Crusade
Who do you serve, and who do you trust?
Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped. To that end, the Victory class destroyer Excalibur has been sent out to look for anything that could help the search for a cure.
Episodes
1War Zone
44 minJun 9, 1999
Capt. Matthew Gideon assembles the crew that will be with him on the experimental starship Excalibur. Their mission: explore the reaches of space to find a cure for the deadly Drakh virus that will overrun Earth in five years.
2The Long Road
44 minJun 16, 1999★ 5.8
Gideon mediates between Earth miners and the residents of a planet containing a virus-fighting mineral--and a fire-breathing dragon.
3The Well of Forever
44 minJun 23, 1999
Galen persuades Gideon to seek a mystical crossroads. An investigator probes Matheson's mind.
4The Path of Sorrows
44 minJun 30, 1999
A mysterious sphere prompts Gideon and the others to relive traumatic moments from their past.
5Patterns of the Soul
44 minJul 7, 1999
Gideon must deport a colony of renegade humans. Dureena finds a lost tribe of her people.
6Ruling from the Tomb
44 minJul 14, 1999
Gideon and Lochley must prevent a doomsday cult from killing everyone at a virus conference on Mars.
7The Rules of the Game
44 minJul 21, 1999
The Excalibur goes to Babylon 5 so that Gideon can meet with an ambassador for permission to go to a planet that might have technology that can help Earth. But the ambassador refuses and Gideon is not going to accept it. And Ellerson runs into his ex-wife, who is in trouble with a loan shark. When he pays him off, he feels she owes him more. And goes to great lengths to collect.
8Appearances and Other Deceits
44 minJul 28, 1999
Gideon must outwit an alien consciousness that takes over the Excalibur's crew.
9Racing the Night
44 minAug 4, 1999
Gideon and crew find themselves trapped by an alien civilization using sinister methods to seek a cure for the same Drakh virus that attacked Earth.
10The Memory of War
44 minAug 11, 1999
Galen warns Gideon not to explore a planet where the inhabitants were suddenly eradicated.
11The Needs of Earth
44 minAug 18, 1999★ 5.0
Gideon conducts an illegal raid to free a fugitive with information that could save Earth.
12Visitors from Down the Street
44 minAug 25, 1999
Two persecuted alien investigators (based on FBI agents Mulder and Scully from X-Files) believe that Earth is covertly invading them.
13Each Night I Dream of Home
44 minSep 1, 1999
In an attempt to understand the nature of the Drakh virus better, the Excalibur is sent back to Earth's orbit for a top-secret special pick up. Familiar face returns. Final, open-ended, episode.
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