Crusade ( Crusade ) is a spin-off ( born spin-off is a subsidiary series, a by-product) of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 , created and produced by Joseph Michael Strazhinsky .
| "Crusade" | |
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| Crusade | |
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| Genre | science fiction |
| Creator | J. Michael Strazinski |
| Based upon | |
| Cast | Gary Cole Peter Woodward Carrie welcome |
| A country |  USA |
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| Number of seasons | |
| Number of series | 13 ( ) |
| Production | |
| Timekeeping | 45 min. |
| Broadcast | |
| TV channel | TNT , ( USA ) |
| On the screens | June 9 , 1999 - September 1 , 1999 |
| Chronology | |
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| Subsequent show | |
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| IMDb | ID 0149437 |
The action of the series takes place in the year 2267, several years after the events described in the series “ Babylon 5 ” and immediately after the events shown in the film “ Babylon 5: Call to Arms ”. The race, called the “ Drakh, ” attacks the Earth , trying to destroy it with the “Cloud of Death”, but the attack failed and the only former destroyer of the planets, the “Cloud of Death”, and the shock fleet were destroyed by the combined fleet of the Interstellar Alliance. All that a drakh manages is to inject nanovirus into the Earth's atmosphere (like the so-called “gray mucus” ) also inherited from the Shadows. Scientists of the Earth and other races of the Interstellar Alliance managed to find out that the nanovirus is underdeveloped due to the short modification time for the biology of earthlings, and its full adaptation to the human body takes about five years. By the end of this period, the new Earth ship " Excalibur ", built shortly before the attack, must find an antidote to the "plague of the Drakh," as the nanovirus, which threatens the metropolis of human civilization, was termed earthlings.
Scenario and filming
Like Babylon 5, as conceived by Joseph Michael Strazinski , the Crusade was supposed to have a storyline in itself containing a story of five years, despite Strazinski’s comments on the DVD “To Arms!” That the Drakh plague will be defeated after one or two seasons of the series and the storyline will shift to solve another problem. One way or another, the conflict between producers and executive directors from TNT grew, and the filming was stopped before the first season came out. [1]
Drakh's attack
In 2267, seven years after the War of the Shadows, the Drakh, the former assistants of the Shadows, are trying to destroy the Earth with the help of their Shattered Planet Shadows. Interstellar Alliance President John Sheridan commands the crews of Excalibur , Victory and the entire fleet of the Interstellar Alliance to counterattack Drakh. Defeated in the battle near the Earth (Destroyer of the Planets of Shadows and a significant part of the Drakh battle fleet were killed), the Drakh still managed to throw into the Earth’s atmosphere a special nanovirus - a weapon that they also inherited from their former owners - the Shadows (injection of the Shadow nanovirus into the Earth’s atmosphere - drakhs applied reserve plan in case of a crash on the Earth). But if you do not find an antidote for the remaining five years, then the entire population of the Earth will die. The ship "Victory" heroically died during the battle, ramming the control center of the Destroyer of the Planets of Shadows (the crash caused by the ship "Victory" ramming the control center of the Destroyer of the Planets of the Shadows caused a catastrophic failure on it - the Destroyer of the Planets of the Shadows prematurely slammed and released planetary torpedoes and destroyed it by myself). But Excalibur has survived, and now the team, led by Matthew Gideon , faces the most difficult task - to find an antidote, or an ally of the Earth Alliance who would be able to create such an antidote.
Telepathic War
This war contrasts normal people and loyal telepaths and the Psi Corps . The Psi Corps is trying to take over the Earth Alliance government. The Psi Corps also manages many concentration camps to “re-educate” the fugitives that the Psi Corps manages to capture, and it kills civilians harboring fugitive telepaths. John Sheridan and the Interstellar Alliance intervene. Normal people and loyal telepaths win this war, although there are many victims (including Lita Alexander and Lennier ).
Characters
- Captain Matthew Gideon ( Gary Cole ) - Captain Excalibur. He was personally chosen by the President of the Interstellar Alliance, John Sheridan , knowing that Gideon is prone to healthy adventurousness and Gideon does not allow diplomacy to stand in the way of fulfilling the task.
