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The Best Episodes of Babylon 5 Season 1

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The Best Episodes of Babylon 5 Season 1

Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain...

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  1. 8.6/10(968 votes)

    #1 - Chrysalis

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    S1:E22

    The Centauri are about to withdraw from a quadrant of space because the Narn are harassing them, when Londo gets an offer to take care of the problem. Meanwhile, Garibaldi tries to find out what his informant stumbled upon that got him killed.

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  2. 8.4/10(975 votes)

    #2 - Babylon Squared

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    S1:E20

    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.

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  3. 8.3/10(996 votes)

    #3 - Signs and Portents

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    S1:E13

    A Centauri noble comes to Babylon 5 to transport an important relic in Londo's possession back to the homeworld. And a mysterious man visits all the alien ambassadors asking them an unusual question.

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  4. 8.0/10(880 votes)

    #4 - A Voice in the Wilderness (2)

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    S1:E19

    The situation heats up when an Earth Force heavy cruiser arrives to "protect Earth's interests", and the fusion reactors on Epsilon 3 start going out of control, and may blow up the planet and Babylon 5.

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  5. 7.9/10(1.0k votes)

    #5 - And the Sky Full of Stars

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    S1:E8

    Sinclair is kidnapped and interrogated by two men determined to prove he betrayed earth during the Battle of the Line.

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  6. 7.8/10(882 votes)

    #6 - A Voice in the Wilderness (1)

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    S1:E18

    Strange signals start coming from Epsilon 3, the planet below Babylon 5. A science ship is sent to investigate, but is fired upon by a defense system on the planet. Meanwhile, Garibaldi worries about a lover he left back on Mars, when fighting breaks out there.

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  8. 7.6/10(1.0k votes)

    #7 - Mind War

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    S1:E6

    The Psi-Cops arrive at the station to capture a rogue telepath, Talia's old Psi Corps instructor. Catherine Sakai is warned not to survey Sigma 957 by G'Kar.

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  9. 7.5/10(961 votes)

    #8 - Deathwalker

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    S1:E9

    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.

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  10. 7.3/10(1.0k votes)

    #9 - The Parliament of Dreams

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    S1:E5

    Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a week-long festival when humans and aliens demonstrate their dominate religious beliefs. An old enemy sends an assassin to kill G'Kar.

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  11. 7.3/10(850 votes)

    #10 - The Quality of Mercy

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    S1:E21

    Dr. Franklin investigates an unlicensed medical practitioner in Downbelow, while Londo takes Lennier for a tour of Babylon 5's seedier locales. And in the brig, a convicted murderer waits for his sentence to be carried out - the death of personality.

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  12. 7.2/10(898 votes)

    #11 - By Any Means Necessary

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    S1:E12

    The station's dock workers stage an illegal strike after an accident in the docking bays. G'Kar tries to take part in a Narn religious ceremony, but must find a replacement G'Quan-Eth plant that was destroyed in the accident.

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  13. 7.2/10(870 votes)

    #12 - Eyes

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    S1:E16

    Sinclair's decisions 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. And Lennier shows great interest in Garibaldi's attempt at assembling a 1990's motorcycle.

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  14. 7.1/10(1.3k votes)

    #13 - Midnight on the Firing Line

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    S1:E1

    When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to blows. Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.

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  15. 7.1/10(1.0k votes)

    #14 - Believers

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    S1:E10

    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. Meanwhile, Ivanova escorts a damaged star liner through raider territory.

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  16. 7.1/10(820 votes)

    #15 - Legacies

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    S1:E17

    A Minbari war cruiser comes to 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.

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  17. 7.0/10(1.1k votes)

    #16 - Born to the Purple

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    S1:E3

    Londo unknowingly falls for a beautiful slave, whose owner wants her to steal sensitive information. Garibaldi discovers that someone is using a restricted communications channel.

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  18. 6.8/10(1.2k votes)

    #17 - Soul Hunter

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    S1:E2

    A badly damaged ship is brought into the station and the strange alien inside is identified as a soul hunter - an immortal race who can sense death and supposedly steal someone's soul.

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  19. 6.8/10(972 votes)

    #18 - The War Prayer

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    S1:E7

    A racist group is terrorizing non-humans on Babylon 5. Meanwhile Londo has trouble with two young Centauri who want to break with tradition by ignoring their arranged marriages, and instead marry for love.

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  20. 6.8/10(875 votes)

    #19 - Survivors

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    S1:E11

    There is an explosion in one of the fighter bays just days before the president is to visit Babylon 5. A dying man implicates Garibaldi, which is just what the head of presidential security wants to hear, as she blames him for her father's death.

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  21. 6.6/10(878 votes)

    #20 - Grail

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    S1:E15

    A man comes to Babylon 5 asking the alien ambassadors for information that can help him with his quest to find the Holy Grail, while a Downbelow gangster gives security problems by mind-wiping all who oppose him.

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  22. 6.4/10(1.0k votes)

    #21 - Infection

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    S1:E4

    Dr. Franklin gets a visit from an old friend and former mentor, xenoarchaeologist Dr. Vance Hendricks who wants Franklin's help to analyze some organic artifacts he found on a dead world. But the artifacts seem to have a will of their own and start to manipulate Hendricks' assistant.

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  23. 5.8/10(929 votes)

    #22 - TKO

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    S1:E14

    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.

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Chrysalis" is the best rated episode of "Babylon 5" season 1. It scored 8.6/10 based on 968 votes. Directed by Janet Greek and written by J. Michael Straczynski, it aired on 10/3/1994. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Babylon Squared".