How many storylines did Babylon 5 have?

[Candlelight]

I know this is a real 'can open, worms everwhere' kind of question but thought I'd ask. I've got:

Babylon 5 / Earthforce / Earth civil war
Earth / Minbari war
Narn / Centauri war
Babylon 4 / Time Travel
Shadow / Vorlon / First Ones
Psi-Corp / Telepath war
Mars Independence
Minbari civil war
Misuse of alien tech

Granted a lot of storylines merged into one another, but looking at them face value, and ignoring the six degrees of separation, there are about a dozen threads running through each other.

 

[Hound of UIster]

You missed a lot of the personal character stuff.
-Garibaldi's alcoholism
-his conflict with Sheridan
-Franklin and his stims
-Ivanova and Marcus
-G'Kar's spiritual growth

 

[Candlelight]

You missed a lot of the personal character stuff.
-Garibaldi's alcoholism
-his conflict with Sheridan
-Franklin and his stims
-Ivanova and Marcus
-G'Kar's spiritual growth

I was only doing story arcs, not character arcs.

 

[Mr Light]

Well for me it's ultimately about the Shadow War, and everything else is just a spin-off of that.

Shadow War
Narn / Centauri War
Clark Civil War
Psi Corps
Minbari caste conflict

 

[RoJoHen]

Let's not forget the great Purple/Green Conflict of the Drazi.

 

[Mr Light]

Which is itself symbolic of the Shadow/Vorlon conflict (no, really!)

 

[RoJoHen]

Who are you?
--Purple Drazi.

What do you want?
--To follow Purple Leader.

 

[TexasNightt]

Londo and his gambling problem. Or did he consider it a problem?

 

[Elemental]

Don't forget the epic quest to bring fresh coffee to the station.

 

[Mr Light]

That's one of those big "what if?" storylines that pretty much got dropped after the pilot, unfortunately. In the original version of the storyline, the Coffee War takes place in the 20 year period after the show ends.

 

[RoJoHen]

"Coffee has always been here."