
Publication Date: October 20, 2010
Pages: 393
Format: forthcoming in ebook and hardcover
NOTE TO COLLECTORS
As you can see, the White Edition cover was designed to complement the Asked & Answered series, the Echoes series and the Crusade books. (The contents of the Black Edition and the White Edition are identical. Only the covers are different.)
DETAILS ABOUT "ARTIFACTS FROM BEYOND THE RIM"
JMS's Handwritten Notes for Season One
See for yourself the ideas JMS originally planned to include...at the moment he thought of them. We include scans of his original notes along with a transcription of what he wrote. (If you've ever seen JMS's handwriting, you'll understand what a bonus this is.) These season one notes include --
- The two-part episode that was scrapped in favor of "A Voice in the Wilderness," which includes an Earth Alliance ambassador being stationed on B5
- The plot for the unproduced episode "Blockade"
- The original notes for "Quality of Mercy," which in his notes was called "The Resurrectionist"
Story Editor Larry DiTillio's Character Profiles
Written as a personal reference to aid him while developing scripts, these dossiers contain fascinating bits of data such as --
- Jeffrey Sinclair's favorite composer
- What John Sheridan's father was named before he became David
- What Susan Ivanova liked to collect
- The name of Michael Garibaldi's brother
- What celestial body was the birthplace of Dr. Stephen Franklin
- Talia Winters's favorite movie
- How Vir Cotto's mother's maiden name linked him to a powerful Centauri family
- How Na'Toth's religious beliefs differed from G'Kar's
- Which ancient Earth culture interested G'Kar
- And a wealth of hitherto unknown facts about Delenn, Lennier, Keffer and Londo Mollari...and nothing at all about Kosh
- Bonus: the dossier DiTillio wrote about the teenaged telepath Alisa Beldon, who appeared in "Legacies"
"Some Basic Thoughts on Telepaths"
Another "lost" document from story editor Larry DiTillio. Again, written for his personal reference, this is a list of twenty-six telepathic abilities in the Babylon 5 universe. Included in the listing are abilities such as --
- The Six Types of Mind Scan
- Thermal Manipulation
- The "Chaos" Maneuver
- The Empathy Scan
The JMS Interview Conducted Two Months Before the Pilot Aired
Highlights include --
- The circumstances in which he'd want someone to hit him over the head with a baseball bat
- How he'd convince an SF fan to watch Babylon 5
- What it means to give a Babylon 5 writer a "blind assignment"
- How JMS wanted Babylon 5 to be like Hill Street Blues
- Which actor had the most difficult time adapting to prosthetic makeup
- JMS's rules for designing the aliens
- The real reason he wanted diversity in the cast
"The Strange Exhibition of Sebastian D'Arque"
This was to be a season two episode featuring Sebastian, the character who later appeared in "Comes the Inquisitor." You will get to see not one, but two outlines for the aborted episode. They explain how JMS planned to integrate an ISN reporter into the series's regular cast, as well as how Sebastian was originally envisioned -- a very different take from what he would eventually become.
The JMS Interview From the Week "The Coming of Shadows" Aired
In this detailed interview JMS reveals --
- Which season two episodes he liked
- What went wrong with the episodes that fell short of his approval
- Which guest characters he wanted to use again (and which he didn't)
- His thoughts on sex and SF
- The origins behind the infamous "fasten-zip" conversation from "Babylon Squared"
- Why he didn't regret losing Catherine Sakai when he wrote out Sinclair
- The amazing thing Michael O'Hare did while filming "Parliament of Dreams"
- Why sacrifice is a recurring theme in season two
- In which episode he thought he did too much "preaching"
- Why he was glad Deathwalker was female
- Why "Believers" did not violate JMS's "no kids" rule
- Why "Survivors" required so much rewriting
- The reason "Grail" went off the rails, and why it was aired later in the season
- The complete background on why "Eyes" was written
- Which actor's performance he thought could have been better
- The storyline that divided the fans
Never-Before-Seen Concept Art by Peter Ledger
Six pieces total --
- Ledger's "simplified" English alphabet
- A "really alien" alphabet
- Four posters intended to decorate the walls of Babylon 5, including one promoting the "Church of the Beatles"
J. Michael Straczynski's Journal
Hour-by-hour details of how the executive producer/creator/writer spent four days during the production of his TV series during late season two. You get to read his innermost thoughts on --
- "The Quality of Mercy" and his definition of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
- What Warner Bros. noticed (and what they didn't)
- Getting better time slots
- What Doug Netter really does
- The importance of lunch (especially on Fridays)
- What a spotting session is
- The crew member that is "completely nuts"
- The necessary evil he agrees to that makes him think he's a "six-foot five-inch duck"
- The conversation with cast members about "Narn butt"
- The thing most people don't know about how television is made
- Why JMS stays up most nights until 4 a.m.
