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Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Visitors from Down the Street – The Excalibur encounters a ship in distress and a pair of aliens on board that speak English and seem to be aware of Earth, as it's at the center of many a conspiracy theory. This makes more sense if you remember how big X-Files was in the 90s.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Racing the Night – The Excalibur finds what appears to be an abandoned planet rich in information, which almost seems to be too good to be true. Also there's some information about the start of Gideon's mission, because this was originally intended to be the first episode of the show.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: The Needs of Earth – On the tip of a ranger, the crew of the Excalibur attempt to grab an alien fugitive who appears to be trying to sell his world's greatest knowledge to the highest bidder. Cue a series of situations with no clear cut best answer, and also the best episode of the show so far.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Memory of War – The Excalibur explores a seemingly dead planet against the advise of their resident technomage, and deadly shenanigans ensue!

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Appearances and Other Deceits – The Excalibur comes across a mysterious ship with one survivor and a multitude of bodies, and the crew soon find themselves contending with the same threat that fell the previous ship.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: The Long Road – The Excalibur is brought in to try and sort a dispute between an Earth Forces mining operation that might help the fight against the plague back home, and the residents of the planet. All of this is complicated by an old friend of Galen.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5 and the Excalibur on its Crusade, taking in one episode at a time. Crusade: Warzone – The Excalibur assembles its crew for its mission to save earth, led by captain Matthew Gideon. They are then immediately diverted to save a jackass of an archeologist.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. TV Movie: A Call to Arms - The Drahk plan to make their move as Sheridan oversees the launch of brand new ships, while a mysterious figure brings disparate folk together for a greater cause.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. TV Movie: River of Souls – Sheridan is off the station, but that doesn't mean that there's going to be any less trouble. Lochley has to contend with the arrival of an academic carrying an item stolen from the Soul Hunters... and also a holographic brothel on board the station that she didn't know was there.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 22, Sleeping in Light – In the final episode of the show proper, we get a 20 year jump to see where characters have ended up on the eve of Sheridan's final day as foretold by Lorien.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 21, Objects at Rest - Most of the remaining original crew prepare to leave Babylon 5 for the last time, but not before Lennier does something stupid.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 20, Objects in Motion - Garibaldi and Lyse prepare to leave but first have to figure out how to survive an assassination plan against them, meanwhile G'Karr deals with an unpleasant worshipper and Zach is actually kind of useful for once.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 19, The Wheel of Fire - Garibaldi has to face consequences for falling off the wagon while Lochley and Zack are tasked with arresting Lyta for funding terrorism.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 18, The Fall of Centauri Prime - Londo ascends to power as the world around him burns, meanwhile Delenn and Lennier are running out of time to be rescued from Hyperspace.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 17, Movements of Fire and Shadow - The Alliance and the Centauri continue to skirmish as Londo rushes to Centauri Prime with G'Karr in tow to try and get the attacks to stop.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 16, And All My Dreams Torn Asunder - Sheridan and Delenn present the evidence of the Centauri attacks to the council while Londo tries to figure out how to prevent the seemingly inevitable march to war.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 15, Darkness Ascending - Lennier makes a dangerous discovery while back on Babylon 5 Lyta tries to find a new path forward for telepaths and Garibaldi's absentee girlfriend shows up.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 14, Meditations on the Abyss - Lennier is deployed onto a White Star ship with a new captain who intends to put him through some particularly intense training, while Franklin checks in on G'Karr's religious teachings.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 13, The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father - We get to see Bester in his home element as he investigates a rogue telepath on behalf of the Psy-corps, with two interns in tow.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 12, The Ragged Edge - Sheridan and his cabinet get desperate trying to find out who is attacking the alliance shipping lanes while G'karr returns to find himself in a position he never wanted to be in.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 11, Phoenix Rising - THE BYRON PLOT IS OVER! Bust out the champagne as we try to celebrate the closing of this misterable chapter.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 10, In the Kingdom of the Blind - The true tragedy is that Byron and his freaking cult are still taking up screen time. Yeah, let's be honest this entire plotline has been an anchor on the show's neck.

Episode Description Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 9, In the Kingdom of the Blind - Byron issues and ultimatum to the alliance while Londo returns to Centauri Prime, with G'Kar as his body guard.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 8, Day of the Dead - Comedy legends Reebo and Zooty arrive on the station as a species called the Berkiri begin their "day of the dead" celebration. And we're sure nothing strange will come of either of these events.

