Season 1, Episode 5: Hiding from Shadows

By Simon-F. Laflamme.

The Goliath investigates a series of jump gates that apparently lead nowhere. Back on B5, Carlson is reunited with a long-time friend, Admiral Lance Freely, which returns from a top-secret exploration mission. Meanwhile, Ta'Ren's resources are solicitated by the Interstellar Alliance intelligence to investgate the possibility of fraud in the formation of the next drazi government. As well, he signs ludicrous shipping contracts with a private party and the Vree government and is mind-rapped by the same narn that attacked him earlier this season. For no apparent reason. Ta'Ren is also challenged by a centauri martial artist demanding a rematch to a bout his school lost to Ta'Ren's in a cultural exhange fight thirty years before, which disgraced the centauri school. During the fight, it is discovered that Jonathan De Loisier is sponsoring the centauri's revenge in an attempt to reclaim his property. Carlson, who as let go of his injection of sleepers, telepathically scans Freely at his request adn discovers that Freely is the one who built the jump gates to nowhere and is responsible for the scuttling of his ship with all-hands aboard. The gates lead to the Vorlon homeworld, where the old ones servitors claim Freely's life, and are apparently building up.

Season 1, Episode 4: Signs of the Times

By Sean K. Campbell

While investigating the covert government financing of a rival drazi shipping firm, Ta'Ren is infected with a bio-virus apparently engineered specifically for him. Carlson and Enoch investigate to discover it is drazi in origin and that Ta'Ren has little time to live. On a deadline, the remaining Goliath crewmembers cooperate with Martar's intelligence department to plan a strategic raid on Drivak shipping's mainframe on Zhabar, and discover the evidence in time to save Ta'Ren and prove the drazi's guilt.

Season 1, Episode 3: From the Shadows of the Past

By Jean-Philippe Viau.

The Goliath 2 investigates the destruction of a narn cruiser in uncharted space. Meanwhile, the Drazi ambassador threatens to boycott Martar enterprises if the company does not compensate for the technology lost in a mining shipment. The crew of the Goliath is subsequently targeted by thugs, apparently hired by a rival company. Carlson, Ta'Ren and Enoch enlist the help of Jonathan Desloisiers, an eminent archeologist, to investigate the shadow ruins they found near the wreck of the narn ship. Desloisiers is a gambler and one of the prime IPX researchers during the Ganymede encoutner and posseses an invaluable collection of ancient artifacts. On their way to this destination, Enoch confronts Ta'Ren with his true mission: rid the galaxy of the Vorlons and Shadows legacies. He considers Desloisiers's dangerous and wishes Ta'Ren to annex his company, so they can restrain access to his private collection. To do so, they trick him into a stacked game of poker, which they win. Upon arrival, the five found all trace of shadow presence has been eradicated during their absence and come under attack bya shadow tech upgraded drazi sunhawk, made from the components stolen from Ta'Ren's shipping.

Season 1, Episode 2: Not of Minbari

By Simon-F. Laflamme.

Carlson, Ta'Ren and Enoch rescue the survivors of the crippled minbari cruiser. While examining the new Minbari ambassador, Enoch discovers that she is not entirely minbari. Carlson investigates the accident, questionning the minbari delegation about a gaim he think he has seen onboard the ship before it exploded. Meanwhile, the debate as to the ownership of the derelict ship they found in hyperspace is submittes to a Babylon 5 vote. both ambassador Vir and Ta'Lon bargain their vote for inaction or help in the rogue centauri weapons deal. Come the vote, Vir abstains, leaving the vote to the former league of non-aligned worlds until ambassador Zebrune comes out of isolation to tip the vote in the finders favor. Sharing the derelicts ownership and rechristianing it Goliath 2, Ta'Ren, Carlson and Enoch comply with their engagement to deliver weapons to the Narn rebels on Elebius VI's moon.

This episode marks the first appearance of chief engineer Salambo St-Cloud, a former homeguard terrorist suspected of having participated in Babylon 3's destruction.

Season 1, Episode 1: Me

By Simon-F. Laflamme

Thomas Carlson, a retired veteran from the Dilgar and Minbari Wars, is laid off when the corporate mining ship he commands, the Goliath, is decommissioned by its owner, Edgars Enterprises. The company CEO, Michael Garibaldi offers him the ship as a retirement gift, and tells him to propose his services as a tramp freighter captain to Ta'Ren, a narn businessman operating half of up-and-coming company from Babylon 5. The two form a partnership and the first person to qualify for a job on the Goliath is a mysterious techno-mage going by the name of Enoch. The three are secretly whisked away to Centauri Prime where Emperor Londo Mollari warns them from dealing with representatives of a former centauri holding that wishes to furnish weapons to narn rebels on another centauri colony. The rebels intercept Carlson, Ta'Ren and Enoch on their way back to Babylon 5 to offer them a counter proposal and leave them on a derelict ship they found in hyperspace. The threesome escape the centauri fleet, only to return to Babylon 5 and see the Goliath ram B5's jump pilons, damaging the ship transporting the new Minbari Ambassador to the station.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Ghosts of Omelos

