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<title>What's New - 1999</title>
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<link rel=parent href="lurker.html">
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<link rev=made href="mailto:koreth@hyperion.com">
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<body>
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<p align=center nowrap><nobr><a name="TOP"
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href="/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar"><img
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align=middle border=0 ismap usemap="/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar"
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src="/lurk/nav/titlebar.gif" width=500 height=32
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alt="[Home]"></a>
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<br><a href="/cgi-bin/imagemap/lurker-menu"><img
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align=top border=0 ismap usemap="/lurk/maps/maps.html#toplevel"
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src="/lurk/nav/bar-none.gif" width=500 height=24
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alt=""></a>
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</nobr>
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<h1 align=center>What Was New - 1999</h1>
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<dl>
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<p>
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<dt>December 5, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash:
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The JMS/Chris Carter project has been
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<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-tv.html?1999-12/03/13.07.tv">scrapped</a>
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for now.
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<p>
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<dt>November 18, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash:
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<a href="http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/pd/news/tuesday/e16scif.ssf">A
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"Cleveland Live" article</a>
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claims that JMS is working on a new series with "X-Files" creator Chris
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Carter. JMS hasn't confirmed it.
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<p>
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<dt>November 12, 1999
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<dd>
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<a href="http://www.thestation.com/">The B5 Fan Club</a>
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is now selling copies of the B5 writers' bible and the original
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series treatment used to pitch the show to network executives when
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it was first being shopped around.
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<p>
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<dt>November 1, 1999
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<dd>
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The feedback has been positive, so I've put the
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<a href="/lurk/lgchat.html">voice chat</a>
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device on a few more pages. Check it out!
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<p>
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<dt>October 28, 1999
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<dd>
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If you're running Windows 95/98/NT and IE/Netscape 4.0 or higher,
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and your PC has a microphone, check out the Lurker's Guide's new
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<a href="/lurk/lgchat.html">voice chat page</a>!
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<p>
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<dt>October 21, 1999
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<dd>
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<a href="http://sonicimages.com/soundtracks/crusade/">The "Crusade" soundtrack</a>
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is available now.
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<p>
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<dt>October 5, 1999
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<dd>
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The third Psi Corps novel,
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<a href="/lurk/novels/012.html">"Final Reckoning: The Fate of Bester,"</a>
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is out.
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<p>
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<dt>September 27, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash:
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"Crusade" begins in
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<a href="/lurk/countries/au/eplist.html">Australia</a>
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on September 30 and in
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<a href="/lurk/countries/il/eplist.html">Israel</a>
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on January 8 of next year.
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<p>
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<dt>September 21, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash:
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Sierra has cancelled the B5 game. See
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<a href="http://www.firstones.com/">www.firstones.com</a>
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for details about efforts to save the project.
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<p>
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<dt>September 5, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: "The Truman Show" has won the 1998 Hugo for Best Dramatic
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Presentation, beating out
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<a href="/lurk/guide/110.html">"Sleeping in Light."</a>
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Congratulations to all of this year's winners.
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<p>
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<dt>September 3, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: A number of people have sent mail asking if I know anything
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about the fate of "Crusade." The answer, unfortunately, is no.
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There are several fan efforts to get the show picked up by
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another network; see the Guide's list of
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<a href="/lurk/resources/online.html#crusade">Crusade sites</a>
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for some links.
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<p>
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<dt>August 31, 1999
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<dd>
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The "What's New" items from 1998 have been moved off this page.
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(Better late than never...)
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<p>
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Newsflash: JMS is apparently working on
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<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?1999-08/17/23.18.tv">a
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new TV series.</a>
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<p>
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Newsflash: Viewers in the
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<a href="/lurk/countries/uk/eplist.html">UK</a>
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should note that the last four "Crusade" episodes will air Saturday
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and Sunday nights over the next two weekends.
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<p>
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Newsflash: Viewers in
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<a href="/lurk/countries/au/eplist.html">Australia</a>
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should tune in September 1 at 11:05 for
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<a href="/lurk/guide/109.html">"Objects at Rest,"</a>
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which is on a day earlier than usual due to sports programming.
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<p>
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<dt>August 30, 1999
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<dd>
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A reworked and updated
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<a href="/lurk/making/actors.html">complete list of actors</a>
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is online.
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<p>
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<dt>August 25, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: If you're planning to attend this weekend's
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<a href="http://www.99.nasfic.org/">Conucopia</a>
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convention in Anaheim, note that JMS's appearance has been moved
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from Sunday to Saturday at 1PM.
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<p>
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Several people have written to ask why there haven't been many updates
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to the guide pages recently. The answer is simply that I don't have a
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lot of free time to spend on the site these days. I <em>do</em> intend
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to catch up, though; expect a big update this weekend.
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<p>
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<dt>July 26, 1999
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<dd>
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The guide pages for
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<a href="guide/506.html">"Ruling from the Tomb"</a>
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and
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<a href="guide/507.html">"The Rules of the Game"</a>
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have been updated. My apologies for the delay.
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<p>
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The
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<a href="credits/505.html">onscreen credits</a>
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for
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<a href="guide/505.html">"Patterns of the Soul"</a>
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are online.
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<p>
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<dt>July 5, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: The latest issue of
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<a href="http://www.wizards.com/Amazing/">"Amazing
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Stories"</a>
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has a B5 story written by JMS.
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<p>
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The
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<a href="credits/504.html">onscreen credits</a>
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for
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<a href="guide/504.html">"The Path of Sorrows"</a>
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are online.
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<p>
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<a href="http://www.thelogbook.com/">The LogBook</a>
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has an
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<a href="http://www.theLogBook.com/music/i_evan.html">interview</a>
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with "Crusade" composer Evan Chen.
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<p>
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<dt>July 2, 1999
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<dd>
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The guide page for "The Path of Sorrows" will be delayed -- I had a
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VCR mishap and missed Wednesday's broadcast.
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<p>
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<dt>June 27, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: The series bible for "Crusade" is available via the
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<a href="http://www.thestation.com/">Official B5 Fan Club.</a>
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<p>
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<a href="http://www.tvguide.com/">TV Guide</a>
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has a brief
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<a href="http://www.tvguide.com/newsgossip/dish/990623c.asp">story</a>
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about Carrie Dobro (Dureena on "Crusade").
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<p>
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<dt>June 24, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash:
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"Crusade" premieres in the UK on July 4 at 8PM on Sky One.
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<p>
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Newsflash:
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<a href="http://www.gamecenter.com/">GameCenter</a>
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has a brief
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<a href="http://www.gamecenter.com/News/Item/0%2C3%2C0-2911%2C00.html?dd.ne.htmldisp.hl.gc">article</a>
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about the upcoming B5 space combat game.
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<p>
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The
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<a href="credits/503.html">onscreen credits</a>
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for
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<a href="guide/503.html">"The Well of Forever"</a>
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are online.
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<p>
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<dt>June 21, 1999
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<dd>
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The
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<a href="credits/502.html">onscreen credits</a>
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for
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<a href="guide/502.html">"The Long Road"</a>
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are online.
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<p>
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<dt>June 14, 1999
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<dd>
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The
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<a href="credits/501.html">onscreen credits</a>
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for
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<a href="guide/501.html">"War Zone"</a>
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are online.
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<p>
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<dt>June 12, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: TNT plans to rebroadcast "Crusade" Mondays at 11PM.
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<p>
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<dt>June 10, 1999
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<dd>
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If you're interested in the real scoop on Crusade's cancellation,
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check out the interview with JMS in issue 58 of
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<a href="http://www.dreamwatch.co.uk/">DreamWatch</a>,
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in stores in the US and UK now.
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<p>
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A very basic guide page for
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<a href="guide/501.html">"War Zone"</a>
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is online. It'll be fleshed out more in the coming days. I'll be
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covering all 13 "Crusade" episodes in the regular Lurker's Guide
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format.
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<p>
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A revamped and updated version of the
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<a href="/lurk/making/cast.html">cast list page</a>
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is online. Thanks to
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<a href="mailto:dirk@inpw.net">Dirk Kocherscheidt</a>
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for putting a ton of work into it!
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<p>
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<dt>June 8, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash:
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<a href="http://www.sierrastudios.com/">Sierra</a>
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is running a survey to determine which of their games (including
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the B5 combat simulator) should be ported to the Mac. The poll
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is on the lower right of their home page.
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<p>
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<dt>June 5, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: "Crusade" premieres Wednesday, June 9 at 10PM on TNT in
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the US. In Canada it begins Saturday, June 12 at 7PM Eastern on
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<a href="http://www.spacecast.com/">SPACE</a>
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and Tuesday, June 15 at 8PM on
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<a href="http://www.citytv.com/">CityTV</a>.
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<p>
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<dt>May 29, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: <a href="http://www.astro.umd.edu/~fleming/">Crusade for Crusade</a>
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has succeeded in raising enough money to pay for an
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<a href="http://www.astro.umd.edu/~fleming/images/varietyad.jpg">ad</a>
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in Daily Variety.
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<p>
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<dt>May 23, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: Want to help search for extraterrestrial signals using your
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PC? Take part in the
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<a href="http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/">SETI@home</a>
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project.
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<p>
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<dt>May 22, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: The fan-run
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<a href="http://www.astro.umd.edu/~fleming/">Crusade for Crusade</a>
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effort is nearing its goal of raising enough money to run an ad in
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Daily Variety.
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<p>
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Newsflash: DVD-player owners might be interested in this
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<a href="http://b5petition.ii.net">petition</a>
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to ask Warner Bros. to release B5 in anamorphic widescreen format.
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<p>
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<dt>May 15, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: TNT has moved B5 to Saturday mornings at 7AM.
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<p>
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<dt>April 30, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash:
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<a href="http://tnt.turner.com/crusade/frame_index.html">TNT's Crusade site</a>
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is online.
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<p>
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Newsflash: TNT is temporarily suspending its daytime B5 broadcasts.
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<a href="http://tnt.turner.com/">TNT's site</a>
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is holding a viewer poll to help determine B5's new timeslot.
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<p>
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<dt>April 28, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash:
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<a href="http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/">Ain't It Cool News</a>
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has a bunch of "Crusade" information, including promotional artwork and
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reviews of some episodes.
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<p>
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<dt>April 25, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: Jerry Doyle and Peter Jurasik will be
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<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?1999-04/23/11.38.sfc">appearing</a>
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on
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<a href="http://www.scifi.com/sliders/slideonline.html">"Sliders."</a>
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<p>
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<dt>April 23, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: <a href="/lurk/guide/110.html">"Sleeping in Light"</a>
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has been nominated for the 1999
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<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?1999-04/22/23.07.books">Hugo Award</a>
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for best dramatic presentation.
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<p>
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<dt>April 13, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: <a href="http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/">Ain't It Cool
|
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News</a>
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has a report on an effort to save "Crusade."
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<p>
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<dt>April 12, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: JMS has been given the Science Fiction Writers of America's
|
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Bradbury Award.
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<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?1999-04/09/23.32.tv">Details here.</a>
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<p>
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<dt>March 26, 1999
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<dd>
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A preview issue (#0) of JMS's forthcoming comic "Rising Stars" is now on
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sale. It is packaged with a special issue of Wizard Magazine devoted to
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"Fathom." To be sure you have the correct issue, look for the Wizard
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Magazine with the "Fathom" cover, and then flip the packet over. You
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should be able to see the "Rising Stars" preview issue through the
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transparent wrapper.
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<p>
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Newsflash:
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<a href="/lurk/guide/111.html">"In the Beginning"</a>
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re-airs this Sunday at 10:30PM on TNT.
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<p>
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Newsflash:
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<a href="http://www.ohms.com/bigreport3.shtml">The BIG Picture</a>
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has an interview with Warner Home Video executives who say they plan to
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release B5 on DVD.
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<p>
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<dt>March 18, 1999
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<dd>
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Crusade will air starting June 12 on Canada's SPACE: The Imagination
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Station.
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<p>
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Newsflash: B5 has been nominated for three Saturn Awards.
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<a href="http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue100/news.html">The complete
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list of nominees.</a>
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<p>
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<dt>March 15, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: For those who haven't seen it on TNT's site, TNT will be
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showing most of the B5 TV-movies on June 9, Crusade's premiere date.
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See the
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<a href="/lurk/countries/us/eplist.html">US episode list</a>
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for a schedule.
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<p>
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Want to encourage Warner Bros. to release B5 on DVD? Here's where
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to send your letters:
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<blockquote>
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DVD Programming<br>
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Warner Home Video<br>
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4000 Warner Blvd.<br>
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Burbank CA 91522
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</blockquote>
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<p>
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New in the
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<a href="/lurk/making/">Making Of</a>
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section:
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<a href="/lurk/making/ships.html">a list of classical literary
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references in B5's ship names.</a>
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Thanks to Katrin Thier.
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<p>
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<dt>March 2, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash: Netter Digital has put out a
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<a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990302/ca_netter__1.html">press
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release</a>
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about Crusade.
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<p>
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<dt>February 25, 1999
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<dd>
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Newsflash:
|
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<a href="http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/">Ain't It Cool News</a>
|
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reports that
|
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<a href="/lurk/guide/113.html">"Crusade"</a>
|
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has been cancelled. TNT will air the 13 episodes already shot.
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<p>
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<dt>February 24, 1999
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<dd>
|
||||
Newsflash: <a href="/lurk/guide/115.html">"A Call to Arms"</a>
|
||||
airs March 12 at 9PM on CFCF in Montreal.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>February 23, 1999
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
<a href="guide/114.html">"River of Souls"</a>
|
||||
is now available on video in the UK.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>January 30, 1999
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Newsflash: JMS reports that "Crusade" may be moving to a venue other
|
||||
than TNT.
|
||||
<a href="http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/">Ain't It Cool News</a>
|
||||
has a story with more details.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>January 18, 1999
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Newsflash: CFCF in Montreal will be showing
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/114.html">"The River of Souls"</a>
|
||||
January 23 at 2PM.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>January 15, 1999
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
New on the
|
||||
<a href="resources/products.html">products page</a>:
|
||||
<a href="http://www.hughfleming.com.au/index.htm">A limited-edition
|
||||
B5 poster.</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>January 10, 1999
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
A new version of the
|
||||
<a href="making/write-direct.html">writers/directors list</a>
|
||||
is online.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Newsflash: Harlan Ellison will be on CBS' "The Late, Late Show with
|
||||
Tom Snyder" the evening of January 14. Check your local listings
|
||||
for the time.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>January 8, 1999
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
A
|
||||
<a href="synops/115.html">synopsis</a>
|
||||
of
|
||||
<a href="guide/115.html">"A Call to Arms"</a>
|
||||
is online.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>January 5, 1999
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The
|
||||
<a href="credits/115.html">onscreen credits</a>
|
||||
for
|
||||
<a href="guide/115.html">"A Call to Arms"</a>
|
||||
are online.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>January 3, 1999
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Newsflash: Canada's
|
||||
<a href="http://www.citytv.com/">CITY-TV</a>
|
||||
will be showing
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/114.html">"River of Souls"</a>
|
||||
January 12 and
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/115.html">"A Call to Arms"</a>
|
||||
January 19, both at 9PM.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Newsflash: Season five begins in
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/countries/pl/eplist.html">Poland</a>
|
||||
on January 9.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>January 1, 1999
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Newsflash: Happy new year!
|
||||
<a href="http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/">Ain't It Cool News</a>
|
||||
has an article about
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/115.html">"A Call to Arms"</a>
|
||||
(which airs this Sunday on TNT) including some rumors of changes to
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/113.html">"Crusade"</a>
|
||||
episodes.
|
||||
|
||||
</dl>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p nowrap>
|
||||
<nobr><a href="/lurk/lurker.html"><img
|
||||
align=bottom border=0
|
||||
width=64 height=24 src="/lurk/nav/foot-station.gif"
|
||||
alt="[Home] "></a><a
|
||||
href="#TOP"><img
|
||||
align=bottom border=0
|
||||
width=72 height=13 src="/lurk/nav/foot-pagetop.gif"
|
||||
alt="[Top] "></a><a
|
||||
href="/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail?where=/lurk/whatsnew.html"><img
|
||||
align=bottom border=0
|
||||
width=80 height=13 src="/lurk/nav/foot-comments.gif"
|
||||
alt="[Comments] "></a><img
|
||||
align=bottom
|
||||
width=284 height=13 src="/lurk/nav/foot-bare.gif"
|
||||
alt="">
|
||||
</nobr>
|
||||
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
|
|||
B5DIR=/home/woodstock/ftp/pub/Babylon-5
|
||||
|
||||
all: lurker-nobg.html subdirs
|
||||
|
||||
lurker-nobg.html: lurker.html
|
||||
sed -e 's/ BGSTART.*BGEND//' -e '/BGLINK/d' < lurker.html > $@
|
||||
|
||||
subdirs:
|
||||
@(cd guide; make)
|
||||
@(cd comic; make)
|
||||
@(cd synops; make)
|
||||
@(cd novels; make)
|
||||
|
||||
tvlist: $(B5DIR)/b5tvlist.txt
|
||||
|
||||
$(B5DIR)/b5tvlist.txt: reference/tvl.html
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -nolist -dump http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/reference/tvl.html > $@
|
||||
Binary file not shown.
Binary file not shown.
Binary file not shown.
Binary file not shown.
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,602 @@
|
|||
<html>
|
||||
<head>
|
||||
<title>The Lurker's Guide to the Lurker's Guide</title>
|
||||
</head>
|
||||
|
||||
<h1>The Lurker's Guide to the Lurker's Guide</h1>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
There are three main components to the Guide. I'll refer to them by their
|
||||
local URLs on www.midwinter.com.
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> <a href="#lurk">/lurk</a> -- local path /home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk<br>
|
||||
<li> <a href="#ftp">/ftp</a> (also /b5 and /b5p) -- local path /home/woodstock/ftp<br>
|
||||
<li> <a href="#cgi-bin">/cgi-bin</a> -- local paths /usr/www/cgi-bin and /usr/www/uncgi-bin
|
||||
<li> <a href="#utils">Miscellaneous utilities</a>
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="lurk">/lurk</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The first section, which is the bulk of the site, is a directory tree
|
||||
of static HTML files with a few server-parsed HTML files (for
|
||||
server-side includes) thrown in. The home directory of the lurk-sf
|
||||
account is the top level of that directory tree, which the Web server
|
||||
knows as http://www.midwinter.com/lurk.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Inside that directory are a bunch of subdirectories, mostly
|
||||
corresponding to the major sections of the site. I'll get to them
|
||||
individually in a moment, but first a word on some common things you'll
|
||||
see in most of them.
|
||||
|
||||
<h3><a name="gen.py">gen.py</a></h3>
|
||||
The biggest thing to know about is a script
|
||||
called "gen.py" (it's written in Python), a version of which lives in
|
||||
each of the directories that contains per-episode HTML files. The
|
||||
script is responsible for assembling a static HTML file out of a header
|
||||
section (generated for each episode; it includes the episode's title
|
||||
among other things), a body file, and a footer section.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The body files contain the meat of the pages. They have the same
|
||||
filenames as the HTML files, minus the .html extension. In most cases
|
||||
that's just the 3-digit episode number, e.g. /lurk/guide/056.html
|
||||
contains the body file "056" from the guide subdirectory. When I want
|
||||
to add a new comment to the page for episode 33, for example, I cd into
|
||||
the guide directory, edit the file "033", then run "gen.py 033". The
|
||||
result is a new version of 033.html, with the old version moved aside
|
||||
to #033.html as a precaution.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
One other thing some of the gen.py versions do is add timestamps to items.
|
||||
The idea is that when I modify a page, I want to highlight the change so
|
||||
people who've already read the previous version can quickly scroll to the
|
||||
new stuff. To that end, gen.py looks for a special token "@@@" (which
|
||||
must by followed by whitespace or end-of-line) in the body file. When
|
||||
it finds the token, it replaces it with "@@@nnn" where nnn is the current
|
||||
timestamp in UNIX time_t format. This change is made to the body file
|
||||
itself. Then, when gen.py generates the HTML file from a body file, it
|
||||
inserts the date in bold wherever it sees a recent timestamp. Once a day
|
||||
a script regenerates all the HTML files so that the date markers go away
|
||||
after a while (keeping them in makes the pages look ugly and makes it
|
||||
hard to quickly locate new items).
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
When you see a file "skel", it's a prototype body file. I copy that to
|
||||
the appropriate filename when a new episode/novel/etc. comes out.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In many of the subdirectories you'll see a "genall.csh" script. This
|
||||
is just a shortcut that runs "gen.py" for each episode. I only use
|
||||
this when I make a change to the structure of the page headers/footers
|
||||
and want to apply it everywhere.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Also, in the top-level directory there's a "gen" script. This runs
|
||||
gen.py in each of the subdirectories. I use that when, for example, I
|
||||
add a picture for an episode and want it to be displayed on all the
|
||||
pages for that episode.
|
||||
|
||||
<h3>What's under /lurk</h3>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dl>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/background/">background</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
"The story so far" for each episode of seasons 1-4.
|
||||
Season 5 still needs to be written. The user-accessible files here are
|
||||
all .shtml files. You'll notice there aren't any body files here.
|
||||
Instead, background/gen.py uses a few other source files. There are
|
||||
several different introductory summaries, which are in the sum-*
|
||||
files. For example, sum-66 summarizes the story up to and including
|
||||
episode 66, and is included as the first part of the backgrounds for
|
||||
episodes 67 and later. After the appropriate sum-* file is included,
|
||||
gen.py looks in story.html. That file contains per-episode paragraphs
|
||||
that are included in the "More recently..." section of the background
|
||||
pages, under the introductions. Only the paragraphs for episodes
|
||||
between the summary and the current episode are included, e.g. for
|
||||
episode 75, gen.py includes sum-66 and the paragraphs for episodes
|
||||
67-74.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/chars/">chars</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Bios of some of the characters. These are linked to from the
|
||||
"Universe" section. Simple flat HTML files.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/comic/">comic</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Guide pages for the comic series. <a href="#gen.py">Body files and gen.py</a>.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/countries/">countries</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The only HTML file directly under here is index.html, which is a list of
|
||||
all the countries for which I have schedule information. Each country
|
||||
has a subdirectory under here (the directory name is generally the
|
||||
country's 2-letter country code). One pseudo-country of note is "master",
|
||||
which contains the master episode list with the episodes in the correct
|
||||
order (the original US airing order was slightly wrong storywise).
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Inside each country's directory is an eplist.html file with the schedule
|
||||
for that country, plus symbolic links to the various episode-guide
|
||||
subdirectories. By using relative paths in my URLs, I let the browser
|
||||
remember which country's schedule the user was looking at without resorting
|
||||
to cookies (which didn't yet exist as a concept when this site first
|
||||
started!) For example, /lurk/countries/se/eplist.html has a link to
|
||||
"guide/056.html", which is really the same file as /lurk/guide/056.html
|
||||
since /lurk/countries/se/guide is a symlink to /lurk/guide. But since the
|
||||
browser doesn't know that, 056.html's link back to the episode page is
|
||||
"../eplist.html" which goes back to the Swedish schedule.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
index.html is a link to eplist.html in the country directories.
|
||||
There is a "mkcountry.sh" script to set up a new country directory. There
|
||||
are also skeleton episode lists for all 5 seasons (skel, skel2, skel3, etc.)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
When I edit a country's schedule I use the "print-weeks.py" script, which
|
||||
is described later, so I don't have to hand-type dates.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/credits/">credits</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Episode credits. <a href="#gen.py">Body files and gen.py</a>.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/eplist.html">eplist.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
On the surface, just a symlink to /lurk/countries/us/eplist.html. But
|
||||
the Web server is configured to alias /lurk/eplist.html to
|
||||
/cgi-bin/select-eplist, which does the per-country episode list selection.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a name="find" href="/lurk/find/">find</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Data files and scripts for searching the archive of JMS Usenet messages.
|
||||
I use the "swish" indexing system. Since JMS's posting volume has slowed
|
||||
to a trickle, this doesn't get touched by hand much any more, but the
|
||||
theory is that once a month, I move the "latest" subdirectory in each
|
||||
archive source (America-Online, Usenet, etc.) to a name corresponding
|
||||
to that month and regenerate the master index file for that source. Then,
|
||||
on a daily basis, a cron job populates the "latest" subdirectories and runs
|
||||
swish on them, merging the master index files with the smaller "latest"
|
||||
indices to avoid the overhead of re-indexing all the old files again.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Most likely this setup should be replaced with a more modern indexing
|
||||
system.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The files in the archive source subdirectories are derived from the
|
||||
archive files in the FTP directory, which will be discussed below. The
|
||||
find/prep-files subdirectory contains the scripts used to split the
|
||||
archive files into individual messages.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
footer
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The standard page footer used throughout the site. Not used programmatically,
|
||||
but I load this into my text editor when I create a new page.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
gen
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Script that runs gen.py for an episode in each of the episode-related
|
||||
subdirectories.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
gif
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Pretty self-explanatory. All the non-navigation-related images live here.
|
||||
(Some of them are JPEGs despite the directory name.)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/">guide</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The episode guide pages. <a href="#gen.py">Body files and gen.py</a>.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/help.html">help.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The site FAQ. It's referred to by the name "help" instead to avoid confusion
|
||||
with the Usenet B5 FAQ.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
index.html
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Symlink to lurker.html.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
internal
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Data files used by gen.py and CGIs.
|
||||
|
||||
<dl>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
comicnames
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Titles of comics, one title per line.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
dom-error.html
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Error message returned when the episode-list selection CGI program can't
|
||||
find an episode list to show.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
domainlist
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
A mapping between DNS top-level domains and country directories. This
|
||||
is used so that when someone clicks on the "Episodes" link on the home
|
||||
page, they're taken to the schedule page for their country. (It doesn't
|
||||
suffice to just use the last part of the domain name as a country name
|
||||
since there are UK ISPs that use .net addresses, for example.) More on
|
||||
this in the CGI section below.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
epnames
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Titles of episodes, one title per line, starting with episode 0.
|
||||
Note that there are a lot of dummy lines because of gaps in episode numbering.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
lu-footer<br>
|
||||
lu-footer-epnum<br>
|
||||
lu-header<br>
|
||||
lu-header-date<br>
|
||||
lu-header-epnum<br>
|
||||
lu-header-guide<br>
|
||||
lu-header-synops
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Headers and footers used by gen.py.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
novelnames
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Titles of novels, one title per line, used by novels/gen.py.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
otros.py
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Library with common functions used by various gen.py versions.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
picnames
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Names of images to display in episode guide page headers. Each of these
|
||||
names is relative to /lurk/gif/XXX where XXX is the episode number. Note
|
||||
that there are a lot of dummy lines because of gaps in episode numbering.
|
||||
|
||||
</dl>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
lastmod.html
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
List of episode guide and synopsis pages, ordered by modification time.
|
||||
Generated by the "lastupdate.py" utility.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
lgchat.html
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Live voice-chat for LG users. Beats the heck out of text-only conferencing.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/lurker-nobg.html">lurker-nobg.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Home page without the black background, since some people find custom
|
||||
backgrounds annoying. This is automatically generated from lurker.html
|
||||
via a cron job that runs "make" in the top-level directory.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/lurker.html">lurker.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The home page.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
Makefile
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Once an hour this Makefile is used to rebuild lurker-nobg.html, and once
|
||||
a day it's used to make sure I haven't forgotten to run gen.py on something.
|
||||
It also updates the b5tvlist.txt file in the FTP archive.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/making/">making</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The "Making of B5" section of the site. Flat HTML files.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
maps
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Imagemaps for navbar.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
misc
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Miscellaneous documents that don't fit elsewhere, e.g. a blurb about
|
||||
why Claudia Christian left the show.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/nav/">nav</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Navigational images. A secondary function is that its index.html is the
|
||||
"preload your image cache here" page, which speeds up the site for folks
|
||||
by letting them suffer all the pain of nav image downloading in one shot.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/novels/">novels</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Novel guide pages. This section is incomplete -- there aren't pages yet
|
||||
for the latest round of novels. <a href="#gen.py">Body files and gen.py</a>.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/p5/">p5</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Results of the Poll 5 viewer survey for each episode.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/reference/">reference</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The "Reference" section of the site. Mostly flat HTML files, but a couple
|
||||
of the pages have server-side includes that bring in text files from the
|
||||
FTP area.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/renew.html">renew.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Not referenced any more, but perhaps of historical amusement.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/resources/">resources</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The "Other Resources" section of the site. Flat HTML files.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
src
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Contains scripts and CGI source code. More on these later.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/support/">support</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Not used any more (but retained since there are links to it on other
|
||||
sites).
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/survey.html">survey.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
A survey I ran a few times.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/synops/">synops</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Episode synopses. <a href="#gen.py">Body files and gen.py</a>.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/toc.html">toc.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Site map.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/universe/">universe</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The "Universe and Characters" section of the site. Flat HTML files. Season
|
||||
5 still needs to be written up.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/volunteers.html">volunteers.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
An exercise in naivete; I ended up doing all this myself!
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/vqt.html">vqt.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
JMS message about B5 being ranked #1 by Viewers for Quality Television.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/welcome.html">welcome.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Introduction to the site after the switch to the current look and feel.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/whatsnew.html">whatsnew.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The What's New page. When this gets to be big, I put all the old
|
||||
items in archive what's-new pages and link to them at the bottom of this
|
||||
page.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/winsock.html">winsock.html</a>
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Tips for Windows users who're having trouble loading the site.
|
||||
|
||||
</dl>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="ftp">/ftp</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The FTP archive at
|
||||
<a href="ftp://ftp.midwinter.com/">ftp://ftp.midwinter.com/</a>
|
||||
is also accessible via HTTP. There are a few aliases pointing into the
|
||||
FTP directory.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dl>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
/ftp
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The top-level FTP directory.
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
/b5
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The /pub/Babylon-5 FTP directory.
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
/b5p
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
The /pub/Babylon-5/Pictures FTP directory.
|
||||
</dl>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
See the FTP index file (available in both
|
||||
<a href="/b5/Index">text</a>
|
||||
and
|
||||
<a href="/b5/index.html">HTML</a>)
|
||||
for descriptions of the various files in the FTP archive. The Lurker's
|
||||
Guide points to various files here -- including some server-side include
|
||||
references -- and the JMS message archives here are used by the scripts
|
||||
in /lurk/find.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="cgi-bin">/cgi-bin</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
There are several Lurker's Guide-related CGI programs. The source code
|
||||
for all of them may be found in /lurk/src. Some of them make use of my
|
||||
<a href="http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/uncgi.html">Un-CGI</a>
|
||||
utility; you can distinguish those by the fact that their URLs look like
|
||||
/cgi-bin/uncgi/programname.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dl>
|
||||
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgmail
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Displays the feedback form. This is CGI because it needs to look at
|
||||
the referring URL and pass that on to the mail-sending program via a
|
||||
hidden form field.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
/cgi-bin/uncgi/lgsend
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Accepts input from the feedback form and sends me mail.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
/cgi-bin/lurkfind
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Displays the search UI if called with no arguments, or performs a search
|
||||
if search parameters are passed in. The site is indexed with the "swish"
|
||||
search engine, the config files and applications for which can be found
|
||||
in the /lurk/find directory.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
/cgi-bin/printcurrent
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
This isn't currently used, but when the show was originally airing in
|
||||
the US, there was a "This week's episode" link on the home page that
|
||||
pointed to this script. It looked at a symbolic link in /lurk/guide
|
||||
and redirected the user to the episode the link pointed to. The link
|
||||
was updated by the update-current.sh script.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
/cgi-bin/select-eplist
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Displays one of the episode lists based on which country the user is
|
||||
coming from. Uses /lurk/internal/domainlist to obtain the domain-to-country
|
||||
mapping.
|
||||
|
||||
</dl>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="utils">Miscellaneous utilities</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
There are a few utilities whose source you'll find in /lurk/src unless
|
||||
otherwise noted. Some have been discussed above, but here's a list:
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dl>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
gen-guide.sh
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
This is run once a day from a cron job. It regenerates all the guide pages.
|
||||
If a regenerated page doesn't differ from the old version, the old version
|
||||
is moved back into place to preserve its modification date. The purpose
|
||||
here is to expire the timestamps on new items in the guide pages (see the
|
||||
discussion of
|
||||
<a href="#gen.py">the gen.py script</a>
|
||||
above).