- Lieutenant John Matheson ( Daniel Day Kim ) - assistant captain, telepath . Considered a hero for many telepaths, as he managed to advance farther than other telepaths in the Earth Forces . Gideon demanded that Mateson become his first officer, “otherwise look for another captain,” as Gideon himself declared.
- Max Islerson ( David Allen Brooks ) is an eminent archaeologist and linguist working on Interplanetary Expeditions. Born as a child prodigy and has the innate ability to understand alien languages. He was accepted to the mission in the series "Military Zone".
- Galen ( Peter Woodward ) is a techno - mag who saved Gideon's life 10 years before the events of the series. He was expelled from his order in 2267 after he helped the Earth and the Interstellar Alliance defeat the Drakh (“ To Arms ”). Has a specific sense of humor.
- Dr. Sarah Chambers ( Margin Holden ) - Excalibur Medical Officer. Was on Mars during the Drakh attack on Earth. I decided to join the crew, instead of returning to Earth to my family.
- Darina Nafil ( Carrie Dobro ) is a highly professional thief and the last member of her race (the drakh destroyed her planet during the trials of the Planet Destroyer found on the ancient Ka-Dam base of Shadows shortly before the attack on Earth), but later it turns out that a small number representatives of her race still survived, but also infected with a virus). Together with Galen, she helped Sheridan prevent the Drakh from destroying the Earth. After that, she spent some time in jail on Mars, but Gideon demanded that she be included in the crew.
- Captain Elizabeth Lockley ( Tracy Scoggins ) - commandant of Babylon 5. She first met Gideon on Mars during the Drakhov Plague Conference. Although at first both captains did not get along, their relationship soon changed to close ones.
Russian cast voices
(dubbing of “Bridge Video”, 2001)
- Captain Matthew Gideon - Vsevolod Kuznetsov
- Lieutenant John Matheson - Andrei Barhudarov
- Max Ailerson - Leonid Belozorovich
- Galen - Vladimir Konkin , serial spin-off Crusade and Babylon 5: Call to Arms
- Dr. Sarah Chambers - Olga Gasparova
- Darina Nafil - Elena Borzunova ; also the pilot film Call to Arms
- Captain Elizabeth Lockley - Marina Tarasova (part of the series, episode "Rules of the Game": Olga Gasparova )
- Trace Miller - Sergey Chekan
- voice-overs, other characters - Viktor Petrov , Alexander Dick ; Dr. Stephen Franklin (in the series “Every night I dream of a house”) and others - Dmitry Matveyev
Series List
Series filmed
| Title | Russian name | No | air date | Summary of the series |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| War zone | Military zone | one | June 9, 1999 | The command of the new spaceship "Escalibur" under the command of the brave captain Matthew Gideon is sent in search of funds from the plague of the Drakhs, threatening to destroy all of humanity. On the way, they also meet with the Drakhs themselves ... In particular, they take prisoner Counselor Loshan, a high-ranking dignitary of the Drakh. |
| The long road | Long road | 2 | June 16, 1999 | A saving mineral was found on one planet, helping to gain time in the race to save humanity from an impending ecological catastrophe, but to get it, you need to make sacrifices among the population of this planet ... |
| The well of forever | Well of eternity | 3 | June 23, 1999 | This time, at the request of Gelena, Escalibur is sent into the depths of hyperspace, to a place called the Well of Eternity. |
| The path of sorrows | Way of sadness | four | June 30, 1999 | On one world in a rumored place, the crew of Escalibur finds an alien who acts as a confessor for all travelers. |
| Patterns of the Soul | Soul structure | five | July 7, 1999 | The crew is heading to the world, referred to as Theta 49, to investigate the possibilities that the Drakhov plague could have spread beyond Earth. |
| Ruling From the Tomb | Board from the grave | 6 | July 14, 1999 | During a visit to Mars, the crew encounters the worshipers of the doomsday cult "Sacred Omega". Fanatics set up a bomb at a conference to find a means against the plague, acting in the hope of approaching the Doomsday. |
| The Rules of the Game | Rules of the game | 7 | July 21, 1999 | Gideon arrives at Babylon 5 in an attempt to reach an agreement with the inhabitants of Lorca 7, a world that may influence the revelation of the medical secrets necessary to find the means against the plague of the Drakhkhov. |
