HEM!  errr, HEH!  AWrrr, HAH!

That tracks.  They throw out Nightwatch, they throw out the TSA by default.  Man, that secession really worked out!

My dear Chancellor, I think you mean:

"Now I come home one particular evenin', I had to tell the landlady I done lost my job."

Perhaps they were French?

You're at the wrong job, Reason.

(Incidentally, love the "Shadow" reference.)

But, my mom lives alone…   Hey, wait a minute…

I also have been having something of a hiatus from the internets, but I've been trying to catch up in fits and spurts, and now I'm sad I won't have the opportunity for a little bit yet!

This and Star Trek.  Deep space operas with character ensembles, attracting a vociferious audience?  You don't say!

If you're pondering what I'm pondering, David, I thought those actions occurred AFTER she was slighted and ignored.  I always took it more as a reaction to the dis, not a cause of the dis.

Well, I think originally, when Telepaths first became known and organized, they really did form the Corps to for protection and usefulness, because the mass of normals really was a panicky, suspicious, and dangerous beast.  But of course, that was decades, if not a century or more ago, and the "danger and subjugation"…

Well, it was a building block.  B5 and the Trek series of the time provide the basis and foundation for just about everything that comes after.  It's like Westerns: you can watch High Noon now, and it seems cliche'd, because when it was new, all those tricks were new, and people have since run them into the ground…

Empathetic G'Kar, global-thinking G'Kar, ends up being the best G'Kar.

Yes it does mean they're sociopaths.

He may be a nice guy, but his dad is still his dad, and the Castithans really are nuts about family, so… toss up.

White/blackface!  [goes for the kill]

Oh, he took a few swings, yes, but his last time at bat he hit a homer.

Go was very popular on Andromeda, too, for, like, a couple of episodes.  But better than chess.

The Berserker reference is probably to the Fred Saberhagen novels, where ancient machine intelligences, leftover doomsday weapons that got out of control, travel around seeking out and destroying intelligent life.  It's just that this one had a qualification exam.