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Babylon 5 (B5 for short) is a multi-Emmy Award winning and nominated American science fiction franchise, originally created and produced by J. Michael Straczynski as a television series for Warner Bros.

While preceding it in development by half a decade, it was produced and aired at the same time as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, resulting in back and forth recriminations of plagiarism, which led to a fierce competition between the two franchises at the time. Regardless of this competition, this series proved to be the Star Trek TV franchise's first successful rival futuristic space opera drama series.

History[]

The primary series ran from 26 January 1994 to 25 November 1998 after its pilot episode was broadcast on 22 February 1993. It was the first truly successful American futuristic, modern space-oriented science fiction television series outside Star Trek and therefore the first serious contender with the Star Trek franchise, which until then had pretty much the run of the science fiction television landscape since it had been relaunched in 1987 with Star Trek: The Next Generation. Like Star Trek, there have been several attempts to create viable spinoff properties, including six made-for-TV movies and Crusade, featuring Gary Cole, Daniel Dae Kim, Marjean Holden, and Tracy Scoggins.

The series was widely acclaimed for its ambitious writing, much of it by Straczynski himself, who endeavored to tell a complex, predetermined epic story arc, in the form of the Shadow War(s)[1], over the series' entire run, as opposed to the episodic or two-part story format until then employed for science fiction television series. It thereby convincingly dispelled the widely held belief by Hollywood studios that television audiences lacked the attention span to remain interested in a science fiction series format thus conceived – or in any other serialized television programming with complex storytelling for that matter. (see also in this regard: Battlestar Galactica: Reception and demise)

The series starred Bruce Boxleitner, who later went on to make an appearance on Heroes with Zachary Quinto, and Mira Furlan, who later had a recurring role on J.J. Abrams's Lost with Terry O'Quinn, Daniel Dae Kim, and others. The series also featured numerous Trek alumni in the cast as important recurring or regular characters, most notably Walter Koenig, Andreas Katsulas, Bill Mumy, and Patricia Tallman. Michelle Forbes' ex-husband Ross Kettle also did an episode.

Enjoying a considerable measure of success while the original five-season source series was being produced and aired, firstly on PTEN (seasons 1-4) and subsequently on TNT (season 5), the franchise eventually faded into obscurity due to a combination of intentional sabotage by TNT, poorly considered money-saving maneuvers by Warner Bros. (including, but not limited to, the decision to save $5,000 per episode which in the process made it also impossible to produce a later high definition (HD) version of the show with recomposited wide-screen versions of effects shots, after digital assets were lost as the studio was unwilling to pay for their upkeep), as well as internal studio politics. Incidentally, the television division of Warner Bros., which produced the show, was at the time headed by Les Moonves, an executive not known for his affinity for science fiction in general and Star Trek in particular; [4] Moonves left his mark on Star Trek later on, rarely in a beneficial manner, and, according to Straczynski, having already done so for Babylon 5. [5]

The show continued to be available on Standard Definition (SD) DVD, maintaining a cult, albeit rapidly dwindling, following. [6] Therefore, considering it had neither been broadcast nor streamed in syndication since the early 2000s, it was hard for potential fans to discover the B5 franchise, preventing a fan driven comeback such as was enjoyed by Star Trek. Until 2018 its onetime franchise competitor Deep Space Nine on the other hand, remained unabatedly being offered worldwide on a continuous basis, albeit in SD, by streaming services such as CBS All Access and Netflix among others – like Star Trek: Voyager (the only other non-HD Star Trek production) was, incidentally.

However, the B5 franchise's fortunes seemed to change for the better when it for the very first time in its history was made available for a year on Amazon Prime Video in 2018 where, complaints about its dated image quality aside as it was streamed in SD only, it gained a new audience. Furthermore in 2021, Warner Brothers announced that the company, contrary to the aforementioned poor handling of the footage, had commisioned a major digital cleanup of the franchise's footage to considerably improve the visuals such as sharpening the CGI to (pseudo) HD quality by means of upscaling. [7] The subsequent "remastered" edition was made simulatenously available on WB's HBO Max video streaming service and for download sale on the major online retailers, Apple's iTunes and Amazon Prime Video where it had previously been withdrawn from their streaming service. [8] Essentially a "pseudo-remastering", or a "poor man's remastering", Babylon 5's cleaned-up version therefore was akin to the early The Original Series remastering commissioned for the 1992-1993 Japanese Original Series LaserDisc collection releases, Star Trek - Log 1, Log 2 and Log 3.

Despite all this though, it remains doubtful that Babylon 5 will ever see a revival of the kind Star Trek had enjoyed, because of the dramatically changed conditions on the television landscape (streaming services) with its current viewership having become jaded, fluid and fleeting due to the plethora of alternatives, which includes an abundance of science fiction and fantasy productions. In light of this, it is almost certain that neither Deep Space Nine nor Babylon 5 will ever see a true remastered High Definition release version, even though the digital assets of the former are confirmed to be still in existence with the release of the 2019 Star Trek documentary What We Left Behind, where remastered snippets were featured – whereas those for Babylon 5 are lost, rendering a true remastering impossible to begin with. It was the commercial failure of the very expensive 2012-2014 (true) remastered Star Trek: The Next Generations Blu-ray releases, that makes a true HD version of Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Babylon 5 for that matter, increasingly implausible with each passing day.

In the end, the live-action Babylon 5 franchise encompassed at the end of its fourteen-year lifespan,

Babylon 5 and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine[]

J. Michael Straczynski began working on the Babylon 5 concept in 1986. [9] In 1987, he began pitching it, with a script for the pilot and conceptual artwork, to Hollywood executives. [10] He pitched the program (with pilot script, artwork, series bible, character descriptions, and synopses for approximately twenty-two episodes) to Paramount executives in 1989. [11] The series was greenlit by Warner Bros. in November 1991. [12] Warner Bros. was one of the Hollywood studios that became increasingly envious of Paramount for its Star Trek property due to the growing profitable and stable revenue stream stemming from that franchise, especially in the early-1990s when TNG was soaring in popularity, becoming one of Paramount's most profitable properties in that period of time, and Warner was actually one of the very first studios to act upon the desire. Up until that point in time The Next Generation had for almost a decade been the only new (successful) science fiction show being aired on television, when discounting the syndicated reruns of older shows, most conspicuously Star Trek: The Original Series. (A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager, pp. 50-51)

Actually, Brandon Tartikoff, then newly-appointed Paramount Pictures chairman, asked Rick Berman in 1991 to develop a new Star Trek television series in order to further capitalize on the success of their franchise. Next Generation showrunners Berman and Michael Piller discussed plans for the new series with Gene Roddenberry prior to his death in October 1991. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was officially greenlit in January 1992. [13] Filming on the Babylon 5 pilot, The Gathering, was completed before filming began on Deep Space Nine's pilot, "Emissary", but Babylon 5's post-production took longer (unsurprisingly perhaps, as the new show did not have the well-oiled post-production process Star Trek had in place yet, especially in the light of their heavy reliance on the then-newfangled CGI techniques), so "Emissary" aired on 3 January 1993 and The Gathering aired seven weeks later, on 22 February.

Premise and storylines[]

Straczynski has suggested that Paramount TV development executives may have "guided" the development of Deep Space Nine with the intention of co-opting Babylon 5. [14] He has, however, been careful to point out that he does not believe that Berman or Piller were aware of the Babylon 5 concept when they were developing Deep Space Nine, or that they deliberately ripped off Babylon 5. [15] [16] Nonetheless, if Straczynski had been right in his unspoken suspicions, it would have constituted a case of history repeating itself, but then with Star Trek on the receiving end; in April 1964 Gene Roddenberry and Oscar Katz presented the Star Trek is... pitch to television studio CBS, which was rejected by them, but not before having been thoroughly questioned about it. It turned out that CBS had its own science fiction show, Lost in Space (in which a young Bill Mumy played one of the primary characters – making him an alumnus of four successful science-fiction franchises as he also made appearances in The Twilight Zone), under development at that time, and both Katz and Roddenberry in particular were convinced that CBS had picked their brains. (Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry) Like Deep Space Nine and Babylon 5 would become in theirs, Star Trek: The Original Series and Lost in Space became science fiction franchise contenders in their day, with the latter then actually perceived as the more successful one while both were originally aired.

Despite his diplomatic stance however, Straczynski could not refrain from pointing out a number of similarities between Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine, particularly their respective pilot episodes:

Straczynski also commented on what he perceived to be similarities in set and prosthetic designs, as well as the notion – mentioned in Deep Space Nine publicity but rarely acknowledged directly in the program itself – that the holosuites in Quark's would act as a virtual bordello. [17] [18] [19] [20] In 1993, Straczynski noted a striking similarity between the just-aired Deep Space Nine episode "The Homecoming", in which Quark is branded on the head by the xenophobic and radical Circle, and the Babylon 5 episode "The War Prayer" (then in post-production), in which a Minbari is branded on the head by the xenophobic and radical Homeguard; he emphasized that no one on the Babylon 5 staff knew of the DS9 plot point until "The Homecoming" aired, by which point filming on "The War Prayer" had been completed. [21]

Later, in 1996, Straczynski said:

"Sometimes it does bother me, and I wonder about what the heck's going on, when I see the only other space station series doing a big arc about alien forces infiltrating Earth government, and brewing civil war on Earth, at the *exact same moment* that we're doing it on our show; earlier, later, fine, but that they'd do basically the same thing at the same time feels like another attempt to co-opt what we're doing on this show. (Not copy; co-opt, which happens all the time. ....) If you kinda know the direction someone else is going, you try to jump ahead and get there first, so that the other either loses impact, or is considered simply an imitation. (Which is one reason why DS9 was hurried through post production to get it on the air a few weeks before B5's pilot, I suspect.)
Are we being co-opted? I dunno. When I hear that there's a red-headed woman character on DS9 named Leeta (pronounced the same as Lyta); when I see them doing the same kind of arc we're doing but getting it out a little earlier, I will confess it does give me pause sometimes. I try to think the best under these conditions. For now, I'm asuming [sic] it's all just coincidence."

After seeing "Homefront" and "Paradise Lost", Straczynski recognized that the story was an homage to the film Seven Days in May, implicitly withdrawing this criticism. [22]

In the face of the rivalry, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry agreed to a guest appearance on Babylon 5 as a gesture of goodwill to encourage a reconciliation between the fandoms. [23] [24] She played a widow of the late Centauri Emperor, whose greatness and vision for peace had not been fully appreciated within his own lifetime. She foresaw Ambassador Mollari's rise to power.

Aside from Straczynski's own observations, it should also be noted that Deep Space Nine too adopted a long, multi-season story arc from the third season onward in the form of events surrounding the Dominion War. The Star Trek franchise later repeated this to a lesser extent for the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise in the form of the Xindi threat story arc, and the Federation-Klingon War story arc, featured in the first season of Star Trek: Discovery. In the 2019 documentary What We Left Behind though, later Deep Space Nine showrunner Ira Steven Behr claimed full credit for his show being the "inventor" of the multi-episode/season story-arc format in the 1990s television landscape, which was a demonstrable falsehood – if only because the 1980s drama series Dallas for example, consisted of one long story-arc, albeit a non-complex, simple one.

Another thread running throughout Babylon 5 right from the start, was the presence of a secretive organization with considerable military capabilities embedded within its Earth Alliance organization that pursued its own agenda, called Psi Corps. One of its main recurrent operatives, Alfred Bester, was played by Star Trek alumnus Walter Koenig. The notion of secretive paramilitary organizations pursuing their own agenda was adopted by Deep Space Nine as well, not only once, but twice, with the introduction of the Cardassian Obsidian Order and Starfleet's Section 31 in the series' second and sixth season. William Sadler played the recurrent Section 31 operative Luther Sloan, a role comparable to the one Koenig played on Babylon 5. Nonetheless, it should concurrently be noted that a similar Romulan organization, the Tal Shiar, was established the same month the Babylon 5 pilot aired in the Next Generation episode "Face Of The Enemy" which aired on 8 February 1993, fourteen days before the Babylon 5 pilot, though this had more than likely been a case of coincidence considering their near simultaneous airings. Section 31 was further explored by the Star Trek franchise with later reappearances in Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek: Discovery, and is currently slated to become the subject of Star Trek: Section 31.

Production[]

In service of Straczynski's goal of telling a complex, predetermined epic story arc, the show adopted an innovative visual style, taking advantage of advances in computer animation to create for the times spectacular visual effects (VFX) on an economical budget, most notably computer generated imagery (CGI) as pioneered by the show's digital VFX vendor Foundation Imaging, who also provided VFX for the Star Trek franchise later on. The predominant use of CGI in the Babylon 5 was a breakthrough in creating VFX for television, much as the movie Jurassic Park had been for cinema; it went on to become the primary VFX technique.

Despite the signature importance which effects house Foundation Imagining had had for Babylon 5, the company was due to the above-mentioned unsavory studio politics let go from the production after its third season in 1995, leaving the company in dire straits. Yet, the services of the company were picked up the same year by the Star Trek franchise for their production Star Trek: Voyager, after its CGI vendor Amblin Imaging went defunct. It was actually Voyager's VFX Supervisor Mitch Suskin who brought the company to the attention of the franchise; Suskin had served in a similar function at Foundation on Babylon 5, but had made the switch to Star Trek one year before Foundation was let go from the production. However there was an initial trepidation to do so, as Foundation's visual style was so associated with that of Babylon 5. (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine issue 16, p. 35) In this regard David Livingston has observed, commenting on the use of computer-generated imagery in "Explorers", "We were reluctant to do computer graphics, but Peter Lauritson finally came around. He recognized how valuable it is. You can do more stuff with the ship, but you have to do it right. Not to pick on other shows, but Babylon 5 looks like computer-generated imagery. On Voyager and Deep Space Nine, you may not know some of these shots are not motion-control shots. They're really, really good if done properly. You have to spend a couple of extra bucks and get really good artists, but CGI just allows you to do more and you can build more elements into the shots". (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)

Additionally, Deep Space Nine Visual Effects Supervisor Gary Hutzel has stated, "My particular focus for our show, for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, is that it should be a visual effects leader; we should never follow, we should never do what's been done before. CGI has certainly been used to various different degrees of success on Star Trek: Voyager, but I think it's still a hit-and-miss prospect, so I'm not interested in doing it." (Star Trek Monthly issue 31, p. 26) Still, Foundation amply proved their mettle for Star Trek, even increasingly providing effects for Deep Space Nine's last two seasons as well, continuing to do so for the first season of Enterprise. Nonetheless, some Babylon 5 influences crept into the designs of some of the ships featured in Voyager; the designs of the Species 8472 bio-ship and Krenim weapon ship for example, echoed those of the Vorlon ships and the titular Babylon 5 station respectively, unsurprisingly perhaps, as these were (co-)designed by Steve Burg and Foundation CEO Ron Thornton respectively for either production.

After Foundation went bankrupt in 2002, its former Visual Effects Supervisor Adam Lebowitz has confirmed that all digital assets were left on the company servers when they were sold off at auction. It was this failure to maintain ownership by the respective studios that precludes any and all possibility for not only a remastered version of Babylon 5, as indicated above, but also such versions of Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture (The Director's Edition), which was the last project the company had worked on. [25]

Another production company of note was the prosthetics and makeup special effects (SFX) company Optic Nerve Studios, Inc., which was contracted in 1993 to serve the original Babylon 5 series. Turning out to be a fruitful collaboration, winning the franchise several Emmy Award nominations and wins in the various makeup categories and therefore putting the novice company firmly on the map in the industry, the company was retained for the remainder of the entire run of the franchise. Restructured into Alchemy Studios by its then owners Glenn Hetrick (who himself had worked as an industry novice on the tailend of the Babylon 5 franchise while employed by the company) and Neville Page, the company was in 2017 contracted for similar services on Star Trek: Discovery (incidentally, launched under the auspices of Les Moonves, until 2019 the head of CBS Corporation), for the re-imagined Klingons in particular, likewise winning the series its first 2018 makeup Emmy Award nomination.

Legacy[]

Even though Babylon 5 has somewhat receded in the consciousness of science fiction fans, Star Trek's then-owner, CBS Studios (or rather CBS Corporation), has not been able to refrain themselves of reminding television audiences of the fierce competition that existed at the time between the two franchise, or let the issue slide. In their hugely popular (and Star Trek friendly) sitcom series The Big Bang Theory, series regular Sheldon Cooper occasionally expresses his deep disdain for Babylon 5, while his roommate Leonard Hofstadter loves the series, yet losing each and every argument they have over the series. His most outspoken criticism was voiced in that series' third season episode "The Large Hadron Collision" (S03E15, 2010), where he stated that Babylon 5 "(...)failed as drama, science fiction and is hopelessly derivative", referring to the battle that raged at the time between that series and Deep Space Nineand, as proxy for CBS, in the process implicitly accusing Babylon 5 of plagiarizing Deep Space Nine. In the later "The Hawking Excitation" episode (S05E21), it was also divulged that Sheldon had begged TNT up to three times to cancel Babylon 5. The stance taken in The Big Bang Theory has irked what remained of the still existing Babylon 5 fanbase, [26] but has also enticed some science fiction fans, new to the series, to check out the series for themselves, because of Sheldon's/CBS's aversion. [27] [28] Ironically, The Big Bang Theory was produced for CBS by Warner Bros., the former Babylon 5 production company.

Even though several other contemporary television shows were mentioned by Ira Steven Behr in his 2019 What We Left Behind documentary, no mention of the then-serious genre contender Babylon 5 was made in the two-hour long documentary. In stark contrast, the 2021 first season episode "Dancing with Syndication in the Pale Moonlight" of The History Channel's Star Trek specific documentary series The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek did deal very much with the strive between the two rival franchises. But while the two franchises and their respective fanbases might had been at odds with each other, professional genre reporters and critics welcomed the advent of more quality genre television productions as was evidenced by reporters Mark A. Altman and David Ian Salter who wrote several, generally positive, pieces on both shows for their employer, genre magazine Cinefantastique, and who published the 1992 reference book Exploring Deep Space and Beyond based on these articles which detailed both shows. Additionally, to this day genre critics consistently rank Babylon 5 in the top 5 best sci-fi shows of all time because of its mature, complex storytelling. [29]

As for the Babylon 5 creator himself, according to a news notice in the June 1999 issue of the German Star Trek fanzine Trekworld (#64), Paramount Pictures had offered Straczynski a chance to work on the Star Trek franchise but he refused because he didn't want to work on someone else's series and was of the belief that Trekkies had no love lost for him. However, this belief did not prevent him to later work on a treatment for "rebooting" the Star Trek franchise with Dark Skies creator Bryce Zabel in 2004, one that was turned down eventually, as the franchise by that time had decided to run with J.J. Abrams' alternate reality version, which ultimately resulted in the 2009 movie Star Trek. [30](X) [31](X)

Star Trek references in Babylon 5[]

In the Babylon 5 episode "There All the Honor Lies" (written by Peter David), Commander Ivanova protests an attempt to sell "Babylon 5" merchandise on the station, saying, "We're not some Deep Space franchise – this place is about something!" David expected the line to be cut, but producer Straczynski insisted that it be kept, because it was "fall-down funny." David replied, "You people really ARE dangerous over there, aren't you?" [32]

In the episode "Voices of Authority", when an Earthgov political representative attempts to seduce Captain Sheridan, Ivanova quips, "Congratulations, captain... I believe you are about to go where everyone has gone before."

A blooper from the episode "Severed Dreams" has Bruce McGill's character, when asked where Robert Foxworth's character General Hague was, say "General Hague... is doing Deep Space Nine. It seems he was double-booked by his agent and nothing could be done." [2]

Actors who have appeared in Star Trek and Babylon 5[]

