Andrea Thompson as Talia Winters in Babylon 5

Talia Winters is a character appearing on the science fiction television show Babylon 5 during its first and second seasons. Winters is portrayed by actress Andrea Thompson. Winters is a commercial telepath from Earth, and a member of the Psi Corps organization. Image File history File linksMetadata B5_Winters. ... Image File history File linksMetadata B5_Winters. ... Babylon 5 is an epic science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ... 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. ... Rebecca Andrea Thompson (born on January 6, 1960) is a American actress, best known for her roles on the television series Falcon Crest, Babylon 5, NYPD Blue. ... Warning: This is NOT a scientific article. ... Spoiler warning: In the fictional universe of Babylon 5, the Psi Corps was an agency of the Earth Alliance responsible for telepathic individuals. ...

Winters was assigned to the Earth space station Babylon 5 in the year 2258 to serve as its second resident commercial telepath. Like all Psi Corps members, Winters' telepathic ability is numbered according to ability; Winters is a P5, the level of most commercial telepaths. Typically, commercial telepaths are assigned to help two or more business parties broker deals, by monitoring their honesty during business negotiations. The P Scale or Psi Scale is a method of measuring telepaths in the fictional Babylon 5 universe. ...

Character Backstory

Talia Winters's telepathic abilities manifested at age five. As required by law, her parents immediately sent her to be raised, educated, and trained in her gifts by the Psi Corps. An advanced telepath named Abby eased the frightened girl's transistion during her first year. Over the years, Ms. Winters developed a strong loyalty to Psi Corps and accepted an internship in the commercial telepath division. During this internship, she met and befriended Lyta Alexander, another P5 telepath who had transferred out of the Psi-Cop division. Lyta Alexander (Patricia Tallman, left) and Michael Garibaldi (Jerry Doyle) in Babylon 5 Lyta Alexander, played by Patricia Tallman, is a fictional character from the television science fiction drama Babylon 5. ...

Ms. Winters was involved in at least two romantic relationships during her years in the Psi Corps Academy. One was with Matthew Stoner, an advanced telepath who mentored her during her academic career. Winters and Stoner were quickly married after the Corps determined that the couple was likely to produce equally or more powerful telepathic offspring. Their union was annuled after Stoner left the Corps under mysterious circumstances; by this time Winters had learned for herself that they were not compatible. The other was with Jason Ironheart, an instructor who later volunteered for genetic experimentation. In biology, offspring are the product of reproduction, a new organism produced by one or more parents. ...

After completing her education, Ms. Winters entered the workforce as a commercial telepath. It was during this period that she met and befriended a businessman named Taro Isogi, who became a father-figure to her. Ms. Winters also took on occasional work in trial cases, scanning the minds of convicted criminals before their personalities were wiped and reprogramed. The most terrifying experience of her life came when she had to scan a serial killer - the experience haunted her for years afterwards and made her reluctant to pursue criminal work despite the high demand for telepaths. A father is traditionally the male parent of a child. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ...

Sometime before being stationed on Babylon 5, Winters was modified by Psi Corps to carry a hidden personality (a vague picture in one of the Babylon 5 comic books alludes to this manipulation, apparently taking place at Psi Corps headquarters on Mars). This personality was hidden so deeply that it couldn't even show up on deep scans; Winters herself was unaware of its existence. The sleeper could only assert control over the original if it perceived a threat to its existence - however, Ms. Winters would not remember any defensive actions the personality had taken. The Psi Corps intended to use this hidden personality as a spy until a password was sent via telepathic link directly into Talia's mind. Once this took place, her original personality would be destroyed and the sleeper would take permanent control. For the Roman god, see Mars (mythology). ... Sleeper has a number of different meanings, usually connected to sleep in varying degrees of literalness: Sleeper is a Woody Allen movie. ... A password is a form of secret authentication data that is used to control access to a resource. ...

