1. The Gathering imdb.com
Sinclair: Confronts a terrorist who is disarmed and banned from entering B5 in the future. Meets Delenn, says they both may be prosecuted for exchanging secret info, puzzled by her response. Sees his old wife or girlfriend. Orders Doc to try saving Kosh (in violation of Vorlorn ban) and investigation of Kosh assassination attempt, accused of being the murderer.Garibaldi: He is not particularly trusted on Earth, but trusted by Sinclair. Starts Kosh investigation from questioning Londo.
Delenn: Meets Sinclair: says she like Japanese gardens, gives him secret info about Vorlons. Rejects an idea of alliance with Narns and punishes G'Kar for disrespectful reference to Grey Council.
Kosh: Arrives at B5 ahead of schedule, is poisoned on arrival. Vorlons reject permission to open his suite even for medical help.
Lyta: Welcomed by Sinclair personally. Monitors commercial negotiations as telepath, checks whether the partner lies. Frustrated by non-friendly attitude of the scanned person. Talked into scanning Kosh, this is a forbidden unauthorized scan. Says how proud she is to be P5 telepath. Finds out the location of the poison and that Sinclair poisoned Kosh.
Doc: Does his best to save Kosh, together with #1 talks Lyta into unauthorized scanning of Kosh.
Londo: Enjoys gambling. Cooperates with Garibaldi, answers his questions. Talks in length about Centauri decline from greatness.
G'Kar: Confronts #1 on minor customs issue. Accuses Londo of Kosh assassination. Suggests Delenn an alliance, bashes her and Grey Council when refused.
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Sinclair: Tried by the ambassadors council and sentenced to be deported to Vorlons. Seems stressed, throws his medal away. Consoled by his girlfriend. In the last moment finds true assassin with the help of Garibaldi. This appears to be a Minbari who says: you have a hole in your mind. Vorlon fleet is ready to take him by force, but they leave when the truth is revealed. Meets Delenn who gives him info on the assassin - rogue warrior. Presents G'Kar with evidence that Narns helped the assassin to get to B5. After G'Kar denies any responsibility, tells him he is poisoned by nano-robotic poison (which is not true), so if he tries to endanger the station, these nano-robots will be activated. Finally, welcomes Kosh to B5.
G'Kar: Frames Sinclair: arranges his extradiction to Vorlons, makes Londo to vote for this.
Delenn: Absentee in voting, Sinclair's girlfriend blames her for this. Gives Sinclair info on Minbari assassin, refuses to answer his question what happened with him during his Earth-Minbari battle blackout.
Kosh: Gets better. Vorlon fleet arrives to arrest Sinclair, but they leave in the last moment when true assassin is found.
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2. In The Beginning imdb.com
Londo: He is an old Centauri Emperor telling Centauri kids the whole story. They are in the royal palace in the center of destroyed Centauri Prime. Londo vaguely admits his fault for the devastation.As an Ambassador to Earth, he warns Humans not to interfere with Minbari, but they don't listen, the result is Earth-Minbari war.
Later, he denies arms shipment to desperate Earth to avoid Minbari retribution.
Then he orders the attack on Earth-Minbari negotiations site because of the Narn involvement. So, this chance to stop Earth-Minbari war earlier is lost.
Having told the story, Londo says he wants to see unspecified prisoners and watches the Sheridan and Delenn tape. This suggests this story belongs to alternative future envisioned by Sheridan in War Without End 2 and prevented from happening in Z'Ha'Dum.
G'Kar: Sells Centauri arms to Earth. He is not concerned with Minbari reaction. Then he helps Earth to contact Minbari and goes to negotiations together with Sheridan.
Sheridan: He is an Earth Officer. Rejects the offer to participate in Minbari first contact mission because he believes it is likely to be a trouble. In fact, this mission will be a disaster! Participates in the Earth-Minbari war.
When his ship is damaged, Sheridan uses it as a bait to destroy the Minabari cruiser - the only Earth victory during the war.
Participates in failed Earth-Minbari negotiations together with Franklin and G'Kar. Taken prisoner by Minbari, released by Delenn because he knows the parole told by a dying Minbari peacemaker.
Franklin: Earth doctor who has some info on Minbari biology. He is jailed for refusal provide this info for bioweapons research. Set free to participate in Earth-Minbari negotiations.
Susan Ivanova: Sister of Earth officer who leaves for Earth-Minbari war and gets killed.
Delenn: She just enters the Grey Council. Advocates an expedition to Z'ha'dum to find out whether Shadows have returned and The Prophecy is being fulfilled.
This mission is intercepted by Earth ships and miscommunication results in unprovoked Earth attack. Delenn's mentor Dukhat is killed and she votes for jihad against humans.
By Kosh's advise, Delenn initiates negotiation mission with Earth Force. It fails, but she saves Sheridan.
As a last resort, Delenn orders some Human to be captured for investigation. That happens to be Sinclair who is found to have Minbari soul - that of Valen. Minbari surrender and the war is stopped - with actual reason kept completely secret.
Kosh: Secret Vorlon handler for Minbari. First works with Dukhat then, after his death, with Delenn. Both trust him completely. Suggests that Humans are to be spared because they are key to fight the Shadows. Gives no advise how concretely to stop the Earth-Minbari war.
3. Thirdspace imdb.com
Sheridan: Investigates huge alien artifact which approaches B5 shortly after the Shadow war. Hires independent Earth Archeologist Team for this purpose. Finds out that consultants are not cooperative or incompetent: artifact is apparently connected with the Vorlons, but they do not take this connection seriously. Warned by Ivanova, asks telepath Lyta for advise. Using Lyta's info, destroys the artifact.Delenn: Instantly realizes Sheridan wants to be the first to take advantage of the artifact - if possible.
