Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space Nine- "Soul Hunter" vs. "Q-Less"

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 H ...