Infection
From The Great Machine
- Episode Title: Infection
- Episode Number: S1E04
- Original Air Date: February 18, 1994
- DVD Release Date: November 5, 2002
- Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
- Director: Richard Compton
- Guest Stars: David McCallum, Marshall Teague
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A human is infected by living machines smuggled onto the station and morphs into a perfect warrior with a mission to wipe out all imperfect beings... making everyone a target.
[edit] Synopsis
Dr. Vance Hendricks, one of Dr. Franklin's med school mentors, arrives on Babylon 5 in a cloud of mystery, with a collection of pristine artifacts from the planet Icarra, which has been dead for over a thousand years.
One of the artifacts takes control of Hendricks' partner and transforms him into a killing machine designed to eliminate any life form which is not pure Icarran. Since the Icarran race has been dead for centuries thanks to creatures just like this, every living being aboard the station is in danger - a situation which Sinclair decides to take into his own hands despite Garibaldi's protests. (Attrib: B5 LogBook [1])
[edit] Main Plot
- An organic alien artifact is smuggled aboard Babylon 5.
- Unknown to all, the artifact will morph anyone who possesses it into "the perfect warrior," who rampages through the station, killing everything which doesn't match its template of racial purity.
- This is the second anniversary of Babylon 5 going online.
[edit] Characters
Dr. Vance Hendricks, Nelson Drake
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