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<a href="cast-1.html">Season 1: "Signs and Portents"</a><br>
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<strong>Season 2: "The Coming of Shadows"</strong><br>
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<a href="cast-3.html">Season 3: "Point of No Return"</a><br>
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<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
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about people, about the choices they make and the consequences of those
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choices. <cite>Babylon 5</cite>'s characters are as interesting and varied
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as the situations they encounter.
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<img align="middle" src="/lurk/gif/chars/sheridan.gif" width=80 height=100>
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<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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<dd>
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The commander of Babylon 5 and representative of the Earth Alliance.
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One of Earth's few war heros, Sheridan scored the only major victory against
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the Minbari during the war, something which has earned him the hatred of the
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Minbari warrior caste. Generally jovial, occasionally serious, Sheridan was
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hand-picked by the President to replace Sinclair. Sheridan is still recovering
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from the loss of his wife Anna, who died on an alien archaeological dig.
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Most of his career has been spent aboard starships; he's still in the process
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of getting used to being the head of what is essentially a small city in space.
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Sheridan and Ivanova have served together in the past.
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<img align="middle" src="/lurk/gif/chars/ivanova.gif" width=80 height=100>
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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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<dd>
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Second in command and in charge of the day-to-day operations of Babylon 5,
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Ivanova is an ambitious career officer. She can be quirky or
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pessimistic at times, but she has a dry sense of humor that shows
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itself in the rare moments she is able to relax among others. Born in
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St. Petersburg, Russia, and raised abroad on Earth, she has a strong
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dislike for the Psi-Corps, whose legally-mandated drug treatments drove
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her mother to suicide after it was discovered her mother was a latent
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telepath.
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Although she has become more comfortable with her job and her role on
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Babylon 5, she has a tendancy to bury herself in her work. Her promotion
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to Commander has given her new ambassadorial duties, which she finds
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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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<dd>
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In charge of security on Babylon 5. He has a troubled past, bouncing from
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position to position and trying to overcome alcoholism. He was picked by
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the station's first commander, Sinclair, who
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knew that Garibaldi would be persistent, not willing to give in to
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political pressures -- in Sinclair's words, "a pain in the ass." Garibaldi
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is something of a smart-aleck, always ready to crack a joke, but given to
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bouts of self-doubt and introspection when nobody's looking. His natural
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sense of paranoia wasn't reduced when he was shot in the back by his own
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second-in-command while trying to prevent the assassination of President
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Santiago; he recovered, but is now convinced that something is dreadfully wrong
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at the heart of the Earth Alliance.
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<img align="middle" src="/lurk/gif/chars/talia.gif" width=80 height=100>
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Talia Winters
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<a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#thompson">Andrea Thompson</a>
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<dd>
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Babylon 5's resident telepath, on her first solo assignment, with level 5 psi
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rating, bound by the rules and regulations of the Psi Corps. She sells her
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telepathic services to businessmen and occasionally assists the station
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personnel. Talia was raised and trained by the Psi Corps, meaning that
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that organization is her family. Last year, she was visited by an old teacher
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who had undergone a Psi Corps experiment. He altered her, giving her
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telekinetic abilities and possibly other powers as well. He also warned her
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of the changing nature of the Corps; she is now not entirely sure she trusts
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its motives.
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Dr. Stephen Franklin
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<a href="/lurk/making/cast.html#biggs">Richard Biggs</a>
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Dedicated and assured, a specialist in xenobiology (alien biology,) and
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in charge of Medlab on Babylon 5. His background is mainly in
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experimental medicine, so his bedside manner is occasionally not what it
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should be. His strong sense of personal morality is at times in
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conflict with his duties as the chief medical provider for aliens from
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hundreds of worlds and cultures, some of whom view his obligations
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rather differently. In his middle thirties now, he spent
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years hitchhiking through space, offering his doctoral services in
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exchange for the opportunity to examine new life forms.
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Dr. Franklin is known to operate outside the rules when he feel the issue
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is important. He runs a free clinic in the Downbelow section for those who
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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>
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The representative of the Centauri Republic. Londo views Babylon 5's
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mission as something of a sham, with limited chance of helping his people
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regain their lost glory and sense of purpose. He has a biting, cynical
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sense of humor. Without realizing it at first, Londo has struck a bargain
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with the Shadows, who are working to advance his career and restore the
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Centauri to their past splendor, asking in return only the granting of an
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unspecified "favor" at some point in the future. It is a bargain he is
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already beginning to regret, but the restoration of his people means so
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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>
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Represents the Minbari. A member of the Minbari ruling body,
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the Grey Council, she came to Babylon 5 posing as a simple
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ambassador to study humans after the discovery that some of them carry
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Minbari souls. She was offered the leadership of the Council but turned
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it down, instead returning to Babylon 5 to play a role in a prophecy
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involving a struggle between darkness and light. Once back, after
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consulting with the Vorlon ambassador, she used a mysterious
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device to transform herself into a bizarre half-Minbari, half-human
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hybrid. She claims she undertook the change to act as a bridge of
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understanding between humans and Minbari; whether that's the real reason
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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>
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Represents the Narn Regime.
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Though ambitious and often antagonistic, G'Kar is extremely spiritual, and
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his knowledge of ancient scripture has led him to realize that an ancient
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race has come back to help the Centauri rebuild their empire. He has even
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survived an attack on the shadows, but none in his own government or the
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Babylon 5 council believe him.
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Ambassador Kosh Naranek
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animatronics
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Native voice
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designed by Chris Franke.<br>
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English translation: Ardwight Chamberlain.
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After a year and a half on the station, Kosh and his people are still an
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enigma. With the coming of the Shadows -- Kosh is one of the few who seem
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to know about them -- he has started attending council meetings, though his
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reasons for coming to Babylon 5 are still unknown.
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Kosh communicates through a complex sequence of musical tones, translated into
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English by a device on his encounter suit. When he speaks, his words are few
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and sound cryptic, but often have a strange truth to them.
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Kosh's quarters are
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filled with a dense atmosphere of methane and other gases; whether he
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needs it or is using it to make himself less accessible is an open question.
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Even when he's receiving visitors there, Kosh wears his suit.
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Character appearances, season two.
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Last update:
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October 15, 1995
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