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Crusade

The Path of Sorrows

Season 1, Episode 4, Aired Jun 30, 1999

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The crew finds a mysterious creature trapped inside a globe which causes them to relive past memories.

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Mark Blankfield

Jenson
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Gary Graham

Bruder
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Sophie Ward

Isabelle

Daniel Dae Kim

Lt. John Matheson
Marjean Holden

Dr. Sarah Chambers
Gary Cole

Matthew Gideon
David Allen Brooks

Max Eilerson
Peter Woodward

Galen
Carrie Dobro

Dureena Nafeel

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Three of the main cast go to see a telepathic alien in the med bay But is it as it seems

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By dregj, Apr 20, 2007

On a un named alien world
gideon and co are fustrated at thier inability to open a door
Since gideon's "source" tells him this is a place of healing he is more than eager to get in.

Max and dureena both come up empty
until galen uses a cruel and unconventional way to open the vault.
Inside they find a transparent sphere with a mouthless alien inside.
They ship it back to excalibur
and leave it to the med staff to figure out.

But during the night
gideon goes to the sphere unable to sleep
telepathically it talks to him about his pain
then takes him back to the moment his life changed
As a junior officer aboard the EAS Cerberus
gideon was ordered to go EVA to asses the damage from an unidentified ship that attacked them.
While outside the Cerberus accelerates to jump away from the returning vessel.
One explosion later and gideon is alone in a space suit with no hope of rescue.
With his air low he is eventually picked up by a technomage
With a habit of interfering in other peoples affairs.

Matheson aslo comes to the sphere and it is revealed that during the final phase of the telepath war he helped a captured enemy leader send a message to the resistance
the result killed thousands of his fellow corp members

Galen recounts his pain also the day his lover died.
He is so insenced by the creature for pulling the thoughts to the front of his mind that he threatens to destroy the thing until gideon stops him.

A good episode
gideon and mathesons stories are good
they both concern various forms of guilt
They are both given more depth and expand on there emotional range.
We get to see the traumas that make them who they are today
and its fascinating.
Unfortunalty galen's was the weak link here
The dialogue and guest actress where both a bit ropey as was the message at the end

if you can ignore the galen bit its a fine addition
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The main crew of the Excaliber are an eclectic bunch of vastly different personalities. In the "The Path of Sorrows" the viewer get a brief glimpse into the souls of the "Crusade" crew.moreless

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By jrgreenmd, Jul 15, 2005

We learn of Galen's love and loss. Allusions to his past with the Captain are posed.

Captain Gideon's dark secret is revealed. His pain may be the source of many of his future decisions. The chess board in the episode may be a symbol of his situation. This episode also coined the famed title phrase, "Who do you serve and who do you trust?"

Fiona Avery's writing creatively makes the alien the center of the story without him being the center of attention. The spotlight is clearly on the crew.

The story line of "The Path of Sorrows" is a great vehicle to examine the crew.moreless
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- Isabelle [dying]: You must learn, one day, to forgive God for his decisions. I'm sure it will greatly relieve him.
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- Galen: Waste not, want not.
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- Galen: I think this is where I get off, metaphorically, metaphysically, and literally. But do go on riding! Go around enough times and with any luck, you might come to the same conclusions that I have.
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- Matheson [to Galen who's been traveling the transport tube for hours]: You like going nowhere at one hundred and twenty miles an hour? Galen: Of course. That is man's natural condition.
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- Gideon: It's easier not to want forgiveness, or to expect it. We just keep trying to fix the mistake so we don't have to ask. But you end up trying so hard to atone for one set of mistakes, you overcompensate and make new ones, and then you can never break out of the cycle. You just keep going round and round, no way out, nowhere to go.
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- Galen: You want me to forgive God? You want me to forgive the universe for taking the only thing in this world that mattered to me. There is nothing beyond. Only the tricks we play to persuade ourselves otherwise. If I believed differently, even for a moment then she died because someone, somewhere decided that she deserved to die, and she did not. She did not! But you do! You... [He summons a fireball] Gideon: Galen! You're not a murderer, Galen. Don't do it. Don't!
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- The telepath in Matheson's flashback was supposed to be Lyta Alexander from Babylon 5, but the scene was rewritten for a new actress when Patricia Tallman turned down the part.
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