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<!-- TITLE The Needs of Earth -->
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<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
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<blockquote><cite>
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An alien refugee may hold useful secrets about the Drakh plague, but isn't
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willing to give up its information easily.
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</cite>
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</blockquote>
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<pre>
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Production number: 101
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Original air date: August 18, 1999
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00061QJSK/thelurkersguidet">DVD release date</a>: December 7, 2004
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Written by J. Michael Straczynski
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Directed by Mike Vejar
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</pre>
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<p>
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<hr size=3>
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<h2><a name="BP">Plot Points</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>@@@935657127 Dureena was sold into slavery by her parents when she was
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young. At one point, she was taken to Praxis 9, a seedy colony
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outside of Alliance jurisdiction; she may have been auctioned
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off there.
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<li>@@@935657127 The Rangers divide their time between enforcing the laws
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of the Alliance and searching for information that might help Earth
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fight the plague.
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<li>@@@935657127 The government of Marata 7, a world outside the Alliance,
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has destroyed all its people's art and music and literature, on the
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grounds that it's ideologically incompatible with the goals of
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the state. One copy of the planetary archives was smuggled offworld
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by a Maratan named Natchok Var; a copy of his copy is now in the
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hands of the Excalibur crew.
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="UQ">Unanswered Questions</a></h2>
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<h2><a name="AN">Analysis</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>@@@935657127 Gideon told Dureena that slavery was legal on Praxis 9.
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But some of the slaves were Drazi, and were thus presumably Alliance
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citizens; what, if anything, does the Alliance do when its people are
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held by nonmembers? Perhaps slavery is legal among the Drazi as well,
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and the Alliance is simply practicing its policy of nonintervention
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by allowing the situation to persist.
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="NO">Notes</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>@@@935657127 Max likes to watch pornography involving aliens,
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including titles such as "Snow White and the 7 Narns" and
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"Who's My Little Pak'ma'ra."
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<li>@@@935657127 Gideon's quip about Mozart is originally from
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Tom Lehrer's spoken introduction to the song "Alma,"
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which is in his "That Was The Year That Was" album. In
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Lehrer's case, however, Mozart had only been dead for
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two years.
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="JS">jms speaks</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>@@@936120741 <em>The show was rated as having sexual content and
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adult language. Why?</em><br>
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No, this is actually pretty stupid...there's one shot where they think a
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nipple is visible (it isn't, we were very careful in editing) and
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another where they think a Eilerson says "goddamnit," but he doesn't.
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<li>@@@935657127 <em>About governments suppressing art</em><br>
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I think you also need only read the ongoing battle over the
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National Endowment of the Arts to realize that the battle is still an
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ongoing one.
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</ul>
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