"The Mysteries of Babylon 5" Proposal
Written between season two and season three, this proposal outlined a catch-up special designed to familiarize new viewers with the first two seasons of the show. Though the special was not to be, you get to read what could have been.
"Approaching Babylon"
The complete, unedited, uncensored text of J. Michael Straczynski's eighteen-page article written for the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. In this candid piece, JMS details his childhood love of science fiction, what inspired him to create Babylon 5 and what his hopes and fears were for the series as it entered its third season.
The Mind-Wipe Story Notes
See for yourself "Passing Through Gethsemane's" tortuous journey from script to screen. Yes, this is the episode that nearly had be to aborted after a fan posted a similar storyline in an online forum. In addition to the notarized release from the fan allowing JMS to resume work on the episode, we've also included two gems: the scratch paper featuring a very different plot and additional notes for a version of the story featuring Alfred Bester.
The JMS Interview During Early Season Three
This brief one-on-one tells us --
- What he considers the most "intense" episode to date
- The real-life reason behind Vir becoming the Centauri envoy to Minbar
- The season three episodes he considers "self-contained" that don't move the arc story forward
- Why he planned to write all the scripts for the season
- The contingency plan if he ever got sick while writing every episode
- The four words he uses to describe season three
The Patches of Babylon 5
For the first time ever, detailed scans of an array of uniform patches -- thirty-one to be exact -- that were seen on the costumes in Babylon 5. Each one is identified along with where they were shown on each uniform. The inventory includes most Earthforce insignia (Command, Security, Medical, Engineering, Mars Command, etc.), as well as patches from the Earth/Minbari War, Earthforce vessels, Starfury squadrons stationed on Babylon 5 and the EAS Excalibur.
TNT's "Babylon 5 Lives" Proposal
This proposal, structured as a memo, outlines three concepts --
- A Babylon 5 prequel set during the Earth/Minbari War
- A re-edited version of the pilot movie that would form the basis for Babylon 5's TNT premiere
- A way to reinvigorate each cycle of re-runs on the network. Includes several intriguing Straczynskian hypotheses.
"Ancillary B5 Material"
This is a page of notes that details the plot of yet another unmade Babylon 5 TV movie titled "The Trial of John Sheridan." You'll also learn the medium in which JMS originally planned to tell the story of Sheridan's death. (Hint: it wasn't an episode of the TV series.)
The JMS Interview During Early Season Four
A concise interview in which J. Michael Straczynski discusses --
- How Stephen Furst became a director on the show
- JMS's strategy to compensate for PTEN's peculiar predilection for airing the season finale immediately before the following season's premiere
- Why JMS wrote all twenty-two season four episodes after nearly killing himself by writing all of season three
The TNT Promo Speeches
Remember those fifteen- to sixty-second spots that aired on TNT around the clock leading up to Babylon 5's January 1998 premiere? You know, the ones that had Ivanova and G'Kar speaking directly to the audience and which ended with, "And that's why I am on Babylon 5." Guess what? There were actually four total. The ones featuring Sheridan and Londo were never used. For the first time you'll get to read the ones that didn't air and the two that did.
The Psi Corps Manual Proposal
The premise of this proposal, written for Del Rey books, was that this would resemble an actual manual (thin, bound in a soft cover similar to those used for accountant's journals) and that it had been "smuggled out of the Psi Corps." We don't want to spoil the contents, but we will tell you that this proposal is written so vividly you'll probably be able to picture the unwritten final product. And that is what makes it so much fun.
The JMS Interview After Directing "Sleeping in Light"
Lots of insights in this one such as --
- Which season four episode might have been a two-part story
- How he kept Kosh and the other First Ones mysterious
- His thoughts on how he got around people thinking they knew what the ending was
- Why he wanted to direct this episode, his directing debut
- Why none of the actors were moving when they started shooting the first scene
- Why he appeared in the finale, though he said previously he would never do so
- The reason he wasn't surprised how the "Sleeping in Light" scenes turned out
- The scenes he was most pleased with
- Why he instructed Bruce not to touch Mira until the very end of their farewell scene
Revised Season Five Storylines & Index Cards
As many fans will recall from previously released books, J. Michael Straczynski's notes for B5's fifth season were discarded by a hotel housekeeping staff, despite the fact that they were sitting on a table, not in a trash bin. After the loss of these vital notes, along with the departure of Claudia Christian from the series, JMS began revising the season five storylines. Copies of these handwritten notes are reprinted here. You'll see --
- How JMS structured the fifth season, starting with five pages of character-specific notes
- How he developed those notes into individual episodes
- The plots that were abandoned:
- The three-part story in which an amnesiac stirred up trouble for President Sheridan
- The two-part plot in which a central character was kidnapped
- An episode featuring Londo Mollari's replacement as the Centauri ambassador to Babylon 5 (it wasn't originally Vir)
Andreas Katsulas's Last Interview During Babylon 5's Production
Conducted on 22 Jan 1998 by journalist Joe Nazarro, Katsulas shares --
- What he believes JMS was really trying communicate by G'Kar becoming a religious icon
- What he enjoyed about season five and why he calls it the G'Kar crop
- Why he wasn't bothered by the fact that we was featured less in season four
- How long it took for Tracy Scoggins to settle into the cast
- His favorite aspect of G'Kar and what type of scripts are his favorite
- The difficulties of adding a spiritual element to G'Kar
- His thoughts on G'Kar becoming Londo's bodyguard
- Why he would have been open to starring in a cowboy-based series
- What he thinks when he sees fans wearing G'Kar t-shirts
The River of Souls Treatment
While most -- but not all -- of what was written made it to the screen, the footnote may haunt you for the rest of your lives.
