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<!-- TITLE Each Night I Dream of Home -->
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<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
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<blockquote><cite>
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The Excalibur is sent on a top-secret mission and faces an attack by the
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Drakh.
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</cite>
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</blockquote>
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<pre>
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Production number: 105
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Original air date: September 1, 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 Stephen Furst
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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>@@@936558483 12 members of the Senate were offworld when the Drakh
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attacked Earth. They now act as Earth's official representatives.
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<li>@@@936558483 The plague isn't a virus, but rather a nanotechnological
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device. It appears to be able to coordinate its actions across
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wide distances, and may even have a sort of hive-mind consciousness.
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<li>@@@936558483 The plague has already started killing people on
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Earth. It is constantly reshaping itself, and sometimes happens to
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find a lethal, but not genocidal, configuration. The five-year
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time limit is based on the rate of deaths so far; even if it never
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discovers a single 100% deadly configuration, after that long its
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experiments will have wiped everyone out.
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="UQ">Unanswered Questions</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<li>@@@936558483 Aside from the fact that both are nanotech-based,
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is there any connection between the technomage virus
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(<a href="510.html">"The Memory of War"</a>)
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and the Drakh plague?
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</ul>
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<h2><a name="AN">Analysis</a></h2>
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<ul>
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<p>
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<li>@@@936558483 The plague may have some goal other than killing off all
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life on Earth as quickly as possible. Its level of sophistication --
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being able to differentiate between vital and non-vital organs in
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the human body and navigate the bloodstream as it sees fit -- suggests
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that it has already figured out quite a lot about human biology.
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Something as simple as introducing large amounts of chemical waste into
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its host cells would be sufficient to kill any Earthly organism.
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<p>
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One possibility is that it's acting as a research mechanism, designed
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with the intent of fully exploring the host ecosystem's biology and
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reporting its findings back to the Shadows.
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<p>
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<li>@@@936558483 If the plague is intelligent, can it communicate with
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other lifeforms? If so, it might be possible to convince it to stop
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its experiments, eliminating the threat without physically removing
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the plague itself.
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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>@@@936558483 Continuity glitch: Gideon and Lochley appeared to have
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no more than a friendly familiarity with one another in this episode,
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inconsistent with their earlier contact in
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<a href="507.html">"The Rules of the Game"</a>
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(which was produced after this episode but aired earlier.)
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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>@@@936558483 <em>Was Gideon's "Life goes on" line added after you
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knew this would be the last episode, or was it just a
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coincidence?</em><br>
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Another Babylonian synchronicity.
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</ul>
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