Michael Garibaldi

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Michael Garibaldi is a male television character who features in Babylon 5.

Biography

Origin

Michael Garibaldi

Michael spent most of his early childhood living with his family in an old 82 story apartment building in Manhattan, New York. Michael's father Alfredo was famous in the building for being a prolific cook and taught his son everything he knew. (Episode: A Spider in the Web)

In 2230, when Michael was only 9 years old the Earth Alliance came to the aid of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds and his father was called away to fight, serving under future Earthforce General Richard Franklin. Around this time the Garibaldi family moved to Mars where Michael would spend some years there growing up, though he retained very few fond memories of the place. (Episode: Day of the Dead)

After returning from war, Alfredo left the Infantry and began working security. Though Michael eventually saw his father live to the age of 75 and still hauling in crooks, he unfortunately developed Torg's Syndrome and passed away soon after. (Episode: A Spider in the Web)

Garibaldi remained on Mars and worked as a security officer for Mars colony in 2255. During this time he met Lise Hampton again becoming romantically involved. Sinclair and Catherine Sakai come to visit Garibaldi, this is the second time they both meet in person. In March 2256, Sinclair contacted him, having just been appointed commanding officer of Babylon 5 and offers Michael the position of Chief of Station Security. Having been fired from four of his previous jobs, Garibaldi was anxious to prove himself. He decides to take the job when his Mars Security assignment ends, but Lise refused to go with him. They had a major fight and Garibaldi stormed out. He later admitted that he said some things that night that haunted him for a long time. (Episode: A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I)

Babylon 5

In the first year, he encountered many different races come to the station and sign on to the Babylon Project. This led to the Vorlon Empire agreeing to send an ambassador, which will mean all five of the major powers will have a voice on the Babylon 5 Advisory Council. Garibaldi informed Sinclair that Earth does not have much information to go on regarding the Vorlons. When the Vorlon ambassador, Kosh Naranek, arrives at the station, Sinclair is supposed to meet him alone. He took the transport tube that suddenly stalled on its way to meet the ambassador, and when he got there he found Kosh lying on the ground, seemingly attacked. Sinclair had Kosh taken to the IsoLab, but the Ambassador's encounter suit precludes any possibility of treatment. The Vorlon Empire specifically demands his suit not be opened, but Sinclair ordered Dr. Benjamin Kyle to open it anyway and save Kosh. He orders Kyle not to report anything he sees about Kosh's physiology. Kyle learns that he has been poisoned, but needs to know the exact entry point. Sinclair then asked the human telepath Lyta Alexander to scan Kosh's mind and figure out how he was poisoned. Lyta successfully sees the poison was administered through the hand—seemingly by Sinclair himself. This led to an uproar on the station as Sinclair flatly denies the charges leading to him being temporarily relieved of command. Ambassador G'Kar of the Narn Regime assembles the Advisory Council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, voting to have Sinclair handed over to the Vorlons for trial. G'Kar manages to blackmail Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari into voting in favor of the motion. Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima, acting in Sinclair's stead, votes against the resolution, and Delenn of the Minbari Federation abstains. G'Kar contacted the Vorlons, however, and they voted in affirmation. As the Vorlons send a small fleet to force the handover, Garibaldi learns that the frame-up was carried out through the use of a changeling net. The real culprits are a radical clan within the Minbari Warrior Caste called the Wind Swords, who sent a lone assassin to frame Sinclair. Sinclair confronts the assassin alone and the assassin triggers a bomb on his person. Sinclair manages to escape the blast and is exonerated of the charges against him. (Episode: The Gathering)

