Babylon 5 For the First Time - Not a Star Trek Podcast
Jul 6, 2026 · 56 min · 13 segments
Join veteran Star Trek, and now Babylon 5 podcasters, Brent Allen and Jeff Akin as they dive into Babylon 5 for a second time! They revisit each episode with fresh insights and deeper analysis…
Jeff AkinHost
Brent AllenHost
And the first time we watched this series, we played a game where we predicted what each episode was going to be about based on the title alone.

I said that this was going to be Marcus and Franklin heading off towards Mars, bonk, bonk over the head.

Cause that's where we saw them at the end of the last episode and they're going to meet the resistance.

Um, And I said that along with that, Garibaldi was going to leave the station and go back to Mars because we know that's where he's from and his old girlfriend would be there.

But like he was going to show up right as like bad stuff is about to happen to Marcus and Franklin.

And he's going to be like the Han Solo coming back, you know, shooting Darth Vader out of the sky or something like that.

save him and that is a great reference considering the day that we are recording the song right

i thought this was going to be like just marcus and franklin shenanigans played for laughs kind of a softer episode uh with a bunch of jokes in it and i mean how could i not think that because we literally ended the last episode with
i am the very model of a scientist salarian i've studied species torian asari and batarian how did i not have that loaded last time

I don't know how you don't have that just as a solid sound drop on your board at all times for everything that you do.

So I have that for everything I do, because I will put that into every podcast that I am a guest on or that I cohost or whatever.

And the first time we watched this series, we played a game where we predicted what each episode was going to be about based on the title alone.

I said that this was going to be Marcus and Franklin heading off towards Mars, bonk, bonk over the head.

Cause that's where we saw them at the end of the last episode and they're going to meet the resistance.

Um, And I said that along with that, Garibaldi was going to leave the station and go back to Mars because we know that's where he's from and his old girlfriend would be there.

But like he was going to show up right as like bad stuff is about to happen to Marcus and Franklin.

And he's going to be like the Han Solo coming back, you know, shooting Darth Vader out of the sky or something like that.

save him and that is a great reference considering the day that we are recording the song right

i thought this was going to be like just marcus and franklin shenanigans played for laughs kind of a softer episode uh with a bunch of jokes in it and i mean how could i not think that because we literally ended the last episode with
i am the very model of a scientist salarian i've studied species torian asari and batarian how did i not have that loaded last time

I don't know how you don't have that just as a solid sound drop on your board at all times for everything that you do.

So I have that for everything I do, because I will put that into every podcast that I am a guest on or that I cohost or whatever.
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