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Babylon 5 (1993–1998), created by J. Michael Straczynski, is a science-fiction epic about Babylon 5, an Earth-governed space station built to promote harmony between interstellar civilizations, and of its involvement in the dramatic clashes between those peoples. It is unusual in its focus on a story arc which dominates the events through its five-year run.
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Season 1: Signs and Portents
- [Opening credits voiceover.]
- Jeffrey Sinclair: It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth/Minbari war. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal, to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call — home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
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Midnight on the Firing Line
- Susan Ivanova: … I'm in the middle of fifteen things, all of them annoying.
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Soul Hunter
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Born to the Purple
- Londo Mollari: What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?
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Infection
- Jeffrey Sinclair: The last time I gave an interview, they told me to just relax and say what I really felt. Ten minutes after the broadcast I got transfered to an outpost so far off the star maps you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and a ouija board.
- Michael Garibaldi: Don't sweat it. Just be that charming, effervescent Commander we've all come to know and love. What's the worst that could happen? They fire you, ship you off to the rim, and I get promoted to Commander. I don't see a problem here.
- Jeffrey Sinclair: How sharper than a serpent's tooth.
- Hendricks: Stephen, there's a Martian war machine parked outside. They'd like a word with you about the common cold.
- Stephen Franklin: Tell them to make an appointment.
- [ISN reporter Mary Ann Cramer tries to press Sinclair for information, but Ivanova steps in front of her.]
- Susan Ivanova: Don't. You're too young to experience that much pain.
- Jeffrey Sinclair: You forgot the first rule of the fanatic: when you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.
- Mary Ann Cramer: Is it worth it? Should we just pull back? Forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own problems, at home.
- Jeffrey Sinclair: No. We have to stay here. And there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes... [and] all of this... all of this... was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.
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The Parliament of Dreams
- Ambassador G'Kar: [singing]
- So many fishies, left in the sea
- So many fishies, but no one for me!
- I'm thinking of thinking of hooking a love
- Soon after supper is done.
- Narn Courier: Are you Ambassador G'Kar?
- Ambassador G'Kar: This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters. This is Ambassador G'Kar's table! This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner! Which part of this progression escapes you?!
- Londo Mollari: Do you know what the last Xon said, just before he died? [clutches chest] AAAAGGGHHHH!
- [A drunken Londo climbs across a dinner table as he describes a collection of Centauri statues.]
- Londo Mollari: This is Ben-Zed, god of food! And... Li, goddess of passion! And Mo-goth, god of the underworld, and protector of front doors. Gods by the bushel! Gods by the pound! Gods for all occasions!!
- [He leans toward an discomfited Delenn.]
- Londo Mollari: Have I ever told you that you are very cute for a Minbari?
- [He crawls over to Garibaldi.]
- Londo Mollari: Oh! And you are cute, too, in an annoying sort of way. Everybody's cute. Everybody's cute! Even me. But in purple, I'm stunning!
- [Sinclair's pocketed comm badge beeps, interrupting Catherine.]
- Catherine Sakai: I don't mean to alarm you, but your pants are talking to you.
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Mind War
- [G'Kar tries to dissuade a skeptical Catherine from her flight to Sigma 957.]
- Ambassador G'Kar: Let me pass on to you the one thing I've learned about this place. No one here is exactly what he appears. Not Mollari, not Delenn, not Sinclair, and not me.
- Ambassador G'Kar: There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless, and if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants, and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried. And we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on.
- Catherine Sakai: That's it? That's all you know?
- Ambassador G'Kar: Yes. They are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not explained everything.
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The War Prayer
- [Vir pleads with Londo for a young star-crossed Centauri couple.]
- Vir Cotto: But they love each other!
- Londo Mollari: Love. Pah! Overrated.
- [Londo fetches a set of three pictures of Centauri women.]
- Londo Mollari: Here. Look. These are my three wives: Pestilence, Famine, and Death.
- . . .
- Londo Mollari: They inspired me! Knowing that they were waiting for me is what keeps me here — 75 light-years away.
- Londo Mollari: Something my father said. He was old, very old at the time. I went into his room, and he was sitting alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "My shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten how to dance." I never understood what that meant until now. My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance.
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And the Sky Full of Stars
- Jeffrey Sinclair: Everyone lies, Michael. The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do, and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice.
- [A mysterious man accuses Sinclair of selling out to the Minbari at the Battle of the Line.]
- Jeffrey Sinclair: We never had a chance. You say we could have won, but you weren't there, you didn't see them! When I looked at those ships, I... I didn't just see my death — I saw the death of the whole damn human race!
- Knight Two: Then why did they surrender?!
- Jeffrey Sinclair: I don't know! Maybe the universe blinked. Maybe God changed His mind. All I know is that we got a second chance!
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Deathwalker
- [Ambassador Kosh hires commercial telepath Talia for an mysterious job.]
- Kosh: We will meet in Red 3 at the hour of scampering.
- Talia Winters: All the clearances seem to be in order, and the pay is very generous. However, there's something I still don't understand.
- Kosh: Understanding is a three-edged sword.
- Kosh: Ahh — you seek meaning.
- Talia Winters: Yes.
- Kosh: Then listen to the music, not the song.
- [Sinclair returns to C&C to see how Ivanova is handling the armed vessels from many outraged non-aligned worlds.]
- Susan Ivanova: Well, I've managed to get the ship captains engaged in a debate over who has the best claim to Jha'dur. The winner will be the first to attack.
- Jeffrey Sinclair: Creative.
- [A distressed Talia presses Kosh for the meaning of his "business deal" with Abbut.]
- Talia Winters: What is he? And what was on that data crystal he gave you?
- Kosh: Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future.
- [A gloating "Deathwalker" Jha'dur reveals the secret of her immortality drug.]
