Talia Winters
SPECIES: Human
HOMEWORLD: Earth
DATE OF BIRTH: 2230
ORGANISATION: Psi Corp, Earth Alliance
STATUS: Commercial Telepath
ALLEGIANCE: Uknown
ACTRESS: Andrea Thompson

Placed in the care of Psi Corps at the age of five, under the fosterage of Abby who comforted her during her tearful first night by gently scanning her to make her feel safe. One of her first tutors at the Psi Corps academy was Matthew Stoner, who she considered a charming, thoughtful man who made her transition much easier and was to be made her husband after Psi Corps discovered them to be "genetically compatible", although the marriage was quickly annulled when Stoner apparently left the Psi Corps amid rumors that he had lost his telepathic ability. In her final years training she found solace in another of her instructors, Jason Ironheart, a perfect model of what she wished to be in the Psi Corps and also became friends with Lyta Alexander during six months spent together interning with the Psi Cop division. Sixteen years of Psi Corps education later, in 2251, she was registered with Psi Corps as a level P5 telepath and entered the commercial arena briefly working with the penal system on Mars Colony, where she experienced the most frightening time of her life in 2254 when scanning a serial killer, before transferring to the Psi Corps' Political Bureau. A some point during this period she was programmed to be a sleeper agent, known as Control, presumably at the Psi Corps installation at Syria Planum during her stay on Mars Colony.

She was assigned to Babylon 5 in 2258 following the recall of Lyta Alexander and was initially upset by the instant dislike taken to her by Susan Ivanova, although they began to form an uneasy friendship following their clash over the discovery of an unregistered latent telepath, Alisa Beldon, on the station. Initially unwilling to even bend the rules laid down by Psi Corps, an encounter with Jason Ironheart who bestowed the "gift" of telekinesis upon her, knowing that it was an ability that she had longed for since spending days trying to pass her telekinesis tests as a student and informed her of illegal experiments conducted by the Psi Corps began to change her mind. The following year, when her former husband, Matthew Stoner arrived claiming to be able to perform a procedure that would erase her telepathic abilities and thus allow them to be together again but was revealed to have become an empath and sent by Psi Corps in the hope that they would produce children with both telepathic and empathic skills her confidence in the Psi Corps was showing the strain. Shortly after this incident she deliberately helped the rogue telepath, Rick, and other blips escaping from Psi Corps along the railroad set up by Dr. Stephen Franklin elude capture by the Psi Cop Bester by implanting an image in his mind that she had betrayed them to him, allowing him to shoot them with his PPG, admitting to Susan Ivanova afterwards that she had been right about the Psi Corps all along, at which point their relationship became more sexual.

As Babylon 5's resident telepath, Talia Winters was personally approached by Pierce Macabee and asked to attend his meetings on the Nightwatch, which she duly agreed too. While these meetings were going on she was also approached by John Sheridan who requested that she perform an unauthorized scan of Morden, who he had illegally detained, and when she refused, despite his attempts to twist the letter of the law he deliberately placed them in the same corridor together, with the result of her having screaming fits as a result of her interaction with the minds of Morden and his Shadow escorts. Late in 2259, following the return of Lyta Alexander to Babylon 5, she was finally revealed to have been Control, Bureau 13's sleeper spy on board the station and with her cover blown she was returned to Psi Corps for what Bester later described as "dissec…examination".