The worst episodes of Babylon 5
Ranked by viewer rating, lows first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
Garibaldi is surprised when an old friend comes to Babylon 5 to fight in the "Mutai" - a savage alien fighting arena. Meanwhile, Ivanova has trouble dealing with her father's death.
- 02
An alien couple comes to Dr. Franklin with their fatally ill son. The child could be cured by a simple operation, but the parents' religion specifically forbids it. Elsewhere, Ivanova escorts a damaged starliner through raider territory.
- 03
A man comes to Babylon 5 asking the alien ambassadors for information that can help him with his quest to find the Holy Grail. Elsewhere, a Downbelow gangster causes security problems by mind-wiping all who oppose him.
- 04
Sinclair's decisions over the last year catch up with him when an internal affairs investigator arrives to test the crew's loyalty to Earth Force with the help of a telepath. Lennier shows great interest in Garibaldi's attempt at assembling a 1990's motorcycle.
- 05
Dr. Franklin investigates an unlicensed medical practitioner in Downbelow, while Londo takes Lennier for a tour of Babylon 5's more exotic locales. In the station's brig, a convicted murderer waits for his sentence to be carried out - the death of personality.
- 06
Na'Toth attacks an alien woman that has just arrived on the station, claiming that she is the Dilgar war criminal Jha'dur - known as Deathwalker. Meanwhile, Talia is hired by Kosh to oversee some rather strange negotiations.
- 07
Londo's career is in jeopardy when a beautiful slave seduces him and steals a sensitive computer file. Garibaldi investigates an unauthorized use of a restricted communications channel.
- 08
Dr. Franklin gets a visit from his old friend and mentor, xenoarcheologist Dr. Vance Hendricks, who wants Franklin's help to analyze some hi-tech organic artifacts he found on a dead world and has had smuggled onto the station.
- 09
Just days before the Earth Alliance President, Luis Santiago, is scheduled to visit Babylon 5, an explosion in one the fighter bays rocks the station. When a dying man implicates Garibaldi, the head of the President's security detail takes over the investigation... and uses the opportunity to pursue her own agenda.
- 10
The station's dock workers stage an illegal strike demanding better working conditions after an accident in the docking bays. G'Kar tries to take part in an important Narn religious ceremony, but must find a replacement G'Quan-Eth plant that was destroyed in the accident.
- 11
One of the monks now living aboard B5 starts having disturbing visions and realizes that his past may not be how he remembers it. Meanwhile, Lyta Alexander causes a bit of commotion when she returns from the Vorlon homeworld.
- 12
Marcus starts snooping around Downbelow when some of his contacts start behaving unusually and a lurker is found dead with a strange creature bonded to his spine. Meanwhile, when David Corwin receives a promotion, Ivanova investigates his loyalties and suitability for the Conspiracy of Light.
- 13
A mysterious man comes to Babylon 5 dressed in chainmail and armed with a sword. His name? King Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, come to help when he is needed most. Meanwhile, Sheridan and Ivanova try to gain recognition of the station's independent status among the alien governments.
- 14
Delenn finds herself in danger when a badly damaged ship is brought into the station, and the mysterious alien inside is identified as a Soul Hunter — an immortal race who can sense death and supposedly steal someone's soul.
- 15
A violent attack on a Minbari poet rocks B5 and leaves Sinclair scrambling to flush out a vicious pro-Earth group. Two star-crossed young Centauri lovers seek Londo's protection. Ivanova is shaken when a man from her past arrives at the outpost.
- 16
A Minbari war cruiser arrives at Babylon 5 to display the body of a recently dead Minbari leader, while Ivanova and Talia battle for the fate of a young girl with newly discovered telepathic powers.
- 17
A 100-year-old space exploration ship appears near Babylon 5 carrying only two passengers - a woman in cryogenic sleep, the corpse of her husband... and something sinister that has unfinished business with a half mad lurker.
- 18
An old friend of Talia Winters, Taro Isogi, visits Babylon 5 to negotiate a deal to help Mars become more self-sufficient, when he is murdered at the hands of a Free Mars member.
- 19
When the Narn attack a Centauri agricultural colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to blows. Meanwhile, raiders continue attacking transport ships near Babylon 5, and a new commercial telepath, Talia Winters, arrives on the station.
- 20
An Earth Alliance Explorer class ship, commanded by an old friend to Captain Sheridan, arrives at Babylon 5 for re-supply. Dr. Franklin gets on the command officers nerves when he starts handing out "food plans".
- 21
Londo gets a visit from an old friend who seeks his help after being labelled a traitor by the Centarum. Elsewhere, Sheridan begins hallucinating after being attacked by a dead alien.
- 22
A bomber is loose on Babylon 5; setting off bombs with seemingly no pattern. G'Kar blames the Centauri, Londo blames the Narn - and in it all, Lennier is critically injured. At the same time a group of monks request permission to live on the station.
- 23
The new Centauri appointed Narn government send a replacement for G'Kar, who has to decide whether to return to Narn as demanded by the Centauri, or remain on Babylon 5. Meanwhile, an alien probe threatens to destroy the station unless it gets the answers to a series of complicated scientific questions.
- 24
Garibaldi investigates a mysterious area in Grey Sector, nicknamed by maintenance as the B5 Triangle, when a maintenance worker disappears without a trace. Meanwhile, Delenn prepares to take on the role of Ranger One, when Neroon arrives on the station and questions her worthiness to lead.
- 25
A team of ISN reporters arrive on the station claiming that they want to do an objective and truthful story on Babylon 5. Although the command crew are reluctant, they take a chance that their side of the conflict will be shown.
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