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"You Are In Front Of Me. If You Value Your Lives, Be Somewhere Else! "
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 bat...