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a5c7b9f00b In the year 2258, it is ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. Commander Sinclair takes command of a giant five-mile-long cylindrical space station, orbiting a planet in neutral space. At a crossroads of interstellar commerce and diplomacy, Cmdr Sinclair (2d season Captain Sheridan) must try to establish peace and prosperity between various interstellar empires, all the while fighting forces from within the Earth Alliance. It is a precarious command, particularly given that sabotage led to the destruction of Babylon stations 1, 2, and 3 and 4 vanished without trace. In the mid 23rd Century, the Earth Alliance space station Babylon 5, located in neutral territory, is a major focal point for political intrigue, racial tensions and various wars over the course of five years. Babylon 5 is classic sci-fi and is among the best of the genre. It&#39;s outstanding. Everything from the stories to the characters to the special effects are very well thought out. The show is very original and has everything you could want from a sci-fi series. Garibaldi was the best character of all. The show has dared to do what other sci-fi movies or tv series have been afraid to do. It&#39;s spin off Crusade was just as great. The best sci-fi series around.. When they won the war against the earth government I almost started to cry of happiness.. well what can I say, it&#39;s absolutely great. Perfect made! -In addition there are several names which appear in both shows such as Lyta/Leeta and Dukhat/Dukat.. There were also &quot;G&#39;kar&quot;s on both shows. -Another strange coincidence is that two veterans of &quot;West Side Story&quot; appeared on both shows....Richard Beymer on &quot;Deep Spave Nine&quot; (as the other G&#39;Kar, oddly enough) and Russ Tamblyn on &quot;Babylon 5&quot;!&quot;The Memory of Shadows&quot; is a theatrical motion picture which has not been, and will likely not be, produced. The first draft of the script is largely written, but the group who optioned the movie rights and commissioned the script was ultimately unable to secure the necessary funding. Straczynski has not revealed the full details of the movie&#39;s plot, except to say that it involves the consequences of leftover Shadowtech. Straczynski planned in detail the entire story arc of Babylon 5 ahead of time. However, in order to allow for the possibility that actors might leave the show for any number of common reasons, he created a &quot;trapdoor&quot; for every major character, which would allow the story to continue without him or her. These trapdoors were essentially other characters which could take their place for story purposes.<br/><br/>Following is a list of all the trapdoors that Straczynski employed over the course of the series (the format is Original Character/Replacement Character):<br/><br/>Dr. Benjamin Kyle/Dr. Stephen Franklin - Dr. Kyle was B5&#39;s medical chief of staff in &quot;The Gathering;&quot; the actor did not return, and Dr. Franklin arrived in the second episode of season 1 to take his place. Dr. Kyle was transferred to Earth, presumably due to his contact with an unsuited Vorlon.<br/><br/>Lt. Commander Laurel Takashima/Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova - Babylon 5&#39;s original XO was a traitorous woman named Takashima. Once again, the actor did not return to film the series. Ivanova would have appeared anyway as Takashima&#39;s underling and eventual replacement. When Takashima could not appear in the series, Ivanova took the role immediately instead.<br/><br/>Lyta Alexander/Talia Winters - Babylon 5&#39;s resident telepath was, at the beginning, a fairly nonessential character. So when the actress portraying Lyta didn&#39;t return to film the series, replacing her with another telepath was a simple matter.<br/><br/>Commander Jeffrey Sinclair/Captain John Sheridan - For the reasons stated above, Sinclair left the series after the first season. Captain Sheridan arrived to take command of Babylon 5.<br/><br/>Talia Winters/Lyta Alexander - In an ironic twist, the character who replaced Lyta could not return for the third season, and the two were switched once again. This time, the trapdoor was slightly more complex, as Talia had received a gift from a super-powerful telepath that would ultimately lead to a dramatic rise in her abilities. To substitute, Lyta was altered by the Vorlons to produce a similar gain in power.