Babylon 5: A Call to Arms story
It is up to President Sheridan to stop the Drakh from destroying Earth. It is the fifth of six feature-length films in the Babylon 5 media franchise.
13 total · 5 major · 8 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| attack from outer space by a genocidal enemy | major | It was up to President Sheridan to stop the Drakh from annihilating Earth. Dureena Nafeel's world destroyed by the Shadows. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | The Drakh aliens were hellbent on destroying Earth. Many other aliens were either involved in the plot or were hanging around in the background. |
| space station | major | Significant parts of the story are set on the Babylon 5 space station. |
| speculative spaceship | major | Much of the story is set aboard the IAS Excalibur, the first in a series of prototype destroyers using technology reverse engineered from the Vorlon–Minbari technology of the White Stars. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | Dureena Nafeel was determined to get revenge on the Drakh on account that they annihilated her people. The Drakh sought revenge for the part humans have played in defeating them in a past war. |
| alien brought pandemic | minor | The Drakh contaminated Earth with a biogenic agent that would kill all life on Earth inside of five years unless a cure was found. |
| betrayal | minor | Drake, a Mars citizen resentful of Earth's prejudice against Mars-born citizens, betrayed the people of Earth by supplying the Drakh attack fleet with information. |
| biological weapons | minor | The Drakh contaminated Earth with biogenic plague Earth using a biological weapon. |
| criminal gangs | minor | Dureena Nafeel was briefly abducted by the Thieves Guild that was lurking in the seedy underground of Babylon 5. |
| human vs. contagious disease | minor | President Sheridan convened a team of experts and set them to work on finding a cure for the plague that threatened to eradicate all human life on Earth. |