So I've watched all five seasons, the re-edited pilot (that comes with the DVDs), and In the Beginning. (Have to admit I found season 5 to be a bit of a slog, particularly with Byron and the telepaths. How is it that people who can read minds are so clueless about how other people think?) Do I watch the other movies? Do I watch Crusades? Do I read any of the books? If so, which and in what order?

Edit to fix my misnaming the telepath material.

Figured it'd be a cool detail to share with the class since I noticed only the deluxe edition has it

I saw In The Beginning and Earth ships got cut down like butter. It's like me stomping on ants. Why did the war lasted over two years? I would think seeing how useless Earth is, the war would be over by a few weeks....

Another two stations complete!

How would it effect the show and universe in general if an earth force ship had been destroyed by the shadows at the behest of Lando causing EA to help the Narns

Any Super Furry Animals fans? Thought it was a good joke.

Local auction house to me has had this come up, but sadly unless I want to be 'sleeping in ditch', I can't afford it.

I am watching the eposodes that are being uploaded to youtube, the most recent is Season 2, All Alone in the Night. It's been a while since I have watched the entire series, and I got curious, did Sheridan and the Narn he rescued from The Scribes, ever meet again? I want to say yes, but then then I had second thoughts....I really can't remember if they did. Anyone know?​

I've been thinking of a small part of that episode - re-watched it a month or so ago.

Kosh or his ship interacted with the maintenance staff assigned to where Kosh's ship was stored - Bay 13. They were terrified and stopped working in Bay 13. Such timid, unimaginative souls. What a grand opportunity they wasted. (Would I have done differently? At the age I'm at now, 56? Yeah, I'd have stuck it out. As a very young man? Probably would've given in to the fear, no doubt about it.) If they'd stuck with taking care of Bay 13, who knows what their destiny would have been? (One or more turned into a pro-Vorlon Morden? LOL, you never know.)

I have to wonder, though - surely EF intelligence put someone in the maintenance staff to spy on Kosh or his ship? If true, running away wouldn't be at all good for one's career.

What do my fellow B5 fans think?

When I first saw this scene as a teen, I found the lady's parroting of Clark's talking point to be a little obvious. I now think differently.

"Shadow Dancing" (s3e21)

So I was watching the Expanse with my better half, and since I'm a half season ahead of her I was watching B5 on my laptop till she gets caught up.

And I was thinking, if you remove the pronto-molecule stuff it is conceivable that the expanse is a prequel to B5. And after I said that out loud, we got into a fight that is coming close to ending this relationship.

And because I am never going to find another girl who's idea of a date night is beer, pizza, and bad scifi movies. We agreed to let you guys settle the argument for us.

Welp I lost, we both forgot the dates. Now I need to go wash a cat (an actual cat mind out of the gutter pervert)

(some dates are educated guesses based on canon novels and in-program dialogue)

1991: USSR dissolved (relevant to San Diego bombing)

1991-2084: Vorlons begin to introduce telepathy in humans, first generations of human telepaths born

2084: "Earth Central" begins tracking human telepaths (presumably select nations such as the USA , Netherlands , South Africa, Japan)

2085-2156: Compulsory registration of telepaths begins , MetaPol is founded to enforce this (psi cops exist prior to psi corps)

2157: Centauri Republic make contact, Earth Alliance made official, numerous nations join

2161: Psi Corps founded with the increase in trade with aliens requiring commercial telepaths in negotiations

2230-2232: Dilgar War

2244: First contact with Minbari etc

Anyone else ever notice that the 2 existential questions asked by Morden and the Vorlons are precisely the only 2 questions the interviewer asks in Kieślowski's famous (to cinephiles anyway) short film Talking Heads?

TBF The Deconstruction of Falling Stars now watches like an Idiots Guide to Gaslighting!

I am of course talking about the end of "Legacies" after they see Alisa off together. Talia asks to buy Susan a drink, and Susan specifies it will have to be coffee.

Consider what had already been established about how bad the mass produced synthetic coffee on the station was, and how good the coffee was from the plant Susan inherited from Laurel Takashima.

In addition to the obvious connotations of the scene, Susan's unspoken knowledge of how much of a downgrade of beverage experience she was aiming for says a lot about her desired experience being the company rather than the beverage.

Interesting, yes?

"Falling Toward Apotheosis" (s4e4)

Was looking for a nice B5 shirt & came across this monstrosity.

There is knock-offs, & then there is this. Not even gonna get into that station. What in Delen's crysyalsis are those names?!

Does anyone know of any marxist critiques of babylon 5? I'm a huge fan and have watched the series the whole way through at least 3 times, but this most recent time a few things bothered me. As an Amerikan it's very cathartic to watch antifascist scifi at the moment, but the resistence comes entirely from the military. Where the masses who are barely seen at all, are portrayed as either brainwashed chuds or passive victims outside of the Mars Resistence. JMS also fails to show the class character of fascism, instead focusing on aesthetics, censorship, brutality, and internal and external enemies. Likewise it arises, at least in part, due to an actual external threat to Earth rather than the internal contradictions of capitalist liberal democracy. I think JMS(' writing in B5) is class-blind in general, he shows poverty in a sympathetic light, but didn't even write By Any Means Necessary. I'd like to hear other people's thoughts through that lens.

Edits: I wasn't trying to criticize all of JMS' work, it's not like I've seen it all

Clunky, poorly worded in-joke from a different community

Previous parodies:

• Season 2: Full House
• Season 3: Dallas
• Season 5: The West Wing

Someone many disliked but made a lot of salient points in retrospect.

Introduced change/shakes things up. (Troi in a uniform. +++)

Working on some new renders. I plan to recreate some scenes from the show with modern CGI. This is a proof of concept of the jumpgate in early stages.

Credits: Omega destroyer model by Chris Clark and starfury model by Hangar.b.productions

EDIT: Thanks for all the feedback! I have made a lot of changes based on what everyone has said. I have posted a revision in the comments which looks much better! I don't want to spam my progress so I'll return once I have completed something substantial such as a battle sequence :)

"A Distant Star" (s2e4)