under" --> "Midnight on the Firing Line" "Amaranth" --> "Born to the Purple" "Carnival!" --> "The Parliament of Dreams" "A Knife in the Shadows" --> "Survivors" "Backlash" --> "By Any Means Necessary" "Raiding Party" --> "Signs and Portents" "The Resurrectionist" --> "The Quality of Mercy" "Chrysalis, Part II" --> "Points of Departure" "A Trick of the Mind" --> "A Spider in the Web" "Pestilence, Famine & Death"> "Soul Mates" Season 3 was initially called "I am Death, Destroyer of Worlds." > Scripts not used in Season 1: "Target Unknown" and "Metaphors and Body Counts" (David Gerrold) > Harlan Ellison stories mentioned but not written: "Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral" and "Demon on the Run" > Season 2 story titles shelved: All Our Songs Forgotten, a.k.a. "Unnatural Selection" (D.C. Fontana), The Very Long Night of Susan Ivanova (JMS), "Expectations" (David Gerold) ======== h. Fan Clubs ## Got Updates? E-mail {b5-submit@midwinter.com} with subject "B5 FAN CLUBS" An official USA B5 fan club is up and running. The address of it is: The Official Babylon 5 Fan Club, P.O. Box 856, North Hollywood, CA 91603. Online form: ftp://ftp.midwinter.com/pub/Babylon-5/fan-club-info (text file) Note: UK fans can join via the UK fan club; see the UK FAQ for information. There are some international and unofficial fan clubs, as well as some fan clubs for particular actors. PLEASE EXERCISE CAUTION IN SENDING MONEY TO THESE CLUBS; I AM NOT ABLE TO VERIFY THE ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, AND I HAVE HEARD REPORTS OF PROBLEMS WITH A FEW OF THE CLUBS. The Centaurian Sentinal is a printed monthly newsletter. WWW: http:www.hway.net/dreamin/centauri.htm / E-mail: m.zmuda@genie.geis.com The Circle of Friends, a fan club sanctioned by Michael O'Hare (Commander Sinclair/Valen) is a charity organization which raises money to support his chosen charities. For more information, contact Sandy Bruckner at sgbruckner@aol.com or 5022 Geronimo Street, College Park, MD 20740. WWW: http://www.muohio.edu/~thomasrd/fomoh.html Garibaldi & Company, c/o Linda K. Shapley, 12865 NE 85th St., Suite 267, Kirkland WA 98033 e-mail: Flashdanze@aol.com. NOTE: Apparently some people were having problems reaching this FC; I am reassured that they are still in business. Bruce Boxleitner's Official Fan Club, P.O. Box 57593, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 International Bruce Boxleitner Fan Club, c/o Darla Vasilias, 230 Deerfield Dr. Alexandria, VA 22309 Garibaldi's Security Squad, c/o Caroline Griffin, 54 Wimpole Street, London W1M 7DF England Julie Caitlin Brown Fan Club, e-mail Dkountz@aol.com for information. Richard Biggs Fan Club, c/o Shirley Didemoico, 1133 Uptegraf Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15218 The Mira Furlan Fan Club, PO Box 523093, Springfield, VA 22152-9998. Ed Wasser Fan Club: Bi-monthly electronic newsletter. Free to all. e-mail subscribe@wasser.com to join. WWW: http://www.catalog.com/wasser Australia: There are TWO fan clubs, in competition. The information for both is provided here. The Babylon 5 Oz Fan Club: WWW: http://www.bab5oz.hl.com.au/ NOTE: I have received several reports of problems with this club; please exercise caution. Then, there's the Australian Babylon 5 Fan Club; e-mail bfive@vnet.ibm.com for info. Germany: Journey to Babylon. Steffen Maier, Friedenstrasse 11, D-66978 Donsieders, GERMANY. E-mail: StefMaier1@aol.com. Germany: German Babylon 5 Fanclub, Daniela Ricci, Mindenerstr.7, 40227 Dusseldorf, Germany. e-mail: wizart@NetCologne.de Norway: The B5 Alliance. Inge Carlen, Ole Messelts vei 130 0676 Oslo, Norway e-mail: ingec@powertech.no France: Le Cercle de Babylon 5, c/o Dominique Deloze, 1, Clos de Momgambe, 54460 Aingeray, France Russia: see WWW: http://www.aha.ru/~shs UK: See the UK Babylon 5 FAQ. ------------------------------ Subject: 11. Where to find online information ## Got Updates? E-mail {b5-submit@midwinter.com} with subject "B5 ONLINE" ======== a. INTERNET WORLD "The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5" is by far the best source for WIDE B5 updates, information, analyses, images, and so on. WEB North America (West): http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html Mirrors of the Midwinter site are: North America (East): http://www.dscga.com/lurk/lurker.html Australia: http://econ-www.newcastle.edu.au/lurk/lurker.html Germany: http://www.asta.uni-essen.de/lurk/lurker.html Greece: http://www.ntua.gr/lurk/lurker.html UK (ep. guide): http://www.csv.warwick.ac.uk/~suaap/lurker/eplist.htm The OFFICIAL B5 web site is less ambitious, but has a nice set of high quality official graphics, movies, etc. at http://www.babylon5.com "Agamemnon" sound site is http://rampages.onramp.net/~brummett/b5.htm An unofficial encyclopedia is http://interweb.uml.edu/B5/Enc/ (Other B5 WWW sites are listed in the Lurker's guide.) The web holds dozens of web pages devoted to B5; you can find many of them via links at the Lurker's Guide or the official site. USENET rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.info A low-volume, moderated list for announcements and information related to Babylon 5, as well as general compilations of JMS postings. A must for anybody who can get Usenet. Created November 1995. This group is archived on the web: http://ivory.ora.com/rastbi/ rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated The new moderated discussion group in which JMS participates, as well as co-producer George Johnsen, along with occasional