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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 4

Lines of Communication

Babylon 5Delenn is alarmed by the arrival of an emissary from Minbar who warns her of impending civil war on her home world. She sets out on a journey back home to try to quell the impending conflict. With all supply lines to the station cut off, and ISN broadcasting the official propoganda line that Babylon 5 is the staging ground for the subversion of Earth, Sheridan tries to come up with a way to fight the hail of lies being fed to the general populace. His answer is to revamp the war room into a broadcast studio and begin transmitting the “Voice of the Resistance” from there with your host, the very reluctant (and tired) Susan Ivanova. Terrorist attacks on Mars create a tense situation for Franklin, who is trying to enlist the help of the rebels on Mars – but not if they continue to use those tactics. Delenn discovers that the Minbari emissary Forell has sold out to a race called the Drakh, who have their own plans for Minbar. And Delenn is sure that there is a connection between the Drakh and the Shadows.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by John C. Flinn III
music by Christopher Franke

Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (Captain Sheridan), Claudia Christian (Commander Ivanova), Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi), Mira Furlan (Delenn), Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklin), Bill Mumy (Lennier), Jason Carter (Marcus Cole), Stephen Furst (Vir), Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan), Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander), Andreas Katsulas (G’Kar), Peter Jurasik (Londo), Marjorie Monaghan (Number One), Paolo Seganti (Phillipe), G.W. Stevens (Forell)

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Season 2 Xena: Warrior Princess

The Price

Xena: Warrior PrincessXena and Gabrielle find an Athenian soldier who washed up in the river they were fishing in. He manages to tell them that he was attacked by the Horde before he dies. They look back to the river and see more bodies.

When they head away from the river, they run into the Horde and so they turn back to the river. Spotting a canoe in the water, they make their escape with it. When they are finally able to stop for a bit, Xena tells Gabrielle about her army’s encounter with the Horde. The warrior tells her that they will have a hard time getting away from the Horde. The Horde attack when Xena and Gabrielle return to the river, but more Athenian soldiers appear and drive the warriors back. The soldiers take the two women to their fortress. Inside the fortress, the men have given up hope of defeating the Horde. When Xena sees this and learns that their commander is dead, she takes control.

Order the DVDswritten by Steven L. Sears
directed by Oley Sassone
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Paul Glover (Menticles), Mark Perry (Galipan), Tamati Rice (Garel), Brent Gilbert (Drowned Athenian), Bob Johnson (Athenian #2), Phillip Jones (Wounded Athenian), Allen O’Halloran (Fatigued/Gashed Athenian), Sam Williams (Hordemasater)

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Deep Space Nine Season 05 Star Trek

Soldiers Of The Empire

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Martok is ordered by the Klingon High Council to command the Bird of Prey Rotarran to search for the battlecruiser B’Moth, which has gone missing while on patrol of the Cardassian border. Martok takes Worf along as his first officer, as well as Dax as science officer. But trouble begins brewing on board when it seems Martok, who spent two years as a prisoner of the Jem’Hadar, would rather avoid Dominion patrols than fight – and Worf must challenge Martok for command.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Ronald D. Moore
directed by LeVar Burton
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: David Graf (Leskit), Rick Worthy (Kornan), Sandra Nelson (Tavana), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), J.G. Hertzler (Martok), Scott Leva (Ortikan)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Distant Origin

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: The Voyager crew are unwitting research subjects after scientists of the Voth, a reptilian race who believe they were the first intelligent beings to evolve in the Delta Quadrant, discover the human remains of Voyager crewman Hogan and find a genetic pattern similar to their own. When Gegen, the chief researcher, suggests that based on these findings, the true origin of the Voth is Earth, their leader, Minister Odala, deems him a heretic. To prove his theory, Gegen and his assistant Veer track down Voyager, infiltrate the ship and take their next research subject, Chakotay, hostage.

