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- <a href="cast-1.html">Season 1: "Signs and Portents"</a><br>
- <strong>Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"</strong><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/sheridan.gif" width=80 height=100>
- <a href="/lurk/chars/sheridan.html">Captain John Sheridan</a>
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#boxleitner">Bruce Boxleitner</a>
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- The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance.
- One of Earth's few war heros, Sheridan scored the only major victory against
- the Minbari during the war, something which has earned him the hatred of the
- Minbari warrior caste. Generally jovial, occasionally serious, Sheridan was
- hand-picked by the President to replace Sinclair. Sheridan is still recovering
- from the loss of his wife Anna, who died on an alien archaeological dig.
- Most of his career has been spent aboard starships; he's still in the process
- of getting used to being the head of what is essentially a small city in space.
- Sheridan and Ivanova have served together in the past.
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- Commander Susan Ivanova
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#christian">Claudia Christian</a>
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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.
- Although she has become more comfortable with her job and her role on
- Babylon 5, she has a tendancy to bury herself in her work. Her promotion
- to Commander has given her new ambassadorial duties, which she finds
- extremely challenging.
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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
- the station's first commander, Sinclair, who
- 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. His natural
- sense of paranoia wasn't reduced when he was shot in the back by his own
- second-in-command while trying to prevent the assassination of President
- Santiago; he recovered, but is now convinced that something is dreadfully wrong
- at the heart of the Earth Alliance.
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- Talia Winters
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#thompson">Andrea Thompson</a>
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- 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 the station
- personnel. Talia was raised and trained by the Psi Corps, meaning that
- that organization is her family. Last year, she was visited by an old teacher
- who had undergone a Psi Corps experiment. He altered her, giving her
- telekinetic abilities and possibly other powers as well. He also warned her
- of the changing nature of the Corps; she is now not entirely sure she trusts
- its motives.
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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.
- Dr. Franklin is known to operate outside the rules when he feel the issue
- is important. He runs a free clinic in the Downbelow section for those who
- cannot afford medical care.
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- Ambassador Londo Mollari
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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. He has a biting, cynical
- sense of humor. Without realizing it at first, Londo has struck a bargain
- with the Shadows, who are working to advance his career and restore the
- Centauri to their past splendor, asking in return only the granting of an
- unspecified "favor" at some point in the future. It is a bargain he is
- already beginning to regret, but the restoration of his people means so
- much to him that he feels it's worth the price.
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- Ambassador Delenn
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#furlan">Mira Furlan</a>
- <dd>
- Represents the Minbari. A member of the Minbari ruling body,
- the Grey Council, she came to Babylon 5 posing as a simple
- ambassador to study humans after the discovery that some of them carry
- Minbari souls. She was offered the leadership of the Council but turned
- it down, instead returning to Babylon 5 to play a role in a prophecy
- involving a struggle between darkness and light. Once back, after
- consulting with the Vorlon ambassador, she used a mysterious
- device to transform herself into a bizarre half-Minbari, half-human
- hybrid. She claims she undertook the change to act as a bridge of
- understanding between humans and Minbari; whether that's the real reason
- or not, only she knows.
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- Ambassador G'Kar
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- <a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#katsulas">Andreas Katsulas</a>
- <dd>
- Represents the Narn Regime.
- Though ambitious and often antagonistic, G'Kar is extremely spiritual, and
- his knowledge of ancient scripture has led him to realize that an ancient
- race has come back to help the Centauri rebuild their empire. He has even
- survived an attack on the shadows, but none in his own government or the
- Babylon 5 council believe him.
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- Ambassador Kosh Naranek
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- Native voice
- designed by Chris Franke.<br>
- English translation: Ardwight Chamberlain.
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- After a year and a half on the station, Kosh and his people are still an
- enigma. With the coming of the Shadows -- Kosh is one of the few who seem
- to know about them -- he has started attending council meetings, though his
- reasons for coming to Babylon 5 are still 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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