Babylon 5 Episode Guide

SEASON ONE

SIGNS AND PORTENTS

"It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind, ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work our their differences peacefully. It's a port of call, a home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and wanders: humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations.

The year is 2258.

The name of the place is Babylon 5."

#1 “MIDNIGHT ON THE FIRING LINE
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Richard Compton

Guest Stars: Paul Hampton as The Senator. Peter Trencher as Carn Mollari

Original airdate: January 26, 1994

The Narn attack a Centauri outpost at Ragesh III. Londo’s nephew Carn Mollari is taken prisoner in the attack. Psi Corps telepath Talia Winters arrives and has no luck trying to make friends with Ivanova. Garibaldi tracks Raiders who are attacking cargo ships.

#2 “SOUL HUNTER”

Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Jim Johnston

Guest Stars: W. Morgan Sheppard as Soul Hunter #1. John Snyder as Soul Hunter #2.

Original airdate: February 2, 1994

A Soul Hunter pursues Delenn, and Dr. Franklin arrives on Babylon 5 for his assignment as the head of the station’s medical facility.

#3 “BORN TO THE PURPLE”

Written by Larry DiTillio
Directed by Bruce Green

Guest Stars: Fabiana Udenio as Adira Tyree. Clive Revill as Trakis. Robert Phalen as Andrei Ivanov.

Original airdate: February 9, 1994

Londo has an affair with a beautiful Centauri dancer who is after his Purple Files. Ivanova contacts her dying father. Garibaldi investigates unauthorized Gold Channel transmissions.

#4 “INFECTION”

Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Richard Compton

Guest Stars: David McCallum as Dr. Vance Hendricks. Marshall Teague as Nelson Drake.

Original airdate: February 18, 1994

After exploring on the rim for Interplanetary Expeditions, a former teacher of Dr. Franklin’s arrives with some ancient biotechnology relics found on the planet Ikarra 7. One of the relics possesses the doctor’s assistant and attacks the station because he was programmed to destroy anything that wasn’t purely Ikarran. An ISN reporter relentlessly pursues Sinclair for an interview.

#5 “THE PARLIAMENT OF DREAMS”
Originally titled "Carnival!"

Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Jim Johnston

Guest Stars: Thomas Kopache as Tu'Pari. Julia Nickson as Catherine Sakai.

Original airdate: February 23, 1994

Babylon 5 hosts a festival celebrating the religious diversity of the station’s inhabitants. Ambassador G’Kar receives a message that an assassin on behalf of another Narn as retribution is stalking him. This makes the ambassador very wary of his new aide, Na’Toth, until she helps him track down the real assassin. Sinclair’s former lover Catherine Sakai arrives in pursuit of business. Ambassador Delenn’s attaché Lennier arrives on Babylon 5, fresh from the temple. Londo hosts a demonstration of Centauri religion, a celebration thanking the gods for the Centauri victory over the Xon. Delenn hosts a Minbari ritual, which doubles as a ceremony of rebirth and marriage. Sinclair and Sakai rekindle their romance.

#6 “MIND WAR”
Written by J Michael Straczynski
Directed by Bruce Seth Green

Guest Stars: Walter Koenig as Bester. Felicity Waterman as Kelsey. William Allen Young as Jason Ironheart.

Original airdate: March 2, 1994

Psi Cops Bester and Kelsey pursue telepath Jason Ironheart, a former lover of Talia Winters. Ironheart eludes capture, and gives Talia a special gift. Catherine Sakai is determined to study the mineral deposits of Sigma 957, against the strong advice of G’Kar, and encounters something there, which she cannot explain.

#7 “WAR PRAYER”
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Richard Compton

Guest Stars: Nancy Lee Grahn as Shaal Mayan. Danica McKellar as Aria Tensus. Rodney Eastman as Kiron Maray. Tristan Rogers as Malcolm Biggs. Michael Paul Chan as Roberts.

Original airdate: March 9, 1994

Members of the Home Guard, an anti-alien, “Earth first” movement, begin attacking non-humans on Babylon 5. The victims include a Minbari poet who is a friend of Delenn, and a teenage Centauri couple who have fled to the station to avoid arranged marriages. Ivanova’s former lover Malcolm arrives on the station and wants to reconcile with her. However, she learns that he is behind the Home Guard attacks and works with Sinclair and Garibaldi to trap and arrest him and his group. Sinclair visits Ambassador Kosh in his quarters, where he sees the Vorlon viewing images from Earth’s past. Garibaldi intimates to Ivanova that unless she does a favor for him, he will have to destroy the coffee plants which are being illegally cultivated in the hydroponics garden.

#8 “AND THE SKY FULL OF STARS”
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Janet Greek

Guest Stars: Judson Scott as Knight One. Christopher Neame as Knight Two. Jim Youngs as Frank Benson. Justin Williams as Mitchell.

Original airdate: March 16, 1994

Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by members of a pro-Earth group who are determined to find out what transpired when the commander was briefly missing in action during the final battle of the Earth/Minbari war. We also learn that there may be more to Delenn than she has revealed.