Babylon 5: The Motion Picture
This is one of our favorite finds. In 1998 JMS attempted to bring Babylon 5 to the big screen with the original characters. (Note: this is neither the one about the Telepath War that JMS started to develop in 1996 nor The Memory of Shadows from 2004.) What makes this premise extra special is how true it remains to the series by presenting a story in keeping with the show's philosophical and dramatic underpinnings, though writ on an epic canvas.
BUT WAIT...THERE'S MORE
Yes, there are more goodies that aren't even listed, including another "last interview," several more with JMS conducted in real-time while the show was in production and a few more goodies. We decided to save a few surprises so that you can have the same "wow" response that we got when we uncovered these artifacts.
"Where Did All this Stuff Come From?"
by B5 Books, Captain Jaclyn
Internally the B5 Book Team originally referred to this book as "Lost & Found," because that title basically tells the story of how it came to be.
That said, the details are a bit embarrassing and go back to when we were putting together Volume 15 more than two years ago.
Knowing Volume 15 was the last volume, the last chance ever for any B5 material to be included in the definitive black script book series, we turned our offices inside out to make sure it was complete. Every scrap of paper was revisited, the contents of every drawer dumped out, each three-ring binder exhumed, opened and re-checked.
"Yes," I personally assured J. Michael Straczynski. "That's everything!"
Cut to Summer 2010. It's now more than two years since the release of the final volume, and the entire B5 books team has pilgrimaged back to the remote storage facility to retrieve the archives needed for the Crusade book series.
By now you've figured out what happened. Buried under boxes of writer-supply catalogs and Super-VHS VCRs were two boxes labeled "file folders."
Yes, there were file folders inside, but inside those folders were a complete Babylon 5 theatrical film treatment, JMS's notes for Babylon 5 episodes that were never made, a proposal describing a Psi Corps manual to be written by Straczynski himself...and a ton more -- a book's worth of treasures, each one more fascinating than the next, as you can see in the details listed above.
Knowing we had only a sliver of time before our five-year anniversary, and wanting to put together something really special, we worked around the clock compiling this volume.
Since the black-series books hit the cusp of our allowed page counts, even if we had known about this material years ago, it probably would have had to become a separate volume.
Even though it's a little late to the party, you can think of this volume as Volume 14B.
THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE INVENTORY OF STUFF. HOW COULD JMS NOT REMEMBER THESE ARTIFACTS EXISTED WHEN YOU COMPILED VOLUME 15?
Actually, we wondered the same thing, but then J. Michael Straczynski reminded us that during production of Babylon 5 he had a policy of destroying his notes and memos, especially those that showed his process. As many of you know, he prefers fans see only the finished product. He rightfully assumed that these treasures had been long trashed, shredded or used as kindling. Apparently, one of his assistants thought he might like these someday and boxed them up (but forgot to label them. Ahem). Thank you, rogue production assistant, wherever you are.