- Jha'dur: For one to live forever, another one must die. You will fall upon one another like wolves. It will make what we did pale by comparison. The billions who live forever will be a testimony to my work. And the billions who are murdered to buy that immortality will be the continuance of my work. Not like us? You will become us.
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Believers
- Kosh: The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.
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Survivors
- Jeffrey Sinclair: Lieutenant Commander Ivanova, escort Major Kemmer off the Observation Dome.
- Susan Ivanova: With pleasure. [to Kemmer] You are going to resist, I hope.
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By Any Means Necessary
- Jeffrey Sinclair: You should never hand someone a gun unless you're sure where they'll point it.
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Signs and Portents
- Susan Ivanova: I've always had a hard time getting up when it's dark outside.
- Jeffrey Sinclair: But in space, it's always dark.
- Susan Ivanova: [morosely] I know. I know.
- [Lord Kiro dismisses his aunt's vision of Babylon 5's destruction.]
- Lord Kiro: She's been wrong before. On my first birthday, she said that someday I would be killed by… shadows. [N]
- Morden: What do you want?
- Londo Mollari: To be left alone!
- [Londo leaves the lift and quickly walks away.]
- Morden: Is that it? Is that really all, Ambassador?
- [Londo sighs, then turns around.]
- Londo Mollari: All right. Fine! You really want to know what I want? You really want to know the truth? I want my people to reclaim their rightful place in the galaxy. I want to see the Centauri stretch forth their hand again, and command the stars! I-I want a rebirth of glory, a renaissance of power. I want to stop running through my life like a man late for an appointment, afraid to– to look back, or to look forward. I want us to be what we used to BE! I want… I want it all back, the way that it was! Does that answer your question?
- [He turns and walks off.]
- Morden: Yes. Yes, it does.
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TKO
- [Boxer Walker Smith decks a man trying to knife a distracted Garibaldi from behind.]
- Walker Smith: One of these days, Garibaldi… you're gonna learn to watch your back. [N]
- Rabbi Koslov: Without forgiveness, you cannot mourn. And without mourning, you can never let go of the pain.
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Grail
- [Sinclair watches Garibaldi wolf down his food.]
- Jeffrey Sinclair: They say food digests better if you chew it first.
- Michael Garibaldi: Don't talk — I've seen you eat. Does the term "Doppler effect" ring a bell?
- [A silver-suited grey alien stands before a Babylon 5 ombudsman, who listens to a plaintiff.]
- Plaintiff Flinn: We went through their archives, and we found proof… that his great-grandfather abducted my great-grandfather, and just took him away in a spaceship! Frankly, Your Honor, we want damages!
- Ombuds Wellington: [to alien] How do you plead?
- [The alien holds up a card with curious image on it.]
- Ombuds Wellington: Could I please have a translation team in here?!
- [The command staff watches "Jinxo" Thomas's shuttle leave through the jumpgate.]
- Michael Garibaldi: No boom?
- Jeffrey Sinclair: No boom.
- Susan Ivanova: No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
- [Sinclair and Garibaldi exchange an exasperated look and wander off.]
- Susan Ivanova: What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later. BOOM!
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Eyes
- [Ivanova confronts Psi Corps specialist Harriman Gray.]
- Susan Ivanova: As for fear, if you enter my mind for any reason, I will twist your head off and use it for a chamberpot!
- [Garibaldi enters the casino to find an angry, inebriated Ivanova mopping the floor with the patrons.]
- Susan Ivanova: Are you gonna arrest me, Garibaldi?
- Michael Garibaldi: No way! I wanna live to see the future.
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Legacies
- Jeffrey Sinclair: Branmer's life was more significant than his battles. Let the warrior caste praise his courage in war, and let the rest praise him for what he truly was — a man of peace.
- Neroon: You talk like a Minbari, Commander. Perhaps there was some small wisdom in letting your species survive.
- Jeffrey Sinclair: We like to think so.
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A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 1
- [Sinclair comes upon Talia waiting for a tube car.]
- Talia Winters: It seems like every time I get into the tube, Mr. Garibaldi's there! It's like he knows!
- Jeffrey Sinclair: Talia, Mr. Garibaldi is many things, but he's not omniscient.
- [The tube opens, revealing a grinning Garibaldi.]
- Talia Winters: I think I'll take the stairs.
- Jeffrey Sinclair: I think I'll join you.
- [A survey shuttle limps back to Babylon 5 after its second, near-fatal disaster.]
- Dr. Tasaki: Survey 1 to Babylon Control, we're clear. Returning to base.
- Susan Ivanova: Confirmed, Survey 1. Upon arrival, you will report for debriefing. [pauses] And just one more thing. On your trip back, I'd like you to take the time to learn the Babylon 5 mantra: "Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova, I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And, if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out!" Babylon Control out. [sighs to herself] Civilians. [looks up] Just kidding about that God part. No offense.
- [Londo is cheering up Garibaldi with a tale.]
- Londo Mollari: The next day, I woke up, I saw her in the light of day, sleeping against my arm, and I decided I would rather chew off my arm than wake her up.
- Michael Garibaldi: Aw, that's sweet.
- Londo Mollari: No, no! She had a voice that could curdle fresh milk.
- [Sinclair and Ivanova try to retrieve the machine-ensconced alien while the planet quakes around them.]
- Susan Ivanova: Commander, we don't have a lot of time. We're cut off from the way we came in, we don't know if we can find another way back to the ship before we run out of air…
- Jeffrey Sinclair: We can't leave him like this!
- Susan Ivanova: I know, I know. It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something stupid, we like to catalog the full extent of our stupidity, for future reference.
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A Voice in the Wilderness, Part 2
- Delenn: The third principle of sentient life is its capacity for self-sacrifice, for a cause… a loved one… for a friend.
