With hundreds of channels on cable these days, you'd think ONE of them would see fit to rerun Babylon 5. It was a show ahead of its time.
@Wombat1916
6 жыл бұрын
I bought the complete Babylon 5 DVD set a while ago. I can watch whenever I like.
@ogs_Boga1900
5 жыл бұрын
@Tin Man ya the expense is there but its like cheap imitation of b5. B5 has much more nuanced themes
@GBRyker61
5 жыл бұрын
@@jgkight1 go90 got shut down.
@jgkight1
5 жыл бұрын
I know. Babylon 5 is currently on Amazon Prime video.
@waldoman0
5 жыл бұрын
Comet TV tonight at 9PM ET/PT after SG1
@bigwitt187
4 жыл бұрын
Delenn's speech to conclude the conflict is one of my favorite television moments ever. I remembered it word for word even years later.
@pezdispencer113
4 жыл бұрын
"Only one human captain has ever destroyed a Minbari cruiser before, he sits behind us. You are in front of us. Withdraw!"
@raitchison
8 ай бұрын
@@pezdispencer113 If you value your lives be somewhere else.
@trazyntheinfinite9895
8 ай бұрын
Best sort of "fck off or die" speech ever.
@JeffreyTappan-bb8rr
Ай бұрын
@@pezdispencer113" Withdraw, or be destroyed " !!!
@JeffreyTappan-bb8rr
Ай бұрын
It's the Minbari accent, or maybe the Croat accent, that gets to me.
@spoodie69
13 жыл бұрын
"Bring us in closer to the enemy." "How close?" "Right down their throats!" ooOOooo goose bumps!!
@powerghostsenior
4 жыл бұрын
actors like him really bring over the power of the line's their saying. you get the feeling he really means it.
@killjoy1887
4 жыл бұрын
@@powerghostsenior missed opportunity for him to yell ramming speed again.
@Eddie42023
3 жыл бұрын
@@powerghostsenior Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes. BUT... WHO IS THAT ACTOR?!
@perx3561
Жыл бұрын
@@Eddie42023 Bruce McGill. Fun fact, his casting was a mistake of sorts, as the writer/producer had wanted "that McGill guy" meaning Everett McGill likely because of his work in Dune (1984), but as it turned out, there were more than a few actors with the surname. And originally this role in the story was to be played by the other defector for Babylon 5's side, General William Hague, but that characters actor had been accidentally double booked for DS9 at the same time and had to be written off and replaced. Bruce did a stellar job for a one off character seen in only one episode IMHO.
@SantomPh
8 ай бұрын
@@perx3561 and ironically the Admiral played by Robert Foxworth gets arrested (or removed) for treason in Star Trek.
@JeroenDStout
7 жыл бұрын
Babylon 5 is so good at making these fights feel like they are about people. Not just prop ships that go "bang", but its music and atmosphere reminds you of the horror and awe of these ships fighting.
@rangodeldiablo
5 жыл бұрын
True, but some of the factions names are the worst in sci fi history. I mean come on "earth alliance"
@RandomAmerican3000
5 жыл бұрын
What do you think they would come up with for a government that included all the nations of Earth? (There's also the small mater that a lot of the better names have already been trademarked.)
@rangodeldiablo
5 жыл бұрын
How about the Terrain National Coalition, or the Republic of Unified Nations
@RandomAmerican3000
5 жыл бұрын
I like the latter, only because all Earth warships would have R.U.N. sprawled across their bows
My favorite episode of Babylon 5 ! I remember when I 1st saw it I had to breath in the end to calm down I couldn't sleep later lol and watching it again it's still has that effect on me.. Amazing writing directing and acting one of the best episodes in SCFI!!
@sergeontheloose
6 жыл бұрын
This episode won the Nebula Award for a reason!
@samkolkka7084
6 жыл бұрын
Yes.. agreed. But the one thing that always bothered me was that the Roanoke got cut in half by the Churchill ramming it way before Sheridan asks them to surrender. He shoulda said Agrippa. That was the EA ship still alive at that point of the battle. The name Roanoke is clearly visible as it brakes apart. No point in asking them to surrender anymore. Also after Roanoke is in bits and pieces we see Ivanova's starfury ram into Agrippa after she ejects and the Alexander also fires on the side of Agrippa after that. And its when you clearly see its the Agrippa loosing control when Sheridan finally asks the Roanoke to surrender. Not a big mistake really. But if you have seen the episode several times it does seem like a careless mistake.
@samwade6935
5 жыл бұрын
that was a nice spot, I have seen this show multiple times and have not seen that error
@BBBoggs
5 жыл бұрын
I must say that Earth-Alliance politics are what kept me watching the show.
