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Deathwalker
"Deathwalker" is the ninth episode of the first season of the science fiction television series, ''Babylon 5''. It first aired on 20 April 1994. ' Title The title refers to "Deathwalker", the name by which many races refer to the notorious genocidal war criminal Jha'dur who arrives on the station in the episode. Plot An alien woman arriving on Babylon 5 is attacked by Narn diplomatic attaché Na'Toth as she arrives. Na'Toth accuses her of being notorious war criminal "Deathwalker". The woman is knocked unconscious and taken to Medlab, while Commander Sinclair questions Na'Toth on her attack. Na'Toth asserts that Deathwalker was a war criminal responsible for a number of unethical and illegal experiments on the Narn people during wartime. In Medlab, Sinclair identifies the woman as a Dilgar, a species that had previously gone to war against many non-aligned worlds, but had died out thirty years ago when their sun went nova. Sinclair continues to investigate the Deathwalker name, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Believers (Babylon 5)
"Believers" is the tenth episode of the first season of the science fiction television series, ''Babylon 5''. It first aired on April 27, 1994. It follows Dr. Franklin's ethical dilemma after he encounters a dying boy whose parents refuse to allow him to receive treatment that will save him, and Commander Susan Ivanova's mission to rescue a stranded transport ship in Raider territory. Plot Dr. Franklin faces an ethical dilemma when the parents of Shon, a dying alien child refuse to let him operate for religious reasons. Their son is suffering from an eventually fatal respiratory ailment. Franklin is confident he can save Shon, with surgery, but the family's alien religion prohibits surgery, believing that cutting into a body will release the spirit, reducing the body to something worse than death. They mention it as something only done to food animals in their culture. Franklin's associate Dr. Hernandez attacks their beliefs, but Franklin reprimands her, telling her that they ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Douglas (actress)
Sarah Douglas (born 12 December 1952) is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for playing the Kryptonian supervillain Ursa in ''Superman'' (1978) and ''Superman II'' (1980), Pamela Lynch in the 1980s primetime drama series ''Falcon Crest'' (1983–85), and Jinda Kol Rozz in one episode of ''Supergirl'' in 2018. Her other prominent roles include evil Queen Taramis in the 1984 film ''Conan the Destroyer'' and Mrs. Averill in the ''A Christmas Prince'' Netflix film series. Early life Douglas was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, the second daughter of Beryl ( Smith), a physiotherapist who often worked upon RSC actors, and of Edward Douglas, a career member of the Royal Air Force. Having been educated locally at Alcester Grammar School, she then trained with the National Youth Theatre and the Rose Bruford College before turning professional. Career Eventually, Douglas's career took her in front of the camera with small appearances in the 1973 film ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babylon 5
''Babylon 5'' is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Television. After the successful airing of a test pilot movie on February 22, 1993, '' Babylon 5: The Gathering'', Warner Bros. commissioned the series for production in May 1993 as part of its Prime Time Entertainment Network (PTEN). The show premiered in the US on January 26, 1994, and ran for five 22-episode seasons. The series follows the human military staff and alien diplomats stationed on a space station, ''Babylon 5'', built in the aftermath of several major inter-species wars as a neutral ground for galactic diplomacy and trade. Major plotlines included ''Babylon 5'' embroilment in a millennial cyclic conflict between ancient races, inter-race wars and their aftermaths, and intra-race intrigue and upheaval. The human characters, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Curtis
Robin Curtis (born in New York Mills, New York) is an American actress. She is best known for replacing Kirstie Alley in the role of Vulcan Lieutenant Saavik in the films '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' and '' Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home''. Life and career Film and television work Although her first appearance as Vulcan Lieutenant Saavik in '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' in 1984 was promoted as being her film debut, in fact, Curtis had already made several film and made-for-television movie appearances. Her performance in the film drew mixed reception from Trek fans and she reprised the role of Saavik for a brief appearance in '' Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home''. She co-starred in the 1983 episode " Short Notice" during the first season of the '' Knight Rider'' television series. In 1991, she portrayed Carol Pulaski on the soap opera ''General Hospital''. In 1993, Curtis portrayed an unrelated Vulcan character disguised as a Romulan (Tallera/T'Paal) in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Curtis
Robin Curtis (born in New York Mills, New York) is an American actress. She is best known for replacing Kirstie Alley in the role of Vulcan Lieutenant Saavik in the films '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' and '' Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home''. Life and career Film and television work Although her first appearance as Vulcan Lieutenant Saavik in '' Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' in 1984 was promoted as being her film debut, in fact, Curtis had already made several film and made-for-television movie appearances. Her performance in the film drew mixed reception from Trek fans and she reprised the role of Saavik for a brief appearance in '' Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home''. She co-starred in the 1983 episode " Short Notice" during the first season of the ''Knight Rider'' television series. In 1991, she portrayed Carol Pulaski on the soap opera ''General Hospital''. In 1993, Curtis portrayed an unrelated Vulcan character disguised as a Romulan (Tallera/T'Paal) in the tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
And The Sky Full Of Stars
"And the Sky Full of Stars" is the eighth episode of the first season of the science fiction television series, ''Babylon 5''. It first aired on 16 March 1994. Title The episode title is derived from a line from ''Babylon 5s pilot episode: "…and the sky was full of stars, and every star was an exploding ship — one of ours." Plot Two men meet aboard Babylon 5, and prepare a device. They gain the help of Benson, a security officer, who provides them with a power cell in exchange for paying off illegal gambling debts he owes. That night the two men abduct Commander Sinclair, use the device on him. Sinclair finds that he is trapped within a virtual reality illusionary environment, in which, one of his captors demands to know what happened to him at the Battle of the Line, the final battle in the Earth-Minbari war ten years earlier. Sinclair was leader of a squadron of fighters which was ambushed by Minbari vessels. While the rest of his squadron was wiped out, Sinclair managed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Toaster
