2258: "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 out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and wanderers; 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."

                                             - Commander Jeffrey Sinclair

MIDNIGHT ON THE FIRING LINE (1x01 - #93103) - 1/24/94
In a distant galaxy, the planet Raghesh 3 is home to a peaceful agricultural colony for the alien Centauri race. An enemy race, The Narn, attacks the planet with a fleet of powerful warships and news of this slaughter causes angry debate among the four alien ambassadors stationed aboard Babylon 5, a huge, politically neutral space station operated by the Earth Alliance.

Londo Mollari, the Centauri ambassador, accuses G'Kar, the Narn representative, and his leaders of attempting to slaughter innocent farmers. G'Kar reminds Londo that the Centauri originally invaded the Narn stronghold on Raghesh 3 over a hundred years ago, and the Narns are simply regaining what they believe is rightfully theirs.

Meanwhile, Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, leader of the Babylon 5 crew, investigates a series of attacks on cargo ships by space pirates. Assisted by Michael Garibaldi, his chief security officer, and Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova, Sinclair also maintains peace aboard Babylon 5 until the security council, including Minbari Ambassador Delenn and the mysterious Vorlon Ambassador, Kosh Naranek can debate the Centauri problem.

Londo is concerned for the safety of his nephew, Carn Mollari (PETER TRENCHER), a scientist stationed on Raghesh 3. Carn sends a message to the Babylon 5 council, stating that his people requested Narn assistance to liberate their colony from Centauri's oppressive rule. Defending his nephew's loyalty, Londo insists that Carn was forced to make that statement by the Narns to discourage any intervention. But despite Londo's objection, the council votes not to investigate the incident.

Commanding Babylon 5's fighter squadron, Sinclair chases space pirates away from the neutral sector. However, he captures a Narn advisor from the pirates' command ship and presents him to G'Kar. Sinclair accuses the Narns of selling weapons to the pirates and profiting from the pirates' random violent attacks.

Sinclair also captures evidence of a monitored transmission between the Raghesh 3 invasion fleet and the Narn military command that proves Carn was forced to make his statement and confirms the attack on the space colony was indeed a hostile takeover. Sinclair tells G'Kar to advise his leaders to withdraw the Narn forces from Raghesh 3 or he will present the evidence to the council, which will prompt the other races to collectively retaliate against the Narns. G'Kar reluctantly complies, and peace is temporarily restored.

SOUL HUNTER (1x02 - #93102) - 1/30/94
When an unidentified spacecraft hurtles toward Babylon 5 on a collision course, Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova and their crew safely captures the craft.

The station's medical officer, Dr. Stephen Franklin, and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi inspect the injured alien pilot and its ship. Ambassador Delenn, representing the Minbari Empire, is horrified to see that it's the Soul Hunter (W. MORGAN SHEPPARD), a feared enemy who captures and collects the souls of dying aliens.

Delenn begs Sinclair to kill the evil stranger, but Sinclair doesn't agree with her religious fears--until he witnesses the Hunter's chilling behavior at the exact moment when a man dies elsewhere inside Babylon 5. The Hunter can literally see the man's soul leave it's body--and he reacts with ecstasy. To calm the intense fears of the aliens aboard the space station, Sinclair orders the Soul Hunter to leave Babylon 5.

Before he departs, Delenn confronts the Soul Hunter, demanding the location of his "collection" - the assortment of trapped souls he always carries. The Soul Hunter recognizes Delenn as being from the Minbari's highest ruling class. Why, he asks, is she posing as a mere diplomatic ambassador aboard Babylon 5? He escapes from Garibaldi's security guards, retrieves his collection pouch from his ship and hides in a deserted construction zone of the station.

Soul Hunter #2 (JOHN SNYDER) arrives in pursuit, revealing to Sinclair that his colleague is a fanatical renegade who murders aliens instead of waiting for them to die. As the Soul Hunter kidnaps Delenn and slowly drains her blood to preserve her soul without trauma, Sinclair and Garibaldi find his hiding place. Sinclair turns the Soul Hunter's soul-stealing machine against the Soul Hunter and encases him in one of the "soul stones."

Dr. Franklin nurses Delenn back to health, but after learning her true identity from the Soul Hunter, Sinclair is also suspicious of her reasons for posing as a Minbari ambassador.

BORN TO THE PURPLE (1x03 - #93104) - 2/7/94
Londo Mollari, the Centauri ambassador stationed on Babylon 5, is infatuated with Adira Tyree (FABIANA UDENIO), an exotic Centauri dancer who performs on the recreation level of the gigantic space station. Their affair often distracts him from his political duties. Station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair is annoyed when Londo arrives late to a treaty negotiation with the Narn ambassador, G'Kar and his imposing new assistant, Ko 'Dath (MARY WORONOV).

Adira is later confronted by Trakis (CLIVE REVILL), the alien slave trader who owns her contract. Trakis orders Adira to seduce Londo and get a copy of his "purple files," a private collection of scandalous secrets about Centauri royal families. Trakis hopes to sell the files to G'Kar who will generously pay for any information he can use to unbalance the treaty negotiations in his favor.

Adira hesitates to obey Trakis because she genuinely cares for Londo and doesn't want to ruin his political career. However, to grain her freedom from Trakis, she weakens Londo with a drug, fits him with s small mind-controlling device and forces him to reveal his personal computer access code for the incriminating files. She transfers the data to a tiny memory crystal and sadly bids Londo farewell as he sleeps from the drug's aftereffects.

Suddenly deciding not to betray Londo, Adira keeps the crystal and hides within the labyrinth of Babylon 5. Trakis and his hired killers eventually find her and take the crystal while the killers guard her in a secluded corner of the space station, waiting to depart with her on the next shuttle flight.

When Londo realizes that Adira disappeared and his purple files are missing, he begs Sinclair to help him save his career. Pretending to favor the Narns, Sinclair arranges a meeting between Trakis and G'Kar for the sale of the crystal. In attendance is Talia Winters (ANDREA THOMPSON), Babylon 5's resident telepath, who mentions Adira's disappearance, then uses her psychic powers to read Trakis' mind and learn her location as he thinks about her. Security guards rescue Adira from the killers as Londo forcefully retrieves the crystal from Trakis.

Sinclair agrees not to arrest Trakis if he will release Adira from her contract, and he complies. Adira apologizes to Londo for deceiving him as she boards her departing shuttle. He forgives her and invites her to return to him after she's experienced some of the opportunities awaiting her in life as a free woman.

INFECTION (1x04 - #93101) - 2/14/94
Dr. Vance Hendricks (DAVID McCALLUM), a respected archaeologist, discovers several strange artifacts on a barren planet that provide the secret to organic technology - they are blueprints for living machines. Helped by his assistant. Nelson Drake, Hendricks smuggles the mysterious relics aboard the gigantic space station, Babylon 5. Hendricks hopes to discover the secrets of the objects with the unsuspecting aid of his former student, Dr. Stephen Franklin, the station's medical officer.

