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Crusade (1999)
Crusade
Rating Rating
Run Time: 44 min
Color: Color
Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1
Sound: Dolby
Producer: Babylonian Productions
Genre
  • Action
  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • Sci-Fi
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 13
Overview

Several years after the end of the Great War (detailed in the main Babylon 5 TV series) the former servants of the now-exiled Shadows attempt to avenge their old masters by introducing a powerful biological weapon into Earth's atmosphere. After five years of adapting itself to humanity's genetic makeup, it will kill every human being on the planet. Since this plague was the product of a technology far ahead of humanity's, there isn't enough time to develop an original solution - instead, humanity will have to comb through the ruins of older alien civilizations with the hope of finding some ancient, advanced technology that can cure the disease. Leading this high-stakes archeological mission is a starship of the new Interstellar Alliance, the Excalibur, and its crew drawn from the Alliance's elite troubleshooting corps, the Rangers.

1. War Zone
First Aired June 08, 1999
After the Drakh infect Earth with a plague, Captain Gideon is called to Earth and given a new assignment. Using the brand-new Interstellar Alliance deep range vessel Excalibur, he and his crew must search for any clues to a cure for the plague. If a cure is not found within five years, everyone on Earth will soon die.
2. The Long Road
First Aired June 15, 1999
Earth's strip mining of a peaceful planet causes an environmental hazard to the population, who have rejected technology in favor of a more traditional lifestyle. However matters are complicated when the local population begin taking hostages from the mining operation.
3. The Well of Forever
First Aired June 22, 1999
Galen takes control of Excalibur and goes in search of a mysterious place in hyperspace known as the "Well of Forever", where he claims "powerful energies intersect". However, it is revealed that Galen has more personal reason to search for the Well. This episode also features creatures native to hyperspace: large, jellyfish-like, passive creatures.
4. The Path of Sorrows
First Aired June 29, 1999
On a world rumored to be a place of healing, the crew of Excalibur find an alien that acts as a confessor for passing travelers.
5. Patterns of the Soul
First Aired July 06, 1999
The crew travel to a world named Theta 49 to investigate the possibility that the Drakh plague may have spread beyond Earth.
6. Ruling From the Tomb
First Aired July 13, 1999
On a visit to Mars, the crew encounter the "Sacred Omega" doomsday cult. The cult plants a bomb at an antiplague action conference in the belief that judgement day is soon.
7. The Rules of the Game
First Aired July 20, 1999
Gideon comes to Babylon 5 to try to negotiate a deal with the residents of Lorka 7, a world that may hold medical secrets useful in trying to cure the Drakh plague.
8. Appearances and Other Deceits
First Aired July 27, 1999
Two EarthGov representatives arrive to improve the ship's image when an alien being spread through people by touch arrives on the ship.
9. Racing the Night
First Aired August 03, 1999
The crew visits a planet once home to a civilization wiped out by the same plague as the one the Drakh left on Earth. They are surprised to find all the buildings still perfectly intact, but then motion is detected in the ancient city.
10. The Memory of War
First Aired August 10, 1999
The crew visits a planet where the inhabitants were wiped out in a war 100 years ago.
11. The Needs of Earth
First Aired August 17, 1999
The crew rescue an individual whom the Rangers claim possesses all the important information of his race on six data crystals.
12. Visitors From Down the Street
First Aired August 24, 1999
Excalibur detects a distress call and picks up a saucer-shaped life pod. Although never having seen the race before, the two individuals inside claim humans have corrupted their government and ruined lives on their homeworld. This episode can for many reasons be viewed as a satirical appreciation of the X-Files franchise, but from an inverted alien Mulder and Scully perspective including the basic character and costume designs.
13. Each Night I Dream of Home
First Aired August 31, 1999
A Warlock-class destroyer drops off two passengers onto Excalibur with instructions to take them to Earth. On the way, the crew take a risk by stopping to rescue a Starfury and Elizabeth Lochley. On arrival at Earth, they are greeted from a lifepod isolated in the medbay by Doctor Stephen Franklin.