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Episode no.
  
Season 3 Episode 14

Written by
  
J. Michael Straczynski

Original air date
  
29 April 1996

Directed by
  
Mike Vejar

Production code
  
314

Ship of Tears is an episode from the third season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5.

Contents

Synopsis

Bester returns to Babylon 5 and proposes an unlikely alliance. A convoy of "weapons supplies" for the Shadows is intercepted in hyperspace by the White Star.

Arc significance

  • ISN comes back online, this time as a propaganda tool.
  • The Shadows have infiltrated the Psi Corps to acquire telepaths for use as living processor cores to protect the connection between the being and the ship from telepathic interference.
  • A woman Bester is in love with is one of the telepaths to be used by the Shadows, giving him a reason to temporarily side with Babylon 5.
  • The war room is seen for the first time.
  • A thousand years ago the Narn telepaths sacrificed themselves to drive the Shadows from their homeworld.
  • The Shadows invade Brakiri space.
  • The overt Shadow War begins.

    • References

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