Decommising Maintenance Worker, Dead or Alive? EXCERPTED FROM THE BABYLON 5 BOOKS NEWSLETTER IN MAY 2019 Based on emails, we’ve gotten the impression that a lot of fans have missed one of the many highlights of the Babylon 5 Encyclopedia: the fate of the maintenance worker who switched off the lights on Babylon 5 in…
Articles by Jason Davis
Babylon 5 Encyclopedia Entire “Chapter G”
BABYLON 5 ENCYCLOPEDIA FREE PREVIEW – ENTIRE CHAPTER “G” G’Dan A Narn who coordinated G’Kar’s return to the Homeworld in December 2260 and supplied willing Narns to assassinate Lord Antono Refa. [320] G’Dok A Narn who asked Citizen G’Kar to stay aboard Babylon 5 when the latter was ordered back to Narn by the provisional…
ARTICLE – Babylon 5 and Twin Peaks: Connections, Revelations and the 8 Miles Between Them

Babylon 5 and Twin Peaks:Revelations and the 8 Miles Between Them On January 9, 2017, J. Michael Straczynski tweeted, “Talk about foreshadowing: Laura in Twin Peaks says ‘I’ll see you again in 25 years.’ Now the new series comes.”His tweet referred to the forthcoming return to television of the 1990–1 series Twin Peaks. Straczynski, who…
Why We Celebrate Jerry Doyle on May 9th
ARTICLE – B5 Creator J. Michael Straczynski’s Statement On the Death of Jerry Doyle
July 28, 2016 When it came to politics, Jerry Doyle and I disagreed on, well, pretty much everything. Politically, Jerry was just to the right of Attila the Hun. There is a line in Babylon 5 where his character, Michael Garibaldi, suggests that the way to deal with crime is to go from electric chairs…
ARTICLE – HBO’s Silicon Valley Raids Babylon 5 Costumes
By Jason Davis Senior Editor, Babylon 5 Books Viewers of the 19 June 2016 episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley–titled “Daily Active Users”–might have noted the unusual coat worn by Bernard White as Denpok, the spiritual advisor to series antagonist Gavin Belson (Matt Ross), during a scene set atop the roof of Hooli, the latter’s software…
ARTICLE – Whatever Happened to Delenn’s Gravity Ring?
“You fail to appreciate the gravity of our situation.” G’KAR Babylon 5: The Gathering Welcome to B5books.com, the last, best hope for B5 fans. I’m Jason Davis, senior editor of B5 Books, and this is an article for fans revealingfacts, trivia and behind-the-scenes info I’ve discovered about Babylon 5 after nearly a decade of going…
Babylon 5 Comics
Babylon 5 Comics DC Comics published 11 Babylon 5 comics in 1995. The series, despite having its contract extended to 24 issues in July 1995, was ended prematurely at the end of the year. Straczynski wrote the first issue, but bowed out of further writing duties due to DC’s editorial policies where, as a writer,…
Crusade Episode Viewing Order by Jason Davis
We present six viewing orders for Crusade, along with an explanation of each one, as originally published (with minor updates) in the book Crusade: Other Voices, Volume 2. Since its first airing in 1999, the proper viewing order for Crusade has been a subject of contention. In addition to the original TNT airing order (itself…
Babylon 5 Canon Checklist
The following is a list of items considered to be canon in the Babylon 5 universe per J. Michael Straczynski Dell Novels Dell Book #7 The Shadow Within by Jeanne Cavelos Dell Book #9 To Dream in the City of Sorrows by Kathryn M. Drennan Del Rey novels Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi…