Babylon 5: Thirdspace (1998) (TV)

Director:

Jesús Salvador Treviño

Writers:

J. Michael Straczynski (creator)
J. Michael Straczynski (written by)

Release Date:

19 July 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

The crew of Babylon 5 discover an ancient artifact floating in hyperspace.

Plot Keywords:

Space | Telepathy | Alien Technology | Spacecraft | Alien Invasion

Cast

Bruce Boxleitner	...	Capt. John J. Sheridan
Claudia Christian	...	Susan Ivanova
Mira Furlan	...	Delenn
Richard Biggs	...	Stephen Franklin, M.D.
Jeff Conaway	...	Zack Allen
Stephen Furst	...	Vir Cotto
Patricia Tallman	...	Lyta Alexander
Clyde Kusatsu	...	Bill Morishi
Shari Belafonte	...	Elizabeth Trent
William Sanderson	...	Deuce
Kip King	...	Leo
Floyd Levine	...	Alex
Jeffrey Anderson-Gunter	...	Merchant
Joshua Cox	...	Lt. David Corwin
Judson Mills	...	Delta Seven

Also Known As:

Babylon 5: Guardians (USA) (working title)
Thirdspace (USA) (short title)

Runtime:

94 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Netherlands:6 | Germany:12 | Finland:S | Iceland:12

Company:

Babylonian Productions

Trivia:

The artifact was designed in cooperation with Wayne Douglas Barlow, author of Barlow's Guide to Extraterrestrials.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Vir Cotto was throttling Zack Allen and the telepathic spell is broken you can see that Stephen Furst forgot to remove his wrist watch. The watch is not present on his left wrist when the fight begins, but is present at the end of the fight.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Sheridan: [voiceover] It was the middle of the Earth year 2261. The year between wars and the beginning of a new age. The Shadow war was over, but there was still a darkness waiting for us at home...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Dead Space (2008) (VG)

Dull. A disgrace to the standards we come to expect from the Babylon 5 series

This is an awful movie. It hurts even more because I love everything else about Babylon 5... except this !

It would have survived if it were a 40 minute tv episode. It's way too long and stretched out to movie length as it is, leaves us with a shallow, dull story that you can't wait to finish.