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Love B5... have to get all the episodes togther somewhen, take a week off work, invite my brother round and see if we can get from start to finish in on sitting=-)

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I read that they only had ~4 basic plot lines.
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I once tried to create a "scifi plot code website" but it was too hard. The idea was that there are only a few scifi (read: star trek) plot elements which are jumbled around to crate the plots. Thse elements could be represented by a short code, summarising an entire episode in a line or two of text.
For example, that episode in TNG where Troi has her mind taken over by aliens (again):

Aptl - CMp - Rp

which translates as
Alien: powerful, tinkerbell, learning - Crew Member: Posessed - Resolution: pyschobabble

Or, "All powerful, Tinkerbell- like (ie little balls of light) aliens who wish to learn about the Enterprise take control of a Crew member. Everyone sits down and talks about it and it's all OK"

That one where Lore had an army of Borg and then took control of Data, on the other hand, might be

Ede - CMp - Rr

Enemy: duplicate, evil - Crew Member: posession - Resolution: revolt

Or, "An evil duplicate of a crew member takes control of a crew member. The problem is resolved when the Enterprise crew inspire popular revolt in the enemy's oppressed underclass."


It was all too complicatd in the end, but you get the idea. Trouble was, there was an exception to every rule.


(BTW I know those plot lines might not be accurate, it's a while since I watched it.)

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