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Council of Geeks

The home of numerous geeky podcasts, currently hosting the Jumpgate Podcast. Previous projects include What the Frell Podcast, Classic Doctor Who Reviews, See You Space Cowboy Podcast, Go Home Hollywood You"re Drunk, and 90s Comics Retrial.

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01:53:17

Jumpgate #130 – The Legend of the Rangers

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2025/01/27

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Even with Crusade behind us, we have the pilot movie for another pitched spin-off. This one wasn’t picked up but we can still see what the set up was and get a sense of what the show might have been, for better or worse.

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01:09:11

Jumpgate #129 – Crusade planned episodes & series...

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2025/01/20

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade is over, and now it’s time to take a look at the plans that never came to be and arrive at an overall assessment of this short-lived spin-off.

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01:12:17

Jumpgate #128 – Crusade: The Rules of the Game

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2025/01/13

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: The Rules of the Game – Gideon tries to get Lochley’s help in getting permission to land on a planet with a potential cure lead, and the two flirt up a storm in the process. Meanwhile Max bumps into his ex and makes a bad situation worse, despite the failure of the episode to acknowledge that’s what he’s done.

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01:24:51

Jumpgate #127 – Crusade: The Well of Forever

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2025/01/06

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: The Well of Forever – The Excalibur is diverted from its species saving mission, because it’s a day that ends in “y,” but this time it’s because of their resident technomage. What a change of pace.

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01:59:33

2024 Wrap Up: The best shows, games, and movies

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2024/12/30

Jessie and Vera are putting the journey through the universe of Babylon 5 on hold to talk about how the year has gone. Mostly in terms of entertainment, and a little about personal lives. Not so much about the state of the world… we don’t… we don’t need to go there.

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01:17:30

Jumpgate #126 – Crusade: Patterns of the Soul

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2024/12/23

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Patterns of the Soul – The Excalibur is diverted again on a mission to recover possible infected humans from a would-be colony. Naturally there’s some shady stuff going on, and it’s not just the questionable acting choices.

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01:08:17

Jumpgate #125 – Crusade: Ruling from the Tomb

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2024/12/16

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Ruling from the Tomb – The Excalibur is diverted from its species-saving mission to… have the on-board doctor give a speech. Meanwhile Captain Gideon buts heads with Lochley from Babylon 5 because… just because.

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01:14:05

Jumpgate #124 – Crusade: The Paths of Sorrow

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2024/12/09

0Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: The Paths of Sorrow – The crew find a mysterious alien which triggers a series of flashbacks to try and help the afflicted crew members forgive themselves, as well as give some background to the audience.

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01:08:02

Jumpgate #123 – Crusade: Every Night I Dream of Home

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2024/12/02

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Every Night I Dream of Home – The Excalibur is put onto a secretive mission to try and bring about a new breakthrough in fighting the Drahk virus, one that will find several Babylon 5 alum on board the ship.

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01:12:21

Jumpgate #122 – Crusade: Visitors from Down the Street

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2024/11/25

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Visitors from Down the Street – The Excalibur encounters a ship in distress and a pair of aliens on board that speak English and seem to be aware of Earth, as it’s at the center of many a conspiracy theory. This makes more sense if you remember how big X-Files was in the 90s.

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01:00:37

Jumpgate #121 – Crusade: Racing the Night

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2024/11/18

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Racing the Night – The Excalibur finds what appears to be an abandoned planet rich in information, which almost seems to be too good to be true. Also there’s some information about the start of Gideon’s mission, because this was originally intended to be the first episode of the show.

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01:10:52

Jumpgate #120 – Crusade: The Needs of Earth

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2024/11/11

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: The Needs of Earth – On the tip of a ranger, the crew of the Excalibur attempt to grab an alien fugitive who appears to be trying to sell his world’s greatest knowledge to the highest bidder. Cue a series of situations with no clear cut best answer, and also the best episode of the show so far.

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Jumpgate #119 – Crusade: Memory of War

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2024/11/04

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Memory of War – The Excalibur explores a seemingly dead planet against the advise of their resident technomage, and deadly shenanigans ensue!

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01:24:03

Jumpgate #118 – Crusade: Appearances and Other Deceits

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2024/10/28

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Appearances and Other Deceits – The Excalibur comes across a mysterious ship with one survivor and a multitude of bodies, and the crew soon find themselves contending with the same threat that fell the previous ship.

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01:14:05

Jumpgate #117 – Crusade: The Long Road

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2024/10/21

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: The Long Road – The Excalibur is brought in to try and sort a dispute between an Earth Forces mining operation that might help the fight against the plague back home, and the residents of the planet. All of this is complicated by an old friend of Galen.

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01:28:40

Jumpgate #116 - Crusade: Warzone

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2024/10/14

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Warzone – The Excalibur assembles its crew for its mission to save earth, led by captain Matthew Gideon. They are then immediately diverted to save a jackass of an archeologist.

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01:29:01

Jumpgate #115 - A Call to Arms

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2024/10/07

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. TV Movie: A Call to Arms - The Drahk plan to make their move as Sheridan oversees the launch of brand new ships, while a mysterious figure brings disparate folk together for a greater cause.

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01:52:36

Jumpgate #114 - River of Souls

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2024/09/30

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. TV Movie: River of Souls – Sheridan is off the station, but that doesn't mean that there's going to be any less trouble. Lochley has to contend with the arrival of an academic carrying an item stolen from the Soul Hunters... and also a holographic brothel on board the station that she didn't know was there.

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01:09:35

Jumpgate #113 - Sleeping in Light

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2024/09/23

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 22, Sleeping in Light – In the final episode of the show proper, we get a 20 year jump to see where characters have ended up on the eve of Sheridan’s final day as foretold by Lorien.

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01:17:23

Jumpgate #112 - Objects at Rest

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2024/09/16

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 21, Objects at Rest - Most of the remaining original crew prepare to leave Babylon 5 for the last time, but not before Lennier does something stupid.

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