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
lastupdate.py
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Run once an hour from cron; this updates /lurk/lastmod.html and is pretty
|
||||
self-explanatory.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
update-current.sh
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Updates the symbolic link used by /cgi-bin/printcurrent. Not currently
|
||||
in use.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
/lurk/find/update-indexes.sh
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Once a day, re-extracts the latest messages from the various JMS message
|
||||
archive files and rebuilds the keyword index so they're searchable. See
|
||||
<a href="#find">/lurk/find</a>
|
||||
above.
|
||||
|
||||
</dl>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h5>Last update: August 27, 2000</h5>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
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|
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|
|
@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
|
|||
#!/usr/bin/python
|
||||
|
||||
import sys,string,time
|
||||
sys.path.append('../internal')
|
||||
import otros
|
||||
|
||||
months = [ '', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
|
||||
'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
|
||||
|
||||
for epnum in sys.argv[1:]:
|
||||
curep = string.atoi(epnum[:3])
|
||||
curepno = curep
|
||||
cureplong = '%03d' % (curep)
|
||||
prevep = '%03d' % (curep - 1)
|
||||
nextep = '%03d' % (curep + 1)
|
||||
|
||||
pix = open('../internal/epnames', 'r')
|
||||
for i in range(0, curep + 1):
|
||||
epname = pix.readline()[:-1]
|
||||
pix.close()
|
||||
if epname == '':
|
||||
epname = 'XXX'
|
||||
|
||||
curep = `curep`
|
||||
|
||||
input = open('story.html', 'r')
|
||||
output = open(cureplong + '.shtml', 'w')
|
||||
|
||||
output.write("""<html>
|
||||
<head>
|
||||
<title>Background: """ + '"' + epname + '"' + """</title>
|
||||
<link rev=made href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com">
|
||||
<link rel=parent href="../guide/""" + cureplong + """.html">
|
||||
</head>
|
||||
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
|
||||
""" + otros.pageheader(curepno, 'background', 1) + """
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
""")
|
||||
|
||||
printing = 1
|
||||
|
||||
#
|
||||
# We have concise outlines of some swaths of the story.
|
||||
#
|
||||
max_summary = 0
|
||||
if curepno > 24:
|
||||
max_summary = 24
|
||||
if curepno > 44:
|
||||
max_summary = 44
|
||||
if curepno > 66:
|
||||
max_summary = 66
|
||||
|
||||
while 1:
|
||||
line = input.readline()
|
||||
if line == '':
|
||||
break
|
||||
if line[:8] == '<episode':
|
||||
thisep = string.atoi(line[-5:-2])
|
||||
if thisep > max_summary:
|
||||
if not printing:
|
||||
output.write('<!--#include virtual="')
|
||||
output.write('/lurk/background/sum-' +
|
||||
`max_summary` + '" -->\n')
|
||||
|
||||
if thisep < curepno:
|
||||
output.write('<h1>More ' +
|
||||
'Recently...</h1>\n')
|
||||
printing = 1
|
||||
else:
|
||||
printing = 0
|
||||
if thisep >= curepno:
|
||||
break
|
||||
elif line[:6] == 'EPNAME':
|
||||
output.write('"' + epname + '."\n')
|
||||
elif printing:
|
||||
output.write(line)
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
mtime = time.localtime(time.time())
|
||||
mtime_str = '%s %d, %d' % (months[mtime[1]], mtime[2], mtime[0])
|
||||
output.write("""<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
""" + otros.pagefooter(curepno, 'background') + """
|
||||
|
||||
<h5>
|
||||
Last update:
|
||||
""" + mtime_str + """
|
||||
|
||||
</h5>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
""")
|
||||
|
||||
input.close()
|
||||
output.close()
|
||||
|
||||
print epnum
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
|
|||
#!/bin/csh
|
||||
@ ep = 1
|
||||
@ toteps = `sed '/XXX/,$d' < ../internal/epnames | wc -l`
|
||||
|
||||
set list = ""
|
||||
|
||||
while ($ep < $toteps)
|
||||
set list = "$list $ep"
|
||||
@ ep++
|
||||
end
|
||||
|
||||
gen.py $list
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
|
|||
<html>
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
<a href="../eplist.html">To the episode list</a>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,675 @@
|
|||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
This section contains a summary of Babylon 5's story arc (the 5-year
|
||||
plotline) up to, but not including,
|
||||
EPNAME
|
||||
Note that this is chock full of <strong>spoilers!</strong>
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=000>
|
||||
<episode num=001>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<font size="+2"><b>Season One</b></font> began with
|
||||
<a href="../guide/001.html">"Midnight on the Firing Line,"</a>
|
||||
about 6 months later.
|
||||
Lt. Cmdr Susan Ivanova replaced Lt. Cmdr. Takashima as second-in-command;
|
||||
her dislike of the Psi Corps became evident when Talia Winters arrived.
|
||||
A Centauri agricultural outpost was attacked without provocation by the Narns.
|
||||
(In broad strokes, this episode portrayed the Narns as the "bad guys"
|
||||
and the Centauri as comic relief.) Luis Santiago was reelected
|
||||
President of the Earth Alliance.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=002>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
A <a href="../guide/002.html">"Soul Hunter,"</a>
|
||||
a member of an order which collects and preserves important
|
||||
souls, found himself on the station, and attempted to collect Delenn's soul
|
||||
prematurely. The Minbari, it was revealed, greatly value souls; they
|
||||
prevented a soul hunter from taking the soul of their great leader Dukhat,
|
||||
so that his soul would be reborn into the next generation. Delenn was
|
||||
called <em>Satai</em> by the soul hunter, which prompted Sinclair to wonder if
|
||||
something was going on, as Satai is the title used my members of the Grey
|
||||
Council, the Minbari ruling body and highest religious authority.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=003>
|
||||
<episode num=004>
|
||||
<episode num=005>
|
||||
<episode num=006>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/006.html">"Mind War,"</a>
|
||||
two Psi Cops -- P12 level telepaths, including Bester
|
||||
(played by Walter Koenig) -- came to the station in search of telepath
|
||||
Jason Ironheart, who had achieved telekinetic abilities and was transforming
|
||||
into something more than human. Ironheart warned Sinclair that the Psi Corps
|
||||
is starting to pull the strings in the government back on Earth. When Bester's
|
||||
partner was killed, Sinclair made a new enemy. Before departing, Ironheart
|
||||
gave Talia a gift: telekinesis, and maybe other abilities as well.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=007>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/007.html">"The War Prayer"</a>
|
||||
introduced members of the Homeguard, an anti-alien
|
||||
organization back on Earth.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=008>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/008.html">"And The Sky Full of Stars"</a>
|
||||
explored what happened to Sinclair on the
|
||||
Battle of the Line, 10 years before in the Earth-Minbari War. Interrogated
|
||||
and forced to relive the battle, we saw Sinclair ram a
|
||||
Minbari Cruiser, only to wake up on board, interrogated by the Grey
|
||||
Council. He recognizes Delenn as one of the Grey Council. After escaping
|
||||
from his interrogators, he chose not to reveal to Delenn that he remembered
|
||||
part of his missing 24 hours.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=009>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/009.html">"Deathwalker"</a>
|
||||
was a notorious war criminal from the Dilgar War, fought by
|
||||
Earth and others several decades earlier. She had a substance she claimed
|
||||
granted immortality -- but only at the cost of another's life. The Vorlons
|
||||
destroyed her ship to prevent Earth from gaining the secret of immortality.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=010>
|
||||
<episode num=011>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/011.html">"Survivors"</a>
|
||||
pulled Garibaldi back into his alcoholism amid accusations of
|
||||
sabotage. The real culprit was the Homeguard.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=012>
|
||||
<episode num=013>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/013.html">"Signs and Portents"</a>
|
||||
deals with an attack by raiders on the station. The B-story, in which
|
||||
Londo acquired the long-lost symbol of his empire, the Eye, was more
|
||||
important. A mysterious, polite man named Morden inquired, "What do you
|
||||
want?" of the alien ambassadors, and seemed to like Londo's response --
|
||||
for the Centauri to reclaim their lost empire -- the
|
||||
best. The Eye was captured by the raiders, who were destroyed by a
|
||||
mysterious ship that appeared out of the shadows. Morden returned the Eye to
|
||||
Londo, "from friends you don't know you have."
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=014>
|
||||
<episode num=015>
|
||||
<episode num=016>
|
||||
<episode num=017>
|
||||
<episode num=018>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In the two-parter,
|
||||
<a href="../guide/018.html">"A Voice in the Wilderness,"</a>
|
||||
it was discovered that the
|
||||
planet below B5 is not as dead as was thought. The
|
||||
Mars colony broke out in rebellion. A dying alien was found controlling
|
||||
vast, tremendously powerful machinery on the planet below.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=019>
|
||||
Draal, an old friend of Delenn's, took charge of the machinery in the planet,
|
||||
warning away all who would try to take it for themselves. The Mars rebellion
|
||||
was put down by Earth Alliance security forces.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=020>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In <a href="../guide/020.html">"Babylon Squared,"</a>
|
||||
Babylon 4 -- the biggest of the Babylon stations, which
|
||||
dissapeared 24 hours after coming online, suddenly reappeared.
|
||||
Delenn was chosen by the Grey Council to be their new leader, but
|
||||
declined because a Minbari prophecy told her that her destiny was on
|
||||
Babylon 5. She left with a powerful device called a triluminary. On
|
||||
Babylon 4, as time disturbances flashed back and forward to other times
|
||||
(including a scene where
|
||||
something was coming through the walls of the station, being fought off by
|
||||
Garibaldi, as Sinclair was pushed into the crowds), the crew attempted to
|
||||
evacuate the crew of B4. A mysterious alien, Zathras, appeared and told
|
||||
of a great, terrible war, and the attempt to pull B4 through time to use it
|
||||
as a base of operations. Zathras was looking for "The One" -- the great leader
|
||||
of an effort to bring peace to the galaxy. Babylon 4 was evacuated, but
|
||||
Zathras, trapped, was rescued by "The One" -- who turned out to be a much older
|
||||
Sinclair, aided apparently by Delenn.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=021>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/021.html">"The Quality of Mercy"</a>
|
||||
revealed a clinic run by Dr. Franklin in the
|
||||
downbelow sections, as well as an alien healing machine that transfers
|
||||
"life force" from one person to another.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=022>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/022.html">"Chrysalis,"</a>
|
||||
the season one finale, referred to the cocoon that Delenn began
|
||||
to build using a mysterious crystalline machine and the triluminary.
|
||||
Garibaldi uncovered a plot to assassinate the Earth President, but was shot
|
||||
in the back by his right-hand man, left for dead. Morden reappeared and
|
||||
offered to take care of a problem for Londo, dealing with a region contested
|
||||
with the Narns. Delenn spoke to Ambassador Kosh, who revealed something to
|
||||
her that verified her interpretation of a prophecy. She confronted
|
||||
Sinclair about his knowledge of his interrogation, but entered into her
|
||||
cocoon before they could talk. Londo was horrified to find that a Narn
|
||||
outpost was utterly destroyed by mysterious forces.
|
||||
The president was assassinated, and the vice
|
||||
president was sworn in immediately. G'Kar left to investigate the
|
||||
destruction of the Narn base.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=023>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<font size="+2"><b>Season two</b></font>
|
||||
opened in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/023.html">"Points of Departure"</a>
|
||||
with the reassignment of Sinclair
|
||||
to ambassadorial duties on the Minbari homeworld and the assignment of
|
||||
Captain John Sheridan to command Babylon 5. Sheridan's
|
||||
connection to the Minbari War was revealed; he had one of the few victories
|
||||
over a Minbari warship. Lennier revealed why the Minbari surrendered;
|
||||
when Sinclair was captured, it was discovered that Minbari souls were being
|
||||
reborn in humans. Because Minbari do not kill other Minbari, the religious
|
||||
caste called off the war to stop harming their own souls.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=024>
|
||||
<!-- covered in sum-24 -->
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=025>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/025.html">"The Geometry of Shadows,"</a>
|
||||
Refa, a high-ranking Centauri noble, asked
|
||||
Londo to pledge his help in seizing the throne at some point.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=026>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/026.html">"A Distant Star,"</a>
|
||||
Lt. Keffer saw a Shadow ship in hyperspace and vowed to
|
||||
find out what it was.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=027>
|
||||
<episode num=028>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/028.html">"A Spider in the Web"</a>
|
||||
revealed a mysterious "Bureau 13" operating out of the
|
||||
San Diego wastelands. An assassin, controlled by the Bureau, attempted to
|
||||
thwart a peaceful settlement of the situation on Mars. Scanning his mind,
|
||||
Talia saw a Psi Cop present at the operation that programmed the assassin,
|
||||
but she didn't tell anybody else. Sheridan's interest in conspiracy theories
|
||||
was revealed as he attempted to solve the puzzle, and the existence of a
|
||||
plant among the B5 crew, code-named Control, was hinted at.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=029>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/029.html">"Soul Mates,"</a>
|
||||
Londo's three wives came to the
|
||||
station; one, who knows G'Kar, tried to murder him. He divorced her and
|
||||
one of the others. Talia's ex-husband, from an arranged marriage courtesy
|
||||
of the Corps, tried to woo her back.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=030>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/030.html">"A Race Through Dark Places,"</a>
|
||||
Bester returned to Babylon 5. He believed
|
||||
an underground railroad was smuggling unregistered telepaths
|
||||
outside of Psi-Corps' control. Talia was captured by the rogue
|
||||
telepaths and told gruesome stories of the Corps' true nature: forced
|
||||
breeding, murder, and coercion. She and the others tricked Bester into
|
||||
thinking the railroad was stopped. Dr. Franklin was revealed as one of
|
||||
the railroad's participants. Talia discovered another part of Ironheart's
|
||||
"gift" -- she is apparently now immune to telepathic scans.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=031>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
At Refa's behest, as the Centauri emperor lay dying, Londo asked Morden to
|
||||
destroy a major Narn colony in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/031.html">"The Coming of Shadows."</a>
|
||||
The Narns, believing
|
||||
the Centauri military responsible, declared war. Sinclair sent a message to
|
||||
Garibaldi via a network of "rangers," spies, a group he apparently heads.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=032>
|
||||
<episode num=033>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/033.html">"All Alone in the Night,"</a>
|
||||
Delenn was removed from the Grey Council, and
|
||||
a member of the warrior caste replaced her. We learned that Sheridan had been
|
||||
secretly evaluating the loyalty of the station's command staff, and is in
|
||||
league with a group (headed by General Hague, a member of the Joint Chiefs
|
||||
of Staff) out to expose what they believe is an attempt by the Psi-Corps and
|
||||
others to control the government. Of special note is a densely-packed
|
||||
<a href="../guide/033.html#AN:dream">dream sequence</a>
|
||||
in which Sheridan is visited by Ambassador Kosh.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=034>
|
||||
<episode num=035>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
President Clark's personal physician fled to the station in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/035.html">"Hunter, Prey"</a>
|
||||
with files proving that Clark wasn't sick as he claimed when he left
|
||||
Earth Force One just before it blew up and killed President Santiago. Sheridan
|
||||
gave the files to a representative of General Hague. Kosh agreed to teach
|
||||
Sheridan until he is ready "to fight legends" -- at which point it was implied
|
||||
Kosh would reveal himself to Sheridan.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=036>
|
||||
<episode num=037>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Narn-Centauri war hit close to home during a reporter's visit to Babylon 5
|
||||
in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/037.html">"And Now For a Word"</a>
|
||||
-- the Centauri were using B5 as a transfer point
|
||||
for military equipment, prompting a Narn attack. Back on Earth, the Clark
|
||||
government formed the Ministry of Public Morale and the Office of Public
|
||||
Information.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=038>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/038.html">"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"</a>
|
||||
revealed Morden's secret to Sheridan: he was on
|
||||
the vessel carrying Sheridan's wife, whose crew accidentally reawakened the
|
||||
Shadows four years earlier. The Shadows, Sheridan learned, are an ancient
|
||||
race, "old when even the ancients were young," defeated in the last Great
|
||||
War 10,000 years ago by a coalition of other ancient races known as the First
|
||||
Ones, of whom the Vorlons are the last remaining member. The Shadows,
|
||||
Sheridan learned, won't
|
||||
risk an all-out frontal assault as long as their existence is a secret.
|
||||
Earth's
|
||||
new Ministry of Peace sent a recruiter to Babylon 5 to enlist people in its
|
||||
citizen-vigilance program, the Nightwatch.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=039>
|
||||
<episode num=040>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The entire population of the Markab, a non-aligned race, was wiped out by a
|
||||
virulent disease in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/040.html">"Confessions and Lamentations."</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=041>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Talia's
|
||||
<a href="../guide/041.html">"Divided Loyalties"</a>
|
||||
were revealed when former station telepath Lyta
|
||||
Alexander, now a member of an anti-Corps underground movement, visited the
|
||||
station and discovered that Talia was a spy, probably Control. Talia's
|
||||
personality was destroyed and she was shipped off the station. Ivanova
|
||||
admitted the reason she's so reluctant to be scanned: she's a latent telepath.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=042>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Narn-Centauri War came to an abrupt end in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/042.html">"The Long, Twilight Struggle"</a>
|
||||
with the help of the Shadows, who eliminated the entire Narn fleet while
|
||||
Centauri ships decimated the Narn homeworld from orbit. Sheridan granted
|
||||
G'Kar asylum on Babylon 5. Draal, on the planet below the station, put the
|
||||
great machine at Sheridan's disposal. Delenn introduced Sheridan to the
|
||||
Rangers.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=043>
|
||||
<episode num=044>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Earth signed a non-aggression pact with the Centauri in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/044.html">"The Fall of Night."</a>
|
||||
Unfortunately, Sheridan's sheltering of a Narn warship brought the station
|
||||
under Centauri attack, and Sheridan was forced to destroy a Centauri cruiser.
|
||||
When two Centauri attempted to assassinate Sheridan, Kosh intervened, revealing
|
||||
himself in the process: he appeared as an angelic being of light, a religious
|
||||
figure from legend -- but a <em>different</em> figure to every race who saw
|
||||
him. Keffer located a Shadow ship. It shot him out of space,
|
||||
but his recording was broadcast on the news, making the Shadows known to all.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=045>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/045.html">"Matters of Honor"</a>
|
||||
brought Marcus Cole, a Ranger, to the station; he led Sheridan and Delenn to
|
||||
a new ship, the White Star, a combination of Minbari and Vorlon technology.
|
||||
Pushing the White Star to its limits, Sheridan destroyed a Shadow cruiser.
|
||||
Londo attempted to sever his ties with the Shadows. Morden met with a Psi
|
||||
Cop, apparently far from the first such meeting.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=046>
|
||||
<episode num=047>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Centauri sent a replacement for G'Kar to the station in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/047.html">"A Day in the Strife"</a>
|
||||
and threatened to persecute the families of G'Kar's supporters unless he
|
||||
gave up his exile and faced trial. Meanwhile, Ta'Lon, a Narn whose life
|
||||
Sheridan saved some months earlier
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/033.html">"All Alone in the Night"</a>)
|
||||
pledged to act as Sheridan's bodyguard. Londo arranged to have Vir
|
||||
sent off to Minbar as the new Centauri diplomatic liaison.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=048>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/048.html">"Passing Through Gethsemane,"</a>
|
||||
Lyta Alexander, the station's first telepath and the person who unmasked
|
||||
Talia's Bureau-13-implanted personality, returned from a stay on the Vorlon
|
||||
homeworld to become Ambassador Kosh's attache. The Vorlons appear to have
|
||||
modified her, possibly even enabling her to carry one of them inside her.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=049>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The conspiracy of light made its move against President Clark in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/049.html">"Voices of Authority"</a>
|
||||
by releasing a recording of Morden and Clark planning
|
||||
Santiago's assassination. Ivanova located another race of First Ones and
|
||||
secured a promise of help in the fight against the Shadows.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=050>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
G'Kar learned of Londo's involvement with the Shadows in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/050.html">"Dust to Dust."</a>
|
||||
He was sentenced to prison for assaulting Londo, and was visited in a
|
||||
dream by Kosh, who posed as the Narn deity G'Lan.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=051>
|
||||
<episode num=052>
|
||||
<episode num=053>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/053.html">"Point of No Return,"</a>
|
||||
President Clark declared martial law on Babylon 5 after dissolving the Senate
|
||||
back home. An attempt by the Nightwatch to take over the station was foiled,
|
||||
barely, but Sheridan was forced to accept G'Kar's help and begin using Narn
|
||||
as station security personnel.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=054>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Despite his temporary victory, Sheridan was soon forced to cut the station's
|
||||
ties with Earth in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/054.html">"Severed Dreams,"</a>
|
||||
following in the footsteps of several secessionist colony worlds after the
|
||||
bombing of civilians on Mars.
|
||||
Delenn, meanwhile, confronted the Grey Council about its unwillingness to
|
||||
intervene in the spreading Shadow-initiated conflicts among the nonaligned
|
||||
worlds; the confrontation led to the shattering of
|
||||
the Council. A losing battle for control of the station was resolved only by
|
||||
the arrival of Minbari cruisers under the command of Delenn and other former
|
||||
Council members, who declared Babylon 5 under Minbari protection.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=055>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/055.html">"Ceremonies of Light and Dark,"</a>
|
||||
Sheridan admitted his growing affection for Delenn. Londo threatened Refa
|
||||
with death unless the Centauri broke off their relationship with Morden and
|
||||
the Shadows.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=056>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Vir returned to the station after being demoted for running an underground
|
||||
railroad for Narn refugees in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/056.html">"Sic Transit Vir."</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=057>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Realizing that the station would be better off with more protectors than just
|
||||
the Minbari, Sheridan and Ivanova negotiated with several minor races to
|
||||
supplement the station's defenses in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/057.html">"A Late Delivery From Avalon."</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=058>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Bester delivered a
|
||||
<a href="../guide/058.html">"Ship of Tears"</a>
|
||||
to the station: a Shadow-bound cargo ship with hundreds of cybernetically
|
||||
enhanced human telepaths. Telepaths, the crew soon discovered, can disrupt
|
||||
the link between Shadow ships and their pilots.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=059>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Franklin resigned his post as chief medical officer in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/059.html">"Interludes and Examinations."</a>
|
||||
Morden tricked Londo into vowing to crush Refa, and asking for Morden's help
|
||||
to do it. Sheridan convinced Kosh to mount a Vorlon attack on a small
|
||||
Shadow fleet. The Vorlons won the battle, but in retaliation, the Shadows
|
||||
killed Kosh.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=060>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/060.html">"War Without End,"</a>
|
||||
Ambassador Sinclair received a personally addressed letter from 900 years in
|
||||
the past. The note brought him to Babylon 5, where he led Delenn, Sheridan,
|
||||
and others in an expedition to pull Babylon 4 a thousand years into the
|
||||
past, when history recorded its role in the defeat of the Shadows. Draal,
|
||||
in the Great Machine, opened a time rift, and sent his aide Zathras with
|
||||
time-travel equipment and the chrysalis machine Delenn would eventually
|
||||
use to become
|
||||
half-human. During the time shift, Sheridan was pulled forward seventeen
|
||||
years to find himself in Londo's throne room on a ruined Centauri Prime.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=061>
|
||||
He and Delenn were thrown into a cell, where he learned that he had been
|
||||
victorious over the Shadows, but only to a point, and that he and Delenn
|
||||
had had a son, David. Londo, afflicted with a parasite called a "keeper"
|
||||
that monitored his every move, let the two of them go, then urged G'Kar
|
||||
to kill him before the keeper alerted anyone. The keeper awoke, and Londo
|
||||
and G'Kar died at each other's hands, leaving Vir to assume the throne.
|
||||
Meanwhile, on Babylon 4, the crew pulled Sheridan back to the present,
|
||||
and Sinclair stayed behind to supervise the station's transfer to the Minbari
|
||||
a thousand years before, as described in the letter from Valen -- who was
|
||||
actually a transformed Sinclair.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=062>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The forces of light, with the help of Lyta and some Minbari telepaths,
|
||||
emerged victorious from a direct confrontation with Shadow war cruisers in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/062.html">"Walkabout."</a>
|
||||
A new Vorlon ambassador, also named Kosh, arrived on the station.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=063>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Shortly thereafter, in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/063.html">"Grey 17 Is Missing,"</a>
|
||||
Sheridan and his allies began openly recruiting telepaths of all races for
|
||||
use as soldiers against the Shadows.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=064>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Fearing a power struggle in the royal court, Londo had Refa eliminated in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/064.html">"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place."</a>
|
||||
Meanwhile, Sheridan discovered the next likely target of the Shadows.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=065>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
With the telepaths deployed among the races of the Army of Light, Sheridan
|
||||
assembled a strike force in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/065.html">"Shadow Dancing."</a>
|
||||
His first direct confrontation with the Shadows
|
||||
was a success, if a costly one; the Shadows were beaten back. Franklin,
|
||||
meanwhile, returned to his duties after a brush with death.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=066>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Their defeat prompted the Shadows to send an emissary to Sheridan, inviting
|
||||
him to meet with them on their homeworld,
|
||||
<a href="../guide/066.html">Z'ha'dum</a>:
|
||||
his wife Anna, presumed dead. There, they tried to convince him to stop
|
||||
leading the Army of Light, and revealed their purpose: to encourage
|
||||
accelerated evolution among the lesser races by provoking conflict and
|
||||
weeding out the weak. Unconvinced, Sheridan fled his hosts and, leaping
|
||||
into a gaping abyss, summoned the White Star to self-destruct over a
|
||||
huge Shadow city in a huge thermonuclear blast.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=067>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
G'Kar set out in search of Garibaldi, who was taken by a Shadow ship during
|
||||
Sheridan's confrontation with the Shadows, in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/067.html">"The Hour of the Wolf."</a>
|
||||
Londo took up a position in the royal court, but soon discovered that the
|
||||
Emperor was insane and had made a deal with the Shadows in the belief that
|
||||
they would elevate him to godhood. A rescue mission was mounted to Z'ha'dum,
|
||||
but Sheridan was nowhere to be found. Somehow, though, he survived, and found
|
||||
himself at the bottom of the chasm accompanied by an enigmatic alien.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=068>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The alien, Lorien, claimed to be the first of the First Ones, the reason the
|
||||
Shadows always return to Z'ha'dum. G'Kar never found out
|
||||
<a href="../guide/068.html">"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi,"</a>
|
||||
and was captured by the Centauri. Londo promised G'Kar the freedom of the
|
||||
Narn homeworld if G'Kar would help him unseat Emperor Cartagia. Meanwhile,
|
||||
back on Babylon 5, the League of Non-aligned Worlds splintered thanks to
|
||||
Sheridan's disappearance, and Delenn summoned the Rangers to organize a
|
||||
final strike on Z'ha'dum.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=069>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi was recovered from a mysterious ship in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/069.html">"The Summoning,"</a>
|
||||
while Ivanova and Marcus set out in search of more First Ones. What they
|
||||
found instead was a vast Vorlon fleet on a mission to destroy any world
|
||||
touched by the Shadows. Lyta turned against Kosh. Sheridan returned with
|
||||
Lorien, just in time to thwart an attempt by the frightened Non-Aligned
|
||||
Worlds to break up the Army of Light.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=070>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/070.html">"Falling Toward Apotheosis,"</a>
|
||||
Londo learned of Cartagia's plan to allow the Vorlons to destroy Centauri
|
||||
Prime, thus propelling him to godhood in a glorious explosion of fire.
|
||||
Londo convinced Cartagia to first go to Narn and try G'Kar for crimes
|
||||
against the Centauri; even so, Cartagia had a guard pluck out G'Kar's left
|
||||
eye in a moment of pique. As the Vorlon fleet proceeded with its plan,
|
||||
destroying world after world and sending refugees streaming to Babylon 5,
|
||||
Sheridan and Lorien battled and killed Kosh. Delenn learned that Sheridan's
|
||||
resurrection is only temporary; he has no more than twenty years left.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=071>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
During
|
||||
<a href="../guide/071.html">"The Long Night"</a>
|
||||
before the Army of Light's planned confrontation with the Vorlons, the
|
||||
Shadows unleashed their own planet-killer, prompting Sheridan to lure them
|
||||
into direct battle with the Vorlons to settle the conflict once and for all.
|
||||
With G'Kar's help, Londo and Vir assassinated Cartagia; the royal court,
|
||||
most unaware of the plot, elected Londo prime minister to quickly rid Centauri
|
||||
Prime of Shadow influence and stave off the impending Vorlon attack. Londo
|
||||
ordered the withdrawal of Centauri forces from Narn.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=072>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Shadow War came to an abrupt end in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/072.html">"Into the Fire."</a>
|
||||
Confronted by a united fleet of the younger races they were supposed to be
|
||||
shepherding, the Vorlons and Shadows attempted
|
||||
to force Sheridan to choose one of the two approaches to growth
|
||||
and evolution. Sheridan rejected both choices; the younger races didn't need
|
||||
shepherding any more, and would never again act as pawns. The Shadows and
|
||||
Vorlons, convinced that their battle for philosophical dominance could no
|
||||
longer continue, departed for the Rim, accompanied by Lorien and the last of
|
||||
the remaining First Ones. Londo, meanwhile, destroyed the Shadow base on
|
||||
Centauri Prime, earning a promise of retribution by the Shadows' allies.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=073>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Postwar euphoria was brief; with the departure of the Shadows, President
|
||||
Clark turned his attention back to Babylon 5, launching a propaganda war
|
||||
in lieu of a futile direct attack. In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/073.html">"Epiphanies,"</a>
|
||||
Sheridan was alerted to the first phase of the war by psi-cop Bester, who
|
||||
demanded to be taken to Z'ha'dum in exchange for the information. The crew
|
||||
arrived in time to see the Shadows' dark servants escaping with unknown
|
||||
quantities of Shadow technology, just before the sudden self-destruction of the
|
||||
entire planet. Their first target: Centauri Prime, where they planted a Keeper
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/061.html">"War Without End, part 2"</a>)
|
||||
on the body of the newly-appointed Regent. After receiving a mysterious
|
||||
coded message, Garibaldi resigned his post.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=074>
|
||||
<episode num=075>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn returned to Minbar to begin
|
||||
<a href="../guide/075.html">"Atonement"</a>
|
||||
for her cross-species relationship with Sheridan, strictly forbidden by
|
||||
traditional Minbari beliefs about racial purity. Under the influence of a
|
||||
mind probe, the first days of her membership on the Grey Council came to
|
||||
light, including the fact that she ordered the start of the Earth-Minbari
|
||||
War. More importantly, she discovered that she was a direct descendant of
|
||||
Valen, and thus wasn't a racially pure Minbari to begin with -- and neither
|
||||
were untold millions of other Minbari descended from Sinclair's children of a
|
||||
thousand years ago.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=076>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi, now operating as a private investigator, grew tired of the cult
|
||||
of personality surrounding Sheridan. In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/076.html">"Racing Mars,"</a>
|
||||
he agreed to help a group that claimed to be concerned about Sheridan's
|
||||
personality becoming a danger to the cause.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=077>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Tensions on Minbar continued to rise. In
|
||||
<a href="../guide/077.html">"Lines of Communication,"</a>
|
||||
the warrior caste began purging major cities of religious and worker caste
|
||||
members. In response, Delenn was asked to enlist the aid of the Drakh, one
|
||||
of the Shadow's servant races, now at large with looted Shadow technology.
|
||||
No bargain was struck.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=078>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi was offered a job on Mars, and Sheridan devised a plan to deploy the
|
||||
White Star fleet as a police force to protect border areas from raiders and
|
||||
the Drakh, in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/078.html">"Conflicts of Interest."</a>
|
||||
Garibaldi's new employer, a medical-research magnate, came into possession of
|
||||
a substance that allegedly cures a deadly genetic flaw in telepaths.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=079>
|
||||
<episode num=080>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn and a high-ranking warrior caste member, Neroon, tricked the warrior
|
||||
caste's leader into bringing the civil war to an end in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/080.html">"Moments of Transition,"</a>
|
||||
forming a new Grey Council under the majority control of the worker caste.
|
||||
Meanwhile, Bester struck a deal with Lyta, giving her the appearance of
|
||||
rejoining the Psi Corps. Earth forces attacked a convoy of unarmed refugee
|
||||
ships, causing Sheridan to declare war.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=081>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan's forces liberated the colony at Proxima 3 in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/081.html">"No Surrender, No Retreat."</a>
|
||||
Disgusted with Sheridan's guns-blazing approach to unseating Clark,
|
||||
Garibaldi left the station to meet with his new employer on Mars.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=082>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Dr. Franklin benefited from
|
||||
<a href="../guide/082.html">"The Exercise of Vital Powers,"</a>
|
||||
in this case Lyta's ability to reawaken the frozen Shadow-implanted telepaths.
|
||||
Garibaldi arrived on Mars, where Mr. Edgars, his new employer, convinced him
|
||||
to try to lure Sheridan into a trap.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=083>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi's trap was sprung, and Sheridan was captured by Clark's forces in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/083.html">"The Face of the Enemy."</a>
|
||||
Edgars revealed his plan: to enslave telepaths by infecting them with a
|
||||
lethal virus. Unfortunately, Bester scanned Garibaldi -- who had all along
|
||||
been acting as Bester's agent, personality altered so he'd be more
|
||||
susceptible to betraying Sheridan -- and discovered the plot. Edgars was
|
||||
promptly murdered and the virus stolen.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=084>
|
||||
<episode num=085>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Continuing the fight in Sheridan's absence, Ivanova was mortally wounded in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/085.html">"Between the Darkness and the Light."</a>
|
||||
Shortly thereafter, Sheridan was rescued by Franklin, Lyta, and Garibaldi,
|
||||
who submitted to a scan by Lyta to prove he was manipulated by Bester.
|
||||
The League of Non-Aligned Worlds, at the urging of G'Kar and Londo, committed
|
||||
forces to aid Sheridan's fleet.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=086>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Using the implanted telepaths' ability to merge with computer systems,
|
||||
Sheridan's forces defeated the defenses of Mars and Earth with few casualties in
|
||||
<a href="../guide/086.html">"Endgame."</a>
|
||||
Clark committed suicide rather than face capture. Marcus used the alien
|
||||
healing device
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/021.html">"The Quality of Mercy"</a>)
|
||||
to sacrifice himself to save Ivanova's life.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
|
|||
<p>
|
||||
The pilot, "The Gathering," was set in the year 2257;
|
||||
Babylon 5 had recently come online. The last of the ambassadors,
|
||||
Kosh, arrived on the station, prompting an assassination attempt. Sinclair
|
||||
was framed for the attempt, but was eventually cleared when the real culprit
|
||||
-- a Minbari -- was discovered. Many mysteries were introduced: Sinclair's
|
||||
missing 24 hours on the Battle of the Line (with the announcement by the
|
||||
Minbari that "there is a hole in your mind"); the mystery of Kosh, seen
|
||||
only by the doctor and the telepath; and the disappearance or destruction
|
||||
of the previous four Babylon stations.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
|
|||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<font size="+2">Season One</font>
|
||||
began with an attack, then backed off to allow time to introduce
|
||||
most of the major characters, species, and forces and touch on most
|
||||
of the themes, only to gather force again at the end with a set of intense
|
||||
episodes that raise as many questions as they resolve. The prominent
|
||||
threads are the Centauri-Narn conflict, the Shadows, the Psi Corps, happenings
|
||||
on Earth, the Minbari surrender, what happened to Sinclair at the Battle
|
||||
of the Line, what happened to the previous Babylon stations, and the Vorlons.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>Centauri-Narn Conflict</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
As the season began, the Narns launched a preemptive and unprovoked strike
|
||||
against a Centauri agricultural outpost
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/001.html">"Midnight on the Firing Line."</a>)
|
||||
The official Centauri response was to do nothing, but due to his personal
|
||||
involvement with events there and his great desire that the Centauri show
|
||||
the mettle of their former age of empire, the somewhat foppish Ambassador
|
||||
Londo Mollari, with the sympathetic support of the humans and Minbari, tried to
|
||||
defy his government and sanction the Narn. The two sides continued to bicker
|
||||
until in exasperation Londo called for help from his new friend Mr. Morden.
|
||||
The Shadows launched a preemptive and unprovoked strike against a Narn outpost
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/022.html">"Chrysalis"</a>)
|
||||
-- and utterly destroyed it (to Londo's moderate distress.)
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Shadows</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The first encounter B5 had with the Shadows occured when a mysterious, polite
|
||||
man named Morden arrived and asked each of the alien ambassadors, "What do you
|
||||
want?"
