Introductions before we start

[ruuger]

Sunday is here and it's time to get this thing on the road. The response to b5_revisited has been amazing with over 100 people watching the community already! Thank you to all the people who have pimped the community.

While we wait for the discussion posts to go up (or you wait and I make the posts), how about some introductions first.

I'll go first: I started watching B5 in 1997 when it began showing on Finnish tv. I'd never heard of the show before, but was a 17-year-old who loved scifi, and in those days we were lucky to get any scifi on tv so the fact that it had aliens in it was enough for me.

I can't actually remember what I thought about the first episode, but I do remember the moment when I became a fan of the show, which was when I saw "And the Sky Full of Stars". The episode that sealed the deal for me, though, was - and all you old fans are going to laugh at me now - "GROPOS" in season 2. And by season 4 I had already started my own B5 fansite, 190 Bester Place (which is still up even if I haven't remembered to update it for about three years and celebrates its 10 birthday next month).

In fandom I used to lurk at the Finnish B5 fans' group on Usenet, but was at my most active on the About.com Babylon 5 fans forum and the fabulous JumpNow forums. The last few years my fannish activity has been mostly on LJ, and has included running universe_today and babylon5_love and couple of ficathons.

I can also often be found hanging around in the Buffyverse and X-Files corners of Internet.

How about you? Are you an old fan from the first age of usenet, or a newbie watching the show for the first time? How did you first heard about the show? Where do you hang out, what are your other fandoms?

And remember, no spoilers! Because one of the best parts of Babylon 5 fandom is, after all, watching the reactions of the unspoiled newbies when they reach that episode where that character does that thing and it is revealed that the thing is actually a thing. You know that thing I mean ;)

Comments

[alicamel.livejournal.com]

Hi! I remember when I stated watching, because it was my mum who made me. I was a big trek fan at the time, which we watched together as a family, and she suggested that I might enjoy this new show Channel 4 where broadcasting. So, we sat and watched it. She and my brother liked it straight away, but I was a bit more reluctant to give up my diehard trekkie status. (I recall mocking the 'silly hair.') Anyway, around Signs and Portents I totally changed my mind. After that I was pretty obsessed! Though I lurked on Usenet a bit, I mostly posted on one particular mesage board, whose name escapes me at the moment, where I started writing fic. Ah, the neverending B5 story! I think I still have some of that on a floppy disk, somewhere... When that went down, I followed the mass migration over the Scifisites community, which was called something different at the time. After that I posted fic to anxst.com archive and hung with various people in aim chatrooms (Battlefields of slash!) and different mailing lists.

Nowadays I'm not very fannish about new stuff. I still love B5, various Trek, and recently got into X-Files, but I'm not as active in fandom as I used to be.

[nomadicwriter]

I saw it on Channel 4 as well. My older brother dragged me in to watch it (somewhat against my will because I had no idea what it was and had it vaguely confused with some kind of sports program with a number in the name). The first episode I saw was, I think, Infection. I must have been about twelve at the time. I don't remember how quickly I was hooked, but I know that by the end of the first season I was so in love with the show that I was totally resistant to changes promised in the TV Times at the start of season two. ...Which taught me a Valuable Lesson about not assuming you're going to hate changes to a show until you've given them a fair chance, and that's stuck with me through all my later fandoms.

B5 was probably my first real fandom, more or less simultaneously with the X-Files. (Which I was introduced in exactly the same way - I owe you, big brother. I don't think I even knew the X-Files was a series until he made me watch it, because the only episodes they advertised with trailers were Squeeze and then Tooms so I wound up with the impression that it was a one-off special type thing.) I was also big into Due South in much the same era. Sadly, this was years before I had an internet connection, so I never really got into the web communities or fic-writing fandom for any of them.

Since then, I've bounced with various degrees of fannishness through BtVS, The West Wing, Harry Potter, Stargate SG-1, and my latest infatuation, Alias. I never paid much attention to Trek when it was on, but I've since had a bit of a revival and have just recently bought season one of DS9 to check out. But Babylon 5 will always have a special place in my heart as my first big fannish obsession, and one of very few shows I ever watched totally unspoiled.

[devilc.livejournal.com]

I started watching in 1994. My previous exposure to SF on TV was Star Trek: TNG.

