A group of refugees from Earth may be spreading the Drakh plague offworld.
Production number: 110
Original air date: July 7, 1999
DVD release date: December 7, 2004
Written by Fiona Avery
Directed by Tony Dow
- @@@931456768 Dureena's people didn't develop spaceflight on their own;
they were taken offworld to act as workers for another race.
- @@@931456768 Dureena is not the last of her race alive. A transport carrying
workers for a new colony was attacked by the Shadows, and 100 of
the workers managed to escape in lifepods. They formed a small
colony on an otherwise uninhabited world, Theta 9.
- @@@931456768 Dureena's race is more susceptible to the plague than
humans are; their genetic makeup is apparently closer to the template
the plague uses as a starting point.
- @@@931456768 Gideon has access to top-secret materials thanks to a card
game he played against a drunk Earth official some years earlier;
the official put up his access codes as collateral and lost.
- @@@931456768 Are there other instances of the plague being
exported intentionally from Earth?
- @@@931456768 How did Max know about the Pro Zeta corporation?
- @@@931456768 Was the cybernetic implant program related to the one
involving Abel Horn
("A Spider in the Web")?
The specifics were different, but may have been part of the same
larger operation.
- @@@931456768 Given the huge risk involved if even a single person
outside the Earth quarantine is infected and able to travel freely,
Gideon has a strong motivation to report this incident to someone,
even at the risk of the General Thompson finding out about it. Will
Gideon do so? Since the plague can easily jump species, he could
legitimately take the approach of reporting it directly to the
Interstellar Alliance rather than going through his normal chain
of command.
- @@@931456768 This episode has the first reference in the series to
the Interstellar Alliance, though an oblique one: General Thompson
claimed that his authority to redirect the Excalibur came directly
from President Sheridan. Which implies that the Excalibur isn't
entirely under Earthforce control; given the Alliance's founding
principle of autonomy for member races, Sheridan presumably doesn't
have the power to directly meddle in Earth's internal military affairs.
- @@@933044642 Dureena's race hasn't had good luck with the Shadows
and their cohorts; they destroyed the worker transport, then wiped
her planet out. Just a coincidence, or did Dureena's people pose some
kind of threat to the Shadows?
- @@@931456768 Theta 9 is Canada. The views from orbit are images of
Earth landmasses: the Great Lakes, Hudson Bay, the St. Lawrence
Seaway, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland can be seen.
- @@@933017794 Chambers could be seen on the shuttle in the
footage Gideon showed General Thompson. Won't people wonder why she's
still alive?
It's only ever going to be seen by the general, and bear in mind
that in that shot Chambers was WAY in the background, it was only seen
for a moment on the monitor, with the General more concerned about
what's happening in FG, and in any event he would have to instantly
recognize her by sight, and he didn't know her.