Happy St. Patrick's Day, all. Drive the snakes out of whatever they're plaguing why don't you ( Read more... )

We just got to the Enterprise episode with the Time Babies and zomg time babies. I- this must be one of my very favorite tropes. It's the sci-fi plot where Our Heroes get lost in time somehow and have generations upon generations of offspring in an aborted timeline. I don't know why I love this so much. But DS9 had a Time Babies episode ( ( Read more... )

Can't quote the best things because SPOILERS. Well, okay, there's this ( Read more... )

I'm gonna keep getting Tuzanor and Trenzelore mixed up for basically ever.

I wonder if there will be awesome puns I can make once I've seen "the Name of the Doctor."

Klingons: We have this induction ritual that requires your blood. Here is the knife. Do not flinch or cry out if you value your honor ( Read more... )

Just watched "Dragons Teeth." That episode was awful. All the people were really stupid for no reason, although Janeway had an unexpected display of ethics, which was...unexpected ( Read more... )

Hey, so, today is also Edward Gorey's birthday. So, I present to you, the Babblycrumb Tinies!

( So full of spoilers. a) because it's Babylon 5, and b) because, well, it's a poem about how people die. Really, what do you expect? )

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth Minbari war. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out there differences peacefully. It’s a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. ( Read more... )

So we've met Species 8472 in voyager and Janeway is making all kinds of terrible decisions. But the thing that gets me about these guys is that they're basically Vorlons. Like, the first time we saw "the biomass" we were like "hey, it's a white star!" But no, their ships are biological, totally look like vorlon ships, and they emerge from ( Read more... )

Alpha Centauri on Doctor Who was a "hermaphrodite hexapod."

The Centauri on Babylon 5 also had six...something.

More than a coincidence?