What's New at Hyperion - 1994

December 30, 1994

• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.
• A new version of the Babylon 5 Encyclopedia has been uploaded.
• JMS GEnie messages from the second half of September have been uploaded.
• The January 1995 edition of the Sci-Fi Channel schedule is available on the ftp server, as is the block program schedule for the first quarter of 1995.

December 26, 1994

• JMS GEnie messages from October 1 through December 15 have been uploaded.

December 25, 1994

• Fixed the foreign episode schedules so the "to the episode list" links in guide pages accessed from them will lead back to the appropriate country's schedule rather than the US one.

December 22, 1994

• The list of TV station addresses on the ftp server has been updated.

December 21, 1994

• Hyperion has moved its Web server to a faster host. All the URLs should stay the same; send us mail if you see problems. The old server will continue to work for a few days as well.

December 20, 1994

• A synopsis of "Soul Mates" is available.
• Poll 5 results for "Soul Mates" are online.
• A list of TV station addresses (a work in progress) is available on the ftp server.

December 19, 1994

• Updated the UK air schedule to reflect the start of season two in February 1995.

December 16, 1994

• The Guide has an even newer title picture, thanks to EIT's talented digital artist Scott Brisko. Netscape users get an added bonus to make up for the browser's meddlesome dithering.
• The onscreen credits for "Soul Mates" have been uploaded.

December 13, 1994

• New versions of the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles guide and supplement are available on the ftp server.
• Poll 5 results for "A Spider in the Web" are online.
• Transcripts of two potentially important scenes from "Infection" and "The Parliament of Dreams" are available.

December 11, 1994

• A synopsis of "A Spider in the Web" is available.

December 9, 1994

• A list of Babylon 5 sponsors based on an informal survey of four season-two episodes is available.

December 8, 1994

• The guide to the comic series has been expanded, with a synopsis and guide page for the first issue, "In Darkness Find Me."
• A new version of the Science Fiction Television Upcoming Episodes Schedule is available on the ftp server.
• A synopsis of "The Long Dark" is available.
• The onscreen credits for "A Spider in the Web" have been uploaded.

December 6, 1994

• Added more ordering information for the limited-edition soundtrack CD.
• A new version of the UNIX B5 quote generator has been uploaded, and its FAQ has been updated.

December 5, 1994

• The December 1994 edition of the Sci-Fi Channel schedule is available on the ftp server.

December 1, 1994

• Poll 5 results for "A Distant Star" are online.
• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.

November 30, 1994

• The onscreen credits for "The Long Dark" have been uploaded.
• The most recent week's worth of JMS GEnie messages have been uploaded.
• A synopsis of "A Distant Star" is available.
• A new version of the Science Fiction Television Upcoming Episodes Schedule is available on the ftp server.

November 25, 1994

• The guide page for "A Distant Star" has been updated.

November 24, 1994

• An air schedule for Australia is available. Babylon 5 starts on November 30 at 8:30PM on the Seven Network.
• The onscreen credits for "A Distant Star" have been uploaded.

November 22, 1994

• An updated guide page for "Deathwalker" is online, thanks to Dave Zimmerman <zimm@marlin.ssnet.com>.
• Poll 5 results for "Revelations" are online, as are the results for "The Geometry of Shadows." An updated summary of the season-one results (up to "The Quality of Mercy") is also available.

November 21, 1994

• New versions of the cast and character lists are available.
• A synopsis of "The Geometry of Shadows" is online.

November 17, 1994

• The onscreen credits for "The Geometry Of Shadows" have been uploaded.

November 15, 1994

• Fleshed out the guide page for "The Geometry of Shadows" (as usual, more will be added over time.)

November 14, 1994

• A new version of the Science Fiction Television Upcoming Episodes Schedule is available on the ftp server.

November 13, 1994

• Added guide pages for several more episodes and updated the airing order on the episode list.

November 12, 1994

• The following episodes' synopses are now illustrated:
  • "Chrysalis"
  • "Points of Departure"
  • "Revelations"

November 11, 1994

• A synopsis of "Revelations" is online.
• A couple weeks' worth of new JMS CompuServe messages have been uploaded to the ftp server.