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Babylon Squared
- Delenn: I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.
- Major Krantz: What if we take you with us? Put you on trial?
- Zathras: Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras.
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The Quality of Mercy
- [Ivanova barges into Dr. Franklin's illicit free clinic. He is bent over a notepad, distracted.]
- Stephen Franklin: You can start by removing your clothes.
- Susan Ivanova: Not without dinner and flowers.
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Chrysalis
- Londo Mollari: But this… this, this, this is like… being nibbled to death by, uh… Pah! What are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet… go "quack".
- Vir Cotto: Cats.
- Londo Mollari: Cats! I'm being nibbled to death by cats.
- [Londo chats with Morden in the garden.]
- Londo Mollari: There comes a time when you look into the mirror, and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. Then you accept it, or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors.
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Season 2: The Coming of Shadows
- [Opening credits voiceover.]
- John Sheridan: The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. A self-contained world five miles long, located in neutral territory. A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. A shining beacon in space, all alone in the night. It was the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind… the year the Great War came upon us all. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2259. The name of the place is Babylon 5.
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Points of Departure
- [A transport tube opens to reveal Ivanova addressing a quartet of cowering humans and aliens.]
- Susan Ivanova: And as far as I'm concerned, the transports can wait until the SUN EXPLODES! And if you're not happy with the seating arrangements, I will personally order your seats to be moved outside, down the hall, across the station, and into the fusion reactor! Am I absolutely, perfectly clear on this?
- [As she leaves them to their bickering, she continues her narration about the chaos on the station after Sinclair's abrupt recall.]
- Susan Ivanova: [voiceover] I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate.
- [Dr. Franklin tells Ivanova about Garibaldi's coma.]
- Susan Ivanova: Well then, I'll say a prayer for him tonight.
- Stephen Franklin: He's agnostic.
- Susan Ivanova: Then I'll say half a prayer.
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Revelations
- [Londo rants before the Babylon 5 Advisory Council about the missing G'Kar and Delenn.]
- Londo Mollari: There, you see! One deserts his post without any explanation, the other one picks the most breathtakingly inconvenient moment possible to explore new career options, like becoming a butterfly!
- [Londo finds Morden's suggestions of future attacks against the Narn entertaining.]
- Londo Mollari: Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it? [chuckles]
- Morden: One thing at a time, Ambassador. One thing at a time.
- G'Kar: [quoting Yeats' "Second Coming"]
- Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
- Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
- The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
- The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
- And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
- Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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The Geometry of Shadows
- [Dr. Franklin treats Ivanova's broken foot.]
- Stephen Franklin: I can give you something for the pain…
- Susan Ivanova: Oh, great — now you can give me something for the pain.
- Stephen Franklin: What?
- Susan Ivanova: Where we you when I was going through puberty?
- [He chuckles.]
- Susan Ivanova: No, it's okay; I'll get used to it. If it gets too bad, I'll just… gnaw it off at the ankle.
- [Ivanova accidentally becomes the Green Drazi leader by grabbing the former leader's sash.]
- Susan Ivanova: You're saying just because I'm holding this right now, I'm Green leader? But I'm human!
- Former Drazi Leader: Rules of combat older than contact with other races. Did not mention aliens. Rules change… caught up in committee.
- Elric: As I look at you, Ambassador Mollari, I see a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand. And I hear sounds — the sounds of billions of people calling your name.
- Londo Mollari: My followers?
- Elric: Your victims.
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A Distant Star
- [Dr. Franklin watches Ivanova as she storms off with his recovery-enhancing "food plan".]
- Susan Ivanova: Figures. All my life, I've fought against imperialism. Now, suddenly, I am the expanding Russian frontier.
- Stephen Franklin: But with very nice borders.
- John Sheridan: An old friend of mine once quoted me a [sic]… ancient Egyptian blessing: God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.
- John Sheridan: I wish I had your… faith in the universe. I just don't see it sometimes.
- Delenn: Then I will tell you a great secret, Captain. Perhaps the greatest of all time. The molecules of your body are the same molecules that make up this station, and the nebula outside, that burn inside the stars themselves. We are starstuff. We are the universe made manifest, trying to figure itself out. As we have both learned, sometimes the universe requires a change of perspective.
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The Long Dark
- [A wild, unkempt man assails G'Kar with a confused sermon.]
- Amis: I have walked in the valley of th—
- G'Kar: Good! Keep on walking.
- [Garibaldi and Sheridan consider the dessicated body from a failed cryogenic tube.]
- Michael Garibaldi: Lousy way to die, huh?
- John Sheridan: Hmm. Last time I checked, there weren't too many good ways.
- [Newly unfrozen traveller Mariah Cirrus meets G'Kar.]
- G'Kar: Take my advice and go back to the time you came from. The future isn't what it used to be.
- [Sheridan and Ivanova close in on an invisible, ravenous alien.]
- Susan Ivanova: You got a plan?
- John Sheridan: Let's try not to get killed.
- Susan Ivanova: Brilliant.
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A Spider in the Web
- [Sheridan sends Ivanova to resolve a problem, then sighs to himself.]
- John Sheridan: Ah, it's good to be the captain.
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Soul Mates
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A Race Through Dark Places
- [Sheridan complains to a bemused Franklin about the "bean counters" trying to charge him rent for his quarters.]
- John Sheridan: They nibble a little bit here, a little bit there — next thing you know, you're not even in charge of your own command anymore!
- Stephen Franklin: No taxation without representation. Give me liberty or give me death!
- John Sheridan: Abso-fraggin'-lutely!
- [Bester addresses the command staff after an attempt on his life by rogue telepaths.]
- Alfred Bester: They must be getting desperate to try something like this. They know we're onto them. Why else would they try to kill me?
