Babylon 5 - Remote space station orbiting the planet Epsilon
III in the year 2258 A.D. on the science fiction series BABYLON 5/SYN/1994-98.
Ten years after the Earth-Minbari War, the Babylon Project created a
neutral ground where humans and aliens could work out their differences,
peacefully. Babylon 5 [Babylon 1-4 were destroyed, disabled or
disappeared] was a port of call for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and
wanderers.
Initially, the 2,500,000 ton, 15.5 mile long space station was
commanded by Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (Michael O'Hare). his crew members
consisted of the strong-willed Russian-born Lt. Cmd. Susan Ivanova
(Claudia Christian); the skeptical Security Chief Michael Garibalidi
(Jerry Doyle); the compassionate black physician Dr. Stephen
Franklin; and the brain-probing telepath Talia Winters (Andrea Thompson)
who was capable of verifying the sincerity of negotiators.
When Sinclair
relocated to the
Minbari home world, he was replaced by Captain John
Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner), a veteran of the Minbari War who earned the
nicknamed "Starkiller."
Among the contingent of alien races
aboard Babylon 5 were Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik), the crafty Centauri
ambassador, and his Kow-towing aide Vir (Stephen Furst); Delenn, the
spiritual Minabari ambassador (Mira Furlan) and her devoted aide Lennier
(Billy Mummy); G'Kar (Andreas Katsuals), a hot-tempered reptilian
Narn
ambassador and his aide Na'Toth (Caitlin Brown/Mary Jane Adams); and Kosh,
a mysterious
Vorlon ambassador who lived inside an encounter suit away
from the prying eyes of other races.
The control bridge of Babylon 5
monitored all space traffic especially those incoming vessels leaping
through space via worm hold jump gates.
The Babylon 5 station would later
be the staging platform for the Shadow Wars. The station was
decommissioned in the year 2281 and then demolished by a series of
internal explosions. See also - "The
White Star"
