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Babylon 5: A Call to Arms
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Babylon 5: A Call to Arms is the fourth TV movie set in the Babylon 5 universe and the lead-in to the spinoff series Crusade. It aired on January 3rd, 1999.Five years after the events of the Babylon 5 series, a techno-mage named Galen predicts an imminent attack by the Drakh, the old allies of the Shadows. Through dreams, a thief, a captain, and a president are brought together to head them off. The president is John Sheridan. Because of his irrational behavior, Sheridan's friends begin to wonder about his sanity. It's up to all of them and two prototype battlecruisers, the Excalibur and the Victory, to stop the fleet and their planet-killer. But is there more to the Drakh's plan? | |
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Transhuman Treachery | |
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Transhuman Treachery: Drake against Earth, because of the discrimination against Mars-born humans. Ironically, he was only in a position to act on this because Earth-born Garibaldi hired him based on his merits rather than social connections. | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat | |
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Obstructive Bureaucrat: Inverted: The project lead (Drake) is dragging his heels with the excuse of trying to get all of the ships' systems running perfectly, while Garibaldi, the administrative head of the project, is pestering him to just get everything "good enough" and let the ships' crews iron out the wrinkles later. As it turns out, this is because Drake is The Mole. | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Played With. The Excalibur was actually one of two prototypes, but the Victory was destroyed saving Earth from the Shadow Planet-Killer. The Drakh also destroy the shipyard where both vessels were designed and built, so while the Alliance will be able to build more eventually, it'll take a few more years. | |
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Weird Trade Union | |
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Weird Trade Union: The Thieves' Guild. | |
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Time Zones Do Not Exist | |
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Time Zones Do Not Exist: Averted. Lochley agrees to contact Earth Alliance President Luchenko on Sheridan's behalf to warn her of the incoming Drakh attack as Sheridan's recent behavior would likely cause her and EarthDome to ignore him if he contacted her directly. Lochley has her communications officer open a channel to the President's office even though she knows it's 3:00am at the office and the President wouldn't likely be all that happy getting woken up to take a message from Lockley. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Bishop, the leader of the Thieves' Guild chapter in Babylon 5 | |
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Heroic Sacrifice | |
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Heroic Sacrifice: Captain Anderson and the crew of the Victory sacrifice themselves to help Sheridan stop the Drakh's planet killer. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
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Meaningful Name: The name of the mole is very similar to the enemy's name. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: The DVD cover features both Londo and Ivanova. Neither Peter Jurasik nor Claudia Christian appear in the film. Plus Jerry Doyle still has most of his hair but by this point was completely bald. | |
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Distract and Disarm | |
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Distract and Disarm: Drake revealed himself as the mole. Garibaldi approached slowly, asking why he betrayed. A ranger to the side extended the pole, providing enough of a distraction for Garibaldi to grab the gun. | |
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Saved by Canon | |
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Saved by Canon: Sheridan and Garibaldi will survive the events of the movie, as they're still alive 15 years later for "Sleeping in Light". | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The result of using a Shadow Planet Killer is shown. | |
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Posthumous Character | |
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Posthumous Character: The Drazi captain, who dies before he can actually join the party. He leaves behind some valuable intel for the others to find. | |
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Slipped the Ropes | |
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Slipped the Ropes: Never taunt an escape artist about being restrained, especially if she has training in unarmed combat. | |
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Pilot Movie | |
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Pilot Movie: For Crusade. Although most of the main characters come from Babylon 5 and most of the cast of Crusade aren't introduced yet, not even Captain Gideon; only Dureena and Galen are new characters who will cross over into the spinoff. Plus the ship Excalibur herself. | |
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Pyrrhic Victory | |
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Pyrrhic Victory: The Planet Killer is destroyed but the Drakh manage to release a plague into Earth's atmosphere which will kill the entire population within five years, thus setting up the quest of the Excalibur crew in the Crusade spinoff to find a cure. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: General Denisov, commanding the Earthforce defenses over Earth, assumes that Sheridan's alert is an unannounced exercise, and snarks about the wasted effort. His attitude changes immediately when he realizes that it's for real. | |
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RetCon | |
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Retcon: Previously the Shadow Planet Killer had been depicted as a cloud of missiles. In this film it is established as having a solid superstructure concealed in the cloud. | |
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Revenge by Proxy | |
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Revenge by Proxy: Sheridan convinced the Drakh's masters, the Shadows, to leave the galaxy, and by extension could be seen as responsible for the destruction of Z'ha'dum, the Drakh's adopted homeworld. The Drakh, not happy with their demotion in the grand scheme of the galaxy, decide to destroy Earth in revenge. | |
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Outrun the Fireball | |
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Outrun the Fireball: Excalibur and a bunch of Earthforce destroyers haul ass to get out of the Planet Killer as it is destroyed. The Circle of Techno-mages plays it straighter. | |
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Ass Shove | |
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Ass Shove: The Drazi captain kept his recorded message about the Shadow Planet Killer in a pouch, which is revealed in dialogue to be a reproductive organ. Captain Anderson is not amused to learn of this only after he has been handed the data crystal. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Early in the film, Garibaldi makes a reference to Sheridan having a "galactic empire to run" and later orders a test-firing of the new destroyer's main guns by telling the crew "you may fire when ready." | |
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Cool Starship | |
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Cool Starship: The Excalibur and her sister ship Victory. This film is also the first time the Warlock-class destroyers are seen (in some of the wide battle shots). | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: A bit of Meta Humor: Garibaldi tells Sheridan that if he wanted to watch a screen full of nonsense, Garibaldi could show him some 20th century television. | |
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Spinoff Sendoff | |
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Spinoff Sendoff: As this is the Crusade prelude, Sheridan, Garibaldi, and Lochely are on hand to represent Babylon 5. | |
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Tattooed Crook | |
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Tattooed Crook: Dureena has one that marks her as one of the Thieves' Guild. | |
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