J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5. He wrote 92 episodes plus 5 TV movies, a record-setting feat. "What interests me, what I wanted to do with making this show, was in large measure to examine the issues and emotions and events that precede a war... the effects of the war itself... and the aftermath of the war. The war is hardware; the people are at the center of the story."
THE 5-YEAR STORY
YEAR 1: "Signs and Portents"
YEAR 2: "The Coming of Shadows"
YEAR 3: "Point of No Return"
YEAR 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"
YEAR 5: "Wheel of Fire"
FINALE: "Sleeping in Light"
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"We live for the One."
"They walk among the stars like giants...."
"The year of the Shadow War... Our last, best hope... for victory!"
"I think of my beautiful city in flames..."
"Carry out my legacy."
"...worth taping."
"Wow! I admit it, you were right...
Just when I think it's hitting its peak,
the show just gets better and better!"
"...thank you once again. From the bottom of my heart
for some of the best science fiction if has been my pleasure
to read or view in 35 years..."
"Actually I wasn't into sci-fi stuff... but what a rush!!!!!"
The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 is THE best source to learn about Babylon 5. Plot synopses, character descriptions, character motivations, plot analyses, pictures, reference resources, and actual feedback from the producer of the show, J. Michael Straczynski. Literally gigabytes of information. If you have a question, the answer's almost certainly here.
Formerly the Encyclopedia Xenobiologica. Now just a fun-filled spoof on Babylon 5 in South Park style! :) VERY well done.
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Babylon has fallen! Aye; but Babylon endures
Wherever human wisdom shines or human folly lures;
Where lovers lingering walk beside, and happy children play,
Is Babylon! Babylon! for ever and for aye.
The plan is rudely fashioned, the dream is unfulfilled,
Yet all is in the archetype if but a builder willed;
And Babylon is calling us, the microcosm of men,
To range her walls in harmony and lift her spires again;
The sternest walls, the proudest spires, that ever sun shone on,
Halting a space his burning race to gaze on Babylon.
Babylon has fallen! Aye; but Babylon shall stand:
The mantle of her majesty is over sea and land.
Hers is the name of challenge flung, a watchword in the fight
To grapple grim eternities and gain the old delight;
And in the word the dream is hid, and in the dream the deed,
And in the deed the mastery for those who dare to lead.
Surely her day shall come again, surely her breed be born
To urge the hope of humankind and scale the peaks of morn --
To fight as they who fought till death their bloody field upon,
And kept the gate against the Fate frowning on Babylon.
Babylon has fallen! Nay; for Babylon falls never;
Her seat is in the aspiring brain, in nerves that leap and quiver;
Upon her towers of ancient dream Prometheus is throned,
And still his ravished spark is flung wherever manhood's owned.
All vices, crimes, and mutinies were Babylon's: and then
All honours, prides, and ecstasies -- for in her streets were Men;
And Man by Man must snatch the torch that lights the race alive:
Yea, here and now her citizens, as in the years far gone,
Stone by stone, and joy with moan, upbuild Babylon.
Scenes from all 110 episodes...
...courtesy of the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5.