Order the DVDswritten by Brannon Braga & Joe Menosky
directed by David Livingston
music by David Bell

Guest Cast: Henry Woronicz (Gegen), Christopher Liam Moore (Tova Veer), Marshall R. Teague (Hulak), Concetta Tomei (Minister Odala), Nina Manton (Frola), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 4

Conflicts of Interest

Babylon 5Preparations are under way for the first “Voice of the Resistance” broadcast from B5, but the one thing no one has been able to figure out is how to get the signal from the station to anywhere outside of the sector. Franklin, having just returned from Mars, suggests using the almost limitless power at Draal’s disposal on Epsilon 3. In response to his recent arguments with Garibaldi, and sensing that the security chief will not be returning to take back his job, Sheridan orders Zack to confiscate Garibaldi’s sidearm, identicard and link. Zack reluctantly carries out his orders, unaware that Garibaldi keeps a spare identicard. Wade, who earlier urged Garibaldi to betray Sheridan, enlists Garibaldi’s help to get an unspecified visitor through station security – and the visitor turns out to be Lise Hampton, Garibaldi’s ex-girlfriend, with a mysterious cargo in her possession. Garibaldi skirts his own security teams to get Lise through customs, but the result is a vicious firefight and promise from Sheridan that he’ll be put off the station if he is involved in any more trouble. And Ivanova finally kicks off her first newscast with the help of the family of an old friend.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by David J. Eagle
music by Christopher Franke

Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (Captain Sheridan), Claudia Christian (Commander Ivanova), Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi), Mira Furlan (Delenn), Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklin), Bill Mumy (Lennier), Jason Carter (Marcus Cole), Stephen Furst (Vir), Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan), Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander), Andreas Katsulas (G’Kar), Peter Jurasik (Londo), Mark Schneider (Wade), Denise Gentile (Lise Hampton), Tim Choate (Zathras)

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Deep Space Nine Season 05 Star Trek

Children Of Time

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate 50814.2: The Defiant encounters a planet surrounded by an energy barrier, in the Gamma Quadrant. Dax is eager to check it out, but as they penetrate the barrier, Kira is hit by a discharge. The crew is greeted by the inhabitants, who are their descendants, the result of an anomaly which caused the Defiant to crash on the planet, 200 years back in time. Kira – who learns of Odo’s love for her from an older version of him – is destined to die unless she gets back to DS9. The crew must choose whether to let themselves be stranded and allow Kira to die, or to wipe out the existence of the colony.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Renè Echavarria
story by Gary Holland and Ethan H. Calk
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Paul Baillargeon

Guest Cast: Gary Frank (Yedrin Dax), Jennifer S. Parsons (Miranda O’Brien), Davida Williams (Lisa), Doren Fein (Molly), Brian Evaret Chandler (Brota), Marybeth Massett (Parell), Jesse Littlejohn (Gabriel)

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Season 2 Xena: Warrior Princess

The Lost Mariner

Xena: Warrior PrincessXena and Gabrielle are separated after the ship they were on sinks during a storm. The bard is picked up by Cecrops, the lost mariner, whose ship was cursed three hundred years before by Poseidon. Xena has her hands full on shore with pirates who wish to capture her. She learns from them which ship picked up Gabrielle. She makes the decision to try and reach that ship. Once aboard, Xena convinces Cecrops to head east toward the whirlpool Charybdis and the part of the island where his late love, Tyrie, had lived. When they do, Poseidon appears and offers Xena and Gabrielle the opportunity to leave the ship. Realizing that she is close to figuring out how to break the curse, Xena turns him down.

Order the DVDswritten by Steven L. Sears
directed by Garth Maxwell
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Tony Todd (Cecrops), Charles Siebert (Poseidon), Nigel Harbrow (Basculis), George Henare (Hidsim), Frank Iwan Jr. (Colfax), Michael Hollows (Tig), John Smith (Bloomer)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Displaced

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50912.4: As Nyrians begin appearing on the Voyager at 9:20 intervals, crewmembers begin to disappear at the same rate. Although the visitors seem peaceful, Janeway suspects an organized takeover. Her suspicions are confirmed as the crew find themselves in a holographically generated environment where they are held prisoner. The startling appearance of a fellow prisoner from an adjoining “cell” makes them realize how to move between areas of what turns out to be a giant ship filled with different environments and a command center with an extremely long-range transporter.

