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- <strong>Season 1: "Signs and Portents"</strong><br>
- <a href="cast-2.html">Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"</a><br>
- <a href="cast-3.html">Season 3: "Point of No Return"</a><br>
- <a href="cast-4.html">Season 4: "No Surrender, No Retreat"</a>
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- Despite its fantastic setting, <cite>Babylon 5</cite> is at its core a story
- about people, about the choices they make and the consequences of those
- choices. <cite>Babylon 5</cite>'s characters are as interesting and varied
- as the situations they encounter.
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- <img align="middle" src="/lurk/gif/chars/sinclair.gif" width=80 height=100>
- <a href="/lurk/chars/sinclair.html">Commander Jeffrey Sinclair</a>
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#ohare">Michael O'Hare</a>
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- The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance.
- A survivor of the climactic Battle of the Line at the end of the
- Earth-Minbari War, Sinclair sometimes yearns
- for his days as a hotshot fighter pilot, and partially for that reason,
- he's given to taking unnecessary personal risks. He's uncomfortable in his
- position and in fact isn't entirely sure why he was given command of such a
- major post and made a high-level diplomat; his stiff demeanor is perhaps due
- to a fear that he isn't up to the job he's been given. Sinclair was born on
- Mars Colony and is 39 years old.
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- Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova
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- Second in command and in charge of the day-to-day operations of Babylon 5,
- Ivanova is an ambitious career officer. She can be quirky or
- pessimistic at times, but she has a dry sense of humor that shows
- itself in the rare moments she is able to relax among others. Born in
- St. Petersburg, Russia, and raised abroad on Earth, she has a strong
- dislike for the Psi-Corps, whose legally-mandated drug treatments drove
- her mother to suicide after it was discovered her mother was a latent
- telepath. She is new on the station and often buries herself in her
- work; her friends are few and her family is all but gone.
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- Security Chief Michael Garibaldi
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#doyle">Jerry Doyle</a>
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- In charge of security on Babylon 5. He has a troubled past, bouncing from
- position to position and trying to overcome alcoholism. He was picked by
- Sinclair for the job; the two worked together in the past. Sinclair
- knew that Garibaldi would be persistent, not willing to give in to
- political pressures -- in Sinclair's words, "a pain in the ass." Garibaldi
- is something of a smart-aleck, always ready to crack a joke, but given to
- bouts of self-doubt and introspection when nobody's looking.
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- Talia Winters
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#thompson">Andrea Thompson</a>
- <dd>
- Babylon 5's resident telepath, on her first solo assignment, with level 5 psi
- rating, bound by the rules and regulations of the Psi Corps. She sells her
- telepathic services to businessmen, and occasionally assists Sinclair in
- negotiations. Talia was raised and trained by the Psi Corps, meaning that
- that organization is her family.
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- Dr. Stephen Franklin
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#biggs">Richard Biggs</a>
- <dd>
- Dedicated and assured, a specialist in xenobiology (alien biology,) and
- in charge of Medlab on Babylon 5. His background is mainly in
- experimental medicine, so his bedside manner is occasionally not what it
- should be. His strong sense of personal morality is at times in
- conflict with his duties as the chief medical provider for aliens from
- hundreds of worlds and cultures, some of whom view his obligations
- rather differently. In his middle thirties now, he spent
- years hitchhiking through space, offering his doctoral services in
- exchange for the opportunity to examine new life forms.
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- <img align="middle" src="/lurk/gif/chars/londo.gif" width=80 height=100>
- <a href="/lurk/chars/londo.html">Ambassador Londo Mollari</a>
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#jurasik">Peter Jurasik</a>
- <dd>
- The representative of the Centauri Republic. Londo views Babylon 5's
- mission as something of a sham, with limited chance of helping his people
- regain their lost glory and sense of purpose.
- His assignment on Babylon 5 is not considered an important position, in spite
- of the high status that his regalia and high-standing hair would indicate. A
- war hero in his younger days, he has since grown decadent and indulgent.
- Londo can often be found
- in one of the station's bars or casinos, drinking himself to oblivion.
- He has a biting, cynical sense of humor. Perhaps his only real friend is
- Garibaldi, who understands something of what Londo has been through.
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- Ambassador Delenn
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#furlan">Mira Furlan</a>
- <dd>
- Represents the Minbari Federation. Delenn is a member of the highest Minbari
- governmental body, the Grey Council, and why she's masquerading as a lowly
- ambassador is one of the ongoing mysteries of <cite>Babylon 5</cite>.
- A member of the religious caste, Delenn's belief in fate and destiny is
- often evident. She is fascinated by humans and tries to learn all about them;
- some say she is suspiciously watchful of Commander Sinclair.
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- Ambassador G'Kar
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#katsulas">Andreas Katsulas</a>
- <dd>
- The representative of the Narn Regime rose to his position in part thanks to
- his wife's renown as a hero of the revolutionary war against the Centauri,
- but his own ambition and ability are more than equal to the job.
- G'Kar will waste no opportunity to turn a situation to the Narns' advantage,
- even if it means antagonizing everyone else on the station. He takes pride
- in his position and himself, a pride perhaps bordering on arrogance at times.
- G'Kar would like nothing better than to see the Centauri, and Londo in
- particular, pay dearly for their brutal occupation of Narn.
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- Native voice
- designed by Chris Franke.<br>
- English translation: Ardwight Chamberlain.
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- Even less is known about Ambassador Kosh than about his race. He arrived on
- the station in 2257 and was promptly the victim of a complex assassination plot
- involving the Minbari and others. He is rarely seen in council meetings,
- claiming that "we take no interest in the affairs of others," and Vorlons'
- reasons for coming to Babylon 5 at all are unknown.
- Kosh communicates through a complex sequence of musical tones, translated into
- English by a device on his encounter suit. When he speaks, his words are few
- and sound cryptic, but often have a strange truth to them.
- Kosh's quarters are
- filled with a dense atmosphere of methane and other gases; whether he
- needs it or is using it to make himself less accessible is an open question.
- Even when he's receiving visitors there, Kosh wears his suit.
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