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- Overview
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- A girl entering puberty exhibits telepathic abilities, and the crew
- must decide whether to turn her over to the Psi Corps. The corpse
- of the Minbari military leader who oversaw the Battle of the Line
- is the focus of a diplomatic incident. [15]John Vickery as Neroon.
- Grace Una as Alisa Beldon.
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- Sub-genre: Intrigue
- [16]P5 Rating: [17]7.87
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- Production number: 115
- Original air date: July 20, 1994
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- Written by D. C. Fontana
- Directed by Bruce Seth Green
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- Backplot
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- * The Grey Council ordered the surrender at the Battle of the Line.
- * Many among the Minbari warrior caste do not approve of the
- surrender, a fact which has caused something of a rift between the
- religious and warrior caste.
- * Caste membership is determined by heritage. Membership in the
- religious caste takes precedence if one parent is in the religious
- caste and the other is a warrior. (This is ambiguous; Delenn's
- statement on the matter could be interpreted to mean that the
- mother's caste takes precedence over the father's.)
- * The Earth-Minbari War began with the death of Dukhat, the head of
- the Grey Council at the time.
- * The war was regarded as a holy war among the Minbari, and had the
- full support of the religious caste at least part of the time.
- * One of the warleaders (heads of the military clans?) committed
- suicide rather than obey the order to surrender.
- * Telepaths are highly regarded among the Minbari, and are fed and
- clothed by people in exchange for providing their services.
- * The Narn keep alien slaves, or at least are reported to do so.
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- Unanswered Questions
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- * What is the significance of the word "chrysalis?" Note that this
- is the title of the first-season finale.
- * How was Delenn able to sense that she was being probed?
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- Analysis
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- * Delenn's identity doesn't seem to be a secret among the warrior
- caste, or at least its upper echelons. The warriors seem to be
- playing along and keeping her secret safe.
- * As JMS mentions below, in the original airing order, this episode
- came after [18]"Babylon Squared." If that is the intended
- chronological order of the two episodes, then Delenn's statement
- to Neroon that she speaks for the entire Grey Council takes on
- different connotations; it is plausible in that case that she is
- lying and hadn't even consulted the Council.
- * Likewise, the device used to stun the guard appears to be a
- triluminary; its presence makes much more sense if this episode is
- after [19]"Babylon Squared." Its exact function is still a
- mystery; did it in fact stun the guard, put him in some sort of
- stasis, or something else?
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- Notes
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- * The only first season script that was developed outside the B5
- offices.
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- jms speaks
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- * Originally, this ep was to be broadcast later in the run, because
- I didn't want two PsiCorps episodes back-to-back, and for one
- little detail that will become clearer after "Babylon Squared"
- airs; it would've been better to have followed that episode, but
- again, these eps are made to be watched in just about any order,
- so it's okay in the long run.
- * Yeah, the audio thing with Talia is something I thought of during
- the final audio mix. We wanted to convey somehow her trying to get
- through and initially it was just distortion. Then I figured, wait
- a second, she is going to be thinking what she's going to say
- before she says it, why not pre-lap the dialogue? Unfortunately,
- for some damned reason, the high-tech studio wasn't set up to do
- that effect, so we took Talia's dialogue, digitized it, laid it in
- on a second side track, and played the one over the other, one
- preceding the other by I think about 20 frames or so. The key was
- to make the *second* voicing the one synched to her lips, not the
- first one. Worked out pretty cool.
- * You will see some of the warrior caste in "Legacies," coming up in
- July. You don't see them much because they only go where they're
- needed.
- * Generally, the religious caste takes precedence over the warrior
- caste.
- * From cradle to grave, the Minbari are taught that there is no
- greater goal, no nobler thing than to serve. They are raised to be
- totally self-sacrificing. The only exception is when someone in
- the religious caste believes he or she has received a calling,
- which if sincerely felt cannot be contravened (since usually this
- too involves serving). So for a Minbari telepath, this is their
- means by which they may serve, and they are given great respect.
- It never even occurs to them to do otherwise.
- Lately, there has been a bit of a change brewing; "a
- self-involvement above the needs of others" (as someone notes in
- "Voice") that has begun creeping into the Minbari race. And
- they're not happy about it.
- * Overall, I'd say that "Legacies" came out better than "War
- Prayer," because Dorothy had more time to get to know the
- characters, and because it was better directed. (As a
- parenthetical, Larry DiTillio has developed some of his own
- scripts as well, specifically "TKO" and "Eyes." "Legacies" is the
- one I'd say was developed "outside the office" in the sense of
- being a freelance effort. Everything else was either an assigned
- premise or done in-house by staff.)
- * Stuff like wearing gloves is only enforced if you're a member of
- Psi Corps; Allysa wasn't. In addition, though she had P10
- *potential*, the talent was sporadic, came and went.
- * Regarding "Legacies," there's one brief blip in there that we're
- going to see again; I'm not sure I'd call it a clue, but certainly
- a cue...a hint of something to come. You won't have to wonder what
- it is; it'll be shown in a flashback in that particular yet-to-air
- episode.
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