Babylon 5: The River Of Souls story
After a short absence from Babylon 5, Michael Garibaldi returns to the station to meet with a person in his employ. An archaeologist in search of a means of immortality brings his most recent find to Babylon 5 – an orb containing one billion souls of an extinct race. Within days, a Soul Hunter arrives claiming the orb was stolen from his people. With the assistance of the archaeologist, the souls break free from their captivity in the orb and bring havoc to the station. It is the fourth of six feature-length films in the Babylon 5 media franchise.
14 total · 5 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| obsession | major | Dr. Robert Bryson was all-consumed with a desire to live forever. |
| space station | major | The story is set about the gargantuan Babylon 5 space station. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | A large proportion of the one billion souls that the Soul Hunter aliens had mistakenly reaped before their time were hellbent on getting revenge over the mishap. |
| the quest for immortality | major | Dr. Robert Bryson spent his career searching for a means of immortality, and he finally though he found one in an orb containing one billion souls of an extinct race. |
| the soul | major | There was an orb containing one billion souls of an extinct race. Garibaldi was convinced that the Soul Hunters were not really harvesting souls, but rather were preserving peoples' consciousnesses by means of some advance technology - the Soul Hunter disagreed. |
| archaeology occupation | minor | Dr. Robert Bryson recovered an orb containing one billion souls of an extinct race while on an archaeological dig. |
| extraterrestrial being | minor | The Soul Hunter aliens. The Ralga aliens. |
| hologram | minor | Mr. Clute solicited the services of a racy female hologram at a holographic brothel. |
| hubris | minor | The Soul Hunter alien was initially adamant that he and his soul harvesting brethren were incapable of any error when it came to the matter of determining when someone was at the moment of death. As a result, he was dumbfounded to learn that he and his brethren had mistakenly taken the souls of an entire alien race before their proper time. |
| personal identity | minor | Dr. Robert Bryson raised the question of whether there is more to a person than the sum total of all their memories. |