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Babylon 5 - All Alone in the Night / Acts of Sacrifice [VHS]

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ALL ALONE IN THE NIGHT. In this episode Sheridan finds himself kidnapped by aliens who experiment on him. Along with another prisoner, a Narn named Ta'Lon (we find him again in "a day in the strife") they try to escape while Dellen faces the Gray council to explain her transformation.

ACTS OF SACRIFICE. Another page of the Narn/Centauri War, and the episode shows G'Kar trying to keep the peace among the two populations on the station in his attempt to gather allies. The first evidence of Centauri war crimes are presented, while Ivanova tries to avoid having sex with an alien...

All Alone In the Dark is forty-three minutes and thirty seconds long and originally aired on February 15, 1995. There are two stories to this episode. The first begins with Captain Sheridan taken a Starfury and a full escort to check out attacks on ships nearby the Babylon 5 station. At the sight of the last incident a large space ship appears. It captures Captain Sheridan and destroys two of the three escort ships. The third is badly damaged and makes it back to the Babylon 5 station to inform them of what happen to the captain. On the alien ship Captain Sheridan is tortured and made to fight aliens. He is able to defeat the Narn fighter; knocking him unconscious. Sheridan falls asleep and we see a dream that is mentioned in the future. Back at Babylon 5 General William Hague calls for Captain Sheridan old ship, the Agamemnon, to assist in finding Sheridan. The Agamemnon finds the alien ship and attacks it. During this battle Sheridan and the Narn escape into an escape pod and are rescued. Sheridan is back at his quarters recovering from his wounds when he visited by General William Hague for a debriefing. It is there we learn that that military suspects that President Santiago was no accident and that Psi Corps was involved along with President Clark. General Hague enlists Captain Sheridan supports along with Commander Ivanova, Dr. Franklin, and Security Chief Garibaldi. In a second story, Ambassador Delenn is summed back to the Gray Council to debate whether or not she is no longer Satai and ambassador. The Gray Council ousts Delenn as her position a Satai because she underwent the transformation without the council approval. She is allowed to keep her ambassador position. She is replace by Neroon and the Gray Council make-up is now altered; four warrior caste, three worker caste and two religious caste. All Alone In the Dark gets an A+.

Acts of Sacrifice is forty-three minutes and thirty seconds long and originally aired on February 22, 1995. There are two stories in this show; the main one a lesser secondary one. The main one deals with the arrival of Lumati to negotiate a treaty of alliance. The Lumati are an elitist people who believe in survival of the fittest. It falls to Commander Ivanova to get the Lumati people to sign on. Commander Ivanova shows the Lumati delegation around the more safe and beautiful areas of Babylon, the Lumati are unimpressed. While at Commander Ivanova quarters the next morning, Ivanova tell them to pick a place and she will show them area. The Lumati choose Down Below to be shown around. When the Lumati see Down Below, they are impressed on how the station has isolated the inferior species. The Lumati are ready to sign the treaty. To conclude the treaty the Lumati chooses to have sex with Susan Ivanova, as is their custom with any treaty. Susan is almost in a state of shock and does not want the treaty to fall apart. She thinks of sex act to full Correlilmurzon (the Lumati who wants to have sex act). You have to watch the scene to get a full explanation of what went on. I will say it is funny. Correlilmurzon leaves the room in disappointment because he thought it would be more intense. His aide Taq knows he was tricked and leaves the room laughing. In the end Correlilmurzon gives Susan a present with a note saying: next time my way. In lesser secondary story, G'Kar goes to Delenn and Captain Sheridan seeking aid to his people, mainly military aid. Earth government does not want to get involved and Delenn's people are tired of war. Also G'Kar leadership is in question by his fellow Narns. G'Kar has to fight a fellow Narn that he is still in command. G'Kar wins the fight. After the fight G'Kar meets with Delenn and Captain Sheridan and they tell him that they can only give him humanitarian aide and this is all unofficial and must be kept quiet. G'Kar thanks them both and leaves. He begins to weep knowing that his people are in this fight alone and is a fight they cannot win. Acts of Sacrifice gets an AAA+++ for its humor and story.