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The station prepares to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of [[The Alliance|The Intestellar Alliance]], but [[Babylon 5]] being [[Weirdness Magnet|what it is]], things are certain not to go smoothly. Colonel Lochley finds herself seeking the assistance of a priest in order to deal with a demonic possession, and President Sheridan receives an unexpected guest forecasting the destruction of the Earth Alliance in the future if Sheridan doesn't [[For Want of a Nail|take the life of an innocent Centauri prince.]]
 
This was an [[Anthology Film]], meant to be the first part of a series of short films, each [[Day in The Limelight|following a specific character]] and each release having a common theme for the stories to follow. Though ''Voices In The Dark'' was commercially successful, production of the second part (with Garibaldi and possibly Londo) fell through due to the 2007 [[Writers Strike|Writers Guild of America Strike]] and ended up being shelved by [[J. Michael Straczynski (Creator)|J Michael Straczynski]] due to concerns that the studio would not budget enough money for him to do the ''Babylon 5'' universe justice.
 
Starring Bruce Boxleitner as President John Sheridan, Tracy Scoggins as Colonel Elizabeth Lochley, and Peter Woodward as Galen.
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: Some poor schlub who works on the station as a technician ended up crossing paths with a demon while visiting Earth on leave.
* [[How Unscientific]]: Some fans were pretty upset that this fairly hard sci-fi universe suddenly had a literal demon from Hell in it.
** Some official source has explained them as energy beings who met up with the First Ones but soon turned out malevolent and were locked away. Essentially, it [[Doing in Thethe Wizard|does in the wizard.]] Probably for the best.
** It doesn't explain why they fear exorcism, however.
* [[Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions]]: It is mentioned that the Catholic Church has been in decline ever since the Earthers gained the means to interstellar travel. If the priest expels the demon immediately, he will have no proof that the possession happened, and the decline will continue. If he allows the demon to stay in possession of his host, it will actually ''benefit'' the church as humanity's belief in the supernatural is restored. Of course, to do so would mean to abandon an innocent man that the priest could have helped, dooming his soul.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Sheridan and Galen both, though Galen is much better at it.
* [[Death From Above]]: The fate of New York City thirty years in the future, via orbital bombardment.
* [[Distracted Byby the Sexy]]: Miss Chambers's camera is a button on her blouse. She claims that her producer had her do that so her interviewees would look at the camera. ''A lot.''
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Sheridan evidently has had visions projected into his head in his sleep by various entities enough times to know when it's happening, compare to his confused reactions to the first time Galen did this to him in ''A Call To Arms''.
* [[Hot Scoop]]: Miss Chambers, with everybody's favorite news network, Inter Stellar News.
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