"The Coming of Shadows" discussion

[ruuger]

This is the discussion post for the episode 2X09, "The Coming of Shadows". Spoilers for the whole of the series, including the spin-offs and tie-ins, are allowed here so newbies beware.

Summary:
The Centauri emperor visits Babylon 5.

Extra reading:
The article for "The Coming of Shadows" at Lurker's Guide.

Comments

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

I like a very early line in James White's Sector General series, in which a Terran character is told, to avoid confusion, never to refer to himself as "human" when talking to aliens, as in a universe where everyone has magic hi-tech translation "human" is always translated to the word that means "us" in each culture's language. Which some people may interpret as a position that is "colourblind" in the bad denying-difference-to-avoid-noticing-discrimination way, but I quite like.