Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space Nine- "Soul Hunter" vs. "Q-Less"
Uncanny Treks · Bob and Matt
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Show Notes
B5 S1 E2 Soul Hunter (2 Feb 94) v DS9 S1 E7 Q-Less (8 Feb 93)
-Bob misidentifies the year for “Soul Hunter”; it’s actually 94
-Sf writer Isaac Asimov is most famous for his Robot (1950-6) & Foundation (1951-3) trilogies
-Bob continues his streak of being one year off on airdates, Bladerunner is actually 82 (it came out on the same day as John Carpenter’s The Thing, remarkably)
-Q appears in 10 episodes across almost every season of Next Generation, Vash appears in the Next Gen episodes “Captain’s Holiday” (1990) & “Qpid” (1991)
-Two of the best studies that explore the triangulating dynamics of desire are René Girard Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure (1961) & Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Between Men: English Literature & Male Homosocial Desire (1985)
-Harry Mudd has appeared in 2 original Trek episodes, 1 animated Trek episode, 2 Discovery episodes, & 1 Short Trek
-The new space opera novel that has shaped Bob’s understanding of the Trill as an integrated consciousness is Arkady Martine Memory Called Empire (2019)
-Prof. Moriarty tries to murder by exsanguination in Sherlock Holmes & the Secret Weapon (1943)
-Twin Peaks S3: The Return (2017) is the best thing to air on tv since the moon landing
-The best cocoons in pop culture are spun by the kaiju Mothra
-N’Grath does seem to only appear in B5 S1. His ancestor Zorak debuted in 1966 & returned for Space Ghost: Coast to Coast in 1994