@InfernosReaper
5 жыл бұрын
@@samwade6935 Either someone just put the wrong name up on the graphics, or the script got changed up. I actually caught it the first time but was like, "nah, I must've just misread it"
@roguelead72
9 жыл бұрын
StarFury Mk V's right up there with X-Wings and Colonial Vipers as the coolest fighters in science fiction.
@vguyver2
8 жыл бұрын
+Wedge Antilles There were some awesome ships in Wing Commander (games, not the movie) and the Colony Wars series too.
@AlexSDU
7 жыл бұрын
How about the F-302?
@roguelead72
7 жыл бұрын
***** Yeah that one's cool too.
@dogearelife3183
7 жыл бұрын
Wedge Antilles how bout the trident class from mass effect
@roguelead72
7 жыл бұрын
TBH I'm not that familiar with Mass Effect.
@remeyrune6009
5 жыл бұрын
great story, acting, CGI, does not get better than this, sadly most of the actors have since died
@dragonsword7370
5 жыл бұрын
They had a legit excuse for showing battle damage in the stations CIC... they literally had a downed starfury land on they're face. Most scifi don't do that, they may hand waved damage on the bridge.
@PressA2Die
5 жыл бұрын
It's been a few years since I have seen this show but I'm sure that was a Thunderbolt colliding with the bridge.
@lcstark
4 жыл бұрын
@PressA2Die It was a Thunderbolt Starfury. In contrast to an Aurora Starfury, like the one used by Ivanova in this video. A "Starfury" wasn't a single model of a fighter, it was more of a term for a series of fighters.
@miafillene4396
4 жыл бұрын
And it also was destroyed before impact. Buuuuut all the pieces of it left still hit. If the whole draft had smacked into B5, there would have been a MUCH bigger hole.
@LinnCZ
16 жыл бұрын
This is one of the greatest scenes of B5 and one of my favourite as well... And when Delenn shows up in the end with Minbari cruisers, gosh, it's just perfect. Thanks for posting ;) Sorry for my poor English but I have to comment... :)
@DarthShebs
13 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest sci-fi battle scenes ever.
@zchen27
9 жыл бұрын
Looks like the EA forgot how fast the Centauri battlecruiser went down when it confronted Babylon 5.
@joesnow7216
8 жыл бұрын
+zchen27 The Centauri battlecruiser went down because it was a flawed design. They didn't have docking bays for fighter escort. Without smaller ships to screen enemy fire, capital ships tend to go down quickly.
@TheTrueAdept
7 жыл бұрын
Actually in the B5 universe fighters (without anti-ship weapons) are at best useful in damaging vulnerable things like sensors and (if appropriately armed) lightly armored guns. A Centuari Primus (the Centauri capitalship that appeared in said episode) is HEAVILY armed but at the cost of intercept-capable pulse weapon capability which are used for pretty much ALL point defense work. In addition, these are Earth Alliance ships which have a well earned reputation in-verse as literal flying bricks of doom (and GUNS). After their first fortrays into space combat, Earth Alliance ships became essentially flying bricks with LOTS of guns. Part of this is the Interceptors which are guns that pretty much do what they are named: intercept anything NOT an energy beam or outright exotic (like most of the First Ones' toys which range from matter disruptors to weird bio-energy things to crazy advanced sensors) weapon. Add the 'really fucked up on reverse engineering' E-WEB (it was supposed to be a shield ala Star Trek) helping out on dampening the impact of charged particle (practically 95% of B5-verse's arsenal), kinetic (~1% of B5-verse's arsenal), and laser (~3% of B5-verse's arsenal) weaponry, Earth Alliance ships are bricks in terms of defense. Minbari (and other races in their age-range) use Neutron Laser cannons which have a nasty effect to INDUCE FISSION IN ANYTHING IT TOUCHES. Yeah, can't armor against something that does something as crazy as that. :P A Primus against an Omega? Money is on the Omega despite the Primus having a hybrid ion-gravic drive.
@kenny_boii
6 жыл бұрын
I don't know about that. The fighters thing. On the battle of the line Sheridan or was it Sinclair is flying a patrol and one of his wingmen tries to shoot out the bridge of a Sharlin cruiser.
@acmenipponair
6 жыл бұрын
And also the Earth Alliance ships, as they are more primitive than the other ships, seem to have be much more structurally stable with steel beams and so on than the other races ships, I mean, you couldn't make such manouevers like Centauri, Minbari or even Narn ships make with an Omega class ship. But being structural stronger then of course works out in duration time in a battle. You need to destroy much more physical material on an omega class cruiser, before it wents down, than on a Primus class ship.
@weldonwin
5 жыл бұрын
The Centauri Primis class Battlecruisers, were also well over a hundred years old, having once been the most feared ships outside of the Minbari fleet, but more than a century of wear and cumulative battle damage mean these ships were well past their prime. Add to that an unstable main reactor and the Primus is comparable to the British Navy's HMS Hood during WW2, in that she was the biggest, most powerful and most impressive ship in the fleet, but really wasn't suited to front line combat anymore. It's why the Centauri were favoring the smaller attack cruisers more and more as the backbone of their fleet.