#9 “DEATHWALKER”
Written by Larry DiTillio
Directed by Janet Greek

Guest Stars: Sarah Douglas as Deathwalker/Jha'Dur. Robin Curtis as Ambassador Kalika. Cosie Costa as Abbut. Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.

Original airdate: April 20, 1994

The war criminal Deathwalker visits B5 with an immortality serum. The League of Nonaligned Worlds is upset that she would be allowed to stay on the station since she was responsible for the destruction of many races. Kosh hires Talia Winters to mediate some seemingly meaningless talks between him and Abot the “VCR.”

#10 “BELIEVERS”
Written by David Gerrold
Directed by Richard Compton

Guest Stars: Silvana Gallardo as Dr. Maya Hernandez. Jonathon Kaplan as Shon. Tricia O'Neil as M'Ola. Stephen Lee as Tharg.

Original airdate: April 27, 1994

An alien child with a life-threatening illness is brought to Dr. Franklin’s attention. The doctor must choose between saving the boy and honoring the family’s religious beliefs.

#11 “SURVIVORS”
Written by Marc Scott Zicree
Directed by Jim Johnston

Guest Stars: Elaine Thomas as Lianna Kemmer. Tom Donaldson as Cutter.

Original airdate: May 4, 1994

While B5 prepares for a visit by Earth Alliance President Santiago, an explosion seriously damages one of the Cobra bays. Garibaldi is implicated in the accident by a dying man and has to fight against the head of Presidential security, who also blames him for her father’s death years ago.

#12 “BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY”
Written by Kathryn Drennan
Directed by Jim Johnston

Guest Stars: John Snyder as Orin Zento. Katy Boyer as Neeoma Connoly. Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.

Original airdate: May 11, 1994

A substandard microchip in a piece of docking equipment causes an explosion in the docking bay. The explosion destroys a Narn ship carrying a sacred plant necessary for G’Kar’s observance of the Days of G’Quon. Overworked dockworkers who are already upset due to the docking guild’s small budget stage a work stoppage, prompting Earth Gov to send a labor negotiator. Mollari happens to possess another G’Quon-eth plant, which the Centauri offers to G’Kar for an extortionate price. Senator Hidoshi assures Sinclair that the budget is more than adequate to cover the needs of the dockworkers. Mollari retracts his offer to G’Kar, which prompts him to seek a resolution through Sinclair. The dockworkers’ illegal strike leads the negotiator to evoke the Rush Act, officially declaring the situation an illegal strike and requiring station security forces to make arrests. Sinclair steps in and uses the language of the Rush Act to allow him to reallocate credits from the station’s military budget to the dock equipment budget. Sinclair confiscates Mollari’s plant as an illegal substance, then allows G’Kar to use it for his ceremony after compensating the Centauri.

#13 “SIGNS AND PORTENTS”
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Janet Greek

Guest Stars: Gerrit Graham as Lord Kiro. Fredi Olster as Lady Ladira. Ed Wasser as Morden.

Original airdate: May 18, 1994

The Centauri Lady Ladiera and her nephew, Lord Kiro, visit B5. The Lady has visions of the station’s destruction and warns that her companion that he will be killed by shadows. An enigmatic human named Mr. Morden visits each ambassador and asks the question, “What do you want?” Seekers working for Londo finally locate the Centauri relic The Eye, which has been missing for several years. After Londo gives it to Kiro for return to their homeworld, Raiders destroy Kiro’s ship, and Londo fears the Eye is lost forever. Ambassador Kosh’s encounter suit is mysteriously damaged during the confusion on the station. Morden later presents Londo with the artifact and promises that the ambassador will one day be able to return the favor.

#14 “TKO”
Written by Larry DiTillio
Directed by John Flynn

Guest Stars: Theodore Bikel as Rabbi Koslov. Greg McKinney as Walker Smith. Soon-Tek Oh as The Muta-Do. Don Stroud as Caliban.

Original airdate: May 25, 1994

Garibaldi’s friend, the former prizefighter Walker Smith, arrives on B5 ready to participate in the Mutai, an alien fight. Ivanova’s uncle, a rabbi, visits to try and persuade her to sit Shiva for her deceased father. After initial protestations and with much reluctance, she relents and makes peace with his memory.

#15 “GRAIL”
Written by Christy Marx
Directed by Richard Compton

Guest Stars: David Warner as Aldous Gajic. Tom Booker as Jinxo. William Sanderson as Deuce.

Original airdate: July 6, 1994

Ombuds Wellington hears a case against an alien whose ancestors abducted the grandfather of an Earthman. Jinxo, a construction worker who worked on every Babylon station, is being extorted by a man named Deuce, whose methods of persuasion include threatening people with death at the tentacles of a Na’ka’leen Feeder (which happen to be masquerading in a replica of Ambassador Kosh’s encounter suit). Aldous Gajic, a religious man seeking the Holy Grail on Babylon 5, is paired with Jinxo after Jinxo picks Aldous’s pocket. Jinxo believes he is the “Babylon Curse,” because every time he has left a Babylon station, something tragic happened to it. When Aldous is fatally injured, Jinxo takes up his search for the Grail.