In 2258, Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima is reassigned and Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova takes her place as second in command of the station. Shortly after she arrives on the station, Garibaldi is approached by Ambassador Londo Mollari for a favor. Despite openly admitting he will never trust a Centauri, Michael does develop a sort of friendship with Londo. As Londo introduces Michael to Vir Cotto, his new diplomatic attaché, Vir informs Londo about an attack on a Centauri colony, Ragesh 3. As Londo rushes off, Garibaldi gets orders from Ivanova to take a Starfury wing to investigate an attack on a transport. Garibaldi's wing locates the ship, stripped bare of all cargo and with no survivors. Garibaldi learns from Sinclair several hours later that the Narn Regime is responsible for attacking and seizing the colony. He is also approached by commercial telepath Talia Winters and asked why Ivanova is so standoffish to her. Michael suggests approaching her off duty. Despite his usual aversion to telepaths, Michael is immediately attracted to Talia. After some investigation, Garibaldi discovers the common link between the attack on the transport and other recent ones just like it. He predicts where they will strike next—but the transport ship is carrying refugees instead of goods. Sinclair decides to take a patrol out and rescue the transport himself. While he is gone, Talia approaches Michael and warns him that she accidentally scanned Londo and learned he is planning to murder G'Kar. Garibaldi confronted Londo and talks him out of his plan. When Sinclair returns, he does so not only with a successful mission but also a Narn officer who sold the weapons and ships to the Raiders. Sinclair is able to use this as leverage and convince the Narn Regime to abandon their claim on Ragesh 3. Afterwards, Garibaldi goes to his quarters to enjoy "his second favorite thing in the universe": 20th century Daffy Duck cartoons. After failing to entreat Talia to join him, he successfully convinces Ambassador Delenn to do so. (Episode: Midnight on the Firing Line)

During a meeting with Sheridan, the Captain asked Michael to log all the Rangers onto the system with this requiring the White Star to be left unmanned and placed on auto-pilot. He also requested two items be transferred from the cargo bay onto the hip but when examining the manifest he saw it included two fusion bombs. Sheridan then asked that Garibaldi that as a favour to him not to ask or inquire about the matter but simply get the job done. Despite his reluctance, he decided to do the tasks assigned by the captain with the White Star crew moved from their ship along with bombs transferred to it. Afterwards, in the cover of night, Sheridan departed Babylon 5 on the White Star with Anna Sheridan where they made their way to Z'ha'dum with Garibaldi reporting this to Commander Ivanova. Sometime afterwards, the station came to be surrounded by Shadow vessels who planned to attack Babylon 5 if Captain Sheridan refused to join their cause. Garibaldi came to pilot a Starfury and was among the starfighters that launched to protect the station. At this point, Captain Sheridan crashed the White Star into the capital of Z'ha'dum where he detonated the hidden fusion bombs within it. The damage caused led to the Shadows pulling their forces back in retreat but not before one of their ships captured Garibaldi's starfighter. (Episode: Z'ha'dum) In the time afterwards, the galactic war had stopped with the seeming death of Captain Sheridan with Michael Garibaldi similarly missing. (Episode: The Hour of the Wolf)

Interstellar Alliance

Edgars Industries

He was then tasked with overseeing William Edgars various operations that included many black-ops projects that were kept off the book. William Edgars never told anyone about these projects which led to Garibaldi spending sometime in order to track them down. One funding project was given to Dr. Robert Bryson who was off-world on a xenoarchaeology dig with Michael contacting the man to meet one another at Babylon 5. Arriving at Babylon 5, he met Captain Lochley before going for his scheduled meeting with Bryson. The man then revealed his project that was a life extension initiative where he was looking for a means of attaining immortality. He had discovered a find during his most recent expedition but had not completed his findings at the time. Garibaldi then requested to see his notes as he was evaluating the project and if he was not satisfied with it then he was going to terminate funding. It was then agreed that Garibaldi would come the next day to check on Bryson's notes. Meeting with Dr. Bryson, he found the man being somewhat unstable with the many showing no further interest in funding and telling Michael to leave. During this time, a string of mysterious incidents were afflicting the station whilst a dispute affected the personnel due to an unauthorised holobrothel operating on the station. With his business concluded, Garibaldi was prepared to return back to Mars but then Babylon 5 was approached by a Soul Hunter ship who revealed that Dr. Bryson had stolen a powerful vessel of souls from their Whisper Gallery and he had come to recover it. By this point, Bryson had gone into hiding as he had become influenced by the souls within the vessel who wanted revenge against their captor. (Movie: The River of Souls)

Overview

Personality and attributes

Michael was raised Roman Catholic, although he later became agnostic. (Episode: Day of the Dead)

The Garibaldi family had long been involved with law enforcement, as Garibaldi's grandmother had been a police officer in Boston. (Episode: By Any Means Necessary)

Powers and abilities

Notes

• Michael Garibaldi was portrayed by actor Jerry Doyle where he featured in the setting of the Babylon 5 universe.

Appearances

• Babylon 5:
• Babylon 5: The River of Souls:
• Babylon 5: A Call to Arms:

External Links

• Babylon 5 Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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