Place

Babylon 5

• 0:15 -- Introduction
• 0:15 -- (spoiler) We'd later learn this is the voice of Londo Molari, and his narration gives him plot-armour.
• 0:30 -- (spoiler) He keeps saying "was" and talked in the past-tense.
• A space station.
• Located deep in neutral space.
• Refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats and travellers from a hundred worlds.
• 1:15 -- (spoiler) It is the last of its line.
• 7:45 -- Gravity can be adjusted in parts of Red-5 by changing the rotation of some areas.

• 8:30 --

  Babylons 1,2,3 were sabotaged and destroyed. Number 4 vanished without a trace 24 hours after becoming operational. To this day no one knows what happened to it.

• 43:40 -- They can detect a 0.001% drop in oxygen pressure.

• 1:21:00 -- The station losing a bit of air is a major event. This seems like a good way to sabotage the ship, but later in the series this seems inadequate.

Character

Mike Garibaldi (Human)

• 1:45 -- Introduction as Garibaldi
• TIME -- Security chief
• 18:00 -- Has been lending Londo Molari money for gambling.
• 27:30 -- Has a fishy past, making it controversial for him to be assigned as security chief on Babylon 5.
• 52:20 -- Doesn't, and has never, trusted telepaths.

• 1:15:40 -- (FIXME - probably earlier) Garibaldi's first name is Mike.

Character

Commander John Sinclair (Human)

• 3:15 -- Introduction as Commander Sinclair.
• 5:35 -- Believes in keeping his word.

• 12:35 -- Has (limited) classified data on the Vorlons, given by Delenn.

  • The character as it is now would very likely have relayed this information to Earth Central.

• 1:05:10 -- was on "the line".

  • 1:04:10 -- Has a war medal

• 1:07:00 -- Blacked out (missing time) for 24 hours while trying to ram a Minbari heavy cruiser.

  • ~1:20:00 -- FIXME - says "There is a hole in your mind". (she knows about it)
  • FIXME - also mention under that character that they said that and know that.
  • 1:30:40 -- Delenn's deception about Sinclair's 24 hours of missing time. Sinclair now knows she's holding something back.

• 1:33:00 -- Likes Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"

  • Very mentally-strong from a fundamental philosophical perspective. A leader, a fighter.

People

The Earth Alliance (Humans, Earth / Earth Central)

• 3:20 -- Introduction
• 31:00 -- Proper introduction of The Earth Alliance.
• 12:35 -- Presumably has (limited) classified data on the Vorlons, given by Delenn to Sinclair.

• 30:50 -- The Centari Republic are trying to join forces.

Character

Lyta Alexander (Human)

• 3:15 -- Introduction as Lyta Alexander

• 3:15 -- Lyta's identicard:

NAME:
ALEXANDER, LYTA

ORIGIN:
EARTH

DES/ATMOS:
HUMAN/02

SEX:
FEMALE

DOB:
12/10/25

PHYS CHA

MEDICAL:
NO DISTG

LICENSED PSI

VISAS

TRANS REC

CRIM HIST:
NONE

ALEXANDER, LYTA
PSIONIC INFO

PSI LEVEL P5
GENERATION 6
REGISTERED PSI
CORPS 10/18/52

LICENSE
N617CC860

CURRENT ASSIGN
TIGRIS SEC
BABYLON 5

• I think Tigris is a reference to River Tigris (constellation).

  • It's certainly not a reference to the outer main belt 13096 Tigris.
• I think it's safe to assume this information isn't properly introduced. For example, the idea of a "psi level".
• 4:00 -- Must keep a log of all business dealings she's hired to monitor.
• 4:00 -- Gambling is strictly off limits.
• 7:25 -- Quartered in Red-5.
• TIME -- Commercial telepath.

• 21:30 -- Refuses to work with the Naarn to progress their telepath program.

Place

Red-5

• 7:25 -- Introduction

  • Lyta is quartered there.
    - From the docking/passenger offloading area, there is a shortcut to her quarters through the alien sector.

Place

Casino

• 4:00 -- Introduction

• 4:00 -- Gambling is strictly off limits to Lyta Alexander

Place

Alien sector

• 7:15 -- Introduction
• 7:15 -- Red-5 is near
• 7:30 -- Hostile atmosphere to humans, who need to wear breathing masks.
• 7:45 -- The atmosphere can be adjusted to suit every known form of life.

• 7:45 -- Gravity can be adjusted by changing the rotation of some areas.

Dust

• 5:55 -- Introduction

  • No explanation as to what it is or why it's banned.

Telepathy

• 3:20 -- Introduction as "It's about time Earth Central sent us a telepath."
• 4:00 -- Mind scans exist
• 4:00 -- Mind scans must be authorized
• TIME -- There are commercial telepaths and presumably non-commercial telepaths (not described)
• TIME -- Lyta is a commercial telepath
• 21:30 -- The Naarn have no telepaths. G'Kar wants to work toward Naarn telepaths, offering a deal to Lyta, who refuses.
• ~24:30 -- The Vorlons are probably telepaths.

• 39:40 -- Unwilling mind-scanning is described.

Earth Central

• 3:20 -- They control the sending of telepaths, at least to Babylon 5.

Character

Ambassador G'Kar (Naarn)

• 6:35 -- Introduction

  • He's loud

• 1:00:50 -- Has gill implants.

  • FIXME - I don't know if these are ever mentioned again in the series.

Race

The Naarn Regime (from Naarn)

• TODO -- Introduction
• 9:40 -- one of the four major alien governments.

• 21:30 -- Have no telepaths.

  • G'Kar wants to work toward Naarn telepaths, offering a deal to Lyta, who declines.