#16 “EYES”
Written by Larry DiTillio
Directed by Jim Johnston

Guest Stars: Gregory Martin as Col. Ari Ben Zayn. Jeffrey Combs as Harriman Gray.

Original airdate: July 13, 1994

The Babylon 5 staff is under investigation and may be ordered to have telepathic scans.

Ari Ben Zayn, a colonel with Earth Force internal affairs, reveals that he and Corps telepath Harriman Gray, a military officer, are there to investigate the Babylon 5 command staff. Ben Zayn tells Sinclair that they will all submit to telepathic scans, which Ivanova protests even to the point of resigning her Earthforce commission. Garibaldi realizes a connection between Ben Zayn and the Psi Cop Bester, and Sinclair prompts the Colonel to admit that he was sore over the fact that Sinclair was chosen to command Babylon 5. Garibaldi’s attempt to build a Kawasaki motorcycle from the 1990s stalls, so an Interested Lennier takes over.

#17 “LEGACIES”
Written by D.C. Fontana
Directed by Bruce Seth Green

Guest Stars: John Vickery as Neroon. Grace Una as Alisa Beldon.

Original airdate: July 20, 1994

A Minbari warrior's body mysteriously disappears while lying in state and under guard, and a girl entering puberty exhibits telepathic abilities. Ambassador Delenn gets caught red-handed.

A telepathic orphan is discovered lurking on B5. As Talia tries to enlist her in Psi Corps, Delenn and G’Kar offer her a home on their worlds. The body of a Minbari military hero, the Shai Alit, mysteriously disappears. Warrior Caste Minbari, led by Neroon, try to place the blame on the humans.

#18 “A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS, PART I”
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Janet Greek

Guest Stars: Louis Turenne as Draal. Curt Lowens as Varn.

Original airdate: July 27, 1994

The planet that B5 orbits suddenly becomes unstable, and there are signs of extinct alien civilizations. An old mentor pays a visit to Ambassador Delenn and we learn the station Mantra.

The uninhabited planet around which B5 orbits begins to show evidence of seismic disturbances, tectonic shifting, and power surges. When a small ship is sent to investigate, it is nearly destroyed by an automated defense system. Her former mentor Draal visits Delenn. Garibaldi’s former girlfriend is stuck on Mars during a rather nasty rebellion. With Talia’s help, Garibaldi attempts to contact her.

#19 “A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS, PART II”
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Janet Greek

Guest Stars: Ron Canada as Capt. Ellis Pierce. Louis Turenne as Draal. Curt Lowens as Varn. Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton. Aki Aleong as Senator Hidoshi.

Original airdate: August 3, 1994

An Earth Alliance warship arrives to take over from Sinclair, who finds himself fighting two battles at the same time. Delenn, Londo and Draal take a short flight.

With the help of Delenn and Londo, Draal offers a solution to the problem on Epsilon III. Garibaldi finally gets through to Lise.

#20 “BABYLON SQUARED”
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Jim Johnston

Guest Stars: Kent Broadhurst as Major Krantz. Tim Choate as Zathras. Denise Gentile as Lise Hampton.

Original airdate: August 10, 1994

Babylon 4 mysteriously reappears and we learn something of its fate, but we are left with a sense of foreboding. Delenn receives a momentous offer.

Mysterious transmissions call the crew of B5 to Sector 14, where Babylon 4 disappeared shortly after it became operational. Sinclair and Garibaldi lead a fleet of transport ships to the station to try unload its personnel. The strange alien Zathras searches for the One.

#21 “THE QUALITY OF MERCY”
Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Lorraine Senna Ferrara

Guest Stars: June Lockhart as Dr. Laura Rosen. Kate McNeil as Janice Rosen. Mark Rolston as Karl Mueller. Damian London as the Centauri Senator. Jim Norton as Ombuds Wellington.

Original airdate: August 17, 1994

A serial killer is to be mindwiped, and an alien machine designed for execution, can cure people under certain circumstances. Londo takes Lennier out on the town.

Dr. Franklin and Dr. Laura Rosen (guest star June Lockheart) run competing clinics for the indigent in downbelow. Dr. Rosen uses an alien-healing device. Londo gets Lennier drunk, and we learn that Centauri naughty bits can be used to cheat at poker.

#22 “CHRYSALIS”

Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Directed by Janet Greek

Guest Stars: Macaulay Bruton as Garibaldi's aide. Edward Conery as Devereaux. Ed Wasser as Morden.

Original airdate: October 26, 1994

Sinclair finally proposes, Garibaldi is wounded, and Delenn enters a chrysalis.

“Nothing is the same anymore.” Garibaldi uncovers a plot to kill EA President Louis Santiago and is seriously wounded trying to relay the information. Delenn begins an irreversible change. Londo asks a favor of Morden in dealing with Quadrant 37. G’Kar has concerns over the events in Quadrant 37, and leaves to investigate. Sinclair and Catherine decide to get married.

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