“You Are Not Ready for Immortality”

Scientists say they have found a brain region that controls physical aging.

In Nancy Pelosi, it’s where she’s memorized her plastic surgeon’s phone number.

[Bacon to the first person to correctly source the title quote]

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  1. Babylon Five: In the first-season episode “Deathwalker”. A notorious war criminal has created a serum that gives the user immortality. Despite the heinousness of her crimes, Earth’s government pardons her in return for turning over the formula. As she leaves the station, she reveals to the characters that had reacted to her in disgust the evil twist involved: every dose of the formula required killing another person of the same species. She intended to give the formula to everyone, and watch as they all fell into self-destructive chaos as a result to prove her twisted reasoning right. However, as she’s leaving, a Vorlon ship appears through the jump gate and destroys the ship with her on it. When questioned about it, Ambassador Kosh says simply, “You are not ready for immortality.”

  2. @10 Max — Interesting reading was JMS’s commentary on that episode. IIRC this was also the episode where we 1st met Morden and he was snappily dressed, open, unfailingly polite, and simply asked what you wanted so he could see if he could get if for you…. and he was the bad guy.

    OTOH, you had Kosh being secretive, authoritarian, and he denied us what we wanted, including a murder/execution in there with it. No explanation other than a curt “You’re not ready” And he’s the good guy. . . .

  3. So when do Scientist grow up enough to know just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should. Perhaps we can get JJ Abrams to make that part of his new Star Wars movie? Maybe that might advance the message? YGDFT!YLTATSOTE! (tweaking scientists and science bacon?)

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