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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0012569757257 Feature: Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers is a two-hour television movie created by J. Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 14, 2006 Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 19, 2002 Sales Rank: 9751 MPN: WARD75725D
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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers is a two-hour television movie created by J.
Description: Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers is a two-hour television movie created by J. Michael Straczynski (original creator of the Babylon 5 series) for the Sci-Fi Channel. The telefilm takes place in 2264 after the wars are over and a new age of space exploration has begun. The Interstellar Alliance has been organized to establish and maintain peace among its member worlds, including Earth. The Rangers are an elite military force made up of hand-picked young, smart, dedicated human and alien members who combine the high-tech elements of space travel with the idealism and honor of the knights of old. They encounter a previously unknown alien race whose lethal power is far greater than any force previously known to Earth or any other world in the Interstellar Alliance.
Amazon.com: Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers is a two-hour television movie created by J. Michael Straczynski (original creator of the Babylon 5 series) for the Sci-Fi Channel. The telefilm takes place in 2264 after the wars are over and a new age of space exploration has begun. Science-fiction fans are notoriously hard to please, and few have anything good to say about The Legend of the Rangers, produced in 2002 to introduce a spinoff of the popular Babylon 5 TV series. The naysayers have a point. Few elements of this 90-minute pilot, subtitled "To Live and Die in Starlight," will likely be memorialized among the genre's golden moments; the dialogue is often clunky and on-the-nose, the acting is less than stellar, and the effects work, while pretty good, doesn't live up to the standard set by Stargate, Farscape, and others. Nevertheless, there's a reasonably compelling story here, involving the elite Rangers (made up of humans and aliens alike, including the Minbari, who sport "head bones" instead of hair and whose cute little ears are placed on the sides of their necks) and the threat posed to the universe by a mysterious new foe known as "the Hand" (these are some seriously bad dudes, a race that has lain dormant for many years but is now back with a vengeance). Front and center is human Ranger David Martell (played by Dylan Neal). Court-martialed for choosing to save his crew rather then lead them to certain death (in violation of a code mandating that "we do not retreat, whatever the reason"), he's put in command of the Liandra, a ship that's not only funkier than Han Solo's Millennium Falcon but haunted to boot. Of course, as events play out, Martell and his pals end up as the last line of defense against the Hand, not only pitted against these implacable enemies but also dealing with a traitor among the good guys. The themes (honor vs. expediency, dark forces arrayed against peace-seekers, human impetuousness tangling with ancient alien wisdom) are familiar, and the outcome is far from unpredictable. Still, there are a lot less entertaining ways to spend 90 minutes than with Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers. --Sam Graham
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Rangers Rock
This was a great made for tv movie. I enjoyed it a great deal. I think you probably have to be a B5 fan to enjoy it but it had a good story line. I really want the job as weapons person on their ship. ... Read More
Rating: - Babylon 5 - The Ledgend of the Rangers
It was all right, it could of been a great series but didn't go there.
Rating: - should be 0 stars
I like cheesy science fiction to a fault. I've watched almost every bad science fiction movie from the 1950s to the present day, and enjoyed most of it. I like Babylon V; even the movies.
This is ... Read More
Rating: - A Classic!
Many older television shows, especially Sci-Fi ones, don't hold up well over time. Babylon 5, however, stands the test of time. It's still watchable, still interesting, still enjoyable. A Classic!
Rating: - Not bad
If you are a Babylon 5 fan you will want to see it. Not great, but you might want to see it and add it to your collection. The first disc which I purchased from Amazon was not properly recorded -- skipped, ... Read More
- Rangers Rock
- should be 0 stars