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b5_revisitedRecap and discussion for Crusade episode 6 – Each Night I Dream of Home
This one originally aired last but in JMS’ favored order, it is 7th.
It also has one my favorite quotes:
Gideon to Lochley, when he says he can’t tell her where they are and what they’re doing. She asks what he can tell her and this is his answer: "Never eat anything bigger than your head. Never shoot pool at a place called Pop's. Never eat food at a place called Mom's."
The episode begins with a Warlock Class Destroyer in the middle of nowhere. A shuttle comes aboard containing one of the 12 Senators who were offworld when the Drakh Plague was dropped, Senator Ridley, and someone named David Williams. The Senator tells them they are to proceed directly to certain coordinates and pick up a package. The coordinates are earth. He tell them that they don’t have to worry about the ban on people leaving earth. Everything is worked out and they are operating in secret.
Gideon says okay and off they go.
We see Captain Lochley injured in a Starfury and she sends a distress call.
Chambers comes in and Williams says he needs to talk to her. Matheson tells Gideon that Williams is a plumber.
They pick up Lochley’s distress signal and Gideon says they’ll head her way. Ridley orders them not to stop for anything sooo Gideon basically uses the gravity wells in the bays to catch her as she comes into the landing bay. She’s injured and they patch her up but Gideon says they can’t contact B5 yet.
Williams tells Chambers that he was offworld when the plague struck and he wants to be infected so he can go back home and get married to his girlfriend.
They arrive at Earth and are sent a pod. Though Gideon has misgivings, the senator tells him to bring it aboard, that it’s safe. I contains Dr. Franklin, who has come to observe the movement of the virus as Williams is infected.
Williams sneaks a call to home, to his girlfriend and the Drakh pick it up and send ships to intercept.
Gideon visits Williams to see for himself that this is something the man really wants to do and Williams explains how much he loves his fiancé and that he knows the risks.
Franklin and Sarah are talking and Franklin is bothered by giving the plague to someone when he swore an oath to do no harm. Sarah says she will do it for him but he says no.
Franklin is one chamber, Williams in the other and they’re divided by a room. Franklin will turn on a vent into Williams’ room and he will become infected and they will watch on the monitors. The mechanism malfunctions and Sarah ends up opening the vent.
About that time, the Drakh attack and the isobays go into sanitize mode, which means they will burn Williams in a few seconds but Franklin does heroic stuff and saves the day at the last possible second.
The 6 Drakh ships are kicking their butts until Lochley goes out in a Starfury to lead the fight. They can’t open a gate until they charge up so they get the mothership to do it for them following her out and blowing her up.
Franklin and Chambers talk about it being airborne and all air breathers catching it, also about how it seems to search for something to kill and only attacks vital organs. They also noticed that it spreads like something downloading so they decide that it’s a nanovirus and they fear it has a hive mind and is learning.
Everyone goes home and Gideon decides they should visit Lochley on B5 soon.
*
Questions:
1. Do they really get answers? Didn’t we already figure out it was a nanovirus?
2. Did you find the whole Lochley bit sort of gratuitous? What real function did she serve in the episode?
3. Why would the Drakh even bother to come after them? Were they afraid that Franklin and chambers might come up with something?
4. Have noticed that every time they talk about the plague, it is a different thing, more or less? First, it was one thing that would kill everyone, then it attacks only certain organs, then it hunts viruses to infect people with, then it’s a hive mind… ???
5. With the defense grid up and all the watching they are doing to make sure no one leaves Earth infected, how in the world did they not shoot Franklin’s pod?
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Sources:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0551018/
Project Babylon: http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Each_Night_I_Dream_of_Home
The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/guide/513.html
Cap-that: http://www.cap-that.com/b5/crusade/113/?page=18
Sadgeezers Cult Sci Fi Portal: http://sadgeezer.com/Crusade-Season-1-07-Each-Night-I-Dream-Home.htm
Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Crusade_(TV_series)#Each_Night_I_Dream_of_Home
This one originally aired last but in JMS’ favored order, it is 7th.
