New evidence from Babylon has verified the existence of Belshazzar, the name first given in Daniel 5: 1, as well as his co-regency during the absence of his father, Nabonidus, in Temâ.

Another important passage was Isaiah 40: 3 – 5, which imagines the exiled Israel proceeding home to Jerusalem on a newly-constructed road, led by the victorious Yahweh who has conquered the gods of Babylon.

In Esther 2: 5 – 6, either Mordecai or his great-grandfather Kish is identified as having been exiled from Jerusalem to Babylon by King Nebuchadnezzar in 597 BCE: " Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jeconiah king of Judah.

* Deliverance from Distress in Babylon ( 4: 9 – 5: 1 ) The similarities to Isaiah 41: 15 – 16 and the references to Babylon suggest the period of this material, although it is unclear whether a period during or after the siege of 586 is meant.

In the 1990s, he had the role of Lennier in the syndicated sci-fi TV series Babylon 5, and he also served as narrator of A & E Network's Emmy Award-winning series, Biography.

He is perhaps best known for his role as Will Robinson on the CBS science fiction television series Lost in Space ( 1965 – 1968 ), as well as for his role as ambassadorial aide Lennier in the syndicated series Babylon 5 ( 1994 – 1998 ).

He also created the band The Be Five with other Babylon 5 actors, and fronts another band called Seduction of the Innocent.

* Hyperion class ( Babylon 5 )

Michael Moorcock's fantasy novel The War Hound and the World's Pain depicts a supernatural Grail quest set in the era of the Thirty Years ' War, and science fiction has taken the Quest into interstellar space, figuratively in Samuel R. Delany's 1968 novel Nova, and literally on the television shows Babylon 5 and Stargate SG-1 ( as the " Sangraal ").

* Interstellar Alliance, an alliance in Babylon 5 to fight the Shadows

Science fiction shows advised by JPL include Babylon 5 and its sequel series, Crusade.

It is also part of the plot of the movie Total Recall and the television series Babylon 5.

* Babylon 5 ( 1993 – 1998 plus spin-offs ) television series and fictional universe.

* Psi Corps, in the Babylon 5 fictional universe, the ruling body of Earth's telepaths

The television series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( 1987 ) began a torrent of new SF shows, including three further Star Trek spin-off shows and Babylon 5.

An avid fan of the science fiction TV series Babylon 5, he appeared in the season 4 episode " Moments of Transition " as a character named " Mr. Adams ," who hires former head of security Michael Garibaldi to locate his megalomaniacal dog and cat.

The pilot episode aired just weeks before the debut of Babylon 5.

The creator of Babylon 5, J. Michael Straczynski, indicated that Paramount was aware of his concept as early as 1989, when he attempted to sell the show to the studio, and provided them with the series bible, pilot script, artwork, lengthy character background histories, and " synopses to about 22 or so planned episodes taken from the overall course of the planned series ".

Paramount passed on Babylon 5, but later announced Deep Space Nine was in development two months after Warner Bros. announced its plans for Babylon 5.

" Babylon 5s first-run syndicated ratings averaged between 3 and 4 % of U. S. households from 1995 to 1997, whereas DS9 ranged from 4 to 5 % during the same time span.

* Babylon 5: Legions of Fire-The Long Night of Centauri Prime-a novel by Peter David.

* Babylon 5: Legions of Fire-Out of the Darkness-a novel by Peter David.

He did not appear in any of the Babylon 5 television episodes or made-for-television movies, but was featured in Out of the Darkness, the third novel in the canon Legions of Fire novel series.

* Babylon 5: Legions of Fire-The Long Night of Centauri Prime by Peter David ( featuring Kane, Gwynne and Finian )

** Senna Refa, a character in the Babylon 5 novel Legions of Fire-Out of the Darkness.

He also makes a cameo appearance in the film, his first appearance in a movie and his second appearance as an actor ( the first being " Sleeping In Light ," the final episode of Babylon 5 ).

After Babylon 5, he played roles on Any Day Now and Strong Medicine, as well as the recurring role of Clayton Boudreaux on the soap opera Guiding Light.

