In the Science Fiction series Babylon 5, William Morgan Clark was the president of the Earth Alliance. He was previously President Luis Santiago's vice-president, and succeeded him after arranging the assassination of Santiago. He was portrayed by actor Gary McGurk. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Babylon 5 is an epic science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ... The President of Earth is a theoretical future political office that is common in many science fiction works. ... The Earth Alliance is the name of a fictional alliance of the countries of Earth in the television series Babylon 5. ... Luis Santiago is a fictional character in the television science fiction drama Babylon 5. ...

Partly because of the Earth-Minbari war, he believed Earth to be in danger of being overrun by extraterrestrial races. His government was totalitarian, and was similar to fascism. Clark's government was receiving support from the Shadows. Either they or one of their agents planted the explosives that destroyed Earth Force One, killing President Santiago. The Earth-Minbari War is a fictional war that takes place in the science fiction series Babylon 5. ... Extraterrestrial, as an adjective, refers to something that originates, occurs, or is located outside Earth or its atmosphere. ... The concept of Totalitarianism is a typology or ideal-type used by some political scientists to encapsulate the characteristics of a number of twentieth century regimes that mobilized entire populations in support of the state or an ideology. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

One of the things he did to protect against the perceived external threat, was to create Nightwatch, a paramilitary organization whose members were required to report any person they suspected to be alien infiltrators. In the Babylon 5 science fiction universe, Nightwatch was a paramilitary organization set up during the Presidency of Morgan Clark. ... A paramilitary organization is a group of civilians trained and organized in a military fashion. ...

Shortly after John Sheridan took command of Babylon 5, General Hague came to him and asked for his help in working against President Clark. Over the next year, Sheridan and the Babylon 5 command staff covertly worked against Clark. In 2260, they finally found evidence that Clark had arranged the assassination of Santiago. Hague managed to get the evidence introduced in the Senate, which caused an uproar.

At about the same time, it was revealed that Clark's forces had found a Shadow vessel buried on Ganymede. Clark was having the ship studied in order to learn its secrets to either use against other races or even against humans. John Sheridan took the White Star back to Ganymede, and destroyed the vessel. Clark soon issued a decree of martial law.

At this point, Hague took the EAS Alexander, and along with five other ships began armed resistance against Clark's government. Only the Alexander survived, but Hague was killed in a firefight. The Alexander made its way to Babylon 5. Meanwhile, Mars rejected martial law, and Clark responded by bombing Mars. Clark dissolved the Senate, and nationalized the media outlets. Afterwards Proxima III, and Orion VII broke away from the Earth Alliance, and set themselves up as independent states.

From the episode Severed Dreams, EAS Churchill - damaged and on fire - is shown ramming another Omega class ship. The Churchill had arrived to help defend Babylon 5 from Clark's forces.

Babylon 5 soon followed these two colonies by breaking away. The station's forces were able to turn away the first wave of assault forces sent by Clark. Just as the second wave arrived, three Minbari Sharlin Class Warcruisers and the White Star arrived at Babylon 5. Ambassador Delenn informed Clark's forces that Babylon 5 was now under Minbari protection. Realizing that resistance would be suicidal, the second wave left Babylon 5 space. This is an image from the Babylon 5 web site. ... This is an image from the Babylon 5 web site. ... Severed Dreams is an episode from the third season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ... Mira Furlan as Delenn in Babylon 5 The Minbari are a fictional race in the Babylon 5 universe. ... A Sharlin class warcruiser The Sharlin Class Warcruiser is the main starship of the Minbari Federation in the fictional Babylon 5 universe. ...

During the remainder of the Shadow War, Babylon 5 was focused on the Shadow threat. In the meantime, Clark had turned the Earth Alliance into a dictatorship. Clark consolidated his power, so that no one on Earth was really able to stand up to him. Interstellar Network News (ISN) was turned into his propaganda machine, so those outside the Earth Alliance had some difficulty knowing what was truly going on back on Earth. Because of Clark, the Earth Alliance did not take an active role in the closing days of the Shadow War. The Earth Alliance is the name of at least two fictional governments or alliances in modern science-fiction. ... Interstellar Network News (ISN) is a fictional TV news network in the Babylon 5 universe. ...

Once the Shadows had left the galaxy, Clark lost one of his main bases of support. He decided that Sheridan and Babylon 5 were a threat that needed to be dealt with. Clark did this mainly through a propaganda war directed at Babylon 5, and Sheridan was a particular target of this war. Sheridan and Commander Ivanova responded by creating the Voice of the Resistance, which countered much of the propaganda put out by ISN.

In the fall of 2261, Clark put a policy in place of killing refugees trying to leave the colonies that he was taking military action against. When Sheridan learned that in one case 10,000 innocent civilians were killed by an Earth Alliance vessel, he realized that the time had come to remove Clark.

Sheridan defeated the EarthForce vessels blockading Proxima III. He managed to destroy one of Clark's ships, and another was seriously damaged. The remaining ships defected to Sheridan's side. Over the next several weeks, Sheridan's forces began a systematic campaign against Clark's forces. Even though Sheridan was furious over the killing of innocent civilians, he took great care not to kill Earth Force personnel unless left with no chioce. Large numbers of Earth Force personnel defected. Eventually, Sheridan was lured to Mars when his father was captured by Clark's forces. Sheridan himself was captured and tortured for over a week, but refused to be broken. Eventually Sheridan was rescued by Michael Garibaldi, Lyta Alexander, and Dr. Stephen Franklin, and returned to the fleet. EarthForce is the military branch of the Earth Alliance, Earths governing body in the fictional Babylon 5 universe. ...

Clark decided to trap Sheridan's forces with advanced model destroyers which had been fitted with Shadow technology. When Commander Ivanova learned of this, she took the White Star ships in the fleet, and engaged the destroyers. She managed to destroy all the vessels, but was seriously injured in the process.

Soon afterwards, the final battle began. Sheridan disabled a large part of the fleet that was waiting for him at Mars by the use of telepaths modified by the Shadows. The remaining ships were disabled when their engines and weapons were destroyed. Then Sheridan took the fleet directly to Earth, and sent a message saying that they had come home to fight against Clark's tyranny.

Finally, the resistance on Earth had the support they needed. Senator Crosby led a group of people to Clark's office with the intention of placing him under arrest. Realizing that he would soon be captured, Clark committed suicide with a PPG. In one last vindictive act, he turned the planetary defense grid back on to Earth. The weapons would have destroyed 40% of the planet's surface. Sheridan and his forces quickly moved to destroy the platforms. General Lefcourt, who had previously been loyal to Clark, arrived and destroyed the last platform before it could fire on the eastern United States. The Phased Plasma Gun (or PPG) is a fictional weapon from the TV series Babylon 5. ...

After Clark's suicide, Susanna Luchenko of the Russian Consortium was named President. Former ISN reporters were freed, and returned almost immediately to their jobs. ISN was no longer the new order's propaganda arm. President Luchenko announced that the justice department would prosecute those who had committed crimes during Clark's reign of terror. She forced Sheridan to resign, he agreed to do so after Luchenko offered amnesty to those who had followed Sheridan. Once Sheridan got her to agree to put the amnesty in writing, he resigned as an Earth Force officer, and was soon elected President of the newly formed Interstellar Alliance. In the Babylon 5 science fiction universe, Susanna Luchenko was an Earth Alliance politican from the Russian Consortium. ...