War Without End: Part Two (20 May 1996)

The mission to send Babylon 4 where it's needed continues. Sinclair's destiny is revealed. Sheridan sees what will happen to Centauri Prime in the future. Zathras explains who the "One" is.

Director:

Michael Vejar

Writers:

J. Michael Straczynski (creator), J. Michael Straczynski

Stars:

Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Bruce Boxleitner	...	Capt. John Sheridan
Claudia Christian	...	Cmdr. Susan Ivanova
Jerry Doyle	...	Michael Garibaldi
Mira Furlan	...	Delenn
Richard Biggs	...	Dr. Stephen Franklin (credit only)
Bill Mumy	...	Lennier
Jason Carter	...	Marcus Cole
Stephen Furst	...	Vir Cotto
Jeff Conaway	...	Zack Allen (credit only)
Peter Jurasik	...	Londo Mollari
Andreas Katsulas	...	G'Kar
Tim Choate	...	Zathras
Kent Broadhurst	...	Major Krantz
'Cousin Brucie' Morrow	...	B4 First Officer (as Bruce Morrow)
Michael O'Hare	...	Ambassador Jeffrey Sinclair / Valen

Storyline

The mission to send Babylon 4 where it's needed continues. Sinclair's destiny is revealed. Sheridan sees what will happen to Centauri Prime in the future. Zathras explains who the "One" is.

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Plot Keywords:

23rd century

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

20 May 1996 (USA)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The blue spacesuit was on board the Discovery in 2001: A Space Odyssey and in 2010, but never used there.

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Goofs

Some inconsistencies with the version of these events presented in "Babylon Squared": - In B2, Major Krantz says that Zathras suddenly appeared in the middle of a conference room after a time-flash. Here, Zathras is caught by security guards while rummaging through a box of equipment. - The B2 scene where Delenn puts her hand on Sinclair's shoulder and says that they have to go, shows her wearing a red robe. In this episode, she is wearing dark brown. Also, the computer voice announcing "Present time atmosphere now breathable" does not appear in WWE's version of this scene. - When 'The One', clearly wounded, appears in B2, there are grunts of pain coming from its suit - in a male voice. In WWE, we learn that this is Delenn, and so we should have heard a female voice. - In B2, Babylon 4's motion through time was stopped by The One so that the station's original crew could evacuate. However, in WWE, the station stops travelling when Major Krantz powers up the fusion reactor. Also, the idea of faking a reactor accident to get the crew away was Ivanova's, not any of the versions of The One.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Commander Jeffrey David Sinclair: Previously on Babylon 5:
Rathenn: It has waited, locked and sealed, for over 900 years. How did he know that you would be here? How did he know your name?
Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: [over radio] They're killing us. Can anyone hear me. They're killing us!
Delenn: At this moment, the Great Machine is using all its power to enlarge the temporal rift in Sector 14. We must take Babylon 4 one thousand years into the past and help defeat the Shadows in the last war...

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Connections

Featured in Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998)

User Reviews

This is where the show crosses the line.

Up until this and the previous episode, it could be argued the Babylon 5 was just another television show. Sure, it had some long arcs and better than average writing, but prior to these two episodes it remained within the pantheon of the ordinary. Here, it vaults into an entirely different realm where few other shows have gone. It's like that brilliant moment at the end of "Being There" where suddenly everything that seemed perhaps somewhat unrelated or unfocused snaps into clarity, and it is the mark of an excellent script when this happens. These two episodes become a lens by which the rest of the series is sharpened, honed, and eventually produces one of the greatest stories told in the medium and perhaps in the top twenty-five of all mediums.