Anna Sheridan

A graduate of the University of Chicago, where she obtained both a PhD in archaeology studying under Dr. Chang A long-time friend of Elizabeth Sheridan whose brother, Captain John Sheridan, she married on 3rd December 2249 (being John's second wife).

Anna Sheridan followed her former tutor to Interplanetary Expeditions, and elected to join Dr. Chang on the mission to explore Z'ha'dum, departing 3rd December 2256 from Station Prime on the Icarus.

While her relationship with John Sheridan was primarily via subspace communication with little physical contact she always said that "love knows no borders" and thought herself very happy and lucky to have met her husband who mourned her apparent loss for over two years.

While on the mission to Z'ha'dum she had befriended a Dr. Morden, an archaeolinguist employed by Earth Force, Anna Sheridan apparently died early in 2257 when the Icarus exploded apparently in an accident. The ship was actually destroyed by the Shadows, and Anna had in fact been forced to become the living core of a Shadow Warship.

Following a defeat of the Shadows in Sector 83 she was dispatched to Babylon 5 where she promised to explain the motives of the Shadows to her husband, on the condition that he accompany her to Z'ha'dum. Deeply suspicious of her sudden reappearance, Sheridan insisted that she be subjected to tests to prove her identity. It was during these tests, Dr. Stephen Franklin discovered epidermal scaring on the nape of her neck and realized that they were similar to those found on Carolyn Sanderson, who had been rescued from Shadow captivity shortly before she was due to become a living core for a Shadow Warship.

Despite knowing that his wife had infact spent the last few years as a core of a Shadow Warship, John Sheridan went with Anna to Z'ha'dum anyway, planning to change his vision of the future seen while stealing Babylon 4 and attempt to prevent the fall of Centauri Prime as a result.

What remained of Anna Sheridan died when the White Star with its cargo of thermal fusion mines detonated above her after John Sheridan exposed the Shadows' lies about his wife and refused to cooperate with their demands and shot his way out with a concealed phased plasma gun.

[Played by Beth Toussaint, Season 2 and Melissa Gilbert, Season 3]
note: Above picture is of Anna Sheriden, played by Melissa Gilbert

Elizabeth Sheridan

The daughter of David and Miranda Sheridan, married to Danny who came to Babylon 5 to see her brother Captain John Sheridan with a view to helping him get over the loss of his wife and her long-time friend, Anna, as his continued mourning annoyed her.

With her she brought a data crystal containing part of a message sent by Anna that helped John Sheridan come to terms with his loss.

[Played by Beverly Leech]

Cailyn

A singer in DownBelow who had been diagnosed as having terminal neural paralysis by Dr. Benjamin Kyle whose performance captivated Dr. Stephen Franklin while on a leave of absence to come to terms with his addiction to stims.

When the diagnosis had initially been made she had elected to remain on Babylon 5, rather than return to Earth where superior medical care was available, because singing meant everything to her and she believed that it could restore the hope of lurkers who had seen their dreams die before their eyes.

After returning to her apartment she asked Dr. Franklin to obtain Metazyne for her which she took to help her sleep, and when he refused borrowed his IdentiCard to get some instead, only to collapse from the pain of her illness before she could take the drug. Taken to MedLab by Stephen Franklin, who believed that she had overdosed, he was informed of her condition by Dr. Lillian Hobbs who added that she only had six or seven months to live.

Dr. Franklin got her the best care he could, enabling her to resume the singing that meant so much to her, watching her act one more time before resuming his own pursuit of a purpose.

[Played by Erica Gimpel]

Carolyn Sanderson

A telepath, rated as either P11 or P12, who had refused to either join Psi Corps or to take sleepers whose attempt to flee had resulted in capture and being sent to the Psi Corps' reeducation facility on Mars Colony.

During her stay there she was cared for by the Psi Cop Bester who got her better quarters and more food, at some point realizing that, for the first time ever, he was actually in love, something he had not thought possible. Pregnant with their child she was discovered amongst about one hundred other blips in cryogenic freezer units aboard a transport bound for the rim where they were to be used as the living cores of Shadow ships, much to the horror of Bester who immediately decided to help John Sheridan in his fight against the Shadows.