• TIME -- Have "unlimited manpower and the will to use it".

  • This is presumed to be a high population. I suppose this has something to do with the "pleasure threshold mentioned earlier".

• 31:45 -- Former slaves to the Centauri.

Alien governments:

• 8:15 -- There are three, and a fourth is coming.
• 8:20 -- They work as an advisory council, like the UN.
• 8:20 -- The UN was dissolved.

• 9:40 -- Introduced by name:

The four major alien governments:

1. The Vorlon Empire
2. The Minbari (FIXME - name?)
3. The Centari Republic

4. The Naarn Regime

The five federations are:

1. The Vorlon Empire
2. The Minbari (FIXME - name?)
3. The Centari Republic
4. The Naarn Regime

5. The Earth Alliance

Character

Ambassador Kosh (Vorlon)

• 8:50 -- Introduction

• TODO -- Ambassador to the Vorlon Empire.

People

The Vorlons (from "Vorlon space", home world unknown)

• 9:00 -- Introduction
• 9:10 -- They have never been seen, stay in suits
• 9:30? -- Vorlon psychology, customs, and social order are not known.
• 9:30 -- Request an atmosphere with high levels of methane, sulfur, CO₂
• 9:30 -- Psychology, customs, social order are unknown.
• 12:35 -- (limited) classified data on the Vorlons, was given by Delenn to Sinclair, and was very likely given to Earth Central.

• 14:00 -- First appearance of a Vorlon ship.

  • Its early arrival reveals their ships are fast.
• TIME -- Probably telepaths.
• TIME -- Incredibly powerful and ancient.
• 1:14:30 -- Have quite a lot of ships which are either very fast or kept hidden fairly close Babylon 5.

• 1:19:20 -- Vorlon ship weapons are introduced.

Place

Garden

• 10:30 -- Introduction

• 11:30 -- Japanese stone garden

  • Was difficult to justify.

Place

Green level

• 10:30 -- Introduction

• 10:30 -- This is where the garden is.

Character

Ambassador Delenn (Minbari)

• 10:20 -- Introduction
• 11:00 -- Visits the garden almost every other day.
• 12:35 -- Has (limited) classified data on the Vorlons, given to Sinclair (and presumably the Earth Alliance)
• 1:00:20 -- Delenn is on Babylon 5 strictly to observe. (Not necessarily to save him in this)
• 1:30:40 -- Knows about Sinclair's 24 hours of missing time. Sinclair knows she's holding something back.

• TIME -- Member of the Gray Council.

People - Minbari (from Minbar)

• 11:05 -- Introduction of the Minbari.
• 31:10 -- .. have technology centuries above everyone else.
• 31:25 -- the oldest of the five federations, and the Naarn are the youngest.

• 1:17:00 -- Minbari can breathe alien sector air, or hold their breath while being quite physical. Minbari have good strength.

  • Can definitely not breath alien sector air, in later episodes. TODO - better-describe/timestamp.

• Introduction to the Battle of the Line.

  • The biggest battle of the Earth-Minbari war.

Event

The Human-Minbari War

• 12:50 -- Introduction

• 12:50 -- Ended 10 years ago.

Object

Jump gates

• 13:45 -- Introduction

• 13:45 -- Can be used (from hyperspace, not introduced yet) to enter regular space without permission.

Character

Carolin (Human, Sinclair's wife)

• 15:00 -- Introduction

• 1:22:50 -- Wants to take Sinclair away, but she won't wait forever.

Character

Ambassador Londo Molari (Centari)

• 16:35 -- Introduction
• 18:25 -- obsessed with their old conquering times.
• 16:35 -- gambler
• 18:00 -- Garibaldi has been lending Molari money for gambling.
• 30:50 -- Londo Molari's full name.
• 1:02:30 -- There is evidence that Molari's grandfather committed atrocities when on Naarn.

• 1:30:00 -- somewhat confused about Human culture.

The Centari Republic (Centari Prime)

• TIME - Introduction
• 30:50 -- Used to be a conquering empire, now fading
• 36:50 -- has 12 worlds.

• 30:50 -- trying to join forces with the Earth Alliance.

  • 36:10 -- want to attach themselves to the Earth Alliance's "destiny". The Humans make "very good sharks".

Minbari

The Grey Council

• 32:40 -- Semi-introduced.
• A political power, and secret.