Order the DVDswritten by Lisa Klink
directed by Allan Kroeker
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Deborah Levin (Lang), Mark L. Taylor (Jarlath), James Noah (Rislan), Kenneth Tigar (Dammar), Nancy Youngblut (Taleen), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 4

Rumors, Bargains and Lies

Babylon 5Londo and G’Kar are persuaded by Sheridan to permit the White Star fleet to patrol their borders. Fearing that the leaders of the non-aligned worlds will balk at the idea of his fleet flying along their territory, Sheridan concocts a convoluted scheme to hint at suspicious happenings along the aliens’ borders but withholding his help until it is requested. En route to Minbar to deal with political upheavals that have finally erupted into civil war, Delenn vows to end the conflict single-handedly. She believes that her disbanding the Grey Council has left Minbar without leadership, and the resulting conflicts are her fault. Neroon of the warrior caste meets with her, and despite his past disagreements with her, he agrees with Delenn that they will reach an amicable solution which will not require either of their castes to surrender. But Delenn’s own religious caste followers believe that her private meetings with Neroon will result in a betrayal of her own people, and plan to ritually sacrifice themselves and anyone else on board to prevent it. And on the station, Sheridan’s cunning plan could backfire unless he stoops just low enough to plant some the right information in the right places. Neroon, departing to return to his fellow warriors, intends to make sure than Delenn’s peace plan backfires.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Mike Vejar
music by Christopher Franke

Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (Captain Sheridan), Claudia Christian (Commander Ivanova), Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi), Mira Furlan (Delenn), Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklin), Bill Mumy (Lennier), Jason Carter (Marcus Cole), Stephen Furst (Vir), Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan), Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander), Andreas Katsulas (G’Kar), Peter Jurasik (Londo), Ron Campbell (Drazi Ambassador), Chard Haywood (Religious Caste #2), Guy Siner (Religious Caste #1), John Vickery (Neroon)

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Deep Space Nine Season 05 Star Trek

Blaze Of Glory

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: Despite the fact that the Maquis have been decimated by the Cardassian/Dominion alliance, a message to Eddington is intercepted, saying that cloaked missiles have been launched toward Cardassia. Hoping to prevent a retaliatory war, Sisko appeals to the imprisoned Eddington to help deactivate the missiles before they reach their target. Promised freedom, Eddington agrees – but warns Sisko that he intends to kill him once the mission is over.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Robert Hewitt Wolfe & Ira Steven Behr
directed by Kim Friedman
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Kenneth Marshall (Eddington), J.G. Hertzler (Martok), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Gretchen German (Rebecca)

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Season 2 Xena: Warrior Princess

A Comedy of Eros

Xena: Warrior PrincessWhen his parents think he is sleeping, Cupid’s son Bliss takes one of his father’s bows and heads for a village. Xena and Gabrielle are in that village, because they had heard that Draco was planning on kidnapping the Hestian virgins. Joxer has also heard this and comes to help. Draco raids the temple but finds that it is deserted except for Xena. She tells him that the virgins are safely hidden away. Since he can’t have the virgins, Draco settles for capturing Gabrielle and Joxer.

Order the DVDswritten by Chris Manheim
directed by Charles Siebert
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Ted Raimi (Joxer), Jay Laga’aia (Draco), Karl Urban (Cupid), Anthony Ray Parker (Pinullus), Cherie Bray-Taylor (Virgin #2), Michael Holt (Draco Man #1), Eric Lynch (Best Buddy), Vanessa Mateja (Virgin #1), Collette Pennington (Housewife), David Perrett (Farmer), Zen Player (Draco Man #2), John Carr Watson (Merchant)

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Worst Case Scenario

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50953.4: Chakotay startles B’Elanna by recruiting her for a Maquis mutiny, and then proceeds to carry it out. Things get even stranger when Seska turns up as one of the mutineers. Suddenly Paris walks into the scene, revealing the fact that Torres is playing a holo-novel. The experience was designed by Tuvok as a training exercise shortly after the joining of the two crews when the security officer felt that a mutiny was a real possibility. The fresh literary material is so intriguing to the crew that many of them begin surreptitiously playing the program and Janeway instructs Tuvok to write an ending and make it more than a training exercise. But Seska had discovered the program before she defected to the Kazon and she rewrote the subroutines to take her revenge on Tuvok for having betrayed the Maquis back when they were still in the Alpha Quadrant.

