What Happened Next? 10 Planned Seasons Of Cancelled TV Shows

4. Crusade: Full Season 1 And Beyond

Crusade, the spin-off to the epic Babylon 5 became something is a damp squib to end this TV universe on. After the main show wrapped up the majority of its stories - the Shadows, the revolution against Earth - Crusade began what was envisioned to be another five-year story, starting with the quarantining of Earth after the Drahk, allies of the Shadows, poisoned it in the TV Movie A Call To Arms. Sadly it ended after thirteen episodes and the crew of the Excalibur never found the cure. It had a good cast (Gary Cole, Daniel Dae Kim and Peter Woodward) and an intriguing premise but suffered from erratic scheduling that put episodes clearly out of order and bad marketing. Crusade died before it could really get going.

The biggest tragedy was that great things were just around the corner. The fourteenth episode called To the Ends of the Earth would have featured the Excalibur encountering a hybrid-Shadow vessel and setting up an arc that would have seen Earthforce using this technology for nefarious means. The sixteenth episode Value Judgements would have seen the very popular Babylon 5 villain Bester (Walter Koenig), now a telepath fugitive after the unseen Telepath War between Babylon 5 and Crusade. While the season one finale The End of the Line would reveal the truth about Humanity's experimentation with Shadow technology. Captain Gideon would have apparently been shot and killed trying to expose the truth, only to be resurrected with the Apocalypse box in season two and Galen's real mission would have been revealed; using the Excalibur to hunt down and destroy Shadow Technology.

As for the cure? Well it would have been discovered by the end of season two but the cost would have apparently been far worse. It seems that what we saw was really just the beginning of something far greater...