Product Details

• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 3
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• VHS Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Run Time: 267 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0790740389
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #325,568 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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As the first season of Babylon 5 comes to a close, the series finally begins to catch fire, concluding with the two best episodes of the season. "Legacies" (written by Star Trek veteran D.C. Fontana) spotlights Delenn in a story that illuminates the conflicts between the different casts of Minbar. Not only that, Ivanova's hatred of the Psi-Corps is rekindled when she and station telepath Talia Winters (Andrea Thompson, late of NYPD Blue) struggle over the future of a telepathic girl. "A Voice in the Wilderness Part 1" explores the legacy of the supposedly dead planet below the station when it erupts to life and reveals a massive arsenal. Even more important to the series is the revolution that breaks out on Mars as it attempts to break with Earth Government. In "A Voice in the Wilderness Part 2," ships arrive to lay claim to the technology of the planet that has rumbled to life, as Babylon 5 struggles to save the life of the alien that has kept it slumbering all these millennia. "Babylon Squared," one of the most inventive episodes of the entire series, spins a spellbinding story about the sudden re-emergence of Babylon 4 (which disappeared without a trace three years before) and introduces a mythic dimension revisited and explained in season three with "War Without End Parts 1 and 2." "The Quality of Mercy" calms the show down with the story of a doctor (guest star June Lockhart) with an alien healing device. It also features the comic adventures of Londo, who takes it upon himself to show Minbari boy scout Lennier (Bill Mumy) the "real" Babylon 5 of poker games, strip clubs, and bar fights. The season ends with the most eventful and compelling episode to date, "Chrysalis," which brings the conspiracy against Earth Government to a climax, introduces a mysterious and deadly force that attacks the Narn, and unleashes life-changing events for Garibaldi and Delenn. The echoes of these sudden narrative shifts will be felt through the next four seasons of the series. --Sean Axmaker

Product Description

Set Includes:
Vol 1.10 - Legacies & A Voice in the Wilderness Part I
Vol 1.11 - A Voice in the Wilderness Part II & Babylon Squared
Vol 1.12 - The Quality of Mercy & Chrysalis

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good B5 season 1 tapes, May 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Babylon 5 - The Epsilon Chronicles [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This pack consists of the following tapes, 1.10-Legacies & A Voice in the Wilderness Part 1, 1.11-A Voice in the Wilderness Part 2 & Babylon Squared, 1.12-The Quality of Mercy & Chrysalis. These are all very good.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The ramping up of a great story, May 31, 2001

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Ralph Fuhrmann (Calgary, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Babylon 5 - The Epsilon Chronicles [VHS] (VHS Tape)

First: should you happen to be missing the beginning of the season, go get it - while enjoyable on it's own, this set (and everything that follows) is SO much better when you can see the whole big story unfold in front of you with all the little pieces you pick up in season 1 fitting into the story. If you've seen the series, but have holes in your first season, BUY THEM. You will be *amazed* at the number of little hints that show the upcoming story in the follow seasons! DVD is to be released this summer, so you might want to wait if you'd prefer the disks. Another reason to have these: there are many little background hints that you'll want to rewind and catch. Overall, this is the best series of it's time and while the Trek(s) occationally match it, they fall down in having way too many stinkers thrown in. I can count TWO stinkers in *five* seasons of Babylon 5, it's THAT good.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still deserves 5 stars, December 11, 1999

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Brian Hughes (Babylon 4) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Babylon 5 - The Epsilon Chronicles [VHS] (VHS Tape)

There isn't a bad video in this set. Ok, so if I wanted to get picky I might rate them as between 4.5 (Quality of Mercy); 4.7 (Babylon Squared); and 4.9 (Voice in the Wilderness I & II)

The other episodes all fit in there somewhere.

I wouldn't rate any of these at four stars or below.

If you are a true fan of B5 and JMS, then you'll want all videos in the series. Even if you don't want them all these are a must have.