• 32:50 -- Delenn has issues with G'Kar mentioning the Grey Council.

~~~
STILL RE-WATCHING from 13:30

• 32:30 -- The Minbari had the Earth Alliance on its knees and surrendered.
• 32:50 -- Minbari gravity rings are introduced, then never mentioned again in the series.

• FIXME - Ben the doctor was introduced earlier.

  • 51:00 -- Ben's last name is Kyle. Doctor Ben Kyle.
  • 1:25:50 -- Has "looked upon the face of a Vorlon"

• 38:00 -- Introduction of stims

  • Taken to stay alert.
• 40:10 -- Mars colony is introduced. Mars food riots described.
• FIXME - Takashima (second in command) was introduced earlier.
• 41:30 -- The Psi Core is introduced.
• 44:40 -- A material can be shielded from psi scans. This is never brought up again in the series.
• 46:05 -- When greeted by Sinclair, Kosh replies "Entil Zal Valen" (because Sinclair is Valen).
• 47:00 -- Introduction of skin tab poison. This is used much later on. TODO
• 54:10 -- Camera-drones are introduced.

• 1:02:50 -- Molari apologizes.

  • This is important later, since he says he's never apologized for anything ever. Maybe he meant that he was never sincere..

• 1:13:00 -- Introduction of the changeling net.

  • Outlawed.
• 1:16:00 -- Introduction of laser rifles.
• 1:17:40 -- Introduction to the Babylon 5 defence grid.

• TIME - Some sort of suicide bomb technology is introduced

  • It never appears again.
• 1:28:40 -- Introduction of Nanotechnology

• TIME - Santiago wins the Earth Alliance presidential elections.
• TIME - Molari's death-dream is of being choked to death by J'Kar in 20 years.

• TIME - Introduction of Susan Ivanova

  • the second in command.
  • 9:00 -- Russian.
  • 25:30 -- willing to go against Earth government with Sinclair.

• The Centari

  • 0:30 -- Religion has "The Great Maker".
  • 2:00 -- Not related to humans.
  • ~2:00 -- To them, Earth is "Beta 12".
  • 16:30 -- Uncomfortable around Winters. Not explained
  • 18:00 -- According to Kosh, are "a dying people".

• Kosh

  • 17:10 -- First look in Kosh's encounter suit. Notice the neck, suggesting he has a nonstandard form.
    - Introduction of Kosh as being light.
    - Introduction of Kosh's speed and etherealness.
    - Introduction of Kosh's voice as being authentically from him and not from some voice modulator in the suit.
  • 18:00 -- Introduction of Kosh's "yes".

• 21:50 -- Introduction of Naarn

  • The Naarn Regime's homeworld.
  • 21:50 -- the Centari stripped it bare, was all green before .

• Garibaldi

  • 20:50 -- Has a crush on Winters.

• Molari

  • 19:00 -- Drinks a lot

• 2:30 -- Introduction of Vir

  • Molari's diplomatic attache.
  • 19:00 -- a groveling person.
• 6:00 -- Introduction of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
• 6:30 -- Introduction of the raiders.
• 6:40 -- Introduction of Talia Winters, licensed commercial telepath, psi-core rating p-5.

• 7:40 -- Introduction of Louise Santiago, incumbent Earth Alliance president.

  • 42:40 -- platform included keeping earth out of war. His agenda for the coming term includes creating a closer relationship with the Mars colony, and a greater emphasis on preserving Earth cultures in the face of growing non-terran influences.
    - It's particularly interesting to say "non-terran", since Mars and other colonies are excluded from terra.
• ~7:40 -- Introduction of Marie Crane, election challenger.

• TIME - Introduction of Talia Winters

  • Commercial telepath

• Sinclair

  • 8:20 -- His father, deceased, was a pilot.
  • 8:30 -- "The Sinclair's have been fighter pilots all the way back to the Battle of Britain."
  • ~25:00 -- his relationship has declined with J'Kar, because of the Naarn sneak attack on a non-military target.
  • 25:30 -- willing to go against Earth government
• 9:00 -- Introduction of president Santiago, by name.
• 9:00 -- Introduction of president Santiago's vice president (no name mentioned)

• 10:40 -- Introduction to the raiders

  • have recent access to large weaponry. TIME - Turns out to be from the Naarn.

• 11:00 -- Introduction of spoo

  • A Centari dish
  • Centari eat it non-fresh.
  • J'Kar has a preference for fresh spoo
    - which disgusts Molari

• The Centari

  • 11:00 -- Have a dish called "spoo", which they eat non-fresh.
  • 12:50 -- Have a dream about how, and sometimes when, they're about to die.
• ~18:00 -- Terrorist nuking of San Diego, California, United States.

• ~18:00 -- Introduction of the Mars colony

  • The first was destroyed. Not explained.

• J'Kar

  • ~25:00 -- his relationship has declined with Sinclair, because of the Naarn sneak attack on a non-military target.

• The Naarn Regime

  • 18:00 -- According to Kosh, are "a dying people".
  • ~25:00 -- did a sneak attack on a non-military target.
• 27:00 -- Re-introduction of ambassador Delenn
• 30:25 TIME -- Introduction of the league of non-aligned worlds

• Station fighters

  • 31:00 -- able to do quick turns.

• Telepathy

  • 33:30 -- Talia can be touched by someone with strong intent, and will receive a vision against her own will.
  • 38:45 -- There are drugs to disable human telepathy.

• Ivanova

  • 38:40 -- Now knows she must both control her mind, and avoid touching Talia.
  • ~38:45 - backstory with her mother and the Psi-Core, and her hostility to the Psi-Core and human telepaths.

• 39:20 TIME -- Introduction to the Psi Core

  • 39:20 TIME -- helps telepaths bring out their fullest. This includes a program which turns some of them into vegetables? (pilot episode) FIXME

• Mars Colony

  • An independent government from Earth
  • There is a rift between them and Earth

• Babylon 5

  • ~42:00 -- The Soul Hunters are barred from entry.

• Sinclair

  • 36:00 -- Sinclair is told Delenn is Satai and "they" (presumably the Minbari) are "using him".
