Babylon 5 season 5 - Metacritic

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Syndicated
Jan 21, 1998

Syndicated
Jan 21, 1998

Babylon 5

Summary The Emmy-winning Babylon 5 brought many exciting innovations to science fiction television. Computer-generated effects, five-year story arcs, and elaborate mythology made this series stand apart from what came before and point the next generation of sci-fi/fantasy series in bold new directions. This show realized creator J. Michael Str...

Created By: J. Michael Straczynski

Syndicated
Jan 21, 1998

Syndicated
Jan 21, 1998

Season 5

5 Seasons

Season Premiere: Jan 21, 1998

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Summary The Emmy-winning Babylon 5 brought many exciting innovations to science fiction television. Computer-generated effects, five-year story arcs, and elaborate mythology made this series stand apart from what came before and point the next generation of sci-fi/fantasy series in bold new directions. This show realized creator J. Michael Str...

Created By: J. Michael Straczynski

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Episode 1 • Jan 21, 1998 • 44 m

Captain Lochley arrives just as preparations are underway for Sheridan's swearing in ceremony as the President of the newly formed Interstellar Alliance. Telepaths arrive seeking a sanctuary while they search for a home world.

Episode 2 • Jan 28, 1998 • 44 m

The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari

After suffering a heart attack, Londo enters a dream state and is faced with some uncomfortable truths.

Episode 3 • Feb 4, 1998 • 44 m

The Paragon of Animals

Military crises threaten the ongoing formation of the Interstellar Alliance but Sheridan asserts its power.

Episode 4 • Feb 11, 1998 • 44 m

A View from the Gallery

A day in the life of Mack and Bo, two maintenance workers on Babylon 5. As the station comes under attack from an unknown race of aliens, they encounter the command staff and the ambassadors each dealing with the crisis.

Episode 5 • Feb 18, 1998 • 45 m

Two Minbari Rangers-in-training come to the station and learn a difficult lesson. A new underworld boss tries to take control of Downbelow.

Episode 6 • Feb 25, 1998 • 44 m

Strange Relations

The command crew are put in a difficult position when a unit of Psi Cops, led by Bester, comes to the station to arrest the colony of telepaths. The secret of Sheridan and Lochley's past is revealed.

Episode 7 • Mar 4, 1998 • 44 m

Secrets of the Soul

Lyta becomes closer to Byron and the colony of telepaths while Franklin investigates a terrible secret from the Hyach's distant past.

Episode 8 • Mar 11, 1998 • 44 m

Day of the Dead

Episode 9 • Mar 18, 1998 • 44 m

In the Kingdom of the Blind

Byron and other telepaths seek a homeworld of their own.

Episode 10 • Mar 25, 1998 • 44 m

A Tragedy of Telepaths

Lochley asks Bester for help in dealing with a group of telepaths who have locked themselves in an area of Downbelow. G'Kar is reunited with an old friend in the Centauri royal palace.

Episode 11 • Apr 1, 1998 • 44 m

A group of telepaths hold Garibaldi and others hostage on Babylon 5.

Episode 12 • Apr 8, 1998 • 44 m

The Ragged Edge

Garibaldi is sent to retrieve a witness to the shipping line attacks from the Drazi homeworld. G'Kar becomes a figure of veneration among the Narn. Stephen comes to a difficult decision.

Episode 13 • Apr 15, 1998 • 44 m

The Corps Is Mother, the Corps Is Father

Episode 14 • May 27, 1998 • 44 m

Meditations on the Abyss

Delenn reassigns Lennier to a Ranger training mission on the border of Centauri space. Vir learns he is the new Centauri ambassador to Babylon 5.

Episode 15 • Jun 3, 1998 • 44 m

Darkness Ascending

Episode 16 • Jun 10, 1998 • 44 m

And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder

Episode 17 • Jun 17, 1998 • 44 m

Movements of Fire and Shadow

Episode 18 • Oct 28, 1998 • 44 m

The Fall of Centauri Prime

On the now devastated Centauri Prime, Londo ascends to the throne after learning to his horror his secret masters who arranged all this.

Episode 19 • Nov 4, 1998 • 44 m

The Wheel of Fire

Back on Babylon 5, G'Kar finds himself the focus of a Narn religious movement while Garibaldi and Lyta have their own personal problems.

Episode 20 • Nov 11, 1998 • 44 m

Objects in Motion

Episode 21 • Nov 18, 1998 • 44 m

Objects at Rest

The various veterans of Babylon 5 prepare to go their separate ways, but not before Lennier makes a terrible but foretold mistake.

Episode 22 • Nov 25, 1998 • 44 m

Sleeping in Light

Nearing the end of his 20 year life extension, Sheridan bids his farewells to all his friends and family, while the now obsolete Babylon 5 is prepared for decommissioning.

5 Seasons

Top Cast

Mira Furlan

Delenn, Ambassador Delenn

Richard Biggs

Dr. Stephen Franklin

Stephen Furst

Vir Cotto

Andreas Katsulas

G'Kar

Peter Jurasik

Londo Mollari

Jerry Doyle

Michael Garibaldi

Bill Mumy

Lennier

Bruce Boxleitner

Capt. John Sheridan, President John Sheridan

Claudia Christian

Cmdr. Susan Ivanova, Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova, Capt. Susan Ivanova

Jeff Conaway

Zack Allan, Security Chief Zack Allan, Zack Allen

Patricia Tallman

Lyta Alexander

Andrea Thompson

Talia Winters

Jason Carter

Marcus Cole, Ranger Marcus Cole

Josh Coxx

Tech David Corwin, Lt. David Corwin

Ardwight Chamberlain

Kosh, Ulkesh, First Ones, Kosh Naranek, Ulkesh [Kosh in credits], Vorlon

Michael O'Hare

Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair, Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair, Valen

Julie Caitlin Brown

Na'Toth, Guinevere Corey

Robert Rusler

Warren Keffer, Lt. Warren Keffer

Mary Kay Adams

Na'Toth

Tracy Scoggins

Capt. Elizabeth Lochley

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