November 10, 1994

• Hyperion is now home to Regina di Gualco's Web Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area.
• The onscreen credits for "Revelations" have been uploaded.

November 9, 1994

• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server. It has been updated for season two and rearranged somewhat.
• New versions of the UK episode guide (text and AmigaGuide versions, the latter with an accompanying readme file) are available.

November 8, 1994

• The past week's worth of JMS' GEnie messages are on the ftp server. (No, I don't know when more will be uploaded.)

November 6, 1994

• A synopsis of "Points of Departure" is online.
• Fleshed out the guide page for "Revelations" (more will be added over time.)
• New versions of the cast and character lists are online.

November 4, 1994

• The Lurker's Guide has a new logo, thanks to J. J. Franzen <jfranzen@scf.usc.edu>. Let me (and him) know what you think.

November 3, 1994

• The onscreen credits for "Points of Departure" have been uploaded.

November 1, 1994

• Poll 5 results for "Chrysalis" are online.

October 31, 1994

• A new version of the Science Fiction Television Upcoming Episodes Schedule is available on the ftp server.

October 30, 1994

• Fleshed out the guide page for "Points of Departure" (though more will be added over time.)
• A final version of the season 1 appearances chart is available, as is a preliminary chart for season 2.
• The November Sci-Fi Channel schedule has been uploaded to the ftp server.
• New versions of the cast and character lists are online.

October 29, 1994

• A new Universe and Characters page is now online for season two.
• The season-two opening monologue has been transcribed.

October 27, 1994

• AutoCAD versions of the models from the ftp server are now available.
• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.

October 26, 1994

• The onscreen credits for "Chrysalis" have been uploaded.
• Some new CompuServe messages from JMS have been uploaded. The messages from the second half of September have been saved off to a separate file.

October 21, 1994

• A separate page for the Babylon 5 comic series has been started. Eventually it will turn into a page similar to the episode list.

October 18, 1994

• New versions of the PTEN Station List and UK Episode Guide have been placed on the ftp server.
• Un-CGI version 1.2 is available. It supports multiple form selections with the same element name (e.g. the <select multiple> tag.)

October 17, 1994

• New versions of the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode guide and supplement are available on the ftp server.

October 16, 1994

• Added links to Mark Twain's "The War Prayer" to the guide page for the episode of the same name, and to the literary and historical references section of the "Making of Babylon 5" page.

October 15, 1994

• The Used Software Exchange is now open for business. If you have old software you want to get rid of, stop by and enter it into the database.

October 14, 1994

• A synopsis of "Chrysalis" is online.
• Reworked the episode list a little bit so it's more useful for people looking for a list of upcoming episodes, and looks a bit nicer too (I hope.)

October 13, 1994

• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server.
• A page about the Sinai Peninsula, part of the presentation about my visit to Israel, is online.
• Singapore, like the UK, won't be getting "TKO." The air schedule has been adjusted accordingly.

October 7, 1994

• A new version of the Science Fiction Television Upcoming Episodes Schedule is available on the ftp server.

October 4, 1994

• Now running NCSA httpd 1.3. You shouldn't notice any difference.

October 3, 1994

• Fleshed out the guide page for "Chrysalis" thanks to a diligent UK viewer who shall remain anonymous.

October 2, 1994

• The following episode synopses now contain inline images.
  • "Babylon Squared"
  • "The Quality of Mercy"

September 26, 1994

• A page about Caesarea is online, the first of the pages with photos from a vacation to Israel.
• The Used Software Exchange is now in beta-test. Play around with it and report any problems you see.

September 25, 1994

New on the FTP server:

• An update to the file of JMS message regarding Michael O'Hare's departure.
• A new version of the JMS answers file.
• A list of other works by JMS.

September 22, 1994

• A hypertext guide to Time Trax, Transmission Tone, is now available.