Meanwhile, the station's commander, Jeffrey Sinclair and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi investigate the death of a security clerk. They don't know that Drake murdered the clerk to get the relics aboard Babylon 5 without the required quarantine inspection. As the scientists experiment on the objects, Drake begins to transform into a cybernetic killer - part human, part machine and attacks Dr. Franklin.

As Franklin recovers, Hendricks confesses the truth to Sinclair and Garibaldi. He illegally smuggled the object into the laboratory hoping to sell the secret to a wealthy Earth-based weapons corporation. He also explains that Drake was accidentally infected with the cells of the mechanized organisms. As Drake transforms completely into a humanoid machine, he prowls throughout the station, absorbing its energy and killing anyone he believes to be a threat.

Franklin isolates the genetic code that motivates the cybernetic Drake to kill. Over a thousand years ago, the civilization on the barren planet created artificial soldiers to cleanse their race of genetic impurities. Unfortunately, this desire to create a perfect world was interpreted too literally by these cybernauts and they destroyed all life on the planet.

Sinclair finally confronts the unstoppable Drake with these facts, and Drake's artificial memory destroys itself out of shame for failing in its mission. Drake recovers from his transformations but is arrested for the murder of the security clerk. Franklin rejects Hendricks's plan to help him sell the rest of the objects that allows Garibaldi's men to arrest the greedy scientist.

PARLIAMENT OF DREAMS (1x05 - #93108) - 2/21/94
To help promote intergalactic peace, the Earth Alliance hosts a religious festival aboard Babylon 5, the gigantic politically neutral space station. Representatives from every alien race arrive to demonstrate the customs of their diverse religions.

G'Kar, the militant Narn ambassador, meets Tu'Pari (THOMAS KOPACHE), a courier from their homeworld, who gives him a data crystal from Du'Rog (MARK HENDRICKSON), G'Kar's political enemy. On this video message, Du'Rog claims that his own political career was ruined by G'Kar's ambitious treachery. Dying of an incurable disease, Du'Rog also wants G'Kar to die. He's hired an unknown assassin to murder G'Kar during the festival.

G'Kar suspects every stranger arriving at the space station, including his new diplomatic aide, Na'Toth (CAITLIN BROWN). She claims to be innocent and reminds G'Kar that members of the Narn assassination guild leave a black rose near their intended victims. When G'Kar awakens with a black rose on his pillow, he hires a hulking alien bodyguard to protect him. The unknown assassin kills the guard, and Babylon 5's security Chief, Michael Garibaldi investigates.

Meanwhile, Station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair reunites with his frequent lover, Catherine Sakai (JULIA NICKSON), a geological surveyor who arrives on Babylon 5 to meet with some alien mining executives. Sinclair and Catherine's conflicting careers and expectations frequently make them quarrel. After reluctantly agreeing to try once again to have a committed relationship, Catherine promises to return to Babylon 5 in a few weeks so they can be together.

During one religious demonstration, Minbari Ambassador Delenn and her new associate, Lennier conduct a ceremony where a spiritual rebirth supposedly occurs after eating a special fruit. The ritual also aids Delenn with her secret mission - to make sure Sinclair still does not remember the 24 mysterious hours of his war experience against the Minbari years ago. If Sinclair remembers, Delenn has orders to kill him.

Later, while meeting with Babylon 5's Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova, Sinclair expresses sudden suspicion about the intentions and trustworthiness of the enigmatic Vorlon ambassador, Kosh Naranek.

As the festival concludes, Tu'Pari, the actual assassin, abducts G'Kar into the cluttered interior level of Babylon 5 known as "Downbelow," and tortures him in preparation to completing his assassin's contract. Luckily, Na'Toth follows them and helps G'Kar defeat Tu'Pari in a brutal fist fight. Failing to fulfill the terms of his contract, Tu'Pari flees from the space station on the next shuttle flight before the Narn assassin's guild arrives to punish him.

MIND WAR (1x06 - #93110) - 2/28/94
Jason Ironheart (WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG), a fugitive from the Earth Alliance's military Psi Corps, arrives on Babylon 5, the gigantic intergalactic space station. He is a gifted telepath who was the subject of a psychological experiment to expand the limits of psychic powers with special drugs and therapy. Two Psi Cops, Mr. Bester (WALTER KOENIG) and Ms. Kelsey (FELICITY WATERMAN), searching for Ironheart, arrive soon after and demand that Station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi help them find him. They believe Ironheart intends to reveal military secrets to Earth's alien enemies.

Eluding their search, Ironheart hides among the crowded Babylon 5 populace and confronts his trusted former lover and Psi Corps pupil, Talia Winters, the station's resident commercial telepath. He tells her that after months painful genetic surgery and injections, he mutated to the point where he can destroy molecular matter with his thought waves. Since the psi cops can't control him, they want to dissect him, learn the chemical composition of his superpowers and use it as a military weapon. Ironheart asks Talia to help him escape in a shuttle craft before he loses control of his volatile impulses and involuntarily destroys the entire space station.

Meanwhile, Sinclair's lover, Catherine Sakai (JULIA NICKSON), a geological surveyor, is hired by an industrial company from Earth to find a rare mineral on the planet Sigma 957, an uninhabitable world in a far corner of the galaxy controlled by the Narn empire. When Catherine asks Ambassador G'Kar , the Narn representative stationed on Babylon 5, for permission to survey the planet, he warns her not to go into that ominous sector of space. She defies him and departs in an exploratory vehicle while G'Kar orders two Narn warships to pursue her.

Approaching Sigma 957, Catherine's vehicle is suddenly dwarfed by an enormous alien spacecraft. When it disappears in a blinding light, Catherine's incapacitated vehicle falls into a collision orbit with the planet. Luckily, the Narn warship arrive to rescue her. G'Kar explains to Catherine that for millions of years, his people have avoided Sigma 957 because of the unexplainable events that frequently occur there, analogous to an ant trying to explain the intrusion of a human fingertip into its nest.

Back on Babylon 5, Ironheart's uncontrollable psychic waves begin to such the living space around him into a self-destructive fourth dimension, destroying a corridor of the space station. He uses his remaining strength to allow Talia and Sinclair near him to convince them of the danger of his constantly mutating mind power to negotiate his escape from Babylon 5.

Ironheart easily deflects the psi cops' attempt to capture him as he's led to a shuttle craft and ejected into space by himself. As the crew watches, Ironheart's craft transforms into a benevolent humanoid apparition, bigger than Babylon 5 itself. In a final gesture of grateful love, Ironheart gives Talia the telekinetic mind power that she's always dreamed of possessing, then dissolves into the molecular fabric of the universe to experience the next stage of his psychic mutation.

THE WAR PRAYER (1x07 - #93107) - 3/7/94
A group of racial fanatics known as the Home Guard is attacking prominent aliens aboard Babylon 5, the gigantic peacekeeping space station. When the resident alien ambassadors demand that the fanatics be arrested, Station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi assure them that the crimes are being investigated.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova meets arriving passenger Malcolm Biggs (TRISTAN ROGERS), a special lover whom she hasn't seen in eight years. Malcolm claims he wants to renew their romance. He rents office space aboard Babylon 5 to begin a new business and be near Ivanova. While she appreciates his attentions, Ivanova warns him that she's dedicated to her duties as an officer.