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/013.html">"Signs and Portents"</a>)
|
||||
Delenn suspected what Morden represented; Kosh
|
||||
certainly knew; G'Kar only wanted to annihilate the Centauri. Morden seemed
|
||||
to approve most of Londo's desire for the Centauri to reclaim their lost
|
||||
empire, so he ingratiated himself by doing Londo a great favor. It was only
|
||||
after the Shadows attacked the Narn that G'Kar made a connection between this
|
||||
new enemy and an ancient enemy of lore. He traveled to the rim of known
|
||||
space and found a deadly force on Z'ha'dum, a world thought to be long dead
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/024.html">"Revelations."</a>)
|
||||
However, his unconfirmed warnings of a great threat fell, and continue to
|
||||
fall, on deaf ears in the council chambers.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Psi Corps</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Almost as secretive, and certainly as nefarious, is the Psi Corps. Although
|
||||
Talia is reasonable and ethical, the behavior of her superiors in the
|
||||
organization is questionable. Among many who view the Corps with
|
||||
suspicion, Ivanova's hatred of them is almost legendary. They
|
||||
hunted Jason Ironheart to the station because after completing their
|
||||
experiments on him he could see into their machinations for global domination
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/006.html">"Mind War."</a>)
|
||||
The Corps' security arm, the Psi Cops, as represented by Bester, appear to be a
|
||||
particularly sinister breed.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>Earth</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The idea that the Psi Corps might be manipulating the Earth government was
|
||||
lent confirmation when a connection arose between them and the
|
||||
assassination of the Earth President and the installment of his successor
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/024.html">"Revelations."</a>)
|
||||
There are other ominous signs of changes coming from Earth,
|
||||
among them the anti-alien Homeguard
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/007.html">"The War Prayer"</a>)
|
||||
and the squelching of the Mars independence movement
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/018.html">"A Voice in the Wilderness."</a>)
|
||||
Whatever the cause, things "back home" are becoming continuously bleaker.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>Minbari Surrender and The Battle of the Line</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Twelve years ago humans were responsible for the death of the Minbari
|
||||
leader. In retaliation, the Minbari declared war, and in the final hour, as
|
||||
their ships were poised for the destruction of Earth, the Minbari Grey
|
||||
Council captured one human, Sinclair, attempting to ram their ship. In the
|
||||
course of their interrogation they discovered to their horror that Minbari
|
||||
souls were being reborn in human bodies. Because Minbari refuse to harm
|
||||
their own, and due to an ancient prophecy regarding the joining of their
|
||||
souls and the fight against a great enemy, the Grey Council ordered the
|
||||
Minbari to surrender. They maintained an interest in Sinclair, however, and
|
||||
effectively selected him to run B5. They also invited him to Minbar as the
|
||||
first Earth ambassador
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/023.html">"Points of Departure."</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn, who was present at the questioning of Sinclair, was chosen by
|
||||
the Grey Council to be the leader of the Minbari
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/020.html">"Babylon Squared."</a>)
|
||||
So deep was her belief in the prophecy and her role to play in fulfilling it
|
||||
that she not only declined the nomination but defied the Council's orders,
|
||||
spinning a cocoon and metamorphosing into a Minbari-Human hybrid.
|
||||
Perhaps she is right, for the instant a
|
||||
<a href="../guide/002.html">"Soul Hunter"</a>
|
||||
(a caretaker of the "greatest
|
||||
souls") saw her, he tried to collect her soul prematurely.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>Previous Babylon Stations</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The first three Babylon stations were sabotaged. The fourth vanished
|
||||
immediately after coming online. Four years later it reappeared and a
|
||||
strange alien named Zathras explained that B4 was being drawn through time by
|
||||
"The One," (a much older Sinclair aided by Delenn) to serve in a great
|
||||
galactic war
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/020.html">"Babylon Squared."</a>)
|
||||
People on B4 experienced time shifts, and
|
||||
Sinclair envisioned Garibaldi's last stand in a battle aboard B5.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Vorlons</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Vorlons are almost as much a mystery at the end of the season as at the
|
||||
beginning. As Kosh arrived on the station
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/000.html">"The Gathering"</a>)
|
||||
he was the victim
|
||||
of an assassination attempt by a Minbari. Lest we think the Vorlons are
|
||||
ineffectual or completely uninvolved, they enigmatically destroyed a ship
|
||||
bearing the secret of immortality to Earth. Kosh also showed an interest in
|
||||
Talia, to the point of making a mental recording of her
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/009.html">"Deathwalker."</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>Other Issues</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The planet below B5 was found to contain vastly powerful machinery and
|
||||
weapons. Delenn's former mentor Draal replaced the sentient heart of the
|
||||
machine
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/019.html">"A Voice in the Wilderness."</a>)
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
|
|||
<p>
|
||||
The Babylon Project was conceived by the Earth government in the
|
||||
aftermath of the Earth-Minbari War. It was finally realized in Babylon 5, a
|
||||
diplomatic outpost created to promote peaceful conflict resolution. Even
|
||||
with such lofty goals, its galactic significance has quickly outstripped its
|
||||
founders' wildest dreams -- let alone their ability to control. Babylon 5's
|
||||
early years have been marked by a growing sense of foreboding, punctuated
|
||||
by successively more immediate threats to the station's safety. Yet as
|
||||
rising darkness nurtures galaxy-wide despair, the station begins to become
|
||||
the focal point for a number of tiny rays of light.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Shadows</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The gloom is made incarnate by the return of a mysterious ancient race known
|
||||
only as the Shadows. A thousand years ago they were beaten back to the rim
|
||||
of known space by an alliance which included relatively young civilizations
|
||||
like the Minbari, and a number of extremely powerful older races known
|
||||
collectively as the First Ones, who with
|
||||
the exception of the Vorlons have all passed beyond the confines of the
|
||||
galaxy -- presumably forever. On the rim, on dead deserted worlds like
|
||||
Z'ha'dum, the Shadows hid and gathered their strength for another assault
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/038.html">"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum."</a>)
|
||||
They do not act openly yet, but only through
|
||||
proxies like the human Mr. Morden, and the Centauri. What do they want?
|
||||
Only they know for sure. Chaos, it would seem, and control, and about two
|
||||
thirds of the galaxy.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Centauri and Ambassador Londo Mollari</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
It is ironic for a people as dedicated to hedonism and frivolity as the
|
||||
Centauri to become the facilitators of destruction and despair. Yet they
|
||||
are trapped by their dreams of former Empire and the vainglorious whims of
|
||||
individuals like Ambassador Mollari and the machiavellian Lord Refa. At first
|
||||
Londo thinks he can use his new friend Mr. Morden to further his own career,
|
||||
and is scarcely disturbed that the price is paid in Narn corpses.
|
||||
Disregarding all warnings,
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/025.html">"The Geometry of Shadows,"</a>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/039.html">"Knives"</a>)
|
||||
and the best
|
||||
chance for peace the Centauri have ever had,
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/031.html">"The Coming of Shadows"</a>)
|
||||
Londo
|
||||
oversaw the Centauri-Narn War from its inception as a border conflict
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/001.html">"Midnight on the Firing Line,"</a>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/022.html">"Chrysalis"</a>)
|
||||
to its culmination in the
|
||||
planetary bombardment of the Narn homeworld
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/042.html">"The Long, Twilight Struggle."</a>)
|
||||
Yet as his dreams come closer to reality, his enjoyment of them ebbs, and it
|
||||
begins to dawn on him the extent to which it is he who is being used in the
|
||||
schemes of others.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Narn and Ambassador G'Kar</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The G'Kar who lied brazenly about the preemptive Narn strike against an
|
||||
undefended Centauri agricultural colony
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/001.html">"Midnight on the Firing Line,"</a>)
|
||||
is
|
||||
a far cry from the one who was ordered to petition Earth for sanctuary on
|
||||
Babylon 5 as the last surviving member of the Narn ruling body
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/042.html">"The Long Twilight Struggle."</a>)
|
||||
In the intervening years he experienced a religious
|
||||
reaffirmation when he discovered on Z'ha'dum the ancient Enemy spoken of by
|
||||
the prophet G'Quon
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/024.html">"Revelations."</a>)
|
||||
He learned futility by watching his
|
||||
warnings of the Enemy's return fall on seemingly deaf ears. And he learned
|
||||
humility from the greatness of his enemy's emperor
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/031.html">"The Coming of Shadows."</a>)
|
||||
Perhaps these experiences have prepared him for the heavy
|
||||
responsibility he assumes of leading his people's struggle for independence
|
||||
in exile.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>Earth</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Signs from Earth have also grown markedly bleaker in just a few years. The
|
||||
anti-alien Home Guard
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/007.html">"The War Prayer,"</a>)
|
||||
the squelching of the Mars
|
||||
independence movement
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/018.html">"A Voice in the Wilderness,"</a>)
|
||||
and the increase in
|
||||
militarism back home
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/032.html">"GROPOS,"</a>)
|
||||
soon paled in comparison to the discovery of
|
||||
the conspiracy which led to the assassination of the Earth President
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/022.html">"Chrysalis,"</a>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/035.html">"Hunter Prey,"</a>)
|
||||
and the efforts of the insidious Ministry of
|
||||
Peace to eradicate the faintest whispers of dissent. In its most morally
|
||||
vacant act, the Earth government chose to sign a treaty of nonaggression
|
||||
with the expanding Centauri Empire
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/044.html">"The Fall of Night"</a>)
|
||||
rather than stand
|
||||
up for the sovereignty of the Nonaligned Worlds.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Psi Corps</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Whenever the Babylon 5 crew investigates the more disturbing situations
|
||||
arising from contact with Earth, they regularly find the Psi Corps lurking
|
||||
behind the scenes. Quite clearly the Psi Corps has no limits on the extent
|
||||
to which it will manipulate people in its efforts to obtain power
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/006.html">"Mind War,"</a>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/029.html">"Soul Mates,"</a>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/030.html">"A Race through Dark Places."</a>)
|
||||
Among many who view them
|
||||
with suspicion, Commander Ivanova's hatred for the Corps is legendary; it is
|
||||
also a smoke screen to hide her fear that they will discover her telepathic
|
||||
latency. Within the Corps itself, there appears to be an even more
|
||||
dangerous, ultra-secret group operating under the code name Bureau 13
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/028.html">"A Spider in the Web."</a>)
|
||||
Among other acts of casual manipulation and
|
||||
destruction, they are likely responsible for planting the artificial
|
||||
personality in Talia Winters which was sent to spy on B5 and which wiped out
|
||||
Talia's true personality
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/041.html">"Divided Loyalties."</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Minbari and Ambassador Delenn</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Powerful, honorable, the Minbari almost annihilated Earth after their first
|
||||
encounter with humans, yet inexplicably surrendered in their hour of victory
|
||||
and subsequently helped sponsor the Babylon Project. Of the few humans and
|
||||
Minbari who know the complete story, many do not believe it. When the Grey
|
||||
Council war cruiser was poised over Earth during the Battle of the Line, a
|
||||
lone pilot attempting to ram their ship (Jeffrey Sinclair) was captured and
|
||||
interrogated
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/008.html">"And the Sky Full of Stars."</a>)
|
||||
To their horror, the Council
|
||||
determined that Minbari souls were being reborn in human bodies. Besides the
|
||||
fact that Minbari refuse to harm their own, an ancient prophecy
|
||||
claimed that a great challenge would someday arise which could only be met
|
||||
when the two halves of the Minbari soul were joined. Thus, the Council
|
||||
ordered the Minbari forces to surrender
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/023.html">"Points of Departure."</a>)
|
||||
Many
|
||||
Minbari, particularly among the warrior caste, still despise this decision
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/036.html">"There All Honor Lies,"</a>)
|
||||
and as the warrior caste grows more powerful on
|
||||
Minbar, there are signs of schisms appearing in the formerly coherent society.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The prophecy also mentions an individual who will lead the combined forces
|
||||
of Minbari and humans. So strong is her belief that she is this Chosen One
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/043.html">"Comes the Inquisitor,"</a>)
|
||||
that not only does Delenn refuse the Grey
|
||||
Council's selection of her to be the leader of all Minbari
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/020.html">"Babylon Squared,"</a>)
|
||||
but against its instruction to wait she metamorphoses into a
|
||||
human-Minbari hybrid
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/022.html">"Chrysalis,"</a>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/024.html">"Revelations."</a>)
|
||||
Although permitted to
|
||||
remain as ambassador on B5, Delenn's confidence is severely shaken when the
|
||||
remaining Grey Council decides to remove her from their company
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/033.html">"All Alone in the Night,"</a>)
|
||||
and even further when she discovers that she is accepted by
|
||||
neither humans nor Minbari
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/037.html">"And Now for a Word,"</a>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/036.html">"There All Honor Lies."</a>)
|
||||
She has only her faith in herself, the loyalty of Lennier and her growing
|
||||
bond with Captain Sheridan to depend on.
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Vorlons and Ambassador Kosh</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn also appears to have the approval of the Vorlons -- although this is no
|
||||
easy burden. Enigmatic and extremely advanced, the Vorlons rarely seem to
|
||||
take the opinions of others into consideration when they act. They have
|
||||
visited many worlds, but not openly, perhaps to guide the species there, and
|
||||
perhaps to manipulate them. Kosh is willing to aid the few like Delenn and
|
||||
Sheridan who merit his attention
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/036.html">"There All Honor Lies,"</a>
|
||||
<a href="../guide/035.html">"Hunter Prey,"</a>)
|
||||
but
|
||||
they do not escape the encounter unscathed
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/043.html">"Comes the Inquisitor."</a>)
|
||||
Since
|
||||
he arrived on the station, Kosh remained hidden inside his encounter suit
|
||||
for years. When he finally revealed himself, he appeared as a glorious
|
||||
being of light and lore -- different to each species who saw him. Very few
|
||||
realized that it was Kosh whom they saw, but most agree that they witnessed
|
||||
proof that the station is blessed
|
||||
(<a href="../guide/044.html">"The Fall of Night."</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Conspiracy of Light</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
After surreptitiously testing the attitudes of his crew for several months,
|
||||
Sheridan involved Ivanova, Garibaldi and Franklin in an extremely dangerous
|
||||
plot to investigate and root out the evil they see growing in the heart of
|
||||
the Earth government. At first they were all alone, with the exception of
|
||||
Sheridan's contact, General Hague. But as the Shadows come
|
||||
and darkness grows deeper throughout the galaxy, Babylon 5 has attracted
|
||||
unexpected allies for a great battle that looms heavily on the horizon. The
|
||||
first is Draal, who is the Minbari heart of the great machine and extremely
|
||||
powerful weaponry in the planet below the station. Assistance also comes
|
||||
from the embassy on Minbar, where former station commander Sinclair leads
|
||||
a growing army of mostly human and Minbari Rangers. In the vicinity of
|
||||
Babylon 5 the Rangers answer to Delenn and Captain Sheridan. Yet even with
|
||||
Draal and the Vorlons among them, by 2260 the fighters for the light seem
|
||||
pitifully few and weak compared to the pervasive and terrifying power of
|
||||
the Shadows.
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
|
|||
<h3>Summary by Katrina Glerum (kat@gol.com)</h3>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Thirteen years ago, humanity teetered on the brink of extermination after a
|
||||
misunderstanding mobilized the entire Minbari civilization on a mission
|
||||
of annihilation. The Babylon Project was Earth's attempt to prevent future
|
||||
interstellar war by promoting interracial understanding. It failed utterly.
|
||||
A galactic war of epic proportions engulfed Babylon 5 only five years after
|
||||
its completion. In the face of overwhelming darkness and chaos, the people
|
||||
of B5 found the courage to make a stand against madness and despair. Yet
|
||||
the price was enormous. They lost their homes, their loved ones, their
|
||||
careers -- even their lives.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Shadows</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Great War is the handiwork of the Shadows. An ancient, terrifyingly
|
||||
powerful race, the Shadows seed the galaxy with chaos like cosmic picadors,
|
||||
promoting evolutionary advancement through competition and destruction. A
|
||||
thousand years ago they were beaten back to the galactic rim by an alliance
|
||||
which included relatively young civilizations like the Minbari, and a number
|
||||
of extremely powerful older races known collectively as the First Ones. Of
|
||||
these, all but the Vorlons have passed beyond confines of the
|
||||
galaxy -- presumably forever. The Shadows have infiltrated several
|
||||
governments, preferring secrecy because in the open their organic vessels
|
||||
have one crucial vulnerability: they can be disabled by telepaths. Although
|
||||
forced on the defensive when Captain Sheridan destroyed the biggest city on
|
||||
their home world of Z'ha'dum, the Shadows have no intention of giving up
|
||||
their goals easily, whatever those goals might ultimately be.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Vorlons and Ambassador Kosh</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Shadows' greatest remaining enemies are the Vorlons. Enigmatic, secretive
|
||||
and extremely powerful, the Vorlons have also manipulated many civilizations
|
||||
for their own mysterious ends. Their sole acknowledged representative,
|
||||
Ambassador Kosh Naranek, glided the corridors of B5 for years before anyone saw
|
||||
him outside his bulky encounter suit. When he finally revealed himself, he
|
||||
appeared as a glorious being of light and lore, of the same species as any
|
||||
who saw him.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Only one individual is known to have ever visited the Vorlon homeworld, the
|
||||
human telepath Lyta Alexander. When she returned to act as aide and
|
||||
"courier" for Ambassador Kosh, she had obviously been altered. Besides
|
||||
Lyta, Kosh took an interest in Delenn, to teach, test and trust her. But his
|
||||
most curious relationship was reserved for Captain Sheridan, who he pushed
|
||||
and taught and chastised. Finally when Sheridan demanded that the Vorlons
|
||||
take part in the war they were commanding him to fight for them, Kosh
|
||||
acquiesced at the cost of his own life -- or at least most of it. Even as the
|
||||
Shadows destroyed the Ambassador in retribution, a small piece of Kosh's
|
||||
consciousness slipped into the Captain to guide his path in the future.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The replacement Ambassador, also known as "Kosh," is more remote and more
|
||||
clearly working toward ends that include no one but Vorlons.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Centauri and Ambassador Londo Mollari</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In the declining years of the great Centauri Empire, the Shadows' human
|
||||
puppet, Mr. Morden, approached a debauched, washed-up, old Centauri patriot,
|
||||
Londo Mollari, and offered him the chance for his people to regain their
|
||||
lost might and glory. In exchange Morden asked... well, nothing, at first.
|
||||
Londo took the bait and presided over the reconquest of Narn. The star of
|
||||
House Mollari soared, but Londo felt that circumstances were flying out of
|
||||
control. The machinations of his ally-turned-enemy Lord Refa, the urgings
|
||||
of Mr. Morden's "associates" to wage excessive and pointless border wars,
|
||||
the rudderless court at home, and his own desire to serve his people, all
|
||||
pushed the Ambassador into a newly decisive role. Yet, tragically it
|
||||
appears that it will be his destiny to lead his people into ruin and desolation.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Narn and Ambassador G'Kar</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
When G'Kar first came to Babylon 5, he was a hero who had spent his entire
|
||||
life fighting the Centauri. His hatred and fury knew no limits, and thus he
|
||||
ironically provided the perfect target for Londo's temptation by the
|
||||
Shadows. When his world was defeated, G'Kar was forced to beg sanctuary
|
||||
from Babylon 5 and there he became the leader of the Narn resistance in
|
||||
exile. G'Kar discovered the Shadows' return long before it became widely
|
||||
known, but his warnings fell on seemingly deaf ears. Eventually he learned
|
||||
the terrible truth: that Londo had masterminded the Shadow
|
||||
destruction of his people, and that the Minbari and the Army of Light had
|
||||
known this, and permitted it to happen. In the very instant of such
|
||||
revelations he experienced a Vorlon-inspired epiphany: "Some must be
|
||||
sacrificed if all are to be saved." He came to understand as well that
|
||||
somehow the humans would be the key to the salvation of his people.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>Earth</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
While reports from "back home" had never been wildly encouraging, including
|
||||
the crushing of the Mars Independence movement and the Gestapo-like
|
||||
Nightwatch division of the Ministry of Peace, the B5 command staff were
|
||||
still appalled when they stumbled across evidence that President Clark had
|
||||
had his predecessor assassinated. When this news leaked to the press, Clark
|
||||
disbanded the government and declared martial law. Even as his loyal forces
|
||||
hunted down rebellious ships and bombed civilian targets, Mars, Io and
|
||||
Babylon 5 declared their independence. With Minbari assistance, B5 held off
|
||||
a massive Earth assault. This success left the station floating in uneasy
|
||||
limbo, dependent on the goodwill and self-interest of worlds who might want
|
||||
to use it for trade and peace negotiations.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>Psi Corps</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Believing themselves to be the next evolutionary step beyond "normals,"
|
||||
members of Psi Corps have consistently shown disregard for the laws intended
|
||||
to regulate their activities, along with disregard for the rights and
|
||||
well-being of other telepaths. They hound rogue teeps to the ends of the
|
||||
galaxy; they plant personality time bombs in their members as they did to
|
||||
Talia Winters; they develop and distribute dangerous psi-enhancing drugs
|
||||
like "dust;" and some within the Corps are even willing to hand over
|
||||
rebellious telepaths to the Shadows. They manipulate, coerce, conspire and
|
||||
league with the devil in pursuit of one goal -- control. However, even within
|
||||
an organization so guarded, there are signs of dissent and factionalization.
|
||||
In his anger over the ill-treatment of his lover, one of the Psi Corps'
|
||||
strongest telepaths, Alfred Bester, has promised to lend his aid to the
|
||||
station in their fight against the Shadows.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Minbari and Ambassador Delenn</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
As prophesied by Valen, the Great War has brought the Minbari to the close
|
||||
of an age, ending a thousand years of peaceful rule by the Grey Council.
|
||||
Council member for the religious caste, Delenn was among the few who
|
||||
understood and believed the many prophecies about this time. Thus she was
|
||||
one of the few prepared for the terrific consequences and sacrifices
|
||||
required by those prophecies as one by one they came true.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The first was over a decade ago, in the terrible hour when the Grey Council
|
||||
war cruiser poised over Earth in a final lull before exacting ultimate
|
||||
vengeance for their leader Dukhat's death. A lone pilot, Jeffrey Sinclair,
|
||||
was captured and interrogated. To their horror, the Council discovered that
|
||||
he carried the soul of their greatest leader, Valen, and determined that
|
||||
Minbari souls were being reborn in the bodies of humans. They immediately
|
||||
and without explanation ordered their forces to surrender, to the outrage of
|
||||
the warrior caste.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The ancients said that the two halves of the Minbari soul must join to
|
||||
overcome their greatest challenge. They also spoke of a great leader.
|
||||
Believing that she was this person, Delenn underwent a metamorphosis that
|
||||
left her half human -- and ostracized by both races. She rose to the challenge,
|
||||
however, and when the Grey Council, which had been established to guard
|
||||
against the Shadows' return, balked when the circumstances of that return
|
||||
announced themselves as interspecies border conflicts, Delenn broke the
|
||||
Council and led the worker and religious castes into battle. This threw
|
||||
the tightly knit society into a turmoil, with Delenn in the unrelished
|
||||
middle of it all.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h2>The Great War and the Army of Light</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Great War never ends, it just stops for awhile. It is the war that
|
||||
Commander Sinclair/Valen and Babylon 4 traveled backward through time to
|
||||
win a thousand years ago. It is the Great War prophesied to play out again
|
||||
in another thousand years.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Bloody though it was, the Minbari War certainly hadn't prepared the
|
||||
successful, patriotic, young Captain Sheridan for the task of commanding
|
||||
Babylon 5, much less the hardships which followed. Trying to steer a path
|
||||
between the political, the practical, and the ethical would have been
|
||||
impossible if not for his able and like-minded command staff: Ivanova,
|
||||
Garibaldi and Franklin. Initially these four came together to fight the
|
||||
darkness growing within Earth Gov, but soon they found that this evil was
|
||||
only a piece of the terrifying storm brewing, and they were too few alone.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The first to join the Army of Light were the crack Minbari-human battalion
|
||||
known as Rangers. Then, through persuasion, coercion and a show of arms,
|
||||
Sheridan was able to hammer together a fragile Alliance that included many
|
||||
of the Non-Aligned Worlds, and Delenn's two thirds of the Minbari. He also
|
||||
found some unexpected allies, including Draal, the sentient heart of the
|
||||
great machine below the station on Epsilon 3; the ancient, First One Walkers
|
||||
of Sigma 957; remnants of the Earth Force resistance against President
|
||||
Clark; and a promise from Psi Cop Mr. Bester.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
When the Alliance scored a major victory over the Shadows at last, the enemy
|
||||
grew afraid. They sent Anna Sheridan, who they had captured with Mr. Morden
|
||||
from the Icarus expedition, to summon John to Z'ha'dum. Even though Kosh
|
||||
had warned him that he would die, and he knew it was a trap, Sheridan went
|
||||
there anyway and destroyed their greatest city before plunging to certain
|
||||
death in an immense chasm.
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
|
|||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
This section contains a chronological summary of <cite>Babylon 5</cite>'s
|
||||
story arc (the 5-year plotline) as it has been presented so far.
|
||||
Only certain episodes, believed to be of some significance, are mentioned.
|
||||
Note that this is chock full of <strong>spoilers!</strong>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The pilot, "The Gathering," is set in the year 2257, introducing station
|
||||
Babylon 5 which has recently come online. The last of the ambassadors,
|
||||
Kosh, arrives on the station, prompting an assassination attempt. Sinclair
|
||||
is framed for the attempt, but is eventually cleared when the real culprit
|
||||
-- a Minbari -- is discovered. Many mysteries are introduced: Sinclair's
|
||||
missing 24 hours on the Battle of the Line (with the announcement by the
|
||||
Minbari that "there is a hole in your mind"); the mystery of Kosh, seen
|
||||
only by the doctor and the telepath; and the disappearance or destruction
|
||||
of the previous four Babylon stations.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=001>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<font size="+2"><b>Season one</b></font> begins with "Midnight on the Firing Line," about 6 months
|
||||
later.
|
||||
Lt. Cmdr Susan Ivanova has recently taken over the second-in-command post;
|
||||
we learn of her dislike of the psi corps. The doctor and telepath from the
|
||||
pilot are no longer on the station. A Centauri agricultural outpost is
|
||||
attacked without provocation by the Narns. (In
|
||||
broad strokes, this episode portrays the Narns as the "bad guys"
|
||||
and the Centauri as wishy-washy comic relief.) Luis Santiago is reelected
|
||||
President of the Earth Alliance.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=002>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
A "Soul Hunter," a member of an order which collects and preserves important
|
||||
souls, finds himself on the station, and attempts to collect Delenn's soul
|
||||
prematurely. We learn the importance of the Minbari soul, and that they
|
||||
prevented a soul hunter from taking the soul of their great leader Dukhat,
|
||||
so that his soul would be reborn into the next generation. Delenn is
|
||||
called <em>Satai</em> by the soul hunter, which prompts Sinclair to wonder if
|
||||
something is going on, as Satai is the title used my members of the Grey
|
||||
Council, the Minbari ruling body and highest religious authority.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=003>
|
||||
<episode num=004>
|
||||
<episode num=005>
|
||||
<episode num=006>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In "Mind War," two Psi Cops -- P12 level telepaths, including Bester
|
||||
(played by Walter Koenig) -- come to the station in search of telepath
|
||||
Jason Ironheart, who has achieved telekinetic abilities and is transforming
|
||||
into something more than human. He warns Sinclair that the Psi Corps are
|
||||
starting to pull the strings in the government back on Earth. When Bester's
|
||||
partner is killed, Sinclair makes a new enemy. Before departing, Ironheart
|
||||
gives Talia a gift: telekinesis, and maybe other abilities as well.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=007>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"The War Prayer" introduces members of the Homeguard, an anti-alien
|
||||
establishment back on Earth.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=008>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"And The Sky Full of Stars" explores what happened to Sinclair on the
|
||||
Battle of the Line, 10 years before in the Earth-Minbari War. Interrogated
|
||||
and forced to relive the battle, we see Sinclair ram a
|
||||
Minbari Cruiser, only to wake up on board, interrogated by the Grey
|
||||
Council. He recognizes Delenn as one of the Grey Council. After escaping
|
||||
from his interrogators, he chooses not to reveal to Delenn that he remembers
|
||||
part of his missing 24 hours.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=009>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"Deathwalker" is a notorious war criminal from the Dilgar War, fought by
|
||||
Earth and others several decades earlier. She has a substance she claims
|
||||
grants immortality -- but only at the cost of another's life. The Vorlons
|
||||
destroy her ship to prevent Earth from gaining the secret of immortality.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=010>
|
||||
<episode num=011>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"Survivors" takes Garibaldi back into his alcoholism as he is accused of
|
||||
sabotage. The real culprit is the Homeguard.
|
||||
|
||||
<episode num=012>
|
||||
<episode num=013>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"Signs and Portents"
|
||||
deals with an attack by raiders on the station. The B-story, in which
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Londo acquires the long-lost symbol of his empire, the Eye, is more
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important. A mysterious, polite man named Morden inquires "What do you
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for the Centauri to reclaim their lost empire -- the
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best. The Eye is captured by the raiders, who are destroyed by a
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mysterious ship that appears out of the shadows. Morden returns the Eye to
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Londo, "from friends you don't know you have."
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<episode num=014>
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<episode num=015>
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<episode num=016>
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<episode num=017>
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<episode num=018>
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planet below B5 is not as dead as it was thought. The
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Mars colony breaks out in rebellion. A dying alien is found controlling
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<episode num=019>
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off-station, Delenn is chosen by the Grey Council to be their new leader, but
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Babylon 5. She leaves with a powerful device called a triluminary. As time
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disturbances flash back and forward to other times (including a scene where
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something is coming through the walls of the station, being fought off by
|
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Garibaldi, as Sinclair is pushed into the crowds), the crew attempts to
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evacuate the crew of B4. A mysterious alien, Zathras, has appeared and tells
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of a great, terrible war, and the attempt to pull B4 through time to use it
|
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as a base of operations. He is looking for "The One" -- the great leader of
|
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an effort to bring peace to the galaxy. The station is evacuated, but
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Zathras, trapped, is rescued by "The One" -- who turns out to be a much older
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Sinclair, aided apparently by Delenn.
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<episode num=021>
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<p>
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"The Quality of Mercy" reveals a clinic run by Dr. Franklin in the
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downbelow sections, as well as an alien healing machine that transfers
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"life force" from one person to another.
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<episode num=022>
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|
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to build using a mysterious crystalline machine.
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|
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in the back by his right-hand man, left for dead. Morden reappears, and
|
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offers to take care of a problem for Londo, dealing with a region contested
|
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with the Narns. Delenn speaks to Ambassador Kosh, who reveals something to
|
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her that verifies her interpretation of a prophecy. She confronts
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Sinclair about his knowledge of his interrogation, but enters into her
|
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cocoon before they can talk. Londo is horrified to find that the Narn
|
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outpost has been utterly destroyed by mysterious forces.
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president is sworn in immediately. G'Kar leaves to investigate the
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|
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Quick sketch of Ivanova: Russian, pessimistic, wry, very sharp. She
|
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isn't in "Believers" because there was a one-week overlap with a prior
|
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committment on a film project, which we accommodated.
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|
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Russian character. Not someone with an accent, any more than I have an accent
|
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even though I have a last name with 10,000 consonants and no vowels. There's a
|
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wry and formal and stiff-necked and sometimes very passionate streak that runs
|
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through the Russian spirit, and a certain rough-hewn mysticism, a sense of
|
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absolute fatality and doom punctuated by moments of great belief in humanity.
|
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It's a mix of traits you don't much see in American television.
|
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<p>
|
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Which is why the new second in command is Lieutenant Commander Susan
|
||||
Ivanova, who will be played by Claudia Christian, a fantastic and very strong
|
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performer who just knocked us out of the room. Very much a commanding
|
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presence, a little quirky when she wants to be, a shade on the pessimistic
|
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side.
|
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<p>
|
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Having come out of an Eastern European background, I've long lamented the
|
||||
stereotyped roles usually written for that kind of character, and look forward
|
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to drawing upon the real thing for her character.
|
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<p>
|
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---<br>
|
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I like Ivanova as well; she's got a very sly, very *sharp* intelligence
|
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going there. She can deadpan you and whap you upside the head with a comment
|
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delivered almost as an aside, or an afterthought. It's the difference between
|
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wit and humor. She doesn't tell jokes, but she's got a great sense of wit.
|
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<p>
|
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---<br>
|
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There's a Billy Joel song, where one particular lyric (and I'm quoting
|
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from memory) says, "You still have a pain inside you / That you carry with a
|
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certain pride / It's the only part / Of a broken heart / You could ever save."
|
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That's Ivanova. <cite>[Editor's note: I'm told the song in question is
|
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"Code of Silence," from the album "Bridge."]</cite>
|
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<p>
|
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She's had her heart stomped on a lot. And she's been holding it in. Even
|
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with her father's death, she sucked in the pain, fought back the tears. There
|
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is one episode, which will be right at the end of the year, where she finds
|
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she can't run from her pain anymore...can't run from the tears...and deals
|
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with them in a scene that's very moving and absolutely brings tears to the
|
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eyes.
