"Crusade" (1999) TV series

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Seasons:

1

Release Date:

9 June 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

Who Do You Serve, And Who Do You Trust?

Plot:

A team of soldiers and scientists has five years to find a cure for a plague decimating Earth.

Plot Keywords:

Plague | Space | Alien | Dragon | Telepathy

Cast

Gary Cole	...	Capt. Matthew Gideon (13 episodes, 1999)
Tracy Scoggins	...	Capt. Elizabeth Lochley (13 episodes, 1999)
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Lt. John Matheson (13 episodes, 1999)
David Allen Brooks	...	Max Eilerson (13 episodes, 1999)
Peter Woodward	...	Galen (13 episodes, 1999)
Marjean Holden	...	Dr. Sarah Chambers / ... (13 episodes, 1999)
Carrie Dobro	...	Dureena Nafeel (13 episodes, 1999)

Also Known As:

Babylon 5: Crusade (USA) (working title)
Crusade: The Babylon Project (USA) (working title)
The Babylon Project: Crusade (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

44 min (13 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:M

Company:

Babylonian Productions

Trivia:

J. Michael Straczynski had completed the script for the season 1 finale before the series was cancelled, an episode titled "The End of the Line". The episode was to have Captain Gideon discover the origin of the hybrid-Shadow vessel encountered earlier in the series: a secret EarthForce project to combine human and Shadow technology. An EarthForce officer would have subsequently revealed that Techno-Mages were originally agents of the Shadows who rebelled, but still use the Shadows' technology. The friendship between Gideon and Galen would have been strained, not only by the revelation of the Techno-Mages' origins, but by Galen's admission that he was sent by the Techno-Mages to find any more leftover Shadow technology, and that was why he'd been helping Gideon in the first place. The episode, and the season, was to have ended with Gideon on Mars trying to expose the EarthForce experiments, only to be shot by an EarthForce sniper.

Quotes:

Senator Jacob Redway: Didn't your daddy ever teach you not to contradict your elders?
Gideon: No, sir.
Senator Jacob Redway: Hmm, well, I see part of the problem here.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005) (V)

Darker and deeper

Beyond Babylon 5 there's another war and it begin in the edge of the heart of a group of people trying to find a cure to save earth, that's Crusade, a Babylon 5 spin off. It's not the classic story of the space explorers, it's about how hard can be our present when we have some unfinished business with our past. That's make the characters the most important thing of all, everyone with his secrets and own private war making the story more complex. In a just a few episodes Straczynsky goes far beyond B5 not only taking many unsolved mysteries from his first saga, also with good actors and amazing scripts. Forgetting Warzone as first episode and watching the real one, Racing the night, it's become clear the salvation of the people of earth it's just a piece of the whole jigsaw where only a few have a real chance to survive. It's shame what happen with TNT cos Crusade is one of the best underrated scifi shows with many things to explore.