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                           The BABYLON 5 Chronicle                           
                "The Gathering" - "And The Sky Full Of Stars"                
  1993  1994 
                             written by Earl Green

                 "Babylon 5" created by J. Michael Straczynski


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                            The Pilot Movie: 1993 
                           

01      THE GATHERING
        written by J. Michael Straczynski
        directed by Richard Compton
        music by Stewart Copeland
  Story:  In the Tigris Sector in the year 2257, the gigantic space station
    Babylon 5 has entered service and is preparing for its first major official
    duty, hosting the ambassadors of the Minbari, Vorlon, Centauri and Narn
    governments who will, along with station Commander Sinclair, the Earth
    representative, begin down the uneasy path toward interstellar peace.  The
    station's first officer Takashima and security chief Garibaldi are both
    officers with career records that are, in places, less than exemplary,
    giving the impression that the Earth Alliance isn't going to send the cream
    of its crop to Babylon 5 - especially not since Babylons 1, 2 and 3 were
    sabotaged and destroyed, and the fourth station in the line vanished without
    a trace within a day of becoming operational.  There are also questions
    about the alien representatives: Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari spends a
    good deal of his time in the diplomatic pursuit of drinks and winnings in
    the station's casino; Minbari Ambassador Delenn, whose people once waged a
    vicious war with Earth and suddenly stopped all attacks just moments before
    wiping out the human race, is secretive and speaks in riddles.  Ambassador
    G'Kar of the Narn Regime is ill-tempered and makes no secret of the fact
    that he seeks power and prestige for his own people and himself, no matter
    what the cost to other individuals or governments.  And last, but not least,
    Vorlon Ambassador Kosh Naranek, who, when he arrives, will be the first
    Vorlon ever encountered by any of the above species, travels incommunicado.
    This proves to be a problem when Kosh, in a life-sustaining encounter suit,
    is found unconscious moments after his ship docks at Babylon 5.  The crew
    swings into action and discovers foul play, which infuriates the Vorlon
    Empire.  Matters are made no less critical when it is discovered that the
    culprit is at large on Babylon 5, and Commander Sinclair is framed for the
    attack on Kosh.  His crew must fight to uncover the truth to prevent the
    Vorlons from extraditing Sinclair - or to prevent them from simply declaring
    all-out war on the Earth Alliance...
  Cast:  Michael O' Hare (Commander Jeffrey Sinclair), Tamlyn Tomita (Lt.
    Commander Laurel Takashima), Jerry Doyle (Michael Garibaldi), Mira Furlan
    (Ambassador Delenn), Blaire Baron (Carolyn Sykes), John Fleck (Del Varner),
    Paul Hampton (The Senator), Peter Jurasik (Ambassador Londo Mollari),
    Andreas Katsulas (Ambassador G'Kar), Johnny Sekka (Dr. Benjamin Kyle),
    Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander), Steven R. Barnett (Eric), William Hayes
    (Traveler), Linda Hoffman (Tech #2), Robert Jason Jackson (Tech #3), F.
    William Parker (Businessman #1), Marianne Robertson (Hostage), Dave Sage
    (Businessman #2), Ed Wasser (Guerra)


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                              Season One:  1994 
                             

02      MIDNIGHT ON THE FIRING LINE                                     prod#103
        written by J. Michael Straczynski                     OB:  w/o 24 Jan 94
        directed by Richard Compton
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  A surprise attack results in the capture of a Centauri agricultural
    colony on Ragesh 3; when he receives the word, Londo Mollari is up in arms.
    When careful examination of a visual record of the attack reveals Narn heavy
    fighters are responsible for the invasion, Londo and G'Kar take every
    opportunity to go for each others' throats and war seems inevitable.  As if
    trying to prevent a Narn-Centauri war isn't enough to occupy his time,
    Sinclair is also troubled by recent attacks by space raiders on unarmed
    transport ships - the pirates are taking more drastic and violent measures
    than ever before.  The Centauri government decides to take no action
    regarding Ragesh 3.  Enraged, Londo conceals this fact and tries to see if
    he can encourage sanctions against the Narn Regime in a meeting of the
    council.  When G'Kar claims that the Ragesh 3 colonists have allied
    themselves with the Narn to escape factional fighting and produces Londo's
    colonist nephew as a witness to this claim, Londo decides to take matters
    into his own hands in a most undiplomatic manner...
  Season 1 Regular Cast:  Michael O' Hare (Commander Jeffrey Sinclair), Claudia
    Christian (Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova), Jerry Doyle (Security Chief Michael
    Garibaldi), Mira Furlan (Ambassador Delenn), Richard Biggs (Dr. Stephen
    Franklin), Andrea Thompson (Talia Winters), Stephen Furst (Vir Koto), Bill
    Mumy (Lennier), Caitlin Brown (Na'Toth), Andreas Katsulas (Ambassador
    G'Kar), Peter Jurasik (Ambassador Londo Mollari)
  Guest Cast:  Peter Trencher (Carn Mollari), Paul Hampton (The Senator), Jeff
    Austin (Centauri #1), Ardwight Chamberlain (Kosh), Maggie Egan (Newsperson),
    Mark Hendrickson (Narn Captain), Douglas E. McCoy (Delta 7), Marianne
    Robertson (Tech #1)

