This is what sci-fi is about. This
is a show that asks some tough questions, that isn't afraid to bring
issues like religion and art. Not only does it bring those issues into
the fold, but it does so in a way that it doesn't seem preachy or contrived.
There are so many different things
going on in this episode. I could easily take several pages just to
describe them. I think that this is an episode which should stand on
its own merits. All I will say is that it is an episode that works -
not on a level of "Wow, look at all the nice effects and big space
battles!", but on a level of "This made me think." I
could not offer a higher commendation on an episode.
Of course, we did get a little humor
at the beginning, where we learn something about Eilerson that perhaps
we did not want to know. We get to see Gideon get the living daylights
beaten out of him in quite an amusing way. We get a very nice looking
ship, a ship that makes you instantly know which end you don't want
facing in your direction.
This episode should be used as a
study of what science fiction television should aspire to. The camera
work, the editing, all of it comes together to form something that comes
quite close to brilliance. This is an episode about art that is a work
of art itself.