Cable channel TNT premieres the 89th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. This is the first episode of the fifth season, and introduces new series regular Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley. 
Cable channel TNT premieres the 89th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. This is the first episode of the fifth season, and introduces new series regular Tracy Scoggins as Captain Elizabeth Lochley.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 90th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 91st episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 92nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. The episode breaks the record-setting string of consecutive episodes of American television written by a single writer, with series creator J. Michael Straczynski having written the previous 52 episodes (53 if the series finale, filmed at the end of the fourth season, is included). Straczynski writes this one as well, but shares a story credit with Harlan Ellison.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 93rd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 94th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Walter Koenig (Star Trek) guest stars.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 95th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 96th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Guest starring magicians Penn & Teller, this episode is written by Neil Gaiman, and is the first episode of Babylon 5 since the second season to be wholly written by someone other than series creator J. Michael Straczynski (and it’s also the last such episode as well, as Straczynski is either sole writer or co-writer of all of the series’ remaining episodes).
Cable channel TNT premieres the 97th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 98th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Julie Caitlin Brown reprises her first-season role as Narn aide Na’Toth.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 99th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Walter Koenig (Star Trek) guest stars.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 100th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father, the 101st episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Walter Koenig guest stars.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 102nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 103rd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder, the 104th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 105th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres Thirdspace, the second Babylon 5 TV movie produced as part of the network’s rescue of the former syndicated series. Though it airs second, Thirdspace was filmed first to utilize the standing Babylon 5 sets before they were struck to make way for new sets used in the previous movie, In The Beginning. Shari Belafonte guest stars.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 106th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 107th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres River Of Souls, the third Babylon 5 TV movie produced for TNT. Ian McShane (Lovejoy) and Martin Sheen (The West Wing) guest star.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 108th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 109th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5.
Cable channel TNT premieres the 110th and final episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s science fiction series Babylon 5. Claudia Christian returns as Ivanova in an episode filmed before the actress allowed her contract to lapse in 1997 (at a time when it appeared that Babylon 5 would end with its fourth season). Though further TV movies and direct-to-video movies are produced, as well as the spinoff series Crusade, this is the end of the main Babylon 5 storyline, and also marks the directorial debut of series creator J. Michael Straczynski. 
Cable channel TNT premieres A Call To Arms, the fourth and final Babylon 5 TV movie produced for TNT. The movie features a mixture of familiar Babylon 5 characters as well as new characters who would later appear in the spinoff series Crusade; A Call To Arms is effectively a two-hour pilot for Crusade, which would premiere later in 1999.
Sci-Fi Channel premieres The Legend Of The Rangers, a two-hour pilot movie for a Babylon 5 spinoff created by J. Michael Straczynski. Andreas Katsulas reprises the role of G’Kar for what will turn out to be the last time. As it is scheduled opposite a major pro football playoff game, The Legend Of The Rangers fares poorly in ratings and is not picked up as a series.
Warner Bros. Home Video releases the direct-to-DVD movie Babylon 5: The Lost Tales, a continuation of Babylon 5 written and directed by J. Michael Straczynski. Featuring original series stars Bruce Boxleitner and Tracy Scoggings, the movie is divided into two tangentially-related stories. Though initially promoted as the first of a series of direct-to-DVD Babylon 5 sequels, this proves to be the only volume of The Lost Tales when Straczynski decides to rest the Babylon 5 universe unless Warner greenlights a big-budget adaptation. This remains the final Babylon 5 project for over a decade.
Warner Bros. releases the animated movie Babylon 5: The Road Home. direct to DVD, Blu-Ray, and digital. Written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski, and featuring surviving original series stars Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik, Bill Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, and Patricia Tallman, with new actors voicing other familiar characters from the series.