03      SOUL HUNTER                                                     prod#102
        written by J. Michael Straczynski                     OB:  w/o 31 Jan 94
        directed by Jim Johnston
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  Shortly after the arrival of new doctor Stephen Franklin, an alien
    spacecraft of an unknown design tumbles through the hyperspace jump gate, on
    an uncontrolled collision course with the station.  Sinclair manages to
    retrieve the ship just before it collides with the station, and its sole
    occupant is taken to the medlab.  Ambassador Delenn reacts with horror at
    the new arrival, describing him as a Soul Hunter, a figure feared in Minbari
    lore.  Though Sinclair and Dr. Franklin dismiss Delenn's frantic warnings
    about the alien as superstition, it becomes clear when Franklin's patient
    awakens that it does have some business with the Minbari on its agenda -
    especially Delenn, who turns out to be more than she appears.
  Guest Cast:  W. Morgan Sheppard (The Soul Hunter), John Snyder (Soul Hunter
    #2), Toni Attell (Med Tech #1), Jim Bentley (Man), Mark Conley (Tech #1),
    David D. Darling (Guard #1), Ted W. Henning (Guard #2), Marianne Robertson
    (Tech #2)

04      BORN TO THE PURPLE                                              prod#104
        written by Lawrence G. DiTillio                       OB:  w/o  7 Feb 94
        directed by Bruce Seth Green
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  Londo stalls negotiations with the Narn - and infuriates G'Kar - when
    he wishes simply to partake of a seedy bar whose agile young Centauri dancer
    intrigues Londo; when he winds up in bed with her, talks are delayed even
    further.  But the girl is in the employ of an information trader who plans
    on using her to get to Londo's Purple Files, detailing various dirt on many
    Centauri families - information the Narn Regime would pay handsomely for in
    order to gain blackmail material against their former masters.  When Londo
    discovers that his secrets have been taken, he begins a desperate quest to
    track down the culprit and free an innocent pawn.
  Guest Cast:  Fabiana Udenio (Adira Tyree), Clive Revill (Trakis), Mary Woronov
    (Ko D'Ath), Jimm Giannini (Ock), Robert Phalen (Andrei Ivanova), Robert
    DiTillio (Norg), Tom Lowe (Gunman #1), Katharine Mills (Dancer), Mike Norris
    (Butz), Laura Peterson (Gera Akshi), Marianne Robertson (Tech #1), Momo
    Yashima (Dr. Goyokin)

05      INFECTION                                                       prod#101
        written by J. Michael Straczynski                     OB:  w/o 14 Feb 94
        directed by Richard Compton
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  Dr. Vance Hendricks, one of Dr. Franklin's med school mentors, arrives
    on Babylon 5 in a cloud of mystery with a collection of pristine artifacts
    from the planet Icarra, which has been dead for over a thousand years.  One
    of the artifacts takes control of Hendricks's partner and transforms him
    into a killing machine designed to eliminate any life form which is not pure
    Icarran.  Since the Icarran race has been dead for centuries thanks to
    creatures just like this, every living being aboard the station is in danger
    - a situation which Sinclair decides to take into his own hands despite
    Garibaldi's protests.
  Guest Cast:  David McCallum (Dr. Vance Hendricks), Marshall Teague (Nelson
    Drake), Patricia Healy (Mary Ann Cramer), Sav Farrow (Tech #1), Daniel
    Hutchison (Security Guard), Sylva Kelegian (Tech #2), Tony Rizzoli (Guard),
    Marianne Robertson (Tech #3), Paul Teuell (Customs Guard)