Index
7 Faces of Dr. Lao, The – page 29
7 Network (Australian television network) – page 141
2001: A Space Odyssey (film) – page 104
2010: The Year We Make Contact (film) – page 104
Abbott, Bud – page 319
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences – page 149
"Acts of Sacrifice" – pages 75, 126
Adams, Enid-Raye – page 387
ADR (Additional Dialogue Recording) – page 88
AIDS – pages 131-132
Alexander, Lyta – pages 16, 77, 190, 311, 323-324, 384, 392
Alexander, Wayne – page 148
alien healing device – pages 104, 108
"All Alone in the Night" – pages 90, 109, 125
Allan, Zack – page 243
Amis – page 111
"And Now for a Word" – pages 91, 127-128, 145, 226
"And the Sky, Full of Stars" – pages 79, 88-89, 90, 95, 108-109
Ankises, Theo (Brother) – page 188
Any Day Now (TV series) – pages 378-379
Aristophanes – pages 22, 28
Asimov, Isaac – pages 160, 177
"Atonement" – page 226
Australia – pages 141, 165
Ba-bear-lon 5 teddy bear – page 129
Babylon (ancient city) – page 173
Babylon 4 – page 103
Babylon 5 (Station) – pages 12, 128, 384
Babylon 5 Emporium – page 90
Babylon File, The (book) – page 157
"Babylon Squared" – pages 95, 103-104, 106
Babylonian Productions – page 144
Battle of Gorash 7 – page 132
Battle of the Line – page 107
Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series) – pages 12, 15
Baywatch (TV series) – page 165
B.C. Film Commission – page 383
Beaumont, Charles – page 160
Beauty and the Beast (1987 TV series) – page 221
Beavis and Butt-Head (TV series) – page 28
Beldon, Alisa – pages 43-44
"Believers" – pages 77, 90-91, 97, 131, 371-372, 375
Belker, Mick (Hill Street Blues) – page 15
Ben Zayn, Ari – page 99
Berlin, Germany – page 27
Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra – page 27
Bester, Alfred (Babylon 5 character) – pages 112, 179, 188
Biggs, Richard – pages 125, 371-379
Birk, Raye – pages 325-326
Bishop, Michael – page 167
Bix – page 176
Black Death (Black Plague) – pages 77, 131
Blackpool, England – page 249
Blake, Roj (Blake's 7) – page 171
Blake's 7 – pages 162, 171
Blish, James – page 167
"Blockade, Part I" (unproduced Babylon 5 episode) – pages 29, 101
bombardment of Narn – page 132
Bonanza (TV series) – page 320
"Born to the Purple" – page 80
Boxleitner, Bruce – pages 89, 107, 128, 143, 148, 217, 243, 316-317
Bradbury, Ray – pages 29, 159-160, 175, 177
Brando, Marlon – page 310
broken foot (Claudia Christian's) – pages 109-110
Brook, Peter – page 320
Brown, Julie Caitlin – pages 75-76, 98
Buntz, Norman (Hill Street Blues) – page 15
Burbank, CA – page 321
Bureau 13 – page 89
Burg, Steve – pages 361-362
"By Any Means Necessary" – page 94
Call to Arms, A (Babylon 5) – page 386
Cameron, James – page 18
Canada – page 165
Canter's Deli – page 374
Cantrell, Sarah – pages 390-391
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (TV series) – pages 11, 144, 162, 357-358, 383
Carroll, Jonathan – page 167
Carter, Chris – page 381
Carter, Jason – pages 373, 376-377
Cartwright, Hoss (Bonanza) – page 320
Casey, Shannon – page 44
Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent (Beany and Cecil) – page 160
Centauri – page 105
Centauri genitalia – pages 105, 142
Centauri hair – page 17
Centauri Prime – page 384
Centre for Medieval Studies – page 157
Cerebus (comic) – page 110
CGI (computer-generated imagery) – pages 12-13, 26, 79, 97, 128, 134, 188, 358, 390-391
Chamberlain, Ardwight – page 88
Chayefsky, Paddy – page 160
Chen, Evan H. – page 385
Childhood's End (novel) – page 164
Christian, Claudia – pages 99-101, 109-110, 126, 143
"Chrysalis" – pages 94-95, 105-106, 108, 112
"Chrysalis, Part II" (unproduced Babylon 5 episode) – page 108
chrysalis device – page 106
Churchill, Winston – page 86
City of Dreams (radio series) – page 381
Clarke, Arthur C. – pages 160, 175, 177
Clinton, Bill – page 18
Cole, Marcus – pages 187-188, 323
Colonel Bleep (TV series) – page 160
Come See the Paradise – page 19
"Comes the Inquisitor" – pages 29, 69, 75, 133, 148, 325
"Coming of Shadows, The" – pages 69, 75, 78, 94-95, 106, 113
Compton, Richard – pages 26, 97-98, 362
Compuserve – pages 96, 176
"Confessions and Lamentations" – pages 77, 131, 375
"Convictions" – pages 187, 325
Copeland, John – pages 127, 129, 145-151, 168, 172, 203, 221, 358