I fell into the novel structure of B5 and ... at last! Everything I had wanted from a genre TV show! Episodes with great woogy moral issues that weren't resolved in a trite manner by episode's end! Choices that came back to bite you in the ass later, in ways you didn't think of at the time. Characters who were morally complex.

[mosinging1986.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone.

I was pointed this way by hobsonphile. I am a newbie to B5 and began watching for the very first time on October 16 of this past year. (And I am already up to episode 4.6!)

There were a few fans on my flist and since we shared other fandoms like 'X-Files' and 'Battlestar Galactica', I was always hearing that I was missing out by not watching this show. Since I hate being left out of anything, I finally Netflixed the first episode and was pretty much hooked from that moment on. I'm not sure if there was one episode that really made me fall head over heels, but I'll have to look back. (I've had to take a zillion notes because I'm going through it so quickly and it can be complicated!)

I think it was a bit of a slow burn as far as emotional attachment. But the story itself intrigued from the start. And while it did take a bit of time for me to get BSG out of my head while watching this, the similarities are mostly superficial. It seems I love both shows, but in very different ways.

What I don't understand is why I never heard of the show when it was actually on! I like to think of myself as fairly knowledgeable about pop culture, so even when I don't watch something I've at least heard of it and know the basic premise. But how this show was kept from me all these years is a mystery!

I guess it's better this way. How maddenng would it have been to come across an old rerun and get hooked BEFORE the DVDs came along?

[ruuger]

How maddenng would it have been to come across an old rerun and get hooked BEFORE the DVDs came along?

There is a name for this in B5 fandom: 'EPDN', which refers to the feeling at the end of the episode when the words "Executive Producer Douglas Netter" appear on the screen and you realised that it'd be a whole week before you'd know what happens next.

(And can you imagine having to wait a whole summer between the end of season 3 and the beginning of season 4?)

[ayrdaomei.livejournal.com]

I first happened upon the show in 1994 or 1995. I was a fan of the series Time Trax which aired alongside Babylon 5, and if I recall correctly, I happened to catch the tail end of a couple of random eps of B5 while waiting for TT. Or maybe it was that I caught the beginning of a couple eps after watching TT - I can't exactly remember. But I know at first I wasn't impressed, but the snippets I caught got progressively more intriguing... I happened upon the show again a year later, and that's when I really fell for it and started watching full eps. Without being spoilery, I'll just say that the complexity of the issues the show was dealing with at that time really blew me away. I was a fan of a lot of sci-fi, but I didn't know any other show that told such layered stories. The storytelling also appealed to my love of world history. And the characters. My goodness. I have never known such characters.

I've never been active in any B5 fandom online, so I was pretty thrilled to hear of this community. It's also great because I haven't rewatched the series all the way through in some time. I'm not active in any fandom right now, but I am a long time fan of shows like TNG, Stargate: SG1, Farscape, Homicide: Life On The Street, and Due South.

[beccastareyes]

I was an old Trek fan, thanks to my father. Watching Star Trek was a family affair, especially Deep Space Nine.

Anyway, in high school, I joined the science fiction club and met my friend Cassie/crisi83. While Cassie was a Trekkie, she was also a huge Babylon 5 and Star Wars fan. She was actually the person who insisted I watch both -- she also got me reading Robert Heinlein, IIRC -- which wasn't unusual in that she insisted that everyone watch Babylon 5. (No, I hadn't seen Star Wars until high school. I just barely saw Movies 5 and 6 before TPM.)

Anyway, I used some online resources (Lurker's Guide, IIRC) to get caught up on some of the early events, and used to quietly tiptoe down to the basement to catch reruns on TNT on Saturday mornings. This wasn't the best way to view, in that I got scattered Season 2 and 3 episodes.

Right before I entered grad school (so, about four years ago), I got a DVD of Season 3, thanks to finding it used. I finally watched through Season 3, partially on vacation (I had a laptop and my headphones) while everyone was watching the Red Sox play. For that matter, I was also watching the Sox at the same time. About eighteen months ago, I got the rest of the series (at least the TV episodes) and did a run-through that stalled out in early Season 3. (Around that time I was hit by a car, and I remember spending hours watching B5 and crocheting because moving from my couch hurt too much. I think I tried to hook my cousin, who had come up to help me with grocery shopping the day after, since she was a Battlestar Galactica fan, but we only had time for one episode.)

