Crusade - Season 1

First aired: 6/9/1999 13 episodes

Episodes

1. War Zone

Aired: 6/9/1999

Capt. Matthew Gideon assembles the crew that will be with him on the experimental starship Excalibur. Their mission: explore the reaches of space to find a cure for the deadly Drakh virus that will overrun Earth in five years.

2. The Long Road

Aired: 6/16/1999

Gideon mediates between Earth miners and the residents of a planet containing a virus-fighting mineral--and a fire-breathing dragon.

3. The Well of Forever

Aired: 6/23/1999

Galen persuades Gideon to seek a mystical crossroads. An investigator probes Matheson's mind.

4. The Path of Sorrows

Aired: 6/30/1999

A mysterious sphere prompts Gideon and the others to relive traumatic moments from their past.

5. Patterns of the Soul

Aired: 7/7/1999

Gideon must deport a colony of renegade humans. Dureena finds a lost tribe of her people.

6. Ruling from the Tomb

Aired: 7/14/1999

Gideon and Lochley must prevent a doomsday cult from killing everyone at a virus conference on Mars.

7. The Rules of the Game

Aired: 7/21/1999

The Excalibur goes to Babylon 5 so that Gideon can meet with an ambassador for permission to go to a planet that might have technology that can help Earth. But the ambassador refuses and Gideon is not going to accept it. And Ellerson runs into his ex-wife, who is in trouble with a loan shark. When he pays him off, he feels she owes him more. Anf goes to great lengths to collect.

8. Appearances and Other Deceits

Aired: 7/28/1999

Gideon must outwit an alien consciousness that takes over the Excalibur's crew.

9. Racing the Night

Aired: 8/4/1999

Gideon and crew find themselves trapped by an alien civilization using sinister methods to seek a cure for the same Drakh virus that attacked Earth.

10. The Memory of War

Aired: 8/11/1999

Galen warns Gideon not to explore a planet where the inhabitants were suddenly eradicated.

11. The Needs of Earth

Aired: 8/18/1999

Gideon conducts an illegal raid to free a fugitive with information that could save Earth.

12. Visitors from Down the Street

Aired: 8/25/1999

Two persecuted alien investigators (based on FBI agents Mulder and Scully from X-Files) believe that Earth is covertly invading them.

13. Each Night I Dream of Home

Aired: 9/1/1999

In an attempt to understand the nature of the Drakh virus better, the Excalibur is sent back to Earth's orbit for a top-secret special pick up. Familiar face returns. The show ends on an open ending.