@philb9015
3 жыл бұрын
The Starfury (especially the Aurora variant ) is my favorite sci-fi star fighter of all time, they are also the most realistic depiction of how fighters would move and act in space. Being able to turn on a dime and keep moving backwards using its inertia. No advanced life support and the pilot standing up to counter heavy Gs when maneuvering...brilliant. Also, dogfights in B5 were chaotic and asymmetrical, using the full 3D of space and physics. This show was amazing at showing this, as apposed to the flying circus acts of the Star Wars movies ( still LOVE those X-wings and TIEs though :P ). Fun fact, the Starfury design is the recycled top part of the Terminator series's Skynet tank terminator shown in the future war scenes of the movies.
@emperornortoni2871
Жыл бұрын
The internal logic of the Starfury is probably the best of any sci-fi show until the Expanse. And it just looked damned cool.
@jonreese7066
7 ай бұрын
Didnt NASA buy the design for it?
@Ein_Kunde_
3 күн бұрын
Fighters would not exist in space. And if so they would be unmanned drones.
@greyeyed123
13 жыл бұрын
Space battles that actually mean something to the story. What a concept.
@maliwan516
5 жыл бұрын
Just sooo much oomf to those Omega pulse cannons, heavy gravelly and mean!
@jaredrobinson7071
4 жыл бұрын
"Don't make us do this." ------Sheridan.
@ryank5424
4 жыл бұрын
Can't imagine what it must feel like to have to fire on your own ppl. I had also never heard of the concept of illegal orders till this episode
@AlexSDU
4 жыл бұрын
Yup, some of those people that you knew went to the academy together or serve together in previous positions.
@dallassukerkin6878
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking as I watched this that there is nothing more heartbreaking than a civil war :(.
@ryancarroll3957
Жыл бұрын
it came from WWIi mostly. Rules of war. International Law says you can't fire on civilians on purpose OR hit civilians incidentally 'without proportionality or distinction ". If you are ordered to do that it's an illegal order.
@RogbodgeVideo
19 күн бұрын
@@dallassukerkin6878 Heartbreaking, and difficult - not only are they all trying to stay alive, but they have to be careful not to fire on their own side by mistake!
@ItsCoreyLynxxYall
9 жыл бұрын
Those Omega cannons though.
@raxsavvage
5 жыл бұрын
fun fact... the beams are modified narn tech they sold us the weapons prior to the battle of the line and the omega class had entered service either then or immediately after.
@FireLordJohn3191
8 жыл бұрын
The music. Every time...
@Asher_Tye
5 жыл бұрын
I see the first season and then I see this and I can't help but marvel at the improvement.
@avetl
5 жыл бұрын
In B5 all pilots and officers acting like true military adults, and not like pafos Star Wars teens in X-wings. Every battle is fear, adrenaline, and blood. And in this way B5 scenes are outstanding despite old CG.
@sirtaelellevalerie1056
4 жыл бұрын
to be fair, x-wings pilots are rebels, not real military.
@tryomama
4 жыл бұрын
@DEEPFOXJUDE if you train someone from child to only kill and be a soldier. Then that's what you get.
@grayscribe1342
3 жыл бұрын
@@sirtaelellevalerie1056 Too bad it's just Legends now, but many rebels, especially pilots deserted from the Empire because they saw or heard of one artocity too many.
@sirtaelellevalerie1056
3 жыл бұрын
@@grayscribe1342 true, and it's somewhat acknowledged even in new "canon". But Lyuk and many others was civilian pilots still. And even real soldiers not always act as "soldiers", especially when discipline aren't enforced.
@user-wh6hx6xf4g
13 күн бұрын
And even Chackov from the Enterprise
@80sOutrunFan
6 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing this on tv in the 90s, great series!
@Scott_Burton
5 жыл бұрын
I would have liked the video to go a bit further. I remember the chills I felt after the message from Dellenn when it aired the first time.
