An alien family refuses surgery to save their dying child.An alien family refuses surgery to save their dying child.An alien family refuses surgery to save their dying child.
Andrea Thompson
- Talia Winters
- (credit only)
Stephen Furst
- Vir Cotto
- (credit only)
Julie Caitlin Brown
- Na'Toth
- (as Caitlin Brown)
- (credit only)
Jonathan C. Kaplan
- Shon
- (as Jonathan Charles Kaplan)
Ardwight Chamberlain
- Kosh
- (voice)
Peter Wick
- Alien worker
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThis takes place in June 2258.
- GoofsIt makes no sense that the operation would require an incision. Dr. Franklin would have figured out a way to remove the growth by endoscopic surgery through Shon's mouth/throat. The religious beliefs of the parents seem to rest on not treating the humanoid body in the same manner as food animals, which are prepared by cutting the skin.
- Quotes
Kosh Naranek: The avalanche has already started; it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
- ConnectionsReferences Babylon 5: Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993)
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Great Episode
This is the best episode I've seen. It's not exciting, but it is compelling and heart felt.
It reminds me of what good scifi can be, exploring difficult questions and forcing characters to make hard choices, all with their beliefs being in conflict.
It doesn't preach at the audience, and it doesn't insult them or talk down to them. Whether or not it "teaches a lesson" depends on who you ask. I'm sure that even among viewers who would agree it had a lesson, many viewers would disagree entirely on what that lesson was.
I definitely think there is a valuable takeaway for the viewer here, something about arrogance, perhaps something about shortsightedness.
Some kind of deeper wisdom is subtley on display.
Every member of the audience will have to decide, on their own, what that wisdom actually is.
It reminds me of what good scifi can be, exploring difficult questions and forcing characters to make hard choices, all with their beliefs being in conflict.
It doesn't preach at the audience, and it doesn't insult them or talk down to them. Whether or not it "teaches a lesson" depends on who you ask. I'm sure that even among viewers who would agree it had a lesson, many viewers would disagree entirely on what that lesson was.
I definitely think there is a valuable takeaway for the viewer here, something about arrogance, perhaps something about shortsightedness.
Some kind of deeper wisdom is subtley on display.
Every member of the audience will have to decide, on their own, what that wisdom actually is.
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- imdb-29461-33239
- Sep 28, 2021
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