Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
alexcat: (Babylon5)
[personal profile] alexcat
Rewatch for Season 3, Episode 6 – Dust to Dust

Here are the recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal

And a long analysis at The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5

My favorite character is in this one: Bester (NOT).
06_Bester

This one is about the drug called Dust, which tends to make non telepathic persons temporarily telepathic, which is apparently addictive. It’s on the station and Bester shows up to find the person selling it.

Sheridan and his cohorts know they cannot allow Bester to scan them or he will know what they are up to. Ivanova wants to kill Bester, which I am all for, but Sheridan decides to use Minbari telepaths and insist that Bester take sleepers.

G’kar is buying dust because he means to look into Londo Mollari’s mind. He does and sees a lot but Kosh jumps in to stop him from seeing all of the truth. He does beat the crap out of Londo and ends up in the station jail for 60 days.
06_KoshNarn


There is a lot going on in this one – and nothing!

*

1. Did Bester seem creepier than usual?
2. Do you think Psi Corps really dissected Talia?
3. Did you suspect how bad the Vorlons were at this time? I didn’t.
4. Did Bester already have Garibaldi singled out for what was to come?
5. I liked Ivanova’s solution – did you?
[identity profile] alexcat.livejournal.com
Post them if you have them! Got links? They work too!

Bester
06_Bester

Narn Angel Kosh
06_KoshNarn
[identity profile] alexcat.livejournal.com
Recap and discussion of 3 x 6 – Dust to Dust

The episode opens with an officer harassing a shopkeeper because he had a rude sign with Clack’s face x-ed out. The EA officer tells Sheridan it’s sedition and Sheridan disagrees but this shows us what is going on all over.

Garibaldi tells Ivanova Bester asked to come onboard. Bester says he’s there in pursuit of someone dangerous. Garibaldi says they won’t fall for that just as we see a man going mad somewhere on the station.

Sheridan calls them to a meeting and says they cannot afford to be scanned by Bester. Delenn has a plan.

Vir arrives back from Minbar. Londo is glad to see him.

Franklin and his staff see several dust related cases. In Medlab.

Ivanova is ready to shoot Bester when Sheridan stops her and assures her that Delenn’s plan will work.

Bester comes aboard and is met by Sheridan with a group of Minbari telepaths. They tell him that he must take sleepers before he is allowed to go about on the ship. He agrees.

Delenn is attempting t mediate between the Drazi and the Centauri but the Centauri want 7 worlds as a buffer zone and the Drazi will not agree to it. Londo tells them they will agree or they will be destroyed like the Narn homeworld.

Bester, it turns out, is after dust makers. He says the dust is deadly to telepaths. He says invading someone’s mind is addictive. Franklin agrees that they’ve been seeing more victims on the station.

We see G’kar buying dust from a drug dealer. G’kar tells him they plan on using it as a weapon. He tells him that all Narn telepaths were exterminated though he does not say by whom.

Bester babbles about protecting the earth. He says there are dangers they don’t even know about.

G’kar has taken the drug and is hallucinating and he can hear people’s thoughts as he makes his way down the corridor.

Garibaldi and Bester question one of the station crime bosses and he finally says he knows of the dust dealers and gives them enough info to find them. They do and get the dust from him.

Londo is reading Vir’s report from Minbar when G’kar shows up and beats both him and Vir. Then G’kar gets inside Londo’s head. He sees when Londo was sent to B5 because no one else wanted the job. He sees the shadows too though it’s not sure what they are. He sees the future as well when Kosh stops it.

G’kar seems to speak with his father, perhaps Kosh as a Narn and G’Lan. They tell him what he must do – that he must help his people.


Londo goes to Medlab and G’kar gets at least 6 months in jail.

Vir is heading back to Minbari and Bester meets up with another PsiCop and they reveal that they made dust to try to make telepaths out of humans.

*

Quotes:

G’Quon(?): We are fighting to save one another. And some of us must be sacrificed, if all are to be saved.

"(Laughing) Who would believe it? The great and powerful Londo Mollari got his job because no one was stupid enough to take it!" ~ G’kar

*

Questions:

1. Was the image that G’kar seemed to think was G’quon really Kosh?
2. Do you think Londo sent Vir to Minbar to protect him or to get him out of the way? Or both?
3. Do you think Kosh stopped what G’kar was seeing before he saw more than Kosh wanted him to?
4. If they knew the dust didn’t work on Telepaths, then what was Psi Corp ding with it?
5. Does Bester ever tell the truth?

*

Sources:

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0517646/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu
The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/master/guide/050.html
The Babylon Project: http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Dust_to_Dust
Wikia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_to_Dust_(Babylon_5)
ruuger: Londo from Babylon 5 and the text: "And now for something completely different - a Centauri with seven tentacles" (And now for something completely differe)
[personal profile] ruuger
Here you can post your fanworks about "Dust to Dust" - icons, fanart, fanfic, vids - or recommend fanworks made by others. You can also suggest fic-prompts.

(Remember to read the posting rules in the community profile!)

No spoilers are allowed in the the comments here (including in any possible fic prompts), but they are allowed in linked material (for example, you can link to a fic that's set during "Dust to Dust", but contains references to later storylines) as long as they're clearly marked.
ruuger: Londo from Babylon 5 and the text: "And now for something completely different - a Centauri with seven tentacles" (And now for something completely differe)
[personal profile] ruuger
This is the discussion post for the episode 3X06, "Dust to Dust". Spoilers for the whole of the series, including the spin-offs and tie-ins, are allowed here so newbies beware.

Summary:
Bester returns to B5 on the tails of a group smuggling a dangerous telepathy inducing drug.

Extra reading:
The article for "Dust to Dust" at Lurker's Guide.

Profile

b5_revisited: (Default)
A Babylon 5 Rewatch Community

March 2022

S M T W T F S
   12345
6 789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  

Most Popular Tags

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Style Credit

Page generated Jun. 11th, 2025 07:25 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios