Too many fans seem to be blown away

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Both of, what someone else called these two interesting B5 based quips "Radio Plays" - Are actually much more than "Religious Mumbo-Jumbo" or Galen playing his regular ridiculous techno-games.Both of the "Radio Plays" deal with choices. The first choice has Alan Scarfe (One of my favourite character actors) playing a Catholic Priest who wonders what his place in the universe is. The discussions of this chapter are Theologically, and scientifically, sound: And I heard more than one "Tiplerism" in the discussion (refer to the works of Frank Tipler).As such, I highly enjoyed the solution Lockley comes up with, even though she is getting on there in years like Bruce Boxleitner- It had the very interesting value of being carefully thought out, theologically AND scientifically. Anyone thinking "What was JMS thinking about when he wrote this" forgets that the entire B-5 Series is Lord of the Rings in space, and Lord of the Rings is at it's core a reflection of the religious beliefs of JRR Tolkien.But JMS makes valid statements about what Faith Is in this little episode, and I appreciated that.On the other hand, Boxleitner's dilemma, was almost too easy to guess the solution (I had guessed it about 3/4 of the way through it).I really liked the quaintness of these two "Lost Tales" - Another Tolkeinism.So now, we have, The Fellowship of Babylon 5, The Two Towers of Babylon 5, Return of the Boxleitner of Babylon 5... And now, these two quaint tales which could be "On Fairie Stories" (An essay by Tolkien regarding the place of Fairy tales versus Faith) and your regular Bilbo mentoring Frodo story (ie, Boxleitner taking the Centauri Prince under his "Star Fury") Even with the stripped Sets and Cast, it is still B-5, and the visuals from Optic Nerve... Well I had forgotten how good they were, and are.

This DVD consists of two new episodes of the Babylon 5 series--both set a decade after the final episode of the series. The first stars Tracy Scoggins and is a strange but decent segment about demonic possession. While it's far from great, it was interesting and is worth a look. The second is a much better episode which reunites Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) with Galen (Peter Woodward). The theme of this one is the morality of committing a murder in order to save countless lives--sort of like if you could time travel back to kill Hitler as a child. Unlike the first episode, this one was a bit more exciting and offered an interesting moral dilemma.When this straight to DVD release came out, I knew it had some major strikes against it since almost all the original characters from Babylon 5 were not in this two episode release. Richard Biggs and Andreas Katsulas had to be absent (this is alluded to, obtusely, in the film) since they recently died--a very valid excuse indeed and something I couldn't blame the production staff for occurring. But the rest of the cast were no where to be seen and this was a great pity. I assume that years after the last episode it just must have been a logistical nightmare to try. I also read that most of the props and uniforms from the series had been lost and stolen, so making the film was a major chore and logistical nightmare. Despite all these shortcomings, the overall product is surprisingly good and very watchable to fans of the series.

There's really nothing important to see here. There's a BS tale about religion, and then Sheridan "saves" Earth by making a crunchy-chewy decision about what to do with a member of Centauri royal court...yawn... There's only a few of the "main" characters from the original series and the "Crusade" series (which I still miss BTW) in it. A whole lot of other characters are mentioned in the dialog, but they are never seen. I guess some of the original cast are even dead at this point. It's not even an hour and half long for cripes sake! This is definitely a pass in my book...don't waste your time!! I ordered it on PPV and was very disappointed...it wasn't even worth the four bucks that I paid for it...

Most reviewers here seem to be expressing extreme disappointment with Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark. These reviewers EXPECTED Babylon 5 as if the show had never shut down in 1998. They expected something of that level, and that is the problem, EXPECTATIONS. Well folks, a lot of the stuff needed to make something like that (the sets, CGI, wardrobe and props, etc.) NO LONGER EXISTS at Warner Brothers. It is GONE (destroyed, lost or sold off, respectively). Combine that with JMS wanting only to do some small short stories in an anthology format, NOT long arcs right now, AND Warner Brothers OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE TIMIDITY (always in TEST-THE-WATERS mode) when it comes to allocating money to ANY new Babylon 5 project, especially a new material Direct-to-DVD venture, and this is what you get. Given all of the above, I do not think JMS and Co. did a bad job. Not great, but not bad either. However, what B5 needs is a huge shot in the arm, something to revitalize that universe, and this low budget DVD of two 36 minute B-stories, with Warner Brothers still not deciding whether there will be more, isn't it.And no, the G'Kar and Franklin tribute/mention does NOT cause a continuity problem.Spoiler for the B5 TV series below.....In 2271 (Babylon 5: The Lost Tales - Voices in the Dark (2007)), G'Kar and Dr. Franklin and Londo are alive. "Beyond the rim" has two meanings: 1. Death and the afterlife. 2. The Rim of Known Space - the limit of what has been explored thus far. Beyond that limit lies the unknown. JMS used this as a double entente, and gave a nod to Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs in the sense of meaning #1, and in the story used it in the sense of meaning #2 regarding G'Kar and Franklin going exploring. 2262 - G'Kar and Lyta leave B5, and go off on their adventures together. 2264 - G'Kar and Lyta come back. Lyta to see Garibaldi. 2264 - The Telepath War. Lyta and Lennier die. (Crusade Writer's Bible) 2265 - Legend of the Rangers To Live and Die in Starlight. G'Kar is there.2267 - Dr. Franklin is on quarantined Earth, due to the Drakh plague. Crusade begins.2268 - The cure to the Drakh plague is found in year 2 of Crusade.2271 - Would have been Crusade's 5th year. B5-TLT-Voices in the Dark DVD2278 - Londo & G'Kar die (In the Beginning).2281 - Dr. Franklin is on Minbar, for the last get together before John Sheridan dies in Sleeping in Light. So, the little tribute to Andreas and Rick doesn't ruin ANYTHING.And BTW, this is **NOT** the worst B5 ever. That dubious distinction belongs to the B5 Legend of the Rangers pilot "To Live and Die in Starlight" (a.k.a. TLaDiS). I gave the B5-TLT DVD 6 stars, and was being charitible in giving TLaDiS 2 stars.