Babylon 5

Had Colonel Lochley changed branches on Earth Aliance military? During the final year of Babylon 5 and through all season of Crusade, she was Captain (O6, navy); now she is Colonel (O6, also, but Marine/Army). However, she does not use greens, as General Franklin (B5-2x10, "GROPOS") and his staff or brown like Colonel Ari Ben Zayn (1x15, "Eyes"), but blues like always - and like Major (O4) Ed Ryan (B5-3x10, "Severed Dreams") - who, by the way, was CO of the "Alexander". So, what happened? Perhaps has Earth Aliance decided to unify its military rank designations?

Father Kelly in his conversation with Lochley mentions "seraphim." A "seraph" or its plural "seraphim" is one of a class of celestial beings mentioned in Old Testament. They may have human form, can be referred to as "angels," and are mentioned in the book of Isaiah as winged guardians of God's throne. Isaiah (6:1–3): "... I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and His train filled the Hekhal. Above Him stood the Seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew."

An initial production schedule was given at Comic Con convention. The first "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales" DVD was planned to start shooting in September of 2006, with post-production in the fourth quarter of 2006, and release in the second quarter of 2007. However, members of cast and crew were not available necessitating changes. Shooting got rescheduled to October, then to November, and finally began on November 13, 2006. Production was completed on April 15, 2007 an the DVD was presented to the studio.

J. M. Straczynski started writing the first of the Lost Tales scripts by August 2006. The stories were formed partly by which actors were available, since original cast members are being used.

"Babylon 5: The Lost Tales" introduces a new kind of Minbari cruiser.

Bruce Boxleitner brought all of his personalized crew coats, not donated to auction, up to the Vancouver studios to dispel rumors by a "sub-section of British fans" that he burned them. JMS referred to the rumor mongers as "bunch of whackos" and had a picture taken to " ... at minimum ... put THAT baldfaced lie to bed."

New technology simplified production of "Babylon 5: The Lost Tales." JMS noted, "For instance, in B5 halls we used to have wooden strips painted green or blue or red to signal various sectors. Here we ran these really lovely light panels that can change colors and at the same time add a light source and warm up the halls."

"Babylon 5: The Lost Tales," came in under budget and finished a full day ahead of schedule.

The Babylon 5 : The Lost Tales offices for JMS and Doug Netter were located directly next door to the Battlestar Galactica offices at the Vancouver Film Studios.

There was a question early in production as to whether the coat for Prince Dius Vintari of the Centauri Republic should be blue or gold. JMS wrote, "Ultimately we went with gold, despite the input of some who charged into the room shouting 'I'm thinking pastels!' for no discernible reason."

The ship Sheridan uses to get to the rim appears to be a new class of white star. The ship seems fully automated and can function with one pilot simply giving voice commands.

Revealing Mistake: When Lennier is backing away from Sheridan, he bumps into the wall, which shakes.

Strangely, throughout the episode Walter Koenig never takes both gloves off, always leaving the glove in his left hand even when not wearing his uniform.

Bester says to the PSI Cop intern "You just might be PsiCorp material after all" after she kills her first mundane. Surely he means "PSI Cop material" as he has always stated that all telepaths are part of PsiCorp?

Revealing Mistake: When Garibaldi and the Drazi are fighting in his room, the balcony wall wobbles whenever they hit it.

Bester tells Geribaldi that he has implanted him with two of Asimov's laws: "You will not harm me, or allow by inaction to let any harm come to me." In fact, this is only one law, as Asimov's laws are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Continuity: Byron has an arm injured badly and can barely lift it. But then it is miraculously alright, and he uses it to tidy up his hair.

When talking privately with the Drazi, Brakiri and Gaim Ambassadors, there's one shot of Sheridan and Delenn in which one of the lights of the wall beside Sheridan goes off for a few seconds.

Continuity: Some of the telepaths shown siding with Byron in this episode were among the group who had split from his non-violent ideology in the previous episode.

When Sheridan and Garibaldi are discussing Byron's threat to the council, Delenn is shown reading his manifest over and over. However, in several moments of the scene, the camera angle allows us to see that there are only white pages in the manifest.