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|
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|
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Let's talk about the Vorlons...because there ain't much we can SAY about
|
||||
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|
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<p>
|
||||
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|
||||
final ambassador (four if you don't count Sinclair) from the primary alien
|
||||
governments. He is a Vorlon, a race we have tried, without much success,
|
||||
to learn about ever since we first picked up their transmissions. Several
|
||||
scout ships were sent on First Contact missions. All of them met with
|
||||
unfortunate "accidents" upon entering Vorlon space.
|
||||
The Vorlons tendered their most <em>sincere</em> apologies.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
And suggested no further expeditions.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Now, at last, with B5 becoming functional, and all of the <em>other</em>
|
||||
ambassadors in place, it no longer makes strategic sense to continue in
|
||||
their isolation. So the arrival of the Vorlon is a Big Deal. No human has
|
||||
ever even <strong>seen</strong> a Vorlon.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
And they play it right up to the hilt. The ambassador -- Kosh Naranek --
|
||||
maintains only audio contact with B5 as his ship makes the long voyage,
|
||||
citing "problems" with video. He clearly doesn't want to broadcast the
|
||||
Vorlon face all over the quadrant. So no problem, after all, he has to
|
||||
arrive eventually, and they'll see him then.
|
||||
<p>
|
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Not quite.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The ship arrives. The Vorlon ambassador emerges from his ship...and well,
|
||||
y'see, he comes from a very different environment. Lots of methane and
|
||||
CO2. Our atmosphere is poisonous to Vorlons. So he emerges wearing an
|
||||
Encounter Suit...which covers every square inch of his body except for his
|
||||
hands -- assuming those <strong>are</strong> his hands -- with a dark faceplate in the
|
||||
front. The only place he can remove all of that is in his quarters, and
|
||||
there are no vids in his quarters, no way to observe him or see his true
|
||||
face.
|
||||
<p>
|
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So...even now, no human has <strong>still</strong> ever seen a Vorlon.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Well, that's not <em>entirely</em> true.
|
||||
Legend has it that one human saw a Vorlon. A pilot who crashed, off
|
||||
course, on a Vorlon colony.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
According to that legend, the human who saw a Vorlon...was turned to stone.
|
||||
But, after all, it's only a legend.
|
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<p>
|
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<hr>
|
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<p>
|
||||
<h4>Why are the Vorlons allowed to participate in Babylon 5?</h4>
|
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<p>
|
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The Vorlons are the great unknown. They occupy a *huge* sector of space.
|
||||
No expedition ever sent to Vorlon space has ever returned, or sent back word.
|
||||
No human had ever even *seen* a Vorlon prior to Kosh's arrival on B5. Their
|
||||
technology is vastly superior to just about everyone else's. To unravel the
|
||||
mystery, to maybe get a *piece* of their tech, is more than sufficient
|
||||
inducement, I'd think.
|
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<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
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<p>
|
||||
We will reveal what Kosh is a LOT sooner than year 5. Closer to the end
|
||||
of year 2.
|
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|
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|
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<p>
|
||||
<em>Is Kosh what he/she/it appears to be?</em>
|
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|
||||
Kosh is always and forever *exactly* what he appears to be, no less
|
||||
and no more. At the same time, Kosh is absolutely *nothing* like what
|
||||
he appears to be.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
These are not contradictory statements.
|
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<p>
|
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And this is about the straightest answer I've given yet on the
|
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On the other end of the spectrum is Ambassador Londo Mollari, of the
|
||||
Centauri Republic. Londo is the most human of all the various ambassadors,
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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For a thousand years, the Centauri Republic was a force to be reckoned
|
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with. Like the English empire once upon a time, it held hundreds of planets
|
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in its control. It was a great military power. But slowly, as can happen,
|
||||
they grew content, and lazy, and gradually their own empire began to slip
|
||||
between their fingers. A world deciding to go rogue was troublesome, to be
|
||||
sure, but it's SO far away, and it's SUCH a bother to go take care of it, when
|
||||
we can easily get the same things from other places...let them go. They'll
|
||||
come crawling back sooner or later.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
As a result, they are now down to a Republic that consists of barely a
|
||||
dozen systems and thirty worlds.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
It was, interestingly enough, the Centauri Republic that was Earth's
|
||||
first contact with another major government. The CR was well in advance of
|
||||
Earth science, and we all considered them a terrible power...an illusion they
|
||||
hardly tried to set right. Trade agreements were set up, and we gained an
|
||||
ASTONISHING amount of technical know-how in a very short time, letting us leap-
|
||||
frog a hundred years of progress in a single year. They were most curious to
|
||||
get cultural stuff in return...music, art, philosophy, literature..."native"
|
||||
trinkets that could be resold for more money back on homeworld.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In the thirty or forty years since then, however, we've found out the
|
||||
truth, that the CR is really on its last legs. And we've taken the technology
|
||||
we've gotten and perfected it, and now the Earth Alliance is fast becoming one
|
||||
of the dominant forces of this time. And the Centauri Republic is trying to
|
||||
attach itself to us the way a ramora attaches itself to a shark...for
|
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preservation, in this case.
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<p>
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They are governed by an emperor, and the government works mainly through
|
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personal and family influence. It's a very indulgent society, and Londo
|
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reflects that. Overweight, prone to gambling constantly (null-pool is his
|
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favorite), and fond of women and drinks, he understands his role and doesn't
|
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try to push it. Like his Republic, he subsists on old stories and tales of
|
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former glory, remarking -- one night, when drunk -- "my god, we've become a
|
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tourist attraction. See the Great Fallen Centauri Republic, open nine to
|
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five...Earth Time." He is, by turns, a comic figure, and a tragic figure.
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<h2>What about that hair?</h2>
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Centauri males wear their hair in this fashion, the length of which is
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determined by the person's status. Centauri women scorn such symbols of
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status and go bald except for a knot of hair from the back. (Sort of a
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peacock approach.)
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<p>
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Certainly, you could wear your hair longer than your status permits, but
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it's like pretending to a status you don't have, which is viewed as pathetic.
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<h4>As written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski</h4>
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<dl>
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<dt>
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A quick sketch
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<dd>
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Since this has just been released by PTEN, and will be
|
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on the news wires shortly (and is probably already there),
|
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I can now announce this here.
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<p>
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The new Commanding Officer for Babylon 5 is Captain John
|
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Sheridan, former captain of the Earthforce military starship
|
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Agamemmnon. It was Sheridan who won what is arguably Earth's
|
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only real victory during the Earth/Minbari War, destroying the
|
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Minbari war cruiser Black Star and several accompanying
|
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vessels. He has been appointed to Babylon 5 over the strenuous
|
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objections of the Minbari Government, by the president's
|
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insistence that Babylon 5 has had too much influence from the
|
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Minbari and must begin to pull back and consider Earth's
|
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interests; Sheridan is a symbol of that desire because of his
|
||||
record, which is the reason for his assignment.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Captain Sheridan will be portrayed by the well-regarded
|
||||
actor Bruce Boxleitner, known to many as the series lead in
|
||||
"Scarecrow And Mrs. King." He has also starred in numerous
|
||||
TV movies, miniseries and feature films. He is also a solid
|
||||
SF fan (media *and* print), and is very excited about coming
|
||||
onto the Babylon 5 team. We're equally excited to have him.
|
||||
<p>
|
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|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
Have any of the other officers served with Sheridan before?
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Only Ivanova has served with him before; Garibaldi
|
||||
doesn't know him from Adam, and this will lead to some
|
||||
awkwardness and questions of trust down the road.
|
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<p>
|
||||
|
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<dt>
|
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How does Sheridan regard the Minbari?
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Sheridan is a soldier. A soldier is told, in wartime,
|
||||
THIS is your enemy. You kill the enemy or your enemy kills
|
||||
you. Afterward, you're in the same position American soldiers
|
||||
were in after the end of WW II when it came time to reconcile
|
||||
with the Germans and the Japanese. It can sometimes be very
|
||||
awkward...and sometimes reconciliation takes a while.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
Sheridan ought to add some tension to the series.
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
[...] And you're right about the situation providing some
|
||||
tension and story line possibilities; it ties into where
|
||||
the story is going, and ups the ante on several emotional
|
||||
levels, some personal (Garibaldi), some diplomatic (the
|
||||
Minbari don't much like him).
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
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<dt>
|
||||
Random additional information.
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Yes, Sheridan is descended from Gen. Philip John Sheridan of the
|
||||
Union Army.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
Response to an allegation that Sheridan is another Captain Kirk.
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
For what it's worth, Sheridan is neither a "space cowboy" nor a
|
||||
"gung ho type." This description has nothing to do with the character,
|
||||
and I'm not quite sure where you got this. Certainly I never said or
|
||||
implied it.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Captain John Sheridan is a war hero, of sorts; he squeaked out the
|
||||
only real victory of the Earth/Minbari War. (Which means the Minbari
|
||||
don't generally like him a lot.) He did what he did because that's his
|
||||
job. He's a professional soldier. For the last two years, he's been
|
||||
commanding the Agamemmnon, a high-visibility Earthforce starship on deep
|
||||
patrol. As such, he has had to learn to work with a number of different
|
||||
races and species.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In some ways, his character is somewhat more well-rounded than was
|
||||
the case with Sinclair, over whom a general sense of doom often seemed to
|
||||
hang. Sheridan is often very thoughtful and introspective; at other
|
||||
times, he can be just a bit eccentric; he leads by respecting those who
|
||||
work under him, and giving them room to grow; like any career officer, he
|
||||
HATES the bureaucracy with a passion, and this is the one thing that can
|
||||
drive him nuts; he knows that commanding B5 is a great opportunity, but
|
||||
he also knows that his presence brings certain complications with it, and
|
||||
he's very ambivilant about that aspect; he's the son of a diplomatic envoy
|
||||
who disappeared on his 21st birthday, running off to see (of all things)
|
||||
the new Dali Lama being installed; he has a very easygoing manner, and a
|
||||
great sense of humor. He quickly re-forms a friendship with Ivanova, for
|
||||
whom he has great respect and professional admiration. (For a time she
|
||||
served under him at Io.)
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
He is, actually, a fascinating and intriguing character with a lot
|
||||
of different shadings...none of which have *anything* to do with being a
|
||||
"space cowboy" or "gung-ho type."
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Anyway...point being...when it was announced that there was going to
|
||||
be a new Lieutenant-Commander, a number of folks went ballistic and said
|
||||
the show would now be ruined. I said, in essence, look...I created
|
||||
Takashima; I can create an interesting character to replace her. And I
|
||||
thunk up Ivanova, who according to the rec.arts.b5 poll is the most
|
||||
popular character on the show. When it was announced that Sinclair would
|
||||
be STAYING with the show, after the pilot, a number of folks said this
|
||||
was bad, he was wooden, he stunk, get him off...and ended up being very
|
||||
enamored of him. My only reply now about Bruce...give him, and me, a
|
||||
chance. I genuinely think you will like what you see a *lot*.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In the course of the first season, Ivanova, Garibaldi, G'Kar, Londo,
|
||||
Delenn, others...they've exploded into strong characters. You need an
|
||||
equally strong character designed to hold his own, and be memorable, in
|
||||
that august company. Sheridan was designed knowing we had a much
|
||||
elevated playing field around the character.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Obviously, clearly, and irrefutably, an actor brings a *lot* to any
|
||||
role. No question. But it tends to begin with what is created. I've seen
|
||||
it said here, repeatedly, that none of the characters are uninteresting;
|
||||
they all have lives, and agendas, that make them fascinating to watch:
|
||||
Londo, Morden, G'Kar, Delenn, Garibaldi, Ivanova...what those characters
|
||||
are came out of my head, in terms of who they are, what they say, what they
|
||||
believe, where they came from and where they're going. Why would I invent
|
||||
a new character that was any less involving, or interesting, o
|
||||
multifaceted? Particularly knowing that he's going to be a central
|
||||
character?
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Speaking as someone who's been in fandom a long, long time, I know
|
||||
there is always a tendency for panic, to assume the apocalypse is upon
|
||||
us, that something is never going to be the same again. I heard this after
|
||||
the Enterprise was destroyed in "The Search for Spock." I've heard this
|
||||
a lot over the years. It's generally over-reaction and worry before anyone
|
||||
has even seen a frame of film.
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Bottom line being...wait and see, then judge. I've tried very hard
|
||||
not to let you down, and I think so far I haven't done so...I have no
|
||||
intention of starting now. Bruce is doing an absolutely *brilliant* job
|
||||
as Captain Sheridan, bringing a thoughtfulness and intensity and
|
||||
charm and intensity to the part that is a joy to behold. Give him a
|
||||
chance.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<dt>
|
||||
Why replace Sinclair?
|
||||
<dd>
|
||||
Sheridan, or more specifically the need for someone *like* Sheridan
|
||||
began to get through clearly toward the latter part of last season, as I
|
||||
began planning out season two's progression, and kept looking at elements
|
||||
of the story and trying to find ways to get Sinclair into the heart of
|
||||
them. They felt contrived, for the most part; and the other characters,
|
||||
like Londo and G'Kar and Delenn, were *really* moving forward in a big
|
||||
way. The role of Sinclair was becoming primarily that of a "problem
|
||||
solver," and when that happens, a sort of glass bell falls down around the
|
||||
character, and you can't do much with him.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
So what the writer has to do is break that bell in one way or another;
|
||||
do something totally unexpected to him, and bring in someone who has a
|
||||
direct, personal connection with the storyline emerging in season two, so
|
||||
it's not contrived or forced.
|
||||
|
||||
</dl>
|
||||
|
||||
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<link rev=made href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com">
|
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|
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|
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|
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<img src="ftp://ftp.midwinter.com/pub/Babylon-5/Pictures/Characters/b5card1.gif">
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
Name: Jeffrey David Sinclair
|
||||
Rank: Commander
|
||||
Age: 39
|
||||
Birthdate: May 3rd, 2218, 9:15 a.m. Earth Standard Time
|
||||
Birthplace: Mars Colony
|
||||
|
||||
Service record:
|
||||
2237 Enlisted in Earth Force Defense
|
||||
2240 Promoted to fighter pilot
|
||||
2240-1 Promoted to squad leader
|
||||
2248 Fights in the Battle of the Line (and survives!)
|
||||
2256 Becomes Commander of Babylon 5
|
||||
2257 "The Gathering"
|
||||
2258 Season One: "Signs and Portents"
|
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</pre>
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
Commander Sinclair is recalled to Earth and discovers a long-kept secret
|
||||
that leads to a new assignment.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
Issue 1 (January 1995, released December 6, 1994)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Between
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/022.html">"Chrysalis"</a>
|
||||
and
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/023.html">"Points of Departure"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
|
||||
Penciller: Michael Netzer
|
||||
Inker: Rob Leigh
|
||||
Colorist: Robbie Busch
|
||||
Letterer: Tracy Hampton Munsey</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
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<hr>
|
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<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
A few days after being recalled from Babylon 5 (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/023.html">"Points of Departure"</a>)
|
||||
Commander Sinclair is languishing in Earthdome, Geneva, waiting for someone
|
||||
to tell him why he was called back. His nights, as always, are filled with
|
||||
horrible dreams, replays of the Battle of the Line. He tries to prevail
|
||||
on a senator to tell him what's going on, but is rebuffed, with an additional
|
||||
admonition to stop spreading rumors about President Santiago being
|
||||
assassinated.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Then, in the middle of the night on January 6, 2259, some heavily-armed
|
||||
men escort Sinclair to see President Clark. Clark introduces him to Rathenn,
|
||||
of the Minbari Grey Council. Rathenn introduces himself and says he's come
|
||||
to take Sinclair back to his home. Not Mars Colony, where his body was born --
|
||||
but to his soul's home.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Rathenn uses a triluminary on Sinclair, who is suddenly able to recall in full
|
||||
what happened after he was taken aboard the Grey Council's cruiser at the
|
||||
Battle of the Line (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/008.html">"And the Sky Full of Stars."</a>) He was
|
||||
drugged, interrogated about Earth targets, and tortured after he tried to
|
||||
escape. He recalls the whispers of the Grey Council as Delenn confirms
|
||||
that he has a Minbari soul.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Rathenn explains that every human pilot the Grey Council examined had a Minbari
|
||||
soul, or part of a Minbari soul, and that the Minbari population has been
|
||||
declining for the past six thousand years. At first the Grey Council blamed
|
||||
the soul hunters (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/002.html">"Soul Hunter"</a>) but the decline was too
|
||||
great to be accounted for that way. That day, they discovered why the
|
||||
Minbari race was dying, where all the souls were going. Since no Minbari
|
||||
had killed another in thousands of years, the Grey Council surrendered.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Clark says that the Grey Council told the Earth government of their findings,
|
||||
and that both the government and the Council agreed the information would
|
||||
not be taken well by the public. Earth officials gave the Council permission
|
||||
to wipe Sinclair's memory; they were on the verge of defeat and weren't
|
||||
about to object to such a small demand by the Minbari. "We were dying,"
|
||||
Clark explains later, after Rathenn has left. "It didn't matter that it
|
||||
was insane... <em>Everything</em> was insane. If it made them stop
|
||||
killing us... well, that was fine by us."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Clark tells Sinclair he's free to resign his commission with full retirement
|
||||
pay. Or he can accept a new assignment, his most important one to date:
|
||||
accept the Minbari government's invitation to come to their world as
|
||||
ambassador. Clark promises to keep Sinclair informed about Garibaldi's
|
||||
condition. As for why the Minbari wanted Sinclair, Clark speculates:
|
||||
"Maybe they feel guilty about what they did to you. Maybe they're
|
||||
comfortable with you. And maybe they <em>need</em> you. We've heard about
|
||||
trouble between the Minbari religious caste and the military caste. It's
|
||||
possible that... well, the religious caste might just need an experienced
|
||||
soldier to talk to."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sinclair's shuttle arrives at the Grey Council's cruiser. As he waits to
|
||||
be greeted, he pulls out a small slip of paper and reads. He's shortly
|
||||
greeted by several hooded Councilmembers and a few members of the military
|
||||
caste, and explains that he was reading a
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/making/ulysses.html">poem</a>
|
||||
by a long-departed writer,
|
||||
something he wants to share with the Council in the hopes that it will
|
||||
help them understand. He is escorted away by the Councilmembers, as one
|
||||
of the military looks on, expression twisted in hatred.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> No Minbari has killed another (intentionally, presumably) for several
|
||||
thousand years. (See
|
||||
<a href="#JS:kill">jms speaks</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<li> The Grey Council believes Sinclair has a Minbari soul.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Some within the Earth government have known the reason behind the
|
||||
Minbari surrender from the start, and gave the Grey Council
|
||||
permission to wipe Sinclair's mind. Clark claims to have not
|
||||
learned the secret until he took office as President.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> What does the triluminary do to Sinclair such that he can remember
|
||||
everything all of a sudden? Is there a single function it performs
|
||||
that explains its seeming variety of uses? (cf. episodes
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/008.html">"And the Sky Full of Stars,"</a>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/022.html">"Chrysalis"</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Who in the Earth government knew about the Minbari surrender? Someone
|
||||
other than the President, probably, since Santiago was dead when
|
||||
Clark took office. It's also possible the Minbari told Clark
|
||||
themselves.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Why did the Grey Council choose to reveal their secret to Sinclair
|
||||
now? Why have they invited him to become ambassador after pushing
|
||||
so hard to get him in command of Babylon 5 (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/013.html">"Signs and Portents"</a>?)
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Sheridan was wrong about Clark being the only other person who knows
|
||||
about the situation with Minbari souls (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/023.html">"Points of Departure."</a>)
|
||||
How widespread the knowledge is, and how it's being used, may be
|
||||
important story points in the future.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> The coverup of Santiago's assassination appears to be very effective,
|
||||
unless the senator Sinclair speaks with is in on it as well. Everyone
|
||||
seems convinced that it was a simple accident.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Sinclair's d*ck makes an appearance on page 17. Or a swan, anyway.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Oddly, there are some inconsistencies with the series:
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Clark tells Sinclair that he's giving Ivanova a field
|
||||
promotion to commander, <em>before</em> Sheridan arrives
|
||||
on Babylon 5 and puts in the paperwork (in episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/025.html">"The Geometry of Shadows."</a>)
|
||||
On the other hand, it's possible Sheridan actually requested
|
||||
the promotion as soon as he got his assignment, or that Clark
|
||||
was planning on promoting Ivanova anyway.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Sinclair's recollection of his last words on the Line are
|
||||
different. In
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/008.html">"And the Sky Full of Stars"</a>
|
||||
he says, "If I'm going out I'm taking
|
||||
you bastards with me! Target main cruiser, set for full
|
||||
velocity ram." Possibly to tone down the language, the
|
||||
comic renders this as, "If I'm dying I'm taking you demons
|
||||
with me! Target lead Minbari cruiser! Set for full
|
||||
velocity ram!"
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Even <em>Clark</em> thinks Sinclair is stiff: "Excuse me, Commander,
|
||||
but is that as much at ease as you get?"
|
||||
|
||||
<li> There's a slight gaffe on page 19; Sinclair's uniform is backwards
|
||||
in the mirror. (The strap should be on the other side of the buttons,
|
||||
as shown on page 22.)
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> By the "flip side" of stories I was referring to the other side of
|
||||
events. I.e., in episode one, Sinclair is reassigned, but we hear about
|
||||
this mainly when he's away. In the comic, we'll see where he is, and
|
||||
see his reaction to what's going on. In B-squared, we saw the present
|
||||
events in the vanishment of B4; in a future episode, we'll actually see
|
||||
our characters make the decision to go back in time and yank B4 forward,
|
||||
what went wrong, and so on.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> It's not supposed to be a blasted landscape around Geneva, and didn't
|
||||
look like that in the pencils.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> The word "bastards" was in the script I turned in to DC. It got
|
||||
changed to "demons" by the editor. That change was made at the last
|
||||
minute; all the inked and penciled versions I'd seen before had the
|
||||
right word in it. I'm considerably less than thrilled about it.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> <a name="JS:kill">Prior to the time of Valen,</a>
|
||||
the Minbari's greatest spiritual leader,
|
||||
there was killing of Minbari by Minbari. There were three warring
|
||||
castes, which he pulled together when he formed the Grey Council
|
||||
(three from each caste forming nine, Worker, Warrior, Religious Caste).
|
||||
Since that time, and the Minbari have been in space for well over a
|
||||
thousand years, they have pretty much hewn to that rule; it is their
|
||||
greatest taboo. Once the three sides were integrated, the warrior
|
||||
caste mainly contented itself with external threats.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> <cite>Rathenn said the soul migration had been going on for 6000
|
||||
years; Lennier in
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/023.html">"Points of Departure"</a>
|
||||
said one or two thousand. What gives?</cite>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
Rathenn spoke incorrectly.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Rathenn said Sinclair did not *entirely* remember their meeting; he
|
||||
then refreshed this memory.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> <em>Squaring the account of Ivanova's promotion with "The Geometry
|
||||
of Shadows"</em><br>
|
||||
The president spoke truthfully; Sheridan could petition for a
|
||||
promotion for her, but it's up to Earthforce to grant it, so the line
|
||||
still tracks. (Note also there's no pronoun there; "Giving her a
|
||||
field promotion." The imperial We still stands, though.) Also,
|
||||
Sheridan says he put through the paperwork the day after he got there;
|
||||
which is fairly close to the time frame in the story in which the
|
||||
President says they'll be giving Ivanova a promotion. There's no
|
||||
discontinuity here.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> <em>In "Points of Departure," Sheridan implied he told Clark about the
|
||||
soul migration.</em><br>
|
||||
Sheridan did NOT tell President Clark about the
|
||||
Minbari soul situation. Clark already knew about it. Sheridan's line
|
||||
is, "I spoke with the president. He is the only other person who knows
|
||||
why the Minbari surrendered." Also, in the first issue of the comic,
|
||||
this prior knowledge on Clark's part is clear as well.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,203 @@
|
|||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
Ambassador Sinclair arrives on Minbar, just in time to see a new Minbari
|
||||
leader sworn in... and a conspiracy plot unfold.
|
||||
</blockquote></cite>
|
||||
|
||||
Issue 2 (February 1995, released January 3, 1995)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Between
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/024.html">"Revelations"</a>
|
||||
and
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/025.html">"The Geometry of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: Mark Moretti
|
||||
Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
|
||||
Penciller: Michael Netzer
|
||||
Inker: Rob Leigh</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In a docking bay on the station, an armed man in dockworker clothes loads
|
||||
a small package onto a Minbari flyer, which departs the station three
|
||||
hours later.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Three days later, Babylon 5 receives a distress call from a ship in Grid
|
||||
Epsilon. Keffer takes Zeta Squad to respond. In C&C, Ivanova arrives in
|
||||
time to see the final distress call, which turns out to be from the
|
||||
Starliner Chiyoda-Ku. The person making the call is killed by an
|
||||
unseen person as Ivanova watches. Ivanova begins calling up the registration
|
||||
and manifest of the Chiyoda-Ku. "These are the times I wish Garibaldi
|
||||
was back on duty," she says, "but..."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi, meanwhile, is in his quarters, showing Talia his second-favorite
|
||||
thing in the universe (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/001.html">"Midnight on the Firing Line."</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Parsecs away, the Minbari cruiser carrying Ambassador Sinclair stops to take
|
||||
on a transfer, arriving on the flyer from Babylon 5. Racine, a Grey Council
|
||||
member, tells Sinclair that the period of mourning for Dukhat is over, that
|
||||
the Grey Council, which has ruled Minbar since Dukhat's death, is gathering
|
||||
on Minbar to install a new leader, and that the flyer is carrying a member
|
||||
of the Council who was away but has returned for the Shi-Ki, the installation
|
||||
ceremony. Sinclair tries to talk to the newly arrived Satai, but is
|
||||
rebuffed by one of the Satai's guards, a member of the militant Star Rider
|
||||
caste.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi and Talia are interrupted by a call from
|
||||
Sinclair, who apologizes for not being able to say goodbye. He asks Garibaldi
|
||||
to forward his regards to Delenn, who he's glad isn't going to be at the
|
||||
ceremony. "There's some kind of undercurrent running through the Minbari
|
||||
castes -- tension. It seems dangerous with the Grey Council and the new
|
||||
leader all in one place." Garibaldi tells Sinclair that Delenn has come
|
||||
out of her chrysalis, and is in fact on her way to Minbar.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Keffer's squad finds the Chiyoda-Ku, a top-notch starliner. Flying close,
|
||||
they can see through the windows: dead bodies, bleeding, floating in the air
|
||||
inside the zero-G passenger areas. Ivanova tells Keffer to attach tow
|
||||
cables to the ship and bring her back to the station. As Keffer and his
|
||||
squad tow the ship back, Ivanova finally finds the ship listed in a
|
||||
registry... and the file is classified. She tells Dr. Franklin to meet
|
||||
her in the docking bay, and tells the C&C staff to keep everything under
|
||||
wraps.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Elsewhere on the station, the man who loaded the package onto the Minbari
|
||||
flyer, Jason Colby (apparently a Homeguard sympathizer) manages to bypass
|
||||
the station's computer security and finds out that the Chiyoda-Ku is being
|
||||
brought aboard. He quickly changes into a station security uniform.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The bodies are counted -- twenty-five aboard, all but one dead, some
|
||||
with PPG wounds, and none with any identification. The ship's life support
|
||||
didn't malfunction; it was turned off. One of the security men says he's
|
||||
seen the Chiyoda-Ku somewhere before, but can't place it. As the survivor
|
||||
is taken away, Colby watches.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Franklin stabilizes the survivor; Ivanova has him placed under guard.
|
||||
Later that night, Colby enters Medlab and discovers the survivor, conscious.
|
||||
Colby tries to kill the man, but is hit by a powerful mental force. The
|
||||
survivor stumbles out of Medlab, taking the dead guard's gun on the way out.
|
||||
Colby recovers shortly thereafter and goes looking for the man.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Ivanova discovers that the Chiyoda-Ku was confiscated by Earth Force in an
|
||||
arms-smuggling bust two years earlier. Just then, Franklin calls in from
|
||||
Medlab, reporting the escape of his patient and the death of the guard.
|
||||
Ivanova issues a lookout for the patient; he is to be taken alive if possible,
|
||||
but is armed and dangerous.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sinclair stands near a large window of the Earth Alliance embassy in Yedor, the
|
||||
Minbari capital, and looks out over a gathering area in the midst
|
||||
of the crystalline city. He is joined by Ambassador Delenn, whose
|
||||
new appearance shocks Sinclair. She tells him he didn't see her in time,
|
||||
that it's too late now. Of her transformation, she says, "I reached
|
||||
a time when I could go no further... as I <em>was.</em> I cannot explain
|
||||
more yet. I am the first of my kind ever to... become this. I am now only
|
||||
half-Minbari. I am also half-human."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The search for the escaped patient is going poorly. Ivanova is coordinating
|
||||
search teams when Talia calls and says the man everyone's looking for is
|
||||
in her quarters. Ivanova tells all the search teams to converge on Talia's
|
||||
quarters... an order Colby hears, too.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
When Ivanova and her men burst in, Talia says the man's name is Dexter Hall,
|
||||
that he's a psi-cop, and that he didn't kill the guard. He came to her
|
||||
because she was a fellow Psi-Corps member. He had been working undercover,
|
||||
infiltrating a pro-Earth group on the Chiyoda-Ku who blamed Santiago's
|
||||
death on alien groups. He found out the group was supplying weapons for
|
||||
an assassination of a head of state: the new Minbari leader.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn and Sinclair are talking when Kozorr, military caste, barges into
|
||||
the room, two subordinates pushing a pile of boxes of Sinclair's belongings
|
||||
from Babylon 5. Kozorr opens one of the boxes, revealing an Earth-made
|
||||
rifle, along with a map of the new leader's coronation route -- with a
|
||||
marker drawn at the point when the leader will pass closest to Sinclair's
|
||||
window. He places Sinclair under arrest for conspiring to assassinate
|
||||
the new leader. "When you are convicted," Kozorr continues, "be assured
|
||||
we will declare war against Earth for your treason."
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Delenn is still a member of the Grey Council, even after her
|
||||
transformation and her rejection of the Council leadership.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> The Grey Council has been in charge of the Minbari government
|
||||
since the death of Dukhat, but that will no longer be the case
|
||||
once the new leader is installed.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> What will the Minbari do to Sinclair?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> What happened on the Chiyoda-Ku? Did Hall kill all the other
|
||||
people on the ship, such as the person placing the distress call?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Was the bogus package intended for someone other than Sinclair?
|
||||
Was it supposed to be discovered to implicate him? (See
|
||||
<a href="#AN.package">Analysis</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<li> How did Colby intercept the security transmission about the
|
||||
Chiyoda-Ku's arrival?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Who is Colby's "boss," the one who told him to plant the package?
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> This story seems to take place between the episodes
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/024.html">"Revelations"</a>
|
||||
and
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/025.html">"The Geometry of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
since it features Delenn post-chrysalis, but Ivanova is still
|
||||
referred to as Lieutenant Commander. That makes it unlikely
|
||||
that Garibaldi's aide is Colby's contact on the station.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> <a name="AN.package">The placement of the package</a> is odd. If it
|
||||
was intended to frame
|
||||
Sinclair, then Hall was wrong about there being an assassination
|
||||
attempt against the new Minbari leader (or there are even more
|
||||
weapons, as yet undiscovered by the Minbari.) So perhaps it was
|
||||
supposed to be intercepted by someone else at the Earth Alliance
|
||||
embassy before Sinclair ever saw it, and the Minbari have
|
||||
unwittingly foiled a <em>real</em> assassination plot.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> The Homeguard is apparently unaware of the real plot to kill
|
||||
Santiago, if they assumed it was the work of aliens. Or, perhaps,
|
||||
they know something that hasn't been discovered by the Babylon 5
|
||||
crew yet.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
|
|||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
As Sinclair's trial begins, Sheridan and his crew race to unravel the
|
||||
mystery of the Chiyoda-Ku.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
Issue 3 (March 1995)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Between
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/024.html">"Revelations"</a>
|
||||
and
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/025.html">"The Geometry of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: Mark Moretti
|
||||
Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
|
||||
Artist: Carlos Garzon
|
||||
Colorist: Robbie Busch</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
On Minbar, Delenn visits Sinclair after the inauguration of the "Chosen One"
|
||||
as leader. Sinclair is sure someone was out to frame him. He's further
|
||||
puzzled when Delenn mentions that the message that told the Minbari there
|
||||
was an assassin on their world came from Babylon 5.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
On Babylon 5, Sheridan is talking to Senator Hidoshi, who seems to believe
|
||||
that Sinclair might be guilty; he mentions Sinclair's suspicions about a
|
||||
plot to assassinate the president, and conjectures that maybe Sinclair
|
||||
thought the Minbari were behind the plot. Hidoshi passes along a message
|
||||
from Psi-Corps: Dexter Hall is to be kept isolated, under guard. An
|
||||
Earthforce internal affairs officer, Colonel Rabock, is being sent to take
|
||||
control of the situation.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In his quarters, Jason Colby listens in on the conversation as Sheridan
|
||||
objects to an outsider taking over an ongoing investigation. Hidoshi
|
||||
dismisses Sheridan's claim that what Talia saw in Hall's mind indicates
|
||||
that someone else nearby is involved. Hearing that, Colby prepares to
|
||||
get rid of Talia. Sheridan says he intends to
|
||||
continue the investigation until Rabock arrives; Hidoshi begins to tell
|
||||
him that Hall is a rogue telepath known as "Cypher."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Talia walks through the Zocalo, Colby close behind. She senses powerful
|
||||
anger, but when she turns, Colby is gone. He has stepped into a comm booth
|
||||
and is talking to a bearded man called "Webster," who tells him to get rid
|
||||
of Hall, but leave Talia alone. Colby asks Webster to get him off Babylon
|
||||
5; he thinks he's fulfilled his end of the bargain and wants to go home.
|
||||
Webster agrees and says he'll use G'Kar to get Colby out.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Meanwhile, Garibaldi doesn't believe Hall is Cypher; he thinks Cypher isn't
|
||||
even a real rogue, just "plausible deniability for deep cover ops." He
|
||||
also tells Sheridan there's no way Sinclair is guilty.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
On Minbar, Sinclair is led to trial. Delenn meets the head prosecutor: Alit
|
||||
Neroon (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="../guide/017.html">"Legacies."</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
G'Kar has called a council meeting, outraged that the council wasn't informed
|
||||
of the accusation against Sinclair. "Are <em>our</em> leaders in danger,
|
||||
also?" he asks. Sheridan smooths things over just in time to be called
|
||||
to medlab.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Colby grabs Talia and pulls her into a transport tube car. She knows
|
||||
instantly that he's Hall's attacker. Garibaldi appears; Colby makes a run
|
||||
for it, leaving Talia behind. She and Garibaldi arrive in medlab, where
|
||||
they find Sheridan. Talia agrees to do a deep scan of Hall. Ivanova
|
||||
reports that Colonel Rabock's ship has arrived early; Sheridan tells her
|
||||
to stall him.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Talia begins her scan. She sees Hall undercover, infiltrating a group called
|
||||
the Homers. They're on the Chiyoda-Ku, celebrating the death of "that
|
||||
'Minbari stooge' -- President Santiago." One of the celebrants claims there's
|
||||
an even bigger event coming up, that he delivered a weapon to someone on
|
||||
Babylon 5 to use in the assassination of the new Minbari leader. Hall slips
|
||||
away to send a warning to the Minbari, but someone notices him, and a
|
||||
firefight ensues. He's hit, but reaches the cockpit and locks the door.
|
||||
He orders the pilot to call for help. Before the pilot can finish, the others
|
||||
break in and start shooting, hitting the pilot and the communications console.
|
||||
In desperation, Hall grabs for a breather and opens the ship's exhaust vents.
|
||||
The others perish in the near-vacuum, and Hall himself is half-conscious,
|
||||
on the verge of death, when Babylon 5's Starfuries arrive. Much later, he
|
||||
awakens in medlab to find a gun pointed at his head; he reacts reflexively,
|
||||
blasting his assailant with pain, and forces himself to seek out another
|
||||
telepath.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
As Talia reaches the end of his memories, Hall dies. Colonel Rabock barges
|
||||
into medlab -- he's "Webster," the man who was talking to Colby.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
On Minbar, Sinclair stands before an imposing panel of Minbari. "Ambassador
|
||||
Sinclair," one of them says. "You stand accused of plotting to assassinate
|
||||
the Chosen One, our leader. How do you plead...?"