<br/><br/>Captain Susan Ivanova/Captain Elizabeth Lochley - Due to various disputes, Claudia Christian did not return to film the fifth season, and her character of Ivanova had to be written out. Since Ivanova would have taken command of Babylon 5 in the fifth season, Captain Lochley was introduced as the station&#39;s new CO instead. An ongoing series with as heavy a story arc as Babylon 5 almost guarantees that the final product will look different from what was originally envisioned. In addition to normal creative changes, the real life departures of actors can cause plot changes on the show. As mentioned above, Straczynski wrote &quot;trap doors&quot; for the various characters, which were plot points which would allow them to be written out of the show. Often in retrospect the &quot;ghosts&quot; of potential plotlines can be seen among the earlier episodes. Among the changes which occurred over the course of the show were:<br/><br/>-The earliest change was casting. Between the B5 tv movie and the first season most of the actors playing human characters left the show. Rather than recasting the characters, Straczynski opted to create new ones, often with very similar characteristics. Dr Benjamin Kyle was replaced by Stephen Franklin, Lyta Alexander was replaced by Talia Winters, Laurel Takashima, was replaced by Susan Ivanova. Among the plot points which would later be taken up by other characters was stim addiction. In the pilot movie there are several references to Dr Kyle working too hard and too long, what would eventually lead Dr Franklin to use stims.<br/><br/>-Perhaps most significant was the departure of Michael O&#39;Hare and the replacement of Jeffrey Sinclair with John Sheridan. Originally Sinclair was supposed to last for the whole series and was meant to both lead the battle against the Shadows as well as becoming Valen. Straczynski decided that this was two much for one character, a feeling which meshed nicely with O&#39;Hare&#39;s desire t depart the show, and the role of the Captain was recast. John Sheridan would go on to fight the shadows while Jeffrey Sinclair would become Valen. Vestiges of this unified plotline can be seen in the show: one is Catherine Sakai, Sinclair&#39;s on-again-off-again love interest who, at the end of season one was sent on a mission to the galactic rim. When Sheridan was introduced it was revealed that his wife had apparently died on a mission to the rim. If Sinclair had stayed on Sakai would have fulfilled the role ultimately played by Anna Sheridan. Similarly when Captain Sheridan ultimately &quot;dies&quot; he dematerializes into energy, an effect which would likely have led to his becoming Valen.<br/><br/>-Another altered plotline was that of the &quot;traitor.&quot; Babylon 5 was always supposed to have a traitor among her crew who was loyal to sinister elements of EarthGov, rather than to the station. Originally this was supposed to be Laruel Takashima. When she left the show the plotline was transfered to Susan Ivanova. However, when the actress who played Talia Winters wanted to leave the show the plotline was used to write Talia out.<br/><br/>-In the episode BSquared the crew learns that the previous station, Babylon 4, has been moving through time. Originally it was explained that a mysterious figure known as &quot;The One&quot; was bringing Babylon 4 forward through time in order to serve as a base. During the episode the crew experiences flashes from their past and future. During one of these, Captain Sinclair sees Garibaldi, apparently fighting to the death against an unseen foe who is destroying Babylon 5. One of the final scenes reveals that &quot;The One&quot; is in fact Jeffrey Sinclair, although he appears quite a bit older. Eventually the mystery was explained in season three when Sinclair brought the station forward a few years in time, becoming artificially older in the process, before travelling back in time with it to the first shadow war. Originally, however, it seems clear that the station was being brought forward in time to serve as base after Babylon 5 was destroyed by the shadows. The Sinclair shown in the episode was from decades in the future near the end of his life when he would eventually become Valen.<br/><br/>-As originally conceived, Delenn was supposed to be an androgynous character, played by an actress but with her voice altered to sound masculine. Her transformation in season two would involve not only become more human but also becoming female. This idea was scrapped before filming began although Delenn&#39;s makeup became more human between the pilot movie and the series.<br/><br/>-Originally Straczynski intended for Londo to assassinate Cartagia. When he was writing Cartagia&#39;s death scene, however, he decided that it would be better for Vir to do it.<br/><br/>-At the end of season four Claudia Christian, who plays Ivanova, departed due to contractual disputes. She was written out of the show as having taken over a new class of starship. In her place a new character named Elizabeth Lochley was written in to take command of Babylon 5, and an important story arc for season five involved Lyta Alexander&#39;s romance with the leader of a doomed colony of telepaths on the station. If Ivanova had stayed on she would have assumed command of the station and been involved in a romance with the telepathic leader.<br/><br/>-In the plotline involving the human civil war the character of General Hague was always intended to lead the rebel forces against EarthGov. However when the time came for the plotline to mature the actor who played Hague was not available so his character was killed off camera.