Order the DVDswritten by Kenneth Biller
directed by Alex Singer
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Martha Hackett (Seska), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 4

Moments of Transition

Babylon 5On Minbar, the warrior caste stoops to treacherous new lows as Delenn receives the news that Shakiri, the warrior leader, will openly attack the capitol of Minbar and its population unless the religious caste offers its immedaite surrender. On B5, Lyta finds herself at a disadvantage since she has gone on the run from Psi Corps. Potential clients who need a telepath to perform even the most routine duties will not accept the services of a known renegade. Psi Cop Bester happens to be on the station, and offers Lyta the renewal of her Psi Corps certification if she will agree to have her Vorlon-enhanced body turned over to Bester upon her death. Lyta refuses to sign such a contract, but she is left with little alternative. The room she occupied during the height of the war is too expensive for her, a visit to Garibaldi seeking work almost but doesn’t quite work due to the insistent disapproval of Garibaldi’s new employer, William Edgars of Mars, and the only other offer of work she gets is from Zack, who wants the evasive former security chief scanned without permission. Lyta must now reluctantly return to the Psi Corps, Delenn must surrender and risk being killed as a symbol of her caste’s strength, and forces under the control of Earth President Clark engage in a killing spree which incites Sheridan to declare war on Earth.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by Tony Dow
music by Christopher Franke

Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (Captain Sheridan), Claudia Christian (Commander Ivanova), Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi), Mira Furlan (Delenn), Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklin), Bill Mumy (Lennier), Jason Carter (Marcus Cole), Stephen Furst (Vir), Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan), Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander), Andreas Katsulas (G’Kar), Peter Jurasik (Londo), Bart McCarthy (Shakiri), Walter Koenig (Bester), John Vickery (Neroon), Scott Adams (Mr. Adams)

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Deep Space Nine Season 05 Star Trek

Empok Nor

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: O’Brien leads a salvage team to Empok Nor, an abandoned Cardassian space station in the Treba system, to obtain needed spare parts for DS9. The team includes Nog as well as Garak, whose help is needed in disarming the booby traps the Cardassians left behind. However, the team soon finds themselves stranded on the station and stalked by three Cardassian soldiers – test subjects for an experimental drug to heighten their racial xenophobia – and Garak too has now been exposed to it.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonteleplay by Hans Beimler
story by Bryan Fuller
directed by Michael Vejar
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Andrew J. Robinson (Garak), Aron Eisenberg (Nog), Tom Hodges (Pechetti), Andy Milder (Boq’ta), Marjean Holden (Stolzoff), Jeffrey King (Amaro)

Notes: Marjean Holden later appeared in the Babylon 5 spinoff series Crusade as regular character Dr. Sarah Chambers.

LogBook entry by Tracy Hemenover with notes by Earl Green

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Season 03 Star Trek Voyager

Scorpion – Part I

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate 50984.3: As Voyager approaches the edge of Borg space, they discover a narrow passage which is empty of Borg activity and decide to try to thread their way through it in an effort to avoid confrontation. But they suddenly realize that the reason for the lack of Borg activity is the invasion of another species which apparently has no trouble at all defeating the Borg cubes with bio-ships impervious to assimilation. A Voyager away team visits a dying cube ship which has one of the alien vessels attached to it. The crew manage to download the Borg’s information on the new species, named “8472,” but Harry Kim is attacked by the pilot of the bio-ship and is given a virulent infection which begins to devour him from the inside out. While Ensign Kim fights for his life, a conflicted Janeway grapples with the decision of either guiding her crew through the dangerous Borg territory which is lined with a new mortal enemy or turning around and ending all hope of ever getting home.

Order the DVDswritten by Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky
directed by David Livingston
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: John Rhys-Davies (Leonardo Da Vinci)

LogBook entry by Paul Campbell