Two other passengers, Kiron Maray (RODNEY EASTMAN) and Aria Tensus (DANICA McKELLAR), a young Centauri couple, are forcibly escorted by security guards to the office of their alien ambassador, Londo Mollari. Refusing to obey the ancient tradition of their race and submit to the prearranged marriages to wealthy nobles selected by their parents, the young lovers stole Centauri credit cards and fled from their planet, hoping to marry each other and start a new life on Babylon 5.

Londo explains that love has no purpose in marriage, but Vir Cotto, his inept assistant and Kiron's cousin, boldly condemns the old tradition, citing Londo's own unhappiness with his three ugly prearranged wives. Reluctantly agreeing with Vir, Londo arranges for Kiron and Aria to live with an influential foster family who will thoroughly teach them Centauri traditions, then marry them "for love" if they still wish it.

As the racial attacks continue, Sinclair and Garibaldi learn that Malcolm is the secret Home Guard organizer. They persuade a shocked Ivanova to help them entrap Malcolm and his unknown compatriots. Pretending to secretly hate all aliens, Sinclair and Ivanova convince Malcolm of their bigotry. As Malcolm tests their loyalty by ordering Sinclair to kill a captive alien, Garibaldi traces their rendezvous with his security monitors and the Home Guard terrorists are arrested.

Ivanova, seeing Malcolm led away in shackles, says good-bye for the last time. She tells Malcolm that the aliens he hates and fears are often much more admirable than people like himself.

AND THE SKY FULL OF STARS (1x08 - #93106) - 3/14/94
For ten years since the Great War between Earth and the alien Minbari race, Jeffrey Sinclair, presently the commander of the Babylon 5 space station, is tortured by nightmares about the Battle of the Line. In this final heroic assault in the Great War, young Sinclair inadvertently led his fighter squadron into a Minbari trap. All Earth ships were destroyed except his own. Twenty-four hours later, the superior Minbari forces unexplainably surrendered to Earth. Unfortunately, Sinclair has no memories of what happened to him during those 24 hours.

Two mysterious beings, known only as Knight One (JUDSON SCOTT) and Knight Two (CHRISTOPHER NEAME), smuggle strange, experimental equipment aboard Babylon 5. They kidnap Sinclair and seclude him in a room deep inside the station. Using advanced drugs and technology, the Knights connect Sinclair to cybernetic inputs that allow their images to interact with the images hidden within Sinclair's memory. The Knights hope to replay and analyze Sinclair's final moments during the battle until they learn what happened to him during that mysterious 24-hour period.

Sinclair's absence is soon discovered by lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi. They order an immediate search of every room on Babylon 5. Delenn, the resident Minbari ambassador, is especially concerned by Sinclair's disappearance.

Meanwhile, the Knights probe Sinclair's subconscious immediately after he purposely crashed his space fighter into a Minbari warship at the climax of the battle. They see Sinclair brought inside the warship with a tractor beam, surrounded by the hooded figures of the Minbari Grey Council, including Delenn. She shoots him with a strange energy discharge, but Sinclair's memory of this pain is so strong that it shocks his mind and body free of the Knights' cybernetic restraints.

Sinclair escapes from the Knights. Security monitors quickly locate him stumbling along a corridor. Under Dr. Stephen Franklin's care, Sinclair soon recovers from his ordeal. Garibaldi arrests the Knights, revealing that they were part of an Earth-based supremacy group who suspected Sinclair of conspiring with the Minbari. Suspicious of Delenn's friendship now that he remembers what she and the Grey Council did to him, Sinclair tells her that his memory is still unclear about what happened after the battle. However, the Grey Council secretly advises Delenn that if Sinclair ever learns the truth, he must die.

DEATHWALKER (1x09 - #93113) - 4/18/94
When Jha'dur (SARAH DOUGLAS), a sinister alien, arrives in disguise on Babylon 5, she is attacked by Na'Toth (CAITLIN BROWN), attach‚ to the Narn ambassador G'Kar (ANDREAS KATSULAS). As Dr. Stephen Franklin (RICHARD BIGGS) dresses Jha'dur's wounds, Na'Toth is questioned by Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE) and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE).

Na'Toth explains that years ago during the interplanetary wars, her grandfather's family was butchered by Jha'dur, an infamous scientist and was criminal then known as DeathWalker, who was famous for her cruel biological experiments. Na'Toth swore to avenge her ancestor's murders.

Meanwhile, Talia Winters (ANDREA THOMPSON), Babylon 5's resident telepath, is hired by the enigmatic Vorlon ambassador, Kosh Naranek, supposedly to secretly monitor his meetings with a humanoid named Abbut (COSIE COSTA). During the sessions between Kosh and Abbut, Talia senses no emotions or thoughts coming from Abbut. However, she experiences brief memories of a terrifying serial killer whose mind she scanned years earlier.

Talia later learns that Abbut is Vicker, a cybernetic video recorder, who tricked her with his conversations into feeling memories of her most vulnerable emotions, then imprinted her feats on a data crystal for Kosh. Garibaldi and Sinclair suggests that Kosh hired Abbut to discover Talia's greatest fears and plans to use them against her in some future confrontation.

Meanwhile, Sinclair's Earth Alliance superiors order him to Jha'dur to Earth immediately. Scientists are eager to perfect her promising experiments for a youth serum. However, Ambassador Kalika (ROBIN CURTIS), representing the many minority alien races aboard Babylon 5, demands that Jha'dur be tried for her war crimes against their planets by the station's League of Non-Aligned Worlds. To avoid a riot, Sinclair agrees to conduct a hearing.

Evidence confirms that Jha'dur is DeathWalker. Her serum was developed by performing sadistic experiments on the alien minorities for many years. however, for their own political self-interests, a bare majority of the ambassadors, with an abstention from Kosh, vote to send Jha'dur to Earth. Outrages, Kalika and the alien minorities that she represents reject the League's decision. A short time later, fleets of their warships surround Babylon 5.

Sinclair negotiates a compromise with Kalika. A coalition of alien scientists will accompany Jha'dur to Earth and help perfect the serum for the benefit of all races. Afterward, Jha'dur will be officially tried for her crimes. However, Jha'dur tells Sinclair that the active ingredient in her serum is taken from the living tissue of another being. Each donor must die so the recipient can live forever. The scientists who control the serum will become greater butchers than Jha'dur ever was.

As Jha'dur's transport shuttle departs, a massive Vorlon warship appears and destroys it. Having resolved the moral dilemma for everyone, Ambassador Kosh tells the assembled leaders that they are not ready for immortality.

