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Babylon 5: Thirdspace

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422:, obliterating large cruisers with little effort. The Thirdspace fleet is highly advanced and the single-occupant fighters possess deflector shield technology, making them extremely hard to destroy. The violent behavior of the individuals under the artifact's control is intended to disrupt the station's defenses. The struggle is ended when Sheridan uses a 415:; the non-thrall Vorlons shut down the gate, but the remaining Vorlon thralls prevented the artifact's destruction by sending it into hyperspace where it was lost but preserved (in hopes that it might one day be reawakened). Lyta then telepathically informs Captain Sheridan how to deactivate the gate. 833:
While a stand-alone story, it does include a scene in which Zack Allan finally reveals his feelings outright to Lyta Alexander, unaware that she is being telepathically dominated and not hearing a word he says. This sheds some new light on their somewhat uncomfortable friendship and his jealousy of
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to destroy the artifact just as the first wave of Thirdspace heavy warships begins to emerge. Once the artifact is destroyed, the telepathic influence stops and the station returns to normal. Trent, shaken by the way in which the artifact affected her, turns over her final report and goes on an
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after the script was written. In the novelization, the description of the artifact does not match what appears in the film. Most notably, the artifact in the novel formed into a jump gate that was larger than the station when it became operational. In the film, however, it rearranged itself and
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Sheridan and the others conceal the true nature of the artifact from those who ask questions and confidently assure themselves that the incident is unlikely to occur again. In private, Lyta broods with the knowledge that the artifact was only one of many mistakes the Vorlons have made.
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population. Dr. Trent conjectures that the artifact is a Jumpgate that takes one neither to normal space nor to hyperspace but to a "third" space (hence the movie's title). With the reluctant support of her colleague, they order the device to be turned on, without notifying
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about themselves drifting in hyperspace) appears to refer obliquely to the events of this film by pondering, "Who knows what's out there; maybe we'll find a million-year-old jumpgate left over by the First Ones."
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a million years ago with a purpose that cannot be expressed in human terms except as an attempt to make contact with the gods. The Vorlons discovered that Thirdspace is a
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inhabited by a violent, telepathic alien species even older and more powerful than the Vorlons that is bent on exterminating all life other than their own.
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When the device is finally reactivated, the Thirdspace aliens stream out from the portal in small fighters and begin a devastating assault on
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Long ago, the Thirdspace aliens telepathically converted a small army of Vorlons to fight and die for them. The ensuing battle ended in a
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corporation Interplanetary Expeditions sends a representative, Dr. Elizabeth Trent, to take control of the artifact's examination.
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plotline, centers on the return of an ancient and overwhelming alien force which had once attempted to destroy life in the
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The final episode of the season includes scenes of future events up to 3262 and beyond.
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cable network, during the run of season five (originally being shown between "
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her relationship with another telepath, Byron, that would occur in Season 5.
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The fictional artifact was designed by science fiction and fantasy artist
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The artifact begins to influence the dreams of many inhabitants of
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Essentially a stand-alone episode, the film is set after the
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The movie was originally shown on July 19, 1998 on the
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Index


Space opera
Drama
J. Michael Straczynski
Jesús Salvador Trevino
Bruce Boxleitner
Claudia Christian
Jeff Conaway
Patricia Tallman
Stephen Furst
Richard Biggs
Christopher Franke
Douglas Netter
Warner Bros. Television
TNT
made-for-television film
Babylon 5
universe
J. Michael Straczynski
Jesús Salvador Treviño
TNT
Movements of Fire and Shadow
The Fall of Centauri Prime
Shari Belafonte
William Sanderson
Grail
Shadow
Vorlon
Milky Way
artifact

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