Top Five Favorite Episodes of "BABYLON 5" (Season One: "Signs and Portents")

 

Below is a list of my top five (5) favorite episodes from Season One (1994) of "BABYLON 5". Created by J. Michael Straczynski, the series starred Michael O'Hare, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle and Mira Furlan:

TOP FIVE FAVORITE EPISODES OF "BABYLON 5" (SEASON ONE: "SIGNS AND PORTENTS")

1. (1.13) "Signs and Portents" - In this episode, a Centauri noble comes to Babylon 5 to transport an important Centauri relic in Londo's possession back to the homeworld. And a mysterious man named Mr. Morden visits all the alien ambassadors in order to ask them an unusual question.

2. (1.08) "And the Sky Full of Stars" - Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, commanding officer of Babylon 5,  is kidnapped and interrogated by two war veterans determined to prove that he had betrayed Earth at the Battle of the Line, during the Earth-Minbari War.

3. (1.20) "Babylon Squared" - The previous Babylon station, Babylon 4, reappears at the same place it had disappeared four years earlier. Sinclair and Garabaldi lead an evacuation team for the station's crew. The story concludes in Season Three. Meanwhile, Ambassador Delenn is summoned by the Grey Council, the ruling body of Minbar; and is asked to become the new leader.

4. (1.22) "Chrysalis" - In the season finale, Delenn commences upon a physical transformation, Ambassador Londo Mollari of Centauri Prime receives an offer from the mysterious Mr. Morden to deal with a problem regarding the Narns, and Security Chief Michael Garabaldi uncovers a deadly conspiracy against the President of Earth Alliance.

5. (1.12) "By Any Means Necessary" - Following a fatal accident in the station's docking bay, an increasingly exhausted Sinclair is forced to deal with a potential labor uprising.  And Ambassador G'Kar of Narn seeks a replacement G'Quan-Eth plant for an important religious ceremony.

Honorable Mention:  (1.06) "Mind War" - Officers from Earth's Psi Corp arrive at the station to capture commercial telepath Talia Winters' old Psi Corps instructor, who was recently enhanced.  Sinclair's lover, independent planetary surveyor Catherine Sakai, is warned not to survey a sector of space by G'Kar.

Memorable Television Episodes

 

Below is a list of television episodes from the past two to three decades that I find memorable:

MEMORABLE TELEVISION EPISODES




1. "BABYLON 5" (3.10) "Severed Dreams" - When President Clark of Earth Alliance escalates his brutal repression upon Earth’s population, Captain John Sheridan of Babylon 5 declares the space station independent. Hugo Award winner.






2. "GAME OF THRONES" (3.09) "The Rains of Castamere" - The new King of the North, Lord Robb Stark, his mother Catelyn and his wife Queen Talisa; arrive at the estate The Twins for the wedding of his uncle Edmure Tully to one of Walder Frey’s daughters. Brandon Stark’s small traveling group decide to split up after a close call with the Freefolk. And Daenerys Targaryen plans to invade Yunkai in order to free that city’s slaves.






3. "LOST" (2.07) "The Other 48 Days" - This episode depicted the first 48 days on the island of the surviving Tail Section passengers of Oceanic 815.






4. "AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D." (1.17) "Turn, Turn, Turn" - In this companion piece to the 2014 movie, "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", S.H.I.E.L.D. has been compromised by an old enemy from the past and Agent Phil Coulson’s team do not know whom to trust.






5. "THE FLASH" (6.09) "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three" - The Arrowverse heroes continue their efforts to prevent the Anti-Monitor from destroying the multiverse and creating a new one.






6. "GAME OF THRONES" (1.09) "Baelor" - Robb goes to war against the Lannisters in an effort to save his father, Eddard "Ned" Stark, imprisoned at King’s Landing. His half-brother Jon Snow finds himself struggling on deciding if his place is by Robb’s side or with the Night’s Watch. Khal Drogo falls ill from an infected battle wound and Daenerys is desperate to save him.






7. "LOST" (6.14) "The Candidate" - With Jack Shephard’s help, the Man in Black rescues the castaways/candidates from Charles Widmore’s compound. But their plans for leaving the island are forced to change.






8. "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER" (5.22) "The Gift" - Buffy Summers and her friends prepare for battle when the hell god Glory plans to use her sister Dawn to open up a portal to a demonic dimension.






9. "D.C.’s LEGENDS OF TOMORROW" (2.17) "Aruba" - The Legends decide to break a cardinal rule of time traveling in order to prevent the Legion of Doom from using the Spear of Destiny to change the world’s reality for good.






10. "BABYLON 5" (3.22) "Z'ha'dum" - After his supposedly dead wife Anna Sheridan turns up very much alive on Babylon 5, Captain Sheridan ignores previous warnings and travels with her to the Shadows’ homeworld Z'ha'dum.