Babylon 5 drew from many places for its guest stars. Genre stalwarts like Michael Ansara and Brad Dourif. TV regulars like William Sanderson, Melissa Gilbert, and Erica Gimpel. Special guest stars like Michael York and Robert Englund. Even fresh new faces like Bryan Cranston. But one of my favorite appearances, even though it was barely a cup of tea in length, was by Jeff Corey. You might know him from Little Big Man, where he gave an incredible performance as Will Bill Hickok.

“My shoes are too tight. But it doesn’t matter because I have forgotten how to dance.” I’m binge watching Babylon 5 on my commute, and this scene from the first season is one of the scenes that hooked me when the show first aired in 1994. Londo Mollari is the Centauri ambassador to Babylon 5, a space station that is a center for interplanetary trade and diplomacy. It was a series that broadcast at the cusp of TV’s renaissance, overlapping with Buffy the Vampire Slayer for two years, and The Sopranos for one.