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Babylon 5: The Complete Second Season by David J. Eagle, Janet Greek, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Jim Johnston, John C. Flinn III
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DVD detailsActor: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs Director: David J. Eagle, Janet Greek, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Jim Johnston, John C. Flinn III Brand: BABYLON 5 DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.77:1 Running Time: 960 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-04-29 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Platform: Linux, Mac, Mac OS 9 and below, Mac OS X, Windows Studio: Warner Home Video Product features:
DVD Reviews of Babylon 5: The Complete Second SeasonDVD Review: Come the Shadows Summary: 5 Stars
Season 2-The Coming of Shadows
Disc One
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Episodes
A) Points of Departure
B) Revelations
C) The Geometry of Shadows
D) The Coming of Shadows
Special Features
A) Introduction to "The Coming of Shadows"
B) The Geometry of Shadows-Commentary
C) Executive Producer Douglas Netter
D) Executive Producer-Creator J. Michael Straczyski
Languages
Points of Departure is forty-four minutes long and originally aired on November 2, 1994. This is the first episode of season two in the Babylon 5 saga. Season two begins with Captain John J. Sheridan commanding the Omega class starship EAS Agamemnon at the Mars colony when he receives a message from General William Hague telling him that he is being re-assigned to Babylon 5 as the new commander. Once at Babylon 5 he is met by Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova who surrenders command over to Captain Sheridan. Lieutenant Commander Ivanova informs that captain of the situation at Babylon 5. In the middle of his good luck speech a Minbari leader of the Grey Council meets with Captain Sheridan and Lieutenant Commander Ivanova and informs them that Kalain of the Trigati is on Babylon 5. Hedronn tells the captain to capture Kakain and hand him over the Minbari. Captain Sheridan finds Kalain in Ambassador Delenn's quarters. Soon after Kalain captures the Minbari Sharlin Class Warcruiser the Trigati comes through the jump gate. The Trigati is trying to provoke the station into an attack. Instead of attacking the Trigati, Sheridan sends a message to another Minbari warcruiser comes through the jump gate. The other warcruiser disables the Trigati and tell it to surrender. Rather then surrender the Trigati gathers its Starfuries and the ship self destruct killing all members of the Trigati. At the end of the episode Captain Sheridan delivers his good luck speech. We also learn in this episcope why Commander Jeffrey Sinclair was transferred to Minbari, why Captain John J. Sheridan was transferred to Babylon 5, and why the Minbari surrender at the Battle of the Line. Points of Departure get an AAAA++++.
Revelations is forty-three minutes long and originally aired on November 9, 1994. There are several stories going on in this episode at once so there is a lot of jumping around. So instead of trying to tell the whole story from start to finish, I will just highlight the stories. G'Kar arrives back from Quadrant 37 and tells the League of Non-Aligned Worlds Advisory Council that on certain planets that have been dead for over a thousand years that life is on them and that the darkness has return. G'Kar informs the Advisory Council that Narn is sending a ship to Z'ha'dum to investigate. When the ship arrives it is destroyed. This is the first time that Z'ha'dum is mention is the series. Ambassador Delenn finally emerges from her cocoon and is half human and half Minbari. With the aid of an alien healing machine Michael Garibaldi awakens from his coma. He asks Talia Winters, the station's telepath, to scan his mind to see if he can find the person who shot him. It was Mr. Garibaldi's second in command that shot him in the back. The second in command is capture and sent back to Earth for trial. On the way back home he escapes. Captain Sheridan's sister Elizabeth Sheridan arrives for a visit. It is here we find out the Captain Sheridan is a widower and his wife Anna died on an Interplanetary Expeditions mission. John had long blamed himself for his wife death. Elizabeth finally reveals to her brother is a data crystal that Anna was going on the mission anyhow and did not tell John. This episode leads a few peaks and explanations into future episodes. Revelations gets an AAA+++.