@felkeyfelkey837
5 жыл бұрын
Delenn: This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw! Or be destroyed. EA Captain: Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship. Delenn: Why not? Only one human captain has survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me, you are in front of me. If you value your lives be somewhere else. Gave me chills as well, still does every time I rewatch that episode. Honestly, it's a shame we never got to see omegas vs minbari cruisers. In this case, the earth ships were outnumbered and one of their ships was a Hyperion so they really had no choice but to leave. We see at proxima III how deadly the omegas can really be. Even though one of their ships straight up leaves and two don't even fight, they still inflict heavy damage on the b5 fleet including locking on to and destroying whitestars. Ships that not only gave minbari tech, but vorlon tech as well. I feel like the implication of that battle is that earth had come a long way since the battle of the line and were finally able to break the minbari stealth technology. I don't believe it's ever officially stated if the whitestars have stealth but I would assume they would and if anything, it would have been enhanced by the vorlons since even minbari fighters appear to have it during the battle of the line since the earth forces don't even fire on them. There's really no reason for the whitestars not to have it. I'd still give the minbari a big edge in maneuvering since they utilize artificial gravity instead of rotation but we saw during first contact that even old earth weapons could seriously damage a minbari ship when close enough, nevermind what they could do with the beam weapons. The problem was always the stealth. Without that, an earth-minbari engagement becomes incredibly bloody for both sides imo, especially if omega ships are in a defensive posture and can't be easily outflanked or if the warlock class and it's one shot particle beam cannons are available.
@MichaelClark-uw7ex
4 жыл бұрын
@@felkeyfelkey837 That and Ivanova's "death incarnate/avenging hand of god" speech truly gave me chills.
@DantesonofSparda85
3 жыл бұрын
@@felkeyfelkey837 I saw that clip and frankly...I think the Minbari should've exited their jump-points firing...make it look like Battle of the Line 2.0
@mithrandiristari8960
6 жыл бұрын
I've to say, Ivanova's helmet is pretty badass!
@AlbertaWildman
13 жыл бұрын
The space combat scenes in the show are spectacular. When a ship gets hit its takes damage, somethimes terrible damage. Like when the Alexander flanked the Agrippa and cut it open from amidship to bow. Not like Star Trek where all shots bounce off the shielding, perhaps leaving a few blackened spots on the hull. The Omega class destroyer is a beast, in the episode where they attack Earth the Agamemnon loses most of its bow and is still capable of moving and fighting.
@BlaneNostalgia
Жыл бұрын
The omega class destroyer was designed from the lessons learned from the disastrous Earth-Minbari war. The older models were too fragile and couldnt lock on the Minbari ships. The Omega class replaced the Nova class battleship and was bulkier, could absorb ridicilous amounts of damage and could lock on to Minbari ships.
@pantherpopel551
Жыл бұрын
@@BlaneNostalgia i thought ONLY the shadow tech Omegas could lock on Minbary ships?
@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773
9 ай бұрын
@BlaneNetherlands the Omegas were more modernized but they were not as powerful as the Nova class. It was after the war that Earth Alliance made a breakthrough on countering Minbari's EM tech that all ships and installations were retrofitted with the new censor arrays. Partly that was because the Shadows were already helping people in power on Earth. The shadows just didn't realize that Humans at their core were chaotic neutral and a civil war would erupt splitting the light from the shadow...it weakened their end game of having Earth on their side for the upcoming shadow war.
@SantomPh
8 ай бұрын
@@everyonethinksyoureadeathm5773 reinforcing censorship in space , damn those Omegas were good
@lilbrothaaa
15 жыл бұрын
Agreed. One more thing is the inherent aspect of every true soldier: if he can be convinced that his orders are aimed at defending his nation he will set the world on fire.
@JimParshall
15 жыл бұрын
Churchill R.I.P. To Stand Against the Dark...or Perish Thanks for uploading this :)
@LazarusRemains
13 жыл бұрын
Best episode in the show. The shit well-and-truely hits the fan - everything about the show changes.
@eDDyL666
10 жыл бұрын
this scene was not over
@HeadlessChickenTO
5 жыл бұрын
Still by far the best CGI space combat.
@marcmagnier
4 жыл бұрын
You should watch the expanse then
@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164
3 жыл бұрын
I always pay attention when I see a good movie or TV show space battle with good ass whooping.
@xenalover99
7 жыл бұрын
this was one of the great battles in scifi series history.i really did not think the station was gonna make it thru.
@Egobyte83
7 жыл бұрын
Its definitely one of the most intense. The suspense is perfectly built up all the way until the shit finally hits the fan.
@SeedlingNL
5 жыл бұрын
The station DID get blown up.. twice... once in a vision that was prevented by some crazy person sending a ship full of nukes crashing into the Shadow homeworld, and once for real in the finale ( kzitem.info/news/bejne/26SEyZ2ip2miqo4 )
@emperorga79
7 жыл бұрын
Sure miss watching this series
@perfectsplit5515
5 жыл бұрын
You REALLY missed it when you missed an episode. The newspaper TV listings gave the wrong timeslot for "Walkabout", and I ended up missing it on its initial broadcast. :( Back then you HAD to buy a TV Guide EVERY WEEK to make damn well sure you didn't miss an episode, due to the random way Warner Brothers Distribution kept changing the time slots. If you missed an episode of DS9 ... then you didn't really miss anything at all.
