Thursday, July 16, 2009

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.

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