Babylon 5 fans have been frustrated at the delay in getting season Box Sets of their show on DVD, while dozens of other series are on the street with "the works". Warner Brothers has been strangely silent on the issue, as has the show's production team, including creator J. Michael Straczynski. B5 followers have had to simply make do with the one disc released last Christmas, containing two telefilms: "The Gathering/In The Beginning".
Now there may finally be a crack in the armor; a hint that there's something more on-the-way. A post on a USENET Newsgroup from someone at the National Captioning Institute requested help from B5 fans there in locating a website which would help get the spellings correct of names and places in the stories:
- "I work for the company doing the closed-captioning of Babylon 5 for DVD release. We are reformatting the captions from the original files, which were mostly done without scripts. We have the first six episodes here already (I'll be doing 1 & 2 myself tomorrow) but alas, still no scripts...
... Anyway, does anyone have suggestions as to where the best, most authentic sites would be for verifying things like spellings of names/places etc? Someone who might have had access to those scripts and would therefore have it for-sure right? I'd REALLY like us to get this stuff right."
Could this be just more grist for the rumor-mill? Maybe not: There is reason to believe that this was a legitimate request from an actual employee at the NCI. So, things perhaps are moving apace, and it's possible that an official announcement won't be too far down the road now. Stand by...
News article by David Lambert with information from Joseph DeMartino.
