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Babylon Squared

Season 1, Episode 21, Aired Aug 10, 1994

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Babylon 4 reappears at the same place it disappeared four years before, and Sinclair and Garibaldi lead an expedition to evacuate its crew. Meanwhile Delenn is summoned by the Grey council. They inform her that they have selected a new leader - her.moreless

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Kent Broadhurst

Major Krantz
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Tim Choate

Zathras
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Frank Costa

B4 Guard

Stephen Furst

Vir Cotto
Julie Caitlin Brown

Na'Toth
Richard Biggs

Dr. Stephen Franklin
Jerry Doyle

Michael Garibaldi
Peter Jurasik

Londo Mollari
Claudia Christian

Susan Ivanova

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Babylon Squared

9.0

"Superb"

By TrueTvWatcher, Jan 02, 2011

Babylon Squared was a really superb episode of Babylon 5. I really enjoyed watching this episode because it was full of character development, action and drama. There were a lot of creative scenes in this episode. I thought the story of this episode was interesting and it was intriguing to learn a tiny bit more about the larger picture of what is going on. This episode reveals certain information while bringing up new questions. I was intrigued by the ending of this episode and look forward to watching more of Babylon 5! This episode showcases how great this series can be!!!!!!!moreless
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Mystery solved and more mysteries risen.

9.5

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By Parricida, Jun 11, 2008

This episode... wow I most say - that was my first reaction when I first saw it. I just well in love with it - the huge action, the very dangerous situation, mystically re-appeared station and some weird creature that I started to like. Ofcourse, watching this episode is never again the same if you have seen season 3 and some certain episodes what really explain what really was going on there. But that is not the matter.

I really love the story. I think there is a need for create mind to write something like that. For not a moment the motion halts - it is always moving so fast, always something happening.

And the ending - I most say - a really promising.moreless
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One of the best of the whole season

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By nazthedeep, Oct 17, 2007

We find out what happened / happens to Babylon4 in this episode which managed to be an exciting episode, whilst also introducing some long term plot elements.

Babylon5 gets a transmission from Babylon 4 and Garibaldi and Sinclair head out to investigate. It seems that Babylon 4 has been caught in some sort of time warp and keeps appearing and disappearing, prompting a race against time to evacuate.

More significantly we get to meet Zafras, a character who will return much later as we see this same story playing out again but from the other perspective. I must admit that when I first watched this episode I really didn't 'get' what was happening - but looking back now it really shows off how the writers were setting things in place for the 5 year story arc, as we see Sinclair from the Babylon5 meeting Sinclair / Valen from the future. Awesome.

A secondary story, albeit very significant, concerns Delenn making a decisive break with the wishes of the Grey Council. They want her as leader, but she wants to stay on Babylon 5 and help fulfill the prophecy that has been hinted at throughout season one. This all comes together in the season finale.

A truly great episode.moreless
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the return of babylon 4

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By seaqueastdsv, Aug 18, 2007

i loved this episode babylon squared. i think i like it because we get to see what happen to babylon 4. there is also a amusing scene where garibaldi and sinclare are having breakfast, watch for what they do to susan. an investigation into a powerfull energy source climaxes in an astonishing discovery about babylon 5 predecessor babylon 4 as the truth unravels the impossible happens a distress signal is retrived from babylon 4 even though it mysteriously disappered years before. as commander sincair and his crew race to the signal source they are overtaken by incredible horrifying visions of the future and glimpses of a strange and forbidding figure known only as the one.moreless
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Babylon 5 receives a message from Babylon 4 a ship reported to have been lost.

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By marvelfan89, Aug 11, 2006

A routine starfighter for Babylon 5 thinks he's spotted Babylon 4 and then vanishes with a ray of light. When the man's dead body is examined he appears to have aged incredibly and died from natural causes. Then the station receives a signal from Babylon 4 apparently four years in the making. Commander Sinclair thinks tacoian emissions have led to Babylon 4 disappearance. To he and Garabaldi's surprise, they do come aboard the ship but can't believe what they see nor the explanation by the ship's captain.

It seems Babylon 4 has been stuck in time. On top of that Babylon four has a mysterious alien as a prisoner named Zathras. Zathras apparently knows Commander Sinclair from the future but Sinclair doesn't know him.

It was a pretty interesting episode, mostly about time and travel and deja vu. This episode would later be brought in Season 3's "War Without End" in which Sinclair (as Ambassador) would return to Babylon 5.

I think that was part of the episode, an omnious send of in the making to Sinclair (he'd be replaced later).

Still a pretty decent episode at least consistency wise the writers would address this episode later and Sinclair would get his destiny in the future.
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- Crew Visible: As the Babylon 4 crew are evacuating the station, a film crew member can be seen sitting on a pile of equipment
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QUOTES (3)
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- (Travelling to Babylon 4) Garibaldi: You want to talk socks? Sinclair: No! Garibaldi: Just a question. Sinclair: I'm not having this conversation!
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- Zathras: Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras dies. You leave, Zathras dies. Either way, it is bad for Zathras.
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- [After Garibaldi and Sinclair trick Ivanova into thinking she slept through breakfast] Sinclair: I'll notify your next of kin. Garibaldi: 4 ... 3... 2 ... 1 ... Ivanova: OH! GARIBALDI! YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!
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- Toward the end of the episode, Ivanova says that if Babylon 4 ever re-appears, she will go while Garibaldi stays behind. This is precisely what happens in War Without End.
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- According to folklore, the Flying Dutchman is a ghost ship that can never go home, but must sail 'the seven seas' forever. The Flying Dutchman is usually spotted from afar, sometimes glowing with ghostly light. If she is hailed by another ship, her crew will often try to send messages to land, to people long since dead.
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