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> What was the bargain between Colby and Col. Rabock?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Is there still an assassin on Minbar? (see
|
||||
<a href="#AN:assassin">Analysis</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> For once, Garibaldi's sixth sense about Talia and the transport
|
||||
tube (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="../guide/018.html">"A Voice in the Wilderness, part 1"</a>)
|
||||
works to her advantage rather than her annoyance!
|
||||
|
||||
<li> <a name="AN:assassin">It's still not clear that Sinclair was the
|
||||
intended recipient</a> of
|
||||
the weapons and map; the Homer thought that there was going to be
|
||||
a real assassination attempt, something Sinclair obviously would
|
||||
never do. If that's the case, there's still a would-be assassin
|
||||
at large on Minbar.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Further, Sinclair would never have gotten in trouble if it hadn't
|
||||
been for Talia's discovery of an assassination plot, which presumably
|
||||
prompted the call that warned the Minbari to look for an assassin.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Why did Colby continue to go after Talia even after he was explicity
|
||||
told not to? That would seem to indicate that whatever the bargain
|
||||
between Col. Rabock and Colby is, it's not something Colby considers
|
||||
a matter of life and death, something to be respected at the risk of
|
||||
his own discovery.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> This issue's behind-the-scenes pages:
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> John Iacovelli discusses the design of the sets and some of
|
||||
the show's philosophy.
|
||||
<li> Roland Rosenkranz describes the design of the Narn fighter
|
||||
cockpit.
|
||||
<li> Marc-Louis Walters describes the show's hand weapon design,
|
||||
from PPG pistols to grenade launchers to Minbari knives.
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
|
|||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
Colby makes a last desperate break for freedom, as Sinclair's problems reach
|
||||
a climactic finish on Minbar.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
Issue 4 (April 1995)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Between
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/024.html">"Revelations"</a>
|
||||
and
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/025.html">"The Geometry of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: Mark Moretti
|
||||
Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
|
||||
Penciller: Michael Netzer
|
||||
Inker: Rob Leigh</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
As Jason Colby gathers his belongings -- including a picture of his dead
|
||||
wife -- his video tap shows Col. Rabock talking to Ivanova, demanding
|
||||
permission to board the station. Colby recognizes Rabock as Webster.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In Medlab, Rabock upbraids Sheridan for allowing Talia to scan Hall.
|
||||
Sheridan retorts that Hall was about to die, that the scan has given them
|
||||
a lead in the Minbari assassination plot, and that they're trying to track
|
||||
down the man who attacked Hall. Rabock storms away, which strikes
|
||||
Sheridan as odd. "I would've thought an internal affairs investigator would
|
||||
be interested in any information we uncovered," he says.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sinclair's trial is interrupted when Delenn charges into the chambers,
|
||||
claiming to have new information that might exonerate him. Neroon objects
|
||||
to her presence -- her association with Sinclair invalidates anything she
|
||||
might say. Delenn begins to describe what Garibaldi and Sheridan have
|
||||
learned; the tribunal decides to hear her evidence privately.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Rabock speaks privately with a superior over a comm channel. He tells the
|
||||
mysterious man that Colby will take the fall for smuggling the weapons into
|
||||
Sinclair's luggage. His superior points out that if Colby is blamed, the
|
||||
cover story about Cypher being responsible will fall apart. Colby must be
|
||||
killed. Rabock's superior mentions that Rabock killed Colby's wife to help
|
||||
recruit Colby into the Homeguard -- an unfortunate revelation, since Colby
|
||||
is listening in on the conversation from his quarters.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn finishes her report on the situation on Babylon 5. Neroon dismisses
|
||||
it out of hand as a delaying tactic, and says that once it becomes clear that
|
||||
Sinclair's friends are fabricating evidence to set him free, the warrior
|
||||
caste will demand a renewed war against Earth. Delenn counters that the
|
||||
war was ended the first time because some humans, including Sinclair, carry
|
||||
Minbari souls, a situation which hasn't changed. Neroon scoffs at that.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Rabock checks in with Garibaldi to find out how the manhunt is proceeding.
|
||||
It's proceeding as planned, though as yet there's no trace of the man Talia
|
||||
described. While Rabock watches, Garibaldi discovers a visual log of the
|
||||
docking bay that shows Colby loading weapons onto Delenn's flyer. That's
|
||||
enough for the computer to search the personnel files and determine who
|
||||
Colby is.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Rabock, who slipped away the moment he saw the video, arrives at Colby's
|
||||
quarters as Garibaldi and Sheridan rush to the scene. As he enters,
|
||||
Colby ambushes him and takes him hostage. Sheridan and Garibaldi arrive;
|
||||
Sheridan agrees to let Colby get to Rabock's shuttle unhindered. As soon
|
||||
as Colby is out of earshot, Sheridan orders a wing of Starfuries to
|
||||
take out the ship's engine when it emerges.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The shuttle leaves the station. Rabock tells Colby to put down his gun -- and
|
||||
hits Colby with an intense burst of telepathic pain when Colby doesn't
|
||||
comply. Colby figures it out: Webster isn't Rabock at all. He's Cypher.
|
||||
Colby grabs his gun and begins firing. Unfortunately, he hits the shuttle's
|
||||
systems several times; it explodes before the waiting Starfuries can fire
|
||||
a shot.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Neroon cites the video as evidence that Sinclair is simply part of a larger
|
||||
conspiracy to assassinate the Minbari leader, and demands that such an act
|
||||
of war be responded to in kind. The tribunal agrees. As its head is
|
||||
pronouncing sentence, Sinclair invokes an ancient law, offering his life
|
||||
in exchange for war. This infuriates Neroon, who accuses Sinclair of mocking
|
||||
Minbari customs... but the tribunal rules that Sinclair's request is valid.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Minbari leader enters the court chamber, flanked by robed acolytes,
|
||||
and demands to be heard. He has been watching the trial, and the fact that
|
||||
Sinclair was willing to pay the steepest possible price for peace has
|
||||
convinced him that Sinclair is "a good and just man." He pardons Sinclair.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Later, Delenn congratulates Sinclair on the ploy. He knew that the leader,
|
||||
as head of the Grey Council, would never allow the execution because of
|
||||
Sinclair's Minbari soul. As Delenn bids Sinclair farewell, he surprises
|
||||
her by kissing her on the cheek.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan, Ivanova, and Garibaldi discuss the situation. All the principals
|
||||
are gone -- even Hall's body, which had been loaded onto Rabock's ship.
|
||||
Garibaldi says he still doesn't believe Hall was Cypher, doesn't think Cypher
|
||||
even exists.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
They're interrupted by the arrival of an Earthforce officer: Colonel Tiffany
|
||||
Rabock. Garibaldi is stunned -- maybe Cypher did exist after all.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
On Earth, in an office with a stylized, militaristic psi symbol on the
|
||||
floor, a man deletes the files for Colby and Webster and asks the computer
|
||||
to search Psi-Corps records for a person matching the "Cypher" program's
|
||||
criteria. "Somewhere out there," he says, "a new Cypher is waiting to be
|
||||
found..."
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> Neroon knew, before
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/033.html">"All Alone in the Night,"</a>
|
||||
that Sinclair was alleged to be carrying a Minbari soul. It
|
||||
seems he doesn't believe it, or doesn't care.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> The Minbari leader has the power to pardon criminals, even those
|
||||
convicted of treason.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> Who's the mysterious man in charge of Cypher? From the "PSI" in his
|
||||
office on the last page, it seems he's connected with Psi-Corps.
|
||||
Perhaps he's part of Bureau 13? (cf.
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/028.html">"A Spider in the Web"</a>)
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> The plot to set Hall up as Cypher seems flawed; if Webster and his
|
||||
superior had succeeded in convincing everyone that Hall was Cypher,
|
||||
that'd mean another cover story would have to be concocted if
|
||||
they wanted to do anything they'd ordinarily pin on Cypher.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Sinclair and Delenn are more than just colleagues, clearly; unless
|
||||
Sinclair has picked up some of Ivanova's Russian habits, kissing
|
||||
a foreign official is hardly an ambassadorial thing to do.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Sinclair now seems to have an ally in the leader of the Minbari.
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> In this issue's behind-the-scenes pages, Ann Bruice talks about the
|
||||
designs of various costumes on the show, and about being B5's
|
||||
costume designer.
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
|
|||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
Security Chief Garibaldi and hotshot pilot Warren Keffer plunge into
|
||||
deep space, following a cryptic clue that may explain why an alien
|
||||
outpost was wiped out. Ambushed and forced to crash land on a remote
|
||||
planet, Garibaldi recalls his first meeting with Babylon 5's former
|
||||
commander, Jeffrey Sinclair.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
Issue 5 (June 1995, released April 4)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Before
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/031.html">"The Coming of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: Tim DeHaas
|
||||
Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
|
||||
Artist: John Ridgway
|
||||
Colorist: Robbie Busch</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi finds Londo and Vir in the Zocalo and tells Londo he knows that
|
||||
the Narn outpost in Quadrant 37 (destroyed in
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/022.html">"Chrysalis"</a>)
|
||||
has been the subject of many of Londo's transmissions. Londo, taken aback
|
||||
that Garibaldi has been listening in on him, says he's just staying informed.
|
||||
G'Kar, arriving on the scene, notes, "It seems every time you are informed
|
||||
of something, others pay with their lives," pointing to the destruction of
|
||||
the Narn cruiser in
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/024.html">"Revelations."</a> Londo and G'Kar nearly
|
||||
come to blows before Vir drags Londo away for a scheduled meeting with
|
||||
Delenn.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
But it's not Delenn waiting for Londo; it's Morden, who tells Londo to be
|
||||
more careful in his off-station communications, and asks that Londo tell him
|
||||
if Garibaldi should decide to investigate further.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi is in a security office. He's sifting through ambassadorial
|
||||
communications, looking for something suspicious, something he's apparently
|
||||
authorized to do randomly. Shortly after Ivanova arrives, Garibaldi finds
|
||||
Londo using a comm channel, though without tipping Londo off to the tap,
|
||||
Garibaldi can't see who's on the other side. It turns out to be Refa;
|
||||
the two discuss the Emperor's health (poor.) Londo wants to meet with Refa
|
||||
in person to discuss misgivings about the "source" who helped him with
|
||||
Quadrant 37; they agree to meet in two hours at some predetermined place.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi decides that Londo's source is definitely something Earth needs
|
||||
to know more about. He rushes off to beat Londo to the meeting place,
|
||||
whose location he learned from previous transmissions. As he's trying to
|
||||
sneak out with a flyer, Keffer catches up to him and invites himself
|
||||
along. "Somebody has to bring you back alive," he says. Garibaldi
|
||||
reluctantly agrees.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Londo is on his way to his ship when he runs into Morden. Morden tells
|
||||
Londo to cancel his meeting with Refa and instead pay a routine diplomatic
|
||||
visit to a Centauri colony. He demands that Londo tell him where the meeting
|
||||
was going to take place.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Keffer and Garibaldi emerge from a jumpgate near a planet. Asked why he
|
||||
went along, Keffer says, "You needed help. You don't have many friends on
|
||||
the station." Garibaldi agrees that Sinclair was the only one he knew
|
||||
he could trust.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
While they wait for Londo and Refa to arrive, Garibaldi explains why he trusts
|
||||
Sinclair in a way that he can never trust Sheridan. It was years earlier,
|
||||
back on Mars Colony. Garibaldi had started a shuttle transport service,
|
||||
mostly transporting people who didn't like being asked questions. He was
|
||||
sitting in his office, nursing a bottle, when Lieutenant Commander Sinclair
|
||||
came in with two junior officers and enlists Garibaldi's services for a
|
||||
flight. He's a little apprehensive about Garibaldi's drunkenness, but
|
||||
Garibaldi accepts the job.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The story is interrupted by the abrupt appearance of a Shadow fighter.
|
||||
Keffer heads at breakneck speed for the planet, dodging shots left and
|
||||
right, but their ship is hit and goes spinning half out of control. Keffer
|
||||
manages to stabilize the ship somewhat, but it's still headed for the
|
||||
ground. "Hope the foam-protect still works," says Garibaldi, as the ship
|
||||
disappears behind a small mountain range...
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Beginning this issue, BABYLON 5 is upgraded
|
||||
to DC's Fracote Format, featuring a coated paper stock. Painted cover
|
||||
by Scott Hampton.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> I have to say I'm very pleased with issue #5. It came out very well,
|
||||
and nicely captures both the look, feel and dialogue of the show. There
|
||||
were some bumps along the way in issues 2-4, so I didn't say much, but
|
||||
THIS one I can highly recommend.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> About the new paper and price...I did the first issue, and while the
|
||||
pencils were quite good, and the inks okay, when they put the coloring
|
||||
in the paper just absorbed the hell out of it and it looked like crap,
|
||||
from my POV. (And I'm not speaking out of school; I said much the
|
||||
same to DC.) Parts were nice, but other parts...yikes. I felt,
|
||||
strongly, that we needed a better quality of paper, otherwise a lot of
|
||||
the good work that was being done was going to be lost. It would cost
|
||||
more, but finally DC -- which, to be fair, has only been VASTLY
|
||||
supportive of B5, and the comic and their only intention is to make it
|
||||
as good as possible -- decided to go with the better quality paper.
|
||||
The main question was whether or not there was enough of a reader base
|
||||
to warrant it; there was, and they did.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
|
|||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
Garibaldi experiences an alien encounter chillingly similar to what he
|
||||
went through years ago on Mars, when he first met former Babylon 5
|
||||
commander Jeffrey Sinclair.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
Issue 6 (July 1995)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Before
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/031.html">"The Coming of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: Tim DeHaas
|
||||
Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
|
||||
Penciller: John Ridgway
|
||||
Inker: C-S. Hampton</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi and Keffer climb out of the crashed ship and leave quickly, in
|
||||
case their attacker comes looking for them. Garibaldi makes certain to set
|
||||
the ship to self-destruct. As they walk away, Garibaldi
|
||||
mentions that he's seen a ship like the attacker's before. Years ago,
|
||||
on Mars...
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Two young officers, Foster and Sanchez, waited for Lt. Commander Sinclair and
|
||||
Garibaldi in the Mars spaceport. Garibaldi turned out to be unconscious in
|
||||
the passenger compartment of his ship; Sinclair woke him and tossed him
|
||||
to Foster and Sanchez to sober up. "Earthforce may have given me this
|
||||
make-work mission to keep me out of the way," Sinclair said, "but by God, I
|
||||
<em>will</em> accomplish it."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Much later, Garibaldi flew Sinclair and the two others over the surface of
|
||||
Mars, searching for something. Garibaldi notes that Sinclair wasn't what
|
||||
he expected -- after what he'd heard about Sinclair being a hero of the
|
||||
Battle of the Line, he hadn't expected someone stiffer than a corpse. Sinclair
|
||||
refused to tell Garibaldi what they were looking for, and even filed fake
|
||||
flight plans so nobody else would know where they were.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
On the fifth day of searching, the ship's navigational systems and inertial
|
||||
dampers suddenly went offline. Garibaldi managed to crashland the ship,
|
||||
wrecking it, without killing everyone -- but Sanchez' leg was broken, and
|
||||
Foster didn't survive. Sanchez clearly blamed Garibaldi.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sinclair and Garibaldi went to get help, a fifty-mile trek across the surface.
|
||||
They weren't far when Sanchez linked in to report that all the ship's systems
|
||||
had suddenly started working again -- evidence that Garibaldi wasn't at fault
|
||||
after all. Sanchez picked up a dust storm on the ship's scanners; Sinclair
|
||||
and Garibaldi sought cover.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Keffer and Garibaldi reach the top of a large rock formation overlooking
|
||||
the crash site. From that high vantage point, Keffer can see what looks like
|
||||
a small Centauri settlement in the distance. But Garibaldi's attention is
|
||||
elsewhere: the Shadow ship has landed next to the crash site, and humanoid
|
||||
figures have emerged,
|
||||
examining what little remains of the wreckage. "Did you see something like
|
||||
that on Mars?" Keffer asks, staring down at the Shadow ship. "That and
|
||||
<em>more</em>," Garibaldi answers, face full of fear. He says there's no
|
||||
hope of a rescue, because he didn't tell anyone where he was going.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
On the ground, the remains of the crashed ship suddenly vanish without a
|
||||
trace, as does the impact ditch. "They're getting rid of the evidence,"
|
||||
Garibaldi says. "They don't want anyone to know they were here."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The figures seem to decide that someone survived the crash, and head
|
||||
purposefully toward the rock formation. "Let's get the hell out of here!"
|
||||
says Garibaldi as he and Keffer scramble down the other side of the formation.
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Earthforce used to give Sinclair busywork missions to keep him out
|
||||
of the way, suggesting he was something of a troublemaker.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Garibaldi has seen a Shadow ship, if only a small one, on Mars.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Who are the beings on the Shadow ship?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> What was Sinclair supposed to be searching for?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> What else did Garibaldi see on Mars?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> What caused Garibaldi's ship to malfunction years ago?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Does whatever Garibaldi saw mean that the Shadows have been
|
||||
active for many years? (See also episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/038.html">"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum"</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> If Sinclair and Gariabldi found a Shadow ship on Mars, and especially
|
||||
if they were able to destroy it somehow, that might explain why the
|
||||
Shadows haven't attacked any human ships in the series so far (as of
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/039.html">"Knives."</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Of course, there's no evidence that Garibaldi saw a <em>functioning</em>
|
||||
Shadow ship on Mars; maybe he and Sinclair found an ancient crash site,
|
||||
the occupants long since dead or vanished -- which would have given
|
||||
Garibaldi the opportunity to explore inside. That may even have been
|
||||
what Sinclair was sent to look for.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Keffer has also seen a Shadow ship before, in
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/026.html">"A Distant Star,"</a>
|
||||
though it was a large cruiser rather than the smaller variety in
|
||||
this story.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Issues 6-9 of the B5 comic from DC will focus on how Sinclair and
|
||||
Garibaldi met and formed their friendship.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
(This is based on a premise from me, so it's canon.)
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,192 @@
|
|||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
Lost, on the run and stranded on a Centauri outpost, Keffer and
|
||||
Garibaldi are overtaken by strange aliens with the power to control
|
||||
minds.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Issue 7 (August 1995, released June 6)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Before
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/031.html">"The Coming of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: Tim DeHaas
|
||||
Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
|
||||
Penciller: John Ridgway
|
||||
Inker: Robbie Busch</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi and Keffer are walking across a valley, two hours away from the
|
||||
Centauri city they spotted from the summit. Garibaldi reassures Keffer
|
||||
that they got enough of a head-start on the aliens that they should reach
|
||||
the city before their pursuers are able to catch up. As they press forward,
|
||||
Garibaldi continues the story of his first mission with Sinclair.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sinclair and Garibaldi had taken shelter in a cave to wait out the dust
|
||||
storm. With only five days of air and food, it wasn't easy to just wait,
|
||||
but at least they were in radio contact with Lt. Sanchez aboard Garibaldi's
|
||||
shuttle. Sinclair believed the worst of the storm was over.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi tired of the conversation between Sinclair and Sanchez
|
||||
and moved closer to the mouth of the cave, where he started drinking.
|
||||
He recalled a previous assignment, as head of security on Io, and the death
|
||||
of his friend Frank Kemmer (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/011.html">"Survivors"</a>)
|
||||
-- a death Garibaldi felt responsible for.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi found himself out on the surface, apparently after wandering
|
||||
off in his stupor. He reactivated his commlink to find Sanchez urgently
|
||||
trying to contact him. Sinclair, it seems, had noticed Garibaldi's
|
||||
absence, and started to go out looking for him -- but the mouth of the
|
||||
cave had collapsed, and Sinclair was pinned down just outside the cave,
|
||||
almost out of air. Sanchez hadn't heard from Sinclair for five
|
||||
minutes, possibly because he'd blacked out.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sanchez told Garibaldi that if Sinclair died, it would be on Garibaldi's
|
||||
head. That struck home; Garibaldi immediately went looking for Sinclair,
|
||||
aided by a flare fired from the ship by Sanchez. Following the flare's
|
||||
lead, Garibaldi found a collapsed cliffside, and soon came across
|
||||
Sinclair. He was almost too late, but eventually Sinclair regained
|
||||
consciousness after Garibaldi switched air cylinders. As soon as Sinclair
|
||||
came to, he wrestled Garibaldi to the ground and threatened to kill him
|
||||
if Garibaldi ever did something as stupid as wandering off again.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Keffer notes that in fact, Garibaldi's wandering saved Sinclair's life;
|
||||
Sinclair would never have survived if he'd been at the back of the cave
|
||||
when it collapsed.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Meanwhile, the aliens -- humanoid, fanged creatures with feline eyes --
|
||||
have not only caught up with Garibaldi and Keffer, but overtaken them,
|
||||
and enter a small forest, where they somehow meld with the trees. Keffer
|
||||
and Garibaldi arrive shortly thereafter, and Keffer begins acting paranoid,
|
||||
accusing Garibaldi of keeping them out in the open so they can be picked
|
||||
off by the alien ship. He pulls a gun on Garibaldi and takes Garibaldi's
|
||||
weapon.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
As Garibaldi tries to argue, he feels something try to control him,
|
||||
too, get him angry at Keffer. He ducks out of the way as Keffer fires,
|
||||
manages to zigzag out of the line of fire a couple more times. One of
|
||||
Keffer's shots hits a tree and sends an alien flying off to the side.
|
||||
That breaks the aliens' grip, and as they close in to attack, Keffer tosses
|
||||
Garibaldi his gun. The two manage to kill all the aliens, but the creatures
|
||||
self-destruct before the bodies can be examined.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"Did you <em>see</em> those things?" asks Keffer. "They could have torn
|
||||
us apart... but they tried to mind-warp us into killing each other instead."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"Yeah," says Garibaldi. "Always work from behind the scenes... leave
|
||||
no traces... leave no <em>witnesses...</em>" If this has anything to do
|
||||
with what he saw on Mars, Garibaldi says, they're in <em>big</em> trouble.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Because what he saw on Mars, looking on with Sinclair from the top of a
|
||||
canyon, was a large Shadow cruiser, apparently excavating another Shadow
|
||||
ship from beneath the surface -- while figures from a nearby building stood
|
||||
and watched.
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> Both Garibaldi and Sinclair have seen a Shadow ship in action, years
|
||||
before Sinclair took command of Babylon 5.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Garibaldi saved Sinclair's life twice on Mars, once inadventently
|
||||
and once out of remorse.
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> What were the aliens? Were they merely servants of the Shadows, along
|
||||
the lines of the creature in
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/027.html">"The Long Dark,"</a>
|
||||
or were they something else? (see
|
||||
<a href="#JS:creatures">jms speaks</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Why did they try to get Garibaldi and Keffer to kill each other rather
|
||||
than simply attacking from their ship? (see
|
||||
<a href="#shadows">Analysis</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<li> What else did Garibaldi and Sinclair see on Mars, and what do they
|
||||
know about what they saw? Garibaldi's comment suggests they may have
|
||||
seen more than just a ship. (see
|
||||
<a href="#AN:psi">Analysis</a>)
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> <a name="shadows">The creatures' strategy</a>
|
||||
of pitting Garibaldi and Keffer against each other seems to be
|
||||
consistent with the Shadows' modus operandi; the Shadows are pitting
|
||||
the Narn and Centauri against each other rather than striking
|
||||
directly. Perhaps their caution and indirection stems from their
|
||||
defeat at the hands of the Minbari and First Ones a thousand years
|
||||
earlier, when they moved too quickly and were perhaps too direct.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<li> It was already revealed (in
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/027.html">"The Long Dark"</a>)
|
||||
that some servants of the Shadows were already on their way back to
|
||||
Z'ha'dum before the Icarus landed there and reawakened the Shadows
|
||||
themselves (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/038.html">"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum."</a>)
|
||||
But if Sinclair and Garibaldi saw a large Shadow ship before then,
|
||||
it suggests that either some Shadows were awake before the Icarus
|
||||
incident, or that their servants are allowed to pilot their vessels
|
||||
unaccompanied.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
If the latter is the case, why didn't those servants awaken the
|
||||
Shadows before the Icarus' crew did?
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<li> <a name="AN:psi">What was the set of buildings</a>
|
||||
overlooking the Shadow ship's excavation? We know of one secret
|
||||
installation on Mars -- a Psi-Corps training center (cf. episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/018.html">"A Voice in the Wilderness."</a>)
|
||||
This could be how Garibaldi knew about the training center, and
|
||||
if true, it suggests a strong link between the Shadows and the
|
||||
Psi-Corps.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> The cover picture is something of a temporal slipup; the young version
|
||||
of Sinclair is fighting with the present-day Garibaldi (judging by
|
||||
the latter's lack of hair.)
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> <a name="JS:creatures">The comics version</a> shows creatures that are
|
||||
not the shadows themselves but some of the many creatures who serve
|
||||
them.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Actually, in the comic, you never saw shadows influencing anyone's
|
||||
mind; you saw their humanoid (in this case) servents doing this.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,269 @@
|
|||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
Keffer and Garibaldi escape Centauri clutches in a struggle
|
||||
that parallels Garibaldi's first adventure with Jeffrey
|
||||
Sinclair - concluding the story of their meeting, what they
|
||||
discovered... and what it may mean for Babylon 5's future.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Issue 8 (September 1995, released July 5)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Before
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/031.html">"The Coming of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: Tim DeHaas
|
||||
Premise: J. Michael Straczynski
|
||||
Penciller: John Ridgway
|
||||
Inker: C-S. Hampton</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<strong>Warning: this comic issue contains a spoiler for the episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/041.html">"Divided Loyalties."</a></strong>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi and Keffer make their way toward the Centauri city. As they
|
||||
walk, Garibaldi continues his story.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
He and Sinclair were low on air and their comlinks had stopped working
|
||||
suddenly. A hunch led Garibaldi toward a canyon, where to his great
|
||||
surprise -- and apparently Sinclair's as well -- they found a gigantic
|
||||
spidery ship apparently excavating another just like it as people from a
|
||||
nearby building watched. Was this what Sinclair was sent to look for,
|
||||
Garibaldi wondered?
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
A land vehicle approached them. Garibaldi pulled a gun on Sinclair
|
||||
and shot him. "Our coms were being jammed," he thought, "which, to my
|
||||
knowledge, meant <em>all</em> communications were jammed. That meant
|
||||
the other guys had to use an alternative way to communicate... and the
|
||||
possibilities made my skin crawl."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The vehicle came across Sinclair's body. Its armed occupants got out
|
||||
to investigate. They returned to the rover to find Garibaldi waiting for
|
||||
them; they were down before they could react. Garibaldi roused Sinclair
|
||||
from his stungun-induced slumber. The two had suspected they might be
|
||||
dealing with telepaths. Sinclair had asked Garibaldi to stun him so his
|
||||
thoughts couldn't be read.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi and Sinclair quickly donned the telepaths' suits. Sinclair
|
||||
explained that he was investigating possible covert human-alien activities.
|
||||
Previous missions sent to investigate had found only the tip of one human ear,
|
||||
nothing else. Perhaps suspecting that the earlier missions had been
|
||||
sabotaged, Sinclair elected to go with Garibaldi's privately-run shuttle
|
||||
service rather than through official channels. "Right now, Garibaldi,
|
||||
you may be the only one I can trust," he said.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Their planned escape was cut short when they discovered that the only way
|
||||
back was the roadway the vehicle had come from -- straight toward the
|
||||
buildings and the mysterious alien ship, still performing its excavation.
|
||||
They decided to play along until they could escape, and followed the
|
||||
hand signals of the people on the ground. Unfortunately, that
|
||||
strategy led them straight toward the largest of the buildings. Garibaldi
|
||||
got out and tried to blend in with the other people; he was directed to load
|
||||
boxes onto a cargo platform attached to his vehicle. Then he was motioned
|
||||
to drive into the building -- straight into the belly of the whale, he
|
||||
imagined.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Inside the building was a horrific sight: a huge transparent dome containing
|
||||
a large alien biomechanical construct, veins and skin and bone intermingling
|
||||
with tubes and panels. Passing through the organism were scores of human
|
||||
bodies on a conveyer belt. The whole operation was being monitored by
|
||||
technicians in a small isolation area jutting out the side of the dome,
|
||||
as workers milled about the rest of the building with heavy weaponry.
|
||||
Suddenly, Garibaldi could feel darkness closing in around him, self-pity
|
||||
and fear building in his head. It subsided somewhat when he remembered
|
||||
what Sinclair said about trusting him; he gathered enough courage to get
|
||||
out of the vehicle and unload the boxes, one of which had contained something
|
||||
he wanted, something with which to cause a diversion later.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
He walked closer to the dome and looked inside. The bodies
|
||||
on the conveyer belt appeared to have energy fields surrounding
|
||||
their heads. It was clearly some kind of medical experiment, but Garibaldi
|
||||
couldn't figure out what it was for.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
His pause at the dome gave him away, or perhaps one of the telepaths happened
|
||||
to read his thoughts. Whatever the cause, a large group of people started
|
||||
heading his way. Luckily, he was carrying the box he wanted -- it was full
|
||||
of grenades. He tossed one into the crowd, but quickly found himself
|
||||
pinned down. Sinclair
|
||||
came to the rescue, bursting through a stack of boxes with the vehicle and
|
||||
confusing the situation long enough for Garibaldi to climb aboard. As the
|
||||
vehicle raced out of the building, Garibaldi tossed out the entire box of
|
||||
grenades; the resulting explosion ripped the roof off the building. They were
|
||||
pursued, but not for long. Whatever was inside the building, Garibaldi
|
||||
guessed, the telepaths wanted very badly to try to save.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
As Garibaldi finishes his story, he and Keffer are discovered by two
|
||||
Centauri sentries, who lead them at gunpoint into the city. Later, the
|
||||
city magistrate tells them that his investigators found no trace of a crashed
|
||||
ship, or a fight in a clearing, as Garibaldi and Keffer described. But he
|
||||
remembers that Babylon 5 is where Londo Mollari -- the man responsible,
|
||||
Garibaldi learns, for saving Quadrant 37 from the Narn -- is stationed.
|
||||
He says he'll call Londo and try to verify Garibaldi's story.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Back on Babylon 5, Vir answers the call and tries to cover for Garibaldi and
|
||||
Keffer, but the magistrate insists on talking to Londo. Londo also covers
|
||||
for Garibaldi, but clearly isn't happy about it. He tells the magistrate to
|
||||
arrange for their transport back to Babylon 5. The problem resolved, he
|
||||
goes back to what he was doing: discussing something with Morden.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi tells Sheridan what happened and explains that he thinks the erasure
|
||||
of his crashed ship links it to what he and Sinclair found on Mars. After
|
||||
they had escaped the telepaths, Garibaldi says, and gotten out of range
|
||||
of the comm jamming, they'd returned to the area with an Earthforce shuttle
|
||||
and found no trace of ships, explosions, buildings, or anything. Earthforce
|
||||
conducted a thorough search, but it was Sinclair and Garibaldi who found the
|
||||
one piece of evidence at the site. It wasn't enough to convince anyone,
|
||||
though, so they kept it to themselves.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"The alien ship we saw on Mars looks <em>exactly</em> like the ship Keffer
|
||||
saw in hyperspace when he helped rescue the Cortez," Garibaldi says.
|
||||
"Something's out there, Captain, something big and dangerous. And it doesn't
|
||||
want us to know it's out there. And Londo's involved. I don't know how,
|
||||
but I intend to find out." Sheridan believes Garibaldi, but for appearance's
|
||||
sake has to give him an official reprimand.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Keffer and Garibaldi talk about the outcome of their adventure. Keffer
|
||||
wonders if anyone survived the explosions on Mars. Garibaldi isn't sure; it's
|
||||
hard to see how anyone could have. Sooner or later, though, he's going to
|
||||
find out who owns the item he found on Mars: a Psi-Corps badge.
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> When Garibaldi and Sinclair were on Mars, they discovered a secret
|
||||
operation involving Psi-Corps and the Shadows, part of which was a
|
||||
medical experiment of some kind. They destroyed the operation, which
|
||||
was erased without a trace, presumably by the Shadows.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Londo's involvement in clearing up the Narn problem in Quadrant 37 (cf.
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/022.html">"Chrysalis"</a>)
|
||||
is widely known among the Centauri.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Talia Winters survived the explosion on Mars, and may have been one
|
||||
of the experimental subjects. (This is shown on the last page of
|
||||
the comic, and is probably a spoiler for the episode
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/041.html">"Divided Loyalties."</a>)
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> What was the organism?
|
||||
<li> Who built or grew it? The Shadows likely had some input, but was
|
||||
it simply a gift from them?
|
||||
<li> Was it destroyed in the explosion?
|
||||
<li> What was the purpose of the Mars operation? Why were weapons
|
||||
being warehoused?
|
||||
<li> What were the two Shadow ships doing on Mars?
|
||||
<li> What is the connection between the Shadows and Psi-Corps?
|
||||
<li> Was Talia one of the people under the dome? (Garibaldi sees a
|
||||
blonde woman on the conveyer belt, but it's not clear if that's
|
||||
Talia or someone else.) If so, what was done to her?
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> This issue provides pretty compelling evidence that the Shadows were
|
||||
back in operation long before the Icarus stumbled across them (cf.
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/038.html">"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum."</a>)
|
||||
|
||||
<li> It seems odd that the Shadow ship in the air just stood by and let
|
||||
Garibaldi and Sinclair escape unharmed. Perhaps it was simply there
|
||||
to perform an excavation mission and didn't care what else was going
|
||||
on.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Garibaldi is quite a storehouse of knowledge about what's going on:
|
||||
he knows about Londo's connection with Quadrant 37, knows about the
|
||||
Shadow connection to Psi-Corps (for that matter, knows about the
|
||||
Shadows, even if at the time of the story he doesn't know exactly
|
||||
what they are) and, possibly, knows that Talia was involved in a
|
||||
Psi-Corps experiment. Whether, and how, all this will surface on
|
||||
the show remains to be seen.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Assuming the Shadows were involved in the construction of the
|
||||
organism under the dome, this is also compelling evidence that they
|
||||
have mastered the creation of living technology. What's less clear
|
||||
is how much of that expertise Psi-Corps now has as well.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Could the fact that Talia was involved in the Mars operation have
|
||||
something to do with why Kosh was interested in her in
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/009.html">"Deathwalker?"</a>
|
||||
Likewise, did Jason Ironheart
|
||||
(<a href="/lurk/guide/006.html">"Mind War"</a>)
|
||||
realize what was going on with her, and did he do anything to change
|
||||
the situation when he altered her abilities?
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> On page 12, to the left of the dome, an indistinct shape can be seen
|
||||
standing by the wall. From its outline, it's obviously a Shadow.
