Babylon 5 - The Complete Fourth Season - The Complete Fourth Season (1996)
Front Cover Actor Back Cover
Bruce Boxleitner
Richard Biggs
Jason Carter
Claudia Christian
Jeff Conaway
Jerry Doyle
Mira Furlan
Stephen Furst
Peter Jurasik
Andreas Katsulas
Movie Details
Genre Box Sets; Cult Classics; Sci-Fi; Sci-Fi / Fantasy; Television
Director Misc
Producer John Copeland; J. Michael Straczynski
Writer J. Michael Straczynski
Studio Warner Bros.
Language English
Audience Rating NR (Not Rated)
Running Time 16 hr 6 mins
Country USA
Color Color
Plot
Season 4 began on a high point with the Centauri Prime in the grip of the insane Emperor Cartagia (Wortham Krimmer) and a run of six shows leading to the climax of the war against the Shadows in "Into the Fire." If this colossal narrative was resolved a little too easily and the ultimate aim of the Shadows turned out to be a tad disappointing, it still proved to be the most powerful slice of space opera to ever grace the small screen. In the aftermath the sheer scale dropped back a little but the pace never slowed as the rest of the season played out in one relentless cycle of conspiracy, betrayal and conflict, Babylon 5 siding with the rebel Mars colony against the totalitarian Earth.

Meanwhile Delenn came increasingly into conflict with her own people and, paralleling her relationship with Sheridan, Garibaldi became involved with his ex-fiancée Lise Hampton (Denise Gentile), while an intense platonic love grew between Ivanova and Marcus Cole. On an unstoppable wave fuelled by roller-coaster plot twists and spectacular action shows from "No Surrender, No Retreat"--when Sheridan avows to overthrow EarthGov--to "Rising Star"--when the aim is realized--Babylon 5 achieved a consistent excellence rare in television. Yet within that run "Intersections in Real Time" stood out as a bold experiment; essentially a two-hand drama taking place entirely within one dimly lit room. Beyond this a major character died and Sheridan and Delenn married before the season finale again broke with expectation. In "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars," a future descendant of humanity one million years hence reviews excerpts from the history of Babylon 5. In one sequence set in 2762, a Brother is devoted to the preserving of history some time after the "Big Burn." A homage to Walter M. Miller's classic A Canticle for Leibowitz, Sheridan and Delenn have themselves become the stuff of legend. --Gary S. Dalkin

Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Index 422
Collection Status In Collection
Quantity 1
Links IMDB
DVD Empire
Amazon US
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio Widescreen 1.85:1 Color
Layers Single side, Dual layer
UPC 085392797226
Release Date 2004
Subtitles English; Spanish; French
Packaging Custom Case
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
Nr of Disks/Tapes 6
Extra Features
Color Closed-captioned Widescreen Dolby Box set