jack wrote:
>
> Some fifteen years later am going through the series again, now on DVD.
> Still such a great series.

It's amazing how well it takes watching multiple times.

> One question on the Z episode.  Did Shadows prefer telepaths to run
> their vessels, they were better at it than "normals"? Anna was never
> written as a telepath but she was written to have been hooked up to
> drive a Shadow ship. Did the Shadows use non-telepaths in other ways
> in their vessels or is there an error in the writing?

Use of telepaths in ships is used extensively in season 4.  She might
have gotten special additions that allowed her to run a ship but I think
it more likely it was an error in continuity.

> What probably as as a sequence did trouble me for its brevity was how
> quickly Ivanova was able to bait the "Zog" First Ones into helping
> them.

At that point in the series I went "Huh?  That was too easy".  Then
later when we met Lorien I went "so that's what that was about".
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