The week-long national syndication window opens for the 23rd episode of Babylon 5, opening the second season and introducing Bruce Boxleitner as Captain John Sheridan. Robert Rusler also joins the cast as space fighter jock Warren Keffer. Robert Foxworth (The Questor Tapes) guest stars. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 24th episode of Babylon 5.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 25th episode of Babylon 5. Michael Ansara guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 26th episode of Babylon 5. Russ Tamblyn (West Side Story, Twin Peaks) guest stars in the last script written for Babylon 5 by former Star Trek script editor D.C. Fontana.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 27th episode of Babylon 5. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team) and Anne Marie Johnson (In The Heat Of The Night) guest star.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 28th episode of Babylon 5. Michael Beck (The Warriors, Xanadu) and Adrienne Barbeau (Grease, Escape From New York) guest star.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 29th episode of Babylon 5.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 30th episode of Babylon 5. Walter Koenig (Star Trek) guest stars as Bester.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 31st episode of Babylon 5. Michael O’Hare returns as Commander Sinclair; Jeff Conaway (Grease, Taxi) and Malachi Throne (Star Trek) guest star. This episode goes on to win the Hugo Award for Best Short Form Dramatic Presentation.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 32nd episode of Babylon 5. Paul Winfield (Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 33rd episode of Babylon 5. Robert Foxworth (The Questor Tapes) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 34th episode of Babylon 5. Ian Abercrombie and Paul Williams guest star.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 35th episode of Babylon 5. Richard Moll (Night Court) and Jeff Conaway (Grease, Taxi) guest star.
Christopher Franke’s soundtrack from the first two seasons of Babylon 5 is released on Sonic Images Records; this is the first in a lengthy series of compilation and individual soundtracks from the popular science fiction series.
With many of the Chris-Craft television stations that formed its backbone now allied to Paramount’s UPN network, fledgeling network PTEN is in a precarious position – especially when many of those stations bail out or only show PTEN programming in late-night time slots. PTEN parent company Warner Brothers announces that the network’s two most popular shows, Babylon 5 and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, will be renewed for the fall season, but also reveals that PTEN is giving up its ambitions to become the next Fox: in order to keep stations from ditching PTEN entirely, Warner is basically keeping the PTEN brand afloat only as a syndication package for those two shows. The action series Pointman is cancelled, with its remaining episodes to be “burned off” during the summer months prior to the fall season premieres of the two surviving shows.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 36th episode of Babylon 5. First season Julie Caitlin Brown returns in an unrelated guest role (minus Narn makeup).
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 37th episode of Babylon 5. The entire episode is presented as a real-time newscast, complete with “in universe” commercials.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 38th episode of Babylon 5. Jeff Conaway (Grease, Taxi) and Ed Wasser guest star.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 39th episode of Babylon 5. Carmen Argenziano (Stargate SG-1) guest stars. This is the last Babylon 5 episode for three years to not be written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski, who sets an American television record by single-handedly writing the show’s next 52 episodes (53 if the series finale, filmed at the end of the fourth season, is included).
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 40th episode of Babylon 5. The four remaining episodes of the series’ second season are held back to air in the fall, following the precedent set by the delay of the first season finale.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 41st episode of Babylon 5. This episode is the last appearance of Andrea Thompson as Babylon 5’s resident telepath, Talia Winters. Patricia Tallman guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 42nd episode of Babylon 5. W. Morgan Sheppard (Max Headroom) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 43rd episode of Babylon 5. Wayne Alexander guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 44th episode of Babylon 5, bringing the series’ second season to a close (thanks to the delay of the final four episodes, the third season begins airing a week later). Roy Dotrice (Beauty & The Beast) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 45th episode of Babylon 5, the first of the series’ third season. Jason Carter joins the cast as Marcus Cole. Tucker Smallwood and Kitty Swink guest star. With parent network PTEN reduced to a syndication service for Babylon 5 and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, the “week of” syndication window is adjusted to the beginning of each week.
Cable channel TNT buys a package of reruns, presuming a three-season, 66-episode run, of the science fiction series Babylon 5, to begin airing in 1998. As TNT and PTEN are both owned by Warner Bros., the deal is seen as an “inside trade” among corporate siblings for a series unlikely to have a wide market for buyers in rerun form. Unknown to anyone at the time, this deal will have a major impact on the series’ future, particularly when the PTEN network begins to fall apart.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 46th episode of Babylon 5. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Space Rangers) guest stars.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 47th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 48th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Brad Dourif guest stars.
Babylon 5 cast member Claudia Christian releases Taboo, a two-song CD single.