Ship of Tears

Infobox Television episode
Title = Ship of Tears
Series = Babylon 5


Caption =
Season = 3
Episode = 14
Airdate = 29 April 1996
Production = 314
Writer = J. Michael Straczynski
Director = Mike Vejar
Guests = Joan McMurtrey (Carolyn)
Diana Morgan (Alison)
Walter Koenig (Bester)
Episode list = List of "Babylon 5" episodes
Prev = A Late Delivery from Avalon
Next = Interludes and Examinations

"Ship of Tears" is an episode from the third season of the science-fiction television series "Babylon 5".

ynopsis

Bester returns to Babylon 5 and proposes an unlikely alliance.A convoy of "weapons supplies" for the Shadows is intercepted in hyperspace by the White Star.

Arc significance

* ISN comes back online, this time as a propaganda tool.
* The Shadows use human telepaths as central processing units for their ships, implanted heavily with advanced neural control hardware.
* A woman Bester is in love with is one of the telepaths to be used by the Shadows, giving him a reason to temporarily side with Babylon 5.
* The war room is seen for the first time.
* A thousand years ago the Shadows wiped out all of the Narn telepaths because the Shadow vessels are vulnerable to telepathic influence.
* The Shadows invade Brakiri space.
* The overt Shadow War begins.

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