An orbiting space station named Babylon 5 is a meeting place for races from all over the universe, a buffer zone for those in conflict and a general trading station. Orbiting the planet Epsilon Eridani III Babylon 5 is the last remaining station left and will become the only hope for peace in the universe.

Starting in 1994, Babylon 5 was a sci fi show that had a plan, a 5 year arc with a main story with a lot of smaller stories keeping the action going. It had several different races that mixed with the humans, Narn, Minbari and Centauri being the main ones. While each race were biped and human shaped, each were distinctive. The Narn were lizard like, the Minbari had a head piece that looked like bone, and the Centauri had very strange hair.

Babylon 5 was notable for its effects, which were created to begin with three Amiga computers. The computer graphics were very distinctive as were the designs of ships and stations. The battle scenes were probably some of the best seen on television.

The music for the series was created by Christopher Franke from Tangerine Dream fame. Again, it was distinctive and instantly recognizable.

Babylon 5 had a large number of main cast members which gave the show a feel similar to Hill Street Blues, with several different stories weaving around each other with different shows hilighting different characters and explaining characters histories and back stories.

Among the actors who featured in the show were Stephen Furst (Flounder from Animal House), Bill Mumy (Will Robinson from Lost In Space), and Bruce Boxleitner (TRON, Bring Em Back Alive, Scarecrow and Mrs King).

Babylon 5 was different to any show in the past because rather than a week to week series, it had a longer aim, a 5 year aim. The combination of this with state of the art (at the time) graphics and ships, and  solid plots as well as the interaction between the characters made Babylon 5 very watchable and addictive.