Actor Star Trek role Star Trek episode/film Date Babylon 5 role Babylon 5 episode Date
Ian Abercrombie Abbot VOY: "Someone to Watch Over Me" 1999-04-28 Correlimurzon Babylon 5: "Acts of Sacrifice" 1995-02-22
Milo VOY: "Spirit Folk" 2000-02-23
Mary Kay Adams Grilka DS9: "The House of Quark" 1994-10-10 Na'Toth Babylon 5: "Revelations" 1994-11-11
DS9: "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places" 1996-10-14 Babylon 5: "Acts of Sacrifice" 1995-02-22
Nathan Anderson Namon VOY: "Nemesis" 1997-09-24 Rastenn Babylon 5: "Learning Curve" 1998-02-18
N. Kemper ENT: "The Xindi" 2003-09-10
ENT: "Anomaly (ENT)" 2003-09-17
Michael Ansara Kang TOS: "Day of the Dove" 1968-11-01 Elric Babylon 5: "The Geometry of Shadows" 1994-11-16
DS9: "Blood Oath" 1994-03-27
VOY: "Flashback" 1996-09-11
Jeyal DS9: "The Muse" 1996-04-29
Vaughn Armstrong Korris TNG: "Heart of Glory" 1988-03-21 Security Guard Babylon 5: "Messages from Earth" 1996-02-19
Danar DS9: "Past Prologue" 1993-01-09
Telek R'Mor VOY: "Eye of the Needle" 1995-02-20
Seskal DS9: "When It Rains..." 1999-05-05
DS9: "The Dogs of War" 1999-05-26
Lansor/Two of Nine VOY: "Survival Instinct" 1999-09-29
Vidiian captain VOY: "Fury" 2000-05-03
Alpha Hirogen VOY: "Flesh and Blood" 2000-11-29 Babylon 5: "Point of No Return" 1996-02-26
Korath VOY: "Endgame" 2001-05-23
Maxwell Forrest Fourteen ENT episodes, from "Broken Bow" to "The Forge" 2001-09-26 to 2004-11-19
Klingon captain ENT: "Sleeping Dogs" 2002-01-30
Kreetassian captain ENT: "Vox Sola" 2002-05-01
ENT: "A Night in Sickbay" 2002-10-16
Maximilian Forrest ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly" 2005-04-22
Jeff Austin Bolian security officer DS9: "The Adversary" 1995-06-25 Centauri #1 Babylon 5: "Midnight on the Firing Line" 1994-01-26
Allos VOY: "The Omega Directive" 1998-04-15
Erick Avari B'iJik TNG: "Unification I" 1991-11-04 Rabbi Leo Mayers Babylon 5: "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" 1996-10-14
Yarka DS9: "Destiny" 1995-02-13
Jamin ENT: "Terra Nova" 2001-10-24
Adrienne Barbeau Kimara Cretak DS9: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" 1998-03-03 Amanda Carter Babylon 5: "Spider in the Web" 1994-12-07
Majel Barrett Number One TOS: "The Cage" 1964 (filmed) Lady Morella Babylon 5: "Point of No Return" 1996-02-26
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I" 1966-11-17
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II" 1966-11-26
Christine Chapel Thirty-four TOS episodes, from "The Naked Time" to "Turnabout Intruder" 1966-09-29 to 1969-06-03
Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979-12-07
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986-11-26
Lwaxana Troi Nine TNG and DS9 episodes, from TNG: "Haven" to DS9: "The Muse" 1987-11-30 to 1996-04-29
Computer voice 243 appearances across all series and films 1966 to 2009
Theodore Bikel Sergey Rozhenko TNG: "Family" 1990-10-01 Rabbi Koslov Babylon 5: "TKO" 1994-05-25
Lenonn Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
Simon Billig Hogan Seven VOY episodes, from "Alliances" to "Basics, Part II" 1996-01-22 to 1996-09-04 Ranger Babylon 5: "The Fall of Centauri Prime" 1998-10-28
Babylon 5: "Objects at Rest" 1998-11-18
Raye Birk Wrenn TNG: "Haven" 1987-11-30 William Babylon 5: "Intersections in Real Time" 1997-06-16
Son'a doctor Star Trek: Insurrection 1998-12-11
James Black Klingon helmsman DS9: "Shattered Mirror" 1996-04-22 Security Guard #1 Babylon 5: "Voices of Authority" 1996-01-29
Bill Blair Numerous background aliens, uncredited Over forty-three episodes of DS9, VOY, and ENT 1994-10-10 to 2005-05-06 Numerous background aliens, uncredited Over sixty episodes of Babylon 5 1994 to 1998
Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
Babylon 5 TV movie Thirdspace 1998-07-19
Katy Boyer Zero One TNG: "11001001" 1998-02-01 Neeoma Connoly Babylon 5: "By Any Means Necessary" 1994-05-11
Mark Bramhall Nador TNG: "Parallels" 1993-11-29 Centauri #2 Babylon 5: "The Long Night" 1997-01-27
Vulcan elder Star Trek 2009-12-08
Roy Brocksmith Sirna Kolrami TNG: "Peak Performance" 1989-07-10 Alwyn Macomber Babylon 5: "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" 1997-10-27
Razka Karn DS9: "Indiscretion" 1995-10-23
Caitlin Brown Ty Kajada DS9: "The Passenger" 1993-02-20 Na'Toth Six Babylon 5 episodes, from "The Parliament of Dreams" to "A Tragedy of Telepaths" 1994-02-23 to 1998-03-25
Vekor TNG: "Gambit, Part I" 1993-10-09
TNG: "Gambit, Part II" 1993-10-16 Guinevere Corey Babylon 5: "There All the Honor Lies" 1995-04-26
Ron Canada Martin Benbeck TNG: "The Masterpiece Society" 1992-02-10 Captain Ellis Pierce Babylon 5: "A Voice in the Wilderness" 1994-08-03
Ch'Pok DS9: "Rules of Engagement" 1996-04-08
Fesek VOY: "Juggernaut" 1999-04-26
Jane Carr Mary Reed ENT: "Silent Enemy" 2002-01-16 Timov Babylon 5: "Soul Mates" 1994-12-14
Bernie Casey Calvin Hudson DS9: "The Maquis, Part I" 1994-04-24 Derek Cranston Babylon 5: "Hunter, Prey" 1995-03-01
DS9: "The Maquis, Part II" 1994-05-01
Marie Chambers Kyrian arbiter VOY: "Living Witness" 1998-04-29 Sofie Ivanov Babylon 5: "Eyes" 1994-07-13
Richard Chaves Earth Sky Spirit VOY: "Tattoo" 1995-11-06 Alvares Babylon 5: "The War Prayer" 1994-03-09
Art Chudabala Hector Ilario DS9: "Field of Fire" 1999-02-10 Yang Babylon 5: "GROPOS" 1995-02-08
Josh Clark Tactical officer TNG: "Justice" 1987-11-09 Kulomani Babylon 5: "Movements of Fire and Shadow" 1998-06-17
Joe Carey Nine VOY episodes, from "Caretaker" to "Friendship One" 1995-01-16 to 2001-04-25 Kendarr Crusade: "Visitors from Down the Street" 1999-08-25
Jeffrey Combs Tiron DS9: "Meridian" 1994-11-14 Harriman Gray Babylon 5: "Eyes" 1994-07-13
Brunt Eight DS9 episodes, from "Family Business" to "The Dogs of War" 1995-05-15 to 1999-05-26
Weyoun Twenty-four DS9 episodes, from "To the Death" to "What You Leave Behind" 1996-05-13 to 1999-06-02
Penk VOY: "Tsunkatse" 2000-02-09
Shran Ten ENT episodes, from "The Andorian Incident" to "These Are the Voyages..." 2001-10-31 to 2005-05-13
Krem ENT: "Acquisition" 2002-03-27
Jeff Corey Plasus TOS: "The Cloud Minders" 1969-02-28 Justin Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" 1996-10-28
Brian Cousins Parem TNG: "The Next Phase" 1992-05-18 Rick Babylon 5: "A Race Through Dark Places" 1995-01-25
Crosis TNG: "Descent" 1993-06-21
TNG: "Descent, Part II" 1993-09-20
Paltani ENT: "The Catwalk" 2002-12-18
Anthony Crivello Adin VOY: "Warlord" 1996-11-20 John Clemens Babylon 5: "No Compromises" 1998-01-21
David L. Crowley Workman TNG: "Phantasms" 1993-10-23 Lou Welch Seven Babylon 5 episodes, from "Survivors" to "GROPOS" 1994-05-04 to 1995-02-08
Robin Curtis Saavik Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 1984-06-01 Kalika Qwal'Mizra Babylon 5: "Deathwalker" 1994-04-20
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986-11-26
Tallera TNG: "Gambit, Part I" 1993-10-11
TNG: "Gambit, Part II" 1993-10-18
Christopher Darga Kaybok DS9: "The Way of the Warrior" 1995-10-12 Narn #1 Babylon 5: "Acts of Sacrifice" 1995-02-22
Y'Sek VOY: "Think Tank" 1999-03-31
Vorok ENT: "Unexpected" 2001-10-17
Henry Darrow Savar TNG: "Conspiracy" 1988-05-9 William Indiri Babylon 5: "The Illusion of Truth" 1997-02-17
Kolopak VOY: "Tattoo" 1995-11-6
VOY: "Basics, Part I" 1996-05-20
Timothy Davis-Reed Kyrian spectator VOY: "Living Witness" 1998-04-29 Man #1 Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