BELIEVERS (1x10 - #93105) - 4/25/94
Dr. Stephen Franklin, chief medical officer on the space station Babylon 5, examines Shon (JONATHAN CHARLES KAPLAN), the young child of a visiting alien family. He tell the parents, M'ola (TRICIA O'NEIL) and Tharg (STEPHEN LEE), that a simple operation is needed to remove a blockage from Shon's throat. However, the family's ancient religion dictates that any puncture of the body allows the spirit to escape, leaving a carcass that can't be redeemed by their God. Dr. Franklin insists that Shon will die without the procedure, but they refuse to give the doctor permission to operate.

Furious that the child will die because of an alien superstition, Dr. Franklin files an official complaint with station commander Jeffrey Sinclair. By the laws of the Earth Alliance that controls Babylon 5, he asks Sinclair to overrule the aliens' parental authority and approve the operation.

Fearing that Sinclair will decide in favor of Dr. Franklin, M'ola and Tharg asks the four alien ambassadors to plead their case before Babylon 5's security council and prevent Dr. Franklin from disobeying their religious belief. G'Kar, Londo Mollari, Ambassador Delenn and Kosh Naranek all refuse to get involved with the politically sensitive moral dilemma.

After learning how devoutly the alien family believes in the body's purity, Sinclair realizes that defying their faith would contradict Babylon 5's humanitarian mission to be a peaceful galactic oasis that respects the unique rights of every alien race. He forbids Dr. Franklin to operate on Shon.

After M'ola and Tharg say a final good-bye to their dying child, Dr. Franklin and his assistant, Dr. Maya Hernandez (SILVANA GALLARDO), risk their careers by performing the operation. Obeying their medical ethics, they're convinced that once the aliens see their child alive and healthy, they'll realize the error of their superstitious judgment.

Even though Shon recovers completely, when M'ola and Tharg see his neck incision, they curse him as an undead thing without a soul. Shon allows them to destroy his body in a sacrificial ritual. M'ola and Tharg concede that Dr. Franklin was obeying his own morality but can't forgive his desecration of their child. Dr. Franklin realizes that the multi-cultural galaxy is filled with many different definitions of morality. He'll forever be haunted by the ordeal of Shon's struggle between life and death.

SURVIVORS (1x11 - #93111) - 5/2/94
As the Earthforce president and his staff travel to Babylon 5, the huge intergalactic space station, to dedicate the opening of a new docking bay, an explosion destroys part of the construction site. A worker, Nolan (JOSE ROSARIO), is critically injured. Major Lianna Kemmer (ELAINE THOMAS), the president's security adviser, and her assistant, Agent Cutter (TOM DONALDSON), arrive to inspect Babylon 5's safety precautions.

Lianna is hostile to Babylon 5's security chief, Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE). Suspecting a personal grievance that might hamper the investigation, Station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE), confronts Garibaldi about Lianna. Garibaldi confesses that 13 years ago, while working as a guard for a mining company, her was close friends with Frank Kemmer, a pilot, and his 15-year-old daughter, Lianna. They helped him stay sober when the pressure of defying corrupt supervisors tempted him to drink too much alcohol. When the vengeful supervisors sabotaged a launch pad that accidentally killed Frank, Garibaldi was blamed for being careless. The mining company edited the accident report to avoid a scandal, but Lianna never believed that her "Uncle Mike" was innocent of killing her father. Garibaldi became a guilt-ridden alcoholic for several years.

Ignoring the protests of Dr. Stephen Franklin (RICHARD BIGGS), Babylon 5's medical officer, Lianna interrogates Nolan. Before he dies, Nolan insists that Garibaldi put a bomb in the construction site. Lianna temporarily relieves Garibaldi of his duty when Cutter finds evidence of the bomb and a detailed blueprint of the site in Garibaldi's living quarters. Lianna arrests Garibaldi for sabotage, but after proclaiming his innocence to her once again, Garibaldi flees into the crowded interior of Babylon 5. Convinced that Garibaldi is loyal, Sinclair orders his own security man, Lou Welch (DAVID CROWLEY), to search Nolan's living quarters.

While eluding Lianna and Cutter, Garibaldi frantically searches Babylon 5 to learn who incriminated him as the saboteur. He hides in a tavern in Downbelow, the station's equivalent of a criminal underworld, and escapes his troubles by drinking., As the president's ship docks, Lianna and Cutter capture Garibaldi and take him to his security office., Welch returns with evidence that Nolan belonged to a subversive radical group called the Home Guard. Nolan himself was the saboteur who inadvertently triggered the explosion intended to kill the Earthforce president.

Lianna and Garibaldi hurry to the docking bay to inspect for more bombs. There they meet Cutter, another home Guard terrorist in disguise, who is preparing to detonate another explosion after the president's speech. Garibaldi fights with Cutter and kills him before he can activate the bomb.

After the ceremony, Garibaldi thanks Sinclair for his devotion. Their personal friendship is reaffirmed. Lianna apologizes to Garibaldi for blaming him for her father's death. After reaffirming their friendship as well, Lianna departs with the president's staff, promises to visit Babylon 5 again to see her "Uncle Mike."

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY (1x12 - #93114) - 5/9/94
A tragic accident occurs in one of the overcrowded loading docks on Babylon 5, the huge intergalactic space station. A computer control error causes a Narn transport ship to crash against the dock, damaging the structure and killing a worker. The dead man's brother, dock chief Eduardo Delvientos (JOSE REY), blames the death on obsolete equipment and the terrible working conditions imposed by the Earth Alliance Senate. Neooma Connally (KATY BOYER), the union worker's representative, confronts station commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE). She demands better wages, equipment and work schedules.

Among the cargo destroyed in the accident is a G'Quan Eth, a rare flower being shipped to G'Kar (ANDREAS KATSULAS), the Narn ambassador stationed aboard Babylon 5. G'Kar is desperate to find another G'Quan Eth before the hour when sunlight strikes a sacred mountain on his homeworld and all devout Narns must perform a religious ritual with the flower. Unfortunately, the only other G'Quan Eth on Babylon 5 belongs to G'Kar's spiteful rival, Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari (PETER JURASIK), who stole it from Narn to enjoy its powers as a drug.

Londo refuses to sell the flower, so G'Kar vengefully orders his attaché, Na'Toth (CAITLIN BROWN), to steal a sacred stature from the Centauri cultural center. This spiteful battle continues until the moment for G'Kar's ritual passes. Finally Commander Sinclair convinces Londo to sell the flower. He also convinces G'Kar that because of the vast distance between Narn and Babylon 5, the sunlight that struck the sacred mountain won't arrive at the space station for several hours. Impressed by Sinclair's logic, G'Kar happily prepares for his ritual with the G'Quan Eth.

Reluctantly obeying the wishes of the Senate, Sinclair refuses to address the union's problems. Connally orders her workers to desert their shifts. Dozens of cargo ships wait to be unloaded at the empty docks. The Senate immediately send Orin Zento (JOHN SNYDER), a callous labor negotiator, to Babylon 5 to resolve the conflict.