The Geometry of Shadows is forty-three minutes and thirty seconds long and originally aired on November 16, 1994. You have mainly two stories going on at once. First Lieutenant Commander Susan Ivanova is promoted to Commander and as her first task as Commander she is to find a peaceful solution to the Drazi conflict. Every five years the Drazi have a civil war. They are split into two factions; Purple Drazi and Green Drazi. It is unclear why they have a civil war every five years. Who ever emerges from the conflict is the ruling party for the next five years. The fights have gotten out hand. Commander Ivanova first tries to settle things by bringing both parties together to find a peaceful solution and try to understand the nature of the conflict. Things do not go well on the first try and she winds up breaking her foot. On her second attempt she is captured by the Green Drazis and is used as bait to kill Purple Drazis. However Mr. Garibaldi comes to the rescue and frees Susan. When they meet up with Green Drazis, Susan takes the sash of the leader and the Green Drazis declare her the leader. When she find out why she is the leader she sends the Green Drazis to the supply room to die all green sashes purple. The second story deal with Londo Mollari is seeking an audience with a Technomage. When Vir Cotto is sent to set a meeting with a technomage, Elric (the leader of the technomages) tells him he wants nothing to do with his master. When Vir tells Londo the message, Londo looks for another way to get that meeting. He sets it up with Captain Sheridan so Elric can be there. When Elric finds out that Londo is recording this meeting, he destroys the recording device and put a spell on Londo. Londo goes to the technomages to apologize. When he sees Elric at the docking bay waiting to board the ship Elric tells Londo he has remove the curse and give Londo his word or two to take home to the folks.
"Well take this for what little it will profit you. As I look at you, Ambassador Mollari, I see a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand. And I hear sounds. The sounds of billions of people calling your name." - Elric
"My followers?"- Londo
"[...]
Elric and his people are allowed to leave the station. The Geometry of Shadows gets an AA++.
The Coming of Shadows is forty-four minutes long and was aired on November 23, 1994. Captain Jack Maynard is the captain of the EarthForce Explorer-class ship, the EAS Cortez. He is coming to Babylon 5 for needed supplies. Captain Sheridan throws a dinner party for his friend Stinky (Captain Sheridan is known as Swamp Rat). When the Cortez leaves, an explosion on board the ship happens and that causes it to lose navigation. They send out a distress signal and Babylon 5 receives it. Captain Sheridan sends out Zeta Squadron to rescue the Cortez. This is the first time we are introduced the Egyptian Prayer. The Egyptian Prayer would be repeated in later episodes. In the middle of the search and rescue, a Shadow ship is encounter. Lt. Galus' Starfury is destroyed and Lt. Keffer's engines are disabled. Lt. Keffer shoots in the direction in the way home in hopes that the Cortez can figure out what he is doing. They eventually do and the Cortez and three members of Zeta Squadron make it back to Babylon 5. Later on another Shadow is encounter and Lt. Keffer is able to figure the way back home. Back home Lt. Keffer is promoted to Commander of Zeta Squadron due to the death of his commander. In a lesser story Mr. Garibaldi is trying to smuggle supplies to make bagna càuda he makes only once a year in honor of his father. However, Dr. Franklin has put Mr. Garibaldi on a special diet. Dr. Franklin finds out about the food being smuggled aboard and confronts Mr. Garibaldi. Mr. Garibaldi explains the reason for doing so and Dr. Franklin allows him to make the dinner only if he is invited. In the next scene you seem the both enjoying bagna càuda. The Coming of Shadows only gets a B+ from me.
All Alone In the Dark is forty-three minutes and thirty seconds long and originally aired on February 15, 1995. There are two stories to this episode. The first begins with Captain Sheridan taken a Starfury and a full escort to check out attacks on ships nearby the Babylon 5 station. At the sight of the last incident a large space ship appears. It captures Captain Sheridan and destroys two of the three escort ships. The third is badly damaged and makes it back to the Babylon 5 station to inform them of what happen to the captain. On the alien ship Captain Sheridan is tortured and made to fight aliens. He is able to defeat the Narn fighter; knocking him unconscious. Sheridan falls asleep and we see a dream that is mentioned in the future. Back at Babylon 5 General William Hague calls for Captain Sheridan old ship, the Agamemnon, to assist in finding Sheridan. The Agamemnon finds the alien ship and attacks it. During this battle Sheridan and the Narn escape into an escape pod and are rescued. Sheridan is back at his quarters recovering from his wounds when he visited by General William Hague for a debriefing. It is there we learn that that military suspects that President Santiago was no accident and that Psi Corps was involved along with President Clark. General Hague enlists Captain Sheridan supports along with Commander Ivanova, Dr. Franklin, and Security Chief Garibaldi. In a second story, Ambassador Delenn is summed back to the Gray Council to debate whether or not she is no longer Satai and ambassador. The Gray Council ousts Delenn as her position a Satai because she underwent the transformation without the council approval. She is allowed to keep her ambassador position. She is replace by Neroon and the Gray Council make-up is now altered; four warrior caste, three worker caste and two religious caste. All Alone In the Dark gets an A+.
