A View from the Gallery

"A View from the Gallery"
Babylon 5 episode
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 4
Directed by	Janet Greek
Written by	J. Michael Straczynski Harlan Ellison
Production code	505
Original air date	11 February 1998
Guest appearance(s)
Robin Atkin Downes (Byron) Joshua Cox (Lt. Corwin) Raymond O'Connor (Mack) Lawrence LeJohn (Bo)

"A View from the Gallery" is an episode from the fifth season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. The episode is unusual in that it is told from the viewpoint of two maintenance workers (Mack and Bo) as they witness the station being attacked.

Synopsis

Unknown forces attack the station; a pair of maintenance men go about their duties.

This episode tells the story from the point of view of two members of the maintenance crew. We get to see how Captain Lochley deals with being in a pressure situation, and we get to visit many other members of the main cast.

Sheridan orders the maintenance men to put Delenn in a life pod, but since she does not want to go, she talks her way around the two men, Bo and Mack, while earning their adoration. Later on, Delenn's ability to see honor in the everyday life of people further earns their respect as she later greets them by name in passing.

Arc significance

"A View from the Gallery" is a standalone episode in the sense that it doesn't advance the prevailing storyline of the season, but instead provides an outsider's look into how the station operates and how two civilians deal with issues commonly faced by the station's military and diplomatic personnel. Events from the episode are also self-contained, in that the alien attackers are of a previously unknown alien race that is not mentioned again.

External links

A View from the Gallery at The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5

Babylon 5
Series	Episodes The Gathering In the Beginning Thirdspace The River of Souls A Call to Arms The Legend of the Rangers The Lost Tales Crusade Episodes
Characters	Lyta Alexander Zack Allan Alfred Bester Byron Emperor Cartagia Morgan Clark Marcus Cole Vir Cotto Delenn Dukhat Stephen Franklin G'Kar Michael Garibaldi Susan Ivanova Kosh Naranek Benjamin Kyle Lennier Elizabeth Lochley Lorien Londo Mollari Morden Na'Toth Neroon Number One Lord Refa John Sheridan Jeffrey Sinclair Ulkesh Talia Winters Zathras
Species	List of civilizations Centauri Drakh First One Human Minbari Narn Pak'ma'ra Vorlon Shadow
Ships	Agamemnon Black Star Churchill Excalibur Explorer class starship Frazi heavy fighter G'Quan class heavy cruiser Hyperion class heavy cruiser Liandra Nial class heavy fighter Nova class dreadnought Olympus class corvette Omega class destroyer Primus class battlecruiser Raider Fighter Sentri medium fighter Shadow Planet Killer Sharlin Class Warcruiser Starfury Sun Hawk class gunship T'Loth class cruiser Valen class cruiser Vorchan White Star
Wars	Centauri-Narn War Dilgar War Earth Alliance Civil War Earth–Minbari War Battle of the Line Shadow War Telepath War
Locations	Babylon 4 Babylon 5 Z'ha'dum
Organizations	Earth Alliance EarthForce Grey Council Interstellar Alliance League of Non-Aligned Worlds Nightwatch Psi Corps Rangers Technomages
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Babylon 5 episodes
Season 1	Midnight on the Firing Line Soul Hunter Born to the Purple Infection The Parliament of Dreams Mind War The War Prayer And the Sky Full of Stars Deathwalker Believers Survivors By Any Means Necessary Signs and Portents TKO Grail Eyes Legacies A Voice in the Wilderness (Parts 1 & 2) Babylon Squared The Quality of Mercy Chrysalis
Season 2	Points of Departure Revelations The Geometry of Shadows A Distant Star The Long Dark Spider in the Web Soul Mates A Race Through Dark Places The Coming of Shadows Gropos All Alone in the Night Acts of Sacrifice Hunter, Prey There All the Honor Lies And Now for a Word In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum Knives Confessions and Lamentations Divided Loyalties The Long, Twilight Struggle Comes the Inquisitor The Fall of Night
Season 3	Matters of Honor Convictions A Day in the Strife Passing Through Gethsemane Voices of Authority Dust to Dust Exogenesis Messages from Earth Point of No Return Severed Dreams Ceremonies of Light and Dark Sic Transit Vir A Late Delivery from Avalon Ship of Tears Interludes and Examinations War Without End (Parts 1 & 2) Walkabout Grey 17 Is Missing And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place Shadow Dancing Z'ha'dum
Season 4	The Hour of the Wolf Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi? The Summoning Falling Toward Apotheosis The Long Night Into the Fire Epiphanies The Illusion of Truth Atonement Racing Mars Lines of Communication Conflicts of Interest Rumors, Bargains and Lies Moments of Transition No Surrender, No Retreat The Exercise of Vital Powers The Face of the Enemy Intersections in Real Time Between the Darkness and the Light Endgame Rising Star The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
Season 5	No Compromises The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari The Paragon of Animals A View from the Gallery Learning Curve Strange Relations Secrets of the Soul Day of the Dead In the Kingdom of the Blind A Tragedy of Telepaths Phoenix Rising The Ragged Edge The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father Meditations on the Abyss Darkness Ascending And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder Movements of Fire and Shadow The Fall of Centauri Prime The Wheel of Fire Objects in Motion Objects at Rest Sleeping in Light

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