When talks between Zento and Connally fail to satisfy the workers, Zento produces a special military order to force them back to work. The worked riot, clashing with Babylon 5's security force, led by security chief Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE). Many people are injured before Sinclair, opposing Zento's tactics, takes commands, Under the authority of the military order, Sinclair directs over a million credits from the station's military budget for immediate wage increases and equipment repair. He also pardons the rebellious union workers.

Outraged by Sinclair's political betrayal, Zento returns to the Senate. He condemns Sinclair's actions and questions his loyalty to the Earth Alliance. Though peace returns to Babylon 5, Sinclair realizes that he's possible jeopardized his career by defying the powerful politicians on Earth.

SIGNS AND PORTENTS (1x13 - #93116) - 5/16/94
When a small fleet of unknown space raiders rob and destroy cargo vessels near Babylon 5, the gigantic interstellar space station, Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE) order Lieutenant Command Susan Ivanova (CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN) and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE) to prepare to defend the station.

Increasingly troubled by memories of his 24-hour amnesia during a crucial battle in the Minbari war 11 years earlier, Sinclair confides in Garibaldi. Sinclair thinks he was hypnotized and questioned by the Minbari Grey Council, then returned to his ship after the stronger Minbari military force surrendered to Earth. Garibaldi offers to help solve the mystery using his law enforcement contacts. He doesn't know that Delenn (MIRA FURLAN), a Grey Council member and the Minbari ambassador on Babylon 5 is ordered to kill Sinclair if he ever learns the truth.

Londo Mollari (PETER JURASIK), the resident Centauri ambassador, hires an alien archaeologist who retrieves The Eye, an ancient Centauri symbol of power that was stolen over a century ago from the Emperor's palace. To advance his own political career, Londo offers The Eye to Lord Kiro (GERRIT GRAHAM), the Centauri Emperor's heir, as he arrives on Babylon 5, accompanied by his aunt, Lady Ladira (FREDI OLSTER), a royal prophetess. As they speak, Ladira experiences two frightening visions: Kiro's death enveloped by shadows and an explosion that destroys Babylon 5.

Morden (ED WASSER), a sinister agent secretly working for the powerful mercenaries known as The Shadowmen, arrives on Babylon 5 to privately interview the various ambassadors, repeatedly asking them the puzzling question, "What do you want?"

Meanwhile, preparing to attack Babylon 5, the space raiders lure the station's starfuries, commanded by Ivanova and Garibaldi, into a distant sector of space. Three raiders abduct Kira and The Eye into a Centauri transport shuttle and escape.

Aboard the shuttle, Kiro is betrayed by the raiders whom he secretly hired to abduct him. He intended to return to Centauri Prime and, unhindered by Londo or Ladira, use The Eye to proclaim himself the new Emperor. As the raiders plot to ransom Kira and The Eye, two Shadowmen cruisers destroy the shuttle. The Babylon 5 fighter planes defeat most of the other raiders in battle.

As the Babylon 5 crew celebrates victory, Ladira senses that her first vision came true. Morden return The Eye in its charred container to Londo. Garibaldi tells Sinclair what he learned: Sinclair was chosen to command Babylon 5 by the Minbari. Finally, Ladira reveals her second vision, involving the destruction of Babylon 5, to Sinclair and prays that he can prevent it from happening.

TKO (1x14 - #93119) - 5/23/94
Walker Smith (GREG McKINNEY), a brawny prizefighter from Earth, arrives on Babylon 5 and visits his longtime friends, the station's security chief, Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE). As they eat dinner together, the two friends reminisce about their past. Walker explains how he lost his chance at a world-championship boxing match on Earth.

Walker had a reputation as an honest, drug-free athlete until he refused to cooperate with the gamblers of a crime syndicate who wanted him to purposely lose the championship fight. They altered his medical records to show the news media that Walker used illegal drugs. Disgraced and unable to box professionally, Walker reveals that he came to Babylon 5 to reclaim his honor by becoming the first human to fight in the Mutai, a fierce sporting event hosted by the alien minority races aboard the space station.

Meanwhile, Rabbi Yossel Koslov (THEODORE BIKEL), representing the ancient Jewish religion that still flourishes on Earth, arrives on Babylon 5 to console Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova (CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN) due to the recent death of her father, Andrei (ROBERT PHALEN). Koslov is a longtime friend of the Ivanov family. Even though Andrei disowned Susan for joining the Earthforce military service several years ago, he asked Koslov to give her a treasured heirloom upon his death. Koslov also helps Susan release her emotional grief and anger from lifetime of conflict with Andrei and joins her in an overdue "shivah," a Jewish mourning ritual.

Walker is rejected by the Muta-Do (SOON-TECK OH), the Mutai trainer, who insists that humans aren't allowed to compete against aliens. Caliban (DON STROUD), an old and battered Mutai fighter, secretly tells Walker how to circumvent the Muta-Do's authority. Walker and Garibaldi attend a Mutai event featuring the Sho-Rin Gyor (JAMES JUDE COURTNEY), the greatest Mutai champion, and watch him defeat his challengers in a sport that is similar to but much more brutal than the boxing matches on Earth.

As part of the regular event, Gyor challenges amateurs from the crowd to fight him. With the proper insults learned from Caliban, Walker provokes Gyor. Forbidden to oppose the champion's decision when he accepts a challenge, the Muta-Do reluctantly announces a date for the match between Walker and Gyor. Caliban, eager to avenge his championship defeat against Gyor years ago, helps Walker train for his event and assists Garibaldi as Walker's ringside assistant during the actual match.

After several bloody and violent rounds of combat, the Muta-Do declares the fighters evenly matched and stops the fight. As the predominantly alien crowd cheers equally for Gyor and Walker, the champion offers his handshake to the human out of respect for his strength and endurance. The Muta-Do proclaims that humans may now legally compete in the Mutai. Walker thanks Garibaldi and Caliban for helping him regain his honor as a professional athlete and retires to an agricultural planet to become a farmer.

GRAIL (1x15 - #93109) - 7/4/94
Aldous Gajic (DAVID WARNER), a spiritual crusader on a quest for the mystic "Holy Grail," arrives on Babylon 5 to consult with the various alien ambassadors. Explorers wishing to cure the evils of mankind have sought it for hundreds of years. Gajic's quest has taken him from the forgotten sanctuaries of Earth to every inhabited galaxy.

Meanwhile, Deuce (aka Desmond Muzyshenko) (WILLIAM SANDERSON), a crime boss in "Downbelow," Babylon 5's criminal underworld, threatens Jinxo (aka Thomas Jordan) (TOM BOOKER), a petty thief and former construction worker. Jinxo must repay Deuce a huge gambling debt. To demonstrate his power, Deuce forces Jinxo to watch the "execution" of a witness. The witness planned to testify against Deuce in a trial before Babylon 5's judicial authority, the Ombuds Wellington (JIM NORTON). A hideous, tentacled created known as a Na'ka'leen Feeder drains the witness of her memory. The Feeder is disguised in the same non-descript environmental exoskeleton worn by the enigmatic Vorlon ambassador, Kosh Naranek.

