>>16562379And in the show, Babylon is a multiracial diplomatic free trade station.
The first three were blown up.
The fourth disappeared.
The fifth becomes the starting point for the Interstellar Alliance which is literally We The People in space.
And the reason they're called Babylon is that the ancient city was a great multicultural trade hub for various tribes.
What makes the show infinitely better than Sars Trek is the fact that damned near every single episode is some form of soft disclosure.
First season, there's a reptilian warlord who experimented medically on everyone and invented the elixir for eternal life. She wants to sell it to Earth because of the irony: to produce it, you need to torture and ritually murder billions of people. The elixir is shown as red and gold.
Half of the series focuses on war with demons who destroy for the fun of it, and it turns out that the autocratic wise guys of the galaxy who were perceived as good are really just totalitarian Nazis who will destroy that which does not obey to order.
Thus it serves as a coming of age story for mankind.
Unfortunately the other half of the story is a mutt-man romance about souls being shared between races and we must come together for unity and diversity and inclusivity. Pretty gay for 1995.