| Appearances and Other Deceits | Propriety and other frauds | eight | July 28, 1999 | Two representatives of the earthly government arrive to improve the image of the ship, while an alien arrives there, seizing people's bodies through touch. |
| Racing the night | Night race | 9 | August 4, 1999 | The team visits a planet that was once the home of a civilization destroyed by the same plague as the one that the Drakh had dropped on Earth. Researchers are surprised by intact buildings, but then discover movement in the ancient city. |
| The memory of war | Memory of war | ten | August 11, 1999 | The crew visits the planet, whose inhabitants were destroyed during the war 100 years ago. |
| The needs of earth | Earth's needs | eleven | August 18, 1999 | The team saves an alien who, according to the Rangers, owns six crystals with important information about his world. |
| Visitors From Down the Street | Neighbors down the street | 12 | August 25, 1999 | The Escalibur receives a distress signal from a flying saucer ship. Despite the fact that they have never met with the race of these aliens before, they argue that people have corrupted their government and ruined the inhabitants of their homeworld. |
| Each Night I Dream of Home | Every night I dream of a house | 13 | September 1, 1999 | A warlock class destroyer dumps two passengers into the Escaliburu shuttle with instructions to bring him to Earth. Along the way, a team with the risk of collision saves “Starfury” with Elizabeth Lockle . Upon arrival from Earth, they are sent a capsule with Dr. Stephen Franklin , who, during a risky experiment on the ship, obtained important information about the virus. |
In Russia, it was published on video by the Most-Video company (7 VHS in two series).
The order of the filmed episodes, the most consistent with the original chronological plan of the series, according to Strazhinsky : [2]
- (-) Fighting zone (retake)
- 1. Racing in the night
- 2. Earth's needs
- 3. Memory of war
- 4. Long road
- 5. Guests from our street
- 6. The Well of Eternity
- 7. Every night I dream of a house
- 8. Labyrinths of the soul
- 9. Path of sorrows
- 10. Rule from the grave
- 11. Rules of the game
- 12. Battle zone
- 13. Propriety and other deceptions.
However, there are doubts about the seriousness of this list, since then, for example, the chronology of the relationship between Matthew Gideon and Elizabeth Lockley is violated. At the end of the "Appearances and Other Deceits" series, the Excalibur crew has a new form of clothing, but only according to the usual order of the series (according to the chronology of the screen output) they continue to walk in it until the end; according to the list, allegedly, Strazhinsky, the chronology of events is completely violated.
Incomplete Series
- Valuable convictions
- To the end of the earth
- End of strip
Other planned episodes
- Proven ("Tried and True") - between the episodes "Valuable Judgments" and "To the End of the World"
- After the episode "To the End of the World", the name is unknown (the episode develops the theme of the apocalyptic box)
- “Sword Trilogy”: Military History (“War Story”), part 1 - three consecutive episodes, united by a cross-cutting theme. Anticipates the end of the season end of the line
- The Walls of the Underworld ("The Walls of Hell"), the second part of the trilogy
- The third part of the trilogy, the name is not known.
Conflict with TNT
Crusade Wars (short video)
The difficulties that the series authors had in the dialogue with the TNT channel and which ended with the cessation of filming and the production of new episodes are reflected in one of the parodies invented by the creators of Babylon Park - J. Michael Strazhinsky’s conflict with one cable television network is shown in this story. The protagonists are: Captain Gideot - by combining Gideon ( Matthew Gideon , the captain of Excalibur and ( eng. Idiot is an idiot ), that is, literally, the captain is an idiot, Captain Brockley and others. They have to save Strazhinsky from the captivity of the Dark Side of Marketing where the latter plays the role of a powerful intergalactic evil empire (in its desire to get a rating in any way, including in the plots below the belt). [3]
Notes
- ↑ The Crusade Crisis , Ain't it Cool News. Record dated July 13, 2006
- ↑ episodes of the “Crusade” to beyond.babylonfive.ru Neopr (Inaccessible link) . The appeal date is February 18, 2009. Archived February 25, 2009.
- ↑ Crusade Wars at www.gwarbco.com .
Links
- Crusade on the Internet Movie Database
- Crusade on TV.com
- Crusade on The Great Machine ( Babylon 5 Wiki )