Security Chief Michael Garibaldi apprehends Jinxo stealing Gajic's credit card and brings him to Wellington. About to be expelled from Babylon 5, Jinxo desperately explains that he was a worker on the four preview Babylon space stations, and each time he left the stations, they collapsed or exploded. Despite his current problems with Deuce, Jinxo fears that if he ever leaves Babylon 5, it will be destroyed as well. Doubting the curse but impressed with Jinxo's compassion for the station's occupants, Gajic offer to rehabilitate Jinxo, and Wellington pardons him.

When Garibaldi's guard find the near-lifeless trial witness, they suspect Deuce is responsible but cannot prove it. Dr. Stephen Franklin, Babylon 5's medical officer, matches the witness's symptoms and the symptoms of several previous victims with the known results of a Feeder attack. Station Commander Jeffrey Sinclair and Garibaldi suspect that Deuce smuggled the creature aboard to enforce his criminal rule. Since Feeder's are indigenous to a Centauri sector of the galaxy, Sinclair consults Londo Mollari , the Centauri ambassador, who expresses his race's mortal terror of the Feeder.

Gajic and Jinxo develop a close friendship as they interview the ambassadors about the elusive Grail. When Deuce's henchmen abduct Gajic and Wellington to satisfy the Feeder's hunger, Jinxo frantically leads Sinclair and Garibaldi to Deuce's lair in Downbelow. Garibaldi's guards join the fight, and after an exhausting chase, they subdue Deuce and his henchmen and kill the Feeder. Unfortunately, Gajic is mortally wounded protecting Jinxo. As the crusader dies, Jinxo promises to continue searching for the Holy Grail.

EYES (1x16 - #93122) - 7/11/94
Colonel Ari Ben Zayn (GREGORY MARTIN), an undercover investigator nicknamed "Eyes" from the Earthforce Bureau of Internal Affairs, arrives on Babylon 5, the huge interstellar space station built by the Earth Alliance. He is accompanied by Harriman Gray (JEFFREY COMBS), a military specialist from the Psi Corps, Eathforce's division of genetically-enhanced telepaths. They tell station commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE) that they've been ordered by Earthforce Security to evaluate the loyalty of the space station's command staff.

Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova (CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN) doesn't want to submit to Gray's mindscan, a telepathic survey of her personal thoughts. She resents the Psi Corps' authority and has painful personal memories of her mother, a disobedient telepath who died after her powers were neutralized by the Psi Corps. Ivanova threatens to resign from her command rather than allow Gray to expose her most private emotions. However, Sinclair assures her that he'll delay Zayn's unwarranted investigation.

Ben Zayn appoints Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE), Babylon 5's security chief and Sinclair's close friend, to be his assistant, ordering him to collect all of the biographical data on the command staff from the computer files. Garibaldi reluctantly obeys. However, he suspects that the investigators have a personal vendetta against Sinclair./ Therefore, he secretly retrieves data on Zayn and Gray.

Meanwhile, Sinclair challenged Ben Zayn's authority by invoking a little-known legal article of the Earthforce Code that requires a special military review prior to officers complying with the mindscan of a Psi Corps telepath. Gray, who is sympathetic to Ivanova's desire for privacy, questions Ben Zayn's motives. He agrees with Sinclair and refuses to scan the officers. Enraged by Sinclair's bold defiance, Ben Zayn assumes command of Babylon 5 and threatens to court-martial Sinclair.

Garibaldi collects the results of his computer data search and tells Sinclair that Ben Zayn was originally selected to be the commander of Babylon 5 during its construction. But because of the unusual political demands by the Minbari, an alien race vanquished by the Earth Alliance in an interstellar war, Sinclair was unexpectedly given the prestigious command.

When Ben Zayn uses his self-appointed power to order Gray to mindscan the command staff, Sinclair demands that Ben Zayn be scanned as well. Sinclair provoke Ben Zayn, who becomes furious before the assembled officer, while Gray confirms Ben Zayn's vengeful ambition with a mindscan. When Ben Zayn threatens everyone with a PPG, Gray telepathically causes him to drop it and Garibaldi arrests the insane "Eyes."

LEGACIES (1x17 - #93115) - 7/18/94
Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE) and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE) are surprised when a Minbari war cruiser arrives at Babylon 5, the peaceful intergalactic space station. Resident Minbari ambassador Delenn (MIRA FURLAN) explains that officers of the Minbari warrior caste, led by Shai Alit Neroon (JOHN VICKERY), are escorting the corpse of their great war hero, Branmer, for memorial display at various Minbari outposts throughout the galaxy.

Sinclair permits the cruiser to dock, even though he's reminded of his own encounter with Branmer during The Battle of the Line, a fateful clash in the war between Earth and Minbar several years earlier. After this battle, the stronger Minbari forces inexplicable surrendered. After preparing a place of honor for the overnight memorial, Sinclair and Garibaldi watch the Minbari gather near Branmer's coffin. But when the lid is raised, everyone is horrified to see that the corpse is missing. Garibaldi leads a frantic search to find it.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova (CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN) and Talia Winters (ANDREA THOMPSON), Babylon 5's resident commercial telepath, rescue Alisa Beldon (GRACE UNA), a 14-year-old human orphan, after she collapses in the crowded Babylon 5 marketplace. With the help of Dr. Stephen Franklin (RICHARD BIGGS), the resident medical officer, Talia learns that Alisa is a powerful undocumented telepath.

Talia takes custody of Alisa, hoping to prepare her for the Psi Corps, the military branch of the Earth Alliance that regulates all telepaths. Ivanova, whose telepathic mother refuses to join the Corps and died young from power-repressing drugs she was forced to take, angrily opposes Talia and wants to protect Alisa from the Corps until the girl is old enough to choose for herself. Frustrated because his race is not telepathic, Narn ambassador G'Kar (ANDREAS KATSULAS) offers to nurture Alisa and eventually breed her with Narn males.

As Ambassador Delenn tells Alisa about honor Minbari telepaths, the girl glimpses a disturbing vision in Delenn's subconscious. Later, she tells Sinclair that Delenn stole Branmer's corpse. When confronted by Sinclair, Delenn confesses that since she opposes the warrior caste, she secretly cremated the body to end Neroon's military display. Branmer, a childhood friend of Delenn's who diverged from her politically, always requested a simple funeral. Delenn honored his wish.

As Neroon threatens to start another war due to Branmer's disappearance, Delenn privately confronts him, and speaks on behalf of Minbar's elite ruling body, the Grey Council. Just as the Council ordered Branmer and Neroon to surrender during the former war, she now orders Neroon to support her explanation that Branmer "took his place with the Gods."

Neroon reluctantly apologizes to Sinclair and leaves Babylon 5 with his guards. Talia and Ivanova reach a compromise that someday may lead to friendship. Alisa decides to travel to Minbari under Delenn's sponsorship to help improve relations between the aliens and humans. However, she privately reveals to Sinclair another puzzling vision she saw in Delenn's subconscious: a chrysalis.

