![]() A lot of the credit goes to Jane Carr, who plays one of Mollari’s three wives, the acerbic but fundamentally decent Timov. At most it tells us a little more about Mollari (as always ably played by Peter Jurassik) and thanks to his co-stars the whole thing works nicely and never gets dulls, even after repeated viewing. The Mollari plot for sure was probably meant to be whimsical B-plot filler. ![]() But viewing the episode in this way may be misleading, and understanding its flaws as well as its strengths tells us a lot about the series as a whole. Understood this way, this episode is simply a fair-to-middling non-arc episode with two storylines that don’t seem to go anywhere beyond this one hour slice of Babylon 5: the arrival of a former telepath on the space station, and the relationship between Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari and his three disagreeable wives. ‘Darmok’ for example is a classic piece of Star Trek, despite introducing an entirely new alien species that we’ll never see again.Īt first viewing, ‘Soul Mates’ comes across precisely and absolutely as this sort of free-standing episode because neither of its two storylines leads to anything else in the series. Such ‘arc-lite’ episodes are the sort of thing Star Trek: The Next Generation had done for years, often to great effect. During the first two seasons especially, a lot of episodes were traditional free-standing stories that casual viewers could enjoy even if they hadn’t seen the series before. ![]() Nonetheless, not all Babylon 5 episodes were written as arc-heavy pieces of the overall epic Straczynski was trying to tell.
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