I still haven't seen past the cliffhanger ending of Season 3, though Cassie was pretty blatant about spoilers, so I know most of the big ones. I did see Legend of the Rangers when Cassie had a party for the premiere.

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

Hello!

I watched B5 on and off when it first aired. My friends kept after me, but it was a busy time of my life and I kept missing episodes, which left me lost the next time around. I tried watching the re-runs TNT ran before S5 (I still have a few on videotape which I recorded in an effort to catch up), but I couldn't keep up and eventually just stopped.
Fast forward to three years ago--while searching Netflix for something that my whole family could watch and enjoy, I had the bright idea of catching up on old tv sf, and ordered in Midnight on the Firing Line. We were all hooked, but it hit me hardest. It was very schizo watching the series with random memories popping up from before; like living a dream or experiencing precognition or enduring random bursts of intense deja vu.

From there I've just descended into madness...I was in fandom for a long time from high school to grad school and beyond, but career and marriage and children took me away for a good ten years. B5's been my way back, and also my entry into writing, for which I will be forever grateful.

[lilliew.livejournal.com]

I'm an old timer who's watched B5 from the very beginning. I used to follow SciFi shows and news and learned about this new SciFi show coming up that was going to have 5 years all planned out, was different than Star Trek, and they weren't sure if it was going to fly or not. I was intrigued by the concept, tired of Star Trek's endless cycle of same episodes.

I remember watching the pilot and being unsure, but kept with it when it started up again full time. I was on Compuserve following the conversations with JMS and even had a few posts exchanged with him. I followed newsgroups when I could. I think it really hit me that I was a hardcore fan after the Fall of Night and I was totally floored at how extensive this universe was and how I began to put the pieces of the puzzle together on what was going on.

Realize that was before the Web really took off, so we didn't have websites or forums or much in the way of spoilers. Most of our discovery of the universe came from JMS himself. I read the newsgroups a little bit but it was too much volume to keep up with (for me back then, in comparison to today, it wasn't all much, hah).

I had most of the eps on video tape. When the DVDs came out, I slowly bought all of them. Now, I rewatch the entire show at least once a year. I'm so glad that B5 has continued to have such a strong base after all these years and more and more people are coming to love it thanks to DVDs. I measure all other shows (especially scifi) against it and so far, nothing has measured up (probably the closest is Lost, but its different really).

As for now, I'm not very involved in fandoms anymore. I played MMPPORGs for a number of years so I wasn't watching TV much. I've been in one or two over the years off and on, most recently Jericho, but I've gotten tired of shows getting canceled so now I just watch for my own enjoyment. Right now, I'm watching Burn Notice, Leverage, Life, Lost, House and catching up on some other shows on DVD and Hulu.

Looking forward to the great rewatch. Always wonderful sharig this show with others.

[wychwood]

B5 was pretty much my first fandom. I was indoctrinated by my best friend at university, a couple years after the show ended, because she was so desperate for someone to talk to about it *g*. A couple of years later she picked up an almost complete set of the videos very cheap, and made me watch. I liked it quite quickly, which I hadn't expected, and by about Signs and Portents I was addicted. We watched from Divided Loyalties to Into the Fire during a particularly intense two-week burst one vacation, I remember!

I found B5 people on LJ quite early on; it was definitely my first LJ fandom, though I was being Enterprise-fannish in other venues at much the same time. So I was actually well positioned for the surge when the DVDs came out; I'd already been hooked and could watch all the newbies arrive *g*. It's still my favourite TV show, bar none, though I've been in fandom continuously since, particularly ENT and SGA.

[moor-i-arthy.livejournal.com]

For me B5 started some time around 1993-95 (actually i dont remember when it was - I was too young ^_^) when it started on Russian TV. My parents gone mad of this series and so was I.
Later, in 2004 I had got full collection of B5 and so it begins... I mean so begins my fanship (what was before doesn't counts: I was only 5 years old in 1994)
Now I'm trying to make my own B5 forum RPG project (kind of co-authorship fanfic writing based on the idea of semi-global role-playing game in one big B5 universe).