Corey, Guinevere – page 96
Costello, Lou – page 319
Cotto, Vir – pages 86, 127, 170, 189, 243, 246
Coventry, UK – page 86
Crawling Eye, The (TV series) – page 160
Cremin, Kevin G. – page 76
Crusade (TV series) – pages 219, 341, 381-383, 385-387, 392
cyperpunk – page 167
Cylons (Battlestar Galactica) – page 15
D'Arque, Sebastian (unused Babylon 5 character) – page 69–73
Dallas, TX – page 140
Dandelion Wine (novel) – page 160
David, Guinevere – page 96
David, Peter – pages 75, 93, 96-98, 129-130, 211
"Day in the Strife, A" – pages 188, 190
DC Comics – page 211
"Deconstruction of Falling Stars, The" – page 242
Del Rey Books – pages 233, 381
Delenn – pages 80, 86, 106, 111-112, 132-133, 170, 223, 242, 311-312, 318
Deuce – page 98
Diagnosis Murder – page 375
Dickinson, Emily – page 166
DiLeo, Mario – pages 127-129
Discovery Channel – page 90
"Distant Star, A" – pages 29, 109-110
DiTillio, Lawrence G. – pages 43–59, 61–68, 80, 89, 92, 96, 99, 125, 374
"Divided Loyalties" – pages 133, 142, 147
Dobson, Kevin James – page 247
Doctor Who (1963 TV series) – page 162
Dourif, Brad – page 188
Dow, Tony – page 226
Doyle, Jerry – page 327
Dr. Faustus (play) – pages 126-127
Draal – pages 77, 102, 188
Drazi – page 382
Drennan, Kathryn M. – page 383
Dune (novel) – page 164
"Dust to Dust" – page 188
Eagle, David J. – pages 131, 227
Earth 2 (TV series) – page 227
Earth Alliance ambassador (unused Babylon 5 character) – page 29
Earth-Minbari War – page 203
editing – pages 149-150, 172
Edward (Brother) – page 188
Eich, Gunter – page 91
Einstein, Albert – page 22
Ellison, Harlan – pages 14-15, 24, 89, 96, 104, 160, 168-170
Elric – page 110
Emmy Awards – page 149
encounter suit – page 17
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, The (book) – page 162
England – pages 19, 141, 165
English language – pages 382-383
Epsilon 3 – page 101
Equalizer, The (TV series) – page 362
"Exogenesis" – pages 29, 188
"Eyes" – pages 99-100
F&SF (Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine) – page 167
Falkenburg, Bryce (unused Babylon 5 character) – page 29
"Fall of Night, The" – pages 133-134
Faust (character) – page 126
FCC (Federal Communications Commission) – page 146
fedora – page 224
First Ones – pages 85-86, 188, 246-247
Five Million Years to Earth (film, aka Quatermass and the Pit) – page 211
Flinn, John C., III – pages 77, 98, 129, 225, 244
Flinn, Mr. (character) – page 98
Flounder (National Lampoon's Animal House) – page 246
Fontana, D.C. – pages 14, 24, 100
food plans – page 110
Forbidden Planet (film) – page 102
Foundation (Isaac Asimov novel) – pages 12, 162, 164
Foundation (journal) – pages 157, 165
France – page 165
Franke, Christopher – pages 27, 145-146, 365, 367, 369, 385
Frankenstein's monster – page 219
Franklin, Stephen – pages 104, 112, 125, 128, 188, 371-373, 375-378
Franklin, Richard – pages 125, 373-374
Franz Ferdinand, Karl Ludwig Joseph (Archduke of Austria-Este) – page 172
French Revolution – page 172
Frost, Scott – page 111
Furillo, Frank (Hill Street Blues) – page 15
Furlan, Mira – pages 112, 170, 243, 311-313, 317, 362
Furst, Stephen – pages 189, 225
G'Kar – pages 16, 75-76, 79, 86, 94, 108, 113, 126, 147-148, 170, 188, 221, 224, 229, 239, 247-248, 261, 309–316, 318–321, 383-384, 391
G'Kar, Book of – pages 314-316
Gajic, Aldous – page 98
Gajic, Goran – page 317
Garibaldi, Michael – pages 76, 78, 86, 92, 105, 110, 112, 223-225, 328, 376
Garibaldi's aide (Jack) – page 78
Gathering, The (Babylon 5 pilot) – pages 12, 16, 20, 28, 23–24, 139, 172, 203, 362-363, 365, 369
Gathering, The (Babylon 5 unreleased album) – pages 365, 369
Geaghan, Steve – page 385
GEnie – pages 140, 176
"Geometry of Shadows, The" – pages 75, 109-110
Germany – pages 141, 165
Gerrold, David – pages 14, 24
Golden Apples of the Sun, The (novel) – page 160
Gordon, Byron – pages 323-324
"Grail" – pages 96-98, 105, 172
Gray Lensman (novel) – page 164
Great Machine of Epsilon 3 – page 102
Great Maker – page 309
Greek, Janet – pages 25, 105, 225, 310-311
Green, Bruce Seth – page 25
Grey Council – page 103
"Gropos" – page 125
gunnery pod – page 390
HARRY (effects) – page 27
HBO (Home Box Office) – page 386
Heinlein, Robert – pages 160, 175, 177