- Susan Ivanova: Is this a multiple-choice question?
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The Coming of Shadows
- [G'Kar is outraged that Sheridan is allowing the Centauri Emperor to visit Babylon 5.]
- John Sheridan: Now, if this bothers you, I suggest you stay in your quarters, stick your fingers in your ears, and hum real loud until it's over! Unless you'd like to try something as breathtakingly rational as trying to open up a dialog?
- Centauri Emperor Turhan: So much has been lost, so much forgotten. So much pain, so much blood. And for what? I wonder. The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last, fragile moment. To choose something better, to make a difference, as you say.
- [Franklin brings a message from the ill Emperor to G'Kar, who had planned to knife the Centauri leader.]
- G'Kar: How is the poor fellow? I was so looking forward to meeting him and opening up… a dialog.
- . . .
- [Franklin relays the Emperor's message.]
- Stephen Franklin: He said… "We're wrong. The hatred between our people can never end until someone is willing to say, 'I'm sorry'. And try and find a way to make things right again, to atone for our actions."
- [Garibaldi receives a recorded message from former boss Jeffrey Sinclair.]
- Jeffrey Sinclair: There's a great darkness coming, Michael.
- Emperor Turhan: How will this end?
- Kosh: In fire.
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Gropos
- Delenn: We are all slaves to our histories. If there is to be a… bright future, we must learn to break those chains.
- John Sheridan: There's only one truth about war: people die. Killing is part of a soldier's job — we can't deny it. We can only live with it and hope the reasons for doing it are justified.
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All Alone in the Night
- [New Grey Council member Neroon confronts Delenn.]
- Neroon: You are an affront to the purity of our race!
- [On the Strieb ship, Sheridan has a strange dream about Babylon 5 and some of its denizens.]
- Dream Garibaldi: The man in-between is searching for you.
- Dream Ivanova: You are the hand.
- [Sheridan turns to see Kosh.]
- John Sheridan: Why are you here?
- Dream Kosh: We were never away. For the first time, your mind is quiet enough to hear me.
- John Sheridan: Why am I here?
- Dream Kosh: You have always been here.
- [Back on Babylon 5, Sheridan encounters Kosh.]
- Kosh: You have always been here.
- [Sheridan asks Hague why he trusts him with his secret effort to investigate the new Earth government.]
- General Hague: … you have an uncommon failing for someone in your position, Captain. You're a patriot. You believe as I do that when we put on this uniform, we took a solemn vow to protect Earth against threats from outside and from within. […] Your cooperation is essential, if we're going to take back our government.
- [Sheridan asks his staff if they want in on the conspiracy.]
- Susan Ivanova: Wherever this goes, however it ends, we're with you.
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Acts of Sacrifice
- Delenn: I was there when our war against Earth began, when our ship encountered an Earth vessel for the first time. […] I saw our leader die. I heard the cries for revenge, for blood, for death.
- [Dr. Franklin takes exception to the Lumati's disdain for medical treatment of the infirm.]
- Correlilmerzon [through Taq]: It does not serve evolution.
- Stephen Franklin: Well, my job isn't serving evolution — it's serving humanity, even when the patient isn't human.
- Correlilmerzon [through Taq]: Yes, but what happens when the inferior, saved from the process of natural selection, begin to outnumber the superior?
- Susan Ivanova: You know, I think we should all be moving on by now…
- Stephen Franklin: I don't believe that any form of sentient life is inferior to any other.
- Correlilmerzon [through Taq]: Yes. We often here that argument from inferior species and their sympathizers.
- [Sheridan asks Delenn for help in providing covert assistance to Narn civilians without the approval of EarthGov.]
- John Sheridan: … Ambassador, I've learned the hard way that governments deal in matters of convenience, not conscience. If they fall behind, it is up to the rest of us to make up the difference. If we don't, who will?
- [Ambassador Correlilmerzon insists on sex to cement the Earth-Lumati alliance. Ivanova does a bizarre song and dance which she claims is human-style sex.]
- Susan Ivanova:
- Boom! Shabba-labba-labba.
- Boom! Shabba-labba-labba.
- Hey there, hey there, three bags full!
- You come here often? Yes! I do!
- . . .
- I slept with you the other night.
- You didn't call, you didn't write!
- I think you did it just for SPITE!
- Oh! Yes… oh, yes! Oh, YES! OH! YES!
- Tell me about your portfolio!
- Oh, YES! YES! YES! YES!
- Lie to me about your family…
- . . .
- [She finishes with a shriek and a compliment.]
- Correlilmerzon: What do I do now?
- Susan Ivanova: Old style, you roll over and go to bed. New style, you go out for pizza, I never see you again.
- [Ivanova gets a parting gift and note from Correlilmerzon.]
- John Sheridan: What's it say?
- Susan Ivanova: "Next time… my way."
- John Sheridan: Commander, is there something you'd like to tell me?
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Hunter, Prey
- [During the search for Dr. Jacobs in Down Below, Franklin and Garibaldi muse about disappointed expectations.]
- Michael Garibaldi: Maybe somebody should've labelled the future "some assembly required".
- John Sheridan: Are we just toys to you? Huh? What do you want?
- Kosh: Never ask that question!
- . . .
- Kosh: I will teach you.
- John Sheridan: About yourself?
- Kosh: About you. Until you are ready.
- John Sheridan: For what?
- Kosh: To fight legends.
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There All the Honor Lies
- [Ivanova rants about EarthGov's decision to sell B5 merchandise.]
- Susan Ivanova: Welcome to Babylon 5, the last, best hope for a quick buck!
- John Sheridan: Commander—
- Susan Ivanova: Oh, this is demeaning! I'm mean, we're not some… some deep-space franchise! This station is about something. [N]
- [Lawyer Guinevere Corey interrupts the questioning of Minbari witness Ashan.]
