Crusade

Season

1999

USA

6.7

Set right after the events of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (1999), a team of soldiers and scientists led by Capt. Matthew Gideon have five years to find a cure for an alien plague decimating Earth.

Episode List

S1 • E1

War Zone

Capt. Matthew Gideon assembles the crew that will be with him on the experimental starship Excalibur. Their mission: explore the reaches of space to find a cure for the deadly Drakh virus that will overrun Earth in five years.

S1 • E2

The Long Road

Gideon mediates between Earth miners and the residents of a planet containing a virus-fighting mineral--and a fire-breathing dragon.

S1 • E3

The Well of Forever

Galen persuades Gideon to seek a mystical crossroads. An investigator probes Matheson's mind.

S1 • E4

The Path of Sorrows

A mysterious sphere prompts Gideon and the others to relive traumatic moments from their past.

S1 • E5

Patterns of the Soul

Gideon must deport a colony of renegade humans. Dureena finds a lost tribe of her people.

S1 • E6

Ruling from the Tomb

Gideon and Lochley must prevent a doomsday cult from killing everyone at a virus conference on Mars.

S1 • E7

The Rules of the Game

The Excalibur goes to Babylon 5 so that Gideon can meet with an ambassador for permission to go to a planet that might have technology that can help Earth. But the ambassador refuses and Gideon is not going to accept it. And Ellerson runs into his ex-wife, who is in trouble with a loan shark. When he pays him off, he feels she owes him more. Anf goes to great lengths to collect.

S1 • E8

Appearances and Other Deceits

Gideon must outwit an alien consciousness that takes over the Excalibur's crew.

S1 • E9

Racing the Night

Gideon and crew find themselves trapped by an alien civilization using sinister methods to seek a cure for the same Drakh virus that attacked Earth.

S1 • E10

The Memory of War

Galen warns Gideon not to explore a planet where the inhabitants were suddenly eradicated.

S1 • E11

The Needs of Earth

Gideon conducts an illegal raid to free a fugitive with information that could save Earth.

S1 • E12

Visitors from Down the Street

Two persecuted alien investigators (based on FBI agents Mulder and Scully from X-Files) believe that Earth is covertly invading them.

S1 • E13

Each Night I Dream of Home

In an attempt to understand the nature of the Drakh virus better, the Excalibur is sent back to Earth's orbit for a top-secret special pick up. Familiar face returns. The show ends on an open ending.