Author: marylowd

It is standard practice to approximate dogs as spheres.

Having finally watched all of Babylon 5, I’m finally qualified to hold the opinion that Deep Space Nine is better than Babylon 5. (And it is.)

I’ll even take it a step further: Farscape’s better too! And, possibly even Stargate: SG-1. Though, that wouldn’t be worth getting into a holy war over.  (Note added 14 years later, after watching all the way through Stargate a second time: yes, it would.)
Continue reading “DS9 vs. B5”

I carry a phaser in one pocket. And a tribble in the other.

I spent my evening sewing tribbles.

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We’ve decided that Miral Paris should be our babysitter. She doesn’t do much else while we’re fighting off Orion thugs and brutes in Star Trek Online.

I finished season 3 of Babylon 5.

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I like it… But, it’s less self-analytical than DS9. The Minbari religion goes largely unquestioned. Whereas, the Bajoran religion was held up against scientific knowledge, and the characters were forced to grapple with questions of what it meant when science did not (or, more interestingly for examining the concept of faith) did agree with their religion. Continue reading “Half of a Polite Conversation”

I strongly suggest that Buffy enlist in Starfleet. By and large, they take much better care of their employees than the Watcher’s Council.

I’ve started Elaine playing her first MMO — her avatar is a pink penguin, walking around a lighthouse, making smily face emotes.

Finally downloading the Star Trek Online beta.

I live in the kind of neighborhood where, if you’re digging a ditch in your front yard, the guy who lives across the street will come over and help fix your broken pipe. And if he doesn’t have the right size scrap of PVC, then he’ll get it from the guy who lives on the corner.

There are very few scientists on Babylon 5. And no engineers.

The one scientist is the doctor. And the episodes that focus on him are invariably the most interesting.