@Cheburashka207
5 жыл бұрын
RIP Hiroshi
@jimorr820
4 жыл бұрын
They never show the parts of this battle where the breaching pods invade B5 and Garabaldi leads the defence
@MareSerenitis
4 жыл бұрын
And all the Narns just run right past the carefully prepared positions just so they can jump on the first hostile gun they can find.
@jimorr820
4 жыл бұрын
👍😄
@dkerris
13 жыл бұрын
@Deke101 Hell, hon I'm 43 and still think this show should be required viewing. It really shows politics, fear-mongering, and general idiocy in authority run amok. Things we all should be vigilant of, and stand against.
@pizzedahff3127
3 жыл бұрын
Ten years later...what a ride it's been, eh?
@TarHeelBrit
5 жыл бұрын
No doubt the best Sci-Fi show ever, and one of the best episodes in the series. It's a regular in the DVD player. Anyone else notice either a script or CGI animation error? At 2:25 the critically damaged Churchill rams the Roanoke forward of its mid section. In the resulting explosion you can see the ships Name "Roanoke". Yet further in the battle 3:02 Sheridan calls on the Roanoke to surrender. He should have called on the Agrippa to surrender. Still doesn't detract form a series which was great on so many levels. I'm surprised no station hasn't re run it.
@InfernosReaper
5 жыл бұрын
With modern technology, that could be fixed, too. Hell, all the graphics could be updated and it'd look amazing.
@SantomPh
3 жыл бұрын
I think the Roanoke was heavily damaged from the ram but not destroyed, wheras the Agrippa is lasered right down its middle and probably destroyed right there. Major Ryan saw the Churchill ram the Roanoake and probably disable it so he went for the other capital ship, firing right at its most vulnerable spot and likely killed everyone on the bridge (where they were almost hit in the beginning of the episode). Omegas are dastardly weapons, one hit on the Clarkstown and it popped like fresh corn. The Roanoake meanwhile with its fighters elsewhere and all of its interceptors down is vulnerable to B5's fire, so it is hit with everything and promptly explodes. Sheridan offers the Roanoke assistance because it is still moving, the Agrippa is probably dead in space with no contact.
@ghfun1
8 жыл бұрын
After this fight Clark days were numbered the battle on Babylon 5 basically said the good guys will win! It took year and half but Sheridan beat Clark. Others just waited
@perfectsplit5515
5 жыл бұрын
"We cleared the way for you, John. All the way to Earth. No surprises." [Waiting to die on that bed in MedLab]
@SantomPh
3 жыл бұрын
Sheridan counted on the Resistance led by people like Hague to gather ships and hold out as he fought the Shadows, the more pressing battle. When he got back to the Earth fight he had all of the non-aligned League with him and the White Stars, then they joined up with the Agamemnon and the other ships.
@walter0bz
14 жыл бұрын
@Brianboro67 "Stop that Narn chatter and head on 2-3-0!!" "repeat please!"
@AlexSDU
4 жыл бұрын
LOL. I get that reference.
@thunderboltcougar5626
8 ай бұрын
Damn i just realize, at 0:32, pulse barrages by alexander and churchil 's are intercepted by Agrippa in mid flight. That's one hell of accuracy.
@Titaan359
11 жыл бұрын
Thank you for positing this......amazing. This is a very plausible future for humanity. We have been butchering each other for thousands of years......we will be doing the same in a few hundred. Gotta respect the way Hiroshi went out.
@philb9015
4 жыл бұрын
Of all the large capital warships in sci-fi, the omega class destroyers would be the one I would like to command. Brutal fire power, large star fury compliment and an unsettling Gothic look make it very intimadating. Those partical cannons are lethal.
@Imaculata
14 жыл бұрын
I don't understand all the rambling about bad CGI. These special effects were great for the time, and they still look pretty good today. For one I love how the fighters actually fly like you'd expect a spaceship to fly. Also they took artificial gravity into account, which is why some of the larger ships have rotating parts. There's a lot of attention to detail, and they never had any bull science like Star Trek usually does when explaining something technical.
@jasonsylvander3089
6 жыл бұрын
Those interceptor shots that ship fired were spot on, must have decent computers to lock on that fast
@acmenipponair
6 жыл бұрын
Why shouldn't they have them? They are able to calculate valid hyperspace jumps, why shouldn't they be able to intercept? This are 1.5 km big ships and a 10 km long space station, I believe they have the space for a capable computer in there ;)
@PassportBrosBusinessClass
11 жыл бұрын
The part where the Thunderbolt spins out of control and crashes into the station is epic
@CaptKJaneway
13 жыл бұрын
A very powerful scene. And yes I have to agree. Thank you for not killing it will a soundtrack. You need the dialouge and the explosions to really feel the battle
@Lucius_Chiaraviglio
8 ай бұрын
Fortunately, it already has a soundtrack.
