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G'Kar (/ dʒ ə ˈ k ɑːr / juh-KARR) is a fictional character in Babylon 5 played by Andreas Katsulas. He is a Narn and initially appears as a villainous diplomat opposite Londo Mollari , being constantly engaged in insidious, if petty, and often comical schemes.
G'Kar is the Narn ambassador to Babylon 5 and was played by Andreas Katsulas in seasons 1–5. He makes his first appearance in The Gathering as a villainous diplomat opposite Londo Mollari , being constantly engaged in insidious, if petty and often comical schemes, usually driven by his hostility to his people's historical enemies, the ...
Andrew Katsulas [needs IPA] (May 18, 1946 – February 14, 2006), known professionally as Andreas Katsulas, was an American film and television actor, most recognized for portrayals of Narn Ambassador G'Kar on the American science fiction television series Babylon 5 and Romulan Commander Tomalak on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The main Babylon 5 story arc occurs between the years 2257 and 2262. The show depicts a future where Earth has a unified Earth government and has gained the technology for faster-than-light travel using "jump gates", a kind of wormhole technology allowing transport through the alternate dimension of hyperspace.
Guffey and Koontz observe that this opening episode starts to develop arguably the series' most significant ongoing relationships, with Londo and G'Kar mirroring the larger picture of Centauri and Narn politics, which will be for all five seasons at the core of Babylon 5. Narns have thrown off Centauri oppressors, and have become newly ...
"The Parliament of Dreams" is the fifth episode of the first season of the science fiction television series, Babylon 5. It covers an attempt to assassinate the Narn ambassador G'Kar, and the station crew's hosting of a week-long festival of religious traditions of different races, organized by the Earth Alliance.
As Babylon 5 was conceived with an overall five-year story arc, the episode was written as both an individual story and with another level, where the hints of the larger story arc were given. The series' creator, J. Michael Straczynski indicates that the episodes can be watched for the individual stories, the character stories, or the story arc.
An accident in the docking bays starts a series of problems on Babylon 5, when a Narn freighter is destroyed and one of the workers is killed. The dock workers demand better conditions or they'll go on strike. And G'Kar has to get a replacement G'Quan-Eth plant for an important religious ceremony.