- Guinevere Corey: May I ask what you were discussing here?
- John Sheridan: The only thing that matters — the truth.
- Guinevere Corey: Ah, yes. The favorite song of the legally ignorant.
- [Londo sputters outrage over a B5 Emporium "Londo Mollari" doll.]
- Londo Mollari: It's a mockery! It doesn't even have any, uh... attributes.
- John Sheridan: Attributes?
- Londo Mollari: Do I have to spell it out for you?
- [Ivanova and Sheridan stare at Londo, then at each other.]
- John Sheridan, Susan Ivanova: Ohh!
- Susan Ivanova: I see. So you feel like you're being symbolically cast— in a bad light.
- John Sheridan: Well put.
- John Sheridan: I– I never thought there could be anything worse than being all alone in the night.
- Delenn: But there is. Being all alone in a crowd.
- . . .
- Delenn: In the service of their clan, they're ready to sacrifice everything — their individuality, their blood, their life.
- John Sheridan: Their honor? Oh, we've had plenty of that ourselves. Conspiracies of silence, because the larger ideals have to be protected. But you can't have larger ideals if the smaller ones get compromised. It's like building a house without a foundation, Delenn — it can't stand!
- Ashan: We are not responsible. It was the leaders of our clan who decided to act without asking the Council or anyone else in the government — not us. Yes, it was foolish—
- Lennier: No, not foolish. It was tragic.
- [Londo goads a hung-over Vir.]
- Londo Mollari: Good, Vir — you're sobering up! I can see the synapses beginning to fire behind your eyes! A frightening sight, I might add.
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And Now For a Word
- [ISN reporter Cynthia Torqueman interviews G'Kar about the old Narn-Centauri war.]
- Cynthia Torqueman: Why do you think they invaded back then?
- G'Kar: Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a less-advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all… simply because they can. You have experienced much the same on your own world. There are humans for whom the words "never again" carry special meaning.
- John Sheridan: See, in the last few years, we've stumbled. […] And when you stumble a lot, you… you start looking at your feet. Well, we have to make people… lift their eyes back to the horizon, and see the line of ancestors behind us, saying, "Make my life have meaning." And to our inheritors before us, saying, "Create the world we will live in." I mean, w-we're not just… holding jobs and having dinner. We are in the process of building the future. That's what Babylon 5 is all about.
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In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
- Morden: If restoring the Centauri Republic means nothing to you, what does? What do you want?
- Vir Cotto: I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this.
- [He gives Morden a mockingly cheerful finger waggle.]
- Vir Cotto: Can you and your associates arrange it for me, Mr. Morden?
- [Franklin tells Ivanova what he sees when a patient dies.]
- Stephen Franklin: And then, just at the last, it's as if they look past you at something else, and the look on their face, it's like nothing you can describe. And then, just as they look past you — the moment that they look past you — you can't help but meet their gaze and just for an instant, you see God reflected in their eyes. [pauses] I've seen a lot of reflected gods today, Susan. And I'm wondering how we can keep believing in them, when they've stopped believing in us.
- John Sheridan: You ever studied ancient history? 20th century, World War II?
- Zack Allan: Well… not really. [grins] I always used to fall asleep in history class.
- John Sheridan: The Germans had a secret code they used for all their important messages. It was called "Enigma". What they didn't know was that the British had cracked the code. One day, Churchill's people intercepted a message authorizing the bombing of a city named Coventry. Now, if they evacuated Coventry, the Germans would know their code had been broken, and switch to another system. If that happened, it could cost the Allies the entire war. If they didn't evacuate the city, hundreds of innocent men, women, and children would die.
- Zack Allan: So, what happened?
- John Sheridan: They kept the secret. There was no evacuation. And on November 14th, 1940, Coventry was destroyed. The dead were… piled up like cordwood! I—I've seen newsreels of Churchill visiting the ruins a few days later. And you can just see it in his eyes, the knowledge of what he'd done. Dark, haunted. All these years I've never been able to get that image out of my head.
- Zack Allan: Well, I'm glad it's a decision I don't have to make. I don't think I could live with myself. How many lives is a secret worth?
- Kosh: If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die.
- John Sheridan: Then I die. But I will not go down easily, and I will not go down alone.
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Knives
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Confessions and Lamentations
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Divided Loyalties
- [At a Universe Today vendor station, Delenn haughtily dismisses humans' fascination with the press.]
- Delenn: Back home, when there is something you need to know, you are told just what you require and no more.
- . . .
- Delenn: … Minbari respect the privacy of others by not prying into their affairs. To express undue curiosity—
- Newsvendor Computer: Unable to insert "Eye on Minbari" section. Do you wish to accept edition anyway?
- Delenn: Uh… yes, yes I do.
- John Sheridan: "Eye on Minbari"?
- Delenn: It is good to know what your people are thinking and saying about my people. And, uh… [grins] I often learn things about my own world before I'm told "what I need to know and no more".
- [Lyta has tested all high- and medium-ranking station personnel — but one — for the traitor's psychic trigger.]
- Lyta Alexander: The further you go from the center of power, the less likely it is we're going to find the person that we're looking for.
- [She pointedly turns and looks at Ivanova.]
- Susan Ivanova: I suggest you move those eyes somewhere else… while you still have them.
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The Long, Twilight Struggle
- [Draal tells Delenn and Sheridan about what he's discovered using the Great Machine.]
- Draal: … and lately I've learned about your role in, shall we say, a "conspiracy of light" aimed at your own government?
- . . .
- Draal: This has been a hard and trying year for you, Captain Sheridan. It might be helpful for you to know that you are not alone, and that in the long, twilight struggle which lies ahead of us, there is the possibility of hope.
