BPP 515 – Darkness Ascending

The Babylon Project Podcast

Our hosts open the discussion commenting on what begins as a disorienting episode — something horrible has happened to the station. Seems there was quite a bit of boom, but we quickly learn it was Michael’s nightmare.

Delenn receives information from Lennier and learns several disturbing things: the attacks on shipping have increased dramatically in number, and each attack appears to be preceded by a discrete and encoded Centauri transmission. Later in the episode, Lennier gets a little unorthodox in his attempt to gather additional, necessary information. The risk is great, Lennier almost loses his life, but the result is very clear evidence (with lots of boom!) about the Centauri responsibility for the attacks on shipping. What’s not known is why they’re conducting these attacks. Back on Babylon 5, Delenn fears Lennier has been lost in space, but to her (and everyone’s!) great relief he brings the evidence home safely.

While these significant events unfold, Lise finds a hidden bottle of booze in Mike’s room, knows instantly what it means, confronts Mike and the result is anger and Mike’s further decent into the abyss—or perhaps we should say he’s further enveloped in an ascending darkness.

As the episode wraps up with new evidence in hand, the Council reconvenes — only without Londo. The situation is tense, to say the least, and the Alliance appears to be on the cusp of a new war, this time with one of its founding members: the Centauri. But we’ll have to wait to see how the evidence is handled and presented to Londo.

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