Poverty, war, prejudice and disease haven't been eliminated - and beings of all races can be stupid, bigoted and greedy as well as altruistic and enlightened. Humans and aliens were depicted in a more gritty, realistic way.
Characters die, are reassigned, or are forever changed by their actions and those of the people around them.īabylon 5 broke a lot of SF TV conventions, and not just because of the way all shows were interconnected in a 5 year arc. The setting of the show is affected by events in each episode - the status quo isn't neatly restored at the end of the hour. Each episode is enjoyable on its own, but is also a piece of a larger whole, a chapter in a five year long novel for television. Unlike most television series, Babylon 5 is a single story, completely planned out from day one with a beginning, middle, and end. Humans are not alone.īabylon 5 is the story of the last of the Babylon stations, the result of a project intended to find peaceful ways of resolving conflicts between the various races. 'It was the dawn of the third age of mankind', in the middle of the twenty-third century. Starship Modeler: Babylon 5 Starship Reference