@d3p3ch3mod3
13 жыл бұрын
Christopher Franke really made alot of this show. Some people watched it just for the music. I liked the idea of bringing in Chen for Crusade, but getting rid of Franke was a terrible terrible idea in retrospect and that probably killed B5
@funkervogt47
9 жыл бұрын
Being a Starfury pilot has got to be a bitch. Probably hard to get through a battle without puking from vertigo. Kind of hard to get through without being blown up, too.
@roguelead72
9 жыл бұрын
funkervogt47 I'm betting some kind of inertial dampening system like pretty much every other sci-fi franchise.
@LDZMarder
8 жыл бұрын
Wedge Antilles If you have 0G in side your fighter you have to spin very fast before even reaching 1G. Not to mention that today pilots can take sustained 9G with new anti G cloths aka "giraffe" in future there will be even more possible.
@Fr0st1989
8 жыл бұрын
+funkervogt47 it also wouldn't work in real life - lasers would swat them down pretty much as soon as they launched
@Gnomleif
8 жыл бұрын
+Wedge Antilles No such thing on Earthforce fighters. Only the Minbari, the Centauri (to a certain degree) and the First Ones, like the Vorlon, Shadows and the Walkers of Sigma 957, had gravimetric control devices and thus inertial dampening systems. Of course, the Interstellar Alliance changed that. The Minbari shared some of their technology with the other races, and ships like the Warlock-class advanced destroyer had artificial gravity and inertial dampening systems, among other things.
@larnregis
8 жыл бұрын
+funkervogt47 The Starfury design was actually approved by real scientists and astronauts, because a) the cockpit is in the center. Thus the pilot experiences only minimal lateral forces when turning as he is in the center of all 3 rotation axis b) the X shaped engines provide excellent maneuverability c) the cockpit provides maximum forward view, thus an excellent way for the pilot to navigate by sight IIRC even some NASA scientists approved the design and consider it to be a possible future space ship design.
@donder91
13 жыл бұрын
@georgeowain cut out ;). The episode was to long or costed to much space on the video or something like that.
@rconway6622
10 жыл бұрын
wow....as many times as I've watched this, I've never considered that. Good observation.
@ScreamingTc
15 жыл бұрын
It gave me goosebumps, and still does.
@sasquatchycowboy5585
3 жыл бұрын
I love B5s space battles. But I wish they had chosen to show more of them in a more realistic way. The high point to me was the fight between the Narn and the Shadows. It really showed the distances involved, and gave a sense of scale. This one has to many camera cuts, and too much emphasis on showing all combatants in the same shot.
@SantomPh
2 жыл бұрын
This video is also heavily edited to omit the ground invasion, so it seems like too much at one time. With Girabaldi's scenes we get to catch our breath
@GaldirEonai
8 ай бұрын
This battle basically takes place at knife-fight range. B5 is right on top of the jumpgate, astronomically speaking, so any fight between something coming in from the gate and the station _has_ to be a messy close-range brawl.
@arlenes.4590
4 жыл бұрын
Enjoy this on my dvd set all the time.
@Gorandius1256
14 жыл бұрын
@Hask79 Yeah, besides, the original sound track is amazing.
@Gruumsh4
13 жыл бұрын
@AlphanPeter I most wholeheartedly agree. Especially, in my opinion, with the Narns defending at the very site that is being boarded when Garibaldi was looking for defenses and they wouldn't have that.
@wickedcircle
14 жыл бұрын
One of the best Scenes in the entire babylon 5 series and one of my favorites.
@MrNintoku
8 ай бұрын
Poor Sheridan. Every time he offers aid to his enemies if they surrender their ships blow up right after.
@mikecimerian6913
4 жыл бұрын
The battle inside the station is dramatic. While I am against a reboot I think that the Dilgar war would make a fine prequel.
@_Teorias_
4 жыл бұрын
Would prefer the Drakh conflict myself.
@Sinvisigoth
12 жыл бұрын
Goosebumps. Every. Single.Time.
@spontaneoussam2
13 жыл бұрын
anyone know where i can get a model of one of those omega-class ships?
@ryancute22
16 жыл бұрын
1:18 right down their throats - now thats a war talk!
@kentallard8852
6 жыл бұрын
this would have been a perfect time to see the starfuries launching from the Omegas rotating segment, or the broadside of nuclear missiles
@otiscarter1356
6 жыл бұрын
Some of the best science fiction ever made....best scene ever made....especially the Earth Marine boarding party.
@chopper2429
Жыл бұрын
Why cut out the boarding party fight?
@mikeandhisdogs
4 жыл бұрын
THAT....was pretty damned impressive.
@ShadowSonic2
7 жыл бұрын
They did mention what happened to the wreckage left behind by the Earthforce ships? Salvage them for parts or whatever?