Ivanova: Participates in anti-raider operation - as bait. Has nightmare connection with artifact: sees strange landscape and meets Vir there. Vir apparently enjoys the situation, but she is killed by some monster. Awakens in horror and instantly warns Sheridan there is a problem with this artifact. She is out of artifact's control.
Vir: For him, dream contact with the artifact is a very pleasant sexual experience, he is actually attracted by it. Sees Ivanova in this dream as well. Later, he is among affected by artifact-induced violence outbreak on B5.
Lyta: She is pretty much deranged all the time. When Sheridan and Delenn contact her, her Vorlon part tells the artifact story. This appears to be a gate to some 3rd space (after normal and hyperspace) discovered by Vorlons. Unfortunately, this space is populated by extremely dangerous aliens, so this discovery was one of tragic Vorlon mistakes. She contacts Sheridan by Vorlon beams and teaches him how to destroy the artifact.
Archeologist: Generic Sci-Fi enthusiastic scientist. Dreams about revolutionary discovery and Nobel prize, but falls under the artifact influence and switches it on with potentially disastrous consequences
4. The River of Souls imdb.com
Capt. Lochley: Has some troubles with holo-brothel: clients have complaints, this "entertainment center" is not particularly legal on B5, owner hires a lawyer to sue B5.Negotiates with Soul Hunters with the help of Garibaldi. Experiences clinical death and enters the Soul Vessel. There one soul takes form of Dr.Franklin and tells her some souls are detained by mistake, they are enraged and can destroy the station if not set free.
Finds out that refugee souls interfere with holo-brothel and take form of holo-hookers (one of them looks like herself - capt. Lochley)
What is worse, refugee souls can mess with station reactor and explode it.
Settles the Soul revolt with Junior Soul Hunter.
Garibaldi: He is a major corporation owner on Mars now. Visits B5 to see one of his employee scientists and finds him obsessed with the Soul Vessel. Advises Lochley on Soul Hunters. Fires the deranged scientist and returns to Mars.
Scientist: He is employed by Garibaldi. Finds the Soul vessel and believes it can be very useful. Falls under the control of captive souls and causes lots of trouble.
Soul Hunters: Arrive at B5 in search of missing Soul Vessel and demand its return - or they will attack the station. Junior Soul Hunter negotiates with Lochley, gets convinced that some souls are detained (saved) by mistake. He commits suicide to enter the Soul Vessel and help Soul Hunters to communicate with Souls. This settles the Soul revolt.
Souls: Saved (caught) by Soul Hunters immediately after death and kept in a special Soul Vessel. Some of them are supposedly advanced beings that were caught while freeing from their bodies, they get enraged by captivity. Some souls escape from the vessel and start disrupting B5.
5. A CALL TO ARMS imdb.com
Sheridan: Inspects the new ship Excalibur with Garibaldi, finds some minor comic problems. Has a strange dream about the Drakh threat. Starts acting according to the dream, rushes to B5. Uses drawings to find people he saw in the dream, finds The Thief and Earth Captain this way. Abandons Garibaldi, acquires Excalibur and rushes to The Destroyed Planet to find evidence for new Drakh attack using Shadows Planet Killer. Confronts Drakh fleet and finds out it is going to attack Earth. Contacts EarthGov through Lochley (he does not have direct contact with Luchenko?) to warn about new threat. Rushes to Earth and destroys the Planet killer using Thief's advise. Unfortunately, Earth's atmosphere is poisoned by Drakh bio-weapon. Declares Search for the cure.Garibaldi: First accompanies Sheridan, then just tries to follow him. Unlike the chief, he has no particular role in this effort...
Technomage: Arranges a dream to communicate with Sheridan, Earth Captain, Thief and a Drazi to warn them about the Drakh threat. Other Technomages object any interference
6. The Legend of the Rangers imdb.com
David Martel: Young Ranger captain. He has a problem with his last mission, almost expelled from Rangers for this, but spared thanks to G'Kar's intervention and support of his crew.David is given a command of the Liandra, small old ship with cursed history, its old crew was lost mysteriously. Their mission is to support the Valen which transports a diplomatic mission.
They are not really sure the ship is ready after the repairs, but, luckily, they are able to depart.
The Valen is destroyed by enemy ships, the Liandra sustains damage and takes the passengers.
They are able to hide in a comet for a while, then a mole is tracked down. His communication device is sent in a booby-trapped escape pod to the enemy ship which is destroyed.
The mole says he serves the Hand - ancient race more powerful than the Shadows.
Finally, they approach a jump gate which is blocked by the enemy. David satisfies their demand to give away the mole - but plays same trick again: just the booby-trapped decoy is deployed, so another enemy ship is destroyed and the Liandra is safe!
G'Kar. Saves David to avoid expulsion from the force. Gives some advise.
Dulann. First Officer, Minbari. David's close friend. Half-telepath, senses the old crew. Seriously hurt during the mission.
Sarah Cantrell. Weapons specialist. David's close friend. Demonstrates space battle control a la martial arts.
Na'Feel. Narn Engineer. Does her best to make ship running.
Firell. Minbari healer. Takes care of Dulann.
Malcolm Bridges. Covert operations specialist. Takes form of G'Kar to treat unhappy diplomats and mole's form to deceive the enemy.