other B5 staffers and writers. Created April 1996. rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5 This group was created in Mar 28 1994 and is the main unmoderated Babylon 5 discussion newsgroup. JMS no longer participates here. alt.tv.babylon-5 The original Usenet B5 group, created Feb 18 1993, and still online uk.media.tv.sf.babylon5 and aus.sf.babylon5 are UK and Oz groups. rec.video.satellite, rec.arts.tv, and rec.arts.sf.tv may also contain Babylon 5 discussion and announcements. FTP ftp.midwinter.com (206.148.146.193) is the main site from which you can retrieve Babylon-5-related files via anonymous FTP. NORTH AMERICAN MIRROR: ftp.uml.edu AUSTRALIAN MIRROR: econ-www.newcastle.edu.au EUROPEAN MIRROR: ftp.ctrl-c.liu.se B5 Sounds are at Agamemnon, ftp://archive.egr.msu.edu/pub/babylon5 REVIEW The Babylon 5 Reviews Electronic Forum, moderated by Jeff Schultz. LIST To subscribe, e-mail the automated list server, listproc@cornell.edu. Put a single line into the body of the message, reading: SUBSCRIBE B5-REVIEW-L Firstname Lastname This is processed by machine, so do not include a signature. WWW: http://mist.cit.cornell.edu/b5rev/ STORY An outlet for creative "fan fiction" has been set up as a mailing list IDEAS in order to keep JMS from being exposed to any story ideas. There's LIST also a speculation mailing list. Send e-mail to these addresses: b5-creative-request@lists.best.com for creative stories, or to b5-speculation-request@lists.best.com for speculation. Place the word SUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. INTERNET A continuous chat exists on EFnet on channel "#Babylon5". RELAY Info on IRC: ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/news.answers/irc-faq CHAT Info on the B5 chat: http://www.nwlink.com/~brett/B5irc also: http://b5chat.home.ml.org MUD/ There's a B5 MUD (info: rmeikle@cs.strath.ac.uk ) reachable by: MUSH telnet underworld.demon.co.uk 2010 / visit babylonfive A B5 Mush can be found at gateway.targonia.com 4201. LOCAL MANY areas now have local area mailing lists, thanks to the babcom AREA list server. WWW: http://www.babcom.com/b5/lists.shtml LISTS Or, over e-mail, send 'help' to majordomo@babcom.com for a complete list of commands. 'lists' gets you the list of lists served. JMS To get mailings of JMS's answers from Usenet (and their preceeding RELAY questions) as well as digest of CI$ JMS postings, send e-mail to LIST majordomo@majordomo.cs.columbia.edu containing "subscribe b5jms" Another similar service is available by sending e-mail to majordomo@ulc199.residence.gatech.edu with "subscribe jms-posts" in the body of the message. WARNER A new mailing list from Warner Bros. for fans has been started; it has BROS. occasional "newsletter" mailings. Mail listserv@taz.warnerbros.com LIST with body text: subscribe babylon5 firstname lastname ELEC- "The Zocalo" is a 4100+ member B5 club/newsletter via e-mail. TRONIC Send your first name, where you found this info, your city, state, NEWS- and country of residence to katana@highfiber.com. LETTERS WWW: http://www.highfiber.com/~katana/ ======== b. GEnie The two Babylon 5 topics are located at Page 471, Category 18 (general series-related) and 19 (episode-specific). Archives of past messages are available in the GEnie SFRT files areas, along with graphics files and the interactive demos are also available in the file area. ======== c. America Online (AOL) AOL now features a Babylon 5 Section (Keyword: Babylon5). There are official promotional images, movies, and sounds and an (uncredited!) adaptation of this FAQ list. Interactive interviews with the cast and crew occur frequently. JMS now participates in the message areas. ======== d. CompuServe JMS is a regular daily participant in the SF & Fantasy Media One Forum (SFMEDONE), where there are three active Babylon 5 sections (for general discussion and spoiler discussions, and the UK audience), two weekly B5 conferences, and quarterly JMS conferences. There is also another B5 conference, in the eDRIVE grouping of forums, under ETV, Section 7, SF/Sci-Fi; JMS pops in there from time to time. ======== e. Other JMS also frequents BIX, and lurks on other networks; there are active B5 sections on many other networks and BBSs around the world. Babylon 5 graphic files, information files, and forwarded JMS postings are available on many of these systems. If you have a local BBS or network, feel free to add some of the resources from the FTP site over to that system! ------------------------------ Subject: 12. Credits and Legalese This text file may be distributed online, in complete or excerpted form, as long as acknowledgement is made to the authors, and the URL of the current version of this file is indicated. (see top of document.) The Babylon 5 Frequently Asked Questions List part (A) is Copyright 1996-97 by Dan Wood. Acknowledgement is made to J. Michael Straczynski, previous FAQ maintainer Lee Whiteside and to excerpted contributions from the Babylon 5 online libraries, especially The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 and The Zocalo. Currently maintained by Dan Wood (danwood@karelia.com) Comments, suggestions, etc. are always appreciated. If you have any information to go into the FAQ and/or the Lurker's Guide, please send them to {b5-submit@midwinter.com>. This text file was edited on QUED/M text editor running on a Macintosh. If you maintain an online B5 service, I can send you each FAQ update. I don't have the resources to send updates to individuals, so please don't ask.