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Despite 'Babylon 5' not being in the Trek Universe, and in a way competition to Deep Space Nine, B5 has a special place in my heart. It was truly a great space sci-fi series that was way ahead of its time. It was a series that was definitely better than Star Trek: Voyager or Enterprise. Anyway for this weeks entry into the blog we have a sad one: On September 28, 2012, J. Michael Straczynski posted that O'Hare suffered a heart attack on September 23 and had remained in a coma until the 28th, when he died.   I was very sad to hear this. I was and still am a huge fan of the 'Babylon 5' series and I really enjoyed Michael O'Hare as Commander Sinclair. I remember when season 2 started being devastated that O'Hare would not be returning. I had no  Internet  back then and had no way of knowing Bruce Boxleitner would be replacing him on the series. He did make a brief return  appearance  in Season 2 but made a big splash in the 3rd season 2 part episode ...

Part I: My Pre -Discussion Of 'Babylon 5'    Shortly after the launch of DS 9 in the spring of 1993 there was a TV movie that made it's premiere, and it was called 'Babylon 5'. To be honest I was not impressed. The story was bad, the make-up looked terrible and and special effects were not even close to being as good as DS 9. Despite all this the movie was enough to convince someone at Warner Brothers to invest in a TV season and in January 1994 'Babylon 5' the TV series was born.       They really cleaned up the TV series from what the TV movie had been. the special effects, although not DS 9 quality were a lot better. B5 was one of the first space series to use all digital f x , which really made them pioneers in the field. As the series progressed the special effects got pretty solid and looked good, but the first few season did not look as good as their DS 9 counterpart.  The make up got better for the series, especial...