[mangosorbet007.livejournal.com]

I started watching B5 in Germany. My previous fandom was Trek - TOS, TNG, DS9, and I ended up giving Voyager and even Enterprise a fair chance several years later. I have no particular memories of liking the series more than other SF TV during the first season or two.
I then moved to the US in 1996, which meant that I missed almost a full season (parts of S2 and S3, I think), which was really weird (Who were these people? What was going on?), but I caught up and was hooked. And then S5 moved to cable and my grad dorm didn't have cable, woe, WOE, but by that time I had discovered the internet and found a lovely woman in California who taped all of S5 for me and mailed a big box of old-school video tapes to NJ, where I mainlined all 23 episodes over three days during the 1998 Christmas break.
I recently "acquired" the first few seasons again and am up to S4, and loving it. It's smart, expects you to pay attention, has characters that actually develop, and it's fun.

(I don't think I've ever read fanfic for B5, oddly enough, even though I read voraciously in a number of fandoms, from Stargate, which I got into because of the fantastic fanfic, to Buffy to HP.)

[sineala.livejournal.com]

Aww, and I really liked how the thing is actually a thing! I never suspected!

My B5 history is a sordid and occasionally sad tale. In 1993 I was twelve and very, very into Star Trek. One of the science-fiction TV magazines ran an article about B5, and so I watched "The Gathering" on initial broadcast. And hated it, because it wasn't Trek, pretty much. I tuned in a few times for some of Season 1; I think I cared that Walter Koenig was guest-starring. For some reason I even bought some of the tie-in novels (the one about Talia, 'cause I liked Talia a lot) The last thing I remember watching in the original run is partway through S2, where, uh, spoiler asks spoiler for help with her spoiler. I've forgotten the episode name again.

Anyway. Skip forward to, like 1998. B5 has just ended, and I found out Neil Gaiman (who I was a big fan of at the time) wrote an episode, and I thought I should tune in for the reruns so I could refresh my memory of the characters. Well, uh, I caught the final four episodes of Season 3. And from then on, I was hooked.

I'm mostly a lurker in B5; I read usenet compulsively but never post. I've been in a whole lot of fandoms in the intervening years, mostly as a slasher (though I'm not really a slasher in B5) all on LJ -- The Sentinel, Due South (that was a big one for me), The X-Files, Buffy, Starsky and Hutch, Harry Potter, new BSG, House, Psych... the list goes on. My current fannish obsession is The Professionals.

[alexcat.livejournal.com]

The Sci fi channel showed it about 2000 or so, an episode a night and my friend pointed me to it. My hubby and I began to watch. The first season was a bit odd but I fell in love with Sinclair and Delenn. I kept watching and watching until it was done. I proabaly have shed more tears over this show than anything else I've ever watched. It had it all: a complex story line along with episodic qualities, humor, romance, nobility... it had it all and I rewatched last year after a long haitus and found that it had lost nothing over the years.

[selvatica.livejournal.com]

I absolutely can't remember how I first realised the B5 universe was out there, but I do remember liking it from the first moment I saw it.
I also remember when Sky came to install our first digibox, the first show we saw when they were testing it was B5!
I have the whole lot on DVD including Crusade and all the extra TV movies.
I'm looking forward to rewatching the lot as I've been meaning to do it for a while and this is the push I need.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

Best-beloved-mate got me into this show. We're watching it together, and I am only to the very end of Season 2; we may start Season 3 this morning. :-D Due to time and distance, we don't get to sit down and watch every weekend, so this community may well catch us up before too long!

[glenniebun.livejournal.com]

I saw the show on TNT in 1998-99, late in middle school into freshman year of high school, while season 5 was still in its first run. My first episode was "Severed Dreams," and I watched the mid-afternoon reruns through the end of season 4 and back through the entire series in the next cycle.

I'm not really active in B5 fandom; I spent untold hours reading JMS' usenet posts on the Lurker's Guide pages, but that's about it.

[fifmeister.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a young'un--I was nine years old when B5 first began airing, so looking back I think it's safe to say that B5 was literally the first real TV show I ever watched. I didn't view it when it originally aired, though--I can't remember what year I actually began watching, but it was my parents who got me hooked. They absolutely loved the show when it first aired, and had virtually every episode recorded on a huge collection of VHS tapes sitting in our basement. The quality was less than stellar, obviously, but I didn't care. I remember some days watching multiple episodes in a row because I just couldn't make myself stop.

