Babylon 5

Babylon 5 is an American science fiction TV series created by J. Michael Straczynski. It was first broadcast in 1994 and ran for five seasons. This series was set in 2258-2262 and was based on a space station, called Babylon 5, in neutral space. The station was home to many different alien species, such as Cetauri, Minbari, Narn and Vorlon, and dealt with political and diplomatic issues with ambassadors from these species. The station was controlled by Earth and was looked after by Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (Michael O'Hare) and then by Captain John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner). The mandate of Babylon 5 was to keep peace and ensure intergalactic harmony. The ...

Babylon5. The mere mention of the word causes grown men like myself to go weak at the knees and utter four additional ones. Best. Sci-fi. Series. Ever. A while back, JMS or J. Michael Straczynski decided it would be a cool idea to have a single core science fiction storyline that spanned five years. Nothing quite like this had come before and nothing like it has come along since. Unlike the throw-away culture of series that came before it, the viewer got characters that evolved and changed with time and the experiences that befell them as well as crptic plotlines that would'nt be resolved for another two years. Alliances waxed and waned among political ...

In the nineties, there was a covert war: the war between the people who watched Star Trek and those who favoured Babylon 5. As televised science fiction goes, Babylon 5 is regarded as ground breaking. Its story spans five seasons and is almost entirely written by Michael J. Straczynski with Harlan Ellison as conceptual consultant. The first season is definitely the hardest one to follow as it serves as a platform for the rest of the story to develop, introducing and giving the series a firm grounding for the future as Straczynski gradually and subtly introduces the first elements of his overall arc story. Some arc episodes are difficult to grasp at first and leave the ...