  • 39:10 -- Is told by Delenn "We were right about you". She either forgets this or pretends to.
  • 40:00 -- Learns about Satai, the honourific title describing a member of the Grey Council.

• Delenn

  • 39:10 -- Is told by Delenn "We were right about you". She either forgets this or pretends to.

• Stephen Franklin

  • 17:45 -- Materialist. Doesn't believe in souls.

• The Earth Alliance

  • 0:50 -- Io, a moon of Jupiter, has a transfer-point.
  • 19:00 TIME -- The typical human lifespan as almost 100 years.
• Ben Kyle was transferred to Earth.

• Delenn

  • a member of the ruling body the Minbari, secretly placed as an ambassador to watch Sinclair. This this-episode-revealed as the Grey Council.
  • 22:50 -- "Sati" Delenn
  • 22:50 -- of the Grey Council, great leaders of the Minbari.
  • 22:20 -- one of the Minbari who stopped this episode's Soul Hunter and other Soul Hunters from taking Ducat.

• 18:10 -- Introduction to Ducat

  • A Minbari
  • Died during the war with Earth
  • ~22:20 -- Probably their greatest leader.
  • 22:20 -- Was pursued to be taken by the Soul Hunters, but Delenn and other Minbari stopped them.

• Ben

  • 1:00 -- Transferred back to Earth because of his knowledge of alien species.

• 0:30 -- Introduction to Stephen Franklin

  • the new medical chief of staff, replacing Doctor Ben Kyle (from the pilot episode).
• ~1:00 -- Hyperspace

• TIME - Introduction of the "Shag Tot", Soul Hunters.

  • Immortals who can sense death and steal souls to collect them at the moment of death.
  • The Minbari have a long history with them, and hate them.
  • 11:00 -- Soul hunters can sense death well before injury.
  • 12:40 -- That Soul Hunter has been to Earth.
  • 22:00 -- Description of their perception of death ending the entirety of a person including the soul.
  • 22:20 -- Pursued Ducat to take his soul, but the Minbari stopped them.
  • ~42:20 -- Access to Babylon 5 is barred. They're rarely welcomed.
  • 42:20 -- The Soul Hunter perspective is canonized. Souls are a real thing, capturable, can be thereafter released and can briefly move objects. This is in line with the earlier appearance of Kosh in s1 disk1/1, 17:10.

• The Minbari

  • Have a long history with the Soul Hunters, and hate them.
  • 21:45 -- Description of the Minbari's concept of souls passing from one generation to the next.
    - Hints at the problem of Minbari's diminishing.

• Introduction to "hard currency"

  • 11:55 -- seems to be oddly-shaped bits of metal.

• ~12:00 -- Introduction to "down below"

  • Its name hasn't been established yet.

• 25:10 -- Introduction of Nagrat

  • Sells black market information and security stuff.

• Euphrates negotiations.
• Molari's love for Adira.

• Ivanova's father's death.

-

• 1:50 -- Introduction of Kodoth

  • G'Kar's head of diplomatic staff, the counterpart to Vir (the diplomatic attache to Molari/The Centari Republic).

• 2:00 -- The Euphrates treaty.

  • Only mentioned in passing.
  • ~30:00 ".. and that joke may harm a dozen worlds." leads me to believe this treaty has to do with a significant system, or perhaps a group of stars or worlds.

• Talia Winters

  • 7:00 -- While she is a commercial telepath, she's doing ambassadorial work.

• Londo Molari

  • 8:25 -- Is washed up, and is a Republican.
  • 15:10 -- Maintains appearances, and feels empty underneath.

• Babylon 5

  • 9:50 -- Gold Channel communications are established
    - No one outside of the officers and senior officers know they exist. However, the command staff who were present also know.

• The Centari

  • 11:30 -- Have slavery.
  • 12:00 -- Have a backbiting political and social climate. This was established earlier when J'Kar blackmailed Londo.

• 19:50 -- Introduction of coercion technology

  • Which is never specifically heard from again, although it has counterparts.
  • I think this is non-Centauri because the Centauri would use a telepath.

• 21:10 -- Introduction of data crystals (explicitly)

  • 39:00 -- May be write-once.

• Susan Ivanova

  • 35:10 -- Has a dying father -- 39:30 -- Garibaldi knows

• Michael Garibaldi

  • 39:30 -- knows about Ivanova's dying father.

• This is a pretty standalone episode. It does nothing with the Naarn/Centauri conflict. Those characters aren't even shown.

• Earth is researching bio weapons.

-

• ~0:00 -- Introduction to Interstellar Network news (ISN)

• The Earth Alliance

  • 9:30 -- Has been pursuing organic technology.
  • 41:40 -- Has an active bio weapons division.

• The Vorlons

  • 10:20 -- use organic technology.

• The Minbari

  • ~10:20 -- Some people say they have organic technology.

• Michael Garibaldi

  • 16:50 -- A hint at his past.

• Stephen Franklin

  • 36:00 -- has a strong moral streak.

• Narn refugees.
• Builds on Franklin's budding addiction.
• Sheridan learns about Morden about his being on the Icarus with his wife, and surviving.
• Introduction of the Ministry of Peace, Night Watch.
• Morden's connection with Z'ha'dum.
• The shadow war.
• "Enigma machine Enigma machine, Cryptanalysis of the Enigma, Coventry Blitz
• Physical proof of the shadows.
• Shadows influence on telepaths.
• Sheridan's desire to fight the shadows. Kosh to teach him. Prophesy about Sheridan dying if he goes to Z'ha'dum.

• Another bathroom scene.
• Psi Core moles.
• Extends Sheridan and Delenn's feelings.
• Removal of x
• Kosh reveals himself to a second person.

• Draal returns, and meets Sheridan for the first time.
• The majority of the Naarn fleet is destroyed by the Shadows.
• Zathras is re-introduced.
• The Naarn homeworld is devastated by the Centari, using mass drivers.
• G'Kar is given sanctuary by Sheridan.
• G'Kar is removed from the council.
• Sheridan promises G'Kar help.
