From d60642417757b9429d4abe86d4ff9fbe218c1847 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SS007979 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 07:36:18 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/6] Adding Bablyon5 quotes --- src/main/resources/en/babylon5 | 10964 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10964 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/main/resources/en/babylon5 diff --git a/src/main/resources/en/babylon5 b/src/main/resources/en/babylon5 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b8b7b5d9b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/main/resources/en/babylon5 @@ -0,0 +1,10964 @@ +1743 +%% +"I was there, at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind. It began in the + Earth year 2257 with the founding of the last of the Babylon stations, + located deep in neutral space. + It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats + and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place, but + we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. + Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given + form, a dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds + could live side-by-side in mutual respect, a dream that was endangered as + never before by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction. + Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story." + -- Ambassador Londo Mollari's opening in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"NAME: VARNER, DEL" +"ORIGIN: EARTH" +"DES/ATMOS: HUMAN/O2" +"SEX: MALE" +"DOB: 6/27/18" +" PHYS CHR" +"MEDICAL: NO DISTG" +" TRANS REC" +" VISAS" + -- Varner Identicard in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"NAME: ALEXANDER, LYTA" +"ORIGIN: EARTH" +"DES/ATMOS: HUMAN/O2" +"SEX: FEMALE" +"DOB: 12/10/25" +" PHYS CHR" +"MEDICAL: NO DISTG" +" LICENSED PSI" +" VISAS" +" TRANS REC" +"CRIM HIST: NONE" + -- Lyta Identicard in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"TIKI.. MOJO 073 .. 0708 .. McAuliffe NCC .. tMU77 ELVIS STILL LOVES YOU.. + LILGUY 017017 .. NEILY " + -- Lyta Identicard (Left top) in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"ALEXANDER, LYTA" +"PSIONIC INFO" +"PSI LEVEL: P5" +"GENERATION: 8" +"REGISTERED PSI CORPS 10/18/52" +"LICENSE N617CC860" +"CURRENT ASSIGN: TIGRIS SEC BABYLON 5" + -- Lyta Identicard PSI MENU in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"The Narn Regime is dedicated to peace!" + -- G'Kar to LtCmdr. Laurel Takashima in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"If it makes you feel any better, I can send them a fruit basket." + -- LtCmdr. Laurel Takashima to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5." + -- Commander Sinclair to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Babylons one, two and three were sabotaged and destroyed. Number + four vanished without a trace 24 hours after becoming operational. + To this day no one knows what happened to it." + -- Sinclair to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Notice the waves, each moving in its own order, predictable, + unchanging. But drop in a single stone and see how the pattern + changes. Everything around it is altered." + -- Ambassador Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of + one mind to change the Universe, but none said it as clearly as this." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Do you not have files on the Vorlons?" +"Absolutely. Very large files. There's nothing in them, + of course. How much do *you* have?" +"More than you it would seem. Naturally it's all classified." +"Naturally." + -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Here is a copy of everything I have. It may be of use. + If anyone asks, say it fell from the sky." + -- Delenn to Sinclair about Vorlon files in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Commander, you know everything about your stone garden. But + clearly, you have not spent nearly enough time looking at it." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Damn. You see, it's your fault. You're bad luck. I've always said + that about him. Now, come on, come on. Look, you're a security chief. + Shouldn't you be out *securing* something?" + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"We have no telepaths among my people. A genetic oversight I suppose. + One which you could help correct. I am empowered to compensate you + quite handsomely for your genetic background." + -- Ambassador G'Kar to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Would you prefer to be conscious or unconscious during the mating? I would + prefer conscious, but I don't know what your .. pleasure threshold is." + -- G'Kar to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"We were talking the other day about how nobody has seen a Vorlon before. + And he said that according to legend, one human *did* see a Vorlon, + and turned to stone." +"Well, that's just a legend." +"Probably." +"Probably." + -- Takashima and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Even for an alien, this one is pretty alien." + -- Dr. Kyle to Sinclair about Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"We have unlimited manpower and the will to use it! + Can you imagine what we could achieve together?" +"I can, which is why it must never be allowed to happen." + -- G'Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and + shooting at one another. You would've thought sooner or later it + would go out of fashion." + -- Ambassador Londo Mollari to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"You make very good sharks, Mr. Garibaldi. We were pretty good sharks + ourselves once, but somehow, along the way, we forgot how to bite. + There was a time when this whole quadrant belonged to us. What are + we now? Twelve worlds and a thousand monuments to past glories. + Living off memories and stories, selling *trinkets*." + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"My god, man. We've become a tourist attraction. 