A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS I (1x18 - #93120) - 7/25/94
Babylon 5, the interstellar space station, is in a permanent orbit around Epsilon 3, an uninhabited planet. Detecting seismic activity within the planet, station commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE) and Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova (CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN) send geologist Dr. Tasaki (JIM ISHIDA) and his crew to Epsilon 3 in a shuttle craft to learn if a volcanic eruption will damage Babylon 5.

A massive beam of light suddenly emitted from the planet destroys most of the shuttle's controls. After being rescued and re-equipped in another shuttle, Dr. Tasaki and his crew approach the planet once again. This time, the shuttle is targeted by three rockets launched from deep chasm but returns to Babylon 5 with minimal damage. Tasaki suspects that the Epsilon 3 chasm may contain an automated defense system built by a long-forgotten civilization and reactivated by the seismic activity. Sinclair and Ivanova agree to descend into the chasm in a shuttle to search for the truth.

Meanwhile, Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE) is concerned when he learn of a violent political revolt on the Mars colony where his former girlfriend, Lise Hampton (DENISE GENTILE), is stationed. Unable to contact her through normal communications channels, Garibaldi asks Talia Winters (ANDREA THOMPSON), Babylon 5's resident commercial telepath, to contact the colony on the secret frequency used by the Psi Corps, the military unit that regulates all telepaths. Talia learns that Lise's name is not on any list of survivors nor any list of the deceased and missing. Still in love with Lise, Garibaldi is determined to discover what happened to her.

Minbari Ambassador Delenn (MIRA FURLAN) is visited by one of her former teachers, Draal (LOUIS TURENNE). They discuss the increasing political conflict between the Minbari's religious and military social castes and agree that the Minbari people are restless and eager for an enlightening change.

Before boarding the shuttle with Ivanova, Sinclair sees a vision of an ancient, withered alien creature pleading for help.. With Babylon 5's battleships firing their weapons to distract the planet's automatic defenses, Sinclair's shuttle descends into the black chasm on Epsilon 3 and stops at a docking port. Following a tunnel protected by automatic defense lasers, Sinclair and Ivanova discover a huge cavern filled with active machinery, dwarfing them in a massive scale beyond anything ever conceived by Mankind.

After reporting their discovery to Garibaldi on Babylon 5, an earthquake traps Sinclair and Ivanova in another tunnel, blocking their return path to the shuttle. Searching for another exit, they both see the floating vision of the endangered alien, whom they learn is called Varn (CURT LOWENS). The vision leads them to the actual creature, who is fastened to a cybernetic circuit panel against the wall of a tunnel. Varn tells them, "Help me, or all your people will die."

A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS II (1x19 - #93121) - 8/1/94
Babylon 5's Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE) and Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova (CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN) rescue a cybernetic 500-year-old alien named Varn (CURT LOWENS) on the planet Epsilon 3 and return to Babylon 5 with him. Varn previously controlled the planet's highly advanced defense system.

Babylon 5's medical officer, Dr. Stephen Franklin (RICHARD BIGGS), analyzes Varn's comatose condition. Meanwhile, an Earthforce war cruiser, commanded by Captain Ellis Pierce (RON CANADA), arrives to claim the super-technology found on Epsilon 3 for the Earth Alliance. Sinclair contacts the Earth Alliance about Pierce's unnecessary interference. When pierce launches his patrol ships to the planet, they are immobilized by the planet's defenses. Ivanova learns that Pierce's offensive triggered a chain reaction in the reactor core of the planet and Epsilon 3 will explode in less than 48 hours.

Draal (LOUIS TUREMME), a retired Minbari teacher visiting his former pupil, Ambassador Delenn (MIRA FURLAN), suddenly hears Varn calling to his subconscious. Draal and Delenn go to the medical lab and Varn awakens, telling them that he is too old to control Epsilon 3's defenses and needs someone to replace him.

Suddenly, an alien warship appears, commanded by Takarn (MICHELAN SISTI), leading a group of criminal outcasts who were banished from Epsilon 3 centuries ago. He demands to reclaim the planet, but Pierce, who believes the dense system can be deactivated, fights Takarn for control of the super-technology as they both travel toward Epsilon 3.

Londo Mollari (PETER JURASIK), the Centauri ambassador, privately confronts Draal and Delenn and confesses that Varn called to him, as well. The three aliens realize that Varn wants Draal to become the planet's new guardian. They abduct Varn from the lab, and with Londo flying his private shuttle, Draal and Delenn race towards Epsilon 3 to connect Draal to the defense system's control panel before the planet explodes.

Luckily, Varn has enough strength to telepathically control the defense system. Despite a battle between Pierce's and Takarn's forces, Varn and those with him arrive on Epsilon 3 safely. Varn connects Draal to the cybernetic control panel and the enlightened Minbari terminates the core's chain reaction, preventing the explosion of the planet. Draal also projects his image in Babylon 5, Pierce's cruiser and Takarn's warship.

Conveying the will of Varn's people, Draal says that no one must possess the technological secrets of Epsilon 3 for now. He orders all warships back to their bases, but when Takarn attempts to descend instead, Draal destroys the alien ship. Then Varn prepares to die. Reprimanded for opposing Sinclair, Pierce apologizes and returns his ship to Earth.

Finally, Sinclair locates Lise Hampton (DENISE GENTILE), Security Chief Michael Garibaldi's (JERRY DOYLE) former girlfriend, who disappeared during a revolt on Mars. Garibaldi confesses that he still loves her but Lise reveals that she's marries someone else.

BABYLON SQUARED (1x20 - #93118) - 8/8/94
A spaceship is launched from Babylon 5 to investigate a powerful energy source in the galaxy, known as Sector 14. The ship is enveloped in a white light and the pilot dies after setting the ship's automatic return guidance system. Station commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE), Lieutenant Command Susan Ivanova (CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN) and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE) are surprise by the autopsy report. While the pilot's corpse looks normal, his internal organs have ages a hundred years. Sinclair leans that the energy in Sector 14 is coming from the exact location where Babylon 4, the Earth Alliance's previous space station, mysteriously disappeared four years ago. He suddenly receives an emergency video transmission from Major Lewis Krantz (KENT BROADHURST), Babylon 4's missing commander, pleading for help in evacuating his ship which is trapped in a violent time warp. Puzzled by Babylon 4's reappearance, Sinclair orders every rescue shuttle on Babylon 5 to fly to Sector 14.

Meanwhile, Minbari Ambassador Delenn (MIRA FURLAN) pilots her own shuttle to a Minbari war cruiser and reunites with the Grey Council, the elite ruling body. Delenn learns that she's been elected by the Council to be the new Minbari leader. Though honored, she insists that her spiritual mission aboard Babylon 5, involving Commander Sinclair and an ancient Minbari prophecy, is unfinished. She must fulfill the prophecy and see the human race achieve its ultimate destiny which will benefit the Minbari, as well. They Grey Council accepts her decision but regretfully removes her from their ruling body. Delenn returns to Babylon 5 as Minbari Ambassador again.