Acts of Sacrifice is forty-three minutes and thirty seconds long and originally aired on February 22, 1995. There are two stories in this show; the main one a lesser secondary one. The main one deals with the arrival of Lumati to negotiate a treaty of alliance. The Lumati are an elitist people who believe in survival of the fittest. It falls to Commander Ivanova to get the Lumati people to sign on. Commander Ivanova shows the Lumati delegation around the more safe and beautiful areas of Babylon, the Lumati are unimpressed. While at Commander Ivanova quarters the next morning, Ivanova tell them to pick a place and she will show them area. The Lumati choose Down Below to be shown around. When the Lumati see Down Below, they are impressed on how the station has isolated the inferior species. The Lumati are ready to sign the treaty. To conclude the treaty the Lumati chooses to have sex with Susan Ivanova, as is their custom with any treaty. Susan is almost in a state of shock and does not want the treaty to fall apart. She thinks of sex act to full Correlilmurzon (the Lumati who wants to have sex act). You have to watch the scene to get a full explanation of what went on. I will say it is funny. Correlilmurzon leaves the room in disappointment because he thought it would be more intense. His aide Taq knows he was tricked and leaves the room laughing. In the end Correlilmurzon gives Susan a present with a note saying: next time my way. In lesser secondary story, G'Kar goes to Delenn and Captain Sheridan seeking aid to his people, mainly military aid. Earth government does not want to get involved and Delenn's people are tired of war. Also G'Kar leadership is in question by his fellow Narns. G'Kar has to fight a fellow Narn that he is still in command. G'Kar wins the fight. After the fight G'Kar meets with Delenn and Captain Sheridan and they tell him that they can only give him humanitarian aide and this is all unofficial and must be kept quiet. G'Kar thanks them both and leaves. He begins to weep knowing that his people are in this fight alone and is a fight they cannot win. Acts of Sacrifice gets an AAA+++ for its humor and story.
Disc Two
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Episodes
E) The Long Dark
F) A Spider in the Web
G) Soul Mates
H) A Race Through Dark Places
Special Features-None
Languages
The Long Dark is forty-three minutes long and originally aired on November 30, 1994. The story begins with a ship drifting through the jumpgate and arriving at Babylon 5. The ship is the Copernicus which is a sleeper ship where the crew is cryogenically frozen until a signal from another alien makes contact with the ship and the crew begins to wake up. These sleeper ships were launch over a hundred years ago to make contact with other alien races. Unknown earlier in the show the ship is carrying and evil alien from another planet. In another scene Amis is ranting and raving about in the Zocalo when Mr. Garibaldi takes him in to custody. When Amis awakes he does not remember what he did. He tells Mr. Garibaldi that he finds life much better if he does not remember. Back at the Med Lab the patient, Mariah Cirrus, wakes up. Dr. Franklin tells her that her husband did not make. What Dr. Franklin did not tell Mariah is that her husband's internal organs were missing. Mariah wants to cry but is unable to. It is this time that the evil creature attacks one of the alien on board Babylon 5. When Dr. Franklin exams the alien, he discovers that the alien internal organs are missing. Mariah is the only suspect right now but has an alibi; she was at Dr. Franklin's quarter all night. Later that evening Mr. Garibaldi visits Amis at his holding cell and talks to him about the creature. Amis tells Mr. Garibaldi that he was part of an information gather intelligence outpost during the Earth Minbari War and was not set up for heavy combat. They were station on what they thought was a dead moon with some long abandoned ruins. One evening the creature came and one by one died. The creature for some unknown reason kept Amis alive and when the rescue crew came he weighed 88 pounds. Amis said the creature kept a part of him and that how he knows the creature is here. After that Amis runs looking for the creature. Mr. Garibaldi goes to Mariah for help and she is able to track the creature. Captain Sheridan and a heavily armed force get find Mr. Garibaldi and Amis and are to surround the creature and kill it. After that Amis has no more bad dreams and Mariah decides to go back to Earth to bury her husband and morn awhile. Commander Ivanova at the end of the show let it be known that he ship course heading was set to Z'ha'dum. Though this has nothing to due with any future story, it still was a good episode. The Long Dark gets an AAA+++.
