Babylon 5: The Movies

Babylon 5: The Movies is a collection of six feature-length productions based on the popular Warner Bros. series Babylon 5. In the year 2257, the first crew arrives at the Babylon 5 space station. Earth has just barely survived a lengthy war with the technologically superior Minbari, who nearly bring the human race to extinction. The first movie ÒThe GatheringÓ (1993) is the pilot of the series and shows the arrival of the crew to the five-mile long space station. Babylon 5 is the neutral territory in outer space, a meeting place for the multitude of human and non-human inhabitants of the galaxy. This movie introduces the premise for Babylon 5, as well as introducing some, but not all, of the major characters, including Commander by Jeffrey Sinclair (Michael O'Hare) and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi (Jerry Doyle). The plot revolves around the attempted assassination of the Vorlorn ambassador Koch. The following five movies, all directed by show creator J. Michael Straczynski, include background stories of the Earth-Minbari war and adventures woven into the series chronology. The final film in the series, ÒA Call to Arms,Ó covers the story of a Drahk revenge attack on Earth and lays the groundwork for a new spaceship mission and the TV spinoff series ÒCrusade.Ó MORE