If you’re a true connoisseur of 1990s sci-fi, you know that some of the best shows from that era are kind of hard to watch online. Sure, Deep Space Nine was the underrated Star Trek show of that era —bemoaned as the misunderstood stepchild in a big franchise, but it’s been pretty easy to watch DS9 streaming for years. And at the time DS9 was produced, the true underdog space opera of the same era, Babylon 5, had to tell its ambitious “novel for television” on a third of the budget of DS9. In sci-fi, one fan’s underdog is another fan’s rich and mainstream hit.
Then again, if you weren’t around in 1993 and 1994, and you didn’t snag Babylon 5 on DVD or Blu-ray in the past couple of years, it would make sense that you’ve not been able to binge it as easily as something like Deep Space Nine, or even seaQuest DSV. The truth is, from HBO Max to Prime Video to Tubi, it’s hard to catch Babylon 5 streaming, something that series creator J. Michael Straczynski acknowledges in a fun new announcement video: “For so many years there’s been nowhere for B5 fans to congregate, other than the occasional asylum or prisons.” But, outside of the sarcasm, the big reveal here is that the new Babylon 5 YouTube channel is airing full episodes of the iconic series, for free, starting now.
