Becomes president of the newly formed Interstellar Alliance in season 5.
It is an O'Neill cylinder 5 miles (8.0 km) long and 0.5–1.0 mile (0.80–1.61 km) in diameter. The Babylon 5 space station is located in the Epsilon Eridani system, at the fifth Lagrangian point of the fictional planet Epsilon III and its moon. An ancient and secretive race, the Shadows, unknown to humans but documented in many other races' religious texts, malevolently influence events to bring chaos and war among the known species. Several dozen less powerful species from the League of Non-Aligned Worlds also have diplomatic contact with the major races, including the Drazi, Brakiri, Vree, Markab, and pak'ma'ra.
Earth has since established peaceful relationships with them and the Earth Alliance has become a significant and generally respected power within the galactic community.Īmong the other species are the imperialist Centauri the Narn, who only recently gained independence from the Centauri empire and the mysterious, powerful Vorlons.
#Cast of babylon 5 series#
Ten years before the series is set, Earth barely escaped destruction by the technologically superior Minbari, who sought revenge after an Earth starship unwittingly killed their leader during first contact, only for them to unexpectedly surrender on the brink of victory. The Colonies within the Solar System and beyond make up the Earth Alliance, which has established contact with other spacefaring species. The show depicts a future where Earth has a unified Earth government and has gained the technology for faster-than-light travel using 'jump gates', a kind of wormhole technology allowing transport through the alternate dimension of hyperspace. The main Babylon 5 story arc occurs between the years 22. An animated feature-length, direct-to-video film, Babylon 5: The Road Home, was released in August 2023. Straczynski announced plans for a reboot of the series in September 2021 in conjunction with Warner Bros. Tie-in novels, comic books, and short stories were also developed to play a significant canonical part in the overall story. Whereas contemporary television shows tended to maintain the overall status quo, confining conflicts to individual episodes, Babylon 5 featured story arcs which spanned multiple episodes and even seasons, effecting permanent changes to the series universe. Unusual at the time of its airing, Babylon 5 was conceived as a "novel for television" with a pre-planned five-year story arc, each episode envisioned as a "chapter". Many episodes focused on the effect of wider events on individual characters, with episodes containing themes such as personal change, loss, oppression, corruption and redemption. The human characters, in particular, become pivotal to the resistance against Earth's descent into totalitarianism. Major plotlines included intra-race intrigue and upheaval, inter-race wars and their aftermaths, and embroilment in a millennial cyclic conflict between ancient races. The series follows the human military staff and alien diplomats stationed on a space station, Babylon 5, built in the aftermath of several major inter-species wars as a neutral ground for galactic diplomacy and trade.
The show premiered in the US on January 26, 1994, and ran for five 22-episode seasons. commissioned the series for production in May 1993 as part of its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN).
#Cast of babylon 5 movie#
After the successful airing of a test pilot movie on February 22, 1993, Babylon 5: The Gathering, Warner Bros. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J.
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