- [Londo demands that "Citizen" G'Kar be removed from further Council meetings. G'Kar rises to go.]
- G'Kar: No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
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Comes the Inquisitor
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The Fall of Night
- [Lantze surprises the B5 staff with the true purpose of his visit.]
- Frederick Lantze: I'm here to sign a non-aggression treaty with the Centauri. Before I leave here, there will be an Earth-Centauri alliance that will guarantee peace for Earth. We will, at last, know peace within our time.
- [Sheridan is told that the Joint Chiefs have ordered him to apologize to the Centauri.]
- John Sheridan: I suppose this… apology is already written?
- Mr. Welles: No need. You can phrase the apology any way you see fit. As with everything else, it's the thought that counts.
- [Sheridan practices his apology to the Centauri government before a mirror.]
- John Sheridan: I apologize. I'm… sorry. [sighs] I'm sorry we had to defend ourselves against an unwarranted attack. I'm sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire on a station filled with a quarter million civilians, including your own people. And I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all straight to hell. [pauses] As with everything else, it's the thought that counts.
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Season 3: Point of No Return
- [Opening credits voiceover.]
- Susan Ivanova: The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It failed. But in the year of the Shadow War, it became something greater: our last, best hope… for victory. The year is 2260. The place, Babylon 5.
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Matters of Honor
- [Ivanova chides Sheridan on his impatience over an arriving VIP on a mysterious mission.]
- Susan Ivanova: I mean, come on, where's your sense of mystery? Of adventure?
- John Sheridan: Are you trying to cheer me up?
- Susan Ivanova: No, sir! Wouldn't dream of it.
- John Sheridan: Good! I hate being cheered up. It's… depressing.
- Susan Ivanova: So, in that case… we're all going to die horrible, painful, lingering deaths.
- John Sheridan: Thank you, I feel so much better now.
- [Ivanova preempts Sheridan's belated revelation of the Rangers by detailing what he was going to say.]
- Susan Ivanova: Captain, the day something happens around here and I don't know about it, worry.
- [David Endawi demands to talk to Sheridan or Ivanova.]
- Michael Garibaldi: They got called away on urgent business.
- David Endawi: What kind of business?
- Michael Garibaldi: I'm not authorized for that kind of information.
- David Endawi: But… you're the head of Security.
- Michael Garibaldi: And what kind of head of Security would I be if I let people like me know things that I'm not supposed to know. [I mean,] I know what I know because I have to know it, and if I don't have to know it, I don't tell me, and I don't let anyone else tell me, either. Now look, we've tried most of the other ambassadors. Why don't you speak to G'Kar? Maybe he knows something about this ship.
- David Endawi: Under the terms of our recent treaty, I am not authorized to have any official conversation with the Narn without Centauri approval.
- Michael Garibaldi: So you'll ask unofficially. And I can give you reasonable assurances that the head of Security will not report you for doing so.
- David Endawi: [slowly] Because you won't tell yourself about it.
- Michael Garibaldi: I try never to get involved in my own life. Too much trouble.
- [The White Star is fleeing a Shadow ship in hyperspace.]
- John Sheridan: Tell me, Commander… have you ever wondered what would happen if you opened a jump point while inside a jump gate?
- Susan Ivanova: No! And neither should you!
- [A clandestine trio on Earth consider the premature leak of a Shadow ship sighting.]
- Morden: Your government can dismiss this as an isolated incident.
- Psi Cop: I don't know. There's something about this idea of a threat to planetary security I find very appealing. As long as we keep the real truth to ourselves, there's no reason we can't use this situation to speed up the program here at home.
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Convictions
- [Drazi missionaries ask a distracted Garibaldi about the recent sighting of their holy figure Droshalla.]
- Michael Garibaldi: Zack, do me a favor and explain the missionary, uh… position to these folks.
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A Day in the Strife
- [Ivanova passes the alien questionnaire results to Corwin.]
- Susan Ivanova: Check these figures again, make sure they came through the translator okay? I don't want to get killed because of a typo. It'd be embarrassing.
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Passing Through Gethsemane
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Voices of Authority
- [Ivanova holographically observes Sheridan being seduced by an EarthGov representative.]
- Susan Ivanova: Good luck, captain. I think you're about to go where … everyone has gone before.
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Dust to Dust
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Exogenesis
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Messages from Earth
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Point of No Return
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Severed Dreams
- Delenn: This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw...or be destroyed!
- Captain: Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship.
- Delenn: Why not?! Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.
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Ceremonies of Light and Dark
- Londo Mollari: Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts.
- Lord Refa: Why should I do as you say?
- Londo Mollari: Because I have asked you; because your sense of duty to our people should override any personal ambition; and because I have poisoned your drink.
- Marcus Cole: You see, it's like I've always said: 'You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than you can with just a kind word.' Please, continue.
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Sic Transit Vir
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A Late Delivery from Avalon
- Marcus Cole: You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
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Ship of Tears
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Interludes and Examinations
- Captain John Sheridan: For three years now you've been pulling everyone's strings, getting us to do all the work, and you haven't done a damn thing but stand there and look cryptic.
- Captain John Sheridan: I hear you've got a saying: 'Understanding is a three-edged sword.' Well, we've got a saying too: 'Put your money where your mouth is.'
- Kosh: Impudent.
- Captain John Sheridan: Yeah? Well, maybe that's the only way to get through to you. You said you wanted to teach me to fight legends. Well, you are a legend too, and I am not going away until you agree.
- Kosh: Incorrect. Leave now.
- Captain John Sheridan: No.
- Kosh: Disobedient!
- Captain John Sheridan: Up yours!
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War Without End, Part 1
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War Without End, Part 2
- Zathras: Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This … is wrong tool.