Revived from her hibernation by Dr. Stephen Franklin she was driven to interface with Babylon 5's computer system by cybernet implants placed above her temples, but was persuaded to accept help by Dr. Franklin. His attempts to reverse the effects of the Shadow technology were soon sidelined as his time to study and understand the techniques involved became taken up with the growing numbers of casualties from the conflicts arising from the Shadows and she was eventually returned to stasis.

At the end of the Earth civil war, Sheridan suggested to Bester that the technology for helping Carolyn was available on Earth, and that as soon as everything had settled down she could be removed from Babylon 5 and transferred to Earth.

[Played by Joan McMurtrey]

Jason Ironheart

A rogue telepath (Psi Corps rating P10) who was a former Psi Corps high-level instructor, teaching jamming, long range scans and "fringe skills" who was also a lover and teacher of Talia Winters.

He volunteered for covert Earth Force experiments using drugs to induce telekinesis and increase Psi power with the aim of creating an assassin who could kill with just a thought. For months he was subjected to around a dozen injections a day, until one day he woke up and could "see everything", realizing he had to flee lest he be killed and dissected to discover which combination of drugs had worked. He killed the head researcher and fled the base.

As his abilities continued to grow he came to the conclusion that he was moving to a higher plane of being and came to Babylon 5 to bid farewell to Talia Winters. He was pursued by the Psi Cops Bester and Kelsey, who were to use an emergency shutdown
code embedded into his brain to put him to sleep. As his control over his skills lapsed he began suffering from a series of violent mind quakes which threatened to tear the station apart, until an encounter with the two Psi Cops forced him to flee the station and left Kelsey dead; killed in self defense by Ironheart.

While orbiting Babylon 5 a final mind quake as he completed his transformation
tore his ship apart in an explosion which the official records list as being the cause of his death. Ironheart bade farewell to the command staff who had helped him complete his transformation and left, saying that he would not return for a million years, and gave Talia Winters a gift as a token of their love; the power of telekinesis.

[Played by William Allen Young]

Isaac

(No surname given) A human freelance trader of dubious reputability who sold part of Michael Garibaldi's Starfury on Zathran 7, claiming to have found the craft drifting abandoned in Sector 87. When questioned about how he managed to find the small ship in the vastness of space by G'Kar he quickly became reticent about the subject, but a more forceful interrogation by Marcus Cole revealed that the ships location had been passed onto him by a "Montania", who claimed to work for Interplanetary Expeditions.

[Played by Lenny Citrano]

Rebo & Zooty

A comedy duo of galactic renown who took Babylon 5 by storm when they paid the station a visit in 2262 with all BabCom channels carrying special Rebo and Zooty programming, including a movie marathon featuring the pair.

Following their show they were dinner guests of John Sheridan and Delenn where they explained that they had studied the humor of many races, including the Minbari and Narn, but they wanted to get into politics because they were fed up with not being taken seriously, despite having spoken out against President Clark through their satirical comedy act.

Zooty only ever speaks through a small machine and never steps out of character, to the extent that in ten years he has only said one word to Rebo directly; "Why?" At the conclusion of their visit to Babylon 5 he took Sheridan aside and explained "Because it tells me too", also without the aid of his machine.

They made such an impression on Londo Mollari during the visit that he requested that they perform at his inauguration as the Emperor of the Centauri Republic, despite having found them unfunny only a few months previously.

[Played by Penn and Teller with Harlan Ellison as the voice of Zooty]

Cynthia Torqueman

A reporter for Interstellar Network News who presented the show "36 Hours on Babylon 5" and suggested that the first rule of survival on Babylon 5 was to "expect the unexpected". In her interview with Ambassador Delenn she mercilessly questioned her over her transformation, reducing Delenn to tears when she expressed the opinion that some humans considered it an insult.

[Played by Kim Zimmer]

Rabbi Yossel Koslov

A Russian Consortium born rabbi, and "uncle" of Susan Ivanova, who made his first ever trip into space in order to come to Babylon 5, so that he might help Susan to mourn the recent death of her father, Andrei.

[Played by Theodore Bikel]