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Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call

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Season 1

6.8/10257 votes
War Zone
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/9/1999
Capt. Matthew Gideon assembles the crew that will be with him on the experimental starship Excalibur. Their mission: explore the reaches of space to find a cure for the deadly Drakh virus that will overrun Earth in five years.
Director: Janet Greek
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
6.6/10236 votes
The Long Road
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/16/1999
Gideon mediates between Earth miners and the residents of a planet containing a virus-fighting mineral--and a fire-breathing dragon.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
6.8/10231 votes
The Well of Forever
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/23/1999
Galen persuades Gideon to seek a mystical crossroads. An investigator probes Matheson's mind.
Director: Janet Greek
Writer: Fiona Avery
6.9/10240 votes
The Path of Sorrows
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/30/1999
A mysterious sphere prompts Gideon and the others to relive traumatic moments from their past.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
6.6/10219 votes
Patterns of the Soul
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/7/1999
Gideon must deport a colony of renegade humans. Dureena finds a lost tribe of her people.
Director: Tony Dow
Writer: Fiona Avery
6.6/10231 votes
Ruling from the Tomb
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/14/1999
Gideon and Lochley must prevent a doomsday cult from killing everyone at a virus conference on Mars.
Director: John Copeland
Writer: Peter David
6.9/10218 votes
The Rules of the Game
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/21/1999
The Excalibur goes to Babylon 5 so that Gideon can meet with an ambassador for permission to go to a planet that might have technology that can help Earth. But the ambassador refuses and Gideon is not going to accept it. And Ellerson runs into his ex-wife, who is in trouble with a loan shark. When he pays him off, he feels she owes him more. And goes to great lengths to collect.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño, Jesus Travino
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.5/10226 votes
Appearances and Other Deceits
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/28/1999
Gideon must outwit an alien consciousness that takes over the Excalibur's crew.
Director: Stephen Furst
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.6/10225 votes
Racing the Night
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/4/1999
Gideon and crew find themselves trapped by an alien civilization using sinister methods to seek a cure for the same Drakh virus that attacked Earth.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.2/10214 votes
The Memory of War
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/11/1999
Galen warns Gideon not to explore a planet where the inhabitants were suddenly eradicated.
Director: Tony Dow
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.1/10218 votes
The Needs of Earth
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 8/18/1999
Gideon conducts an illegal raid to free a fugitive with information that could save Earth.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.3/10251 votes
Visitors from Down the Street
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 8/25/1999
Two persecuted alien investigators (based on FBI agents Mulder and Scully from X-Files) believe that Earth is covertly invading them.
Director: Jerry Apoian
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
7.7/10215 votes
Each Night I Dream of Home
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/1/1999
In an attempt to understand the nature of the Drakh virus better, the Excalibur is sent back to Earth's orbit for a top-secret special pick up. Familiar face returns. Final, open-ended, episode.
Director: Stephen Furst
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski