This post is in honor of actress Mira Furlan who passed away on January 20th due to complications of the West Nile virus.
There were plenty of great sci fi and fantasy television shows in the 1990s including the The X-Files, Xena: Warrior Princess and an seemingly endless parade of programs with the word Trek in the title. The one show that stood out amongst all of these top-notch programs was J. Michael Straczynski's five-year space war saga Babylon 5. Many critics at the time took the show lightly but Straczynski's strong character driven stories kept me glued to my set episode after episode.
Todays clip features one of the shows most dramatic and down right awesome scenes from the episode Severed Dreams. To set things up for you if you never watched the show the space station Babylon 5 has broken away from the Earth Alliance because of attacks on Mars civilians and a fleet of Earth Alliance cruisers have come to take the station back by force. There is an intense space battle in which the Earth forces overpower the fleet protecting the station, then just when everything seems lost Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari swoops in with her fleet to save the day!
Needless to say the Minbari are bad ass mofos and the Earth ships were wise to turn tale and run for home! If you followed the series then you know that fair skinned ones with a massive bone structure protruding out of the back of their skulls kicked the crap out of us in war several years prior. In fact they almost brought our race to extinction but stopped just short of erasing us off the map.
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