Racing the Night

Season 1, Episode 9, Aired

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The crew investigates a planet that was devastated by an earlier Drakh plague.
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    Gideon and co investigate a world
    they think may nhave been hit by disease
    all its building are intact
    with no sign of war or dessertion.
    Unfortunately on of thier dissappears
    and they detect large amounts of movement
    on the surface.
    An armarda of automated probes
    begin attacking the earthers.
    They hastily retreat from the planet
    but the probes pursue
    and the space battle begins.
    The planet unleashes a gravity weapon slowly pulling the ship downard.
    During the fight the excalibur
    has its data base scanned by the planet and a hologram appears on the bridge.He is a representative of the race
    that used to live on the planet(now all in cryogenic suspension).He tells them they were attacked by the virus but never found a cure.
    They didnt have a fleet to look for a cure as the humans are doing So they ran test on anything that visited thier world
    .One prson runs the tests and the machines,but dies of the plagues a few years later.Another custodian is then woken to countinue on.
    Gideon is appauled and calls them an example of what they should never do.
    The custodian offers them all thier data on the plague if they only leave and tell other races to visit the planet
    .Gideon refuses and destroys the probes.

    Max says it best would you sacrifice a few 100 narns to save earth,if a few 100 why not a thousand or more.
    The moral is of course ,how far can they go to stay alive?
    what terrible acts would they commit for the greater good.
    The custodian predicts they will not be as proud in a few years

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    • Gideon: Don't think! Galen: Yes, quite right. If you wanted to think, you shouldn't have joined the military in the first place!

    • Galen's Hologram: [trying to catch the attention of the aliens] Oh my, whatever should I do? They have all left without me. I knew I would forget where we parked that shuttle. I hope something DREADFUL doesn't happen to me. Oh look, something dreadful!

    • Galen: I want you to know Matthew, I heard that bit about my only showing up when most needed and least wanted! Good thing for you, that I don't hold a grudge. Gideon: Yes you do. Galen: Never contradict a technomage, when he's saving your life again!

    • Gideon: He's a technomage. They like that. He appears when you want him least and need him most...

    • Galen: In the fullness of time.

    • Chambers: So far, so good. Gideon: Then I expect trouble at any minute. Chambers: You're a pessimist, Captain. Gideon: I'm a realist.

    • Galen: When you have reached the end of the road, then you can decide, whether to go to the left or to the right, to fire or water. If you make those decisions before you have even set foot upon the road, it will take you no where... except to a bad end.

    • Gideon: I thought I told you to stay below decks?! Galen: Oh yes, it will be so much safer below decks if the ship burns up in the atmosphere... If I'm going to die, I'd rather do so in a room with a view!

    • Galen: There is always hope. Only because that is the one thing that no one has figured out how to kill yet.

    • Gideon: I thought you said you don't hold a grudge. Galen: I don't. I have no surviving enemies... at all.

    • Dureena: Then there's hope? Galen: There's always hope... only because it's the one thing no one's figured out how to kill yet.

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