A Voice in the Wilderness (Part 1) story
Strange signals start coming from Epsilon 3, the planet below Babylon 5. A science ship is sent to investigate, but is fired upon by a defense system on the planet. Meanwhile Garibaldi worries about a lover he left back on Mars, when fighting breaks out there. Directed by: Janet Greek. Story by: J. Michael Straczynski.
14 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with a loved one being in peril | choice | Garibaldi was desperate to find out whether his ex-lover Lize Hampton was safe on Mars after a civil war broke out. |
| civil war | major | Mars colonists rebelled against their Earth rulers. |
| coping with memories of a lost love | major | Garibaldi worried about his ex-lover Lize Hampton who he left behind on Mars. |
| ethnic hatred | major | Ethnic hatred spilled over into a civil war on Mars. |
| human vs. inexplicable adversity | major | Sinclair and Ivanova tried to get to the bottom of what was going on on the strange planet that Babylon 5 was orbiting around. |
| planetary-scale machine | major | The planet Babylon 5 was in orbit around turned out to be a mesh of fusion reactors. |
| romantic love | major | Garibaldi for his ex-lover Lize Hampton. |
| coping with aging | minor | The elderly Minbari Draal wished to go to "the sea" to find purpose and meaning in his final years. |
| diplomacy | minor | Sinclair successfully oversaw a diplomatic negotiation between Dalenn and Londo. |
| duty vs. friendship | minor | Talia bent rules for Garibaldi in trying to locate his ex-lover Lize Hampton. |