It also has one my favorite quotes:
Gideon to Lochley, when he says he can’t tell her where they are and what they’re doing. She asks what he can tell her and this is his answer: "Never eat anything bigger than your head. Never shoot pool at a place called Pop's. Never eat food at a place called Mom's."
The episode begins with a Warlock Class Destroyer in the middle of nowhere. A shuttle comes aboard containing one of the 12 Senators who were offworld when the Drakh Plague was dropped, Senator Ridley, and someone named David Williams. The Senator tells them they are to proceed directly to certain coordinates and pick up a package. The coordinates are earth. He tell them that they don’t have to worry about the ban on people leaving earth. Everything is worked out and they are operating in secret.
Gideon says okay and off they go.
We see Captain Lochley injured in a Starfury and she sends a distress call.
Chambers comes in and Williams says he needs to talk to her. Matheson tells Gideon that Williams is a plumber.
They pick up Lochley’s distress signal and Gideon says they’ll head her way. Ridley orders them not to stop for anything sooo Gideon basically uses the gravity wells in the bays to catch her as she comes into the landing bay. She’s injured and they patch her up but Gideon says they can’t contact B5 yet.
Williams tells Chambers that he was offworld when the plague struck and he wants to be infected so he can go back home and get married to his girlfriend.
They arrive at Earth and are sent a pod. Though Gideon has misgivings, the senator tells him to bring it aboard, that it’s safe. I contains Dr. Franklin, who has come to observe the movement of the virus as Williams is infected.
Williams sneaks a call to home, to his girlfriend and the Drakh pick it up and send ships to intercept.
Gideon visits Williams to see for himself that this is something the man really wants to do and Williams explains how much he loves his fiancé and that he knows the risks.
Franklin and Sarah are talking and Franklin is bothered by giving the plague to someone when he swore an oath to do no harm. Sarah says she will do it for him but he says no.
Franklin is one chamber, Williams in the other and they’re divided by a room. Franklin will turn on a vent into Williams’ room and he will become infected and they will watch on the monitors. The mechanism malfunctions and Sarah ends up opening the vent.
About that time, the Drakh attack and the isobays go into sanitize mode, which means they will burn Williams in a few seconds but Franklin does heroic stuff and saves the day at the last possible second.
The 6 Drakh ships are kicking their butts until Lochley goes out in a Starfury to lead the fight. They can’t open a gate until they charge up so they get the mothership to do it for them following her out and blowing her up.
Franklin and Chambers talk about it being airborne and all air breathers catching it, also about how it seems to search for something to kill and only attacks vital organs. They also noticed that it spreads like something downloading so they decide that it’s a nanovirus and they fear it has a hive mind and is learning.
Everyone goes home and Gideon decides they should visit Lochley on B5 soon.
*
Questions:
1. Do they really get answers? Didn’t we already figure out it was a nanovirus?
2. Did you find the whole Lochley bit sort of gratuitous? What real function did she serve in the episode?
3. Why would the Drakh even bother to come after them? Were they afraid that Franklin and chambers might come up with something?
4. Have noticed that every time they talk about the plague, it is a different thing, more or less? First, it was one thing that would kill everyone, then it attacks only certain organs, then it hunts viruses to infect people with, then it’s a hive mind… ???
5. With the defense grid up and all the watching they are doing to make sure no one leaves Earth infected, how in the world did they not shoot Franklin’s pod?
*
Sources:
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0551018/
Project Babylon: http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Each_Night_I_Dream_of_Home
The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/guide/513.html
Cap-that: http://www.cap-that.com/b5/crusade/113/?page=18
Sadgeezers Cult Sci Fi Portal: http://sadgeezer.com/Crusade-Season-1-07-Each-Night-I-Dream-Home.htm
Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Crusade_(TV_series)#Each_Night_I_Dream_of_Home
