Babylon 5 character
Zack Allan
Affiliated with	Babylon 5 Security
Race	Human
Home planet	Earth
First appearance	A Spider in the Web
Last appearance	Sleeping in Light (chronological), Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (airdate)
Portrayed by	Jeff Conaway

Zack Allan is a character in the fictional universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5, played by Jeff Conaway. He regularly appeared in the show from season 2 onwards. During the second and third seasons of the series he was a security officer on the Babylon 5 station. In the fourth season he was promoted to become Babylon 5's Security Chief, and he maintains that position through the end of the series fifth and final season. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 451 pixelsFull resolution (852 × 480 pixel, file size: 31 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Fair Use Screenshot from Babylon 5 DVDs This image is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program or station ID. As such, the copyright for it... A Spider in the Web is an episode from the second season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ... Sleeping in Light is the final episode of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ... Jeff Conaway (born October 5, 1950, New York, New York) is an American actor best known for his roles as Kenicke in the 1978 musical Grease (and Danny Zucko in the original Broadway production), and as Bobby Wheeler on the 1980s television series Taxi. ... Babylon 5 is an epic American science fiction television series created, produced, and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. ... Jeff Conaway (born October 5, 1950, New York, New York) is an American actor best known for his roles as Kenicke in the 1978 musical Grease (and Danny Zucko in the original Broadway production), and as Bobby Wheeler on the 1980s television series Taxi. ...

Character description

Personality

Although Zack Allan's background is never explained in detail on the series, we do know that he met and worked with Babylon 5 Security Chief Michael Garibaldi in the decade between the Earth-Minbari War and the opening of the Babylon 5 space station. At one point in the series Allan thanks Garibaldi for "taking a chance" on him despite his previous personal problems. As it turns out, his personal problems had consisted of apparent drug and alcohol abuse, which had led him to be fired from several previous jobs. However, by the time Zack is hired to work for Babylon 5 Security he is no longer addicted to drugs or alcohol and he proves to be an excellent security officer. Over the course of the series Zack is revealed to be honest, trustworthy, reliable, a tough and skilled fighter in hand-to-hand combat, a trained Starfury pilot, and rather unlucky in romantic situations. He is also depicted as being not particulary intellectual, "book-smart" or quick-witted, but rather "streetwise" and shrewd in sizing up other people and/or aliens. He also has an optimistic and easygoing personality that others usually find appealing, and he does not appear to stay depressed or downbeat for very long. He is quite modest, and this often works to his advantage when compared to the other, often more egotistical and aggressive, characters on the series. Michael Garibaldi, played by Jerry Doyle, is a fictional character in the universe of the science fiction television series Babylon 5. ... The Earth-Minbari War is a fictional war that formed a major part of the back story of the science fiction television series, Babylon 5. ... The Starfury is a fictional one or two person starfighter in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 and Crusade and the Babylon 5 movie Babylon 5: In the Beginning. ...

Nightwatch

Briefly in season 2 and 3, Allan was a member of Nightwatch, the sinister police force created by Earth Alliance President Morgan Clark to expose and arrest "traitors to Earth". True to form, Zack joined Nightwatch for the bonus pay they offered, without paying much attention to their political views and fascist nature. However, he had the truth of their nature driven home when a shopkeeper accused of "sedition" (i.e., publicly criticizing Clark's Presidency) was physically dragged away from his store and imprisoned by Nightwatch officers in the episode, The Fall of Night. After this experience Zack agreed to help Babylon 5's command staff arrest and/or capture Nightwatch's members in order to stop their reign of terror on the station. In the Babylon 5 science fiction universe, Nightwatch was a paramilitary organization set up during the Presidency of Morgan Clark. ... In the Science Fiction series Babylon 5, William Morgan Clark was the president of the Earth Alliance. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Sedition is a term of law to refer to covert conduct such as speech and organization that is deemed by the legal authority as tending toward insurrection against the established order. ... The Fall of Night is the final episode of the second season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ...

Chief of Security

Allan was the second aide to B5 Chief of Security Michael Garibaldi from 2259-2261. Following Garibaldi's resignation as chief of security in season 4, Allan was appointed Chief of Security. He held the position for many years; except for a brief stint back on Earth, he remained there until the station was decommissioned in 2281. Michael Garibaldi, played by Jerry Doyle, is a fictional character in the universe of the science fiction television series Babylon 5. ...

In Sleeping in Light, he walked with a noticeable limp, which has never been explained on screen. In the voiceover commentary of the episode, series creator J. Michael Straczynski explained that Zack was involved in heroic activity and lost his leg. Later in the episode, after the aged and abandoned Babylon 5 was destroyed and the Drakh influence on Centauri Prime was exposed and eliminated, Zack joined the Rangers and became Centauri Emperor Vir Cotto's assistant and (presumably) a direct liaison between the Emperor and the Interstellar Alliance. Sleeping in Light is the final episode of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. ... Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. ... The Drakh are a race from the fictional Babylon 5 universe. ... Marcus Cole, a Ranger, portrayed by Jason Carter in Babylon 5 A Ranger (Minbari: AnlaShok) is a fictional class of warrior that plays a prominent part of the science fiction television series, Babylon 5. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Vir Cotto is a character from the fictional Babylon 5 universe, played on screen by Stephen Furst. ...