B5 has had an enormous impact on the way I view all other TV shows, particularly because I watched it at a fairly young and impressionable age, and because it was the first show I ever watched outside of kids' shows. It's kind of weird, but in some ways I almost feel disadvantaged for having viewed B5 first thing in my TV/fandom life--because it's like I watched the very best thing first, and now nothing can live up to it--especially in the area of character development. I can't even count the number of times I've been watching some other show and exclaimed in frustration "Why can't they do this the way B5 did it?" or "If only they had JMS on their writing staff!" There have been a couple of shows that have come close, but nothing as of yet that can truly touch B5. Yeah, I've been spoiled. :p

As far as fandom goes, I've never actually been heavily involved in B5 fandom outside of a few LJ communities. Other shows that I watch (or watched) include Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Lost, Firefly, and (formerly) Heroes.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

I had really never heard of B5 before I joined LJ in 2004. Then it seemed like everyone was talking about it as a default fandom. It still took me a couple of years to start borrowing the DVD's and a bit longer than that to get through all five seasons, but I really did enjoy it once I did.

I'm not sure how much I'll be able to keep up with a rewatch comm, because I don't own any episodes prior to season 3, but I think it's great that this is happening and I'll be keeping an eye on the discussion.

[cosmob.livejournal.com]

If you've got a good internet connection, it appears Hulu.com has the first two seasons (http://www.hulu.com/search/Babylon+5?showname=babylon+5&sort_by=relevance) available for free (with limited commercial interruptions) to those in the US. So, no need to miss out!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

The pilot and the episode Mind War were shown at the Munich Fantasy And Sci Fi Film Festival, shortly after the show had started in the US and a year or so before it started in Germany. I watched and was intrigued enough to tune in when they finally got around to broadcasting B5 on German tv; I remember being impressed by Walter Koenig - whom as an old Trekker I knew - and being neutral on the matter of Sinclair; I liked Talia, and in the pilot the scene between Londo and Garibaldi where Londo says the Centauri have become a tourist attraction struck me, emotionally.

Watching s1 made me fond of the show and by the end sad Sinclair wouldn't be in the second season (which being a year behind we knew, of course, though I wasn't spoiled for anything else) but happy everyone else would be. (It didn't take me longer than Born to the Purple to fall for Londo, and Parliament of Dreams to fall for G'Kar.) And incredibly curious as to where this show was going with the set-up mysteries. By the time s2 ended, I was so hooked I tried to get English episodes, which before the internet was available to me was very difficult. And then I got a scholarship in the US where I went from the start of s3 (Germany, when I left) to watching Ship of Tears and War Without End I +II. Talk about jaw-dropping. I caught up with the other episodes through repeats. Due to the crazy scheduling in the US, by the time the show ended we were just weeks behind in Germany (where I was again), and I also was online by then. (Though it took me ten more years to write fanfiction. *g*)

[dancesontrains.livejournal.com]

Hello! I'm a near-total n00b to Babylon 5- I'd only seen the prequel movie, and that was several years ago. I also came to fandom pretty late, discovering fic a couple of years ago, and lj fandom after reading through archives for a few months. My first fandom was Life On Mars, and at the moment I'm mostly into Doctor Who (new and old school) and lurk in several other fandoms.

[cosmob.livejournal.com]

I'm very definitely a DVD fan of the show. I don't actually remember it airing, and I'm not sure I would have been very interested in it (though, I do remember being a casual fan of TNG and DS9 at the time -- though we stopped watching DS9 after a little while).

Anyway, here's my tale. In 2004, my brother moved back home for a few months, only to move out again in July. While he was home, he would occasionally disappear to watch this show on DVD called "Babylon 5," which he thought was pretty cool. He was fairly far along, but he thought I'd like it, even though it wasn't my usual television fare.

When he was moving out, I was helping pack up his DVDs while he was at work. Before he left, he very gently suggested that I not pack his "Babylon 5" season one set, so I could start watching it. I'm a good sister, so I didn't.

It took me a couple of weeks to start watching, but I did. I don't recall any particular moment of getting hooked, exactly, but I thought it was pretty good by eight episodes in. (Though, looking at my first B5 journal mention, I found Londo's voice reminiscent of Walter Slezak, which was distracting for a while.) By the time I had finished season two, I decided that B5 was one of the shows I wanted on DVD; the list, at the time, was a short one. I kept borrowing sets from him (or the library, when I got too impatient) so I could finish seeing everything.

