Story: The Long Road
Written By: J. Michael Straczynski
Season: Crusade
Gideon and Galen go down to a planet where Earthgov forces a strip mining the planet’s resource, much to the chagrin of the Amish-like folk that live there. The people have been forced from their homes, and the mining is putting stuff in the air that will kill everybody…but why should a little thing like that get in the way of Earth’s people?
On the planet also lives an older Technomage like Galen, and he has been trying to use his tricks to get rid of the Earth minors to varying degrees of success. It is now time for more drastic measures and hard decisions.
This episode felt much more like Star Trek than anything in the Babylon 5 universe that predated it. Not that certain Trek tropes hafdn’t made their wy in before, but this felt like a fairly generic Star Trek script, and the fact that instead of a space station setting and a major focus on running plotlines, this series has a setting on a spaceship full of explorers and scientists. Granted there is the pollen about trying to find a cure for the plague, but in this episode that feels more like a backdrop for the show than a driving force. This just felt like something you'd see in any old episode of TNG or Voyager.
It isn’t awful…and it certainly uses the Technomages, a very Straczynski creation, in a major way, keeping it from feeling to Star Trek. But it definitely feels a lot Star Trek, and since I don’t yet know these characters and I’m not terribly invested, I’d rather just watch an actual Star Trek.
NEXT TIME: Doomsday Cult
Written By: J. Michael Straczynski
Season: Crusade
Gideon and Galen go down to a planet where Earthgov forces a strip mining the planet’s resource, much to the chagrin of the Amish-like folk that live there. The people have been forced from their homes, and the mining is putting stuff in the air that will kill everybody…but why should a little thing like that get in the way of Earth’s people?
This episode felt much more like Star Trek than anything in the Babylon 5 universe that predated it. Not that certain Trek tropes hafdn’t made their wy in before, but this felt like a fairly generic Star Trek script, and the fact that instead of a space station setting and a major focus on running plotlines, this series has a setting on a spaceship full of explorers and scientists. Granted there is the pollen about trying to find a cure for the plague, but in this episode that feels more like a backdrop for the show than a driving force. This just felt like something you'd see in any old episode of TNG or Voyager.
It isn’t awful…and it certainly uses the Technomages, a very Straczynski creation, in a major way, keeping it from feeling to Star Trek. But it definitely feels a lot Star Trek, and since I don’t yet know these characters and I’m not terribly invested, I’d rather just watch an actual Star Trek.
NEXT TIME: Doomsday Cult
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