A Spider in the Web is forty-three minutes longs and originally aired on December 7, 1994. The episode is about cyber implant controlled Abel Horn who is sent to kill to two people. Amanda Carter and Taro Isogi are at Babylon 5 to discuss a peaceful solution about the Mars colony and eventually Mars independence. Talia Winters who is an old friend of Taro is there to make sure that there is no lying. Later that evening Taro and Talia are coming back to from dinner when they are attacked. A person (who is unknown at the time) electrocutes Taro to death and yells "Free Mars." The killer is about to kill Talia who accidently scans the killer and the person leaves. Talia tells the Captain Sheridan what happened and what she saw in her mind. Talia is escorted back to he quarters along with Mr. Garibaldi who tries to cheer her up. The scene switches over to the killer contacting his contact and tells them that Phase One was only partially completed. He shows the murder on screen and the voice back to him orders Talia to be killed before proceeding to Phase Two. Afterwards the information is downloaded and erased from his memories. Talia and a security guard are walking in a corridor when the killer strikes again. He injures the guard and right before he is about to kill Talia, she is able to do a deeper scan. The killer stops what he was about to do and says "What have they done to me?" When she is with Captain Sheridan again she tells them more of what she saw in the killer's mind. Talia says there is an EarthForce warship and that he was killed. Mr. Garibaldi enters the room and let them know who the killer is. It is Abel Horn who was the leader of the revolutionary Free Mars organization. After Talia leaves the room, Captain Sheridan reveals to Mr. Garibaldi the Lazarus Project the tool place on Earth around 2230s. It was cyber experiment in which computer chip were implanted in the brain but failed because machines and thought could not interact. Captain Sheridan believes that a secret organization is running the project and Abel is one of the cyber zombies. Abel arrives at Amanda Carter as a normal person and explains that he was rescued and some doctor fixed him up. When Amanda turns around Abel returns to his cyber zombies and goes into some kind of cyber epileptic seizure. While Abel is resting, Amanda contacts Talia to set up a meeting to talk about the Mars proposal. Amanda actually wants Talia to scan Abel mind. During this time Abel wakes up and knocks Amanda unconscious. Talia, along with full security escort, is on her way to Amanda's quarters and along the way Mr. Garibaldi joins them. Meanwhile Captain Sheridan is trying to find Abel by way of track his cyber chip. He locates Abel at Amanda's quarters and heads over there. At Amanda's quarter Talia enter the room where Abel confronts her and make her scan his mind. Talia is able to do a deep scan and see his thoughts of his death, an operating room with two doctors and his artificial hand, and a Psi-Cop. Then we switch back to the present and Mr. Garibaldi is informed that he is in the room. They security detail enters the room and Abel has now taken Talia as a hostage. Mr. Garibaldi warns Abel if he hurts Talia he would make sure his death will last at least ten days. At this point Abel replies back, "Mr. Security Man, I'm already dead." Just then Captain Sheridan enters the room and tells Abel we can make him better and he no longer has to die again. Slowly he lets Talia goes and begins to raise his gun and one of the security detail fires back. Abel is wounded and twist utters these famous words: Mars will never be free until it runs read with Earther blood. He twists his electrical hand and starts some kind of self destruct and the people escape just in time before Abel is blown up. It is later revealed in Med Lab that Amanda Carter was originally part of the Free Mars group in the early, but when it became to violent she left the group and never saw Abel again until today. Captain Sheridan makes a deal with Amanda if she Taro Isogi dream alive, he will keep quiet; Amanda agrees to the deal. Later in the day Mr. Garibaldi confronts Captain Sheridan and Sheridan lets Michael that he is a collect of dark secrets, black projects and secret organizations. He reveals to Michael he spent three years just trying to find the name of the organization and the person who gave him the name died shortly afterward. The name of the organization is Bureau 13 and says there is a spider in the web and he wants to find it and kill it. In the end we see Talia going over some PSI Corp files and are able to put a name to the face in Abel thought and find out she is a dead PSI Corp cop. Back at Bureau 13 we hear a female voice talking and when the camera zooms in, it is the face of the dead PSI Corp cop. The only down side to this episode it leaves a lot of unanswered questions like are there any more cyber zombies out there, did that PSI Corp cop actually die or did she fake her death and why was it not mention in a future episode. On side note this is one of the few times that the title of a show is mention in the episode. A Spider in the Web gets an AAA+++.