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> <em>Did you tell the artist what the organism under the dome should
|
||||
look like?</em><br>
|
||||
I didn't get too much into that one shot in the comic; it seemed
|
||||
reasonable under the circumstances. The one panel where I *did* get
|
||||
screwed was saying, "Hey, look, this here episode's going to air just
|
||||
before the book comes out, so why don't we REALLY tie the book and the
|
||||
show together by inserting this one panel I came up with here...."
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sometimes I outsmart myself.....
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<li> <em>Didn't Garibaldi see Talia? Why didn't he recognize her later?</em>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
Nope, he was looking at the process overall; he never saw Talia. The
|
||||
one shot of her is the omniscient POV, not his. (And even if he had
|
||||
seen her, it would've been only a glimpse of a blonde woman, no name
|
||||
that he could see, and after so many years, given that her condition
|
||||
wasn't great at the time, he wouldn't necessarily recognize her in any
|
||||
event.) But it's a moot point; the comic never indicated that he saw
|
||||
her.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<li> "...picture of Talia on conveyer with red net over her face."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
C'mon...you're saying anybody'd be able to recognize a flash image of
|
||||
a woman with a red net over her face as much as 7 years later...?
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<li> As I recall, the Winters, T badge was only visible in the next to last
|
||||
panel, which is a narrative flashback, not him personally.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<li> <em>Does Talia remember being on Mars?</em><br>
|
||||
I think that non-memory of the event is a good assumption.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
|
|||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
Ambassador G'Kar is desperate to get off Babylon 5, and in his rush to
|
||||
leave, ends up kidnapping Garibaldi. Now Sheridan and a strange Narn
|
||||
must begin a frantic search to find the two before tragedy strikes.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Issue 9 (October 1995)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Between
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/025.html">"The Geometry of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
and
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/026.html">"A Distant Star."</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: David Gerrold
|
||||
Penciller: Rebecca Guay
|
||||
Inker: Rick Bryant</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Ivanova clears a Narn ship, the D'Vordo, for docking. An urgent call from
|
||||
G'Kar comes in; he demands immediate clearance to depart the station from
|
||||
bay four. When she refuses, he sets his ship to launch anyway; Ivanova warns
|
||||
the D'Vordo to abort its approach. Garibaldi rushes to bay four to try to
|
||||
stop G'Kar, but when he arrives, G'Kar stuns him.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
G'Kar takes Garibaldi with him, but Garibaldi wakes up and fires a starweb,
|
||||
a sort of net made of energy, at G'Kar, entangling him.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
G'Kar's ship nearly collides with the D'Vordo as it rockets full speed away
|
||||
from the station.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Ivanova tells Sheridan that Garibaldi is nowhere to be found; she believes
|
||||
G'Kar has taken him off the station. Sheridan heads for a shuttle to
|
||||
pursue G'Kar.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi and G'Kar float in a cylindrical area. G'Kar is still caught in
|
||||
the starweb, and Garibaldi sings annoying songs to him, threatening to
|
||||
continue until G'Kar reveals what's going on.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
On his way to the shuttle, Sheridan is intercepted by Greegil, a Narn who
|
||||
claims to be a relative of G'Kar's, newly arrived on the D'Vordo. He
|
||||
says he can help Sheridan catch
|
||||
G'Kar. Sheridan reluctantly brings him along. As they fly in pursuit, Sheridan
|
||||
tries to find out exactly how Greegil is related to G'Kar. Greegil won't
|
||||
offer any information unless Sheridan offers something in exchange.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi continues to sing. Eventually, G'Kar falls asleep. Garibaldi
|
||||
wakes him up and asks where the food is; G'Kar answers that he doesn't need
|
||||
to eat, as Narns can hibernate six days at a time. "I'll be happy to watch
|
||||
you starve to death," G'Kar says. "At least it'll be quieter." When Garibaldi
|
||||
points out that G'Kar will die, too, trapped in the starweb, G'Kar answers,
|
||||
"There are worse things than death. Dishonor is one."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi continues to search for food, but he's never seen a ship like the
|
||||
one he's in: no food, no controls, just solid walls encircling them. He begins
|
||||
to sing "It's a Small World," which causes G'Kar to surrender.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan and Greegil haggle over the value of information. Finally, Greegil
|
||||
tells Sheridan how he's related to G'Kar, but the Narn familial ties he
|
||||
describes are meaningless to Sheridan.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
G'Kar shows Garibaldi where his food, a Narn delicacy called phroomis, is
|
||||
stashed. He notes that Garibaldi does seem to have some negotiating skills.
|
||||
On Narn, he says, negotiation is an art. Garibaldi asks G'Kar about the
|
||||
ship, but G'Kar says it's better he doesn't know. Garibaldi convinces him
|
||||
to play a game of "laser-mirror-starweb," loser tells all.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan and Greegil catch up with G'Kar's ship, which doesn't respond to
|
||||
Sheridan's signals. Greegil tells Sheridan that G'Kar is possessed by a
|
||||
Lokvar, a seizure of the mind, that may cause G'Kar to be violent. Greegil
|
||||
predicts that Sheridan will have to shoot G'Kar.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi wins two games of laser-mirror-starweb, but G'Kar still refuses
|
||||
to talk about the ship.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan grapples G'Kar's ship while Greegil tries to get him to put up
|
||||
the shuttle's shields in case G'Kar fires at them.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
G'Kar and Garibaldi hear a loud clanking sound from one end of their chamber.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan and Greegil approach the airlock through a docking tube they've
|
||||
extended from Sheridan's shuttle. They open the door.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The end of the cylinder swings open as G'Kar and Garibaldi watch apprehensively.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan and Greegil enter G'Kar's ship... and find it empty. Greegil
|
||||
concludes that G'Kar never left the station.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
A cleaning robot enters the cylinder. G'Kar set his ship on autopilot; they
|
||||
are actually in Babylon 5's core. G'Kar shouts that it's Garibaldi's fault --
|
||||
with just G'Kar's mass in the axis tube, the cleaning robot wouldn't have
|
||||
come ahead of schedule. The two of them flee through the other end of the
|
||||
cylinder, but the axis tube runs the length of the station, five miles, and
|
||||
there are apparently no exits along the way.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
G'Kar's ship begins to self-destruct. He and Greegil flee. Greegil gets to
|
||||
Sheridan's ship first, and promptly turns around and pushes the airlock door
|
||||
shut as Sheridan floats toward it. G'Kar's ship explodes before Sheridan's
|
||||
shuttle can escape; the shuttle's occupant screams...
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Narn children are taught the art of negotiation at an early age; the
|
||||
Narn consider themselves master hagglers.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> If Greegil is to be believed, the Narn kinial system has several ranks
|
||||
denoting levels of family obligation: this-kini, val-kini, dar-kini,
|
||||
on-kini, dru-kini, bas-kini, and ini-darka. Ini-darka is the highest
|
||||
rank.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Did Sheridan make it onto the shuttle?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> What does Greegil really want, and how is he related (familially or
|
||||
otherwise) to G'Kar?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Why is G'Kar trying to avoid him, if that's what's happening?
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Why would G'Kar drag Garibaldi all the way from the docking bay to
|
||||
the core of the station? Clearly Garibaldi wasn't conscious for
|
||||
most of the trip or he would have known he wasn't on G'Kar's ship,
|
||||
so G'Kar could have left him in the docking bay or in a closet and
|
||||
nobody would have been any the wiser.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> This story takes place in early spring 2259, between the episodes
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/025.html">"The Geometry of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
and
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/026.html">"A Distant Star."</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Laser-mirror-starweb is rock-paper-scissors with different names.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> At one point (just after they haggle) Sheridan calls Greegil "Greelig."
|
||||
|
||||
<li> This issue features a computer-generated cover picture by Foundation
|
||||
Imaging, a rendering of G'Kar's ship nearly hitting the D'Vordo.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> During one of the negotiation scenes, Greegil says, "You'd have me cut
|
||||
my own throat, you dibbler". This is probably a reference to Terry
|
||||
Pratchett's Discworld series of novels, which feature a salesman called
|
||||
"Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler."
|
||||
|
||||
<li> This story introduces a lot of gadgets we've never seen in the series
|
||||
(and probably never will.) The starweb and "shields" on Earth ships
|
||||
are two that seem like they would have appeared in the show if
|
||||
they were part of the canonical B5 universe. The maintenance robot in
|
||||
the station's core is questionable, though it at least isn't
|
||||
inconsistent with anything in the series. The stun gas used by G'Kar
|
||||
might be the same as the "morph gas" mentioned in
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/012.html">"By Any Means Necessary."</a>
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Ron did a CGI cover, though I've only seen a B&W repro, and
|
||||
can't vouch for it in detail.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
|
|||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
While G'Kar and Garibaldi
|
||||
are trapped in the core of Babylon 5, Captain Sheridan races to save
|
||||
them and stop a Narn assassination at the same time.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Issue 10 (November 1995)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Between
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/025.html">"The Geometry of Shadows"</a>
|
||||
and
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/026.html">"A Distant Star"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: David Gerrold
|
||||
Penciller: Rebecca Guay
|
||||
Inker: Rick Bryant</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan breathes a sigh of relief as he barely makes it onto the shuttle.
|
||||
He accuses Greegil of trying to kill him; Greegil denies it.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The cleaning robot chases Garibaldi and G'Kar through the station axis.
|
||||
As they somehow propel themselves forward, the robot grabs Garibaldi's
|
||||
boot and pulls it off, slowing down to process it. G'Kar suggests that
|
||||
Garibaldi feed it more; Garibaldi volunteers G'Kar's boots. G'Kar refuses
|
||||
and suggests they play another game of laser-mirror-starweb to decide
|
||||
whose boot will be next. G'Kar cheats. Garibaldi tosses a boot to the
|
||||
robot and grabs G'Kar, demanding to know what's going on. G'Kar reveals
|
||||
that he received a message telling him an assassin by the name of Greegil
|
||||
D'Farkin was coming to Babylon 5 to kill him.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan manages to stabilize the shuttle, but its diagnostics
|
||||
show "massive decalibration in the external transfibulator phase controllers"
|
||||
as well as damage to the oxygen recyclers. Sheridan dons a suit to go out
|
||||
and fix the transfibulator antennas, and advises Greegil not to waste their
|
||||
air complaining about the situation.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi and G'Kar continue to flee the robot. G'Kar notes that he promised
|
||||
his clan he would die honorably; Garibaldi says he intends to die in bed, on
|
||||
his 92nd birthday, in the arms of a beautiful redhead, shot by her jealous
|
||||
husband. G'Kar is puzzled; Garibaldi would be doing the husband a great
|
||||
service. As the robot nears, they play another laser-mirror-starweb game.
|
||||
This time, Garibaldi cheats more outrageously than G'Kar does, and G'Kar
|
||||
tosses a boot to the robot.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan fixes the problem and finds that Greegil has locked him outside in
|
||||
space. He reminds Greegil that he has the code key to operate the ship, and
|
||||
uses that to bargain for information: why G'Kar fled. Greegil says his job
|
||||
is to stop G'Kar from sabotaging Babylon 5. Abruptly, Sheridan is back
|
||||
inside the ship. He proposes using electrolysis to produce oxygen from the
|
||||
ship's water supply.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
G'Kar and Garibaldi float away from the robot in their undershorts; it's
|
||||
still gaining. Garibaldi spots a maintenance hatch and pops it open; the
|
||||
two of them leave the inside of the axis tube and hang by handrails high
|
||||
above the Garden while the robot passes. Garibaldi doesn't let G'Kar back
|
||||
inside until he has the truth about Greegil: he's chasing G'Kar because
|
||||
of a woman, Greegil's wife, in fact. G'Kar refused to have sex with her to
|
||||
seal an alliance between two clans,
|
||||
even though it was his obligation as a high-ranking clansman; that was a
|
||||
grave insult to Greegil, who vowed revenge.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan's shuttle returns to Babylon 5; Sheridan places Greegil under
|
||||
arrest. Ivanova reports that G'Kar and Garibaldi are still missing.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi somehow displays a message on the outside of the axis tube,
|
||||
indicating their location to the security staff and Sheridan. When the two
|
||||
of them emerge from the tube, Sheridan, Greegil, and a security team are
|
||||
waiting. Garibaldi arrests G'Kar for kidnapping him.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In a security station, G'Kar, Greegil, Garibaldi, and Sheridan argue about
|
||||
whether Greegil should be allowed to kill G'Kar. Greegil even presents a
|
||||
license, signed by the council of clans. Sheridan dismisses it as invalid
|
||||
on his station. Greegil pulls out a laser pistol. Garibaldi and G'Kar
|
||||
duck behind a nearby mirrored table, reflecting the laser beam. Sheridan
|
||||
calls out for a starweb, which one of the security staff gladly fires at
|
||||
Greegil.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
G'Kar and Garibaldi walk away together. G'Kar explains that sleeping with
|
||||
Greegil's wife would have shifted the balance of power among the five clans...
|
||||
"And besides, she wasn't attractive enough to justify a war."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Elsewhere, Sheridan admits to Ivanova that they can't really press charges
|
||||
against G'Kar... but keeping him busy with lawyers for a while will be
|
||||
punishment enough.
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
Take with a grain of salt; inconsistencies with the series abound in this
|
||||
story, and none of it should probably be considered canon.
|
||||
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Narn aristocrats consider education beneath them, something for
|
||||
servants.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> There are five main Narn clans; G'Kar belongs to one of them.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Narn alliances are sealed with sexual liaisons.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> I wasn't terribly pleased with the artwork on 9 and 10, I thought it
|
||||
could've been much better. As for the story, David Gerrold had proposed
|
||||
(and written) that as an outline for an episode; I said I didn't think
|
||||
it worked for our show. Which opened the door for DC to pick it up,
|
||||
and since he felt so strongly that it *did* work, I figured I'd let him
|
||||
proceed.
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
|
|||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
Earth's most secret agency is explained, examined, and demystified for the
|
||||
average Babylon 5 resident.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Issue 11 (December 1995)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Season two, before
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/040.html">"Confessions and Lamentations"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: Tim DeHaas
|
||||
Artist: John Ridgway</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<note role=note>This issue is in the form of an infomercial produced by
|
||||
Psi-Corps. Since it isn't a story in the usual sense, the following is more
|
||||
a description than a synopsis. It's not entirely clear whether the
|
||||
presentation is supposed to be in print itself or if the comic is a print
|
||||
rendition of a television program; this description assumes the latter.</note>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The host of the show, Diane Matthews, introduces herself as one of
|
||||
the commercial telepaths working on Babylon 5. She demonstrates how
|
||||
commercial telepaths aid in business dealings, sitting in on a deal between
|
||||
a human and a Markab. She points out that Markab is lying about the quantity
|
||||
of merchanside he has available; the human reduces his order. Next, Matthews
|
||||
visits Medlab, where she assists Garibaldi by scanning an assault victim and
|
||||
descibing the assailant. She points out to the viewers that she won't be
|
||||
allowed to scan any suspects; she can only produce information to help point
|
||||
Garibaldi toward admissible evidence.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
A Psi-Corps training center is the next stop, where a few psi training
|
||||
exercises are shown. "Psi Corps knows how to help you achieve your innermost
|
||||
desires," claims Matthews.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"These days," she says later, "people have learned to trust and accept
|
||||
telepaths, like this Psi-Cop." That wasn't always the case, she says, and
|
||||
launches into a narrative about the founding of Psi Corps. The Corps was
|
||||
founded on the basis of a single, heroic act by her great-grandfather, William
|
||||
Karges.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Karges discovered his talents at age thirteen. He didn't know what to make of
|
||||
them, so he sought out activities that would teach him self-disciplined and
|
||||
isolated. Later, he joined Earthforce; during his training he trained himself
|
||||
to control his skills and use them to be a better soldier. Eventually he was
|
||||
promoted and transferred to Earthforce Security. But even then, he kept his
|
||||
secret, afraid he'd be locked up by the government.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
After distinguishing himself by stopping three terrorist plots, Karges was
|
||||
placed in charge of Earth Alliance President Robinson's personal security
|
||||
staff. One day, Karges and his forces were escorting President Robinson
|
||||
to a campaign rally. Karges sensed a strong thought from the surrounding
|
||||
crowd: "The bomb is ready!" Concentrating, he zeroed in on the man
|
||||
responsible and cornered him. The man claimed to know nothing about a bomb,
|
||||
so Karges forcibly scanned him. As Karges rushed off, shouting into his
|
||||
link to tell his team about the man's accomplice, he was shot in the back.
|
||||
With the last of his strength, Karges sent a command into the mind of the
|
||||
bomber, forcing him to drop the detonator. The President was safe.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In the hospital, dying, Karges admitted to President Robinson that he found
|
||||
out about the bomb by reading the perpetrator's thoughs. Some time later,
|
||||
President Robinson passed laws ensuring opportunities for telepaths. A
|
||||
special agency already existed to monitor the recent sudden increase in
|
||||
telepaths; Robinson changed its mission, to help telepaths function in society,
|
||||
and the Psi Corps was born.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"Nowadays, all telepaths are asked to register with Psi Corps, for their own
|
||||
good," Matthews says. "That way, the Earth Alliance and Psi Corps can help
|
||||
them achieve their full potential!"
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Some telepaths don't want to join
|
||||
the Corps, Matthews admits. She visits Lisa, a lawyer, as a doctor
|
||||
administers telepathy-inhibiting drugs. Lisa is delighted to receive the
|
||||
injection, as numbing her psi abilities allows her to continue working in
|
||||
the legal profession. "Sometimes it makes me tired, and I have to rest,"
|
||||
Lisa says. "But that's okay, because I can still be a successful lawyer."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Matthews describes the Psi Corps' work placement programs, designed to help
|
||||
telepaths who don't want to join the Corps and are allergic to the medicine.
|
||||
She says she started out there, but eventually realized she wanted to be a
|
||||
commercial telepath, having the adventure of a lifetime on Babylon 5.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"Even far from Earth, Psi Corps has influenced all our lives," she says.
|
||||
She describes a little-known aspect of the Battle of the Line: a telepathic
|
||||
pilot in Sinclair's squadron, Lt. Andrew Denmark of Psi Corps, used his
|
||||
powers to steady the nerves of other pilots. Without his help, Matthews
|
||||
claims, Sinclair would never have lived long enough to make his legendary
|
||||
attack on the Minbari cruiser.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Psi Corps helps on Mars, too, Matthews continues. When there was a food
|
||||
shortage, Psi Corps rushed to get food supplies to all the hungry colonists.
|
||||
Recently, a small group of terrorists began an uprising, and Psi Corps stepped
|
||||
in to protect the colonists. "You could say Psi Corps' mission is to protect,"
|
||||
Matthews says. "Protect the future -- for those who want to make it better
|
||||
and safer."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"On Earth, on Mars, or on Babylon 5, you don't have to be alone. Psi Corps
|
||||
is here for <em>you!</em> And if you or a friend discovers they're telepathic,
|
||||
Psi Corps will always help." As an example, she introduces the case of
|
||||
Alfred. On Earth, as a ten-year-old boy, he was a bright student at the
|
||||
top of his class. But when a teacher claimed he was copying parts of a test
|
||||
from someone across the room, Alfred and his friends discovered he might be
|
||||
a telepath. One friend offered to take him to Psi Corps -- he had an uncle
|
||||
there, and knew the Corps took good care of its members.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Alfred went to the Corps and chose to stay there. Today he's one of its
|
||||
most valued members: Bester.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"So, if you ever feel <em>you</em> might be a telepath, too -- remember, kids,
|
||||
you've got friends, here on Babylon 5! One of us is always stationed here to
|
||||
help you. Come talk to us any time! With Psi Corps as your friend, you never
|
||||
have to feel... all alone in the night."
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Psi Corps was founded around 2160. According to the Corps, it was
|
||||
founded after the death of a Presidential security official, William
|
||||
Karges, who revealed he was telepathic at the time of his death.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Officially, Bester was born on Earth and entered the Corps at age ten.
|
||||
He's placed highly enough to warrant mention as one of the Corps "most
|
||||
valued members."
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Psi Corps claims to have had representatives in the military, flying
|
||||
Starfuries, during the Earth-Minbari War. If the presentation is to
|
||||
be believed, one of them was in Sinclair's squadron during the Battle
|
||||
of the Line.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> How much of what's said in this issue is true, and how much is
|
||||
fabricated propaganda?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Was there really a telepath in Sinclair's squadron? What influence
|
||||
did he have on what happened to Sinclair, if any?
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> Psi Corps' claim that one of its members was in Sinclair's squadron
|
||||
seems unlikely, given that in
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/016.html">"Eyes,"</a>
|
||||
Mr. Grey says he wasn't allowed to fight in the war because he was
|
||||
a telepath.
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> This promotional program was produced before
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/040.html">"Confessions and Lamentations,"</a>
|
||||
since it shows someone dealing with a Markab trader.
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> There's nothing that I'm aware of in comic #11 that would place it
|
||||
after "Confessions." It's a general pamphlet prepared by Psi Corps some
|
||||
time before.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Tritium: you actually believe *anything* in a PsiCorps propaganda
|
||||
booklet? Only about 10% of what's recorded in that booklet is true,
|
||||
and even that's distorted. The character in the booklet is totally
|
||||
fictional.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
|
|||
<!-- TITLE In Valen's Name -->
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
The return of Babylon 4 leads the crew to a dangerous encounter and Delenn
|
||||
to revelations about the life of Valen.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Issue 12 (January 1998)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Season four, after
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/072.html">"Into the Fire"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
|
||||
Artist: Mike Collins</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Ivanova is in C&C, telling the crew about the final encounter with the
|
||||
Shadows and Vorlons
|
||||
(<a href="/lurk/guide/072.html">"Into the Fire"</a>)
|
||||
when a distress signal from Babylon 4 arrives.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The senior staff meets to discuss the situation. It's definitely Babylon 4,
|
||||
Ivanova says; the ID codes match. However, the signal is coming from a
|
||||
different location than the last place Babylon 4 was seen. Sheridan notes
|
||||
that since B4 was built on a much bigger budget than B5, there were a number
|
||||
of differences. "It was equipped with the biggest ion engines ever made,"
|
||||
he says. "They didn't want it to be a sitting duck, like the previous three
|
||||
that were destroyed during construction."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn reveals that after the last Shadow War, Babylon 4 was taken to a place
|
||||
of rest, its final location a secret. The crew who took it there never
|
||||
returned. Its fate was a mystery for nine hundred years -- until now. She
|
||||
urges Sheridan to investigate, since the station might contain priceless
|
||||
information about Minbari history. Sheridan agrees.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
When they arrive at the source of the signal in a White Star, the crew is
|
||||
horrified to see Babylon 4 floating dead in orbit around a planet, battered
|
||||
and barely recognizable. Scanners pick up a weak power source and the distress
|
||||
signal, no signs of life or activity.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Wearing EVA suits, Delenn, Ivanova, Sheridan and Garibaldi leave the White
|
||||
Star and enter Babylon 4. The docking bay is full of debris, but they work
|
||||
their way through it and find an entrance. Soon they're in the station's
|
||||
Garden area, an empty metallic space.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Or almost empty -- the crew scatters as shots are fired in their direction.
|
||||
They take cover near a core shuttle, the aliens out of range of their PPGs.
|
||||
Thinking quickly, Garibaldi fires at some fuel tanks in the shuttle, sending
|
||||
the car flying toward the aliens and smashing them with flaming debris.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi suggests heading toward C&C -- there was no ship outside, so
|
||||
whoever dropped the aliens off might be coming back to pick them up.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
As the crew floats away, a hand reaches up out of the remains of the core
|
||||
shuttle.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Arriving in C&C, the crew finds that the solar panels have been brought
|
||||
online, most likely by the aliens. Sheridan speculates that they were
|
||||
scavengers raiding the station, something Delenn considers sacrilege -- the
|
||||
station belongs to history. "Not for long, I'm afraid," Ivanova says;
|
||||
it seems the arrival of the aliens disturbed B4's orbit, and the station
|
||||
will fall into the atmosphere in about 72 hours.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The surviving alien, meanwhile, has slipped unnoticed out of the station.
|
||||
It places an explosive charge on the White Star, which moments later is
|
||||
destroyed in a spectacular burst of light.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
As Ivanova and Garibaldi struggle to adjust the distress signal to ask
|
||||
B5 to send help -- a daunting task, since the station's controls are now
|
||||
a melange of English, Minbari, and another language nobody recognizes --
|
||||
Delenn accesses the station's records. What she finds fascinates her:
|
||||
the testaments of two Minbari of a thousand years ago, Nukenn of the
|
||||
religious caste and Rashok of the warrior caste, both describing the
|
||||
arrival and work of Valen.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"Valen was of us, and not of us," intones Nukenn. "He was the spirit, and
|
||||
we are his voice, his hands, his fire. He was the greatest of us because
|
||||
he was more than us."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"Valen was every hand that struck for freedom's purpose," declares Rashok.
|
||||
"He was the eye that saw for us, the strength that fought for us, the
|
||||
wisdom that conquered the unconquerable."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Nukenn recalls that the Shadows had destroyed the Minbari's last starbase.
|
||||
Minbari ships fled, finding no friendly ports. The Minbari were desperate,
|
||||
without hope. But hope appeared out of nowhere, in the form of Babylon 4.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"He gave us a weapon, a vessel into which we could pour our resources, and
|
||||
from which we could launch our counteroffensives," recalls Rashok. Valen
|
||||
never revealed where he or the station -- or his curious companion Zathras --
|
||||
came from. Valen had no family name, no lineage that anyone could discover:
|
||||
a Minbari not born of Minbari.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Nukenn describes Valen's first attempt to unite the castes, which were
|
||||
divided over how to proceed and had begun to fight amongst themselves. They
|
||||
wouldn't listen to Valen's entreaties, so Valen turned his back on them and
|
||||
formed the Anla'Shok, a new army that recognized no castes.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Zathras was a mystery to Rashok. Zathras and Valen were clearly friends,
|
||||
but nobody could understand why -- Zathras was enough to drive anyone mad,
|
||||
in Rashok's opinion. They began to understand a little better when the
|
||||
Shadows came, and Zathras...
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn is interrupted by Ivanova. It seems the shape of the station is
|
||||
causing more atmospheric drag than she'd anticipated, slowing its orbit
|
||||
faster. Her new estimate is that they have only 24 hours left -- not enough
|
||||
time for their distress call to reach B5 and a ship to reach them.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Plot Points</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Who were the aliens on the station? How did they discover it, and
|
||||
what were they doing there?
|
||||
|
||||
<li> What were the circumstances surrounding B4's disappearance after the
|
||||
Shadow War? Why did its crew never return?
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> This story first appeared in the official B5 magazine in
|
||||
the UK. It wasn't published standalone in the US until three months
|
||||
later.
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> <em>Why did the shuttle car fall onto the aliens? The station
|
||||
doesn't have artificial gravity.</em><br>
|
||||
It didn't fall, when Garibaldi shot out the fuel tanks in the
|
||||
back, it blew it in their direction (as shown).
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
|
|||
<!-- TITLE In Valen's Name, Part 2 -->
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
The return of Babylon 4 leads the crew to a dangerous encounter and Delenn
|
||||
to revelations about the life of Valen.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Issue 13 (February 1998)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Season four, after
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/072.html">"Into the Fire"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: Peter David
|
||||
Artist: Mike Collins</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Aboard the flagship of a Tak'Cha fleet, Ramdela Cozon informs Ramde Haxtur
|
||||
that a problem has arisen, requiring that they abandon their salvage of
|
||||
several Pakkel ships. They have lost contact with Ende X'ton (what they
|
||||
call Babylon 4) and suspect the presence of alien savages on the station.
|
||||
Angry at the galaxy's capacity for violence, Haxtur recalls his salvage team
|
||||
and sets out to stop the savages. However, this will mean that the Pakkel will
|
||||
eventually die without their help, and so he orders their destruction as a
|
||||
"mercy killing."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Ivanova dozes off briefly, and is startled when Sheridan awakens her. She
|
||||
chastises herself for sleeping during an emergency, vowing to stay focused.
|
||||
Concerned, Sheridan checks her wrist readout and discovers that her
|
||||
rebreathing gear is feeding her too much carbon dioxide. He adjusts her air
|
||||
levels, and she is no longer sleepy.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan invites Delenn to take a break after so many hours of studying the
|
||||
tapes. She turns to him, crying, and recounts what she has learned: Nukenn,
|
||||
upon learning that his son Tulan died fighting for Valen, had flown into
|
||||
a fit of rage and shattered a plate glass window, cursing Valen's name.
|
||||
Valen watched him do this, then asked Nukenn to accompany him to Mount
|
||||
H'leya, a peak from which Valen had delivered his holy "Times to Come"
|
||||
speech. Valen spoke to Nukenn of the battle, of the castes' potential
|
||||
uniting, and of the Shadows' eventual return. Finally, he said:
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"Your son... should not have come with me," because he was a gentle soul who
|
||||
was transformed by battle from something delicate to something hard and
|
||||
unyielding. He offered to let Nukenn take his rage out on him, but when
|
||||
Nukenn saw that Valen had somehow had the window rebuilt during the short
|
||||
span of their talk, his faith in Valen was renewed.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Garibaldi informs Sheridan that he has discovered rock patterns left in the
|
||||
wall of the station, which he believes might be ancient graffiti.
|
||||
Strangely, it is written in an ancient style of Minbari (similar to Earth's
|
||||
Old English) and translates as "Z'ondar." Delenn does not know what the
|
||||
word means, and so she returns to her studies of Valen's disciples as
|
||||
Sheridan and Garibaldi head to the launch bay to see if any fighter ships
|
||||
are still functional.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn finds another account from Rashok, as follows: Rashok once felt that
|
||||
his people were doomed, but found new faith under Valen and relished the
|
||||
chance to fight alongside him, "for he was unafraid to lead us into the
|
||||
heart of the battle. It was as if he knew that triumph was inevitable.
|
||||
From his confidence... flowed our own."
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In the name of Valen, according to Rashok's recording, the Minbari took on
|
||||
the Shadows with the aid of various alien allies. Later, when Rashok tried
|
||||
to tell Valen that the castes (inspired by Valen's victory over the Shadows)
|
||||
had finally united, he found Valen weeping for the many who had died on all
|
||||
sides during the battle. Zathras asked Rashok to wait until a later time to
|
||||
tell him the news; Rashok had little use for this strange alien and
|
||||
attempted to continue on to Valen, but Zathras knocked him down forcefully
|
||||
and refused to let him pass. Rashok, impressed by Zathras' loyalty and
|
||||
strength, conceded.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn stops studying the tapes to tell Sheridan that she has found many
|
||||
references to a race called the Tak'Cha. She says she is not familiar with
|
||||
this race. Meanwhile, Garibaldi is getting frustrated at his complete lack
|
||||
of success in getting any of the fighters operational. He hits one of the
|
||||
ships, and to his surprise, it starts up. Sheridan delivers the good news
|
||||
to Ivanova, who replies, "That's... real good, sir... Now if you can fix
|
||||
another two dozen or so within the next thirty seconds, we should be in
|
||||
great shape." Sheridan looks outside... to find an entire fleet of Tak'Cha
|
||||
ships facing them down.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Plot Points</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> This story first appeared in the official B5 magazine in
|
||||
the UK. It wasn't published standalone in the US until three months
|
||||
later.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Synopsis by Rich Handley
|
||||
<a href="mailto:cardsafe@unix.asb.com">cardsafe@unix.asb.com</a>.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
|
|||
<!-- TITLE In Valen's Name, Part 3 -->
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
The return of Babylon 4 leads the crew to a dangerous encounter and Delenn
|
||||
to revelations about the life of Valen.
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Issue 14 (March 1998)
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Setting: Season four, after
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/072.html">"Into the Fire"</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: Peter David
|
||||
Artist: Mike Collins</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Ramde Haxtur leads his people in prayer to the Z'ondar, aboard the Tak'Cha
|
||||
flagship. He recalls how they fell from the Z'ondar's grace long ago and
|
||||
now hope to be worthy of his greatness someday. Haxtur tells Cozon to
|
||||
prepare the ships for battle; he will personally lead an attack on Ende
|
||||
X'ton to rid it of the alien invaders. This, he says,
|
||||
will be done in the Z'ondar's name.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Ivanova contemplates what Sinclair would do if faced with alien attackers
|
||||
while plummeting headlong into a planet's atmosphere on a derelict space
|
||||
station. Ultimately, she decides that only course of action is to bend over
|
||||
and kiss herself good-bye.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Ivanova counts twenty Tak'Cha ships. Sheridan takes the fighter Garibaldi
|
||||
got up and running, hoping his experience with the White Stars will afford
|
||||
him the skills needed to pilot it. Ivanova has her doubts, for he has never
|
||||
flown a Minbari ship before.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Delenn access the recording of a Tak'Cha disciple of Valen, named Ramde
|
||||
Zarwin. According to Zarwin, his people joined Valen's crusade against the
|
||||
Shadows and fully embraced his teachings. However, Valen felt that they had
|
||||
perverted his teachings and cast them out. Zarwin himself was there for
|
||||
Valen's "Times to Come" speech and was awed by Valen's Vorlon escorts, who
|
||||
appeared to him as Tak'Cha gods. In Zarwin's eyes, Valen was sent by the
|
||||
gods. Valen eventually based the Anla'Shok's staff on a Tak'Cha weapon
|
||||
called a barrken, and Zarwin taught him to use such a weapon. Zarwin was
|
||||
humbled and amazed at how quickly Valen outstripped his teacher's skills.
|
||||
However, Valen was disturbed to learn that the Tak'Cha had mis-interpreted
|
||||
his teachings to mean that one should relish the glory of fighting a war for
|
||||
a cause.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Sheridan, in an effort to stall the Tak'Cha, flies out among their ships but
|
||||
then simply spins in place. The Tak'Cha are confused by the tactic, but do
|
||||
not attack. Instead they watch warily until Sheridan accidentally fires on
|
||||
the lead ship, mistaking the firing controls for the reverse thrusters.
|
||||
Haxtur is furious at being shot at and opens fire on Sheridan's ship.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Zarwin recalls how Valen called him, Rashok, and Nukenn before him. Valen
|
||||
had planned to assign the three of them a mission, hoping at least one of
|
||||
them would succeed in seeing it through. The mission: to hold a message for
|
||||
Delenn for a thousand years, then deliver it to her in time to prevent the
|
||||
Earth-Minbari War. However, his Vorlon companion wisely reminded him that
|
||||
without the war, he would never gone into the past, which would have meant
|
||||
no Valen, no Babylon 4, and no defeat of the Shadows. Like it or not, Valen
|
||||
was powerless to alter history and prevent the deaths of millions.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
The Tak'Cha disable Sheridan's fighter, and he crashes the ship into the
|
||||
station's Cobra Bay. There is a large explosion, but he (and Garibaldi, who
|
||||
happened to be in the bay) survives.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Zarwin further recalls how Valen became outraged upon hearing that the
|
||||
Tak'Cha had decimated the Yolu and numerous other races who had refused to
|
||||
fight in Valen's war against the Shadows. In the Tak'Cha's mind, any
|
||||
unwilling to follow Valen into the fire and the darkness must be punished,
|
||||
and they believed they should be the punishers, and that Valen would want it
|
||||
this way. Horrified that so many innocent lives were taken in his name, he
|
||||
cast them out. Ashamed, they returned home, unsure how they had failed the
|
||||
Z'ondar but hopeful of one day serving him again.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Ivanova informs Sheridan that their rate of descent has increased, with only
|
||||
three or four hours until they burn up. The Tak'Cha board Babylon 4 and
|
||||
plant explosives to flush the aliens out. However, Delenn appeals to them
|
||||
with a gesture of friendship and the phrase, "Z'ondar -- Zarwin -- Tak'Cha
|
||||
-- Minbari." Having worshipped her name for a millennium, they are in awe
|
||||
of her and immediately break off their attack. The Tak'Cha rescue the
|
||||
Babylon 5 team, and together they watch as the older station meets its fate.
|
||||
As the station burns up, Delenn recalls a final recording of Valen's words:
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
"My name is Valen... and I have served my people like no other. I led them
|
||||
into fire... into darkness... into death... and they followed me without
|
||||
hesitation. They acclaim my victories and hail me as a great leader. They
|
||||
speak of my successes as if they are as infinite as the stars. And yet, for
|
||||
all that I've accomplished... I lie awake, listening to the screams of the
|
||||
dead and dying, those who are already gone, and those are yet to be born. A
|
||||
few words from me could avert the Earth-Minbari conflict. A warning to
|
||||
Delenn or Duhkat... But without the war, there would be no Babylon 4 and no
|
||||
Babylon 5. There would be no rallying point against the Darkness... and the
|
||||
Shadows would win, now and a thousand years from now. I cannot deviate from
|
||||
the circle of which I am a part. I am the beginning of the story, as
|
||||
Zathras said... and a prisoner of it. I dare not change the end. Still...
|
||||
it's been a good life... lives... over all. Delenn, Catherine, Susan,
|
||||
Michael... if any of you see this somehow.. don't cry for me. For in the
|
||||
final analysis, I've always been too hard on myself. I'll be content to let
|
||||
history judge me, and all that has been done in Valen's name. And as for
|
||||
me... I've received my own reward, because I've found her. At long last...
|
||||
I've found... her."
