Babylon5

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It was the dawn of the third age of mankind. Ten years after the Earth Minbari war. The Babylon project was dream giving form. It's goal to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call. Home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanders. Humans and aliens wrap in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.

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Just finished the series, loved it (bilder.fernsehserien.de)

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I really appreciated the performance of Jon Stewart as President Sheridan.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I went into B5 thinking it would be a cheap copy of Deep Space Nine.

Well, it certainly was a very cheap production, I was able to produce better-looking graphics on a 133MHz Pentium.

But the story grabbed me and I ended the series with genuine sadness that it was over. Babylon 5 is the real deal.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago

They rendered the CGI using Lightwave on Amiga 4000s because the Video Toaster peripheral did chromakey bluescreen effects really cost-effectively, so any Pentium chip was comfortably an entire processor generation more powerful than that.