Complete series cast summary: | |||
Gary Cole | ... | Capt. Matthew Gideon 13 episodes, 1999 | |
Tracy Scoggins | ... | Capt. Elizabeth Lochley 13 episodes, 1999 | |
Daniel Dae Kim | ... | Lt. John Matheson 13 episodes, 1999 | |
David Allen Brooks | ... | Max Eilerson 13 episodes, 1999 | |
Peter Woodward | ... | Galen 13 episodes, 1999 | |
Marjean Holden | ... | Dr. Sarah Chambers / ... 13 episodes, 1999 | |
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Carrie Dobro | ... | Dureena Nafeel 13 episodes, 1999 |
Several years after the end of the Great War (detailed in the main Babylon 5 TV series) the former servants of the now-exiled Shadows attempt to avenge their old masters by introducing a powerful biological weapon into Earth's atmosphere. After five years of adapting itself to humanity's genetic makeup, it will kill every human being on the planet. Since this plague was the product of a technology far ahead of humanity's, there isn't enough time to develop an original solution - instead, humanity will have to comb through the ruins of older alien civilizations with the hope of finding some ancient, advanced technology that can cure the disease. Leading this high-stakes archeological mission is a starship of the new Interstellar Alliance, the Excalibur, and its crew drawn from the Alliance's elite troubleshooting corps, the Rangers. Written by Erich Schneider <erich@csdl.tamu.edu>
After some slow and rather uneventful episodes, this show later showed some promise and developed into an interesting Science Fiction series.
Of course, it is lacking the sophisticated story arc of Babylon 5, but many episodes are fun! It is nice to watch them and you want to know what happens next. In my eyes, it is Star trek Voyager done better.
The characters are of different quality: The Captain with his mysterious Boom Tube as an advisor gets better every episode, and Technomage Galen is simply wonderful. Archeologist Eilerson does not fail to convince as an arrogant scientist. The other characters are far less interesting.
Even so, I am rather sad that TNT decided to cancel the show without ever waiting for spectators approval. Some of the 13 episodes were excellent, and I do sincerely hope that they will be able to continue someday in the future.