that, Babylon Control. Have a nice day.

The bolded bit is what I'm talking about here. You've heard the Shuttle Pilot's voice. I've heard the Shuttle Pilot's voice. But there are absolutely no credits anywhere.

Was that really Sean Connery's voice we all heard?

Note: I have looked around all corners of the net for any credits for "Shuttle Pilot" and not even iMDB has a clue.

I'm trying to get data on a story about someone who had obtained a dark creature which fed off erasing people from time, as though they'd never existed. I remember it being like a Big Hat Man, Cheshire Cat grin like The Grinning Man from the last McBane story, and it hissed as it touched its prey.

It fed like Doctor Who's Weeping Angels, but by deleting them from time and memory rather than sending them back in time.

In the second part of the story, Dredd partnered up with a Muslim Psi-Judge. The story caused some controversy, I think, because it had been one of Emma Beeby's first forays as a 2000AD author. The creature had come up against the Psi-Judge and lost, because she'd recognised it as a Djinn.

All I want to know, really, are the titles of the stories, and the Progs they appeared in. Leave the collecting to me.

So, we know that Prog 2500 is coming in just a few short weeks, and it looks like next week's Meg will be the finale of the Black Tower storyline.

Do you think the Oubliette story will wrap up in 2499 and segue straight into the sequel to A Better World, or will it wrap up in 2498 and have a one-off episode for 2499?

I'm hoping both finales will be double-length. These stories have been foreshadowed long enough. I wouldn't want them to be disappointing, after all the teasing.

During the SGU episode "Incursion," the Lucian Alliance boarded Destiny, armed.

I was looking at this two-parter recently, and it just struck me that they could easily have won the day if they had done one thing.

- If they had brought along supplies. Food, medicines, engineering tools. Books from Earth. Entertainment. Fresh clothing. Cleaning supplies.

Seeds to grow new vegetables - Earth food.

And finally, if the Alliance had included human medical staff, trained to handle human and alien patients, TJ could have had a much easier task.

There's a Law from the 48 Laws of Power. Law 43. Work On The Hearts And Minds Of Others. SGU could not have survived to a season 3, but at least in season 2 there could have been hope.

The Legend TV channel is cutting episodes of B5 with a clumsy butcher knife. Thus far, they have cut out Talia Winters belting Sheridan in Medlab in "In The Shadow Of Z'Ha'Dum," the dead Markab in "Knives," and so many scenes in "Confessions and Lamentations" that the episode is looking like an advert.

The censorship is blatant, ham-fisted, and deplorable.

I'm looking for a free app for Android that'll give me the lines, dots, curves etc. to draw my own imbued Hunter sign, rather than rely on the ones on the Wiki, which seem to have a black background, making them kinda useless when I try to use them in a game.

Are there any go-to apps you could recommend?

I often find myself chatting with an inattentive friend, burying her nose in social media on the phone.

I've managed to drag her attention away from her screen before, but this time she's been really distracted.

Today, I told her I was going to the store to buy tea, food, cigarettes and bullets. Nothing from her. Just doomscrolling.

So I brought out the big guns ...

'Did you know that my nose is on fire?'

THAT caught her attention.

Good job the scene didn't end with Earth under martial law. I don't know what I could have done. Maybe switched to Monty Python quotes or lines from The Prisoner or something.

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Right at the start of SGU, while everyone was getting settled down on the Icarus Base, the Lucian Alliance attacked the base while they were having a toast. This forced the people who were going to be the Destiny crew off the planet and through the special gate to Destiny.

One question. Do you think somebody called in the Lucian Alliance? I mean, they had the Ancient communication stones. Somebody could have spilled to a spy, and also any spies would have had plenty of time to walk about in someone's body, long enough to gather all the information they need including the Icarus base's location.

I was not prepared for this.

Nobody, but nobody, told me that Enrico Colantoni, Carl Elias, turned up in Stargate SG-1.

And that he was even crazier in this show than on PoI.

Invictus maneo!

Brink: How It All Began

Last month, I began my long re-read of Brink, this time through the graphic novels. There are currently six GNs available, and the current story is part way through what will be Book 7 in time.

I bought Book 1 last month, and gave myself a birthday treat t'other day by getting books 2 and 3. I'll be collecting the rest later this month and next. This is giving me time to draw breath at the end of each book. I'll be catching up throughout the summer.

I think the graphic novels concentrate the story into sharp focus. You may miss individual episodes in the Progs, only to miss a vital clue, sitting there in plain sight.