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Plot Points</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Who did Valen find? Catherine?
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
<ul>
|
||||
<li> This story first appeared in the official B5 magazine in
|
||||
the UK. It wasn't published standalone in the US until three months
|
||||
later.
|
||||
|
||||
<li> Synopsis by Rich Handley
|
||||
<a href="mailto:cardsafe@unix.asb.com">cardsafe@unix.asb.com</a>.
|
||||
|
||||
</ul>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
|
|||
FTP=/home/woodstock/ftp/pub/Babylon-5/Guide/Comic
|
||||
WWW=/home/woodstock/hyperion/docs/lurk/comic
|
||||
all: \
|
||||
$(FTP)/001.In-Darkness-Find-Me \
|
||||
$(FTP)/002.Treason \
|
||||
$(FTP)/003.In-Harms-Way \
|
||||
$(FTP)/004.The-Price-of-Peace \
|
||||
$(FTP)/005.With-Friends-Like-These \
|
||||
$(FTP)/006.Against-the-Odds \
|
||||
$(FTP)/007.Survival-the-Hard-Way \
|
||||
$(FTP)/008.Silent-Enemies \
|
||||
$(FTP)/009.Duet... \
|
||||
$(FTP)/010.Coda... \
|
||||
$(FTP)/011.The-Psi-Corps-and-You \
|
||||
/dev/null
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/001.In-Darkness-Find-Me: $(WWW)/001.html
|
||||
echo "In Darkness Find Me" > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/001.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/002.Treason: $(WWW)/002.html
|
||||
echo "Treason" > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/002.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/003.In-Harms-Way: $(WWW)/003.html
|
||||
echo "In Harms Way" > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/003.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/004.The-Price-of-Peace: $(WWW)/004.html
|
||||
echo "The Price of Peace" > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/004.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/005.With-Friends-Like-These: $(WWW)/005.html
|
||||
echo "With Friends Like These" > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/005.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/006.Against-the-Odds: $(WWW)/006.html
|
||||
echo "Against the Odds" > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/006.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/007.Survival-the-Hard-Way: $(WWW)/007.html
|
||||
echo "Survival the Hard Way" > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/007.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/008.Silent-Enemies: $(WWW)/008.html
|
||||
echo "Silent Enemies" > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/008.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/009.Duet...: $(WWW)/009.html
|
||||
echo "Duet..." > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/009.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/010.Coda...: $(WWW)/010.html
|
||||
echo "Coda..." > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/010.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
$(FTP)/011.The-Psi-Corps-and-You: $(WWW)/011.html
|
||||
echo "The Psi Corps and You" > $@
|
||||
/opt/local/bin/lynx -dump file://localhost$(WWW)/011.html | uniq | grep -v "Episode List" >> $@
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
|
|||
#!/usr/bin/python
|
||||
|
||||
import sys,string,time,os
|
||||
sys.path.append('../internal')
|
||||
import otros
|
||||
|
||||
months = [ '', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
|
||||
'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
|
||||
|
||||
for epnum in sys.argv[1:]:
|
||||
curep = string.atoi(epnum[:3])
|
||||
|
||||
pix = open('../internal/comicnames', 'r')
|
||||
for i in range(0, curep + 1):
|
||||
epname = pix.readline()[:-1]
|
||||
pix.close()
|
||||
if epname == '':
|
||||
epname = 'XXX'
|
||||
|
||||
cureplong = '%03d' % curep
|
||||
|
||||
which = 'comic'
|
||||
|
||||
input = open(epnum, 'r')
|
||||
mtime = time.localtime(os.stat(epnum)[8]);
|
||||
mtime_str = '%s %d, %d' % (months[mtime[1]], mtime[2], mtime[0])
|
||||
|
||||
output = open(epnum + '.html', 'w')
|
||||
|
||||
output.write("""<html>
|
||||
<head>
|
||||
<title>Comic: """ + '"' + epname + '"')
|
||||
if which == 'extra':
|
||||
output.write(' (scene in detail)')
|
||||
|
||||
output.write("""</title>
|
||||
<link rev=made href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com">
|
||||
<link rel=parent href="../eplist.html">
|
||||
</head>
|
||||
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
|
||||
""" + otros.pageheader(curep, which))
|
||||
|
||||
if which == 'guide':
|
||||
output.write("""
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<b>Contents:</b>
|
||||
<a href="#OV">Overview</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#BP">Backplot</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#UQ">Questions</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#AN">Analysis</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#NO">Notes</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#JS">JMS</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
|
||||
""")
|
||||
else:
|
||||
output.write("""
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
""")
|
||||
|
||||
output.write(input.read())
|
||||
|
||||
output.write('<pre>\n\n</pre>\n' + otros.pagefooter(curep) + """
|
||||
|
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<h5>
|
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Last update:
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""" + mtime_str + """
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</h5>
|
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</body>
|
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</html>
|
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""")
|
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|
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input.close()
|
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output.close()
|
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|
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print epnum
|
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|
|
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|
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#!/bin/csh
|
||||
gen.py `/bin/ls [012]* | fgrep -v .html`
|
||||
|
|
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|
|||
#!/usr/local/bin/python
|
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|
||||
import sys,string
|
||||
|
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curep = string.atoi(sys.argv[1])
|
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cureplong = '%03d' % (curep)
|
||||
prevep = '%03d' % (curep - 1)
|
||||
nextep = '%03d' % (curep + 1)
|
||||
|
||||
curep = `curep`
|
||||
|
||||
output = """
|
||||
<p align=center nowrap><nobr><a name="TOP"
|
||||
href="/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0 ismap usemap="/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar"
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/titlebar.gif" width=500 height=32
|
||||
alt="[Home]"></a>
|
||||
|
||||
<br><a href="/lurk/gif/comic/""" + cureplong + """.jpg"><img
|
||||
align=middle width=78 height=120 border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/gif/comic/""" + cureplong + """.gif" alt=""></a><img
|
||||
align=middle width=422 height=120
|
||||
src="/lurk/gif/titles/c""" + curep + """.gif"
|
||||
alt="">
|
||||
|
||||
<br><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/lit/gu-guide.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=" ### GUIDE ### "><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/ep-blank.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=""><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/ep-blank.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=""><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/ep-blank.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=""><a
|
||||
href="index.html"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/gu-index.gif" width=34 height=24
|
||||
alt="[Index] "></a><a
|
||||
href=""" + '"' + prevep + """.html"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/gu-prev.gif" width=33 height=24
|
||||
alt="[Previous] "></a><a
|
||||
href=""" + '"' + nextep + """.html"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/gu-next.gif" width=33 height=24
|
||||
alt="[Next] "></a>
|
||||
</nobr>
|
||||
"""
|
||||
|
||||
if len(sys.argv) != 3:
|
||||
output = output + """
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<b>Contents:</b>
|
||||
<a href="#OV">Overview</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#SY">Synopsis</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#BP">Backplot</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#UQ">Questions</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#AN">Analysis</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#NO">Notes</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#JS">JMS</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
"""
|
||||
|
||||
print output
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
|
|||
<html>
|
||||
<head>
|
||||
<title>Lurker's Guide: Babylon 5 Comic</title>
|
||||
<link rev=made href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com">
|
||||
<link rel=parent href="/lurk/lurker.html" title="The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5">
|
||||
</head>
|
||||
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
<p align=center nowrap><nobr><a name="TOP"
|
||||
href="/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0 ismap usemap="/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar"
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/titlebar.gif" width=500 height=32
|
||||
alt="[Home]"></a>
|
||||
|
||||
<br><a href="/cgi-bin/imagemap/lurker-menu"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/bar-episodes.gif" width=500 height=32
|
||||
alt="" ismap usemap="/lurk/maps/maps.html#toplevel"></a>
|
||||
|
||||
<br><a href="/lurk/countries/us/eplist.html"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/co-uscanada.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt="[US/Canada]"></a><a
|
||||
href="/lurk/countries/"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/ep-elsewhere.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=" [Countries]"></a><a
|
||||
href="/lurk/countries/master/eplist.html"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/ep-mainlist.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=" [Master List]"></a><a
|
||||
href="/lurk/novels/index.html"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/ep-novels.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=" [Novels]"></a><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/lit/ep-comics.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=" ### COMICS ###">
|
||||
</nobr>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<b>Contents:</b>
|
||||
<a href="#current">[Current Issues]</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#past">[Past Issues]</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
This is a guide to DC's <cite>Babylon 5</cite> comic, which
|
||||
features stories that complement the television show, going into issues
|
||||
raised there in more detail than the show's time and budget constraints allow.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<em>Note!</em>
|
||||
Since the comic series contains stories that run concurrently with the
|
||||
series, some of these pages contain spoilers for the series. In general,
|
||||
an issue of the comic can be expected to reference events in episodes
|
||||
aired in the US before the comic is released. Proceed with caution.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<h2><a name="current">Current Issues</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Month of first availability is listed when exact release dates aren't known.
|
||||
It often takes a week or more for comics to hit the stores after they're
|
||||
released.
|
||||
|
||||
<pre><b>Release
|
||||
Date (US) Issue Title</b>
|
||||
98/01/28 12 <a href="012.html">In Valen's Name</a>
|
||||
98/02/25 13 <a href="013.html">In Valen's Name, Part 2</a>
|
||||
98/03/25 14 <a href="014.html">In Valen's Name, Part 3</a>
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="past">Past Issues</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
In the UK, compilations of the first eight issues are available in two
|
||||
volumes from Titan Books.
|
||||
|
||||
<pre><b>Release
|
||||
Date (US) Issue Title</b>
|
||||
94/12/08 1 <a href="001.html">In Darkness Find Me</a>
|
||||
95/01/03 2 <a href="002.html">Treason</a>
|
||||
95/02 3 <a href="003.html">In Harm's Way</a>
|
||||
95/03 4 <a href="004.html">The Price of Peace</a>
|
||||
|
||||
95/04/04 5 <a href="005.html">Shadows Past and Present</a>
|
||||
95/05 6 <a href="006.html">Against the Odds</a>
|
||||
95/06/06 7 <a href="007.html">Survival the Hard Way</a>
|
||||
95/07/05 8 <a href="008.html">Silent Enemies</a>
|
||||
|
||||
95/08 9 <a href="009.html">Duet for Human and Narn in C Sharp</a>
|
||||
95/09 10 <a href="010.html">Coda for Human and Narn in B Flat</a>
|
||||
|
||||
95/10 11 <a href="011.html">The Psi Corps and <em>You!</em></a>
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p nowrap>
|
||||
<nobr><a href="/lurk/lurker.html"><img
|
||||
align=bottom border=0
|
||||
width=64 height=24 src="/lurk/nav/foot-station.gif"
|
||||
alt="[Home] "></a><a
|
||||
href="#TOP"><img
|
||||
align=bottom border=0
|
||||
width=72 height=13 src="/lurk/nav/foot-pagetop.gif"
|
||||
alt="[Top] "></a><a
|
||||
href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com"><img
|
||||
align=bottom border=0
|
||||
width=80 height=13 src="/lurk/nav/foot-comments.gif"
|
||||
alt="[Comments] "></a><img
|
||||
align=bottom
|
||||
width=284 height=13 src="/lurk/nav/foot-bare.gif"
|
||||
alt="">
|
||||
</nobr>
|
||||
|
||||
<h5>
|
||||
Last update:
|
||||
January 31, 1998
|
||||
|
||||
</h5>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
|
|||
<html>
|
||||
<head>
|
||||
<title>"XXX" - guide entry</title>
|
||||
<link rev="made" href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com">
|
||||
<link rel="parent" href="index.html" title="Comic index page">
|
||||
<link rel="contents" href="index.html" title="Comic index page">
|
||||
<link rel="previous" href="XXX.html">
|
||||
<link rel="next" href="XXX.html">
|
||||
</head>
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
<h1>"XXX"</h1>
|
||||
<h2>XXX</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<b>Contents:</b>
|
||||
<a href="#SY">[Synopsis]</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#BP">[Backplot]</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#UQ">[Questions]</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#AN">[Analysis]</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#NO">[Notes]</a> -
|
||||
<a href="#JS">[JMS]</a>
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
|
||||
<b>See Also:</b>
|
||||
<a href="index.html">[Index]</a> -
|
||||
<a href="XXX.html">[Previous]</a> -
|
||||
<a href="XXX.html">[Next]</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<blockquote><cite>
|
||||
XXX
|
||||
</cite></blockquote>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Issue XXX (XXX, released XXX)
|
||||
|
||||
<pre> Writer: XXX
|
||||
Premise: XXX
|
||||
Penciller: XXX
|
||||
Inker: XXX</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
|
||||
<h2><a name="SY">Synopsis</a></h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="BP">Backplot</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="UQ">Unanswered Questions</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="AN">Analysis</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="NO">Notes</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<H2><A NAME="JMS">jms speaks</A></H2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="index.html">[Index]</a> -
|
||||
<a href="XXX.html">[Previous]</a> -
|
||||
<a href="XXX.html">[Next]</a>
|
||||
|
||||
<h5>
|
||||
Last update:
|
||||
XXX
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
|
||||
Maintained by
|
||||
<a href="http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/">Steven Grimm</a>
|
||||
<koreth@midwinter.com>.<br>
|
||||
<a href="/cgi-bin/feedback">Send mail</a>
|
||||
if you have comments or suggestions.</h5>
|
||||
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
|
|||
<html>
|
||||
<head>
|
||||
<title>Babylon 5 Novel: XXX</title>
|
||||
<link rev=made href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com">
|
||||
<link rel=parent href="index.html">
|
||||
</head>
|
||||
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
<p align=center><nobr><a name="TOP" href="/lurk/lurker.html"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/lurktitle.gif" width=371 height=32
|
||||
alt="[Home]"></a><a
|
||||
href="http://diglib.stanford.edu/~mogens/babylon-5/search.cgi"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/find.gif" width=42 height=32
|
||||
alt=" [Find]"></a><a
|
||||
href="/lurk/toc.html"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/index.gif" width=42 height=32
|
||||
alt=" [Index]"></a><a
|
||||
href="/lurk/faq.html"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/help.gif" width=45 height=32
|
||||
alt=" [Help]"></a>
|
||||
|
||||
<br><a href="/lurk/novels/XXX.jpg"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="../gif/novels/XXX.gif" width=73 height=120
|
||||
></a><img
|
||||
|
||||
align=middle border=0
|
||||
src="../gif/titles/nXXX.gif" width=427 height=120
|
||||
alt="XXX">
|
||||
|
||||
<br><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/lit/ep-guide.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=""><img
|
||||
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/dark/ep-blank.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=""><img
|
||||
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/dark/ep-blank.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=""><img
|
||||
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/dark/ep-blank.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=""><a
|
||||
href="index.html"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/dark/gu-index.gif" width=34 height=24
|
||||
alt="[Index]"></a><a
|
||||
href="XXX.html"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/dark/gu-prev.gif" width=33 height=24
|
||||
alt="[Previous]"></a><a
|
||||
href="XXX.html"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="../nav/dark/gu-next.gif" width=33 height=24
|
||||
alt="[Next]"></a>
|
||||
</nobr>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<hr>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<h5>
|
||||
Last update:
|
||||
September 17, 1995
|
||||
<br>
|
||||
|
||||
Maintained by
|
||||
<a href="/~koreth/">Steven Grimm</a>
|
||||
<koreth@midwinter.com>.<br>
|
||||
<a href="/cgi-bin/feedback">Send mail</a>
|
||||
if you have comments or suggestions.</h5>
|
||||
</body>
|
||||
</html>
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
|
|||
#!/bin/sh
|
||||
for i in [012]*.html; do
|
||||
(
|
||||
echo '<h2><a name="OV">Overview</a></h2>'
|
||||
sed -e '1,/<h2>/d' -e '/nowrap>$/,$d' < $i
|
||||
) > `basename $i .html`
|
||||
|
||||
echo $i
|
||||
done
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
../../background
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1 @@
|
|||
../../credits
|
||||
|
|
@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
|
|||
<html>
|
||||
<head>
|
||||
<title>Austrian Air Dates for Babylon 5</title>
|
||||
<link rev=made href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com">
|
||||
<link rel=parent href="/lurk/countries/" title="Foreign schedules">
|
||||
</head>
|
||||
<body>
|
||||
|
||||
<p align=center nowrap><nobr><a name="TOP"
|
||||
href="/cgi-bin/imagemap/titlebar"><img
|
||||
align=middle border=0 ismap usemap="/lurk/maps/maps.html#titlebar"
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/titlebar.gif" width=500 height=32
|
||||
alt="[Home]"></a>
|
||||
|
||||
<br><a href="/cgi-bin/imagemap/lurker-menu"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/bar-episodes.gif" width=500 height=32
|
||||
alt="" ismap usemap="/lurk/maps/maps.html#toplevel"></a>
|
||||
|
||||
<br><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/lit/co-austria.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=" ### Austria ###"><a
|
||||
href="/lurk/countries/"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/ep-countries.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=" [Countries]"></a><a
|
||||
href="/lurk/countries/master/eplist.html"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/ep-mainlist.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=" [Master List]"></a><a
|
||||
href="/lurk/novels/index.html"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/ep-novels.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=" [Novels]"></a><a
|
||||
href="/lurk/comic/index.html"><img
|
||||
align=top border=0
|
||||
src="/lurk/nav/dark/ep-comics.gif" width=100 height=24
|
||||
alt=" [Comics]"></a>
|
||||
</nobr>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
||||
</pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<cite>Babylon 5</cite> aired most recently on ORF1 weekdays at 15:40 and
|
||||
10:45. ORF1 says they have no plans at present to show season three due
|
||||
to low ratings.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Austrian viewers may be able to watch the
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/countries/de/eplist.html">German</a>
|
||||
broadcasts.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/universe/setting-1.html"><strong>Season One</strong></a>
|
||||
("Signs and Portents")
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
<b>Air Date Air# Prod# Title</b>
|
||||
96/03/24 <a href="guide/000.html">The Gathering</a>
|
||||
96/03/26 1 103 <a href="guide/001.html">Midnight on the Firing Line</a>
|
||||
96/03/27 2 102 <a href="guide/002.html">Soul Hunter</a>
|
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96/05/06 23 201 <a href="guide/023.html">Points of Departure</a>
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96/05/07 24 202 <a href="guide/024.html">Revelations</a>
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96/05/08 25 203 <a href="guide/025.html">The Geometry of Shadows</a>
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96/05/09 26 204 <a href="guide/026.html">A Distant Star</a>
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96/05/10 27 205 <a href="guide/027.html">The Long Dark</a>
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96/05/13 28 206 <a href="guide/028.html">A Spider in the Web</a>
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96/05/14 30 207 <a href="guide/030.html">A Race Through Dark Places</a>
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96/05/15 29 208 <a href="guide/029.html">Soul Mates</a>
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96/05/17 31 209 <a href="guide/031.html">The Coming of Shadows</a>
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96/05/20 32 210 <a href="guide/032.html">GROPOS</a>
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96/05/28 33 211 <a href="guide/033.html">All Alone in the Night</a>
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96/05/29 34 212 <a href="guide/034.html">Acts of Sacrifice</a>
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96/05/31 36 215 <a href="guide/036.html">There All the Honor Lies</a>
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96/06/04 37 214 <a href="guide/037.html">And Now For a Word</a>
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96/06/05 39 216 <a href="guide/039.html">Knives</a>
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96/06/07 38 217 <a href="guide/038.html">In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum</a>
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96/06/10 40 218 <a href="guide/040.html">Confessions and Lamentations</a>
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96/06/11 41 220 <a href="guide/041.html">Divided Loyalties</a>
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96/06/12 42 219 <a href="guide/042.html">The Long, Twilight Struggle</a>
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96/06/13 43 221 <a href="guide/043.html">Comes the Inquisitor</a>
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96/06/14 44 222 <a href="guide/044.html">The Fall of Night</a></pre>
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30/09/99 1 108 <a href="guide/501.html">War Zone</a>
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07/10/99 2 107 <a href="guide/502.html">The Long Road</a>
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14/10/99 3 106 <a href="guide/503.html">The Well of Forever</a>
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21/10/99 4 109 <a href="guide/504.html">The Path of Sorrows</a>
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28/10/99 5 110 <a href="guide/505.html">Patterns of the Soul</a>
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04/11/99 6 111 <a href="guide/506.html">Ruling from the Tomb</a>
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11/11/99 7 112 <a href="guide/507.html">The Rules of the Game</a>
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18/11/99 8 113 <a href="guide/508.html">Appearances and Other Deceits</a>
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25/11/99 9 103 <a href="guide/509.html">Racing the Night</a>
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02/12/99 10 102 <a href="guide/510.html">The Memory of War</a>
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09/12/99 11 101 <a href="guide/511.html">The Needs of Earth</a>
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16/12/99 12 104 <a href="guide/512.html">Visitors from Down the Street</a>
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23/12/99 13 105 <a href="guide/513.html">Each Night I Dream of Home</a></pre>
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<pre>30/11/94 <a href="guide/000.html">The Gathering</a></pre>
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<a href="/lurk/universe/setting-1.html"><strong>Season One</strong></a>
|
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("Signs and Portents")<br>
|
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Originally aired December 3, 1994 - October 3, 1995
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<pre><b>Air Date Ep# Prod# Title</b>
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04/10/99 1 103 <a href="guide/001.html">Midnight on the Firing Line</a>
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11/10/99 2 102 <a href="guide/002.html">Soul Hunter</a>
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18/10/99 3 104 <a href="guide/003.html">Born to the Purple</a>
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25/10/99 4 101 <a href="guide/004.html">Infection</a>
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01/11/99 5 108 <a href="guide/005.html">The Parliament of Dreams</a>
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08/11/99 6 110 <a href="guide/006.html">Mind War</a>
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15/11/99 7 107 <a href="guide/007.html">The War Prayer</a>
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22/11/99 8 106 <a href="guide/008.html">And The Sky Full Of Stars</a>
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29/11/99 9 113 <a href="guide/009.html">Deathwalker</a>
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06/12/99 10 105 <a href="guide/010.html">Believers</a>
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13/12/99 11 111 <a href="guide/011.html">Survivors</a>
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20/12/99 12 114 <a href="guide/012.html">By Any Means Necessary</a>
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27/12/99 13 116 <a href="guide/013.html">Signs and Portents</a>
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03/01/00 14 119 <a href="guide/014.html">TKO</a>
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10/01/00 15 109 <a href="guide/015.html">Grail</a>
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17/01/00 16 122 <a href="guide/016.html">Eyes</a>
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24/01/00 17 115 <a href="guide/017.html">Legacies</a>
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31/01/00 18 120 <a href="guide/018.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 1</a>
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07/02/00 19 121 <a href="guide/019.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 2</a>
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14/02/00 20 118 <a href="guide/020.html">Babylon Squared</a>
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21/02/00 21 117 <a href="guide/021.html">The Quality of Mercy</a>
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28/02/00 22 112 <a href="guide/022.html">Chrysalis</a>
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|
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|
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<a href="/lurk/universe/setting-2.html"><strong>Season Two</strong></a>
|
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("The Coming of Shadows")<br>
|
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Originally aired January 30 - July 9, 1996
|
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|
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<pre>06/03/00 23 201 <a href="guide/023.html">Points of Departure</a>
|
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13/03/00 24 202 <a href="guide/024.html">Revelations</a>
|
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20/03/00 25 203 <a href="guide/025.html">The Geometry of Shadows</a>
|
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27/03/00 26 204 <a href="guide/026.html">A Distant Star</a>
|
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03/04/00 27 205 <a href="guide/027.html">The Long Dark</a>
|
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10/04/00 28 206 <a href="guide/028.html">A Spider in the Web</a>
|
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17/04/00 29 208 <a href="guide/029.html">Soul Mates</a>
|
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24/04/00 30 207 <a href="guide/030.html">A Race Through Dark Places</a>
|
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01/05/00 31 209 <a href="guide/031.html">The Coming of Shadows</a>
|
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08/05/00 32 210 <a href="guide/032.html">GROPOS</a>
|
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15/05/00 33 211 <a href="guide/033.html">All Alone in the Night</a>
|
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22/05/00 34 212 <a href="guide/034.html">Acts of Sacrifice</a>
|
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29/05/00 35 213 <a href="guide/035.html">Hunter, Prey</a>
|
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05/06/00 36 215 <a href="guide/036.html">There All the Honor Lies</a>
|
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12/06/00 37 214 <a href="guide/037.html">And Now For a Word</a>
|
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19/06/00 38 217 <a href="guide/038.html">In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum</a>
|
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26/06/00 39 216 <a href="guide/039.html">Knives</a>
|
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03/07/00 40 218 <a href="guide/040.html">Confessions and Lamentations</a>
|
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10/07/00 41 220 <a href="guide/041.html">Divided Loyalties</a>
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17/07/00 42 219 <a href="guide/042.html">The Long, Twilight Struggle</a>
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24/07/00 43 221 <a href="guide/043.html">Comes the Inquisitor</a>
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31/07/00 44 222 <a href="guide/044.html">The Fall of Night</a></pre>
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|
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|
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|
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<pre>07/08/00 45 301 <a href="guide/045.html">Matters of Honor</a>
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14/08/00 46 302 <a href="guide/046.html">Convictions</a>
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21/08/00 47 303 <a href="guide/047.html">A Day in the Strife</a>
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28/08/00 48 305 <a href="guide/048.html">Passing Through Gethsemane</a>
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04/09/00 49 304 <a href="guide/049.html">Voices of Authority</a>
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11/09/00 50 306 <a href="guide/050.html">Dust to Dust</a>
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18/09/00 51 307 <a href="guide/051.html">Exogenesis</a>
|
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25/09/00 52 308 <a href="guide/052.html">Messages from Earth</a>
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02/10/00 53 309 <a href="guide/053.html">Point of No Return</a>
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09/10/00 54 310 <a href="guide/054.html">Severed Dreams</a>
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23/10/00 56 313 <a href="guide/056.html">Sic Transit Vir</a>
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30/10/00 57 312 <a href="guide/057.html">A Late Delivery from Avalon</a>
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06/11/00 58 314 <a href="guide/058.html">Ship of Tears</a>
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18/12/00 64 320 <a href="guide/064.html">And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place</a>
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|
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("No Surrender, No Retreat")<br>
|
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08/01/01 67 401 <a href="guide/067.html">The Hour of the Wolf</a>
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15/01/01 68 402 <a href="guide/068.html">Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?</a>
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22/01/01 69 403 <a href="guide/069.html">The Summoning</a>
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29/01/01 70 404 <a href="guide/070.html">Falling Toward Apotheosis</a>
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05/02/01 71 405 <a href="guide/071.html">The Long Night</a>
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12/02/01 72 406 <a href="guide/072.html">Into the Fire</a>
|
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19/02/01 73 407 <a href="guide/073.html">Epiphanies</a>
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26/02/01 74 408 <a href="guide/074.html">The Illusion of Truth</a>
|
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05/03/01 75 409 <a href="guide/075.html">Atonement</a>
|
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12/03/01 76 410 <a href="guide/076.html">Racing Mars</a>
|
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19/03/01 77 411 <a href="guide/077.html">Lines of Communication</a>
|
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26/03/01 78 412 <a href="guide/078.html">Conflicts of Interest</a>
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02/04/01 79 413 <a href="guide/079.html">Rumors, Bargains and Lies</a>
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09/04/01 80 414 <a href="guide/080.html">Moments of Transition</a>
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16/04/01 81 415 <a href="guide/081.html">No Surrender, No Retreat</a>
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23/04/01 82 416 <a href="guide/082.html">The Exercise of Vital Powers</a>
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30/04/01 83 417 <a href="guide/083.html">The Face of the Enemy</a>
|
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07/05/01 84 418 <a href="guide/084.html">Intersections in Real Time</a>
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14/05/01 85 419 <a href="guide/085.html">Between the Darkness and the Light</a>
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21/05/01 86 420 <a href="guide/086.html">Endgame</a>
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28/05/01 87 421 <a href="guide/087.html">Rising Star</a>
|
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04/06/01 88 422 <a href="guide/088.html">The Deconstruction of Falling Stars</a></pre>
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|
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<strong>Season Five</strong>
|
||||
("Wheel of Fire")<br>
|
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Originally aired October 8, 1998 - September 8, 1999
|
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|
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<pre><b>Air Date</b> <b>Ep# Prod# Title</b>
|
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11/06/01 89 502 <a href="guide/089.html">No Compromises</a>
|
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18/06/01 90 503 <a href="guide/090.html">The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari</a>
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25/06/01 91 504 <a href="guide/091.html">The Paragon of Animals</a>
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02/07/01 92 505 <a href="guide/092.html">A View from the Gallery</a>
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09/07/01 93 506 <a href="guide/093.html">Learning Curve</a>
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16/07/01 94 507 <a href="guide/094.html">Strange Relations</a>
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23/07/01 95 508 <a href="guide/095.html">Secrets of the Soul</a>
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30/07/01 96 511 <a href="guide/096.html">Day of the Dead</a>
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06/08/01 97 509 <a href="guide/097.html">In the Kingdom of the Blind</a>
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13/08/01 98 510 <a href="guide/098.html">A Tragedy of Telepaths</a>
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20/08/01 99 512 <a href="guide/099.html">Phoenix Rising</a>
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27/08/01 100 513 <a href="guide/100.html">The Ragged Edge</a>
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03/09/01 101 514 <a href="guide/101.html">The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father</a>
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10/09/01 102 515 <a href="guide/102.html">Meditations on the Abyss</a>
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17/09/01 103 516 <a href="guide/103.html">Darkness Ascending</a>
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24/09/01 104 517 <a href="guide/104.html">And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder</a>
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01/10/01 105 518 <a href="guide/105.html">Movements of Fire and Shadow</a>
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08/10/01 106 519 <a href="guide/106.html">The Fall of Centauri Prime</a>
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15/10/01 107 520 <a href="guide/107.html">Wheel of Fire</a>
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22/10/01 108 521 <a href="guide/108.html">Objects in Motion</a>
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29/10/01 109 522 <a href="guide/109.html">Objects at Rest</a>
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05/11/01 110 523 <a href="guide/110.html">Sleeping in Light</a></pre>
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<p>
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<cite>Babylon 5</cite> is shown on Canal+ Belgium Wednesdays at 17:30 and
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repeated Sundays at 19:00.
