Over the years, I’ve become aware of various errors that appeared in the B5 Books publications I edited.
I take responsibility for my mistakes, so here are corrections for the ones I’ve discovered myself or have been made aware of by others.
Artifacts from Beyond the Rim (Synthetic World Publishing, 2010)
Page 43: At the end of the second paragraph, please strike out “second” and neatly write in “third”. It arguably leaves the sentence somewhat awkward, with season two characters like Sheridan and Keffer being noted afterward, but DiTillio definitely revised (or maybe wrote) these profiles after he finished writing “Knives” (216) in early 1995. I should have noticed it before. Turn the page to the Sinclair profile and add his age to his year of birth. It’s 2260, the year season three takes place. That holds true for everyone but the two Centauri—not sure what’s going on there—and Warren Keffer, who doesn’t make it out of 2259. I suspect these profiles—and detailed synopses of the episodes—were among the tasks DiTillio busied himself with as the season drew to a close and his time on Babylon 5, to an end.
Asked & Answered, Part 4 (Synthetic Worlds Publishing, 2009)
Page 1497: Straczynski’s 2 December 1992 post is incorrectly categorized under “Midnight on the Firing Line” (103). The post refers to the budgeting draft of “And the Sky Full of Stars” written as a sample hour-long script while The Gathering was in post-production.
Babylon 5: The Scripts of J. Michael Straczynski, Volume 2.5 (Synthetic Worlds, 2013)
Page 68: David Corwin—played in thirty-five Babylon 5 episodes by Joshua Cox—was named over the summer between seasons one and two.
He first appeared in “Signs and Portents” (116), where he was credited as “Tech #2.” At that time, “Tech #1” was the designation for the unnamed C&C officer portrayed throughout season one by Marianne Robertson. When Robertson did not return for the second season, Cox was promoted to “Tech #1.”
During pre-production for season two, Claudia Christian urged J. Michael Straczynski to name Cox’s character and David Corwin was stated onscreen by an ISN caption in “And Now for a Word” (214). His name wasn’t used in dialogue until season three’s “Exogenesis” (307), where he was promoted from lieutenant (junior grade) to lieutenant.
The character was named for Straczynski’s mentor, writer Norman Corwin, and remained on the series through the last filmed episode—“Objects at Rest” (522)—and the movies of the week Thirdspace (MOW1) and The River of Souls (MOW3).
Encounters with J. Michael Straczynski (Synthetic Worlds Publishing, 2014)
Page [0]: The TCA event was held Sunday, 9 January 1994.
Page 3: The first editor’s note should read: As of this interview, Straczynski had written seven of the fifteen produced episodes as well as the sixteenth, which was to enter production the following week. He was working on “The Quality of Mercy” (117) at the time of this interview. He would go on to write four more episodes (though “Blockade” Part One [119] would be unproduced) totaling twelve for the season.
Page 268: The second editor’s note should read: Straczynski wrote “The Quality of Mercy” (117) and “Blockade” Part One (the unproduced 119 replaced by “TKO”) while ill with the flu. “Babylon Squared” (118) was written during a lull between bouts.
Page 282: In the first printing, Richard Biggs’s date of death was accidentally listed as 22 May 1994. The correct date, 22 May 2004, appeared in later printings.
Babylon 5: The Fan Experience — Phoenix Comicon: 2013 (Publishing 180, 2014)
Page 186, Footnote 168: After the panel, Troy Rutter realized the $23 million budget he’d mentioned was the IMDb’s figure for “Caretaker,” the two-hour 1995 debut episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the first series to premiere on the United Paramount Network (UPN).
According to online sources, $5 million was the budget for “Encounter at Farpoint,” the two-hour 1987 debut episode for Star Trek: The Next Generation, aired in first-run syndication.
Babylon 5: The Fan Experience — Space City Con: 2014 (Publishing 180, 2014)
Page 302: I would say that everybody’s chemistry was…this is not anything negative against Michael O’Hare. Michael O’Hare, his personality was different; he was a moody man.