@turtlelover5988
7 жыл бұрын
Probably
@SantomPh
6 жыл бұрын
Likely salvage (Sheridan actually gets new fighters and pilots from the Churchill). B5 is a busy port, cannot have debris everywhere
@acmenipponair
6 жыл бұрын
well, they got the fighters, because the fighters were in space at the time the Churchill was destroyed. I guess, they took out the victims from all ships, and put them into the coffins they send out one episode later. Or they have put the victims from the other side into freezers to send them to earth when the conflict is over. The ships. perhabs they pushed them into hyperspace and just let them drive into the abyss there.
@leexgx
4 жыл бұрын
They norm launch them into the sun from the observation deck
@MrKantaru
13 жыл бұрын
I love Babylon 5! ^^ Thanks for Upload! :D
@Satyros2009
11 жыл бұрын
This is why if a ship is being hit by a missile/torpedo the damage (that will cause vibrations on the metal hull = production of sound) will travel throughout the hull and atmosphere of the ship as the sound of an explosion but not through the vacuum of space. It will be heard by the crew but but not by the aforementioned floating astronaut. And scenes where the viewer hears and sees the external (space) actions are far better dramatically than most scenes where is no sound
@shauntbarry
4 жыл бұрын
Best Sci-fi show of all time.. I loved this episode
@davideyres955
19 күн бұрын
B5 was originally shot so it could go wide screen rather than in 4:3 as was the standard at the time. They shot the action in the area of the 4:3 but had additional scope in the space at the sides, but they lost the original footage. A shame but it’s still one of the best sci fi shows ever.
@lkvideos7181
7 жыл бұрын
Loved this show
@perfectsplit5515
5 жыл бұрын
Greatest sci-fi show of all time. Even though ST: TNG had a greater cultural impact, B5 was more groundbreaking and revolutionary.
@Danny77uk
14 жыл бұрын
@harleykman "today's computers are about 1200 times faster than the original Amigas " Amigas were only uses for the first season; they switched to PCs in season 2. Anyway even though todays machines render faster, it still takes a LOT of work and time to create FX shots. I work in the film industry and most of the time is spent in post adding FX. Even if you had the assets, you'd have to recompose all the original scenes, battle sounds..everything. Not gonna happen.
@SUPERCORVETTE
16 жыл бұрын
i wonder there hit at 1:06 the churchell in the next the showing the bridg of the alexander an we heare an damage report from this hit ?
@MrBasildonboy
15 жыл бұрын
One of the best moments of Babylon 5 ever.
@fighterck6241
5 жыл бұрын
This is the Earth Alliance destroyer Agrippa to Babylon 5 and renegade ships.
@marktisdale8058
5 жыл бұрын
I always wondered why the first group did not wait for the soon to arrive second group before making the attempt on B5.
@InfernosReaper
5 жыл бұрын
They probably thought they had things under control. Hell, they probably figured those renegade ships weren't going to be there and willing to fight.
@watcherzero5256
4 жыл бұрын
Overconfidence and a bit of Stalinism, the older more experienced commanders were being replaced with young inexperienced regime loyalists.
@marktisdale8058
4 жыл бұрын
@@watcherzero5256 That makes perfect sense within the framework of the story. Thank you!
@Debbiebabe69
12 жыл бұрын
@JheakrynaKyAlur There is a lot of action between that order and the firing on the Agrippa, including the Churchill ramming the Roanoke. Plenty of time for him to change targets off screen. The only real howler in this episode was in a previous battle, Alexander vs Clarkstown.
@ralphie84
12 жыл бұрын
is it me or was this recorded in a helium filled room? everyone's voice is just higher pitched
@BrandonDeriveAncestorEmpire
15 жыл бұрын
I am shocked the SciFi channel does not reair any episodes of Babylon 5
@Excalibur01
4 жыл бұрын
Still better than any current Trek series
@richhogg8074
4 жыл бұрын
Enemy fighters coming from the side trying to flank us!
@josephmaton4982
10 жыл бұрын
and I can't find the scene with the security and narns vs earth marines
@AlexSDU
7 жыл бұрын
I think the uploader focus on space battle only.
@razorburn645
13 жыл бұрын
@imsiriustube I thought the same thing. The extra cobra bays and the "chin" cannons were never used either.
@YashaO5
4 жыл бұрын
Твою ж мать, помню эту серию как сейчас. И столкновение кораблей Omega.
@turokxbox
12 жыл бұрын
Season 3 dvd extras say that this episode was very rushed to get it ready for airing on tv hence the mistakes. Fantastic episode even with the silly mistakes.
@ScreamingTc
13 жыл бұрын
@Deke101 You sir are now my official hero for that response.
