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

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 before

-June Lockhart played Dr. Maureen Robinson in the original Lost in Space (1965-8) & Dr. Rosen in this episode; sadly, there’s no reunion with Bill Mumy

-The best popular book on M4A is Tim Faust Health Justice Now: Single Payer & What Comes Next (2019)

-Bob references Sigmund Freud's very short essay “Medusa’s Head” (1922). The best & funnest popular introduction to psychoanalysis is Slavoj Žižek Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture (1991)

-Bob & Matt compare the many episodes, comics, & novels set in the Mirror Universe

-Bob again waxes nostalgic about Diane Duane Star Trek novels

-Bob praises the Star Trek comics crossovers w/ Planet of the Apes (2015) & Legion of Super-Heroes (2012) & condemns the Dr. Who crossover (2012)

-Matt references an Odo retcon in the David Mack Section 31 novel Disavowed (2014)

-Great if controversial movies involving slavery include Burn! (1969), Mandingo (1975), Drum (1976), Django Unchained (2012), 12 Yrs a Slave (2013), Aferim! (2015), & Free State of Jones (2016)