Vince Deadrick, Jr. Numerous uncredited stunt roles and appearances. ENT: "Broken Bow" to ENT: "These Are the Voyages..." 2001-09-26 to 2005-05-13 Tough Guy Babylon 5: "Meditations on the Abyss" 1998-05-27
Brakiri Babylon 5: "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" 1998-06-10
Pancho Demmings Kradin soldier VOY: "Nemesis" 1997-09-24 Alpha 7 Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
Diane DiLascio Riaan ENT: "Civilization" 2001-11-14 Telepath #2 Babylon 5: "A Race Through Dark Places" 1995-01-25
Brad Dourif Lon Suder VOY: "Meld" 1996-02-05 Brother Edward Babylon 5: "Passing Through Gethsemane" 1995-11-27
VOY: "Basics, Part I" 1996-06-20
VOY: "Basics, Part II" 1996-07-04
Robin Atkin Downes ADR voices (Vulcan and Romulan chants and dialogue), uncredited Star Trek 2009-12-08 Morann Babylon 5: "Atonement" 1997-02-24
Babylon 5: "In the Beginning" 1998-01-04
Togg LD: "Wej Duj" 2021-10-07 Byron Gordon Eight Babylon 5 episodes, from "No Compromises" to "Phoenix Rising" 1998-01-21 to 1998-04-01
John Fleck Taibak TNG: "The Mind's Eye" 1991-05-27 Del Varner Babylon 5 TV pilot "The Gathering" 1993-02-22
Cardassian overseer DS9: "The Homecoming" 1993-09-26
Ornithar DS9: "The Search, Part I" 1994-09-26
Koval DS9: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges" 1999-03-03
Abaddon VOY: "Alice" 1999-10-20
Silik Seven ENT episodes, from "Broken Bow" to "Storm Front, Part II" 2001-09-26 to 2004-10-15
Robert Foxworth [3] Leyton DS9: "Homefront" 1996-01-01 General William Hague Babylon 5: "Points of Departure" 1994-11-02
DS9: "Paradise Lost" 1996-01-08
V'Las ENT: "The Forge" 2004-11-19 Babylon 5: "All Alone in the Night" 1995-02-15
ENT: "Awakening" 2004-11-26
ENT: "Kir'Shara" 2004-12-03
Mike Genovese Desk sergeant TNG: "The Big Goodbye" January 1988-01-11 Drake Babylon 5: "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" 1998-04-15
Zef'No DS9: "The Circle" 1993-10-03
Gerrit Graham First Hunter DS9: "Captive Pursuit" 1993-10-01 Lord Kiro Babylon 5: "Signs and Portents" 1994-05-18
Quinn VOY: "Death Wish" 1996-02-19
Bruce Gray Chekote TNG: "Gambit, Part I" 1993-10-11 Interrogator Babylon 5: "Intersections in Real Time" 1997-06-16
Surak ENT: "Awakening" 2004-11-26 Babylon 5: "Between the Darkness and the Light" 1997-10-06
Bennet Guillory Medical Big Shot DS9: "Prophet Motive" 1995-02-20 Merchant #2 Babylon 5: "Points of Departure" 1994-11-02
Leif Tanner Babylon 5: "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" 1997-10-27
Chip Heller Solari leader TNG: "Loud As A Whisper" 1989-01-09 Rowdy #1 Babylon 5: "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part II" 1994-08-03
Marva Hicks T'Pel VOY: "Persistence of Vision" 1995-10-30 Singer Babylon 5: "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" 1996-10-14
VOY: "Body and Soul" 2000-11-15
Marjean Holden Stolzoff DS9: "Empok Nor" 1997-05-19 Navigation Babylon 5 TV movie A Call to Arms 1999-01-03
Sarah Chambers Eleven Crusade episodes, from "War Zone" to "Each Night I Dream of Home" 1999-06-09 to 1999-09-01
William Dennis Hunt Huraga DS9: "The Way of the Warrior" 1995-10-02 Valo Babylon 5: "Knives" 1995-05-17
Kris Iyer Cold Station 12 deputy director ENT: "Cold Station 12" 2004-11-05 Dome Tech Babylon 5: "The Summoning" 1996-11-18
Clynell Jackson III H'ta DS9: "Apocalypse Rising" 1996-09-30 Security Guard Babylon 5: "Strange Relations" 1998-02-25
Klingon hologram VOY: "The Killing Game, Part II" 1998-03-04
Klingon crewman VOY: "Prophecy" 2001-02-07
Klingon Council member ENT: "Broken Bow" 2001-09-26
Klingon councilor ENT: "The Expanse" 2003-05-21
Xindi-Arboreal technician ENT: "The Shipment" 2003-10-29
Ken Jenkins Paul Stubbs TNG: "Evolution" 1989-09-25 Trevor Hall Babylon 5: "No Surrender, No Retreat" 1997-05-26
Michael Kagan Chokuzan commander VOY: "Q2" 2001-04-11 Emmett Farquaha Babylon 5: "A Late Delivery from Avalon" 1996-04-22
Lenore Kasdorf Lorin TNG: "Attached" 1993-11-08 ISN Reporter Babylon 5: "TKO" 1994-12-25
Babylon 5: "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I" 1994-07-27
Babylon 5: "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part II" 1994-08-03
Andreas Katsulas Tomalak Four TNG episodes, from "The Enemy" to "All Good Things..." 1989-11-06 to 1994-05-23 G'Kar Babylon 5 TV pilot "The Gathering" 1993-02-22
Sixty-two Babylon 5 episodes, from "Midnight on the Firing Line" to "Objects in Motion" 1994-01-26 to 1998-11-11
Drennik ENT: "Cogenitor" 2003-04-30 Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
Babylon 5 TV movie The Legend of the Rangers 2002-01-19
Patrick Kilpatrick Razik VOY: "Initiations" 1995-09-04 Robert Carlson Babylon 5: "Convictions" 1995-11-13
Reese DS9: "The Siege of AR-558" 1998-11-18
Assan VOY: "Drive" 2000-10-18
Daniel Dae Kim Gotana-Retz VOY: "Blink of an Eye" 2000-01-19 John Matheson Twelve Crusade episodes, from "War Zone" to "Each Night I Dream of Home" 1999-06-09 to 1999-09-01
Corporal D. Chang ENT: "The Xindi" 2003-09-10
ENT: "Extinction" 2003-09-24
ENT: "Hatchery" 2004-02-25
David A. Kimball Esaak ENT: "Dear Doctor" 2002-01-23 Lee Parks Babylon 5: "The Illusion of Truth" 1997-02-17
Walter Koenig Pavel Chekov Thirty-six TOS episodes, from "Catspaw" to "Turnabout Intruder" 1967-10-27 to 1969-06-03 Alfred Bester Twelve Babylon 5 episodes, from "Mind War" to "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" 1994-03-02 to 1998-04-15
Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979-12-07
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 1982-06-04
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 1984-06-01
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986-11-26
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989-06-09
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991-12-06
Star Trek Generations 1994-11-18
Thomas Kopache Mirok TNG: "The Next Phase" 1992-05-18 Tu'Pari Babylon 5: "The Parliament of Dreams" 1994-02-09
The Engineer TNG: "Emergence" 1994-05-07
Com officer Star Trek Generations 1994-11-18
Viorsa VOY: "The Thaw" 1996-04-29
Kira Taban DS9: "Ties of Blood and Water" 1997-04-14
DS9: "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" 1998-03-28
Tos ENT: "Broken Bow" 2001-09-26
Sphere-Builder test subject ENT: "Harbinger" 2004-02-11
Steven Lambert Suliban agent ENT: "Broken Bow" 2001-09-26 Bloodhound Teep #2 Babylon 5: "Strange Relations" 1998-02-25
Clayton Landey Fuchida DS9: "Prodigal Daughter" 1999-01-06 Number Two Babylon 5: "Chasing Mars" 1997-04-21
Reggie Lee Administrator Star Trek 2009-12-08 Chen Hikaru Babylon 5: "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" 1998-04-15
Stephen Lee Chorgan TNG: "The Vengeance Factor" 1989-11-20 Tharg Babylon 5: "Believers" 1994-04-27
Alien bartender TNG: "Gambit, Part I" 1993-10-11
Beverly Leech Dayla VOY: "Nightingale" 2000-11-22 Elizabeth Sheridan Babylon 5: "Revelations" 1994-11-09
Judy Levitt Mercy Hospital physician Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986-11-26 Psi Cop Babylon 5: "A Race Through Dark Places" 1995-01-25
Starfleet Command captain Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991-12-06 Babylon 5: "Dust to Dust" 1996-02-05
El-Aurian survivor Star Trek Generations 1994-11-18
James Lew Romulan crewmember Star Trek 2009-12-08 Bloodhound Teep #1 Babylon 5: "Strange Relations" 1998-02-25
Kristopher Logan El-Aurian survivor Star Trek Generations 1994-11-18 Ambassador #3 Babylon 5: "Points of Departure" 1994-11-02
Victor Lundin Klingon lieutenant TOS: "Errand of Mercy" 1967-03-23 Psi Corps Official Babylon 5: "Epiphanies" 1997-02-10
