Rick (Babylon 5)

"I'm sorry. Jane, I'm sorry to jump in like this, but we have to-- The colonies at Orion VII and Proxima III have just broken away from the Earth Alliance in protest over the bombing of Mars. They're setting themselves up as independent states until such time as President Clark is impeached..."

- Rick on the reaction to the bombing of Mars.

Rick was a minor hero in the Babylon 5 episode Severed Dreams.

He was portrayed by Matt Gottlieb.

In 2261 the tyrannical Earth Alliance President Morgan Clark declared martial law. Clark soon sent a martial law order to all member worlds and installations. Mars refused to implement the order, and President Clark ordered the bombing of Mars.

Rick soon learned that the colonies at Orion VII and Proxima III had seceded from the Alliance, and that armed troops were moving in on ISN. Even though Rick knew that there would be serious consequences for him, Rick went up to the anchor desk and interrupted his colleague Jane to inform ISN's viewers that those two colonies had broken away, and that they could hear gunfire on the 15th floor of the ISN building from the shock troops sent to nationalize ISN.

Knowing that the independent ISN's time was nearly up, Rick began to tell the viewers that there had been a lot going on over the past year but that he and the other ISN reporters had not been allowed to tell the viewing public about that. Soon the troops breached ISN's headquarters and cut the transmitter. With the studio falling apart around them, Rick yelled for people to get down before ISN went dark.

ISN soon came back on line, but now it was a propaganda arm for President Clark. It would remain a propaganda arm until Clark committed suicide. After Clark's death Jane was freed from imprisonment and returned to her job at ISN. It is unknown if Rick survived either the attack on ISN or the aftermath.