Leading the rescue team, Sinclair and Garibaldi board Babylon 4 and confront Major Krantz. He is terrified by the tremors and white lights that have weakened his space station. He is also astounded to learn that the rescuers are from Babylon 5 in the year 2258. Krantz explains that hours after Babylon 4 went operation, they were caught in a spatial warp that randomly projects the station forward and backward in time. He has no way of knowing how long it's been happening or what the present time is. As the crew evacuates, another tremor occurs and Sinclair sees a vision of his own future: Babylon 5 being destroyed by an alien invasion and Garibaldi sacrificing himself by activating the station's self-destruct mechanism. Krantz shows Sinclair and Garibaldi an imprisoned alien creature, Zathras (TIM CHOATE), who suddenly appeared during one of the earlier tremor. Zathras explains that arrived from another time in history, sent by "The One," the galaxy's spiritual leader, to pull Babylon 4 through the time warp and ultimately use its technology to end an intergalactic war.

As the tremors increase, "The One" suddenly appears, stabilizing Babylon 4's disintegration long enough for the occupants of Babylon 4 to board the shuttles. Zathras, obviously fulfilling a pre-arranged command, gives "The One" a small black box and the dark-helmeted specter disappears with it. As the Babylon 4 station vibrates violently, Zathras strains to save Sinclair from falling debris and is critically wounded., Krantz, Sinclair and Garibaldi escape on a shuttle, leaving Zathras who insists he must meet his fate aboard Babylon 4.

"The One," accompanied by an unseen woman, appears once again to comfort Zathras. Watching the shuttles depart, "The One" removes his helmet, revealing the aged and battle-scarred face of Jeffrey Sinclair. Babylon 4 disappears into the time warp again.

THE QUALITY OF MERCY (1x21 - #93117) - 8/15/94
Karl Mueller (MARK ROLSTON), a psychopathic killer, is sentenced for the murder of three people aboard Babylon 5, the huge interstellar space station. Ombuds Wellington (JIM NORTON), Babylon 5's judicial authority, orders Mueller to submit to a brainwipe, a telepathic process that erases his evil personality and replaces it with docile emotions. Talia Winters (ANDREA THOMPSON), the station's resident telepath, is told to perform a preliminary scan of Mueller's mind. However, horrified by her previous encounter with the mind of a serial killer, she hesitates.

Meanwhile, Dr. Stephen Franklin (RICHARD BIGGS), Babylon 5's medical officer, investigates Dr. Laura Rosen (JUNE LOCKHART), an ailing, middle-aged woman who is illegally treating the poor passengers in Downbelow, the station's criminal underworld, with an alien healing machine. Janice (KATE McNEIL), Laura's loyal daughter, tells Dr. Franklin that years ago her mother was a respected physician. But after exhausting herself in her practice, she accidentally killed one of her patients. Her medical license was revoked. Experimenting with the unknown powers of the machine is restoring Laura's devotion to healing the sick.

Dr. Franklin thinks Laura is a charlatan until he reviews her patient's recovery records. Examining the machine, Dr. Franklin realizes that transfers biological energy from Laura to her patients, gradually draining her of her own life-force. Laura confesses that she's suffering from Lake's Syndrome, a painful neurological disease, and hopes to perfect the machine's efficiency before she dies.

Ordered by superiors to learn more about the rival alien races, Londo Mollari (PETER JURASIK), the fun-loving Centauri ambassador, reluctantly escorts Lennier (BILL MUMY) , a repressed and virginal young Minbari attach‚, on a night of wild adventure in one of Babylon 5's nightclubs. Londo is caught cheating in a poker game, and the ensuing brawl destroys the club. When station commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE) disciplines Londo, Lennier accepts responsibility for the brawl and pays for the damages. Londo is surprised by the Minbari's generosity and feels indebted.

During the preliminary scan, Talia is traumatized by the secrets of Mueller's subconscious. Before the brainwipe, Mueller escapes. Severely wounded in the process, he flees into Downbelow. Mueller locates Laura's clinic, and while holding Janice hostage, forces Laura to heal his wound with her machine.

Suspecting Mueller's intent, Dr. Franklin alerts some of the guards and hurries to rescue the Rosens. Connected to Mueller with the machine, Laura suddenly reverses its power, transferring her disease into Mueller's body as he dies in agonizing pain.

Ombuds Wellington declares that Laura acted in self-defense and doesn't charge her with Mueller's murder. However, though Mueller's life-force cured her, Laura feels she violated her medical ethics by killing him. She departs from Babylon 5, leaving Dr. Franklin and Janice to perfect the healing machine.

CHRYSALIS (1x22 - #93112) - 10/24/94
Aboard Babylon 5, the huge intergalactic space station, Londo Mollari (PETER JURASIK), the Centauri ambassador, argues with G'Kar (ANDREAS KATSULAS), the Narn ambassador, over a boundary dispute in the distant quadrant 37 that separates a portion of their alien empires. Frustrated by G'Kar's militaristic logic, Londo cautiously accepts the help of Morden (ED WASSER), an agent of the powerful mercenaries known as The Shadowmen. In return for an unspecified future favor from Londo, Morden promises to eliminate the Narn threat in Quadrant 37 and allow Londo to take full credit for personally resolving the dispute.

Meanwhile, Commander Jeffrey Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE) and geological surveyor Catherine Sakai (JULIA NICKSON) agree on their wedding date and ask their friend, Babylon 5's Security Chief, Michael Garibaldi (JERRY DOYLE), to participate in the ceremony. Soon after, Garibaldi learns of a plot to assassinate Earth Alliance President Luis Santiago. His investigation indicates that Edgar Devereaux (EDWARD CONERY), a corrupt businessman based on Babylon 5, is a renegade Earthforce security agent who is helping an unknown group with the plot.

Garibaldi is critically wounded by one of his own aides, loyal to Devereaux. As Babylon 5's medical officer, Dr. Stephen Franklin (RICHARD BIGGS), and his team struggle to save his life, Garibaldi tells Sinclair about the assassination plot. As Sinclair and Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova (CLAUDIA CHRISTIAN) try to contact the President's transport ship, it explodes in a huge fireball. As the Earth Alliance mourns, the weak and ineffective Vice-President, Morgan Clark (GARY McGURK), is sworn in as the new leader.

Meanwhile, four massive Shadowmen warships completely destroy the Narn military base in Quadrant 37, killing ten thousand troops. Londo conveys his shock over the senseless slaughter to Morden, but the sinister Shadowman merely tells Londo to enjoy the heroic gratitude that the Centauri race is bestowing upon him. Suspecting that a powerful, unknown alien race is responsible, G'Kar returns to his homeworld to investigate the massacre.

After a solemn consultation with the enigmatic Vorlon ambassador, Kosh Naranek, Minbari Ambassador Delenn (MIRA FURLAN) reluctantly isolates herself in a corner of her living quarters and activates a small device that encases her in a translucent chrysalis, slowly changing her appearance. When questioned by Sinclair, Delenn's assistant, Lennier (BILL MUMY), confesses that he doesn't know why Delenn is transforming herself.