Babylon 5 vs. Deep Space Nine-"Quality of Mercy" vs. "Crossover"

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Quality of Mercy S1E19 (17 Aug 94) vs. Crossover S2E23 (15 May 94)

-Matt maybe coins a phrase for a common sf trope: hardluck telepathy, examples from the X-Men include: Jean Grey, Emma Frost, Betsy Braddock, Kwannon, David Haller, Xi’an Coy Manh, Dani Moonstar, Quentin Quire, David Alleyne, & Stepford Cuckoos

-Matt educates Bob on ‘Cult of Personality’

-All the talk of spacing puts Bob in mind of the famous hard sf tale ’Cold Equations’, although it’s arguably a bit ridiculous & pretty sexist

-Magneto gets mindwiped in the climax of Fatal Attractions (1993)

-Bob was foolishly misremembering the concept of Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton as being introduced in Weapon X (1991), but it was much earlier in Proteus Saga (1979), although Wolverine’s unbreakable bones were alluded to befo ...