The NewTek Video Toaster is a combination of hardware and software for the editing and production of NTSC standard-definition video. The plug-in expansion card initially worked with the Amiga 2000 computer and provides a number of BNC connectors on the exposed rear edge that provide connectivity to common analog video sources like VHS VCRs. The related software tools support video switching, chroma keying, character generation, animation, and image manipulation. Together, the hardware and software provided, for a few thousand U.S. dollars, a video editing suite that rivaled the output of contemporary (i.e. early 1990s) professional systems costing ten times as much. It allowed small studios to produce high-quality material and resulted in a cottage industry for video production not unlike the success of the Macintosh in the desktop publishing ( DTP) market only a few years earlier. The Video Toaster won the Emmy Award for Technical Achievement in 1993. Other parts of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundation Imaging
Foundation Imaging was a CGI visual effects studio, computer animation studio, and post-production editing facility. History The company was founded by Paul Beigle-Bryant and Ron Thornton. It pioneered digital imaging for television programming using Newtek's LightWave 3D, originally on Commodore Amiga based Video Toaster workstations. Dissolution The company was dissolved after work on season one of ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' had been completed and the company assets were sold off in a public auction on December 17, 2002 by Brian Testo Associates, LLC. Legacy The company's pioneering work on Babylon 5 popularized using the software package Lightwave 3D on US TV shows for CGI visual effects, which led to it becoming an industry standard throughout the 1990s. Key animators from the company and Emmy Award-winners Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz and John Teska remain major figures in the visual effects field for their work on shows such as the rebooted Battlestar Galactica and Lost. Notable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga 2000
The Amiga 2000, or A2000, is a personal computer released by Commodore in March 1987. It was introduced as a "big box" expandable variant of the Amiga 1000 but quickly redesigned to share most of its electronic components with the contemporary Amiga 500 for cost reduction. Expansion capabilities include two 3.5" drive bays (one of which is used by the included floppy drive) and one 5.25" bay that could be used by a 5.25" floppy drive (for IBM PC compatibility), a hard drive, or CD-ROM once they became available. The Amiga 2000 is the first Amiga model that allows expansion cards to be added internally. SCSI host adapters, memory cards, CPU cards, network cards, graphics cards, serial port cards, and PC compatibility cards were available, and multiple expansions can be used simultaneously without requiring an expansion cage like the Amiga 1000 does. Not only does the Amiga 2000 include five Zorro II card slots, the motherboard also has four PC ISA slots, two of which are inline ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LightWave 3D
LightWave 3D is a 3D computer graphics program developed by NewTek. It has been used in films, television, motion graphics, digital matte painting, visual effects, video game development, product design, architectural visualizations, virtual production, music videos, pre-visualizations and advertising. Overview LightWave is a software package used for rendering 3D images, both animated and static. It includes a fast rendering engine that supports such advanced features as realistic reflection, radiosity, caustics, and 999 render nodes. The 3D modeling component supports both polygon modeling and subdivision surfaces. The animation component has features such as inverse and forward kinematics for character animation, particle systems and dynamics. Programmers can expand LightWave's capabilities using an included SDK which offers Python, LScript (a proprietary scripting language) scripting and C language interfaces. History In 1988, Allen Hastings created a rende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Franke
Christopher Franke (born 6 April 1953) is a German musician and composer. From 1971 to 1987, he was a member of the electronic group Tangerine Dream. Initially a drummer with The Agitation, later renamed Agitation Free, his primary focus eventually shifted to keyboards and synthesizers as the group moved away from its psychedelic rock origins. While he was not the first musician to use an analog sequencer, he was probably the first to turn it into a live performance instrument, thus laying the rhythmic foundation for classic Tangerine Dream pieces and indeed for the whole Berlin school sound. After his departure from the group, he founded the Sonic Images record label, a new-age music label called Earthtone and the Berlin Symphonic Film Orchestra, and produced a number of solo music works. After leaving Tangerine Dream, his only live concert was on 9 October 1991 at the Astoria Theatre in London. He performed on stage with Edgar Rothermich (a.k.a. Richard E. Roth) who is also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Thornton (visual Effects Designer)
Ron Thornton (1957–2016) was a pioneer in the field of computer-generated visual effects for film and television. He is best known for pioneering the use of Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) in the industry, through his work on the ''Babylon 5'' series, which was the first television series to use CGI for all its visual effects. Thornton and his team won an Emmy award in 1993 for their work in the field. During his career, Thornton also worked with teams providing visual effects for many major science fiction productions, including ''Doctor Who'', ''Blake's 7'', ''Star Trek'', and ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. Early career Thornton was born in London in 1957, studying at West Kent College, and subsequently worked at Gatwick Airport as a flight dispatcher. After seeing the movie ''Alien'', Thornton realised, "it dawned on me … that somebody could actually make money building plastic spaceships! That was quite amusing to me…" Thornton built a few spaceship models, showing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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