List of Crusade episodes

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This is an episode list for the science fiction television series Crusade. It includes the 13 episodes produced for the series, as well as the three that were written but not filmed.

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[edit] Completed Episodes

Episode # Title Director Original air date
01 "War Zone"  Janet Greek 9 June 1999
After the Drakh infect Earth with a plague, Captain Gideon is called to Earth and given a new assignment. Using the brand-new Earth Alliance deep range vessel Excalibur, he and his crew must search for any clues to a cure for the plague. If a cure is not found within five years, everyone on Earth will soon die. 
02 "The Long Road"  Mike Vejar 16 June 1999
Earth's strip mining of a peaceful planet causes an environmental hazard to the population, who have rejected technology in favor of a more traditional lifestyle. However matters are complicated when the local population begin taking hostages from the mining operation. 
03 "The Well of Forever"  Janet Greek 23 June 1999
Galen takes control of the Excalibur and goes in search of a mysterious place in hyperspace known as the 'Well of Forever', where he claims 'powerful energies intersect'. However it is revealed that Galen has more personal reason to search for the Well. 
04 "The Path of Sorrows"  Mike Vejar 30 June 1999
On a world rumored to be a place of healing the crew of the Excalibur find an alien that acts as a confessor for passing travellers. 
05 "Patterns of the Soul"  Tony Dow 7 July 1999
The crew travel to a world named Theta 49 to investigate the possibility that the Drakh plague may have spread beyond Earth. 
06 "Ruling From the Tomb"  John Copeland 14 July 1999
On a visit to Mars the crew encounter the 'Sacred Omega will keep it' doomsday cult. The cult plants a bomb at an antiplague action conference in the belief that judgement day is soon. 
07 "The Rules of the Game"  Jesus Trevino 21 July 1999
Gideon comes to Babylon 5 to try to negotiate a deal with the residents of Lorka 7, a world that may hold medical secrets useful in trying to cure the Drakh plague. 
08 "Appearances and Other Deceits"  Stephen Furst 28 July 1999
Two EarthGov representatives arrive to improve the ship's image when an alien being spread through people by touch arrives on the ship. 
09 "Racing the Night"  Mike Vejar 4 August 1999
The crew visits a planet once home to a civilization wiped out by the same plague as the one the Drakh left on Earth. They are surprised to find all the buildings still perfectly intact, but then motion is detected in the ancient city. 
10 "The Memory of War"  Tony Dow 11 August 1999
The crew visits a planet with binary suns the inhabitants of which were wiped out in a war one hundred years ago. 
11 "The Needs of Earth"  Mike Vejar 18 August 1999
The crew rescue an individual whom the Rangers claim possesses all the important information of his race on six data crystals. 
12 "Visitors From Down the Street"  Jerry Apoian 25 August 1999
The Excalibur detects a distress call and picks up a saucer-shaped life pod. Although never having seen the race before, the two individuals inside claim humans have corrupted their government and ruined lives on their homeworld. 
13 "Each Night I Dream of Home"  Stephen Furst 1 September 1999
A Warlock class destroyer drops off two passengers onto the Excalibur with instructions to take them to Earth. On the way the crew take a risk by stopping to rescue a Starfury and Elizabeth Lochley. On arrival at Earth, they are greeted from a lifepod isolated in the medbay by Doctor Stephen Franklin

[edit] Unfilmed episodes

Title Original air date
"Value Judgments"  N/A
This episode dealt with the Psi Corps and would have seen the return of Alfred Bester (Babylon 5)
"To The Ends of The Earth"  N/A
This episode further expanded on the story of the unidentified black craft seen in Gideon's flashbacks. 
"The End of the Line"  N/A
This was to have been the season finale 

Two of these scripts were published online for a period during 2001. [1]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ [1], [2], [3] and [4]