I highly recommend this story, if you're a fan of police procedurals, mysteries, and suspense thrillers. The setting being in space doesn't take away from what Brink keeps bringing.

Beloved Theodore Bikel, may his memory be as a blessing.

I watched "TKO" tonight on the Legend digital channel. I'd completely forgotten about the story arc where Rabbi Yossel Koslov paid a visit to the station to bring her the family samovar and to sit shivva for her father Andrei Ivanov.

This was the story I watched tonight, not Walker Smith's attempt to join the Space MMA circuit.

Ivanova: For days, I had been formulating the perfect question to impress my idol. So the time comes and I stand up, I'm trembling, and I ask my question.

Rabbi: And?

Ivanova: He said it was the most foolish thing he ever heard, and he wouldn't talk to a bourgeois twit who was barely out of diapers.

I was crushed.

But then Papa stood up. He said his daughter was neither bourgeois nor a twit, and had been out of diapers for years, while Kasharev's writing was below the contents of those garments.

The whole episode was worth watching Susan actually laughing, something I don't think she ever did for the whole rest of the series (probably because the universe never again gave her a reason to).

Claudia Christian looked like she really enjoyed all the acting she did in this episode, going from elation to grief in a minute.

I just watched the rerun of Babylon 5 "The Gathering" which I recorded on Monday.

I was not prepared for the scene where Vorlon Ambassador Kosh encountered what it thought was Commander Sinclair.

I had to replay Kosh's line several times. Each time confirmed exactly what Kosh had said.

Entil'Zha Valen.

Which is why this whole post is one big spoiler. Proceed only if you already know the significance of what Kosh just called Commander Sinclair.

The episode "Soul Hunter" left a whole bunch of questions unanswered. We wouldn't get the answers till seasons 3 and 4.

I'm not going to spoil anything for everyone watching this show for the first time on the UK digital Legend channel, but I watched the scene where Sinclair says a line which I took from this show and borrowed for my own uses.

"Life's full of mysteries. Consider this one of them."

My new Star Trek pet theory is that Armus from "Skin Of Evil" was left behind by the Progenitors, as their last act as a species before they left this plane of existence behind.

I just like to add that Armus is a part of Star Trek that needs no explanation, like Gowron (and Klingons). There are so many memes going around that Armus has reached the mainstream consciousness.

You can thank the Progenitors for that.

I just watched "Extinction," the season 3 episode of Enterprise. One thing - after the show closed, and before the credits rolled, there was a memorial card: In Loving Memory of Jerry Fleck.

Trek has had a habit of posting these little memoriam cards. The first one I remember was the Challenger one at the start of Star Trek: IV, The One With The Whales.

Was there a memorial card at the start of TNG Unification? Because there was one for Gene Roddenberry at the start of Star Trek VI. It was just "For Gene" at the start of the TNG two-parter.

There have been others, haven't there. And I don't remember anything remembering dear Majel.

The Oubliette - And So, It Begins ... Prog 2483 cover

I really do need to go through my backlog of unread Megs to see those prequel stories, and the same for the Dredd stories in the Progs.

I've downloaded the prequel, Messengers, which was offered free - but I need to go back to find the Progs which had The House on Bleeker Street and Iron Teeth.

Oh, and The Shift. I have the first Prog where that one appeared, I think.

Any help in pointing out the Progs?

One more thing. There's a much earlier Prog where Dredd faced off against a Thing whose touch erased people from history, as if they'd never been. There were two stories. The second featured a Psi-Judge who called out the Thing as a Djinn. Any help in pointing me to the stories and Progs, because - spoiler - >!something similar seems to have happened to Dredd in this week's stories. For the second time, he's been erased from history and forgotten. Did a Thing like the one in the earlier stories just do for Dredd again?!<

I just tried accessing the .gd and .gl domains. AA is blocked again, at least over here in NE Wales.

That line comes from VOY s01 "Jetrel."

JANEWAY: Does Neelix really have metremia, or was that just a pretext for getting us to come to Rinax?
JETREL: It was just a pretext, Captain. You do not have metremia, Neelix. You are not going to die.

I let out a "damn" right there.

I know that this was Voyager really punching hard, a sort of "What if a survivor of Hiroshima got to meet Oppenheimer?" story that came out of nowhere, and no warning.

And it's also the one episode of VOY season 01 I never miss, because it's so different to all the rest of the episodes of this season. Or, for that matter, the rest of the series.

But still, to hear the words that he wasn't going to be written out, and they were going to be stuck with a living, breathing Neelix for practically the entire series ...

*curses in Tuvok*