![]() Dark and claustrophobic, this new series is set in the year 2258 aboard a five-mile-long, 2.5 million-ton space station, the Babylon 5, which was conceived, a narrator tells us, as ”a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully.” Babylon 5 is basically the barroom segment of the first Star Wars movie expanded to a weekly hour, with scene after scene of nuttily costumed actors portraying extraterrestrial members of clans such as the Minbaris, the Narns, and the Vorlons. ![]() ![]() Rarely has a television series been more aptly named: babylon 5 (Wednesdays, syndicated, 8-9 p.m.) is science fiction as nonstop babble, a riot of miscommunication between intergalactic cultures and creatures, some of them earthlings.
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