Zack Allan
| Zack Allan | |
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| First appearance | Spider in the Web |
| Last appearance | Sleeping in Light (chronological), Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (airdate) |
| Portrayed by | Jeff Conaway |
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| Species | Human |
| Home planet | Earth |
| Affiliated with | Babylon 5 Security |
Zack Allan is a character in the fictional universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5, played by Jeff Conaway. He regularly appeared in the show from season 2 onwards. During the second and third seasons of the series he was a security officer on the Babylon 5 station. In the fourth season, he was promoted to become Babylon 5's Security Chief and he retains that position through to the end of the series' fifth and final season.
Zack Allan's background is never explained in detail on the series. He met and worked with Babylon 5 Security Chief Michael Garibaldi in the decade between the Earth-Minbari War and the opening of the Babylon 5 space station. At one point in the series Allan thanks Garibaldi for "taking a chance" on him despite his previous personal problems.
As it turns out, his personal problems had consisted of apparent drug and alcohol abuse, which had led him to be fired from several previous jobs. However, by the time Zack is hired to work for Babylon 5 Security he had overcome his addictions and he proves to be an excellent security officer. (Garibaldi himself had been granted a similar break, despite an addiction problem of his own, by his commander and friend Jeffrey Sinclair).
Over the course of the series Zack is revealed to be honest, trustworthy, reliable, a tough and skilled fighter in hand-to-hand combat, a trained Starfury pilot, and rather unlucky in romantic situations (striking out rather quickly, if inadvertently, with Lyta Alexander in the made-for-TV movie Thirdspace). He is also depicted as being not particularly intellectual, "book-smart" or quick-witted, but rather "streetwise" and shrewd in sizing up other humans or aliens. He is also apparently at least nominally religious, stating a belief in heaven.
He also has an optimistic and easygoing personality that others usually find appealing, and he does not appear to stay depressed or downbeat for very long. He is quite modest, and this often works to his advantage when compared to the other, often more egotistical and aggressive, characters on the series. Zack's voice also gets raspier as the series progresses. In the episodes Voices of Authority and Atonement, Zack reveals his ongoing irritation with finding uniforms that fit properly.
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