Babylon 5 Story Arc

In 2258, Talia Winters arrived on Babylon 5 as its second resident commecial telepath. Her work on the station repeatedly brought her into contact with the command staff. Both of the station's commanding officers (Commander Jeffrey Sinclair and Captain John Sheridan) considered her a valuable ally despite her strong loyalty to Psi Corps. Security Chief Michael Garibaldi, who harbored a not-so secret crush on Ms. Winters, was in frequent contact with her. Garibaldi would routinely flirt with Ms. Winters and show up in the stations' elevators just when she was about to board them. Although annoyed by his unsubtle advances, Winters remained friendly with him and used her Psi Corps connections to help him contact a loved one during the riots on the Mars colony. Jeffrey Sinclair is a fictional character in the television science fiction drama Babylon 5. ... John David Sheridan1 (2215–2281), played by Bruce Boxleitner, is a fictional character in the universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ... Michael Garibaldi, played by Jerry Doyle, is a fictional character in the universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ... In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state. ...

Talia Winters's most complicated relationship was with Susan Ivanova, the station's second-in-command. Initially, Ivanova was hostile to Winters' arrival and refused to acknowledge her presence. Winters quickly discovered that Ivanova's mother was a latent telepath who, rather than joining the Corps and leaving her family, submited to a decade's worth of drug injections which dampened her spirit along with her abilities. Ivanova blamed Psi Corps for her mother's suicide; her experience gave Talia her first opporunity to learn about the darker side of the Psi Corps. Susan Ivanova, played by Claudia Christian, is a fictional character in the universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ...

Also in 2258, Jason Ironheart arrived on the station in secret while on the run from the Psi Corps. The experiments he had participated in had strengthened his abilities to the point where he could telekinetically manipulate matter at the subatomic level. Ironheart gave his lover two gifts as he transformed into a being of pure energy: her own telekinetic abilities, although substantially less powerful (and less dangerous), and the ability to block the scans of P12 telepaths. Ms. Winters put these new abilities to use the following year when Psi-Cop Al Bester came to Babylon 5 to stop an underground railroad that Ironheart had set up for runaway telepaths. Her experience with the fugitive telepaths finally made her aware of how corrupt the Psi Corps had become. It was this epiphany that finally dissolved the tension between herself and Susan Ivanova; from that point on, the two women developed a mutual respect which later blossomed into a loving friendship and even a (short-lived) affair. Helium atom (not to scale) Showing two protons (red), two neutrons (green) and a probability cloud (gray) of two electrons (yellow). ... Alfred Bester is the name of a fictional character in the television series Babylon 5, played by Walter Koenig. ... Map of some Underground Railroad routes This page is about the slave escape route. ... John the Baptist baptizes Jesus Christ as Angels look on in wonder in an Eastern Orthodox icon of the Theophany This article is about the Christian feast. ...

In 2259, dissident telepath Lyta Alexander learned of the Psi Corps sleeper program while hiding out with members of the Mars rebellion (Divided Loyalties). Although she knew one such sleeper had been sent to Babylon 5 to spy on its command staff, she did not know the identity of the spy. Lyta traveled to Babylon 5 with the password that would activate to the hidden personality. With the permission of Captain John Sheridan, Lyta sent the password into the minds of individuals among and close to the command staff. When Alexander sent the password into Winters's mind, the hidden personality took full control of her psyche, effectively killing the Talia Winters that everyone had known for the past two years. Divided Loyalties is an episode from the second season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ...

Talia Winters became hostile and returned to Earth after the hidden personality took over. There were concerns among the stations' command staff over how much inside knowledge this new Ms. Winters could use against them. However, at least one resident of the station had prepared for this contingency: Vorlon Ambassador Kosh had previously created a backup copy of her mind - specifically hostile, confusing, and terrifying memories - to keep for some undisclosed reason. Although never stated outright, it was implied that Garibaldi (who knew of Kosh's recording) may have used this information as a shield against any attempts by Ms. Winters to act against them. Earth is the third planet from the Sun. ... Or see Kosh (Art Director, Designer) for the Beatles and Director of Declassified(disambiguation). ...

The Psi-Cop Al Bester hinted that she was dissected after arriving back on Earth. It's not known for sure how truthful that statement was, as it may have been an attempt to generate strong emotion among Winters' friends, and use that to get into the minds of the command staff. Alfred Bester is the name of a fictional character in the television series Babylon 5, played by Walter Koenig. ...