Episode Description Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 7, Secrets of the Soul - More telepaths arrive on Babylon 5 to find Byron as Lyta is drawn in ever closer to him. Meanwhile Franklin tries to deal with some butthead aliens. Like literally, The back of their heads look like butts.

Episode Description Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 6, Strange Relations - Bester arrives on the station with trackers to find the rogue telepaths and take them back to Earth, and there may not be anything that Sheridan or Lochley can do about it.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 5, Learning Curve - Some Rangers in training arrive on Babylon 5 and find themselves clashing with an up and coming new head of organized crime on the station.

Episode Description Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 4, A View from the Gallery - The station is under assault, but this time we get a look at things through the eyes of a couple of maintenance men.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 3, The Paragon of Animals - President Sheridan and his allies try to arrive at a statement of princples for the newly formed Alliance, Garibaldi employs Lyta to try and convince the recently arrived telepaths to help with covert operations.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 5, Episode 2, The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari - Londo collapses and fights for his life, and he may have to comfront some uncomfortable truths in order to do it.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. No Compromises - The new alliance formalizes its structure and principles while a newcomer arrives to run Babylon 5, since Sheridan now has bigger fish to fry, while in the background a sinister plot unfolds.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Thirdspace - One more movie before we get into Season 5, and this time to recapture some of that cosmic horror we've been missing since the Shadows left.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. In the Beginning - Time to break from the episodes proper for a B5 movie. This one is a prequel covering the start and end of the Minbari war, and mostly exists to bring viewers on the new network (TNT) up to speed.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 22, The Deconstruction of Falling Stars - The show takes a leap forward, and then another, and then another, and then another, to show how the future will look upon what Sheridan and the crew of Babylon 5 has accomplished.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 21, Rising Star - Sheridan faces the authorities of earth while... ok there's like 6 subplots in this because it was written when they thought the show was ending and it tries to wrap everything up, I'm not going through all of it.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 20, Endgame - You saw the title, what did you think was going to happen? That the conflict between Babylon 5 and Earth would be resolved with a bake-off?

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 19, Between the Darkness and the Light - Franklin, Garibaldi, and Lyta attempt to rescue Sheridan while Ivanova leads the fleet against Earth's latest war machines. And if you didn't already know this: do not mess with Susan Ivanova.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 18, Intersections in Real Time - Following his capture, Sheridan faces interogation and pressure to publicly confess his "crimes." That's actually it, that's the whole episode. And it's glorious.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 17, The Face of the Enemy - Sheridan continues to recruit members of Earth Force while the trap is laid to lure him to Mars to be handed over to President Clark.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 16, The Exercise of Vital Powers - Garbaldi gets in deeper with his employer on Mars while Lyta may hold the key to helping Franklin bring the telepaths held by the Shadows safely out of cryosleep.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 15, No Surrender, No Retreat - Sheridan leads a squadron in an attempt to liberate Proxima 3, while Londo makes a desperate plea to G'Karr.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 14, Moments of Transition - Delenn faces what may be a no-win situation in trying to resolve the Minbari civil war, while Lyta tries desperately to keep her head above water only for Bester to show up to try and talk her into a deal she doesn't want.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 13, Rumors, Bargains and Lies - Delenn attempts to resolve the ongoing conflict between the Warrior and Religious caste on Minbar, while Sheridan hatches a plan to get permission to patrol the unaligned worlds.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 12, Conflicts of Interest - Garibaldi takes a job that means he'll have to sneak around his own former security team. But enough things have rubbed him the wrong way that he's willing to do it, even though it may be deadly.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 11, Lines of Communication - Delenn makes contact with a new species that could be an ally or an enemy, while Franklin and Marcus try to build relationships with the mars resistance.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 10, Racing Mars - Franklin and Marcus attempt to contact the resistance on Mars, while back on Babylon 5 things between Sheridan and Garibaldi escalate despite the former being on forced vacation.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 9, Atonement - Delenn returns to Minbar for a ritual that will reveal her past and may alter her future.

Vera Wylde and Jessie Gender take up residence on Babylon 5, taking in one episode at a time. Season 4, Episode 8, The Illusion of Truth - In an attempt to earn some good will back on earth, Babylon 5 gives an investigative news team access to the station. But the end result may not be what they were hoping for.

Before we jump back into Babylon 5, Jessie and Vera are going to drink a bit and ramble on about how the year went.

Jessie Gender and Vera Wylde welcome special guest Dominic Noble (best know for the "Lost in Adaptation" series on YouTube), to talk through their thoughts on "The Prisoner" as a whole.