New on the FTP server:

• JMS GEnie messages for the second half of May, all of August, and the first half of September.
• A new version of the PTEN Station List.
• A copy of the press release about the new Gerry Anderson series, "Space Precinct 2040."
• A new version of the Science Fiction TV Shows Upcoming Episodes list.

September 19, 1994

New on the FTP server:

• JMS Usenet articles from July through mid-September 1994.
• Updates to the cast and character lists.
• A MacBinary version of the QuickTime movie (with short effects clips from "The Gathering"). It's the same movie as before, just easier to decode for Mac users. The old version is still available.

September 15, 1994

• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server. The changes (marked in the file) have been incorporated into the Lurker's Guide.

September 13, 1994

• Matt Ryan's guide page for "And the Sky Full of Stars" is online. It's actually three pages since there's so much in the episode.
  I'm still looking for someone to fill Matt's shoes -- follow the link at the top of this page if you think you're up to it.

September 12, 1994

• Added a note about the season-two opening monologue from a JMS GEnie message.
• For Amiga users, some models of a few Babylon 5 ships in Imagine format, along with sample renderings in JPEG, have been uploaded to the ftp server.
• A new version of the Writers/Directors List is online.

September 11, 1994

• Moved the collection of JMS CompuServe messages dated August 24 - September 11 to its own file, since the scratch area where the messages collect was growing pretty large.
• Wrote a synopsis of "The Quality of Mercy" (the one episode Matthew Murray didn't catch on tape, as luck would have it.)

September 7, 1994

• A new version of the UK Episode Guide text file has been uploaded. It is also available in AmigaGuide format (compressed with the LHA archiver) for Amiga users.
• A new version of the Time Trax Episode Guide is available.

September 5, 1994

• Roughly 50 new pictures have been added to the various pages about my visit to Russia. A shorter presentation about Israel is in the works.

September 3, 1994

• Added some new episode titles from JMS to the episode list page, as well as some more information about Captain Sheridan.

September 2, 1994

• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server. Some of the changes have been incorporated into the Lurker's Guide.

August 31, 1994

• A new version of the text-only Babylon 5 Encyclopedia has been uploaded. See also the hypertext version.

August 30, 1994

• Channel 4 in the UK seems to be following the US airing order after all. The UK and Singapore air schedules have been updated accordingly.

August 29, 1994

• Please join me in welcoming Matthew Murray, i9717029@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu, to the Guide. He'll be writing the synopses for year two. To kick things off, he has written a synopsis of "Babylon Squared".

August 28, 1994

• Updated the US episode list with new season-two airing information from JMS, and created new guide pages for five more episodes (currently containing nothing but writing and directing credits.)
• The first collection of JMS messages from CompuServe are on the ftp server.

August 27, 1994

• Added a link to some information about the new commander, Captain Sheridan, from JMS.
• Wrote a synopsis for "Eyes" and fleshed out its guide page a bit.

August 26, 1994

• Added a bunch of JMS postings from Compuserve about "The Quality of Mercy" to its guide page. Also a brief one on "Babylon Squared".
• A short QuickTime movie with some effects sequences from the pilot is available on the ftp server. It was uploaded to CompuServe by someone at Warner Bros.

August 25, 1994

• A new version of the UK Episode Guide text file has been uploaded. It is also available in AmigaGuide format (compressed with the LHA archiver) for Amiga users.

August 23, 1994

• Poll 5 results for "The Quality of Mercy" have been announced.

August 21, 1994

• Wrote Un-CGI 1.0, a program to make processing input from forms on WWW servers much easier.

August 20, 1994

• A couple tidbits from JMS in the Recurring Characters page: Na'Toth will be played by Mary Kay Adams in season two, and a new character, Warren Keffer, will be introduced.

August 19, 1994

• The remaining pages of my Russia travelogue are ready.

August 18, 1994

• The onscreen credits for "The Quality of Mercy" have been transcribed.

August 17, 1994

• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ List is available on the ftp server. The changes therein (mostly minor) have been incorporated into the Lurker's Guide.

August 16, 1994

• Poll 5 results for "Babylon Squared" have been announced.

