Remember that full set of Babylon 5 DVDs we bought ourselves for Christmas? Well, we’re already into the fourth series. (Only one more season after this one — boo hoo!)

This might be a good time to point out, for the benefit of anyone else who is about to purchase the boxed set, that the discs you buy might not be arranged in the best viewing order. In fact, they might not even be packaged in a sensible order at all. So, before you even insert the first disk, go and get the Babylon 5 master list. We cannot guarantee, however, that it will help you to learn to speak Vorlon.

Two years ago we were, if not obsessed with, at least quite keen on Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Shana had seen it before, but it was all new to me. After eventually seeing all seven DS9 seasons (with a six-month hiatus thanks to Virgin 1′s unfathomable scheduling) our sci-fi experiences careered rapidly downhill and we at last halted our regular viewings of creaky old space-opera, Star Trek: The Next Generation.

For Christmas, we treated ourselves to a full set of Babylon 5 DVDs — and a DVD player to play them on. Early adopters? Us? No way!

Babylon 5 characters present me with new challenges for 2010. It’s one thing swanning around quoting lines from your favourite shows and pretending (in a slightly camp way, of course) to be DS9‘s Chief O’Brien. But as far as Babylon 5′s concerned, unless Londo Mollari undergoes a radical style change as the series progresses, it looks as if I’ll be needing some extra-firm-hold hair gel, and lots of it.