Some fifteen years later am going through the series again, now on DVD.  Still
such a great series.   One question on the Z episode.  Did Shadows prefer
telepaths to run their vessels, they were better at it than "normals"?  Anna
was never written as a telepath but she was written to have been hooked up to
drive a Shadow ship.  Did the Shadows use non-telepaths in other ways in their
vessels or is there an error in the writing?   Btw, listening to the
commentary for that episode I'd say that the show's writing is not too talky
at all.  There always comes a time in a complicated story when you finally
have to let the audience in on the big secret.  Often, say in an action movie,
like the Bond films, the expository fill-in is covered up by the villain
gloating throughout it, but here I found Justin, Anna, and Morden's
explanation not at all too long to hear out, even though I now know what's
coming.  It's three seasons of waiting for this moment so the payoff was worth
it.   What probably as as a sequence did trouble me for its brevity was how
quickly Ivanova was able to bait the "Zog" First Ones into helping them.
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