• Sheridan is introduced to the rangers. Delenn transfers equal command to him.

• "Who are you?"
• 0:40:05 -- he lips "west end" and it's dubbed "east end"
• "Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper]

• The ministry of peace shows its influence.
• Humans pursue a non-aggression pact / alliance with the Centari.
• Night Watch shows it's influence.
• Kosh is revealed to everyone, who all recognize him except for Molari.

• "The Fall of Night" Commentary by J. Michael Straczynski

  • Not reviewed.

• Building Babylon: Blueprint of an Episode

  • Not reviewed.

• Shadows and Dreams: Honors of Babylon

  • Major spoilers, and needs to be placed way later.

• The Universe of Babylon 5

  • Not reviewed.

• Introduction of the ranger Marcus Cole.
• Molari breaks up with Morden.
• The shadows are going after the rangers.
• Introduction of the ranger fleet, and the flag ship the White Star.
• A shadow ship is destroyed.
• The jump gate to the destroyed race x is destroyed.
• Introduction of the war council biweekly meetings.

• Vir becomes the Centari ambassador to the Minbari.
• Stephen's stim additional is brought up.
• G'Kar decides to stay on Babylon 5.

• Warning: This episode is full of Christian mythology.
• Leta returns on a Vorlon ship.
• Introduction of the death of personality almost-capital punishment.
• Lets is in better health after having been to the Vorlon home world.
• Delen explains that Minbari are atheists, but have a broader spiritual belief.

• "Code 7R"
• Attempting to contact any remaining first ones.
• Ministry of Peace
• A first one promises to join the fight when called on.

• Dust is explored.
• G'Kar mind-rapes Londo. He now has all of Londo's memory from this episode and before.

• The Night Watch take over security.
• The Night Watch security is taken over by Naarn, in defiance of orders from Earth.
• Mars defies Earth's martial law order.

• Mars is bombed by Earth.
• Other colonies are declaring independence. Earth moves to replace their governments.
• Earth sends forces to Babylon 5 to replace its command staff.
• Delenn breaks the Grey Council.
• Earth forces are defeated, with Earth reinforcements driven off by Delenn's.

• Post office shenanigans.
• King Arthur King Arthur
• @12:00 -- Why don't you check the Asimov for his ditched ID?
• G'Kar is seen making a deal with a shady guy to ferry information back and forth.
• G'Kar helps Arthur, and is knited Sir G'Kar, the "Red Knight Red Knight].
• G'Kar is seen drunk.
• The [[en:Green Knight.
• So the entire episode is bullshit because they won't just use a telepath or consult a real councillor.
• Delenn is the "Lady of the Lake Lady of the Lake].
• The post office is now paying a sort of protection fee to the Garibaldi.
• The former-Arthur is brought into the Naarn resistance.

• Why wouldn't Vir privately tell Sheridan and Ivanova?
• Vir smuggling Narn away.
• Ivonova smuggling Narn away using Vir's credentials, plus some more information.

• Unless you have a telepath of strength p12. Like. Leta?
• Why the fuck would they show Bester one of their ships?

• The shadows are attacking openly.
• Stephen's stim addiction is progressed.
• Beautiful Indian doctor.
• The Vorlons openly attack the shadows.
• An defence alliance is formed.
• Kosh is murdered.
• Stephen admits his addiction to Sheridan.

• Beautiful Indian doctor.
• Leta returns to ask after Kosh.
• Kosh's replacement arrives.
• Sheridan's walk outside is noticed by the Vorlon ship, which tries to communicate in writing.

• "War Without End" - part 1/2

• The multiple-zathras' are revealed.
• Londo and G'Kar die at eachothers' throats.
• This is the time-jump episode.

• They are looking for telepaths to fight the shadows.
• Delenn asked to lead the rangers.
• Stephen asks to be left alone from here on.
• Delenn wants to have the ranger leadership ceremony on Babylon 5. This is unnecessary idiocy just as having Bester on a ranger ship was.
• Naroon approaches Delenn to ask her to give up the ranger mantle to the warrior caste.
• Naroon reveals the Religious cast making ships. Plural.
• Garibaldi diskovered level 16.5, but nobody notices his emergency elevator stop or override. Somehow a sound from the next room over, through a door, distracts him from communicating. When shot with a poison dart, his attempt at communicating doesn't work when it should have been logged.
• Lots of foreshadowing in this episode.
• Freddy Cruegar is a special guest.
• Marcus declares Den'Sha (To the Death), a pike-fight, with Naroon.
• Garibaldi fights a Zarg.

• Telepaths who signed on to fight are being assigned to various posts.
• Londo hatches a plan to get rid of G'Kar, enlisting Vir.
• Londo's and Reefa's houses are competing, and the lord kingy dude wants it resolved.
• Vir is scanned for Londo's plan. This should have been written differently. The conversation should have been partial, with the scan filling in the blanks.
• Christian woman-hate.
• Shadow corral tactics are diskovered.
• Londo rescues Vir.
• How G'Kar got the message from Londo and the documents he suggested is not explained. How Londo frees 1,000 Naarn, or would free another 1,000 is not explained.
• Reefa doesn't run ahead of time, or open fire on the Naarn.
• Reefa runs, but the gun is no longer in his hand.
• Once again, Londo and Vir have a revealing conversation immediately after leaving the quarters of the people who they don't want to hear that conversation.
• The ranger fleet is revealed.

• The first alliance engagement with the shadow fleet. A success at great cost.

• (season-ending viewer-hostage episode)
• Delenn admits she loves Sheridan.
• The story behind humans landing on Za'ha'duum is odd. Why would they assume that their scout ship wouldn't be detected before getting near the planet?
