Babylon 5
In this wretched time of worries, both personal and political, I find solace in watching old science fiction tv. My latest choice is Babylon 5 ...
an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski .... The show premiered in the US on January 26, 1994, and ran for five 22-episode seasons.
The series follows the human military staff and alien diplomats stationed on a space station, Babylon 5, built in the aftermath of several major inter-species wars as a neutral ground for galactic diplomacy and trade. Major plotlines included intra-race intrigue and upheaval, inter-race wars and their aftermaths, and embroilment in a millennial cyclic conflict between ancient races. The human characters, in particular, become pivotal to the resistance against Earth's descent into totalitarianism ...
The characters were great. My favorite person was Commander Sinclair, the first commander of Babylon 5. He reminded me so much of my grandfather. Sadly, the actor, Michael O'Hare, was replaced after the first season because of his battle with mental illness, and Bruce Boxleitner took his place at Babylon 5 as Captain Sheridan. Here's a short scene with Commander Sinclair ...
The show had a five year story arc in which a terrible and immortal enemy returns after 1000 years - the Shadows. They don't have some grand plan for universal domination, they just want to shake things up, keep everyone at each other's throats, promote chaos. Here some human slaves of the Shadows explain the idea to Captain Sheridan ...
The show ended after 5 years, but many more years had passed for the characters. Here is the end of the the last episode, the characters who had survived the war meeting at Babylon 5 one more time before the station is decommissioned and destroyed ...
Wonderful series.
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