Henson Creature Factory – page 18
Higgins, Joanne – page 147
Hill, Bobby (Hill Street Blues) – page 15
Hill Street Blues – pages 12, 15, 81, 357
hive mind – page 211
Homeguard – page 87
"Hour of the Wolf, The" – pages 217, 222
"Hunter, Prey" – page 127
hypertext links – page 145
Iacovelli, John – pages 358, 362-363
Icarus (IPX starship) – page 86
Ikarran artifacts – page 82
"Illusion of Truth, The" – pages 225-226
In the Beginning (Babylon 5 TV Movie) – pages 203, 377
In the Beginning (Babylon 5 album) – pages 365, 367
"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" – pages 76, 86, 106, 130-131, 149-150
In Valen's Name (comic) – page 211
"Infection" – pages 81-82, 172
influenza – pages 99, 104
"Intersections in Real Time" – pages 245, 324-326
Interstellar Alliance – pages 211, 316, 318, 391
Interzone (magazine) – page 167
"Into the Fire" – pages 245, 247-248
Ireland – page 165
Ironheart, Jason – pages 100-101, 112
Israel – page 165
Ivanova, Susan – pages 86, 90, 95-96, 102, 111-113, 126, 133, 142-143, 229, 242, 323-324
Jack the Ripper – pages 29, 69
Jackson, Michael – page 164
Jake and the Fatman (TV series) – page 162
James, Edward – pages 157, 165, 170, 172, 175
James, Laura (unused Babylon 5 character) – page 69
Japan – page 165
Jeremiah (TV series) – pages 384, 387
Jha'dur (DeathWalker) – page 89
Jiminy Cricket (Pinnochio) – page 169
Jinxo – page 98
Johnsen, George – pages 145-147
Johnston, Jim – pages 25, 84, 225
Jordan – page 165
Jurasik, Peter – pages 17, 95 147-148, 248, 313-314
Kafta – page 386
Katsulas, Andreas – pages 16-17, 113, 132, 148, 309–321, 383-384, 391
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-11 – page 100
Kennedy, John F. – page 173
Kennedy, Robert F. – page 173
Knight Two – page 89
"Knives" – page 130
Ko D'ath – page 76
Koenig, Walter – pages 26, 98, 112
Kolbe, Winrich "Rick" – page 360
Kosh – pages 17, 76, 86, 88, 93, 126, 131, 133-134, 247
Krueger, Freddy – page 164
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV series) – pages 218, 360
KXTA-TV – page 140
Kyle, Benjamin – page 19
labor action – page 190
Lane, Andy – page 157
Lao-Tsu – page 22
Last Starfighter, The (film) – pages 12, 361
"Late Delivery from Avalon, A" – page 375
L.A. Law (TV series) – page 357
Lazarenn – page 375
Ledger, Peter – pages 115, 358, 361-362
Leech, Beverly – page 89
"Legacies" – page 100
Legend of the Rangers, The (Babylon 5) – pages 381-387, 389-393
Leghorn, Foghorn – page 110
Lennier – pages 80, 104, 106-107, 142
Lensman (E.E. "Doc" Smith novels) – pages 12, 160, 162, 164
Liandra – page 382
Lochley, Elizabeth – pages 326-328
Lockhart, June – page 104
Loffler, Gianin – page 112
Londo Mollari doll – page 90
"Long, Twilight Struggle, The" – pages 132, 147
"Long Dark, The" – pages 111, 172
Lord of the Rings, The (novel) – pages 12, 160, 162
Lorien – page 220
Los Angeles, CA – pages 161, 384
Los Angeles Herald Examiner – page 161
Lost (TV series) – page 153
Love Boat, The (TV series) – page 161
Lovecraft, H.P. – page 177
Lucas, George – page 18
lunch – pages 144-145, 148
lurker (from "Crysalis") – page 112
Mac (computer) – page 27
Maday, Gregg – page 358
Malzberg, Barry – page 167
Mandela, Nelson – page 22
Marlowe, Christopher – page 126
Mars – page 160
Martian Chronicles, The (short story collection) – page 160
Martin, George R.R. – page 162
Martin, Gregory – page 99
Marx, Christy – page 358
Matheson, Richard – pages 160, 177
"Matters of Honor" – pages 187, 222
Max Headroom (TV series) – page 310
Maynard, Jack (Babylon 5 character) – page 111
McCartney, Paul – page 146
Memory of Shadows, The (Babylon 5) (unproduced feature film) – page 341
Memphis, TN – page 175
Men, Martians and Machines (novel) – page 161
Mengele, Josef – page 89
Mephistopheles – page 126
"Messages from Earth" – page 188
"Midnight on the Firing Line" – pages 78, 222
Minbari – pages 100, 221
Minbari language – pages 382-383
Minneapolis, MN – page 89
Misery Loves Company (TV series) – page 189
Mollari, Londo – pages 16-17, 79-80, 82, 86, 113, 126-127, 129-130, 132, 142, 147, 170, 188, 221, 224, 229, 239, 247-248, 309, 318-320
Monroe, Marilyn – page 22
Moorcock, Michael – page 110
Morden – pages 76, 86, 95, 170
Morrow, James – page 167
Mumy, Bill – pages 317-318
