The Psi Cops arrive at the station to capture Talia's old Psi Corps instructor. Catherine is warned not to survey a sector of space by G'Kar.The Psi Cops arrive at the station to capture Talia's old Psi Corps instructor. Catherine is warned not to survey a sector of space by G'Kar.The Psi Cops arrive at the station to capture Talia's old Psi Corps instructor. Catherine is warned not to survey a sector of space by G'Kar.
- Delenn
- (credit only)
- Dr. Stephen Franklin
- (credit only)
- Vir Cotto
- (credit only)
- Na'Toth
- (as Caitlin Brown)
- (credit only)
- Londo Mollari
- (credit only)
- Guest Liaison
- (as Elisa Pensler Gabrielli)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWalter Koenig added a personal touch to the character of Alfred Bester, giving him a crippled left hand. If you look closely, the hand is always clenched in a fist.
- GoofsJason Ironheart explains he was given "mutated" serotonin and acetylcholine. In order for something to mutate, it requires the presence of DNA. Both of these chemicals are neurotransmitters and contain no DNA, so they can't mutate.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Catherine Sakai: Ambassador! While I was out there, I saw something. What was it?
G'Kar: [points to a flower with a bug crawling on it] What is this?
Catherine Sakai: An ant.
G'Kar: Ant.
Catherine Sakai: So much gets shipped up from Earth on commercial transports it's hard to keep them out.
G'Kar: Yeah, I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again, and it asks another ant, "what was that?",
[laughs]
G'Kar: how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They're vast, timeless, and if they're aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants, and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know, we've tried, and we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on.
Catherine Sakai: That's it? That's all you know?
G'Kar: Yes, they are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957, and they must walk there alone.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Babylon 5: A Race Through Dark Places (1995)
This was a great episode, possibly the best so far. The highlight is the introduction of Bester and the sinister Psi-cops. Walter Koenig does a great job in this role; he makes his character arrogant without becoming annoying and quietly menacing in a way that seems believable... he may be best known as Star Trek's Ensign Chekov but Bester is the better role! The main story tells us more about telepaths in general and the operations of the Psi-corps and the Psi-cops in particular. Ironheart was an interesting character; dangerous but not obviously malicious. William Allen Young did a solid job in the role. The secondary story might not have been as important to the episode but it opened details that could prove very important... until now it appeared that the species we see on Babylon 5 are the galaxy's dominant life forms; this suggest that there may be other beings beyond our comprehension; so far advanced that they would look on us the way we look at ants. Overall this was a great episode; both because of what it included but also because of hints of what might come later regarding the Psi-cops and the beings that may dwell near Sigma 967.
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- Jun 3, 2018