August 14, 1994

• The page for October 15 in my Russia travelogue is ready.
• The pictures of the alien ambassadors in the "Babylon 5 Universe and Characters" page are now links to the official digital trading cards.

August 13, 1994

• Fleshed out the episode-guide page for "The Quality of Mercy". The page has a slightly different format from the rest, one that will be adopted from now on: at the top of the page is all the usual information about guest stars and the quick description of the plot. A new section, titled "Watch for," follows, a non-spoiler list of things to pay special attention to while watching. Then, after a dividing line, the spoiler section of the guide page proceeds as usual. This new format, as it's retrofitted onto the old episodes, should make the Guide more useful when viewing episodes for the first time.
• Matt Ryan's episode-guide page for "The War Prayer" has been installed.
• The first two days of the travelogue of my visit to Russia are prettied up and ready to read.

August 12, 1994

• Six new digital trading cards have been uploaded to the Pictures/Scenes directory on the ftp server. They contain scenes from "Midnight on the Firing Line" and "Soul Hunter".

August 11, 1994

• A transcript of a GEnie real-time conference with Mira Furlan (Delenn) has been placed on the ftp server.
• The onscreen credits for "Babylon Squared" have been transcribed.

August 10, 1994

• Split the July What's New items off to a separate page (an index of old items is at the bottom of this page.)
• A transcript of a July radio interview with JMS is available on the ftp server.

August 9, 1994

• New versions of the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode guide and supplement are available on the ftp server.
• Poll 5 results for "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2" have been announced.
• The Sergiyev Posad page of Steve Grimm's Russia trip pictorial is ready.

August 6, 1994

• The pages for Pushkin, Moscow's churches, and downtown Moscow in my pictorial of Russia have been filled in.
• Fleshed out the guide page for "Babylon Squared" (warning: the page will spoil parts of the episode if you haven't seen it yet.)

August 5, 1994

• Text-only versions of all the Lurker's Guide episode guide entries are available on the ftp server.
• Wrote a synopsis for "Grail" and fleshed out its guide entry.
• Added a paragraph about the Downbelow and the Lurkers to the Babylon 5 Station document.
• A new version of the Babylon 5 FAQ list has been placed on the ftp server.

August 4, 1994

• Wrote a synopsis for "TKO" and fleshed out its guide entry (though there's not a lot to say about that one.)
• Added short writeups about the Marie Celeste and Giuseppe Garibaldi to the Literary and Historical References section of the Making of Babylon 5 page. Thanks to John Daily, jrdaily@indyunix.iupui.edu.
• The Time Trax episode guide has been updated.
• JMS' GEnie messages from the second half of July are on the ftp server.

August 3, 1994

• Wrote a synopsis for "Signs and Portents".
• The onscreen credits for "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2" have been transcribed.
• Poll 5 results for "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1" have been announced.

July 30, 1994

• Wrote up short illustrated pages on St. Petersburg (and its churches) as part of the pages about my visit to Russia.
• Added a link to David Henderson's Writers and Directors List to the Making of Babylon 5 page.
• Wrote a synopsis of "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2" and fleshed out its guide entry.

July 29, 1994

• Matt Ryan's guide entry for "Mind War" is online.

July 27, 1994

• A new version of the appearances chart is available.
• The onscreen credits for "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1" have been transcribed.
• All the hardware for our faster net link is in place and the lines seem to be working. The ftp and WWW servers here may be unavailable periodically over the next few days as we get everything switched over; please bear with us.

July 26, 1994

• Poll 5 results for "Legacies" have been announced.

July 25, 1994

• Wrote a synopsis of "Legacies."

July 24, 1994

• Wrote a synopsis of "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1." It's not as detailed as one of Shawn Bayern's synopses, but Shawn isn't likely to catch up soon.

New on the ftp server:

• Five new official Digital Trading Cards are available in the Pictures directory (also available via an experimental Web interface.)

