Babylon Squared

From The Great Machine

Episode Title: Babylon Squared
Episode Number: S1E20
Original Air Date: August 10, 1994
DVD Release Date: November 5, 2002
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Director: Jim Johnston
Guest Stars: Tim Choate, Kent Broadhurst

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2 Synopsis
- 2.1 Main Plot
3 Characters
- 3.1 Season 1 Cast

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Before Babylon 5 there was Babylon 4. The long lost station mysteriously reappears, triggering a desperate scramble to save B4's crew before it disappears again.

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Tachyon disturbances in the area of space which was once occupied by Babylon 4 concern Sinclair, especially when a fighter pilot who investigates returns to the station dead. Then a message arrives from the long-gone station - a distress call from B4.

A convoy of fighters and transports departs Babylon 5 to see if the ghostly station can be evacuated. It turns out that B4 and its crew have been lost in time, and the station, according to an unusual and evasive alien named Zathras, has been brought back to 2258 so its occupants can escape.

Zathras also mentions The One, a space-suited figure who appears ghostlike in the corridors of B4, and tells of how the station has been lifted from its present to serve as a staging base in a great war of the past. Sinclair offers his help, but Zathras refuses the offer.

As time runs out and Babylon 4 is due to return to its future soon, Sinclair and Garibaldi are confronted with the impossible task of evacuating the station's inhabitants. (Attrib: B5 LogBook [1])