Babylon 5 - Severed Dreams Firefight

This is not my edit!

Earth and her colonies have effectively descended into civil war. Babylon 5 has succeeded from Earth and set itself up as independent state in response to Earth's Government bombing civilian targets on Mars. President Clark had already despatched ships loyal to him to seize control of Babylon 5, and detain it's staff, and they jump into the system to face Babylon 5 and the renegade ships Alexander and Churchill. What breaks out is the mother of all fire fights...

This is episode is why I fell in love with Babylon 5, and set it above Star Trek on so many levels. The combat is more realistic, and far more intense with the Omega Destroyers moving like the leviathans they are whilst the Starfuries, and Thunderbolts dog fight and hound the capital ships. There's a couple of mistakes like the strafing run on the Churchill cutting to show the attack being registered on the Alexander, but that was because of the pressure of having to fit three times the normal amount of CGI shots into one episode. As it is the finished tape was handed in just hours before it was due to air. Oh, and it was good enough to win a the 1997 Hugo award beating the likes of Independence Day, Mars Attacks! and Star Trek First Contact.

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This contains one of the best scenes of the show, and one of my favourites of any tv show of all time is the final exchange between Capt. Hiroshi and Major Ryan. I always get goosebumps when the dying Churchill sacrifices herself in those last epic moments.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• Babylon 5
• Severed Dreams
• Firefight
• Space battle
• Epic Operatic
• Omega Destroyers
• Thunderbolts
• Starfuries

[TheBlackSpider82]

Those Omega's sound mean!

[ScreamingTc]

@TheBlackSpider82 They sound like they warship. None of that namby pamby stuff you get with Trek.

[ScreamingTc]

@JimbobHarrigan1984 The difference with the Pegasus is that no one died doing it. The crew of the Churchill on the other hand suffered a much more horrific fate - spaced, burns and asphyxiation as the fires on board ate up the oxygen supplies. From the sounds of it they were cut off from the escape pods. Maybe a few lucky survivors would have been pulled from compartments within the ship. It's probably what partly played into Hiroshi's decision to ram the Roanoke.

[ScreamingTc]

@jutau That's the problem with having only a limited time per episode - sometimes they have to cut out scenes we'd all like to see. But you could be guaranteed that the reason the Churchill suffered such horrific damage is that effectively it was four capital ships against two. None of the Clarke loyal ships turned their main guns on B5 because they wanted to take her intact. From what'. The Churchill probably faced off against the two hyperions and the Roanoke.

[ScreamingTc]

@girlgarde Or you could blame it on Sherriden having a brain fart, though that wouldn't exactly inspire confidence if you found out your leader suddenly couldn't think straight mid-battle.

[girlgarde]

@x82ndODSTx Given how damaged B5 was by the end of the battle, the sensors could've been screwed up and got the enemy ships mixed up or something.....

[Baseshocks]

@2009worstyearever They did not want to destroy B5, with all the foreign ambassadors on it they would have just about pissed off every race they know.

And with the other ships hugging B5 they had to move in. P.S those cannons they show that look like they are popping stuff out are the missile countermeasures the fighters intercept and destroy missiles too.

[Debbiebabe69]

Heres another suggestion. Churchill engaged, destroyed and was damaged by the Hyp's. Agrippa was shown broadside to Alex so must have been attacking someone else - Churchill. Roanoake was broadside to Churchill when rammed so must have been attacking someone else, ie B5 (Alex was not recieving capital hits, B5 was heavily damaged). This would explain why Sheridan ordered a firing solution on Roanoake - Roanoke was still alive at that point and B5 must have changed targets to Agrippa off-screen.

[VinnyMonster1]

B5 STILL has the best space battles in Sci Fi!

[Wyrmshadow]

1:16 it's Jackie Chiles from Sienfeld!

[Wyrmshadow]

I wore out my VHS when this came on the first time.

[x82ndODSTx]

I always laught at how they get the ships confused at the last minute.

The Agripa is the one they're firing at, the Roanoke is the ship that the Churchill hit and destroyed.