“Past & Present” Written by Tor Alexander Valenza Directed by William F. Gereghty Guest stars: Megan Leitch as Ke’ra, Jason Gray-Stanford as Orner Do memories make us what we are? Are we nothing but the sum of all our past experiences? And if we are, does forgetting make one a different person? How do you hold a criminal accountable for deeds she has no knowledge of? The SG-1 team faces a moral dilemma when they try to save an entire race suffering from mass amnesia, only to find themselves face to face with a mortal enemy. On a world that…
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Space: Above and Beyond: “Who Monitors the Birds?”
Hawkes’ Eye View by Sarah Stegall copyright 1996 by Sarah Stegall Sometimes the simplest tales are the most revealing. In Friday night’s episode of “Space: Above and Beyond”, no complicated plots are needed to tell a beautiful, simple and elegant story about war and maturity and faith. The latest story from Morgan and Wong, “Who Monitors the Birds?”, is an artistic and technical tour de force, which uses its lack of dialogue to allow the inarticulate and taciturn Cooper Hawkes to express the most fundamental facets of his personality. We cannot expect long-winded speeches from this man, but his few words are…