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Babylon 5: The Gathering
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
The feature-length pilot for this Emmy award-winning show. Babylon 5 is the latest in a series of space stations built by humans. The Vorlon ambassador, Kosh, has been poisoned. It is the new commanding officer, Jeffrey Sinclair, who has the responsibility of finding the culprit. Otherwise, the space station will fail in its role of bringing many alien races together.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy ensemble science-fiction mysteries built around political tension, alien cultures, and slow-burn world-building.
- Tone
- tense, cerebral, adventurous
- Payoff
- revelation, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- diplomacy, conspiracy, interspecies coexistence, political mistrust
- Setting
- near future, isolated interstellar diplomatic space station