06      THE PARLIAMENT OF DREAMS                                        prod#108
        written by J. Michael Straczynski                     OB:  w/o 21 Feb 94
        directed by Jim Johnston
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  Amidst a week of cultural exchange in which various cultures'
    religious and philosophical views are demonstrated, Garibaldi notices the
    arrival of Catherine Sakai, Sinclair's old flame from the space academy on
    Earth.  Which Sinclair tries to come to grips with his past, Ambassador
    G'Kar's past gets a grip on him as an old adversary from the Narn homeworld
    has diverted all his resources to killing G'Kar.  The sudden arrival of a
    new aide makes the ambassador understandably nervous, and no matter what
    steps he takes to ensure his own security, someone seems to be one step
    ahead of G'Kar at every turn...
  Guest Cast:  Julia Nickson (Catherine Sakai), Thomas Kopache (Tu'Pari), Joy
    Hardin (Narn #1), Mark Hendrickson (Du'Rog), Calvin Jung (Guard), Randall
    Kirby (Businessman #1), Michael McKenzie (Pilgrim), Marianne Robertson (Dome
    Tech), Glenn Robinson (Head Waiter), Erich Martin Von Hicks (Businessman #2)
  Notes:  The character of Na'Toth, making her first appearance here, was
    originally to have been played by Susan Kellerman according to Warner Bros.'
    preliminary promo material.

07      MIND WAR                                                        prod#110
        written by J. Michael Straczynski                     OB:  w/o 28 Feb 94
        directed by Bruce Seth Green
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  After a narrow escape from an Earth Alliance fighter squadron, outcast
    Psi Corps member Jason Ironheart takes refuge aboard Babylon 5, hoping to
    make contact with Talia, his old student and former lover.  Matters are made
    no easier when two Psi Cops - capable of immense telepathic power - arrive
    to grill Talia and Sinclair about Ironheart's possible whereabouts.  When it
    becomes apparent that Ironheart is not only aboard the station but is also
    somehow dangerous, Talia risks her standing with the Psi Corps to discover
    that Jason has become a new breed of telepath thanks to the Corps' illicit
    experimentation.  And Catherine Sakai, on a routine planetary survey
    mission, encounters an alien threat that defies comprehension...
  Guest Cast:  William Allen Young (Jason Ironheart), Felicity Waterman
    (Kelsey), Walter Koenig (Bester), Julia Nickson (Catherine Sakai), Don Dowe
    (Earth Fighter), Elisa Pensler Gabrielli (Guest Liaison), Michael McKenzie
    (Narn Captain), Kevin Page (Businessman), Mark S. Porro (Security Guard),
    Macaulay Bruton (Garibaldi's Aide), Marianne Robertson (Dome Tech #1)

08      THE WAR PRAYER                                                  prod#107
        written by D.C. Fontana                               OB:  w/o  7 Mar 94
        directed by Richard Compton
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  Mayan, renowned Minbari poet and old friend of Delenn, is aboard the
    station to entertain the Minbari population and enlighten others of Minbari
    culture, when she is brutally attacked by masked members of the Home Guard,
    an isolationist terrorist group from Earth whose members seek to flush all
    alien influnces out of human society.  Other violent attacks on non-humans
    concern and outrage the aliens aboard Babylon 5.  One assault leaves Vir's
    nephew in a coma.  G'Kar stirs up trouble in the name of justice, trying to
    get the alien residents of Babylon 5 to rise up against their human
    neighbors, while uncomfortable questions about the influence of the Home
    Guard trouble Sinclair, who ultimately must take a direct hand in affairs.
  Guest Cast:  Tristan Rogers (Malcolm Biggs), Nancy Lee Grahn (Shaal Mayan),
    Michael Paul Chan (Roberts), Rodney Eastman (Kiron Maray), Danica McKellar
    (Aria Tensus), Diane Adair (Mila Shar), Richard Chaves (Alvares), Mark
    Hendrickson (Thegras), Chuck Butto (Security Officer #1), Ardwright
    Chamberlain (Kosh), Mike Gunther (Alien #1), Marianne Robertson (Dome Tech)

09      AND THE SKY FULL OF STARS                                       prod#106
        written by J. Michael Straczynski                     OB:  w/o 14 Mar 94
        directed by Janet Greek
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  The blackmail of a security guard for his gambling debts allows two
    shady characters aboard the station with their equipment, which requires a
    lot of power and is intended for a specific subject - Commander Sinclair.
    The commander is kidnapped and wired into a virutal-reality cybernet, in
    which he is interrogated by an unknown but determined adversary whose
    purpose is to uncover memories of what happened when Sinclair's ship went
    missing for the 24 hours prior to the Minbari surrender in the final battle
    of the Earth-Minbari War.  Sinclair resists his opponent's attempts to get
    into his mind, but finally he remembers events that have been blocked from
    his memory for a decade: the destruction of his entire squadron, his capture
    by a Minbari battle cruiser, torture, and a mysterious encounter with twelve
    figures cloaked in grey, one of whom he suddenly remembers well - Delenn.
    The memory could cost Sinclair his life.
  Guest Cast:  Christopher Neame (Knight Two), Judson Scott (Knight One), Jim
    Youngs (Benson), Justin Williams (Mitchell), Joe Banks (Guard), Gary
    Cervantes (Strongarm #1), Mark Hendrickson (Grey Council #1), Fumi Shishino
    (Security Guard), Macaulay Bruton (Aide), Marianne Robertson (Tech #1)

10      DEATHWALKER                                                     prod#113
        written by Lawrence G. DiTillio                       OB:  w/o 18 Apr 94
        directed by Bruce Seth Green
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  Waiting for a Narn representative to arrive at the station, Na'Toth
    spots a woman she claims is a war criminal who committed atrocities upon her
    family during conflicts 30 years ago and viciously attacks her.  Sinclair
    discovers that the victim of the assault would indeed appear to be Jha'dur,
    a Dilgar warmaster whose hideous biological experiments took the lives of
    thousands.  She now claims to have created a drug which bestows immortality,
    and Earth immediately calls the station with orders for Sinclair to ship
    Jha'dur home so planetside scientists can develop her discovery.  As it so
    happens, the Narn Regime has given G'Kar similar orders.  Most of the
    smaller members of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, however, still harbor a
    deep hatred of the Dilgar and Jha'dur in particular...to the point of
    severing diplomatic ties with anyone who now chooses to associate with her.
  Guest Cast:  Sarah Douglas (Jha'dur), Robin Curtis (Ambassador Kalika), Cosie
    Costa (Abbut), Aki Aleong (Senator Hidoshi), Ardwright Chamberlain (Kosh),
    Robert DiTillio (Ambassador #1), Sav Farrow (Tech #2), Mark Hendrickson
    (Ashok), Marianne Robertson (Tech #1)

11      BELIEVERS                                                       prod#105
        written by David Gerrold                              OB:  w/o 25 Apr 94
        directed by Richard Compton
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  A family of a devout people known as the Children of Time arrive on
    the station seeking medical treatment for their son, whose respiratory
    blockage will prove to be fatal if not treated soon.  When Dr. Franklin
    proposes surgery, however, he stumbles across their belief that puncturing
    the body allows the spirit to escape, and they refuse his help.  As he
    manages to stall them by asking them to consider a more risky alternative
    treatment, Franklin petitions Sinclair for permission to overrule the
    parents' authority so he can save the child's life.  Sinclair has to walk on
    eggshells around both parties, but cannot avoid making a ruling on the
    matter that could undermine Babylon 5's neutral status.  And all this time,
    a child's life is slipping away...and Dr. Franklin decides to take control
    of the situation himself.
  Guest Cast:  Jonathan Charles Kaplan (Shon), Tricia O' Neil (M'ola), Stephen
    Lee (Tharg), Silvana Gillardo (Dr. Maya Hernandez), Ardwright Chamberlain
    (Kosh)

12      SURVIVORS              (orig. title: "A Knife in the Shadows")  prod#111
        written by Marc Scott Zicree                          OB:  w/o  2 May 94
        directed by Jim Johnston
        music by Christopher Franke
  Story:  With a visit from the recently re-elected President of the Earth
    Alliance looming in the immediate future, preparations are in full swing,
    including maintenance on a docking area which will be the home of a new
    fighter squadron being brought to Babylon 5 by the President.  An explosion
    in this area brings the President's chief of security, a woman whose father
    was killed in an incident 17 years ago engineered by criminals to frame
    Garibaldi, aboard the station to investigate.  A dying worker points the
    finger at Garibaldi for planting the bomb that damaged the fighter bay, and
    the President's security chief pronounces Garibaldi a fugitive from justice.
    Though he is on the run, Garibaldi puts his life on the line by continuing
    to investigate the real cause of the explosion as the President's visit
    draws near.
  Guest Cast:  Elaine Thomas (Lianna Kemmer), Tom Donaldson (Cutter), David
    Austin Cook (Special Agent #1), David Crowley (Lou Welch), Maggie Egan (INS
    Reporter), Jose Rosario (Nolan), Robin Wake (Young Lianna), Mark Hendrickson
    (Alien #1), Rod Perry (General Netter), Marianne Robertson (Tech #1)

13      BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY               (orig. title: "Backlash")  prod#114
                                                              OB:  w/o  9 May 94

14      SIGNS AND PORTENTS              (orig. title: "Raiding Party")  prod#116
                                                              OB:  w/o 16 May 94

15      TKO                                                             prod#119
                                                              OB:  w/o 23 May 94

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revision: 1K                                     updated & compiled:  2 May 1994

     All text in this file (c)1993, 1994 Earl Green unless otherwise noted.
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   Special thanks to Robert Parson, and also to the nutty gang at KPBI-TV 46.

