Babylon 5
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
Episodes
When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to blows. Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.
A badly damaged ship is brought into the station and the strange alien inside is identified as a soul hunter - an immortal race who can sense death an...
Londo unknowingly falls for a beautiful slave, whose owner wants her to steal sensitive information. Garibaldi discovers that someone is using a restr...
Dr. Franklin gets a visit from an old friend and former mentor, xenoarchaeologist Dr. Vance Hendricks who wants Franklin's help to analyze some organi...
Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a week-long festival when humans and aliens demonstrate their dominate religious beliefs. An ol...
The Psi-Cops arrive at the station to capture a rogue telepath, Talia's old Psi Corps instructor. Catherine Sakai is warned not to survey Sigma 957 by...
A racist group is terrorizing non-humans on Babylon 5. Meanwhile Londo has trouble with two young Centauri who want to break with tradition by ignorin...
Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by two men determined to prove he betrayed earth during the Battle of the Line.
Na'Toth attacks an alien woman that has just arrived on the station, claiming that she is the Dilgar war criminal Jha'dur - known as Deathwalker. Mean...
An alien couple comes to Dr. Franklin with their fatally ill son. The child could be cured by a simple operation, but the parents' religion specifical...
There is an explosion in one of the fighter bays just days before the president is to visit Babylon 5. A dying man implicates Garibaldi, which is just...
The station's dock workers stage an illegal strike after an accident in the docking bays. G'Kar tries to take part in a Narn religious ceremony, but...
A Centauri noble comes to Babylon 5 to transport an important relic in Londo's possession back to the homeworld. And a mysterious man visits all the a...
Garibaldi is surprised when an old friend comes to Babylon 5 to fight in the "Mutai" - a savage alien fighting arena. Meanwhile, Ivanova has trouble d...
A man comes to Babylon 5 asking the alien ambassadors for information that can help him with his quest to find the Holy Grail, while a Downbelow gangs...
Sinclair's decisions the last year catch up with him, when an internal affairs investigator arrives to test the crew's loyalty to Earth Force with the...
A Minbari war cruiser comes to Babylon 5 to display the body of a recently dead Minbari leader, while Ivanova and Talia battle for the fate of a young...
Strange signals start coming from Epsilon 3, the planet below Babylon 5. A science ship is sent to investigate, but is fired upon by a defense system...
The situation heats up when an Earth Force heavy cruiser arrives to "protect Earth's interests", and the fusion reactors on Epsilon 3 start going out...
Babylon 4 reappears at the same place it disappeared four years before, and Sinclair and Garibaldi lead an expedition to evacuate its crew. Meanwhile,...
Dr. Franklin investigates an unlicensed medical practitioner in Downbelow, while Londo takes Lennier for a tour of Babylon 5's seedier locales. And in...
The Centauri are about to withdraw from a quadrant of space because the Narn are harassing them, when Londo gets an offer to take care of the problem....
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I think it would be very difficult for me to summarize all of my impressions from the Babylon Five series. It's too long and it's too involved and it's too important. What the writer has done with this work is simply outstanding. It outpaces all similar shows like the contemporary Deep Space Nine by so many miles that it makes the other look amateurish. The things you get to learn in season one pay off in season three which makes you think very hard about the stuff that you might have learned in series two and what this might mean for series four. This is the genius of writing a show and only altering things based on circumstance, not shifting writers out left and right and not having a coherent vision. I could go on about the casting of this, but suffice it to say that there's a reason that certain days are dark now that we have lost many of the cast members for this show. They brought something that hasn't been had since. It is true that the effects in this show has aged, but it is more than three decades old. And if you look at the way Star Trek looked at that time or after (which is the only comparable show budget-wise and scope-wise) this looks remarkable. The big strength of this show is its characters. They are memorable, they are engaging, and they are written with such care and precision that they live on even if their respective actors are no longer with us. I lament that not more people have watched this show in its entirety. I think many would benefit from its stories. All I can do is tell you that I believe that it is a good idea to actually sit down and watch the five seasons and the handful of movies because I think genuinely that it will make your lives better.