From there, I read the Lurker's Guide (my brother had mentioned it to me) and found the babylon5 community here, which, besides icons, is pretty much the only place I go for B5ness. At the time, I was just starting to make icons, and B5 was a favorite subject of mine.

I've gone through several rewatches of the show since then; in fact, I've seen the show more than my brother has. It's quite honestly one of my favorites, and I love going back and rewatching it. (Sadly, I think I've been more than a year since I last watched the show, so this is a fabulous opportunity for me, and it starts at just the right time; I had decided that B5 was next on my viewing schedule after "Firefly," which I got to this past week.)

[wabbitseason.livejournal.com]

I first heard about Babylon 5 on the Compuserve forums. That was back when it was unusual for PTB to post online or interact directly with fans. J. Michael Straczynski would drop the occasional update on casting or artwork or special effects or just something nifty he'd been shown. I'd catch bits of episodes, but I didn't really start paying attention until midway into the second season. Then I was hooked big time. I even created my first website and learned html because of B5.

I even dragged my mother along for the joy ride. She developed a fondness for the Centauri for some strange reason. Vir was referred to as the "young mournful one". My Toshiba desktop was even nicknamed Kosh because he was a black sinister box that occasionally gave undecipherable messages. Doesn't that sound like a Vorlon to you? I think he proved the warning, though, about naming computers after gods, fairies or enigmatic aliens. It's just asking for trouble.

[impactbomb.livejournal.com]

I've been a B5 fan since I was old enough to love television; the very first dream I ever remember having was of Starfuries in the dark.

It was fandom for me before I could articulate fannish thought. I just knew I liked it and wanted more of it. I used to watch it in the TV room at my grandfather's house, with my aunt, on VHS tapes of the original broadcast. Before I fell for SAILOR MOON, or DRAGON BALL, or cartoons of any kind besides Looney Tunes, B5 was there.

It's hard for me to even call it a fandom, because B5 is like breathing; I've never known what a life without it is like, and can't imagine one now.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

I was hooked pretty much from the first episode of the show's Channel 4 broadcast in the UK, and when I went to university just after Z'Ha'Dum was broadcast I discovered the internet and my first internet fandom. I was active on the Pathfinder B5 bulletin board and its descendants under the name "Shrike" and encountered a lot of pan-fandom experiences for the first time there, from the pro/anti-Marcus wars to the email campaign against Channel 4's cutting of the show for violence to the guy freaking out about hoe the fandom was full of lesbians when people started speculating about those two characters in Gaiman's episode.

[jenab.livejournal.com]

I was hooked from the start. I liked Trek but B5 really grabbed me with its characters and complex story lines. I was never very involved in fandom since B5 aired just before internet access became readily available in my area.

Right now I'm mainly fannish on livejournal in Alias and a few other small fandoms like Eureka.

[kimera.livejournal.com]

I started watching B5 not *quite* when it first started, but almost. I was but a wee Kimera, and my dad had seen the first few episodes, and was like "you should watch this, you'll like it!" and lo, I did. It wasn't quite my first *fandom*, because I had no clue that fandom, well, existed at that point, but it was the first show (well, along with Power Rangers... I *was* a ten-year-old after all) where I was actually interested in tuning in every week to see what happened next. My dad also belonged to like, a B5 viewing club that would get together monthly to marathon episodes, and I remember getting to go along occasionally.

These days, I'm kind of quiet fannishly except for RPing over at fandomhigh (where we used to have an Ivanova and a Lyta and currently have a G'Kar, btw.) But I'm watching Stargate (I think it still counts as current, there's supposedly one more movie!), The Border, Corner Gas, Little Mosque on the Prairie (Canadian stuff, which I encourage everyone else to check out), and BSG. And, yes, I still watch Power Rangers. I have no shame about this!

I am a fannish consumer of sorts for fic/vids for several 'off-the-air' shows besides B5: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Forever Knight, Due South, Sentinel, Lois & Clark, Star Trek Voyager (well, all Treks, but this one was my favourite), Earth: Final Conflict, Buffy... clearly, the 90s were good to me :D