Articles by Jason Davis

Decommissioning Maintenance Worker. Dead or Alive?

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…

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 – 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…