30 Years Ago, "Severed Dreams" - When Babylon 5 Dared To Do Something No Sci-Fi Show Had Ever Done

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https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/babylon-5-severed-dreams-30-year-anniversary

In 1996, during the week of April 1, Babylon 5 Season 3 aired what was, up until that point, its most pivotal episode. The civil war between Earth and its colonies had been brewing for quite some time, but in “Severed Dreams,” the main characters of the show actively decided to break away from Earth, and in doing so, completely changed the game for what a weekly sci-fi TV series could accomplish.

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This isn’t to say that the idea of B5 seceding from Earth was taken lightly in this episode. Far from it. In fact, the moment Captain Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) decides that the space station will become an independent state was shocking at the time, because you couldn’t imagine another sci-fi franchise doing the same thing. Sheridan saying that B5 was no longer part of Earthforce would be like if Picard (Patrick Stewart) left Starfleet in The Next Generation, or if Sisko (Avery Brooks) joined the Maquis in Deep Space Nine.

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1. Good episode of a great series. NT

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2. There is a greater darkness than the one we fight

“There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.” - G'Kar quoting from the "Book of G'Quan"- Babylon 5