Scott MacDonald Tosk DS9: "Captive Pursuit" 1993-01-30 First Officer Babylon 5 TV Movie A Call to Arms 1999-01-03
N'Vek TNG: "Face Of The Enemy" 1993-02-08
Rollins VOY: "Caretaker" 1995-01-16
Goran'Agar DS9: "Hippocratic Oath" 1995-10-16
Dolim Eight ENT episodes, from "The Xindi" to "Zero Hour" 2003-09-10 to 2004-05-26
Stephen Macht Krim DS9: "The Circle" 1993-10-03 Na'Far Babylon 5: "A Day in the Strife" 1995-11-20
DS9: "The Siege" 1993-10-10
Rosie Malek-Yonan Tekoa DS9: "The Assignment" 1996-10-28 Doctor Babylon 5: "Confessions and Lamentations" 1995-05-24
David Anthony Marshall Magnus Hansen VOY: "Scorpion, Part II" 1997-09-03 Stephen Petrov Babylon 5: "Chrysalis" 1994-10-26
VOY: "The Raven" 1997-10-08
Marie Marshall Kelsey TNG: "Starship Mine" 1993-03-23 Elizabeth Durman Babylon 5: "GROPOS" 1995-02-09
Babylon 5: "Day of the Dead" 1998-03-11
Bart McCarthy Coburn DS9: "Favor the Bold" 1997-10-27 Shakiri Babylon 5: "Moments of Transition" 1997-05-19
Daro Babylon 5: "Movements of Fire and Shadow" 1998-06-17
Leigh J. McCloskey Tieran VOY: "Warlord" 1996-11-20 Thomas Babylon 5: "A Tragedy of Telepaths" 1998-03-25
Joran Dax DS9: "Field of Fire" 1999-02-10 Babylon 5: "Phoenix Rising" 1998-04-01
J. Patrick McCormack Bennett (Rear Admiral) DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" 1997-02-24 Robert Lefcourt Babylon 5: "Endgame" 1997-10-13
Prax VOY: "Counterpoint" 1998-12-16 Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
Romulan commander Star Trek Nemesis 2002-12-13
Bruce McGill [4] Braxton VOY: "Relativity" 1999-05-12 Ed Ryan Babylon 5: "Severed Dreams" 1996-04-01
Don McMillan Hirogen hunter VOY: "Flesh and Blood" 2000-11-29 Bartender Babylon 5: "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" 1998-04-15
Kate McNeil Collins ENT: "Affliction" 2005-02-18 Janice Rosen Babylon 5: "The Quality of Mercy" 1994-08-17
Geoff Meed Dee'Ahn ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights" 2002-05-5 Smuggler #1 Babylon 5: "Racing Mars" 1997-04-21
Erica Mer Maryl VOY: "Infinite Regress" 1998-11-25 Lyssa Deradi Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
Christopher Michael Coalition Lieutenant TNG: "Legacy" 1990-10-29 Shooter Babylon 5: "A Race through Dark Places" 1995-01-25
Defiant Helmsman DS9: "Rules of Engagement" 1996-04-08 Earthforce Captain Crusade: "Appearances and Other Deceits" 1999-07-28
Katherine Moffat Etana TNG: "The Game" 1991-10-28 Supervisor Babylon 5: "Grey 17 Is Missing" 1996
Vaatrik Pallra DS9: "Necessary Evil" 1993-11-14
Tom Morga Numerous stunt roles, generally uncredited Star Trek: The Motion Picture to ENT: "Borderland" 1979-12-07 to 2004-10-29 Stunt roles Unknown Unknown
Marjorie Monaghan Freya VOY: "Heroes and Demons" 1995-04-24 Number One Seven Babylon 5 episodes, from "Racing Mars" to "Objects at Rest" 1997-04-21 to 1998-11-18
Phil Morris Boy in Army helmet TOS: "Miri" 1966-10-27 Bill Trainor Babylon 5: "Severed Dreams" 1996-04-01
Cadet Foster Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 1984-06-01
Commander Thopok DS9: "Rocks and Shoals" 1996-10-14
Third Remata'Klan DS9: "The Dogs of War" 1997-10-06
Lieutenant John Kelly VOY: "One Small Step" 1999-11-17
Glenn Morshower Burke TNG: "Peak Performance" 1989-07-10 Franke Babylon 5: "Acts of Sacrifice" 1995-02-22
Orton TNG: "Starship Mine" 1993-03-29
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) Navigator Star Trek Generations 1994-11-18
Mokra Order Guard VOY: "Resistance" 1995-11-27
Sheriff MacReady ENT: "North Star" 2003-11-12
Bill Mumy Kellin DS9: "The Siege of AR-558" 1998-11-18 Lennier Forty-nine Babylon 5 episodes, from "The Parliament of Dreams" to "Objects at Rest" 1994-02-23 to 1998-11-18
Christopher Neame Unferth VOY: "Heroes and Demons" 1995-04-24 Knight Two Babylon 5: "And the Sky Full of Stars" 1994-03-16
German general ENT: "Storm Front" 2004-10-08
ENT: "Storm Front, Part II" 2004-10-15
Julia Nickson Lian T'Su TNG: "The Arsenal of Freedom" 1988-04-11 Catherine Sakai Babylon 5: "The Parliament of Dreams" 1994-02-23
Cassandra DS9: "Paradise" 1994-02-13 Babylon 5: "Mind War" 1994-03-02
Babylon 5: "Chrysalis" 1994-10-26
Jim Norton Albert Einstein TNG: "The Nth Degree" 1991-04-01 Ombuds Wellington Babylon 5: "Grail" 1994-07-06
Babylon 5: "The Quality of Mercy" 1994-08-17
TNG: "Descent" 1993-06-21 Dr. Lazarenn Babylon 5: "Confessions and Lamentations" 1995-05-24
G'Qarn Babylon 5: "Dust to Dust" 1996-02-05
Tricia O'Neil Rachel Garrett TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise" 1990-02-19 M'Ola Babylon 5: "Believers" 1994-04-27
Kurak TNG: "Suspicions" 1993-05-10 President Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
Korinas DS9: "Defiant" 1994-11-21
Rod Perry Security guard Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979-12-07 General Netter Babylon 5: "Survivors" 1994-05-04
Eric Pierpoint Voval TNG: "Liaisons" 1993-09-27 Daniel Babylon 5: "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" 1997-10-27
Sanders DS9: "For the Uniform" 1997-02-03
Kortar VOY: "Barge of the Dead" 1999-10-06
Shiraht ENT: "Rogue Planet" 2002-03-20
Harris ENT: "Affliction" 2005-02-18
ENT: "Divergence" 2005-02-25
ENT: "Demons" 2005-12-06
ENT: "Terra Prime" 2005-05-13
Greg Poland Elloran officer Star Trek: Insurrection 1998-10-11 Guard Babylon 5: "Between the Darkness and the Light" 1997-10-06
Voyager security officer VOY: "Repentance" 2001-01-31
Clive Revill Guy of Gisbourne TNG: "Qpid" 1991-04-22 Trakis Babylon 5: "Born to the Purple" 1994-02-09
Tony Rizzoli Kainon DS9: "Duet" 1993-06-13 Guard Babylon 5: "Infection" 1994-02-18
Mark Rolston Walter Pierce TNG: "Eye of the Beholder" 1994-02-26 Karl Mueller Babylon 5: "The Quality of Mercy" 1994-08-17
Kuroda ENT: "Canamar" 2003-02-26
Magh ENT: "The Augments" 2004-11-12
Robert Rusler Orgoth ENT: "Anomaly (ENT)" 2003-09-17 Warren Keffer Six Babylon 5 episodes, from "Points of Departure" to "The Fall of Night" 1994-11-02 to 1995-11-01
Rick Ryan Numerous background aliens, uncredited Several episodes of TNG and DS9 1993 to 1999 Numerous background aliens, uncredited Eleven Babylon 5 episodes, from "The Parliament of Dreams" to "Sleeping in Light" 1994-02-23 to 1998-11-25
Robin Sachs Valen VOY: "The Void" 2001-02-14 Hedronn Babylon 5: "Points of Departure" 1994-11-02
Babylon 5: "All Alone in the Night" 1995-02-15
Na'Kal Babylon 5: "The Fall of Night" 1995-08-15
Babylon 5: "Walkabout" 1996-08-18
Coplann Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
Na'Tok Babylon 5: "Movements of Fire and Shadow" 1998-06-17
Babylon 5: "The Fall of Centauri Prime" 1998-10-28
David Sage Tarmin TNG: "Violations" 1992-02-03 Business Man #2 Babylon 5 TV pilot "The Gathering" 1993-02-22
Centauri Merchant Babylon 5: "Acts of Sacrifice" 1995-02-22
Reiner Schöne Esoqq TNG: "Allegiance" 1990-03-26 Dukhat Babylon 5: "Atonement" 1997-02-24
Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
John Schuck Kamarag Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 1986-11-26 Draal Babylon 5: "The Long, Twilight Struggle" 1995-08-01
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991-12-06
Parn DS9: "The Maquis, Part II" 1994-05-01
Chorus #2 VOY: "Muse" 2000-04-26 Babylon 5: "Voices of Authority" 1996-01-29
Antaak ENT: "Affliction" 2005-02-18
ENT: "Divergence" 2005-02-25
Dwight Schultz Reginald Barclay Ten TNG and VOY episodes, from "Hollow Pursuits" to "Endgame" 1990-04-30 to 2001-05-23 Amis Babylon 5: "The Long Dark" 1994-11-30
Star Trek: First Contact 1996-11-22
Tracy Scoggins Gilora Rejal DS9: "Destiny" 1995-02-15 Elizabeth Lochley Fourteen Babylon 5 and Crusade episodes, from "No Compromises" to "Each Night I Dream of Home" 1998-01-21 to 1999-09-01
Babylon 5 TV movies River of Souls and A Call to Arms 1998-11-08, 1999-01-03
Babylon 5 direct-to-DVD special Voices in the Dark 2007-09-03
Judson Scott Joachim Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 1982-06-04 Knight One Babylon 5: "And the Sky Full of Stars" 1994-03-16
Sobi TNG: "Symbiosis" 1988-04-18
Rekar VOY: "Message in a Bottle" 1998-01-21
W. Morgan Sheppard Ira Graves TNG: "The Schizoid Man" 1989-01-23 Soul Hunter Babylon 5: "Soul Hunter" 1994-02-02
Klingon Commandant Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991-12-06
Qatai VOY: "Bliss" 1999-02-10 Warmaster G'Sten Babylon 5: "The Long, Twilight Struggle" 1994-11-16
Vulcan science minister Star Trek 2009-05-08
Carolyn Seymour Taris TNG: "Contagion" 1989-03-20 Crosby Babylon 5: "Endgame" 1997-10-13
Mirasta Yale TNG: "First Contact" 1991-02-18
Toreth TNG: "Face Of The Enemy" 1993-02-08
Templeton VOY: "Cathexis" 1995-12-01
VOY: "Persistence of Vision" 1995-10-30
Guy Siner Stuart Reed ENT: "Silent Enemy" 2002-01-16 Religious #1 Babylon 5: "Rumors, Bargains and Lies" 1997-05-12
Michelan Sisti Tol TNG: "Bloodlines" 1994-12-02 Takarn Babylon 5: "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part II" 1994-08-03
Tucker Smallwood Bullock VOY: "In the Flesh" 1998-11-04 David Endawi Babylon 5: "Matters of Honor" 1995-11-06
Xindi-Primate councilor Nine ENT episodes, from "The Xindi" to "Zero Hour" 2003-09-10 to 2004-05-26
Michael Bailey Smith Hanon native VOY: "Basics, Part II" 1996-09-04 G'Dok Babylon 5: "A Day in the Strife" 1995-11-20
John Snyder Bochra TNG: "The Enemy" 1989-11-06 Soul Hunter #2 Babylon 5: "Soul Hunter" 1994-02-02
Aaron Conor TNG: "The Masterpiece Society" 1992-02-10 Orin Zento Babylon 5: "By Any Means Necessary" 1994-05-11
Eric Steinberg Paul Porter Star Trek: First Contact 1996-11-22 Samuel Babylon 5: "Exogenesis" 1996-02-12
Ankari captain VOY: "Equinox, Part II" 1999-09-22
Skip Stellrecht Engineering Crewman TNG: "The Naked Now" 1987-10-05 Guard Babylon 5: "No Surrender, No Retreat" 1997-05-26
Security Guard Babylon 5: "Secrets of the Soul" 1998-03-04
Customs Officer Babylon 5: "Day of the Dead" 1998-03-11
Carel Struycken Mr. Homn 5 TNG episodes, from "Haven" to "Half a Life" 1987-11-30 to 1991-05-06 Trader Babylon 5: "Soul Mates" 1994-12-14
The Spectre VOY: "The Thaw" 1996-04-29
Kitty Swink Rozahn DS9: "Sanctuary" 1993-11-28 Senator Babylon 5: "Matters of Honor" 1995-11-06
Luaran DS9: "Tacking Into the Wind" 1999-05-12
Keith Szarabajka Teero Anaydis VOY: "Repression" 2000-10-25 Matthew Stoner Babylon 5: "Soul Mates" 1994-12-14
Damron ENT: "Rogue Planet" 2002-03-20
Warren Tabata Numerous background characters, uncredited Eight episodes of TNG, VOY, ENT 1992-02-10 to 2003-12-07 Guard Babylon 5: "Revelations" 1994-11-09
Babylon 5: "The Geometry of Shadows" 1994-11-16
Babylon 5: "The Long Dark" 1994-11-30
Cary-Hiroyuki Mandarin bailiff TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint" 1987-09-28 Morishi Babylon 5: "Convictions" 1995-11-13
Patricia Tallman Numerous stunt roles, generally uncredited TNG: "Power Play" to DS9: "What You Leave Behind" 1992-02-24 to 1999-06-02 Lyta Alexander Babylon 5 TV pilot "The Gathering" 1993-02-22
Kiros TNG: "Starship Mine" 1993-03-29 24 Babylon 5 episodes, from "Divided Loyalties" to "Objects in Motion" 1995-07-25 to 1998-11-11
Defiant weapons officer DS9: "The Way of the Warrior" 1995-10-02 Babylon 5 TV movie Thirdspace 1998-07-19
Marshall R. Teague Temo'Zuma DS9: "Hippocratic Oath" 1995-10-16 Nelson Drake Babylon 5: "Infection" 1994-02-16
Haluk VOY: "Distant Origin" 1997-04-30 Ta'Lon 5 Babylon 5 episodes, from "All Alone in the Night" to "Objects at Rest" 1995-02-15 to 1998-11-18
Captain Daniels Crusade: "The Long Road" 1999-06-16
Brian Thompson Klag TNG: "A Matter Of Honor" 1989-02-06 Robert Black Crusade: "Patterns of the Soul" 1999-07-07
Inglatu DS9: "Rules of Acquisition" 1993-11-07
Klingon helm officer Star Trek Generations 1994-11-18
Toman'torax DS9: "To the Death" 1996-05-13
Valdore ENT: "Babel One" 2005-01-28
ENT: "United" 2005-02-04
ENT: "The Aenar" 2005-02-11
Malachi Throne Voice of The Keeper TOS: "The Cage" 1988-10-04 Prime Minister Malachi Babylon 5: "The Coming of Shadows" 1995-02-01
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II" 1966-11-24
José I. Mendez TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I" 1966-11-17
TOS: "The Menagerie, Part II" 1966-11-17
Pardek TNG: "Unification I" 1991-11-04
TNG: "Unification I" 1991-11-11
Tony Todd Kurn Four TNG and DS9 episodes, from "Sins of The Father" to "Sons of Mogh" 1990-03-19 to 1996-02-12 Leonard Anderson Babylon 5 TV movie A Call to Arms 1999-01-03
Adult Jake Sisko DS9: "The Visitor" 1995-10-09
Alpha Hirogen VOY: "Prey" 1998-02-18
Tamlyn Tomita Commodore/General Oh/Nedar six Star Trek: Picard episodes, from "Maps and Legends" to "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2" 2020-01-30 to 2020-03-26 Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima Babylon 5 TV pilot: "The Gathering" 1993-02-22
Beth Toussaint Ishara Yar TNG: "Legacy" 1990-10-29 Anna Sheridan Babylon 5: "Revelations" 1994-11-09
Mark Rafael Truitt Yosa VOY: "Repression" 2000-10-25 Minbari warrior Babylon 5 TV movie In the Beginning 1998-01-04
Blair Valk Risian woman DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." 1996-11-11 Mariel Babylon 5: "Soul Mates" 1994-12-14
Musetta Vander Derran Tal VOY: "The Disease" 1999-02-24 Felicia Babylon 5: "Between the Darkness and the Light" 1997-10-06
John Vickery Andrus Hagan TNG: "Night Terrors" 1991-03-18 Neroon Five Babylon 5 episodes, from "Legacies" to "Moments of Transition" 1994-07-20 to 1997-05-19
Rusot DS9: "The Changing Face of Evil" 1999-04-28
DS9: "When It Rains..." 1999-05-05 Mr. Welles Babylon 5: "The Fall of Night" 1995-11-01
DS9: "Tacking Into the Wind" 1999-05-12 Crusade: "Appearances and Other Deceits" 1999-07-28
Orak ENT: "Judgment" 2003-04-09
David Warner St. John Talbot Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989-06-09 Aldous Gajic Babylon 5: "Grail" 1994-07-06
Gorkon Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991-12-06
Madred TNG: "Chain Of Command, Part I" 1992-12-14
TNG: "Chain Of Command, Part II" 1992-12-21
Justin Williams Jarvin VOY: "Parallax" 1995-01-23 Bill Mitchell Babylon 5: "And the Sky Full of Stars" 1994-03-16
Paul Williams Koru VOY: "Virtuoso" 2000-01-26 Taq Babylon 5: "Acts of Sacrifice" 1995-02-22
Mirron E. Willis Klingon guard TNG: "Reunion" 1990-22-05 Brannagan Babylon 5: "The Ragged Edge" 1998-04-28
Rettik VOY: "Alliances" 1996-01-22
VOY: "Threshold" 1996-01-39
Paul Winfield Captain Clark Terrell Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 1982-06-04 Richard Franklin Babylon 5: "GROPOS" 1995-02-08
Dathon TNG: "Darmok" 1991-09-30
Mel Winkler Jack Hayes VOY: "The 37's" 1995-08-28 William Dexter Babylon 5: "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" 1996-10-14
Time Winters Daro TNG: "The Wounded" 1991-01-28 Rathenn Babylon 5: "War without End, Part I" 1996-05-13
Babylon 5: "Grey 17 Is Missing" 1996-10-07
Dan Woren Borg Drone Star Trek: First Contact 1996-11-22 Bartender Babylon 5: "Confessions and Lamentations" 1995-05-24
Momo Yashima crewmember Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979-12-07 Goyokin Babylon 5: "Born to the Purple" 1994-02-09

