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.
Read moreThe 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?
Read moreOne 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.
Read moreA planet that doesn’t exist anymore. It was populated with lots of people that looked a bit like you and me.
Read moreThe Golgafrinchams are a cool bunch with a hoopy history. Everything else about them is actually boring. They are a little stupid, pompus and almost extinct.
Read moreVogons are one of the most unpleasant, ugly, artistically incompetent and nauseatingly priggish races in the universe. They aren’t actually evil as such, but if you ever wanted to get a lift from one, for instance, FORGET IT!
Read moreThe Babel Fish is small, yellow, leechlike and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It feeds on brainwave energy, absorbing all unconscious frequencies and the excreting telepathically a matrix from the conscious frequencies and nerve... Read more
Deep Thought (no relation to Deep Throat although the very reverend Douglas Adams no doubt intended us to contemplate such an idea) was constructed by a race of pan dimensional mega beings as a supercomputer.
Read moreThe Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is responsible for the development of the most popular range of domestic and industrial robots. The marketing division defines a robot as “Your plastic pal who’s fun to be with.”
Read moreThis is the latest way of travelling through space without out the need for all that tedious jumping in and out of hyperspace. The principal of generating finite amounts of improbability are so bloody obvious that I wont go into them here.
Read moreSheridan 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.
Read moreAlthough 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... Read more
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... Read more
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... Read more
Pretty good I thought. If it had been allowed to air it would have stopped many sci fi geeks like myself wondering if the series would be as crappy as the first episode! In the end, the pilot set the scene very well.
Read moreMarvin is a manically depressed robot and the prototype product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. He has a ‘brain the size of a planet’ and a personality that makes you want to kill it!
Read moreFord Prefect is played perfectly by David Dixon. If you were to meet him in a pub, he’d be telling some story about the Triple Breasted Whore of Erotogon Six!
Read moreThis man is a Magrathean crinkly coastline designer.
Slartibartfast is played handsomely by the heavyweight actor, Richard Vernon.
A Pretty good opening episode full of nervous apprehension and action. As a pilot show, this had almost everything.
Read moreNot the best of episodes I guess, but there were some good moments and some funny dialogue. Most of us will remember this episode I think, because of Zhaan’s brief absence of clothes.
Read moreZotoh Zhaan is a Pa’u (priest) of Delvia. She’s a 812 cycle (years I think) old plant with a very high intelligence
Read moreThis is one of those rare people that is aggressive without being macho, pretty sexy without being helpless, she’s scary without being frightening and a bloody pain in the bum most of the time.
Read moreKA D’ARGO is played superbly by Anthony Simcoe. If you were to meet D’Argo in a pub he’d be being chased by a large group of zoo-keepers. – He would escape.
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