Current Status
At the end of the series, Franklin was still the head of Xenobiological research on Earth. When Sheridan learned he was dying, Franklin went to Minbar for one last party. From there, Franklin traveled to Babylon 5, where he witnessed the station's decommissioning and destruction. J. Michael Straczynski has said that Franklin eventually dies while exploring an unknown planet, but has not revealed the details of exactly how or when he dies.
As Richard Biggs had died in 2004, the Franklin character will not make any further appearances on any future Babylon 5 movies or television series. When Biggs died, Straczynski had been working on a Babylon 5 script titled The Memory of Shadows. Straczynski decided not to recast the Franklin character, and rewrote the script to remove the character from the story. In the Babylon 5: The Lost Tales anthology, it is explained that both Franklin and G'Kar - played by the also late Andreas Katsulas - had left to explore space beyond the galactic rim.
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