The series spawned a spinoff, TNT’s Crusade, as well as seven feature-length movies as Straczynski charted the years from 2245 to 2281, when the Babylon 5 station was decommissioned.

Scott D. Pierce: It’s true. Your Salt Lake Tribune TV critic was a zombie on a ‘Babylon 5′ spinoff. Unfortunately, a new, animated ‘B5′ movie is pretty underwhelming.

Straczynski followed up “Babylon 5” with the TNT spinoff series “Crusade.” The “Babylon 5” franchise also includes novels, short stories, and comic books.