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Crusade

Crusade

Who do you serve, and who do you trust?

19996.61 Season13 EpisodesEnded

Overview

Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped. To that end, the Victory class destroyer Excalibur has been sent out to look for anything that could help the search for a cure.

Produced by J. Michael Straczynski, Douglas Netter
NetworksTNT

Top Cast

Gary Cole

Gary Cole

Matthew Gideon

Daniel Dae Kim

Daniel Dae Kim

John Matheson

David Allen Brooks

David Allen Brooks

Max Eilerson

C

Carrie Dobro

Dureena Nafeel

Marjean Holden

Marjean Holden

Sarah Chambers

Peter Woodward

Peter Woodward

Galen

Themes & Keywords

telepathyalienspace operaplagueouter space

About Crusade

Crusade is a drama, sci-fi & fantasy, action & adventure series that first aired in 1999 exploring themes of telepathy, alien, space opera, plague, outer space. it stars Gary Cole, Daniel Dae Kim, David Allen Brooks. Crusade is an American spin-off TV show from J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5. Its plot is set in AD 2267, five years after the events of Babylon 5, and just after the movie A Call to Arms. The Drakh have released a nanovirus plague on Earth, which will destroy all life on Earth within five years if it is not stopped. To that end, the Victory class destroyer Excalibur has been sent out to look for anything that could help the search for a cure.

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