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<h2>Current Episodes</h2>
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<p>
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<a name="season4" href="/lurk/universe/setting-4.html"><strong>Season
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Four</strong></a>
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("No Surrender, No Retreat")
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<pre>98/09/02 67 401 <a href="guide/067.html">The Hour of the Wolf</a>
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98/09/09 68 402 <a href="guide/068.html">Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?</a>
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98/09/16 69 403 <a href="guide/069.html">The Summoning</a>
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98/09/23 70 404 <a href="guide/070.html">Falling Toward Apotheosis</a>
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98/09/30 71 405 <a href="guide/071.html">The Long Night</a>
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98/10/07 72 406 <a href="guide/072.html">Into the Fire</a>
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98/10/14 73 407 <a href="guide/073.html">Epiphanies</a>
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98/10/21 74 408 <a href="guide/074.html">The Illusion of Truth</a>
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98/10/28 75 409 <a href="guide/075.html">Atonement</a>
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98/11/04 76 410 <a href="guide/076.html">Racing Mars</a>
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98/11/11 77 411 <a href="guide/077.html">Lines of Communication</a>
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98/11/18 78 412 <a href="guide/078.html">Conflicts of Interest</a>
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98/11/25 79 413 <a href="guide/079.html">Rumors, Bargains and Lies</a>
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98/12/02 80 414 <a href="guide/080.html">Moments of Transition</a>
|
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98/12/09 81 415 <a href="guide/081.html">No Surrender, No Retreat</a>
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98/12/16 82 416 <a href="guide/082.html">The Exercise of Vital Powers</a>
|
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98/12/23 83 417 <a href="guide/083.html">The Face of the Enemy</a>
|
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98/12/30 84 418 <a href="guide/084.html">Intersections in Real Time</a>
|
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99/01/06 85 419 <a href="guide/085.html">Between the Darkness and the Light</a>
|
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99/01/13 86 420 <a href="guide/086.html">Endgame</a>
|
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99/01/20 87 421 <a href="guide/087.html">Rising Star</a>
|
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99/01/27 88 422 <a href="guide/088.html">The Deconstruction of Falling Stars</a></pre>
|
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|
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|
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<h2>Previous Episodes</h2>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/universe/setting-1.html"><strong>Season One</strong></a>
|
||||
("Signs and Portents")<br>
|
||||
Originally shown on VT4, March 27, 1995 - November 30, 1996
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>95/03/27 <a href="guide/000.html">The Gathering</a>
|
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95/03/28 1 103 <a href="guide/001.html">Midnight on the Firing Line</a>
|
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95/04/04 2 102 <a href="guide/002.html">Soul Hunter</a>
|
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95/04/11 3 104 <a href="guide/003.html">Born to the Purple</a>
|
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95/04/18 4 101 <a href="guide/004.html">Infection</a>
|
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95/04/25 5 108 <a href="guide/005.html">The Parliament of Dreams</a>
|
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95/05/02 6 110 <a href="guide/006.html">Mind War</a>
|
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95/05/09 7 107 <a href="guide/007.html">The War Prayer</a>
|
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95/05/16 8 106 <a href="guide/008.html">And The Sky Full Of Stars</a>
|
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95/05/23 9 113 <a href="guide/009.html">Deathwalker</a>
|
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95/05/30 10 105 <a href="guide/010.html">Believers</a>
|
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95/06/11 11 111 <a href="guide/011.html">Survivors</a>
|
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95/06/18 12 114 <a href="guide/012.html">By Any Means Necessary</a>
|
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95/06/25 13 116 <a href="guide/013.html">Signs and Portents</a>
|
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95/07/02 14 119 <a href="guide/014.html">TKO</a>
|
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95/07/09 15 109 <a href="guide/015.html">Grail</a>
|
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95/07/16 16 122 <a href="guide/016.html">Eyes</a>
|
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95/07/23 17 115 <a href="guide/017.html">Legacies</a>
|
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95/07/30 18 120 <a href="guide/018.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 1</a>
|
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95/08/06 19 121 <a href="guide/019.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 2</a>
|
||||
95/08/13 20 118 <a href="guide/020.html">Babylon Squared</a>
|
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|
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96/11/23 21 117 <a href="guide/021.html">The Quality of Mercy</a>
|
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96/11/30 22 112 <a href="guide/022.html">Chrysalis</a></pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/universe/setting-2.html"><strong>Season Two</strong></a>
|
||||
("The Coming of Shadows")
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
96/12/22 23 201 <a href="guide/023.html">Points of Departure</a>
|
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96/12/29 24 202 <a href="guide/024.html">Revelations</a>
|
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97/01/05 25 203 <a href="guide/025.html">The Geometry of Shadows</a>
|
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97/01/12 26 204 <a href="guide/026.html">A Distant Star</a>
|
||||
97/01/19 27 205 <a href="guide/027.html">The Long Dark</a>
|
||||
97/01/26 28 206 <a href="guide/028.html">A Spider in the Web</a>
|
||||
97/02/02 29 208 <a href="guide/029.html">Soul Mates</a>
|
||||
97/02/09 30 207 <a href="guide/030.html">A Race Through Dark Places</a>
|
||||
97/02/16 31 209 <a href="guide/031.html">The Coming of Shadows</a>
|
||||
97/02/23 32 210 <a href="guide/032.html">GROPOS</a>
|
||||
97/03/02 33 211 <a href="guide/033.html">All Alone in the Night</a>
|
||||
97/03/09 34 212 <a href="guide/034.html">Acts of Sacrifice</a>
|
||||
97/03/16 35 213 <a href="guide/035.html">Hunter, Prey</a>
|
||||
97/03/23 36 215 <a href="guide/036.html">There All the Honor Lies</a>
|
||||
97/03/30 37 214 <a href="guide/037.html">And Now For a Word</a>
|
||||
97/04/06 38 217 <a href="guide/038.html">In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum</a>
|
||||
97/04/13 39 216 <a href="guide/039.html">Knives</a>
|
||||
97/04/20 40 218 <a href="guide/040.html">Confessions and Lamentations</a>
|
||||
97/04/27 41 220 <a href="guide/041.html">Divided Loyalties</a>
|
||||
97/05/04 42 219 <a href="guide/042.html">The Long, Twilight Struggle</a>
|
||||
97/05/11 43 221 <a href="guide/043.html">Comes the Inquisitor</a>
|
||||
97/05/18 44 222 <a href="guide/044.html">The Fall of Night</a></pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<strong><a href="/lurk/universe/setting-3.html" name="season3">Season Three</a></strong>
|
||||
("Point of No Return")
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>96/10/06 45 301 <a href="guide/045.html">L'etoile céleste</a>
|
||||
(Matters of Honor)
|
||||
96/10/13 46 302 <a href="guide/046.html">Convictions</a>
|
||||
96/10/20 none
|
||||
96/10/27 47 303 <a href="guide/047.html">Au coeur du conflit</a>
|
||||
(A Day in the Strife)
|
||||
96/11/03 none
|
||||
96/11/10 48 305 <a href="guide/048.html">Les jardins de Gethsemani</a>
|
||||
(Passing Through Gethsemane)
|
||||
96/11/17 49 304 <a href="guide/049.html">Les voix de l'autorité</a>
|
||||
(Voices of Authority)
|
||||
96/11/24 50 306 <a href="guide/050.html">Dépendance</a>
|
||||
(Dust to Dust)
|
||||
96/12/01 none
|
||||
96/12/08 51 307 <a href="guide/051.html">Exogénèse</a>
|
||||
(Exogenesis)
|
||||
96/12/15 52 308 <a href="guide/052.html">Message terrestre</a>
|
||||
(Messages from Earth)
|
||||
96/12/22 53 309 <a href="guide/053.html">Point de non-retour</a>
|
||||
(Point of No Return)
|
||||
96/12/29 54 310 <a href="guide/054.html">La fin des rêves</a>
|
||||
(Severed Dreams)
|
||||
97/01/05 55 311 <a href="guide/055.html">Renaissances</a>
|
||||
(Ceremonies of Light and Dark)
|
||||
97/01/12 56 313 <a href="guide/056.html">Le secret de Vir</a>
|
||||
(Sic Transit Vir)
|
||||
97/01/19 none
|
||||
97/01/26 57 312 <a href="guide/057.html">Le chevalier de la Table Ronde</a>
|
||||
(A Late Delivery from Avalon)
|
||||
97/02/02 58 314 <a href="guide/058.html">Le vaisseau des larmes</a>
|
||||
(Ship of Tears)
|
||||
97/02/09 59 315 <a href="guide/059.html">Le temps est venu</a>
|
||||
(Interludes and Examinations)
|
||||
97/02/16 60 316 <a href="guide/060.html">La guerre sans fin (1ere partie)</a>
|
||||
(War Without End, Part One)
|
||||
97/02/23 none
|
||||
97/03/02 61 317 <a href="guide/061.html">La guerre sans fin (2eme partie)</a>
|
||||
(War Without End, Part Two)
|
||||
97/03/09 62 318 <a href="guide/062.html">Le cheminement</a>
|
||||
(Walkabout)
|
||||
97/03/16 63 319 <a href="guide/063.html">Le secteur gris ne repond plus</a>
|
||||
(Grey 17 Is Missing)
|
||||
97/03/23 64 320 <a href="guide/064.html">Melodie oecumenique</a>
|
||||
(And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place)
|
||||
97/03/30 none
|
||||
97/04/06 65 321 <a href="guide/065.html">Instants decisifs</a>
|
||||
(Shadow Dancing)
|
||||
97/04/13 66 322 <a href="guide/066.html">Z'ha'dum</a></pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>
|
||||
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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<title>Canadian Air Dates for Babylon 5</title>
|
||||
<link rev=made href="mailto:koreth@midwinter.com">
|
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<link rel=parent href="/lurk/eplist.html" title="The US episode list">
|
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|
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|
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<b>See Also:</b>
|
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<a href="http://www.interlog.com/~schrist/b5/">Canada's B5 Information Pages</a>
|
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|
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<p>
|
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Babylon 5 is shown on
|
||||
<a href="http://www.spacecast.com/">Space: The Imagination Station</a>
|
||||
Monday-Friday at 5PM. Space has confirmed that they plan to show
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/guide/113.html">"Crusade"</a>
|
||||
starting sometime in 1999.
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
Season five is being shown by several stations across Canada at various times;
|
||||
see the B5 Information Pages link above for schedule details for your area.
|
||||
|
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<p>
|
||||
<strong>Pilot</strong>
|
||||
|
||||
<pre><b>Air Date Air# Prod# Title</b>
|
||||
98/09/14 <a href="guide/000.html">The Gathering</a></pre>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>
|
||||
<a href="/lurk/universe/setting-1.html"><strong>Season One</strong></a>
|
||||
("Signs and Portents")
|
||||
|
||||
<pre>98/09/15 1 103 <a href="guide/001.html">Midnight on the Firing Line</a>
|
||||
98/09/16 2 102 <a href="guide/002.html">Soul Hunter</a>
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98/09/17 3 104 <a href="guide/003.html">Born to the Purple</a>
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98/09/18 4 101 <a href="guide/004.html">Infection</a>
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98/09/21 5 108 <a href="guide/005.html">The Parliament of Dreams</a>
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98/09/22 6 110 <a href="guide/006.html">Mind War</a>
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98/09/23 7 107 <a href="guide/007.html">The War Prayer</a>
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98/09/24 8 106 <a href="guide/008.html">And The Sky Full Of Stars</a>
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98/09/25 9 113 <a href="guide/009.html">Deathwalker</a>
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98/09/28 10 105 <a href="guide/010.html">Believers</a>
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98/09/29 11 111 <a href="guide/011.html">Survivors</a>
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98/09/30 13 116 <a href="guide/013.html">Signs and Portents</a>
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98/10/01 12 114 <a href="guide/012.html">By Any Means Necessary</a>
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98/10/02 21 117 <a href="guide/021.html">The Quality of Mercy</a>
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98/10/05 15 109 <a href="guide/015.html">Grail</a>
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98/10/06 16 122 <a href="guide/016.html">Eyes</a>
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98/10/07 14 119 <a href="guide/014.html">TKO</a>
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98/10/08 18 120 <a href="guide/018.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 1</a>
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98/10/09 19 121 <a href="guide/019.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 2</a>
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98/10/12 20 118 <a href="guide/020.html">Babylon Squared</a>
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98/10/13 17 115 <a href="guide/017.html">Legacies</a>
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98/10/14 22 112 <a href="guide/022.html">Chrysalis</a></pre>
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<pre>98/10/15 23 201 <a href="guide/023.html">Points of Departure</a>
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98/10/16 24 202 <a href="guide/024.html">Revelations</a>
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98/10/19 25 203 <a href="guide/025.html">The Geometry of Shadows</a>
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98/10/20 26 204 <a href="guide/026.html">A Distant Star</a>
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98/10/21 27 205 <a href="guide/027.html">The Long Dark</a>
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98/10/22 28 206 <a href="guide/028.html">A Spider in the Web</a>
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98/10/23 30 207 <a href="guide/030.html">A Race Through Dark Places</a>
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98/10/26 29 208 <a href="guide/029.html">Soul Mates</a>
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98/10/27 31 209 <a href="guide/031.html">The Coming of Shadows</a>
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98/10/28 32 210 <a href="guide/032.html">GROPOS</a>
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98/10/29 33 211 <a href="guide/033.html">All Alone in the Night</a>
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98/10/30 34 212 <a href="guide/034.html">Acts of Sacrifice</a>
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98/11/02 35 213 <a href="guide/035.html">Hunter, Prey</a>
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98/11/03 37 214 <a href="guide/037.html">And Now For a Word</a>
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98/11/04 36 215 <a href="guide/036.html">There All the Honor Lies</a>
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98/11/05 39 216 <a href="guide/039.html">Knives</a>
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98/11/06 38 217 <a href="guide/038.html">In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum</a>
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98/11/09 40 218 <a href="guide/040.html">Confessions and Lamentations</a>
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98/11/10 42 219 <a href="guide/042.html">The Long, Twilight Struggle</a>
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98/11/11 41 220 <a href="guide/041.html">Divided Loyalties</a>
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98/11/12 43 221 <a href="guide/043.html">Comes the Inquisitor</a>
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98/11/13 44 222 <a href="guide/044.html">The Fall of Night</a></pre>
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<a href="/lurk/universe/setting-3.html"><strong>Season Three</strong></a>
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("Point Of No Return")
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<pre>98/11/16 45 301 <a href="guide/045.html">Matters of Honor</a>
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98/11/17 46 302 <a href="guide/046.html">Convictions</a>
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98/11/18 47 303 <a href="guide/047.html">A Day in the Strife</a>
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98/11/19 48 305 <a href="guide/048.html">Passing Through Gethsemane</a>
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98/11/20 49 304 <a href="guide/049.html">Voices of Authority</a>
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98/11/23 50 306 <a href="guide/050.html">Dust to Dust</a>
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98/11/24 51 307 <a href="guide/051.html">Exogenesis</a>
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98/11/25 52 308 <a href="guide/052.html">Messages from Earth</a>
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98/11/26 53 309 <a href="guide/053.html">Point of No Return</a>
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98/11/27 54 310 <a href="guide/054.html">Severed Dreams</a>
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98/11/30 55 311 <a href="guide/055.html">Ceremonies of Light and Dark</a>
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98/12/01 56 313 <a href="guide/056.html">Sic Transit Vir</a>
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98/12/02 57 312 <a href="guide/057.html">A Late Delivery from Avalon</a>
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98/12/03 58 314 <a href="guide/058.html">Ship of Tears</a>
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98/12/04 59 315 <a href="guide/059.html">Interludes and Examinations</a>
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98/12/07 60 316 <a href="guide/060.html">War Without End, Part One</a>
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98/12/08 61 317 <a href="guide/061.html">War Without End, Part Two</a>
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98/12/09 62 318 <a href="guide/062.html">Walkabout</a>
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98/12/10 63 319 <a href="guide/063.html">Grey 17 Is Missing</a>
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98/12/11 64 320 <a href="guide/064.html">And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place</a>
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98/12/14 65 321 <a href="guide/065.html">Shadow Dancing</a>
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98/12/15 66 322 <a href="guide/066.html">Z'ha'dum</a></pre>
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<a name="season4" href="/lurk/universe/setting-4.html"><strong>Season
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("No Surrender, No Retreat")
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<pre>98/12/16 67 401 <a href="guide/067.html">The Hour of the Wolf</a>
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98/12/17 68 402 <a href="guide/068.html">Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?</a>
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98/12/18 69 403 <a href="guide/069.html">The Summoning</a>
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98/12/21 70 404 <a href="guide/070.html">Falling Toward Apotheosis</a>
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98/12/22 71 405 <a href="guide/071.html">The Long Night</a>
|
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98/12/23 72 406 <a href="guide/072.html">Into the Fire</a>
|
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98/12/24 73 407 <a href="guide/073.html">Epiphanies</a>
|
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98/12/25 74 408 <a href="guide/074.html">The Illusion of Truth</a>
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98/12/28 75 409 <a href="guide/075.html">Atonement</a>
|
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98/12/29 76 410 <a href="guide/076.html">Racing Mars</a>
|
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98/12/30 77 411 <a href="guide/077.html">Lines of Communication</a>
|
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98/12/31 78 412 <a href="guide/078.html">Conflicts of Interest</a>
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99/01/01 79 413 <a href="guide/079.html">Rumors, Bargains and Lies</a>
|
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99/01/04 80 414 <a href="guide/080.html">Moments of Transition</a>
|
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99/01/05 81 415 <a href="guide/081.html">No Surrender, No Retreat</a>
|
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99/01/06 82 416 <a href="guide/082.html">The Exercise of Vital Powers</a>
|
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99/01/07 83 417 <a href="guide/083.html">The Face of the Enemy</a>
|
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99/01/08 84 418 <a href="guide/084.html">Intersections in Real Time</a>
|
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99/01/11 85 419 <a href="guide/085.html">Between the Darkness and the Light</a>
|
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99/01/12 86 420 <a href="guide/086.html">Endgame</a>
|
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99/01/13 87 421 <a href="guide/087.html">Rising Star</a>
|
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99/01/14 88 422 <a href="guide/088.html">The Deconstruction of Falling Stars</a></pre>
|
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<p>
|
||||
<strong>Season Five</strong>
|
||||
("Wheel of Fire")
|
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<br>
|
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Season five has not been purchased by Space yet.
|
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|
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<pre>99/??/?? 89 502 <a href="guide/089.html">No Compromises</a>
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99/??/?? 90 503 <a href="guide/090.html">The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari</a>
|
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99/??/?? 91 504 <a href="guide/091.html">The Paragon of Animals</a>
|
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99/??/?? 92 505 <a href="guide/092.html">A View from the Gallery</a>
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99/??/?? 93 506 <a href="guide/093.html">Learning Curve</a>
|
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99/??/?? 94 507 <a href="guide/094.html">Strange Relations</a>
|
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99/??/?? 95 508 <a href="guide/095.html">Secrets of the Soul</a>
|
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99/??/?? 96 511 <a href="guide/096.html">Day of the Dead</a>
|
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99/??/?? 97 509 <a href="guide/097.html">In the Kingdom of the Blind</a>
|
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99/??/?? 98 510 <a href="guide/098.html">A Tragedy of Telepaths</a>
|
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99/??/?? 99 512 <a href="guide/099.html">Phoenix Rising</a>
|
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99/??/?? 100 513 <a href="guide/100.html">The Ragged Edge</a>
|
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99/??/?? 101 514 <a href="guide/101.html">The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father</a>
|
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99/??/?? 102 515 <a href="guide/102.html">Meditations on the Abyss</a>
|
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99/??/?? 103 516 <a href="guide/103.html">Darkness Ascending</a>
|
||||
99/??/?? 104 517 <a href="guide/104.html">And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder</a>
|
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99/??/?? 105 518 <a href="guide/105.html">Movements of Fire and Shadow</a>
|
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99/??/?? 106 519 <a href="guide/106.html">The Fall of Centauri Prime</a>
|
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99/??/?? 107 522 <a href="guide/107.html">Wheel of Fire</a>
|
||||
99/??/?? 108 520 <a href="guide/108.html">Objects in Motion</a>
|
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99/??/?? 109 521 <a href="guide/109.html">Objects at Rest</a>
|
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99/??/?? 110 523 <a href="guide/110.html">Sleeping in Light</a></pre>
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<cite>Babylon 5</cite> is shown on Megavision (channel 9 in Santiago),
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Saturdays at 18:30. It is usually delayed due to sports or other programming.
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B5 can also be
|
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seen on the WBTV cable channel Sundays at 20:30 and Thursdays at 20:00;
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the order is erratic there.
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|
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B5 with sports, so expect these dates to change.
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<h3>Current Episodes</h3>
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<p>
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<strong><a href="/lurk/universe/setting-3.html" name="season3">Season Three</a></strong>
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("Point of No Return")
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<pre><b>Air Date Ep# Prod# Title</b>
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96/10/06 45 301 <a href="guide/045.html">Matters of Honor</a>
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96/10/13 46 302 <a href="guide/046.html">Convictions</a>
|
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96/10/20 47 303 <a href="guide/047.html">A Day in the Strife</a>
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96/11/03 49 304 <a href="guide/049.html">Voices of Authority</a>
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96/11/10 48 305 <a href="guide/048.html">Passing Through Gethsemane</a>
|
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96/11/17 50 306 <a href="guide/050.html">Dust to Dust</a>
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96/11/24 51 307 <a href="guide/051.html">Exogenesis</a>
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96/12/01 52 308 <a href="guide/052.html">Messages from Earth</a>
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96/12/22 53 309 <a href="guide/053.html">Point of No Return</a>
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96/12/29 54 310 <a href="guide/054.html">Severed Dreams</a>
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97/01/05 55 311 <a href="guide/055.html">Ceremonies of Light and Dark</a>
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97/01/12 57 312 <a href="guide/057.html">A Late Delivery from Avalon</a>
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97/01/19 56 313 <a href="guide/056.html">Sic Transit Vir</a>
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97/01/26 58 314 <a href="guide/058.html">Ship of Tears</a>
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97/02/02 59 315 <a href="guide/059.html">Interludes and Examinations</a>
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97/02/09 60 316 <a href="guide/060.html">War Without End, Part One</a>
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97/02/16 61 317 <a href="guide/061.html">War Without End, Part Two</a>
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97/02/23 62 318 <a href="guide/062.html">Walkabout</a>
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97/03/02 63 319 <a href="guide/063.html">Grey 17 Is Missing</a>
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97/03/09 64 320 <a href="guide/064.html">And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place</a>
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97/06/07 65 321 <a href="guide/065.html">Shadow Dancing</a>
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97/??/?? 66 322 <a href="guide/066.html">Z'ha'dum</a></pre>
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<h3>Past Episodes</h3>
|
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|
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<p>
|
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<a name="season1" href="/lurk/universe/setting-1.html"><strong>Season
|
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One</strong></a>
|
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("Signs and Portents")
|
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<pre>95/01/01 <a href="guide/000.html">The Gathering</a>
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95/01/08 4 101 <a href="guide/004.html">Infection</a>
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95/01/15 2 102 <a href="guide/002.html">Soul Hunter</a>
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95/01/22 1 103 <a href="guide/001.html">Midnight on the Firing Line</a>
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95/01/29 3 104 <a href="guide/003.html">Born to the Purple</a>
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95/02/05 5 108 <a href="guide/005.html">The Parliament of Dreams</a>
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95/02/26 6 110 <a href="guide/006.html">Mind War</a>
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95/03/05 7 107 <a href="guide/007.html">The War Prayer</a>
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95/03/12 8 106 <a href="guide/008.html">And The Sky Full Of Stars</a>
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95/03/19 9 113 <a href="guide/009.html">Deathwalker</a>
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95/03/26 10 105 <a href="guide/010.html">Believers</a>
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95/04/16 11 111 <a href="guide/011.html">Survivors</a>
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95/04/23 12 114 <a href="guide/012.html">By Any Means Necessary</a>
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95/04/30 13 116 <a href="guide/013.html">Signs and Portents</a>
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95/05/07 14 119 <a href="guide/014.html">TKO</a>
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95/05/14 15 109 <a href="guide/015.html">Grail</a>
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95/06/04 16 122 <a href="guide/016.html">Eyes</a>
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95/06/18 17 115 <a href="guide/017.html">Legacies</a>
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95/07/02 110R Mind War
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95/08/06 18 120 <a href="guide/018.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 1</a>
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95/08/20 19 121 <a href="guide/019.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 2</a>
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95/09/03 20 118 <a href="guide/020.html">Babylon Squared</a>
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95/09/10 21 117 <a href="guide/021.html">The Quality of Mercy</a>
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95/09/17 22 112 <a href="guide/022.html">Chrysalis</a> (season finale)
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95/09/24 Soul Hunter
|
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95/10/01 Born to the Purple
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95/10/08 The Parliament of Dreams
|
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95/10/15 Mind War
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95/10/22 The War Prayer
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95/10/29 And the Sky Full of Stars
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95/11/05 Midnight on the Firing Line
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95/11/12 Deathwalker
|
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95/11/19 Believers</pre>
|
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<p>
|
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<a name="season2" href="/lurk/universe/setting-2.html"><strong>Season
|
||||
Two</strong></a>
|
||||
("The Coming Of Shadows")
|
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|
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<pre><b>Air Date Air# Prod# Title</b>
|
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95/12/17 23 201 <a href="guide/023.html">Points of Departure</a>
|
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95/12/31 24 202 <a href="guide/024.html">Revelations</a>
|
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96/01/07 25 203 <a href="guide/025.html">The Geometry of Shadows</a>
|
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96/01/14 26 204 <a href="guide/026.html">A Distant Star</a>
|
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96/01/21 27 205 <a href="guide/027.html">The Long Dark</a>
|
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96/01/28 28 206 <a href="guide/028.html">A Spider in the Web</a>
|
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96/02/11 30 207 <a href="guide/030.html">A Race Through Dark Places</a>
|
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96/03/10 32 210 <a href="guide/032.html">GROPOS</a>
|
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96/03/17 33 211 <a href="guide/033.html">All Alone in the Night</a>
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96/03/24 34 212 <a href="guide/034.html">Acts of Sacrifice</a>
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96/04/07 35 213 <a href="guide/035.html">Hunter, Prey</a>
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96/04/14 29 208 <a href="guide/029.html">Soul Mates</a>
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96/04/21 31 209 <a href="guide/031.html">The Coming of Shadows</a>
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96/04/28 213R Hunter, Prey
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96/05/05 37 214 <a href="guide/037.html">And Now For a Word</a>
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96/05/12 36 215 <a href="guide/036.html">There All the Honor Lies</a>
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96/05/19 39 216 <a href="guide/039.html">Knives</a>
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96/05/26 38 217 <a href="guide/038.html">In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum</a>
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96/06/09 40 218 <a href="guide/040.html">Confessions and Lamentations</a>
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96/06/16 42 219 <a href="guide/042.html">The Long, Twilight Struggle</a>
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96/06/23 41 220 <a href="guide/041.html">Divided Loyalties</a>
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96/06/30 43 221 <a href="guide/043.html">Comes the Inquisitor</a>
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96/07/07 44 222 <a href="guide/044.html">The Fall of Night</a> (season finale)</pre>
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95/10/19 4 101 <a href="guide/004.html">Infection</a>
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95/10/26 2 102 <a href="guide/002.html">Soul Hunter</a>
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95/11/02 1 103 <a href="guide/001.html">Midnight on the Firing Line</a>
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95/11/09 3 104 <a href="guide/003.html">Born to the Purple</a>
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95/11/16 10 105 <a href="guide/010.html">Believers</a>
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95/11/23 8 106 <a href="guide/008.html">And The Sky Full Of Stars</a>
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95/11/30 7 107 <a href="guide/007.html">The War Prayer</a>
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95/12/07 5 108 <a href="guide/005.html">The Parliament of Dreams</a>
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95/12/14 15 109 <a href="guide/015.html">Grail</a>
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95/12/21 6 110 <a href="guide/006.html">Mind War</a>
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95/12/28 11 111 <a href="guide/011.html">Survivors</a>
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96/01/04 22 112 <a href="guide/022.html">Chrysalis</a> (season finale)
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96/01/11 9 113 <a href="guide/009.html">Deathwalker</a>
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96/01/18 12 114 <a href="guide/012.html">By Any Means Necessary</a>
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96/01/25 17 115 <a href="guide/017.html">Legacies</a>
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96/02/01 13 116 <a href="guide/013.html">Signs and Portents</a>
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96/02/08 21 117 <a href="guide/021.html">The Quality of Mercy</a>
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96/02/15 20 118 <a href="guide/020.html">Babylon Squared</a>
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96/02/22 14 119 <a href="guide/014.html">TKO</a>
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96/02/29 18 120 <a href="guide/018.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 1</a>
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96/03/07 19 121 <a href="guide/019.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 2</a>
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96/03/14 16 122 <a href="guide/016.html">Eyes</a>
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|
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<a href="/lurk/countries/wbtv/eplist.html">WBTV schedule</a>
|
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|
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|
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<cite>Babylon 5</cite> is shown Wednesdays at 11:00PM on
|
||||
<a href="http://www.publinet.co.cr/repretel">Channel 6.</a>
|
||||
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|
||||
|
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<h2>Current Episodes</h2>
|
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|
||||
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|
||||
<a href="/lurk/universe/setting-1.html"><strong>Season One</strong></a>
|
||||
("Signs and Portents")<br>
|
||||
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|
||||
|
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<pre><b>Air Date Air# Prod# Title</b>
|
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??/??/?? <a href="guide/000.html">The Gathering</a>
|
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??/??/?? 1 103 <a href="guide/001.html">Midnight on the Firing Line</a>
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??/??/?? 2 102 <a href="guide/002.html">Soul Hunter</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 3 104 <a href="guide/003.html">Born to the Purple</a>
|
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??/??/?? 4 101 <a href="guide/004.html">Infection</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 5 108 <a href="guide/005.html">The Parliament of Dreams</a>
|
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??/??/?? 6 110 <a href="guide/006.html">Mind War</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 7 107 <a href="guide/007.html">The War Prayer</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 8 106 <a href="guide/008.html">And The Sky Full Of Stars</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 9 113 <a href="guide/009.html">Deathwalker</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 10 105 <a href="guide/010.html">Believers</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 11 111 <a href="guide/011.html">Survivors</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 12 114 <a href="guide/012.html">By Any Means Necessary</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 13 116 <a href="guide/013.html">Signs and Portents</a>
|
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??/??/?? 14 119 <a href="guide/014.html">TKO</a>
|
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??/??/?? 15 109 <a href="guide/015.html">Grail</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 16 122 <a href="guide/016.html">Eyes</a>
|
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??/??/?? 17 115 <a href="guide/017.html">Legacies</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 18 120 <a href="guide/018.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 1</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 19 121 <a href="guide/019.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 2</a>
|
||||
??/??/?? 20 118 <a href="guide/020.html">Babylon Squared</a>
|
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??/??/?? 21 117 <a href="guide/021.html">The Quality of Mercy</a>
|
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??/??/?? 22 112 <a href="guide/022.html">Chrysalis</a> (season finale)</pre>
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<pre><b>Air Date</b> <b>Ep# Prod# Title</b>
|
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99/06/09 1 108 <a href="guide/501.html">War Zone</a>
|
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99/06/16 2 107 <a href="guide/502.html">The Long Road</a>
|
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99/06/23 3 106 <a href="guide/503.html">The Well of Forever</a>
|
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99/06/30 4 109 <a href="guide/504.html">The Path of Sorrows</a>
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99/07/07 5 110 <a href="guide/505.html">Patterns of the Soul</a>
|
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99/07/14 6 111 <a href="guide/506.html">Ruling from the Tomb</a>
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99/07/21 7 112 <a href="guide/507.html">The Rules of the Game</a>
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99/07/28 8 113 <a href="guide/508.html">Appearances and Other Deceits</a>
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99/08/04 9 103 <a href="guide/509.html">Racing the Night</a>
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99/08/11 10 102 <a href="guide/510.html">The Memory of War</a>
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99/08/18 11 101 <a href="guide/511.html">The Needs of Earth</a>
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99/08/25 12 104 <a href="guide/512.html">Visitors from Down the Street</a>
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|
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Babylon 5 airs Saturdays at 20:50 MET on
|
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METV.
|
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METV is broadcast from Cyprus and can be received in Israel,
|
||||
Jordan, Lebanon, and possibly other nearby countries.
|
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|
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|
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|
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<h2><a name="current">Current Episodes</a></h2>
|
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|
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|
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<a href="/lurk/universe/setting-2.html"><strong>Season Two</strong></a>
|
||||
("The Coming of Shadows")<br>
|
||||
Originally aired January 18 - June 7, 1997
|
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|
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<pre><b>Air Date Air# Prod# Title</b>
|
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97/06/28 23 201 <a href="guide/023.html">Points of Departure</a>
|
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97/07/05 24 202 <a href="guide/024.html">Revelations</a>
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97/07/12 25 203 <a href="guide/025.html">The Geometry of Shadows</a>
|
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97/07/19 26 204 <a href="guide/026.html">A Distant Star</a>
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97/07/26 27 205 <a href="guide/027.html">The Long Dark</a>
|
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97/08/02 28 206 <a href="guide/028.html">A Spider in the Web</a>
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97/08/09 29 208 <a href="guide/029.html">Soul Mates</a>
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97/08/16 30 207 <a href="guide/030.html">A Race Through Dark Places</a>
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97/08/23 31 209 <a href="guide/031.html">The Coming of Shadows</a>
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97/08/30 32 210 <a href="guide/032.html">GROPOS</a>
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97/09/06 33 211 <a href="guide/033.html">All Alone in the Night</a>
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97/09/13 34 212 <a href="guide/034.html">Acts of Sacrifice</a>
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97/09/20 35 213 <a href="guide/035.html">Hunter, Prey</a>
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97/09/27 36 215 <a href="guide/036.html">There All the Honor Lies</a>
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97/10/04 37 214 <a href="guide/037.html">And Now For a Word</a>
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97/10/11 38 217 <a href="guide/038.html">In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum</a>
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97/10/18 39 216 <a href="guide/039.html">Knives</a>
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97/10/25 40 218 <a href="guide/040.html">Confessions and Lamentations</a>
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97/11/01 41 220 <a href="guide/041.html">Divided Loyalties</a>
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97/11/08 42 219 <a href="guide/042.html">The Long, Twilight Struggle</a>
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97/11/15 43 221 <a href="guide/043.html">Comes the Inquisitor</a>
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97/11/22 44 222 <a href="guide/044.html">The Fall of Night</a></pre>
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<pre>95/08/15 <a href="guide/000.html">The Gathering</a> part 1
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95/08/22 <a href="guide/000.html">The Gathering</a> part 2
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95/03/14 1 103 <a href="guide/001.html">Midnight on the Firing Line</a>
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95/03/21 2 102 <a href="guide/002.html">Soul Hunter</a>
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95/03/28 3 104 <a href="guide/003.html">Born to the Purple</a>
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95/04/04 4 101 <a href="guide/004.html">Infection</a>
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95/04/11 5 108 <a href="guide/005.html">The Parliament of Dreams</a>
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95/04/18 6 110 <a href="guide/006.html">Mind War</a>
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95/04/25 7 107 <a href="guide/007.html">The War Prayer</a>
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95/05/02 8 106 <a href="guide/008.html">And The Sky Full Of Stars</a>
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95/05/09 9 113 <a href="guide/009.html">Deathwalker</a>
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95/05/16 10 105 <a href="guide/010.html">Believers</a>
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95/05/23 11 111 <a href="guide/011.html">Survivors</a>
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95/05/30 12 114 <a href="guide/012.html">By Any Means Necessary</a>
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95/06/06 13 116 <a href="guide/013.html">Signs and Portents</a>
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95/06/13 14 119 <a href="guide/014.html">TKO</a>
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95/06/20 15 109 <a href="guide/015.html">Grail</a>
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95/06/27 16 122 <a href="guide/016.html">Eyes</a>
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95/07/04 17 115 <a href="guide/017.html">Legacies</a>
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95/07/11 18 120 <a href="guide/018.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 1</a>
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95/07/18 19 121 <a href="guide/019.html">A Voice in the Wilderness part 2</a>
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95/07/25 20 118 <a href="guide/020.html">Babylon Squared</a>
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95/08/01 21 117 <a href="guide/021.html">The Quality of Mercy</a>
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95/08/08 22 112 <a href="guide/022.html">Chrysalis</a></pre>
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