• Leta is mysteriously unavailable when her scanning would be helpful in examining Sheridan's wife Anna's story.
• "Who are you?" is asked of the old man (Justin), who is very nervous about the question.
• Shadow ships appear all around Babylon 5, but the ships which are on permanent flyby aren't around, and neither are the alliance ships which are permanently on rotating defence.
• Babylon 5 can't get through to Draal, but they're too stupid to send a ship there, and Draal can't figure any of this shit out on his own. How can they jam Draal but not jam local communication?
• Sheridan admits his love for Delenn via a pre-recorded message.
• Garibaldi is captured by a shadow vessel.

• Mordon meets Londo.
• G'Kar stole Garibaldi's hat!
• They didn't need to re-use the earlier shot of Londo looking up at the shadows, where they were forced to have him in his old coat. TODO - listen to the commentary for the explanation. It was probably too hard to re-do the cgi.
• The emperor is mad.

• There is no fucking way in hell that they'd clear MedLab since their engagement with the Shadows and an extra nine days. Did they send most of the people off for medical treatment with their respective races?

• Who is in charge of the station with everyone gone?
• Vir is thoroughly convinced to kill the emperor Kartasia.
• Leta's quarters are barren. Even more than Marcus'.
• Garibaldi's life pod has some interesting technology on it, which gives ample evidence of what was going on. This isn't ever addressed.
• Garibaldi does not have two weeks of beard.
• Leta is mind-raped by New-Kosh.
• Marcus is revealed to be celibate.
• Marcus and Ivanova diskover the Vorlon folded-hyperspace.
• The Vorlons are revealed to be wandering about destroying entire planets with Shadow sympathizers.
• Good thing there was a razor on Sheridan's new ship. Oh wait, that ship is never examined again.

• The Vorlons continue to destroy planets.
• Garibaldi is checking out Loriann.
• Sheridan is cooling off toward Garibaldi.
• How did Zack get on the war council? Since he was temporarily head of security, did he really get into things?
• Sheridan kills New-Kosh (and old-Kosh sacrifices himself).
• Emperor Kartasia plans to go to Naarn for the execution of G'Kar.
• G'Kar loses an eye.

• "You've saved the lives of millions of our people." .. uh, that's billions. In 406 it's revealed there are three billion there.
• Tennison was quoted. That poem must have been left by the original commander, because I remember him quoting it.

• This is noted as going before 414 / Moments of Transition

• Why/how in the fuck are the shadow allies who are evacuating Zahadum using a jumpgate?

This is after the shadow war.

Sheridan is still captain.

Relatively lame. Tends to expand the possibilities of the series and the Vorlons. Doesn't do a good job of it though.

Has some cool SpJew-action.

• 06:46 -- The doctor has a dopey look on his face.
• Delenn is revealed to be of the family Mir.
• Sheridan casually talks in public about Franklin and Marcus going to Mars.
• TODO - What's the name of the song?
• They break the fourth wall at the end.

• Are Franklin and Marcus unwilling to go under assumed names when they travel under cover?
• The conflict between dude and Sheridan escalates.
• Gay marriage is ok in the future.
• 1:06:00 -- They joke about Garibaldi's hair loss.
• 1:09:30 -- Why would they carry their real ident cards?
• 1:13:00 -- The Minbari have a ritual for everything.
• 1:21:35 -- The pope is female.
• Garibaldi becomes a bad guy.

• "The Voice of the Resistance", a broadcasting centre, is founded.
• 1:42:00 -- "The White Star Fleet" is seven ships?
• The Draal are introduced.
• "White Star 16". Oh, there are more than seven. Somewhere else.
• Wait, why is there a jump gate? Can't the mother ship form its own jump point?
• Why the excitement about shooting them before they get to the gate? Just go into hyperspace and destroy them on the other side?

• Ok, so they want power to reach earth, but they're not using relays through hyperspace. See the thing of it is, that even sending a message to Earth at the speed of light would take time. Without the shortcut through hyperspace, they're significantly delayed.
• 2:27:10 -- Wait, how does C&C clear the shuttle for atmospheric insertion? Wouldn't it be the planet clearing them?
• Zathras is reintroduced.
• Elise is reintroduced.
• The telepath drugs and agents are introduced.

• This is noted as going after 406 / "Into the Fire"

• Sherdan's father is captured thanks to Garibaldi.
• 0:02:20 -- Thirty pieces of silver thirty pieces of silver
• Sheridan moves to rescue his father.
• Garibaldi tranqs Sheridan for his capture.
• Delenn has psychic powers and knows when John has been tranq'd, beat up, captured, and beat up.
• Garibaldi is told about the telepath virus/cure. Elise overhears.
• Garibaldi yanks a tooth and activates a transmitter.
• Elise tries to talk to an entranced Garibaldi.
• Bester meets Garibaldi and learns everything. They should have not had such a lame flashback, and should instead have withheld some info from the initial explanation and revealed the rest in the flashback.

• This is the uncomfortable interrogation episode. There are so many layers of bullshit.

  • Truth is not subjective.

• Sheridan continues to be interrogated, using mind-altering technologies and drugs.
• Garibaldi is captured when he contacts the Mars resistance.
• Lyta re-experiences everything Garibaldi went through, then shares it with Number One. Garibaldi is released.
• Vir has stupid hair.

• 1:47:40 -- Oh god, that brunette is beautiful. She has a speaking role, and yet is uncredited.

  • This is Musetta Vander Musetta Vander (website, imdb)