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Walkabout
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Grey 17 Is Missing
- Lennier: He said he would use any and all means necessary. I respectfully suggest that he intends to go far beyond harsh language.
- Marcus Cole: I am a Ranger. We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no-one may pass. We live for the One, we die for the One.
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And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
- Rev. Will Dexter: You know, before I got married, Emily used to come by sometimes and help me clean out my apartment. Well, I asked her, 'How come you're so eager to help clean up my place when your place is just as bad?' She said, 'Because cleaning up your place helps me to forget what a mess I've made of mine. And — when I sweep my floor, all I've done is sweep my floor. But, when I help you clean up your place, I am helping you.'
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Shadow Dancing
- Stephen Franklin: I'm alive. Everything else is negotiable.
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Z'ha'dum
- G'Kar: It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. It was as if the universe were holding its breath ... waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments ... of revelation. This had the feeling of both. G'Quan wrote: "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender." The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born ... in pain.
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Season 4: No Surrender, No Retreat
- [Opening credits voiceover.]
- Lennier: It was the year of fire…
- Zack Allan: … the year of destruction…
- G'Kar: … the year we took back what was ours.
- Lyta Alexander: It was the year of rebirth…
- Vir Cotto: … the year of great sadness…
- Marcus Cole: … the year of pain…
- Delenn: … and the year of joy.
- Londo Mollari: It was a new age.
- Stephen Franklin: It was the end of history.
- Susan Ivanova: It was the year everything changed.
- Michael Garibaldi: The year is 2261.
- John Sheridan: The place, Babylon 5.
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The Hour of the Wolf
- G'Kar: Our thoughts form the universe. They always matter.
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Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?
- Lorien: It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?
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The Summoning
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Falling Toward Apotheosis
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The Long Night
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Into the Fire
- Lorien: To live on as we have is to leave behind joy, and love, and companionship, because we know it to be transitory, of the moment. We know it will turn to ash. Only those, whose lives are brief can imagine that love ... is eternal. ... You should embrace that remarkable illusion. It may be the greatest gift your race has ever received.
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Epiphanies
- G'Kar: I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. The one is never equal to the other.
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The Illusion of Truth
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Atonement
- Stephen Franklin: This is a conversation that can only end with a gunshot.
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Racing Mars
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Lines of Communication
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Conflicts of Interest
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Rumors, Bargains and Lies
- Delenn: Yes, we've disagreed, even fought, but I would rather have someone who opposes me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause than someone who is always on my side because it was expected and required.
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Moments of Transition
- Bester: Being a freedom fighter, a force for good, it's a wonderful thing ... you get to make your own hours, looks good on a resume, but the pay ... sucks.
- Bester: It's good to see they're continuing the fine tradition of hiring from the shallow end of the gene pool.
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No Surrender, No Retreat
- Susan Ivanova: Trust Ivanova, trust yourself; anybody else, shoot them.
- Vir Cotto: I don't always like the way Londo does things—me and most civilized worlds—but, you know, sometimes he's right, so I force myself to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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The Exercise of Vital Powers
- Michael Garibaldi: Everybody lies.
- William Edgars: That's a very sad view of the universe, Mr. Garibaldi.
- Michael Garibaldi: Yeah, well, it's the only one I've got. It works for me.
- William Edgars: Do you know how the ancient Greeks defined happiness? "Happiness", they said, "was the exercise of vital powers along lines of excellence in a life affording them scope."
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The Face of the Enemy
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Intersections in Real Time
- Recording: You will cooperate with the state, for the good of the state and your own survival. You will confess to the crimes of which you have been accused. You will be released and returned to society a productive citizen if you cooperate. Resistance will be punished. Cooperation will be rewarded.
- John Sheridan: You just have to say "No, I won't" one more time than they can say "Yes, you will."
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Between the Darkness and the Light
- Guard: [in a monotone] I don't watch TV. It's a cultural wasteland filled with inappropriate metaphors and an unrealistic portrayal of life created by the liberal media elite.
- Susan Ivanova: Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me.
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Endgame
- John Sheridan: This is Captain John Sheridan. We are here on the authority of a multi-planetary force, that can no longer stand by and watch one of their greatest allies falling into darkness and despair. We are here on behalf of the thousands of civilians murdered under the current administration, who have no one else to speak for them, and on behalf of the EarthForce units that have joined us to oppose the tyranny that has darkened Earth, ever since President Santiago was assassinated three years ago. We are here to place President Clark under arrest, to disband Nightwatch and return our government to the hands of her people. We know that many in the government have wanted to act but have been intimidated by threats of retaliation against your families, your friends. You are not alone anymore. We call upon you to rise up and do what's right. We have drawn their forces away from Earth and disabled them. The time to act is now. This is not the voice of treason. These are your sons, your daughters, whose loyalties have never wavered, whose beliefs in this alliance have forced us to take extraordinary means. For justice, for peace, for the future ... we have come home!
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Rising Star
- Susan Ivanova: All love is unrequited, Stephen. All of it.
- Delenn: It was the end of the Earth year 2261, and it was the dawn of a new age... for all of us. It was end of one chapter, and the beginning of another. The next twenty years would see great changes, great joy, and great sorrow. The Telepath War, and the Drakh War. The new Alliance would waver, and crack... but in the end, it would hold. Because what is built endures, and what is loved endures ... and Babylon 5 ... Babylon 5 endures.
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The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
- Man: This is how the world ends, swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors, the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would've wished for us. And now we leave the cradle for the last time.
