Babylon 5: The Road Home

 Almost 2 decades after the end of this fantastic sci-fi series, JM Straczynski is back with this CGI animated movie.

And it takes place when John Sheridan takes command of the ISA, so before the episode "Sleeping in Light" which ended the story of the beloved space station.

When participating (reluctantly, as he doesn't see himself a politician) in the opening of a revolutionary power station, Sheridan begins to feel unwell.  It turns out the station using tachyons, causing him to become unstuck in time and space as warned by Zathras all those years ago.

He jumps 23 years into the future where he meets Dr Franklin, though he is told it has only been 18.  The reason is because Franklin can't bear to tell John he died 3 years before, as he tests him to prove that Sheridan is out of phase, and that he must go to Epsilon 3 to get a time stabilizer from The Great Machine.  Sheridan then shifts to when he was just appointed CO of Babylon 5, at his parents farm on Earth.  He next travels to Z'ha'dum during the ill-fated expedition of the Icarus, when they awoke the Shadows from hybernation.

He fails to prevent this from happening, as he goes to an alternate timeline where Sinclair is still in command of Babylon 5 during the Shadow War.  The station is under heavy attack (and a nice animated version of Ivanova's alternate timeline distress call from the main series, and how it came to be) and about to fall, as he and Sinclair come up with a plan to destroy the station.  The blast will take out the Shadow fleet as well, buying the fleeing shuttles the time to escape.  He shifts before he can complete the plan, but Lyta and G'kar sacrifice themselves to fullfil the plan.

He shifts to his own timeline, in Lochley's bedroom.  They go down to the surface and meet with (to many according to Sheridan) Zarthras, who tells him all timelines will collapse onto each other if they can't stop what is happening.  Before they manage to stabilize them though, he is shifted back to Earth.  He finds himself at the dying moments of the planet, with Ivanova and Mollari.  The Shadows had won the war, and the Vorlons, being "sour losers" want to destroy every planet influenced by the Shadows, in the case of Earth by pushing the moon onto the planet.  

As Earth is destroyed, John is shifted to The Rim, meeting up with G'Kar who tells him about the will of the universe, and that love is the strongest emotion of all.  He then shifts to a moment on Babylon 5 where his alternate has been in command for 2 years, and the Shadow War never happened.  Zathras arrives, informed by an alternate universe Zathras, but when he starts shifting Zathras tells him Delenn has been chasing him through time all the while.  A portal opens allowing him to join hands with her, and return back to his home and timeline.

So this was a fun "revisiting old friends" movie, even though some of them have of course other voice actors as they passed beyond the Rim in the past years (Franklin, Garibaldi, ...) but a good fun experience never the less of the classic series.