• 1:49:00 -- Having Lyta act over the top is the incorrect tone for this character, and maybe also for this show.
• 1:53:50 -- Did they kill the guards for those uniforms?
• Sheridan is rescued.
• Ivonova engages Clark's elite destroyers, which are using shadow technology.
• Ivonova pulls a dumbass and flies through the wreckage of a ship, getting herself maimed.
• 2:06:00 -- "John, your breath smells like torture."

• 2:16:40 -- So getting things past a bio-scanner is easier than getting them past weapon and bomb detection? So. Uh. Give them a virus? Even a really bad stomach flu would fuck them over for long enough, wouldn't it?
• 2:18:00 -- They wouldn't have long-range motion sensors, like a sort of land-radar? What about a simple satellite with infra-red optics?
• 2:20:50 -- That woman on the left has been in the series before.
• 2:22:15 -- Uh, didn't they just weld that door?
• 2:42:00 -- I'm confused. Marcus communicated with Babylon 5. Then Delenn learned and communicated with Sheridan, who cannot communicate with Babylon 5.
• Marcus is able to figure out the alien artifact on his lonesome. Something which took professionals a long time. Or did he crack into the doctor's notes, somehow? But then he'd have to do the search in the first place, which.. was never explained to be bypassing security or targeting the doctor's records.

• Sheridan is grounded on earth, pending a tribunal.
• Ivanova does some great acting.
• All Love Is Unrequited
• Londo learns that he'll be emperor soon.
• Bester meets with Sheridan.
• Sheridan meets with the President. He is given an ultimatum to resign.
• Garibaldi uses the Rangers to rescue Elise.
• 0:28:07 -- He's not wearing the officer's gold bar.
• Sheridan steps down from earthforce.
• The Interstellar Alliance is formed, and it's offered to Earth.
• Sheridan becomes president of the Interstellar Alliance.

• The end of this episode has semi-spoilers for the next twenty years.

  • The telepath war.
  • The Drak war.
  • The new alliance would waver and crack, but in the end it would hold.

• 1:32:00 -- Sheridan's collar keeps shifting back and forth between having a black border on one side or not. It's odd lighting.
• 1:41:45 -- Personally, I'd have full medical facilities near emergency docking, for this exact reason.

• 2:19:30 -- "Tastes like chicken Tastes like chicken"
• 2:25:30 -- I thought they could shut down the gate.
• 2:30:30 -- Oh, now they explain about the gate shutdown. Wasn't it was mentioned in other episodes that this was possible?
• 2:42:00 -- Naarn has a 31 hour day.
• 2:43:00 -- Londo's childhood is explained.
• 2:46:00 -- If only THEY WERE ORBITING A FUCKING SUPERPLANET.
• 2:51:10 -- Wait, what? If these amazing people can handle it, there's no way in hell everyday people can.

• Opens with Ranger training.
• Garibaldi and Lockley butt heads.

• 0:49:30 -- Why in the fuck would the captain go out there?
• 1:23:00 -- G'Kar becomes Londo's bodyguard.
• 1:27:00 -- Singing. Yay.
• 1:27:40 -- Lyta joins the rogues.

• 1:38:00 -- He still has a crush on her.
• 2:07:50 -- Now Byron knows everything Lyta does. The other telepaths know a bit about what Lyta went through, and the children she had.
• The telepaths learn that the Vorlons created telepaths. They are now determined to get a homeworld.

• Byron continues his rant against being a telepath.
• 0:09:20 -- The regent is acting strange. Drinks when he didn't use to, etc.

• 0:58:00 -- "forgot"
• 0:59:00 -- guarding the flower. I had a reference to this but I don't know where it went!

• Lyta has super powers.
• 2:06:20 -- Holy long scene. He could just have been captured.
• 2:10:00 -- I guess the telepath is talking out loud with the other telepaths for the benefit of the audience.

• Captain Lockley is introduced. She is Ivanova's replacement.
• Why is that guy in a non-uniform shirt?
• President Sheridan's inauguration.
• The intro is shark-jumping.
• 0:04:50 -- Holy shit, the intro has a spoiler for this episode.
• Byron is introduced.
• G'Kar has stupid makeup.
• Why in the bloody fucking hell would they give zero notice to write the oath of office and declaration of principles.
• The first page of every holy book of every race that has joined the alliance. That's a whole lot of bullshit and hate.

• Garibaldi is drinking again.

• 0:53:00 -- So what in the fuck is between Lenir and Delenn? It was earlier established that he loved her, and she had friendzoned him, but it makes no sense for it to all come vomited up like this.
• 1:21:45 -- Londo HAS apologized several times throughout the show. This has always bothered me.

• Why has this episode been placed here?

  • Stuff known: Lockley is captain. Sheridan is president. Garibaldi doesn't like telepaths. Londo will be emperor. Sheridan died and has x amount of time left.
• Reebo and Zooty, played by "Penn %26 Teller Penn & Teller]
• (ep) 0:14:45 -- "Subduer of the Zaarn" was dubbed in.
• Sheridan is given a message from Kosh - "When the long night comes, return to the beginning."

• 0:00:15 -- "OBEY" is from the movie They Live - (1988 movie).
• 0:20:00 -- A psi core hyperspace mothership is revealed.

• 0:52:30 -- Delenn says she hasn't seen Lenir since the Day of the Dead. That might be a good reason to place it before this episode.
• 0:54:00 -- McBarri's (McDonald's)
• 1:26:00 -- Garibaldi is drunk out of his mind.

• 1:30:10 -- Lyta is testing her powers.

• 2:38:50 -- This is very fourth-wall-breaking. The actor who plays Zak had a problem himself.

• 1:15:00 -- Encoded transmission? More like a fax, amirite?
• 1:15:23 -- "I know." Fucking deathbed-frendzoned.
• 1:15:35 -- And why wouldn't the Centari want to capture a white star? Isn't it partially based on Vorlon technology? Isn't that worth salvaging?
