Episode
Crusade: The Long Road
Overview
Gideon mediates between Earth miners and the residents of a planet containing a virus-fighting mineral--and a fire-breathing dragon.
Details
- Series
- Crusade
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1999-06-16
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
The Long Road is Episode 2 in Season 1 of Crusade. It aired on 1999-06-16. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 1: War Zone
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.
Episode 3: The Well of Forever
Galen persuades Gideon to seek a mystical crossroads. An investigator probes Matheson's mind.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: The Path of Sorrows
A mysterious sphere prompts Gideon and the others to relive traumatic moments from their past.
Episode 5: Patterns of the Soul
Gideon must deport a colony of renegade humans. Dureena finds a lost tribe of her people.
Episode 6: Ruling from the Tomb
Gideon and Lochley must prevent a doomsday cult from killing everyone at a virus conference on Mars.
Episode 7: The Rules of the Game
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. And goes to great lengths to collect.
Episode 8: Appearances and Other Deceits
Gideon must outwit an alien consciousness that takes over the Excalibur's crew.
Episode 9: Racing the Night
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.
Episode 10: The Memory of War
Galen warns Gideon not to explore a planet where the inhabitants were suddenly eradicated.
Episode 11: The Needs of Earth
Gideon conducts an illegal raid to free a fugitive with information that could save Earth.
Episode 12: Visitors from Down the Street
Two persecuted alien investigators (based on FBI agents Mulder and Scully from X-Files) believe that Earth is covertly invading them.
Episode 13: Each Night I Dream of Home
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. Final, open-ended, episode.