Babylon 5: Ships: Vorlons
Probably the most powerful of the Babylon 5 saga spaceship (excepting the First Ones)
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Babylon 5: Ships: Earth Alliance
A great collection of Meh spaceships – but ugly and pretty cruddy.
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Babylon 5: Ships: Brakiri
Brakiri ships are run by Ak habil conglomerate, a company which is part of the Brakiri Navy (all brakiri ships are run by companies, which are based on transmissions from 20th century earth.) if you would like any more brakiri information, I’ve got loads, but no pics.
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Babylon 5: Ships: Drazi
We have seen a lot of the Drazi Sun Hawk in season five, usually being blown up by the Centauri! For a cruiser it is very small and can only house one fighter.
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Babylon 5: S05E01: No Compromise
This was a tense opening episode. It introduced new characters and situations.
A cool graphics sequence opens the 5th season of Babylon 5 as the new Commanding Officer of Babylon 5 Captain Lockley, arrives through the jumpgate.
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Another quite tense episode, a little frightening and also a little bit too close to US formula TV for my liking. Not enough sex, violence and special effects like the last episode, I hope things hot up soon.
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Babylon 5: S05E03: A Paragon of Animals
is it me, or is this series starting to get you all worked up too? Things are not too clear, there are many unanswered questions and alliances that should be solid are very fragile indeed. I almost dread seeing the next episode.
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Babylon 5: S05E04: A View from the Gallery
This has got to be one of the worst Babylon 5 episodes I’ve ever seen. It was co-written by Harlan Ellison and directed by Janet Greek. They both need putting out of my misery in my opinion. This was a good story ruined by poor characterisation and a patronising script.
The show opened well, a deep space probe was destroyed by a group of unknown spaceships. But the probe managed to beam back some info to Babylon 5. Captain Lockley is woken from sleep by Lt. Corwin and informed of the attack.
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Babylon 5: S05E05: Learning Curve
This was a relatively good episode, the storyline was a lot tighter and although it suffered yet again from the introduction of another poor character, on the whole, sci fi SadGeezers should enjoy this one.
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Babylon 5: Ships: The Interstellar Alliance
Whitestars look like bonking frogs but they are really cool, high spec destroyers
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Babylon 5: Ships: Centauri
Centauri Ships – Very powerful and well suited to the Centauri fighting style.
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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Lyta Alexander
Lyta interned with the PsiCops, but wasn’t rated high enough to be one herself (all PsiCops are P12). Her rating is that of a P5 (not particularly high). She became Babylon 5’s first commercial telepath in 2257. Her Psi rating is now a lot higher thanks to her association with the Vorlons.
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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Alfred Bester
Bester is an absolute tosspot and well played by Walter Koenig of Star Trek fame. He really looks the part doesn’t he? He is a high ranking Psi Cop and completely dedicated to the Psi Corps. He has one of the highest telepath ratings on Earth.
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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Morden
The best thing about Mr. Morden is that he is dead. Don’t you just hate it when you do a review of someone and they die in the next episode. He got clobbered soon after a delightful conversation with Vir on Centauri Prime in Season 4.
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Babylon 5: Cultures: Shadows
The Shadows are thought to be the oldest race in the Galaxy. Their real name is supposed to be 10,000 characters long and unrepeatable by humans. A bit impractical don’t you think?
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Babylon 5: Cultures: Vorlons
One of the best things about the Vorlons is that nobody knows much about them. They are uncommunicative and more than a little aloof. You wouldn’t pick a fight with a Vorlon, then again, you wouldn’t buy one a drink either.
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Babylon 5: Cultures: Narn
The Narn are a much-persecuted race. They were relatively peaceful and well ordered with an abundance of natural resources.
Councilor G’Kar
Leader of the resistance, visionary, poet and ‘headbanger’.
Then in 2110 the Centauri invaded and enslaved them. The Centauri considered themselves the ‘master race’ and treated the Narn little better than donkey droppings.
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Babylon 5: Cultures: Drakh
There seem to be at least two types of Drakh. one appeared in the episode “Lines of Communication.” He sort of shimmered and looked like the McDonald’s Hamburglar from hell. The other type first appeared in “In the Kingdom of the Blind”.
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Babylon 5: Cultures: Brakiri
The Brakiri are a night-dwelling race who, like the Gaim has risen in prominence because of membership of the InterStellar Alliance. Previously they have had alliances with the Shadows but after fighting their wars for them, the Brakiri looked to the Army of Light
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Babylon 5: Cultures: Drazi
The people of the Drazi Freehold are hermaphrodites, that is, they have both male and female genitalia (I knew you knew what an hermaphrodite was, I just wanted to explain it OK!) They are violent and bad-tempered and humans tend to look on all Drazi as males because of their aggressive nature (obviously never seen women fight!!)
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Babylon 5: Character Bios: John Sheridan
Sheridan is now the President of the Alliance. he is still based on Babylon 5 but has relinquished control of the ship to the new Captain Lockley. He does however have control of political decisions on the Station.
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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Ambassador Delenn
Although Ambassador Delenn (played beautifully by Mira Furlan) seems to be righteous and aloof, she is also a bit of a rebel. She was once a member of the Minbari ruling body (the Grey Counsel), and underwent a physical transformation that gave her human characteristics (like hair).
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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Marcus Cole
Marcus Cole is one of my favourite characters, not just because he’s a Brit, but because he’s a bit wacky. The part is played so well by Jason Carter that I suspect he isn’t acting very much. Nevertheless, I cringe at some of the stuff he comes out with.
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Babylon 5: Character Bios: Londo Mollari
Of all the characters in the series, I feel most affinity for Londo Mollari. He is played exceptionally well by Peter Jurasik and is probably marginally ahead of Ivanova as being the wittiest of the Babylon 5 characters. He has certainly got a questionable history of double dealing, assassination and subversion. But he seems to carry it off with such wit.
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