Murder, She Wrote (TV series) – pages 11, 103, 162
Murphy Brown (TV series) – page 153
music – pages 27, 145
Mutai – page 95
Na'ka'leen Feeder – pages 96-97, 99, 105
Na'Toth – page 76
Narn (homeworld) – page 384
Narn (species) – pages 75, 94, 113, 382
Narn butt – page 148
Narn/Centauri War – pages 75-76
Neal, Dylan – page 383
Neame, Christopher – page 89
Nebula Award – page 167
Neroon – page 101
Netter, Douglas – pages 143-144, 147-148, 203, 341, 358, 362, 381-385
New Wave (SF sub-genre) – page 167
Nicholls, Peter – page 162
Nigeria – page 19
Night Watch – pages 87, 188
Nightmare Classics (Shelley Duvall's) (TV series) – page 162
Nimoy, Adam – pages 226-227
Nimoy, Leonard – page 227
Niven, Larry – pages 18, 175
"No Compromises" – page 316
North Hollywood – page 149
Northern Exposure (TV Series) – page 25
Northridge Earthquake – page 99
NYPD Blue (TV series) – pages 81, 187
O'Hare, Michael – pages 83, 103
Olivier, Laurence – page 98
ombuds – pages 104, 169
Optic Nerve – page 385
Othello (play) – page 371
Paramount Pictures – pages 189, 359-361
"Parliament of Dreams, The" – pages 82-83
"Passing Through Gethsemane" – pages 179, 188
People's Court, The (TV series) – page 169
"Phoenix Rising" – pages 323-324
Picket Fences (TV series) – page 99
Planet Patrol (TV series) – page 160
pleasure threshold – page 311
"Point of No Return" – page 188
"Points of Departure" – pages 80, 107, 222
Polaris (unproduced pilot) – page 389
Power, Jonathan (Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future) – page 383
Presley, Lisa-Marie – page 164
Prisoner, The (TV series) – page 162
probe, alien – page 188
Psi Cop – pages 26, 91
Psi Corps – pages 26, 61, 84-85, 91, 101, 112, 233–237, 284, 384
PTEN (Prime Time Entertainment Network) – pages 21,134, 139-140, 144, 148, 217, 359-360
Pulphouse (magazine) – page 167
"Quality of Mercy, The" – pages 29, 104, 142
Quatermass, Bernard – page 211
Quatermass and the Pit (film, aka Five Million Years to Earth) – page 211
QVC (shopping network) – page 19
R is for Rocket – page 160
"Race Through Dark Places, A" – pages 69, 112-113
"Ragged Edge, The" – page 323
Rangers – pages 76, 78, 187, 381-382, 385
Rees, Roger – page 148
Renko, Andrew (Hill Street Blues) – page 15
re-shoots – pages 97, 247, 326
residuals – page 309
"Resurrectionist, The" – page 29
"Revelations" – pages 89, 94, 108-109, 112
Rising Stars (comic) – page 387
River of Souls, The (Babylon 5) – page 329
Rocky (film) – page 28
Roddenberry, Majel Barrett – page 188
Rolling Stones – pages 317-318
Rusch, Kris – page 167
Russell, Eric Frank – pages 160-161, 177
SA (Sturmabteilung/Brownshirts) – page 84
Sakai, Catherine – page 84
San Francisco, CA – page 359
San Diego, CA – page 25
Sanderson, William – page 98
Santa Clarita, CA – pages 27, 139
SAS (British Special Air Service) – page 223
Sci-Fi Channel (SyFy) – pages 381, 386-387, 389
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America – page 167
Science Fiction Foundation – page 157
Scoggins, Tracy – pages 310, 326-328
seaQuest DSV (TV series) – pages 27, 227
Sebastian, Mr. – page 148
Sekka, Johnny – page 19
Serling, Rod – page 160
"Severed Dreams" – pages 189, 220
Shadow vessels – pages 94-95, 132, 147
Shadow War (23rd century) – pages 170, 219-221, 225, 245, 248
Shadows (Shadowmen) – pages 85-86, 95, 108, 113
Shakespeare, William – pages 313, 383
Sheridan, Anna – pages 76, 86
Sheridan, David (John and Delenn's son) – page 261
Sheridan, Elizabeth – page 112
Sheridan, John – pages 75-76, 86, 88-90, 93, 103, 106-109, 112, 125-126, 130-132, 148, 171, 220–221, 223, 229, 231, 242-243, 324, 327
shiva – page 95
Shootist, The (film) – page 213
Showtime (network) – page 384
Shultz, Dwight – page 111
"Signs and Portents" – pages 95, 99
Simpson, O.J. – page 164
Sinclair, Jeffrey – pages 80, 83-84, 88, 90, 103, 107-108, 132, 170-171, 189
Singapore – pages 141, 165
Sirois, Myriam – page 390
Sisyphus – page 168
Slater, Mary Jo – pages 76, 148
"Sleeping in Light" – pages 211, 213, 239-244, 377-378
Smith, E.E. "Doc" – pages 160, 177
Snodgrass, Melinda – page 162
Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel) – page 29
"Soul Hunter" – pages 29, 78, 80-81
"Soul Mates" – page 111
sound effects – page 113
Space Cases (TV series) – page 129