• 1:25:00 -- Londo shark-jumps, and also sees his future death by the hands of G'Kar.

• President Sheridan goes to Minbar with girly.
• Emperor Molari visits Minbar. Gives an urn with a keeper in it for Sheridan's son.

• Features the Soul Hunters.
• Babylon 5's new Captain.
• Sheridan is President.
• The "Pauli effect Pauli effect].
• Sheridan has gone to Minbar.

• Garibaldi took over Edger's business six months ago.

• 0:24:00 -- Can you understand me? =/

• 0:29:00 -- 50,000 .. 100,000 .. even a million years old eh? Good thing they all speak English.

• Very post-shadow war.
• President Sheridan.
• Features the Techno-mages.

• This sets up the plague which is the intro to Crusade - (1999 show).

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• Oh. My. God. Bad music!!!
• 5th anniversary of the Interstellar Alliance.
• Earth erects a monument to the recent telepath crisis.
• President Sheridan visits the prototype destroyer launch.
• Sheridan gets a "scrambled message", from a techno-mage.
• Sheridan is told the Drak and other survivors of Za'ha'dum will move on Earth.
• Talks about the Shadow planet killer, but what they're showing isn't it. It's some sort of shitty version.
• ~1:06:50 ~~ DAMAGED?!?!
• 1:28:35 -- "Poisoning the well"
• Earth is seeded with a virus.
• This is the movie which introduces the Crusade TV series. Oh god, what a bad start for a new series.

• The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space, by Gerard K. O'Neill

• Major fucking spoilers. Do not open the entire viewing of the series by watching this. Lurker, you're a dumbass.
• Placing the film in this viewing order is pretty good.
• Does G'Kar have a blue eye in the intro?
• Londo is old, and emperor.
• "They paid the price for it", suggests the Earth quarantine and plague.
• Details the Human-Minbari first contact.
• Shows Minbari teleportation technology, apparently invented just for this movie.
• Delenn is shown as a temporary part of the Grey council.
• Kosh has been meeting with the Dukat.
• Delenn has the grey council initiation ceremony, making the triluminary glow.
• 0:32:45 -- Byron!
• 0:42:30 -- Londo apologizes.
• 0:46:30 -- Delenn meets Kosh and his purpler eviller sibling.
• 0:54:30 -- So if the Minbari can jump right next to a ship, why in the fuck was that technique never used anywhere in the entire series?
• I'm not sure how this movie is supposed to make sense from a storytelling perspective. Londo could not have known many of the things which he is supposedly retelling.
• 1:08:00 -- G'Kar's communicator sounds a lot like the Babylon 5 employee comm badges.
• 1:15:30 -- Female president of .. Earth?

• 0:02:00 -- Lockley is captain of Babylon 5, and has been for nine years.
• 0:02:30 -- Another religious episode?
• 0:03:30 -- Yep, religion ought to decline once we step into space.
• 0:04:00 -- Yep, a deist god idea doesn't ever make for a personal god.
• 0:04:50 -- Lockley is a fuzzy.
• 0:06:20 -- The Catholic church does actually maintain "trained" exorcists.
• 0:34:45 -- Colonel?!
• 0:36:30 -- Sheridan is still president. He's very grey now.
• 0:41:05 -- G'Kar is beyond the rim?! Uh, how?
• 0:42:00 -- The introduction of Quantum Space.
• 0:45:00 -- More terrible than a Vorlon or Shadow planet killer.
• 0:54:30 -- Dr. Franklin survived, therefore Earth was cured. He went with G'Kar.
• 0:56:30 -- And if someone knew about the warlord founder of Islam, millions of lives would have been saved and hundreds of millions more would be improved.
• 1:06:15 -- Yep, use this semi-set as much as possible.
• 1:06:50 -- Sheridan already knows that he's going to die. Why would he be able to "take care of it" in the future? He only has ten or so years left. I suppose by the end of that time, and not before the kid's inauguration as emperor.

• The sound dies (vlc) between items.
• The interviews are amusing, and uninformative.

• The memorials are nice. The actors who played G'Kar and Stephen Franklin are dead.

I got bored trying to watch anything else. Bah.

• 20 years after the founding of the Interstellar Alliance.
• Sheridan's inevitable death.
• 0:05:45 -- Ivanova is a general.
• 0:07:00 -- Vir is emperor.
• 0:08:20 -- Garibaldi has a daughter.
• 0:16:00 -- Londo is dead. Was an atheist.
• 0:17:00 -- G'Kar is dead.
• 0:17:05 -- Lenir is dead.
• 0:17:10 -- Marcus is dead. But we already knew that.
• 0:19:00 -- Sheridan and Delenn have a son, David, who is in Ranger training.
• 0:30:30 -- That superplanet is a menace to navigation. Hey wait, isn't there a stargate there? How could that location ever have its value diminished while there is a gate there?
• 0:36:40 -- Lorianne returns from the rim to fetch Sheridan.
• 0:38:30 -- Wait, what? How does a narrator talk about their lifetime? They can only talk about their life up to that point when they narrate.
• 0:39:25 -- dude picks up a shot glass.
• 0:40:00 -- For some odd reason, they blow up the station instead of salvaging it. I guess in the future they're just as wasteful as now.
• 0:41:30 -- Ivonova accepts becoming the leader of the Rangers.

• This one goes very far into the future of things.
• 0:00:45 -- Sheridan and Delenn just got married. Sheridan just became president.
• 0:01:40 -- G'Kar has his blue eye.
• 0:06:25 -- "Selah Selah's meaning of "pause and consider" is contested. Lots of make-belief has no definitive meaning, because it's made up.
• 0:13:00 -- There's no impression that Earth was quarantined.
• 0:16:00 -- Garibaldi was known to have survived this, and become the head of the intelligence.
• 0:24:00 -- The Interstellar Alliance has been around for 500 years.
• 0:34:50 -- The talk about "the great burn" 500 years ago. Which means Earth's civil war ruined it.