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Season 5: The Wheel of Fire
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No Compromises
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The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari
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The Paragon of Animals
- G'Kar: The Universe speaks in many languages but only one voice. A language which is not Narn or Human or Centauri or Gaium or Minbari. It speaks in the language of hope. It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and of the language of the soul; but always it is the same voice; it is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us, and the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born; it is the small still voice said says: "We are one, no matter the blood, no matter the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star. We are one, no matter the pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter the fear. We are one, here, gathered together in common cause we agree to recognize this singular truth and this singular rule, that we must be kind to one another because each voice enriches us and enobles us, and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light the way to a better future. We are one.
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A View from the Gallery
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Learning Curve
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Strange Relations
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Secrets of the Soul
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Day of the Dead
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In the Kingdom of the Blind
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A Tragedy of Telepaths
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Phoenix Rising
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The Ragged Edge
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The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father
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Meditations on the Abyss
- G'Kar: If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often we assume that the light on the wall is God. But the light is not the goal of the search; it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it! Similarly, someone who does not search, who does not bring a lantern with him, sees nothing. What we perceive as God, is the byproduct of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light, pure and unblemished, not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe. God looks astonishingly like we do! Or we turn to look at our shadow, and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose; which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty ... and in all its flaws. And in so doing better understand the world around us.
- [Lennier is concerned he has offended Captain Montoya with his curiosity.]
- Findell: No, the captain does not believe in indiscreet questions. He believes the only way to get pertinent information is to ask impertinent questions.
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Darkness Ascending
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And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
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Movements of Fire and Shadow
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The Fall of Centauri Prime
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Wheel of Fire
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Objects in Motion
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Objects at Rest
- Delenn: There are moments when we all become someone else, something other than what we are. It takes only a moment. But we spend the rest of our lives looking back at that moment in shame.
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Sleeping in Light
- John Sheridan: To absent friends… in memory still bright.
- Susan Ivanova: Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future ... and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future, or others would do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one another, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most ... unlikely places. Mostly though, I think it gave us hope—that there can always be new beginnings ... even for people like us.
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Films
Babylon 5 films are listed in chronological order within the fictional universe's storyline.
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Babylon 5: In the Beginning
- G'Kar: It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world. Because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past.
- Londo Mollari: The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. But where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with even greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life, I have never seen anything like it. They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself. Never surrendering. No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage ... Their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns. When they ran out of guns, they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent. I only hope, that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes at the end. They did this for two years. They never ran out of courage, but in the end ... they ran out of time.
- Earth President: This is ... This is the president. I have just been informed that our midrange military bases at Beta Colony and Proxima 3 have fallen to the Minbari advance. We have lost contact with Io and must conclude that they too have fallen to an advanced force. Our military intelligence believes that Minbari intend to bypass Mars and hit Earth directly, and the attack may come at any time. We have continued to broadcast our surrender and a plea for mercy, and they have not responded. We therefore can only conclude that we stand at the twilight of the Human race. In order to buy more time for our evacuation transports to leave Earth, we ask for support of every ship capable of fighting, to take part in a defense of our homeworld. We will not lie to you. We do not believe survival is a possibility. We believe that anyone who joins this battle, will never come home again. But for every ten minutes we can delay the military advance, several hundred more civilians may have a chance to escape to neutral territory. Though Earth may fall, the Human race must have a chance to continue elsewhere. No greater sacrifice has ever been asked of a people, but I ask you now, to step forward one last time - one last battle to hold the line against the night! May God go with you all.
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Babylon 5: The Gathering
- Londo Mollari: I suppose there'll be a war now, hm? All that running around and shooting one another. You'd think that sooner or later, it would go out of fashion.
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Babylon 5: Thirdspace
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Babylon 5: The River of Souls
- Elizabeth Lockley: Dr. Wolfgang Pauli was a physicist during the late 20th century. Whenever he stepped inside the physics lab, something would go wrong or break down, usually a very expensive piece of equipment. Became kind of a joke with the other doctors, who called it the Pauli effect. According to the story, one day an extremely sensitive and expensive piece of equipment exploded, but he wasn't in the room. So for the first time, they had some proof that the Pauli effect wasn't real. Until they found out that at the exact moment the equipment exploded, he was on a train passing by right in front of the place.
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Babylon 5: A Call to Arms
- Galen: If sometimes dreams come true, then what of our nightmares?
- John Sheridan: Those who command the Excalibur will never stop, never give up, and never slow down until a cure is found. And we'll take any help we can get. Wherever and whoever it comes from. Because this is a cause that surpasses borders and difference and distrust. This is a mission of about the survival of Earth itself. What we do over the next five years, here, at home, and across the darkness between stars, will determine whether an entire world will live ... or die. It's a fight we can't afford to lose. And we won't ... We won't.
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Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers
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Unidentified episode or film
- John Sheridan: I'll tell you one thing, if the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the gene pool, they'd've stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea ... I always thought the opposable thumb was overrated.
- verified not in "A Race Through Dark Places", as earlier cited
- some sites claim from "A Distant Star", but not confirmed by reliable sources
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Books
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Legions of Fire: The Long Night of Centauri Prime
- [While walking through the capitol city, the newly invested Emperor Londo Mollari was struck by a rock thrown by a young teenage girl, who proceeded to upbraid him for his failings in defense of the Centauri people.]
- Londo Mollari: You are quite brave, do you know that?"
- [For a moment the girl seemed taken aback, and then she gathered herself.]
- Girl: I'm not brave. I'm just too tired and hungry and angry to care anymore.
- Londo Mollari: Perhaps they are not mutually exclusive. Perhaps bravery is simply apathy with delusions of grandeur.
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Notes
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See also
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External links
- Babylon 5 quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Babylon 5: In the Beginning quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Babylon 5: The Gathering quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Babylon 5: Thirdspace quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Babylon 5: The River of Souls quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Babylon 5: A Call to Arms quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Crusade quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
- TV Tome: Babylon 5
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