Space Precinct (TV series) – page 162
Space Rangers (TV series) – pages 162, 227
Spain – page 12
"Spider in the Web" – pages 76, 82, 89
Spielberg, Steven – page 18
spotting session – page 145
St. Elsewhere – page 357
Star Trek (franchise) – pages 15, 18, 27, 79, 81, 83, 139-140, 170-171, 173, 227, 358-360, 371
Star Trek (1966-9 TV series) – page 12
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – pages 18, 101, 130, 359, 361
Star Trek: The Next Generation – pages 11, 79
Star Trek: Voyager – page 130
Stark (Straczynski family alias) – page 159
Straczynski's Babylon 5 Journal – pages 135, 137, 139
"Strange Exhibition of Sebastian D'Arque, The" (unproduced Babylon 5 episode) – page 69–73
Stranger in a Strange Land (novel) – page 164
Studios USA – page 389
subliminal advert – pages 91, 145-146
Sullivan, Ed – page 318
Sun Valley, CA – pages 139, 321
"Survivors" – page 92
synchronicities – page 383
Szarabajka, Keith – page 111
Takashima, Laurel – pages 19, 78
Tallman, Patricia – pages 311-313
Tamblyn, Russ – page 111
telepath – pages 26, 61–68, 84, 101, 112, 211–213, 233–237, 249, 373
telepath arc – page 249
Telepath Crisis – pages 211, 241, 341, 384
telepathy – page 61–68
Tennyson, Alfred (Baron Tennyson) – page 22
Terezakis, Bill – page 385
Thailand – page 165
"There All the Honor Lies" – pages 75, 90, 93, 97, 129-130
thestation.com – pages 135-137
Thirdspace (Babylon 5) – page 211
Thompson, Andrea – pages 143, 190
Thornton, Ron – pages 12–13, 26–27, 102, 128, 358, 361
Time Trax – page 360
The Tingler (film) – page 29
title sequence – page 189
"TKO" – pages 95-96
TNT (Turner Network Television) – pages 203, 229, 242, 310, 383, 386
Tolkien, J.R.R. – pages 110, 177
Tomita, Tamlyn – page 19
Toronto, Canada – page 384
Treviño, Jesús – pages 142, 147, 227, 247
Trial of John Sheridan, The (Babylon 5) (unproduced TV movie) – page 211
Tripods (TV series) – page 162
Turenne, Louis – page 188
Turhan (Centauri emperor) – page 103
TV movies – page 218
Twain, Mark – pages 87, 109
Twilight Zone, The (1985 9 TV series) – pages 15, 162, 358
Twin Peaks (TV series) – page 14
Tyree, Adira – page 80
Tzillari – page 386
"Ulysses" (poem) – pages 22, 28
United Federation of Planets (Star Trek) – page 15
United Kingdom – page 227
United States of America – page 165
Universe Today – page 16
University College of Ripon and York – page 157
"Usher II" – page 160
V (1985 TV series) – pages 161, 163, 358
V (unproduced syndicated revival series) – page 20
Van Dyke, Dick – page 375
Vancouver, British Columbia – page 384
Vejar, Mike – pages 75, 97, 129, 225, 227, 247, 386
Venice, Italy – page 12
Verne, Jules – page 175
Video Toaster – page 27
Vietnam War – page 173
virtual set – pages 26, 99
"Voice in the Wilderness, A" – pages 29, 101-102
"Voices of Authority" – pages 85, 188
Vorlon (species) – pages 29, 85, 88
VR.5 – page 227
Walker, Texas Ranger (TV series) – page 383
Walkers of Sigma 957 – page 85
Wapner, Joseph – page 169
War of the Worlds, The (TV series) – page 161
"War Prayer, The" – pages 82, 87
"War Without End" – page 319
Warner, David – pages 96-98
Warner Bros. – pages 20-21, 83, 90-91, 105, 107, 140, 142, 144, 148, 163, 217-218, 242, 341, 358-359, 362, 386, 389
Warrior Caste – page 100
Wars of the Mind (Babylon 5) (unproduced feature film) – pages 211, 241-242
Wayne, John – page 213
Wellington, Edgar – page 98
Wells, H.G. – page 175
WGA (Writers Guild of America) – page 382
"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" – page 247
White Star (fleet) – page 187
Wicker, Kenneth D. – page 179
Wilhelm, Kate – page 167
Willis, Connie – page 167
Wind Swords (Minbari clan) – page 100
Winfield, Paul – pages 374-375
Winters, Talia – pages 77, 100-101, 104, 111-113, 133, 142-143
Wise, Douglas E. – page 240
Wolf 359 (convention) – page 249
Working Without a Net (unpublished Harlan Ellison autobiography) – page 96
World on Fire, The (unproduced TV series) – page 381
World War One (WWI) – pages 172-173
World War Two (WWII) – pages 90, 172-173
Woronov, Mary – page 76
writers' bible (Babylon 5) – page 139
Writers Digest (magazine) – page 43
X-Files, The (TV series) – pages 153, 341
York, Michael – page 375
Yugoslavia – page 170
"Z'ha'dum" – page 217
Zathras – page 103