TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

Kirk fought literal Nazis. Sheridan fought future Nazis. Why did you get downvoted for this comment?

Optic Nerve won a damn Emmy for their prosthetic work on B5, not sure what op's on about with that one...

Bester is also still a unique character, and Koenigs delivery is unique.

I don't have a stim problem. They're legal. I have it under control.

To be fair, while "truck stop" is a fairly accurate term for DS9 and its location along a major trade route, the primary purpose of Babylon 5 was really just being a neutral location for political relations and whatnot. Though maybe there are important meetings that are conducted at Waffle House, idk

last best hope for peace was a truck stop

Picture I found of Babylon-5:

Tbf their first attempt resulted in the near extinction of humanity...

Ds9 was a truck stop, the babylon stations were UN convention centres with bazaars did you even watch the show

space waffle house

Stop everything else, this is the show I want. Let's see a strung out avian fist fighting a drunk grey across the counter, while a little green man twerks in the background.

That is something that has bugged me since I started watching sci-fi (yes, I am relatively new to the genre), and I don't think I have ever seen anybody talk about it.

One of the wonderful little details from B5 was the holographic recording Londo made for [REDACTED] where he's making his grand speech about how and why he's having him [REDACTED]. The recording is constantly looking in the wrong direction, pointing accusingly at the wall, moving through people, and just obviously not lining up with the room it's being played in because it's just a recording.

Then the gospel choir kicks in and the episode officially becomes my all time favorite.

The first season is pretty bad, but necessary to set up the various arcs.

Season 4 crammed the final two major plot arcs into it because they thought they were getting cancelled. But then they didn’t. Season 5 is almost entirely filler.

In fact, once you finish Season 4, I’d recommend jumping right to the series finale (last episode of S5) and watching that. Then watch Season 5 from the beginning and think of it as a spin-off show that didn’t go anywhere.

This was how I went through my last rewatch of the series a few years ago and it was perfect.

You know the episode of DS9 where Sisko and Garrick commit war crimes?

It's like that episode, the show.

It took me a while, so I'll tell you it starts to pick up steam halfway through first season and hooks you before the first season finale.

The way he gained a soul the hard way just to trade it, fucking amazing journey

Don't forget Brad Dourif as a creepy murderer and Brad Dourif as a creepy murderer

I did not grab the character names when I had made this chart, but here is a list of Babylon 5 actors who appeared in Star Trek. Data sourced from IMDb

It definitely blends action, drama, politics, and philosophy like Stat Trek does, but leans far more into drama/politics. I can understand why one might lose interest early on.