A Voice in the Wilderness (Babylon 5)
| "A Voice in the Wilderness" | |
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| Babylon 5 episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 18 & 19 |
| Directed by | Janet Greek |
| Written by | J. Michael Straczynski |
| Production code | 120 & 121 |
| Original air date | 27 July 1994 (part 1) 3 August 1994 (part 2) |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Louis Turenne (Draal) |
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Louis Turenne (Draal)
Curt Lowens (Varn)
Ron Canada (Captain Ellis Pierce, part 2 only)
Denise Gentile (Lise Hampton, part 2 only)
Aki Aleong (Senator Hidoshi, part 2 only)
"A Voice in the Wilderness" is a two-part episode from the first season (episodes 18 and 19) of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
A Minbari comes aboard Babylon 5 and asks a guard to take him to Ambassador Delenn.
Lt. Commander Ivanova tells Commander Sinclair that there has been some seismic activity on Epsilon III, the planet above which the station orbits. She has authorized a geological team to take a shuttle down to the planet and to investigate the seismic eruptions. As the ship nears the atmosphere, a powerful beam from the planet shoots out towards space. The beam knocks out a considerable amount of power from the shuttle and blanks out the controls on the station. The shuttle has fallen towards the planet, but has enough power to maintain a low orbit, not enough to escape. Ivanova sends two Starfuries to tow the shuttle back to the station.
In the conference room, Sinclair is mediating negotiations between Ambassadors Delenn and Mollari when the incident with the shuttle occurs. Ivanova tells him that everyone is all right, but shaken. When the geological team returns to Babylon 5, Ivanova meets with the head researcher, Dr. Tasaki, to find out what happened earlier. The doctor believes that the planet is uninhabited, which was the earlier belief, and that the seismic eruptions must have triggered an automatic defense mechanism.
Ivanova informs Sinclair that the signal coming from the planet has diminished a little. It's a series of regular signals repeated at specific intervals, but they are unable to decipher them. Sinclair thinks that Tasaki's team should have a means to make sure that the team gets down to the planet safely.
Ivanova asks the Commander if he had heard anything from the Mars Colony. Usually, there's something about the colony in the EarthForce status reports, but the latest report does not mention anything, which usually means that they are conducting military exercises, but they would have known about that. Sinclair believes the lack of a report is nothing but "a glitch in the system."
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