Tamlyn Tomita - Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima Jerry Doyle - Michael Garibaldi Mira Furlan - Delenn Blaire Baron - Carolyn Sykes John Fleck - Del Varner Paul Hampton - The Senator Peter Jurasik - Londo Mollari Andreas Katsulas - G'Kar Johnny Sekka - Dr. Benjamin Kyle Patricia Tallman - Lyta Alexander Steven R. Barnett - Eric Hazeltine Billy Hayes - Traveler (as William Hayes) Linda Hoffman - Dome Tech #2 Robert Jason Jackson - Dome Tech #3 F. William Parker - Business Man #1 Ed Wasser - Guerra Versions There are two versions of The Gathering. The original version was a TV movie aired in 1993 on the Prime Time Entertainment Network as a pilot for the series. After a four-year run on PTEN, Babylon 5 moved to Turner Network Television (TNT) for its fifth and final season in 1998. Series creator and executive producer J. Michael Straczynski supervised a special edition of Babylon 5: The Gathering, which aired on TNT immediately following the new TV movie, Babylon 5: In the Beginning. Scenes were edited to move at a faster pace, allowing the restoration of 14 minutes of footage adding exposition and character development. Among the notable additions is a prophetic line spoken by Kosh when he first meets Sinclair. Lost in the special edition is a trip through the station's alien sector that some viewers felt looked too much like a zoo. Tamlyn Tomita's lines had been completely redubbed as the studio thought she sounded too "harsh"; the new edition restored her original performance. The original music, composed by Stewart Copeland, is also replaced with a score by Christopher Franke, who composed music for the rest of the series, played by the Berliner Symphoniker. The special edition is included in the Warner Home Video DVD releases Babylon 5: The Gathering/In the Beginning and Babylon 5: The Movie Collection. The original version was previously available on AOL's now-defunct In2TV service, and Hulu, but is no longer available on either as of April 2014. The iTunes Store appears to carry the special edition as part of its Season 1 bundle, but not the original. The date listed is the original air date, but it opens with "TNT Presents a Special Edition of...", and the run time is 1h35m. The original is available for streaming on Amazon. The original version was released on DVD by Warner Home Video in Region 2. In