Last Rewatch: 12/09/2021 - 30/09/2022

Babylon 5, the pilot aired in February 1993, almost a year later season one began. B5 is an epic tale, a space opera, great stories, great characters who got the change to grow over five seasons. A story with a beginning, a middle and an end. A story arc that would last five seasons!

 

Babylon 5 is one of my all time favorite TV shows! The other one is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. For a long time I could not choose between these two and now I still find it hard to give favor to one of these two. When I am rewatching B5, I think that is my favorite. But when I am watching DS9, I think that one is my favorite. One thing is certain, what B5 did was extraordinary, telling a story over five seasons when your name doesn't begin with Star Trek!

 

The story begins earlier than season one but that is something you will learn along the way. The year is 2258, 10 years after the Earth-Minbari war. A war which Earth had won but only because the Minbari surrendered themselves on the eve of victory. Earth was a the brink of total destruction. Therefore a space station has been built, a giant five-mile-long cylindrical space station, orbiting a planet in neutral space. A place at a crossroads of interstellar commerce and diplomacy. Commander Sinclair is it's first commander.

 

Sinclair (and later Sheridan) must try and establish peace and prosperity between these various interstellar Empires and alliances. And there is also a cancer growing within the Earth Alliance. It's not an easy command, given the fact that the first 3 stations were destroyed and the 4th station disappeared just when it went online.

Babylon 5 - Trailer & All Seasons Intro

Episode Guide

Season 1:

  1. Midnight on the Firing Line
  2. Soul Hunter
  3. Born to the Purple
  4. Infection
  5. The Parliament of Dreams
  6. Mind War
  7. The War Prayer
  8. And The Sky Full Of Stars
  9. Deathwalker
  10. Believers
  11. Survivors
  12. By Any Means Necessary
  13. Signs and Portents
  14. TKO
  15. Grail
  16. Eyes
  17. Legacies
  18. A Voice in the Wilderness part 1
  19. A Voice in the Wilderness part 2
  20. Babylon Squared
  21. The Quality of Mercy
  22. Chrysalis

Season 2:

  1. Points of Departure
  2. Revelations
  3. The Geometry of Shadows
  4. A Distant Star
  5. The Long Dark
  6. A Spider in the Web
  7. A Race Through Dark Places
  8. Soul Mates
  9. The Coming of Shadows
  10. GROPOS
  11. All Alone in the Night
  12. Acts of Sacrifice
  13. Hunter, Prey
  14. There All the Honor Lies
  15. And Now For a Word
  16. Knives
  17. In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
  18. Confessions and Lamentations
  19. Divided Loyalties
  20. The Long, Twilight Struggle
  21. Comes the Inquisitor
  22. The Fall of Night

Season 3:

  1. Matters of Honor
  2. Convictions
  3. A Day in the Strife
  4. Voices of Authority
  5. Passing Through Gethsemane
  6. Dust to Dust
  7. Exogenesis
  8. Messages from Earth
  9. Point of No Return
  10. Severed Dreams
  11. Ceremonies of Light and Dark
  12. A Late Delivery From Avalon
  13. Sic Transit Vir
  14. Ship of Tears
  15. Interludes and Examinations
  16. Walkabout
  17. War Without End, Part One
  18. War Without End, Part Two
  19. Grey 17 Is Missing
  20. And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
  21. Shadow Dancing
  22. Z'ha'dum

Season 4:

  1. The Hour of the Wolf
  2. Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
  3. The Summoning
  4. Falling Toward Apotheosis
  5. The Long Night
  6. Into the Fire
  7. Epiphanies
  8. The Illusion of Truth
  9. Atonement
  10. Racing Mars
  11. Lines of Communication
  12. Conflicts of Interest
  13. Rumors, Bargains and Lies
  14. Moments of Transition
  15. No Surrender, No Retreat
  16. The Exercise of Vital Powers
  17. The Face of the Enemy
  18. Intersections in Real Time
  19. Between the Darkness and the Light
  20. Endgame
  21. Rising Star
  22. The Deconstruction of Falling Stars

Season 5:

  1. No Compromises
  2. The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
  3. The Paragon of Animals
  4. A View from the Gallery
  5. Learning Curve
  6. Strange Relations
  7. Secrets of the Soul
  8. Day of the Dead
  9. In the Kingdom of the Blind
  10. A Tragedy of Telepaths
  11. Phoenix Rising
  12. The Ragged Edge
  13. The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father
  14. Meditations on the Abyss
  15. Darkness Ascending
  16. And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
  17. Movement of Fire and Shadow
  18. Tha Fall of Centauri Prime
  19. Objects in Motion
  20. Objects at Rest
  21. Wheel of Fire
  22. Sleeping in Light

Babylon 5: The Movies

  1. The Gathering (Pilot)
  2. In The Beginning
  3. Thirdspace
  4. River of Souls
  5. Call to Arms
  6. Legend of the Rangers
  7. The Lost Tales

Blogs written about Babylon 5

Babylon 5 - TV Series on Blu-ray

Babylon 5 - TV Series on DVD

Characters

John J. Sheridan

Jeffrey Sinclair

Susan Ivanova

Stephen Franklin

Delenn

Michael Garibaldi

Londo Mollari

G'Kar

Lyta Alexander

Talia Winters

Marcus Cole

Lennier

Vir Cotto

Kosh

Zack Allan

Elizabeth Lochley

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