by Simon-F. Laflamme

Mark Baggett, Ta’Ren’s human partner in MarTar Enterprises summons him to the head office on Beta IX with dire news: wanting to run for the Earth Senate, he asks Ta’Ren to buy him out. But trade around Beta IX has been greatly hindered by Raiders, whose tactics Carlson recognizes as Dilgar. Reunited with MarTar’s head of security, Mr. Smiths, Ta’Ren and Carlson investigate. They discover the Raiders operate out of a base on a mysterious alien station orbiting the neighboring dead home world of the Markab. Strange biological experiments are being conducted there, among which they find another Mr. Smiths, and another ambassador Zebruune. Carlson and Ta’Ren fight off the Dark Minbari posing as Mr. Smiths, and with Enoch’s help, escape the Raiders and their powerful alien allies with the captives in tow. Back on Babylon 5, Carlson goes to Zebrunne for answers. He discovers she has been attacked and is waylaid by Darzus, which he kills in single combat. Dr. Hobbs discovers Babylon 5’s Zebruune is really a Human who has been genetically transformed to appear Minbari by a familiar parasitic infection. Her name is Emily Jane Banks.

Season 2, Episode 3: Pandemonium

by Simon-F. Laflamme

Ever since the actions of Centauri in the War of Retribution have left the Nar’Shal a barren wasteland, Ta’Ren has done everything in his power to heal his home world. The MarTar Irrigation Initiative (M.T.I.I.) is the culmination of his efforts, his legacy to his people. So when the M.T.I.I. prototype experiment on Beta Durani VII goes silent, Ta’Ren and Carlson investigate immediately. They find a city miles beneath the surface, millions of years old, at the deep end of the borehole excavated to bring water to the surface. The sprawling metropolis sits at the feet of a massive sealed gate, and its sole inhabitants are a sinister cult of Pak’ma’ra led by a human possessed by a demon of ancient Earth: the rogue Vorlon whose chariot was the Goliath, bound by his kind to human flesh as a punishment for his membership of the Hand.

Season 2, Episode 2: Babylon Cubed

by Simon-F. Laflamme

When a lucrative underhanded deal brings the crew of the Goliath to investigate the tail of Brakir’s famed comet, they suddenly find themselves back in the year 2251, on a transport to the unfinished Babylon 3. The transport’s name is Goliath, and its captain is Ta’Ren. His passengers are all Babylon 3 personnel: engineer Salambo St-Cloud, Erich Crowley of the Psi Corps, Babylon 3’s wing commander Colonel Thomas Carlson, and his second-in-command Major Emily Jane Banks. The station’s commander is an old friend of Carlson’s, Colonel Tommi Salmainen. He has arranged festivities in an effort to get his crew to gel before the station is completed and goes online. But the celebrations are cut short when a rumor spreads that the station’s core is going critical and a general evacuation is ordered. As they flee with Banks and St-Cloud on the Goliath, Ta’Ren and Carlson discover the station is really under attack. Their last memory of the incident is the Goliath being boarded by the attackers. Carlson, Enoch, St-Cloud and Ta’Ren awake to discover they are on Babylon 5, hooked up in a VR Cyber-Net. A Drazi is seen fleeing the scene. Carlson and Ta’Ren catch up with him but discover his memory of the incident has been wiped clean. That night, in Carlson’s quarters, the frame holding the old photograph of he and his buddies crashes to the floor. Carlson discovers the picture had been folded so that the image Avis Ames was kept out of frame. 

Season 2, Episode 1: A Call to Order

by Simon-F. Laflamme

The year is 2264, and diplomatic business continues to move away from Babylon 5 to Minbar. The transfer of the Narn embassy is almost complete, and Ta’Lon hires the Goliath to move the most sensitive files. On their way to Minbar, they are waylaid by a Sharlin cruiser which the Goliath dispatches with terrifying efficiency, and as soon as they have set foot on Minbar, Carlson, Enoch, and Ta’Ren are the victims of an assassination attempt by the Dark Knives clan. When they visit the clan’s village to get some answers, the clan’s elder reveals that the Dark Knives do not adhere to common Minbari beliefs. They believe the Minbari were once enslaved and tampered with by the Vorlons. As such, many of the Dark Knives sided with the Shadows in Valen’s War, and many more have fled Minbari space since then. The Dark Knives also believe that the Goliath is a living entity, a Vorlon transport, formerly that of a particularly vicious Vorlon who enslaved the clan millennia ago. The elder also reveals that Zebruune, the new Minbari ambassador to Babylon 5 is a Dark Knife, and so is her attaché, Darzus. Before either side can make amends, the Goliath, powered by a mind of its own, attacks and destroys the Minbari village, using the raw matter therein to complete its maturation into a Vorlon transport. Minbari authorities rule that the Dark Knives attacked first, but nevertheless ban Carlson, Ta’Ren, Enoch and the Goliath from Minbari space.