July 23, 1994

• Fleshed out the guide entry for "A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1".
• Added HTML+ <link> tags to the episode guide entries. Right now there aren't any browsers that support them, but eventually it'll be handy.
• Rewrote the index page in the Babylon 5 directory on the ftp server to list all the files in a more organized fashion. Removed the list of files on the ftp server from the Other Sources page.
• A new version of the UK episode guide is available on the ftp server. Also available is an AmigaGuide version for Amiga users.
• Split off the June "What's New" entries into a separate document to keep this one smaller.
• The Babylon 5 encyclopedia has been updated. (See also the hypertext version.)

July 20, 1994

• The onscreen credits for "Legacies" have been transcribed.
• Several new batches of JMS's messages on GEnie are on the ftp server.
• Poll 5 results for "Eyes" have been announced.
• We have all the hardware for our new-and-improved net link. The phone company is scheduled to install our lines on July 22, so by early next week Hyperion should provide much faster response time.

July 18, 1994

• The guide entry for "Legacies" has been fleshed out a little.
• The July 18 edition of the FAQ list is online.

July 17, 1994

• The names of actors in the episode-guide entries are now links into the Cardiff movie database (or rather, its mirror at Mississippi State University.)

July 16, 1994

• You can browse through a list of places I visited during my trip to Russia. The area is still under construction, but some pictures are available.

July 15, 1994

• Matt Ryan's episode guide entry for "Infection" is in place.

July 14, 1994

• My personal home page finally has a picture of me. Not a particularly good one, but...
• Poll 5 results for "Grail" have been announced.
• An air schedule for Singapore is online. Thanks to Soh Kam Yung <sauron@ee.nus.sg>.
• The onscreen credits for "Eyes" have been transcribed.
• Added a link to the Time Trax episode guide from the episode list page.

July 11, 1994

New on the ftp server:

• All the images in the Pictures directory are now accompanied by miniatures in the respective Thumb directories. Previously not all images had thumbfiles.
• An experimental Web interface to the Pictures directory is available. If I get no negative comments about it, it'll become the default interface.

July 7, 1994

• The Pictures directory on the ftp server (also available via our faster mirror site) has been reorganized.
• The onscreen credits for "Grail" have been transcribed.

July 6, 1994

New on the ftp server:

• A text-only version of the Babylon 5 encyclopedia is available. The hypertext version is probably preferable for online browsing.
• New versions of the cast and character lists are available.

July 4, 1994

• Incorporated various minor changes from the new version of the FAQ list into various pages. Changes of note:
  • "Chrysalis, Part II" is now titled "Points of Departure".
  • Production for season two begins August 1 instead of July 18.

July 1, 1994

• After numerous delays, we have finally ordered all the equipment and phone lines for a much faster net link. Everything should be up and running within a month, fates willing. This should cut down on the long delays you've probably noticed while browsing the Guide.

June 29, 1994

• Added Edwin Yau's plaintext UK episode guide to the UK episode list page.

June 27, 1994

• Matt Ryan's detailed episode-guide page for "The Parliament of Dreams" is in place. It includes links to "Ulysses" by Tennyson, quoted in the episode and elsewhere in the series.
• Added a section to the Making of Babylon 5 page detailing some of the literary and historical references in the series.

June 24, 1994

• Added a link to Brian O'Neill's B5 Encyclopedia to the Other Sources page.

June 21, 1994

• Added links Troy Rutter's complete lists of the B5 cast, sorted by actors' names and characters' names, to the Universe and Characters page.
• Added credits for "The Parliament of Dreams".

June 19, 1994

• Updated the episode list with new second-season episode titles from JMS.

June 16, 1994

• Added a new message from JMS about season two, and some information from various places about Ambassador Kosh and the Vorlons.

June 15, 1994

• A new version of David Henderson's appearances chart is installed.
• The quotes program and its associated frequently asked questions list are available through the Other Sources page.
• Also on the Other Sources page, several other WWW resources were added.

June 14, 1994

• Added a page for "Chrysalis, Part II", and updated the information in several of the other episodes' pages.

June 10, 1994

• Added the What's New page.

To the current What's New page