MASH did some amazing bottle episodes. I remember watching the series back when Netflix mailed disks and really enjoying it. It held up really well.

At this point it would have to be animated.

I wonder if Serenity is still canon.

I am going to be so honest, there is no way I think Babylon 5 could be remade or added to. It had some bumps in production, but the actors were irreplaceable. I cannot imagine anyone other than Andreas Katsulas as G'kar. There can be no other Ambassador DeLenn except Mira Furlan.

It's one of those cases where even the flaws it had were so perfect and so human that altering it would nearly be sacrilege. I hope to any gods that still give a fuck that the corporations forget B5 ever happened so it can rest in peace. Because you know that if they try to do any corporate necromancy on it, it'll be a shambling horror that's nothing like the original.

It’s ripe for all sorts of ongoing gags: red shirt death toll, or a red shirt that gets horribly maimed but comes back from sick bay every episode South Park style. Plenty of room for plot twists and narrative shifts because neither the MacGuffin nor the true nature of the setting are revealed at the beginning.

Open planet-side. The away team beams in and starts taking readings and such.

Away 1: So, how many tentacles do you think the transporter chief actually has?

Away 2: At least 30, but that depends where in the branching you start counting.

Away 3: 30‽ More like 2,030!

Away 2: Oh I don’t count the little ones. I think of them as tiny fingers.

Away 1: Or octopus suckers.

Away 4: I think they are more like…tongues?

Away 1: Wait! So every time they shook my hand…

Away 4: Uh huh.

Away 1: Honestly, I’m not sure if I’m disgusted or aroused…

Away 3: dis-groused?

Away 4: I always thought they were 1 multi pronged tentacle, like… a hand… or, or, a starfish!

Away 1: A starfish? do you think if they were cut in half they’d become twins?

Disembodied voice: Away One, your communicator is still on.

Away 1: Ugggh! Not again! If I get another reprim…

Blaster fire hits a nearby red shirt and plot ensues

I know I could look it up, but I want to hear a story. iirc Babylon 4 was the one that just disappeared?

Fucking hell now you're asking, it's been fifteen years or more since I watched it and I was late to the party then!!

I'm not holding my breath either. I'll be pleasantly surprised if it does turn out to actually be good. But otherwise... We shall see.

Infinit sexual diversity in a finit man

Two seasons and a movie!