Babylon 5 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-10-03

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00:02:18 1 Setting
00:04:15 2 Cast
00:04:23 2.1 Regular cast
00:06:56 2.2 Recurring guests
00:09:54 3 Synopsis
00:10:15 3.1 Season 1 – Year 2258
00:11:01 3.2 Season 2 – Year 2259
00:11:46 3.3 Season 3 – Year 2260
00:12:33 3.4 Season 4 – Year 2261
00:13:18 3.5 Season 5 – Year 2262 and beyond
00:14:05 4 Production
00:14:13 4.1 Origin
00:17:29 4.2 Writing
00:21:14 4.3 Costume
00:24:07 4.4 Prosthetic makeup and animatronics
00:24:46 4.5 Visuals
00:26:22 4.6 Music and scoring
00:29:10 4.7 Broadcast history
00:31:49 5 Themes
00:32:35 5.1 Order vs. chaos; authoritarianism vs. free will
00:34:48 5.2 War and peace
00:38:12 5.3 Religion
00:40:24 5.4 Addiction
00:41:22 6 Influences
00:44:18 7 Use of the Internet
00:44:54 8 Reception
00:45:29 8.1 Awards
00:45:38 8.2 iStar Trek: Deep Space Nine/i and Paramount plagiarism controversy
00:45:50 8.3 Influence and legacy
00:47:38 9 Babylon 5 media franchise
00:48:57 10 Home video releases
00:51:35 10.1 Mastering problems
00:54:07 11 See also
00:57:14 12 References
00:58:58 13 External links



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Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. After the successful airing of a test pilot movie on February 22, 1993, Babylon 5: The Gathering, in May 1993 Warner Bros. commissioned the series for production as part of its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN). The show premiered in the US on January 26, 1994, and ran for five seasons.
Unusually for the time, Babylon 5 was conceived as a "novel for television", with a defined beginning, middle, and end; in essence, each episode would be a single "chapter" of this "novel". A coherent five-year story arc unfolds over five 22-episode seasons. Tie-in novels, comic books, and short stories were also developed to play a significant canonical part in the overall story.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 focal point for galactic diplomacy and trade. Babylon 5 was an early example of a television series featuring story arcs which spanned episodes or whole seasons. Whereas contemporary television shows tended to confine conflicts to individual episodes, maintaining the overall status quo, each season of Babylon 5 contains plot elements which permanently change the series universe. Babylon 5 utilized multiple episodes to address the repercussions of some plot events or character decisions, and episode plots would at times reference or be influenced by events from prior episodes or seasons.Many races of sentient creatures are seen frequenting the station, with most episodes drawing from a core of around a dozen species. Major plotlines included Babylon 5's embroilment in a millennia-long cyclical conflict between ancient, powerful races, inter-race wars and their aftermaths, and intrigue or upheaval within particular races, including the human characters who fight to resist Earth's descent into totalitarianism. Many episodes focus on the effect of wider events on individual characters, with episodes containing themes such as personal change, loss, subjugation, corruption, defiance, and redemption.