Production personnel who have worked on both franchises[]

Note: Excepting Suskin (who was not employed by Foundation during his Star Trek years), not listed are the staffers of CGI company Foundation Imaging, the vast majority of the original 1993-1995 line-up having also worked on both franchises. See main article for staff listing.
Person Star Trek contributions Babylon 5 contributions
Adam Buckner Visual Effects Coordinator, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 5- 7, Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1; Visual Effects Supervisor DS9: "Tacking Into the Wind" Visual Effects Assistant, Babylon 5 Season 1; Assistant Editor, Four Babylon 5 Season 2 episodes
Harry Cohen Sound Engineer, Star Trek Nemesis, Star Trek, ST: "Ephraim and Dot", PIC: "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1", "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", DIS: "That Hope Is You, Part 1" Sound Designer, Babylon 5 Season 1-5, In the Beginning, Thirdspace, The River of Souls, A Call to Arms, Crusade Season 1
Richard Compton Actor, TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" (Washburn) Director, Babylon 5 TV movie The Gathering, five Babylon 5 episodes
Actor, TOS: "The Enterprise Incident" (Romulan technical officer) Co-producer, Nine Babylon 5 episodes
Director, TNG: "Haven"
Peter David Writer, forty-one Star Trek novels Writer, Babylon 5: "Soul Mates", "There All the Honor Lies"
Writer, forty Star Trek comics Writer, Crusade: "Ruling from the Tomb"
Writer, Beam Me Up, Scotty (with James Doohan) Writer, In the Beginning and Thirdspace novelizations
Writer, Cacophony (Captain Sulu Adventures audio drama, as J.J. Molloy) Writer, Legions of Fire novel trilogy
Harlan Ellison Writer, TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever" Conceptual consultant, Babylon 5 TV series, Babylon 5 TV movies The Gathering, In the Beginning, Thirdspace, The River of Souls, A Call to Arms
Writer (story), Babylon 5 episodes "A View from the Gallery", "Objects in Motion"
Voice artist, Babylon 5: "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" (Sparky the Computer), "Day of the Dead" (Voice of Zooty)
Cameo appearance, Babylon 5: "The Face of the Enemy" (Psi Cop)
D.C. Fontana Writer, seventeen episodes of TOS, TAS, TNG, and DS9 Writer, Babylon 5: "The War Prayer", "Legacies", "A Distant Star"
Writer, Vulcan's Glory novel
Writer, Star Trek: Year Four - The Enterprise Experiment comic
David Gerrold Writer, TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles" Writer, Babylon 5: "Believers"
Glenn Hetrick Dept. Head Prosthetic and Special F/X Makeup, Star Trek: Discovery Prosthetic Painter, Babylon 5: "The Legend of the Rangers"
Adam Nimoy Director, TNG: "Rascals", "Timescape" Director, Babylon 5: "Passing Through Gethsemane", "Z'ha'dum"
Larry Odien Uncredited Special Effects Technician, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Uncredited Special Makeup Effects Artist, Babylon 5: "The Gathering "
Fabio Passaro Digital Artist, Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 3, Issue 5, Borg Invasion 4D, Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, Star Trek Encyclopedia Digital Modeler, Babylon 5: "The Lost Tales"
Mary Jo Slater Casting director, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Casting director, Babylon 5
J. Michael Straczynski Writer, one comic Creator, primary writer, Babylon 5
Mitch Suskin VFX Supervisor, Star Trek: Voyager Season 1-7, Star Trek: Enterprise Season 1-3 VFX Supervisor Babylon 5, Season 1-2
Jesús Salvador Treviño Director, eight episodes of DS9 and VOY Director, five episodes of Babylon 5, Babylon 5 TV movie Thirdspace, Crusade: "The Rules of the Game"
Michael Vejar Director, thirty-one episodes of TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT Director, eighteen episodes of Babylon 5 and Crusade, Babylon 5 TV movies In the Beginning, A Call to Arms, The Legend of the Rangers
Douglas E. Wise Second assistant director, Star Trek: The Motion Picture First assistant director, twenty-eight episodes of Babylon 5 and Crusade, Babylon 5 TV movies In the Beginning and A Call to Arms
First assistant director, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Director, Babylon 5: "The Fall of Centauri Prime"

Footnotes[]

  1. Star Trek's Iconians are reminiscent of the Shadows, both as a species and in their accomplishments. The apocryphal computer game Star Trek Online took it up a notch when it introduced not only the physical appearance of the race itself – exhibiting a more than passing resemblance with the Babylon 5 antagonists – but also the very similarly conceived Iconian War (β) in their story lines.
  2. Babylon 5 Season 3 blooper reel at YouTube
  3. Robert Foxworth's characters on Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine were very similar: both were high-ranking military officers who led coup attempts against civilian governments based on Earth (although the Babylon 5 coup was against a totalitarian regime). Both attempts failed. Foxworth had already been booked for a third appearance as General Hague on Babylon 5 when his agent accepted the Deep Space Nine role, which was filming at the same time. In response, J. Michael Straczynski killed off the character of General Hague off-screen (saying, "Never honk off the writer"). [1] [2] [3]
  4. McGill was cast as a new character to replace the role of General Hague, played by Robert Foxworth, who had opted to appear in a two-part episode Deep Space Nine instead (see above).

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