Babylon 5 Season by Season: No Surrender, no Retreat: Season 4

Babylon 5: Nonfiction books

by Jane Killick

A comprehensive episode-by-episode guide to the fourth thrilling season of Babylon 5 !Filled with stunning revelations and explosive plot twists and turns, Babylon 5: No Surrender, No Retreat sums up the spellbinding fourth season. Culminating in some of the most dramatic events in television history, Captain Sheridan is pronounced missing and presumed dead on Z'ha'dum, while Delenn feverishly rallies support for an all-out offensive against the invading Shadow forces. Internal strife on Centauri erupts in a shocking and violent betrayal. Garibaldi resigns as Security Chief and turns to treachery, plotting against his comrades. And Earth launches a war against Babylon 5.From “The Hour of the Wolf” through the shattering finale of “The Deconstruction of Falling Stars,” B5 expert Jane Killick's episode-by-episode summaries and analyses capture all the action and intrigue of Babylon 5 circa 2261—"the year everything changed."Veteran viewers or first-time fans, relive the adventure—or find out what you've been missing—with the complete companion volumes to Babylon 5 !

Genres: Babylon 5, Nonfiction, Tv, Media Tie In, Science Fiction Fantasy

183 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Bill · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another excellent book looking at each series of Babylon 5. This guide to series four is full of fascinating interviews with cast and crew.

[Jennifer Baratta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Getting the news that channel TNT picked up the series is discussed here as well as season4 of Babylon 5.

[Dark-Draco · Rating 3 out of 5]

My reviews of these episode guides are getting a bit repetitive, but I'm not sure what else I can say about them. To be honest, this was never my favourite season anyway, as I found the abrupt end to the shadow war very unfulfilling. However, this book explains why it happened like it did and what the writer had to achieve, while under threat of cancellation. As usual, I liked both the brief synopsis of each episode and the little interviews with cast and crew. There was some good background given and it made me appreciate the episode that I had just re-watched. Definitely worth reading for any B5 fans.

[Mike Mattice · Rating 5 out of 5]

The insights and quotes from cast and crew added a lot to my B5 knowledge. I'm friends on FB with Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander) and Claudia Christian (Susan Ivanova), and I'm currently writing a Babylon 5 novella called "Song of Lyta". So, I enjoy getting insights into the characters and plots and subplots of one of the finest science fiction series ever on TV.

Season 4 "No Surrender, No Retreat" was a critical turning point in the series, and Jane Killick has covered it episode-by-episode very well.

[James Crawford · Rating 4 out of 5]

An episode guide to the fourth season of the Babylon 5 series. Although the cover of the book says there are pages of colored photographs, all the photos in the book I have are in black-and-white.

The book has a summary of what happened in the episode along with a lot of background information on the episode itself.