* Lady Ladira's prophecy about Babylon 5's destruction will be referenced repeatedly over the course of the series, particularly in " War Without End " and, ultimately, " Sleeping in Light ".

" Ceremonies of Light and Dark " is an episode from the third season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

" Between the Darkness and the Light " is an episode from the fourth season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.

" Sleeping in Light " is the final episode of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5.

Like Sheridan, Delenn forges a friendship and alliance with Kosh, the Vorlon ambassador to Babylon 5, becoming the first leader of an " Army of Light ".

The religious and worker castes ( and the two-thirds of the Minbari fleet which they control ) side with Babylon 5 and the Army of Light.

An album had been prepared and sleeves for a single, " Fire Guided Light ", were printed, but Babylon Zoo's debut was put on hold again when Black moved once more to EMI in 1995, where the band were signed on to a seven album contract.

While these books are considered canon by the producers and creators of Babylon 5, they do mildly contradict what little information the show gives us about Emperor Cotto in the episode " Sleeping in Light ".

According to the DVD commentary for the final episode of Babylon 5, " Sleeping in Light ," Straczynski decided not to have David Sheridan appear in that episode, partly because he hadn't figured out how he wanted David to look, and partly because he feared that debuting an important character would detract from the story he wanted to tell in that episode.

* Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages-Summoning Light by Jeanne Cavelos ( featuring all technomages )

Typical of the genre are George R. Stewart's novel Earth Abides and Pat Frank's novel Alas, Babylon.

Apocalyptic fiction generally concerns the disaster itself and the direct aftermath, while post-apocalyptic can deal with anything from the near aftermath ( as in Cormac McCarthy's The Road ) to 375 years in the future ( as in By The Waters of Babylon ) to hundreds or thousands of years in the future, as in Russell Hoban's novel Riddley Walker and Walter M. Miller, Jr .' s A Canticle for Leibowitz.

It is also the setting for the classic post-apocalyptic novel, Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, under the fictitious name of Fort Repose.

Alas, Babylon is a 1959 novel by American writer Pat Frank ( the pen name of Harry Hart Frank ).

In the acknowledgements section at the beginning of his post apocalyptic novel One Second After William R. Forstchen credits " Alas, Babylon " as an influence in writing his novel about the small town of Black Mountain, NC.

Apart from incidents in Egypt, the novel charts Sinuhe's travels in then-Egyptian dominated Syria ( Levant ), in Mitanni, Babylon, Minoan Crete, and among the Hittites.

* Buddy Babylon: The Autobiography of Buddy Cole ( with Paul Bellini ) in 1998, a humor novel, ISBN 0-440-50828-2

Numerous commentators have pointed out the extensive similarities between the Titor story and Pat Frank's classic post-apocalyptic science fiction novel Alas, Babylon.

Any conversation is overheard by three cloaked Shadows, who accompany him at all times and control him as seen in the novel Babylon 5: The Passing of the Techno-Mages-Invoking Darkness.

She wrote one script during Babylon 5s first season, " By Any Means Necessary " as well as the prose Babylon 5 novel, To Dream in the City of Sorrows.

His novel Babylon (" Generation П " or " Generation P " is the Russian title ) bears on its cover the inscription, " Any thought that occurs in the process of reading this book is subject to copyright.

His story is continued in a series of comics and the novel Babylon 5: To Dream in the City of Sorrows.

At least one Babylon 5 novel contradicts Straczynski's statement, saying that Mollari saw a very bright ball of energy.

Hints about her death had also been stated by Straczynski in posts to the Babylon 5 newsgroup, and in the final novel of the Psi Corps Trilogy by J. Gregory Keyes.

* Teito Monogatari: A bestselling historical fantasy novel which inspired aspects of the story and mythology of Tokyo Babylon and X.

* Teito Monogatari: A bestselling historical fantasy novel which inspired aspects of the plot and mythology of Tokyo Babylon and X.

The protagonist of the novel even has a cameo appearance at the beginning of the Tokyo Babylon manga as Subaru's " helpful ambassador ".