Original Airdate: February 22, 1993 Written by: J. Michael Straczynski Directed by: Richard Compton Episode # : 000 Production # : 000 Guest stars:
As ambassador Kosh of the Vorlon Empire joins Babylon 5, a mysterious alien disguised as Commander Sinclair attempts to assassinate him. Sinclair is framed for the attempted assassination, and must prove his innocence while Dr. Kyle rushes to save Kosh's life.
Note: this synopsis came from Time-Warner's official Babylon 5 page. I will be writing the review in the near future.
In the year 2257 A.D., an immense space station called Babylon 5 floats in a stationary orbit in a neutral corner of a distant galaxy. Manned by a crew of peaceful Earthmen and women, Babylon 5 serves as a non-political economic and social hub for the four alien races - the Narn, Centauri, Vorlon and Minbari - who fight to control the galaxy.
The alien ambassadors are convening there to negotiate a peace treaty. Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE), Lieutenant Takashima (TAMLYN TOMITA) and their security chief, Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE), are unprepared when the most mysterious of the ambassadors, Kosh Naranek, arrives two days early. Within minutes, Kosh is found near death in an airlock. The station's doctor, Benjamin Kyle (JOHNNY SEKKA), determines that Kosh was poisoned. If Kosh dies, the peace conference will fail.
Kosh had ordered all security cameras to be turned off because his Vorlon race is very secretive about its appearance. Therefore, no one can identify the attacker except Kosh himself. Dr. Kyle convinces Lyta Alexander (PATRICIA TALLMAN), a visiting "telepath" from Earth, to use her mind-reading powers to scan the dying ambassador's unconscious memory. To everyone's horror, Lyta reveals that Commander Sinclair greeted Kosh in the airlock.
Garibaldi is suspicious of Lyta's powers and searches the station for evidence of the attacker. Meanwhile, the council, led by the ambitious alien ambassador G'Kar (ANDREAS KATSULAS), reluctantly votes to send Sinclair to Kosh's homeworld for trial.
Garibaldi's technicians soon discover a small alien vehicle attached to the outside of the space station's hull. They also find the corpse of a worker, Del Varner (JOHN FLECK), who had smuggled aboard a "changeling net," a device that completely disguises the wearer to look like anyone he chooses.
As Kosh's warships arrive to arrest Sinclair, the commander tracks down and kills the shape-shifting alien that used the changeling net to impersonate him in the airlock. Sinclair learns that to corrupt the balance of power in the galaxy, G'Kar conspired with another person on Babylon 5 to murder Kosh and blame the peacekeepers of Babylon 5. Fortunately, Kosh recovers, the truth is revealed, and G'Kar is appropriately punished.