Soul Mates is forty-three minutes long and was originally aired on December 14, 1994. Granted there are two sub-stories, the main story focus on Londo and his day of Ascension anniversary. The Emperor give Londo one wish within his power and Londo ask for a divorce. The Emperor gives it to Londo with the exception that he must maintain one of his wives for formal appearance. Londo's three wives come to Babylon 5 and he tells them why he has summoned them. When they hear the news that two of the three will be going home without the privileges of his wife the ladies are shocked. Londo three wives are: Daggair, Mariel, and Timov (that is vomit spelled backwards). Daggair and Mariel vie for Londo affections but Timov let Londo know where she's stand when she slaps him on the face and leaves his quarters. Later on Mariel is at a gift shop buy a present for Londo and when Londo open the gift it shoots two darts at him. Londo is in Med Lab fighting for his life. Timov walks in the room and tells Dr. Franklin that she has the same blood type as Londo and tells Dr. Franklin that he cannot reveal where the blood transfusion came from. Sometime later on Mariel is in G'Kar's quarters and both are talking about the recent incident with Londo. G'Kar is able to piece together that the statue that Mariel gave Londo was a booby trap and figured the Mariel give the statue to Londo not as a gift, but as a way to kill Londo. G'Kar tells Mariel that if he can figure it out so can Londo and do not underestimate him. Londo recovers from the attack and at the end of the show are three are at the Docking Bay. Londo has divorced Daggair and Mariel. One is too assume that he was able to piece together the attack on him and found out about the blood transfusion. When Timov ask why Londo choose her Londo says and I quote: "with you, I will always know where I stand." In the first sub story Talia Winters ex-husband, Matthew Stoner, comes to the station to tell Talia how he was kick out of Psi Corp. Matt tells Talia that he volunteer for an experiment and when he woke up he could no longer read a person thought. Matt tells Talia that he can replicate the experiment and do the same for her. At first Talia is eager to go with him, but Mr. Garibaldi and Captain Sheridan are able to find out what really happened to Matt. Matt did no lose his abilities but became an empath; how strong and empath was not revealed. Matt in custody is handed over to Psi Corp. In the second sub-story Ambassador Delenn, who has become half human, is going through the hardship of keeping her hair groomed and asks for Commander Ivanova. Ivanova teaches Delenn the proper Earth techniques of washing and styling one's hair. We learn little more about Centauri culture in this episode but leave a question that is never answered. When Londo became Emperor what happen to Timov? Soul Mates get an AA++.
