B5 is terrific, but one of the things that makes it so interesting is also the thing that makes season 1 so bad.

"a bunch of convicts trapped by an alien civilization"?
THETANS!

They must have skipped episodes.
The "Previously on…" montage included content we'd not seen before, but was relevant to this episode (like the resurrection of Victoria).

Best Polka Album? It has to be Walter Ostanek. It's always Walter Ostanek.

Trying to mimic The Ultimate Fighter, perhaps?
The UFC has openly copied WWE's business model, and one of their more successful ventures has been The Ultimate Fighter reality show (now in its 13th season). And while, to some degree, TUF is designed to create fighters that the audience will remember and want to see on…

Star Trek's future has always been Marxist.
With effectively infinite resources, there's no scarcity, so people get to do what they want to do.

If Timothy were autistic
then mimicking Data would make more sense. I can see an autistic kid really identifying with Data's emotionless exterior.

The best version of "You Keep Me Hanging On"
is clearly the slow heavy rock version done by Vanilla Fudge.

You prefer Lucy Lawless in this compared to Xena.
But what about compared to Spartacus?

I remember New Ground, but only the energy wave part. I'd competely forgotten about Alexander.

Yes, the teacher-student relationship plot is so daring
Especially since a fluff show like Dawson's Creek already did it 13 years ago.

I was hoping House was committing suicide.
I would have been a brilliant way to end the series. No real set-up, leave all those other sub-plots unresolved, and just have House jump off a building to his death.

Since it is logical to assume you will kill me in any event
I choose not to cooperate.

This episode irritated me - here's why:
When Erica and her team were sabotaging the Blue Energy reactor, they have literally no reason to trust Ryan. Hobbes is entirely correct about this.

Short Title
There was a short title just a couple of episodes ago.

Similarly, I liked Dr. Crusher's advances toward her son. They were desperate. The were creepy. They wouldn't have been out of place on Intervention.

I liked the sequences with Troi on the bridge in Disaster.
And I liked them for exactly the same reason you didn't. There was a consistent tragedy there. Troi was thrust into a situation she couldn't handle, and she DIDN'T HANDLE IT. You're right, she was drowning. And I thought that made for greate television.

I'm sorry, were you even trying to pay attention?
The vomiting wasn't the infected Live Aboards. In fact, we only ever saw one of those, and all he did was collapse in a bit of a sweat.

This show needs Enver Gjokai
He would be a perfect supervillain.

One complaint
That we, the viewers, know about some plot point doesn't eliminate the need for the relevant characters to learn it, too. Something that shows often do is have that learning take place off-screen, and I hate that.