The Babylon 5 Entertainment Utility includes a screen saver module to provide relief from work, a set of 30 wallpaper images to dress up the desktop, and a utility that links sounds from the show to various Windows functions. Once installed, it turns PCs into a fountain of Babylon 5 action. The wallpaper images are stills from the episodes and include various shots of the B5 station itself, its interior, other spacecraft and planets. Most of the sounds are beeps and buzzes from various B5 machines, such as the beep of the hand communicators. A control panel allows users to decide what sound is played when, or to exclude particular applications from making noises.
Users can also program up to five different keystrokes to fire off a sound just for the heck of it.
While the above features are mainly Windows dressing, the screen saver is what makes the computer come to life. Overall the program is easy to use, although installing it proved to be a bit troublesome, and the screen saver had to be coaxed into finding its files. Once that was done, though, everything behaved well. Users are given plenty of control over the software, which is nicely customizable. For instance, any of the screen saver categories can be excluded, so that only certain types of pictures or movies will show.