A Race Through Dark Places is forty-four minutes and originally aired on January 25, 1995. The story begins on Mars Colony where Mr. Bester and another Psi Cop are interrogation a telepath who was trying to escape through the underground tunnel. During the interrogation, Mr. Bester does an illegal mind scan and is able to find where the Underground Railroad is before the telepath dies. The Underground Railroad is at Babylon 5. Mr. Bester meets with the command staff and alerts them of the situation. When Mr. Bester leaves the room with Talia, Captain Sheridan, Commander Ivanova, and Mr. Garibaldi have a discussion about the situation. Commander Ivanova tells the Captain about the situation with Mr. Bester last year. Later on Ambassador Delenn meets with the Captain and tells him she would like to have dinner with him. She explains she wants to explore more of her human side. The have dinner at one of the restaurants on Babylon 5 and Delenn shows up wear a long black evening dress. The evening goes on without a hitch and both seem to enjoy the evening. The next day Dr. Franklin meets with Captain Sheridan and tells him the leader of the telepath Underground Railroad and their go between want to meet with them. Captain Sheridan agrees and when he gets to the assign place he is shocked that Dr. Franklin is the go between who is operating the Underground Railroad. The Captain meets with the leader of the group and Talia, who was captured early on when they try to kill Mr. Bester, they tell the Captain of the dirty projects going in Psi Corp. They tell him they have a way of fooling Mr. Bester. Mr. Bester meets with Mr. Garibaldi and Mr. Garibaldi let him know that he has found the telepaths and is organizing a group of officers and will pick Mr. Bester at his quarters in one hour and will go down there together. However, Mr. Bester gets there first and confronts the rouge telepaths. Talia pretends she is on the telepaths side and they put up a shield to protect the shield fails and it is found out that Talia betrayed them. Mr. Bester and Talia begin shooting at the rogue telepaths and all are killed or seriously injured. Mr. Bester looks and Talia curiously and Talia tells Mr. Bester that "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father." She does this to convince Mr. Bester that she is loyal to the corp. Later it is revealed that it was telepath illusion and that no one was killed. Captain Sheridan warns Dr. Franklin if he ever does something like that again he would hand him over to the authorities. Dr. Franklin tells him that his work is over and someone else will take over. In the end Talia is talking with the underground leader and he tells her that what they did should not have worked and that her gift from Jason Ironheart made it work. The leader told her she has something special in her and when Talia ask what it is he says "the future." In a smaller story Earthgov is charging Captain Sheridan and Commander Ivanova thirty credits to rent there rooms or move into smaller quarters. Captain Sheridan protests this and he tells Ivanova to tell Earthgov that they are protesting this. When Sheridan arrives to his quarters after having dinner with Delenn, he has found out that he has been locked out of his quarters. Ivanova and the Captain send the night in the Captain's office. Question here, if he is locked out of his quarters where his evening clothes, then how can he be in his military clothes the next day. Captain Sheridan solves the problem by transferring sixty credits from the military budget to pay for the rent of the rooms. A Race Through Dark Places is a very good episode and gets an AAAAA+++++.
Disc Three
Play
Episodes
I) The Coming of Shadows
J) GROPOS
K) All Alone In the Dark
L) Acts of Sacrifice
Special Features-None
Languages
The Coming of Shadows is forty-three minutes long and originally aired on February 1, 1995. The episode opens with the home world of Centauri Prime in the emperor's throne room. He is talking with the Prime Minister and making last minute arrangements to his trip to Babylon 5. Back at Babylon 5 Captain Sheridan and Ambassador G'Kar are discussing the arrival of the emperor's visit. G'Kar is protesting the visit where as Captain Sheridan look at as way to open up a dialogue with the Emperor. G'Kar, now in his quarters, is talking to one of the representatives from the Narn home planet about killing the Emperor. At the reception for the Emperor, G'Kar show up with the intent on killing him, however, that does not happen. On the way to the reception the Emperor collapses and is taken to Med Lab. At Med Lab, the Emperor tells Dr. Franklin that an important message must be delivered and only he can do it. At G'Kar's quarters, Dr. Franklin tells G'Kar the message from the Emperor. The message is on of apology to the people of Narn for all the harm the Centauri people caused on the Narns. G'Kar is in a state of shock when he hears the message. In Ambassador Mollari's quarters, Londo and Lord Refa are talking about what to do next until Londo remembers what Mr. Morden told him: "just pick a target." Londo tells Refa to gather as many warships and send them to