I tried watching B5 once. The cheesy CGI annoyed me and I turned it off after about five minutes.
Cheesy CGI?! Them’s fightin’ words!
It was so obviously fake. It was like watching an old TNG episode; “Conspiracy” or something.
Well at least, unlike the old TNG episode “Conspiracy,” you never saw anyone on Babylon 5 dodge a phaser beam while it was in the air coming at them! (Light speed in the Trek universe must be really slow to be able to accomplish that feat!)
I wouldn’t know. The cheesy CGI made me change the channel. 
Of course, a starship going to warp turning into a giant rubber band isn’t cheesy at all…
Nope. Not at all.
Hmphf, those Babyers just didn’t have phaser cutting phasers, otherwise dodging is easy!
I started to watch B5 again and was turned off by the CGI ships landing like Buck Rogers, the beard, the bald and earlier Garibaldi being alcoholic. I wish I could have hung in there, though.
Who dodges a phaser beam when?
I only saw bits of Babylon 5 as well, and I have to agree about the cheesy CGI. The exterior shots looked like a Starcraft cut scene or a digitalblasphemy.com print. But I wouldn’t hold that against them - lots of good shows have had bad special effects.
Doctor Who !!!
Gilligan’s Island!
What? Oh. Wrong genre, my bad.
I feel compelled to perform a public service, here, since tracer was all tricksy and clever and humorous and stuff in responding to Munch’s spoiler request.
So here’s the actual, honest to goodness ending (as Trip is my witness):
What tracer said, right up until the panda. No panda. Cogenitor killed itself.
In the first season ST:TNG episode “Conspiracy,” the evil cockroach-posessed admiral gets in a firefight with Picard and Riker at Starfleet Headquarters. He is shown pointing his dustbuster-like phaser at them and pressing the activator switch. A yellow-orange phaser beam lances out at our heroes. Picard and/or Riker then commence to dodge out of the way.
This would make phaser beams slower than the bullets fired by low-powered modern handguns.
Dammit, another good ep I lost in the fire.
Thanks Kn*ckers.
Confidential to tracer: I hate you with the fire of a 1,000 burning supernovas.
I figured out why they don’t let them read.
If the Congenitors could read, they’d form a union.
Since they are necessary for reproduction, they would soon be the ruling class. They would send out squads at births (hey, they know when everyone became pregnant!) to collect their young.
Another point; what would a couple’s feelings about giving birth to a cogenitor be?
Hey, that’s a really good question, carni. Would they be thrilled to have created this being that is so special, and can act as the only means of continuing their species? Or would they be disappointed, because they could never live vicariously through their kid (as so many people do); teaching it music and figure skating, and dreaming up a grand future for it? After all, a baby Cogenitor’s future is pretty much figured to be set in stone, and maybe that’s a bad thing to parents.
Also, what’s a cogenitor’s childhood like? Does its parents get to raise it, and if so, do they treat it as an object, just as its future mating couple will? Does anyone LOVE a cogenitor?
Man, that was a lot of questions. It just got me thinkin’ is all. And for me, it seems like thinking only results in a lot of questions, never any answers.
A serious comment…
OK, who are you and what have you done with kn()ckers?
And another question…If you enjoy the Congenitor part of ‘doing it’ are you a pervert? Is there a special porno variety that involves cogenitors? Are there really really sick individuals that ‘do it’ with only a congenitor?
Since this is the spoiler thread,here is some updoming Enterprise spoilers.
and the rumor is they will change the opening visual sequence. Unknown if they will drop the song (probably will in favor of Sisqo so they can milk the DS9 hominym )