Bab 5 (101)

Hello, Number Six has left the building, enter Number 5 ..that is Babylon 5 , a brilliant sci-fi series that ran during the mid-nineties..it never was meant for youths perse and the world it portrayed had plenty of greys ..as such it really was off the beaten track of regular US tv series.  

Babylon 5 series was created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. He set five goals for Babylon 5. He said that the show "would have to be good science fiction" as well as good television, by taking an adult approach to the subject; it would have to be reasonably budgeted, and "it would have to look unlike anything ever seen before on TV, presenting individual stories against a much broader canvas." Straczynski further stressed that his approach was "to take sci-fi seriously, to build characters for grown-ups, to incorporate real science but keep the characters at the center of the story. The idea was not to present a perfect utopian future, but one with greed and homelessness; one where characters grow, develop, live, and die; one where not everything was the same at the end of the day's events. Citing Mark Twain as an influence, Straczynski said he wanted the show to be a mirror to the real world and to covertly teach.

It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream, given form. Its goal: to prevent another war, by creating a place where humans and aliens can work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call – home away from home – for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens, wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal... all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.




Season 1: Signs and Portents

During 2258, Commander Jeffrey Sinclair is in charge of the station. Much of the story revolves around his gradual discovery that it was his capture by the Minbari at the Battle of the Line which ended the war against Earth. Upon capturing Sinclair, the Minbari came to believe that Valen, a great Minbari leader and hero of the last Minbari-Shadow war, had been reincarnated as the Commander. Concluding that others of their species had been, and were being, reborn as humans, and in obedience to the edict that Minbari do not kill one another, they stopped the war just as Earth's final defenses were on the verge of collapse.

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S01E01 Midnight on the Firing Line

When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to blows. , at the same time raiders are attacking transport ships near the station. Meanwhile the crew of the station are introduced: Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova, Security Chief Michael Garibaldi, and Telepath Talia Winters. A long running feud between Ivanova and the Psi Corps aswell as the Narn-Centauri conflict is set up. All this on the background of the elections of the Earth Alliance nearing its final hours, with a dead heat between the two leading candidates.

Midnight on the Firing Line 1 (rar 180mb)

Midnight on the Firing Line 2 (rar 163mb)

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Midnight on the Firing Line (zip 342mb)

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