Product Details

• Actors: Stephen Furst
• Directors: Stephen Furst, Menachem Binetski, Richard Compton, Kevin G. Cremin, Mario DiLeo
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: August 25, 1998
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0790736675
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #465,455 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

OF ROYALTY AND WARRIORS! Welcome, interstellar travelers! Take a break from your star-flung journeys with two episodes from the first season of Babylon 5. BORN TO THE PURPLE -- When it comes to political manipulations, Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari (Peter Jurasik) knows where the skeletons are buried. His collection of "purple files" holds scandalous secrets about his planet's royal families. When it comes to love, however, even wily Londo may fall victim to a plan to seduce those hush-hush tales from him. INFECTION -- Smuggled aboard the station: remnants of living machines. Unending peril comes aboard, too, when a human infected by contraband (Marshall Teague) morphs into a perfect, pre-programmed warrior with an ancient mission: wipe out all imperfect beings. A quarter-of-a-million aliens and humans are on the station. And each is suddenly a target.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay Season 1 Episode Along With The Worst Babylon 5 Episode, August 27, 2001

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John Kwok (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Babylon 5: Born to The Purple [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"Born to the Purple" is an intriguing episode which shows Londo Mollari's (Peter Jurasik) tender side, introducing us to his great love, Adira. Clive Revill is deliciously slimy as the villain Trakis who owns Adira, ordering her to obtain valuable secrets on the Centauri Republic's leading families from Londo. Unfortunately, it is coupled with "Infection", a monster of the week episode in classic "Star Trek" mode. What redeems it from being as bad as the worst "Star Trek" is Commander Sinclair's (Michael O'Hare) philosophical musings on racism and hatred as he and his crew hunt down the alien warrior from a long vanished civilization.

5.0 out of 5 stars Londo is in love, March 22, 2009

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Michael Patrick Boyd (Waukesha, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Babylon 5: Born to The Purple [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Born to the Purple is fourty-four minutes long and was originally aired on February 9, 1994. The story begins with Londo not attending an importing meeting and instead he is at what one might call a gentlemen's club. He has fallen in love with one the dancers there; Adira Tyree. Adira Tyree is actually a slave owned by Trakis. Trakis is using Adira to get to Londo's Purple File which has information on families going back hundred of years. Trakis want to sell it to the Narn Regime so they in turn can shame the great Centauri Republic. In the end the data crystal is retreived, Trakis is caught and Adira gets her freedom. In a substory, Mr. Garibaldi is investigating the unauthorized use of the Gold Channel. Mr. Garibaldi finds that it is Lieutenant Commander Ivanova trying to contact her dying father. Granted this does not have a lot of action in it, Born to the Purple is still worth an A+.

Infection is fourty-four minutes long and was originally aired on February 16, 1994. Dr. Vance Hendricks has his assistant smuggle in organic technology. While setting up the artifacts, one of the clings to Dr. Hendricks assistant and turns the assistant in to a killing machine. He kills anyone who is not pure. Commander Sinclair tracks down the creature and is turn back into human. Dr. Vance Hendricks is put under arrest and the alien technology is confiscated by Earth Force. This episode moves at a fast pace and stays focus on the story. So I am giving Infection an AA++.

4.0 out of 5 stars Not the best, but still fun to watch., January 10, 2001

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This review is from: Babylon 5: Born to The Purple [VHS] (VHS Tape)

'Born to the Purple' shows us the tender side of the Centauri Ambassador Mollari, as expressed through his feelings for Adira. It is a very good episode and Adira, although we never see her again, is a catalyst in the third Season. 'Infection' plays with the human primal fear of alien infestation and transforming into the "other". I thought it was kind of sad, actually, since the alien was the last of its kind and carried the guilt of its race extinction.