r/babylon5

I just rewatched "Exogenesis," and while the episode might be a bit mid (though it introduced Carrie Dobro before she took on the role of Dureena Nafeel in Crusade), there was something I caught all the way back, the very first time I ever saw this episode.

The episode begins with a shuttle, in fact the Shuttle Dyson (mentioned at the end in the departure lounge) as the shuttle elevators lower the little boat into the depths of the station.

The dialogue begins around 2:40.

Babylon Control: Shuttle Dyson, you're our last shuttle for today. Locking off for now. Please remind your passengers about out Customs procedures prior to debarkation.

Shuttle Pilot: Roger that, Babylon Control. Have a nice day.

The bolded bit is what I'm talking about here. You've heard the Shuttle Pilot's voice. I've heard the Shuttle Pilot's voice. But there are absolutely no credits anywhere.

Was that really Sean Connery's voice we all heard?

Note: I have looked around all corners of the net for any credits for "Shuttle Pilot" and not even iMDB has a clue.

Just noticed this morning there is a deal for Babylon 5 on Amazon. I just got all 5 seasons for $29.99 I believe was the exact price.

I know we all love our true media and dvds etc but I also know there are many people here who have been asking if it will be coming back to streaming who may want to grab them now while they’re this price. I think it said originally $140 for the whole season so it’s definitely a good deal for those looking. Enjoy !

Just noticed this morning there is a deal for Babylon 5 on Amazon. I just got all 5 seasons for $29.99 I believe was the exact price.

I know we all love our true media and dvds etc but I also know there are many people here who have been asking if it will be coming back to streaming who may want to grab them now while they’re this price. I think it said originally $140 for the whole season so it’s definitely a good deal for those looking. Enjoy !

Autumn, my absolutely favorite season, is coming and so is the time of cocooning and chilling at home, detaching from the outside world. As I have a lot vacation hours left and plan to do a lot staycation including cocooning I will do a rewatch of one my favorite sci Fi series. So now I can't decide between B5 and one of the 90s Star Trek series (TNG, DS9, VOY).

Dear B5 community, please deliver me some good reasons to rewatch B5 because I am kinda indifferent about this question at the moment.

For a species who believe in the necessity and desirability of conflict and chaos in driving the evolutionary process forward, they never seem to fight with each other. Anytime we see them, they act as one. If not a hivemind, they are still very closely in sync with each other. Why don't they pursue conflict to improve their own race? Or is that all nonsense, and they simply get a nihilistic pleasure out of making other species destroy each other?

I've been spending way too much time inside a Python codebase lately, and apparently I've reached the stage where package names start triggering Babylon 5 flashbacks.

The PostgreSQL driver I'm using is called:

psycopg

I had read that name countless times without really parsing it.

Then today my brain finally went:

PSYCOP?!

And immediately I understood Michael Garibaldi on a spiritual level.

Bester.

Of course it's Bester.

Naturally I had to look up why anybody would name a PostgreSQL library something that sounds like the Psi Corps has infiltrated Python packaging.

Turns out they didn't.

Which somehow makes it better.

The original name was apparently supposed to be something like psychopg — "psycho" + pg — after its author replaced a rather... enthusiastic previous database driver.

Then the name was mistyped as psycopg.

The typo survived.

A couple decades later, Python programmers everywhere are casually typing:

import psycopg

with absolutely no concern for the fact that this looks suspiciously like we're voluntarily importing a Psi Cop into the process.

Garibaldi would never approve.

And yes, I know it's just a PostgreSQL adapter.

It handles connections, transactions, queries, data conversion, Unix sockets, all that boring database stuff.

That's exactly what makes this worse.

The Psi Corps isn't kicking down the door.

It's sitting quietly between your application and your database.

Watching every transaction.

Bester got away with it again.

At this point if I discover a dependency called bester, I'm airlocking the virtual environment.

I as a viewer suspected Bester would get away with everything in the first scenes with him already, he plays it smart, by the book where it matters and doesn't give a damn when it doesn't.

It also has me wondering, how much of Babylon 5 was potentially part of early disclosure? Telepathy is not a background fact in the entire series, it's a major plot point at multiple times. And lately in 2026 we are starting to see more awareness around actual telepathic abilities. I have not directly experienced any of that myself so I remain skeptical, but I also can't deny the growing amount of evidence around it.

Thus the themes the series play with are very much so relevant for 2026, because, if telepathy is indeed possible? ... for me, it remains fiction, for now, UAP on the other hand stopped being fiction for what feels like forever already even though it's barely been over a year for me when all doubt fell away and a direct experience with phenomena.

It would make sense for telepaths to hide their abilities. True intelligence doesn't flaunt, it hides and pretends it's not there. Seems dumb, overlooked. Exactly where it'd want you to be. Unaware of its real capabilities.

MISTER GARIBALDI...

I remember very clearly how I believe it was Sinclair specifically called you out for wanting you to be paranoid as chief of security ...

Ugh, the story arch is so complete, so full, so dense, so rich, so ... its truly a bible of its own kind.

G'kar. Londo, oh the names again, all of it .. so timeless ...

*gushes*

/ramble