@ScreamingTc
15 жыл бұрын
Well actually it might be a good on the basis that closing in would mean that less energy is dissipated into the vacuum of space when the beam weapons are fired. Ergo, more damage is done at shorter ranges, and the defence grids are less able to absorb the energy being projected.
@ScreamingTc
15 жыл бұрын
This episode had a couple of screw ups due to the fact that there was so much CGI to do, and to get edited, that they literally handed it in a couple of hours before it was due to air. So the strafing of the Churchill cuts to the Alexander's bridge shaking. As for the two 'disappearing' cruisers, I think it's safe to say they account to the horrific damage the Churchill shows before it rams the Roanoke. The lack of time to catch mistakes also explains the Sheriden-Roanoke mistake.
@Decrepit_biker
4 жыл бұрын
Great scene but I always wonder what the 2 Hyperion ships are doing after the first shot?
@AlexSDU
4 жыл бұрын
They were playing as defence, perhaps?
@SantomPh
3 жыл бұрын
they have to hang back as Omegas can destroy them in one hit, as proven in the episode. They were also cover fire for the breaching pods.
@Bladestar7
13 жыл бұрын
@dkerris Here Here. It wasnt just the special effectsa dn groundbreaking CGI, but great story plots and character development. you gave a damm about the characters. I dont think we knew how good we had it.
@Stubbee
14 жыл бұрын
@Bandarias Hiroshi was Capt of Churchill the guy (Maj. ?) was acting capt of alexander there is a continuity error showing a EA fighter hitting the churchill but the bridge of the Alexander was shaking from the hit
@SantomPh
3 жыл бұрын
battle is going on all over, all ships are getting hit
@robanybody3363
4 жыл бұрын
Just waiting for them to reboot this....and destroy it like they've destroyed pretty much all other franchises. It will happen sooner or later.
@ethenallen1388
4 жыл бұрын
It'll depend on who owns the franchise and weather or not they love it. I do agree that no one will ever do it better than this.
@ethenallen1388
4 жыл бұрын
@DEEPFOXJUDE We can always hope.
@alexdavis-mann8513
3 жыл бұрын
@@ethenallen1388 I wouldnt say no to a remastered version however, with maybe some tweeking of the CGI to bring it up to date.
@tatianalyulkin410
Жыл бұрын
Only an hour ago they were your colleagues, your friends. Now they're " enemy fighters ".
@adamwright9741
7 жыл бұрын
haha,, you cut out the part where Sheridan screamed at Ivaniva to eject... Good, that was a really stupid part
@perfectsplit5515
5 жыл бұрын
Ivanova, eject! I can handle it! Eject, Damn it!
@miafillene4396
5 жыл бұрын
Babylon 5 won't be shown because the studio in control of the rights doesn't want to pay the huge amount of royalties to various screenwriters, authors, actors...despite the fact they would make a killing.
@specom
5 жыл бұрын
Comet broadcast channel shows 5 hours of B5 every Wednesday.
@ScreamingTc
13 жыл бұрын
@babylon5lord There's the one clip from The Lost Tales where you get to see Warlocks in combat. It's one hell of a scene, and worthy of the Babylon 5 legacy of how to produce kinetic, high octane space combat.
@stevenpilling5318
4 жыл бұрын
It illustrates the heartbreak of civil war, when men who have trained and served together as brothers find themselves enemies due to their political masters. One can't help but think of the War Between the States or Vichy France versus Free French forces during World War II. I keep thinking of the Texan captain who boarded a Union warship during the Battle of Galveston, only to find his son dying on its deck. He relinquished command to stay with the lad in his last moments. None blamed him.
@grayscribe1342
4 жыл бұрын
As the captain of the Alexander said earlier in that episode 'we know the people we kill' after he was forced to destroy a Hyperion and stating the name of the captain of that ship as well as that captain's wife, kids and even the cat.
@joseluissalguero6478
Жыл бұрын
Uno de los mejores episodios de babylon 5 sueños rotos
@KazeriantheVIIII
4 жыл бұрын
Oh the ol days of television. Star Trek The Next Generation Babylon 5 Kung Fu the Legend Continues Time Trax Highlander Earth Final Conflict Hercules Xena Nightman (love the intro music) MK Conquest The Crow Stairway to Heaven And so many others Where has good tv gone. Memories
@JodianGaming
7 жыл бұрын
Anyone else notice when the Roanoke is fired on by the Alexander it's markings actually show the name Agrippa?... Woops!
@themightyflip
7 жыл бұрын
Yeah the effects guys screwed up
@SantomPh
6 жыл бұрын
It was an admitted goof
@Ltdeacon
14 жыл бұрын
the earth alliance remindsme of TEC in sins of solar empire game, relyings on plasma rounds, railguns, and particle cannons, no fancy energy shields( to a large extend) just really tough alloy armor
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