Quadrant 14. Quadrant 14 is a large Narn colony and is suspected to be a listening post. As soon a Lord Refa leaves, Londo sends Vir to find Mr. Morden and bring him here. At Quadrant 14 Shadow vessels attack the colony killing most of the Narns on the planet. Unaware this is going on, G'Kar bump into Londo and offers to by him a drink and make nice with him. When G'Kar is back at his quarters, he gets the news of the attack and is told when Narn forces arrived there the Centauri where waiting there. The Narn government and G'Kar believe that the Centauri are the one responsible for this. Both are unaware it was the Shadows. G'Kar in a fit of rage heads toward Ambassador Mollari's quarters to kill him. G'Kar is met with Captain Sheridan and a security detail and is unable to carry out his task. At the Babylon 5 council room with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, Captain Sheridan is able to convince Londo and his people to return any surviving Narns back to Narn. When G'Kar arrives at the meeting, he tells the member there that Narn has declared war on Centauri and that the hope for peace is now over. In a smaller story line, a Ranger meets with Security Chief Garibaldi and gives Mr. Garibaldi a data crystal explaining why he has come here. When Mr. Garibaldi plays the data crystal we see it is a message from Jeffrey Sinclair, now an Ambassador on the planet of Minbar. Jeffery warns Michael a darkness that is coming and tells him that he is putting together an Army called Rangers patrolling the galaxy. They are his eyes and ears and bring back information to important to communicate through regular channels. Jeffrey tells Michael to stay close to the Vorlons. In the end Michael lets the Ranger go and in return to send him any information that might affect the stations security and operations; the Ranger agrees and leaves the station. Ambassador Delenn is the only other person on the station to get the data crystal from the Ranger. For your information, the Prime Minister and the Emperor names are never revealed. Only in later episodes are they referred as Prime Minister Malachi and Emperor Turhan; the first name of the actors who portrayed them. Also the second Narn-Centauri war begins and we see for the first time Londo vision. The Coming of Shadows gets an AAAA++++.
GROPOS is forty-three minutes and thirty seconds long and originally aired on February 8, 1995. The story begins with the arrival 25,000 gropos which is slang for Ground Pounder and Ground Pounders is slang for Marines. Captain Sheridan is caught off guard but General Richard Franklin (Dr. Franklin's father) tells him he would explain things at 0900 hours and to find room for his 25,000 troops because they would be staying a few days. At the briefing, General Franklin reveals his plans that his mission is to attack the rebel strong hold on Akdor and the reason they are getting involved because the government of Akdor are allowing them to set up a base of operations in their system. Akdor is centered between Narn and Centauri space. General Franklin tells the command staff as for as anybody is concerned that these are relief troops headed for Io. In the next scene we see Lt. Warren Keffer entering his quarters and sees Pvt. Yang and P.F.C. "Large" Turnbow in his quarters and is unhappy they are there. Large tell him that they were assign to his quarters and the three of them are going to be bunkmates for awhile. In the next scene General Franklin is at his son headquarters and the two begin talking and during the talks Stephen accuses his father of being a murderer. General Franklin abruptly leaves Stephen. Now we are at the Zocolo and Ambassador Delenn is approached by trio of Gropo thugs. One of them was about to attack her when P.F.C. Elizabeth "Dodger" Durman comes to her rescue and fights off the three Gropos. Delenn tells Mr. Garibaldi about what has happen. When Mr. Garibaldi arrives, he talks with Sgt. Major Plug and convinces him to let them go. Dodger thanks Mr. Garibaldi for what he has done and she is shocked that she came to the aid of an ambassador. When Mr. Garibaldi leaves, she comments on what a nice butt he has. Later on Commander Ivanova is dropping off some Gropos at Med Lab and she sees Stephen is upset and asks him out for drinks later to talk about it. Later on Susan and Stephen are at a bar and Stephen is talking about growing up with a career military father and the worse part was when he was not there and the waiting if he would ever come home alive. Susan urges Stephen to talk to him before it is too late. Later on he meets with his father who is with Captain Sheridan discussing battle plans for the upcoming attack on the rebel strong hold. Stephen enters the room and tries to talk to his dad but is told by his father he would talk to him later. Stephen leaves upset. Later on the two would again and finally realize how they feel for each other and come closer to each other. In the end the 25,000 troops leave the station and attack the rebel strong hold and are able to overtake it. This is not done without a high cost of lives. The end of
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