Babylon 5 Season 1

Synopsis

Season one is set in the year 2258 aboard a five-mile-long, totally self-sufficient United Nations-like space station. Babylon 5 is where humans and aliens try to work out their differences peacefully, in neutral territory full of mystery, suspense, and adventure. The space outpost is a hotbed of interplanetary intrigue, conspiracies, and betrayals among myriad life-forms living and working together.

Main Cast

Michael O’Hare

Jeffrey Sinclair

Age : 60 | Popularity : 5%

Jerry Doyle

Michael Garibaldi

Age : 60 | Popularity : 10%

Claudia Christian

Susan Ivanova

Age : 58 | Popularity : 11%

Mira Furlan

Delenn

Age : 65 | Popularity : 18%

Richard Biggs

Stephen Franklin

Age : 44 | Popularity : 5%

Andreas Katsulas

G’Kar

Age : 59 | Popularity : 13%

Peter Jurasik

Londo Mollari

Age : 74 | Popularity : 7%

Andrea Thompson

Talia Winters

Age : 64 | Popularity : 7%

Episodes

Episode 1

26 January 1994 - Midnight on the Firing Line

When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to blows. Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.

Episode 2

02 February 1994 - Soul Hunter

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 and supposedly steal someone's soul.

Episode 3

09 February 1994 - Born to the Purple

Londo unknowingly falls for a beautiful slave, whose owner wants her to steal sensitive information. Garibaldi discovers that someone is using a restricted communications channel.

Episode 4

16 February 1994 - Infection

Dr. Franklin gets a visit from an old friend and former mentor, xenoarchaeologist Dr. Vance Hendricks who wants Franklin's help to analyze some organic artifacts he found on a dead world. But the artifacts seem to have a will of their own and start to manipulate Hendricks' assistant.

Episode 5

23 February 1994 - The Parliament of Dreams

Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a week-long festival when humans and aliens demonstrate their dominate religious beliefs. An old enemy sends an assassin to kill G'Kar.

Episode 6

02 March 1994 - Mind War

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 G'Kar.

Episode 7

09 March 1994 - The War Prayer

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 ignoring their arranged marriages, and instead marry for love.

Episode 8

16 March 1994 - And the Sky Full of Stars

Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by two men determined to prove he betrayed earth during the Battle of the Line.

Episode 9

20 April 1994 - Deathwalker

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. Meanwhile, Talia is hired by Kosh to oversee some rather strange negotiations.

Episode 10

27 April 1994 - Believers

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 specifically forbids it. Meanwhile, Ivanova escorts a damaged star liner through raider territory.

Episode 11

04 May 1994 - Survivors

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 what the head of presidential security wants to hear, as she blames him for her father's death.

Episode 12

11 May 1994 - By Any Means Necessary

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 must find a replacement G'Quan-Eth plant that was destroyed in the accident.

Episode 13

18 May 1994 - Signs and Portents

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 alien ambassadors asking them an unusual question.

Episode 14

25 May 1994 - TKO

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 dealing with her father's death.

Episode 15

06 July 1994 - Grail

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 gangster gives security problems by mind-wiping all who oppose him.

Episode 16

13 July 1994 - Eyes

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 help of a telepath. And Lennier shows great interest in Garibaldi's attempt at assembling a 1990's motorcycle.

Episode 17

20 July 1994 - Legacies

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 girl with newly discovered telepathic powers.

Episode 18

27 July 1994 - A Voice in the Wilderness (1)

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 on the planet. Meanwhile, Garibaldi worries about a lover he left back on Mars, when fighting breaks out there.

Episode 19

03 August 1994 - A Voice in the Wilderness (2)

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 of control, and may blow up the planet and Babylon 5.

Episode 20

10 August 1994 - Babylon Squared

Babylon 4 reappears at the same place it disappeared four years before, and Sinclair and Garibaldi lead an expedition to evacuate its crew. Meanwhile, Delenn is summoned by the Grey council. They inform her that they have selected a new leader - her.

Episode 21

17 August 1994 - The Quality of Mercy

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 brig, a convicted murderer waits for his sentence to be carried out - the death of personality.

Episode 22

03 October 1994 - Chrysalis

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. Meanwhile, Garibaldi tries to find out what his informant stumbled upon that got him killed.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Art	Art Direction	Deborah Raymond
	Property Master	Barbara Cole
	Leadman	Jason Howard
	Production Design	John Iacovelli
	Construction Coordinator	Curtis Laseter
Costume & Make-Up	Key Makeup Artist	Mary Kay Morse
	Makeup Effects Designer	Everett Burrell John Vulich
	Costume Design	Ann Bruice
	Costume Supervisor	Kim M. Holly
Production	Unit Production Manager	Kevin G. Cremin
	Post Production Coordinator	Susan Corbin
	Production Accountant	Sarah Morse
	Casting	Mary Jo Slater
	Production Coordinator	Chris O'Connor
	Associate Producer	George Johnsen
	Producer	Douglas Netter J. Michael Straczynski Richard Compton
Sound	Sound Mixer	Patrick Mitchell
	Sound Re-Recording Mixer	Todd Orr Terry O'Bright
	Sound Supervisor	Erin Hoien
	Music	Christopher Franke
Camera	Camera Operator	Eyal Gordin
	First Assistant Camera	Peter B. Kowalski
	Key Grip	Rick Stribling
Directing	Script Coordinator	Rebecca Langenfeld
	Script Supervisor	Haley McLane
Lighting	Gaffer	Marshall Adams
Writing	Story Editor	Larry DiTillio
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