'See the great + Centauri Republic -- open 9 to 5, Earth time.'" + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Nice shark, .. pretty shark." + -- Londo to his drink in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"I haven't broken the rules in a long time, + doctor, so I guess .. I'm about due." + -- Takashima to Dr. Kyle in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"That's not fair." +"No, it's not, but that's what we're stuck with." + -- Lyta Alexander and Dr. Kyle in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"I don't trust telepaths. Never have; never will." + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Michael, I picked you because you are right for the job. You are not + politicking, you are not subtle, and sometimes you are a pain in the + ass. And I wouldn't have it any other way." + -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"We had to stop them, .. no matter what it cost. They came at us + out of nowhere. We never had a chance. The sky was full of stars + and every star an exploding ship -- one of ours." + -- Sinclair about the Line in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"No, we were beaten. We didn't stop them, they stopped themselves. + I wish the hell I knew why." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Tell them [Vorlons] to get stuffed." + -- Takashima in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"There is a hole .. in your mind." + -- The Assassin to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Commander, this little breach of security isn't going + to affect my Christmas bonus, is it?" + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"There we were, a fleet so large it nearly eclipsed the sun. + Suddenly, we fell on them like a wave, foiling upon a shore--" + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Delenn, just before he died, the Minbari assassin looked + at me and said: 'There's a hole in your mind.'" +"An old Minbari insult. Nothing you need worry about." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"I would never tell you anything that was not in your best interest." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'" + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"A poem: a story in meter or rhyme." +"Ahh. 'There once was a man from Nantucket..'" +"You've been talking to Garibaldi again, haven't you?" + -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"This is Lieutenant Commander Laurel Takashima. Our docking bays + stand ready to receive you. Babylon 5 is open for business." + -- Takashima in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +%% +"Commander, there's a problem." + -- LtCmdr. Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"All I'm asking is that you trust me." +"Trust you? Londo, my brain will be five days dead before I ever trust a + Centauri. The first time we met you people, the first time we met any other + civilization, you told us you practically ran the entire galaxy." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Appearances aside, we are two completely different species." +"A clerical error." + -- Garibaldi and Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Okay, we made a mistake. I'm sorry. Here, open my wrist." +"Centauri don't have major arteries in their wrist." +"Of course we don't. What do you think, I'm stupid?" + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"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." + -- Commander Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Your diligence is commendable. Anything else?" +"No, I just--" +"Then, if you'll excuse me, but I'm in the middle of 15 things, + all of them annoying. Thank you for coming by." + -- Ivanova to Winters in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Not the Minbari, it's not their way. They are too honorable to pull + something like this." +"I'm surprised to hear you describe the Minbari that way. After all, + you fought them during the war." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"My father always told me: 'The best way to understand someone is to + fight him, make him angry. That's when you see the real person.'" + -- Sinclair to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"He taught me everything I know about flying, and combat. He said to ignore + the propaganda, focus on what you see. I've never seen the Minbari fight + dishonorably. They never pull a sneak attack." + -- Sinclair to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"So, who are you voting for?" +"I think I'll vote for Marie Crane. .. I do not like Santiago. I always + thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin and his + vice-president has several. This, to me, is not a good combination." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"You bastard! You won't get away with this. + We'll strike back and we'll strike back hard!" + -- Londo to G'kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?" + -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"We should've wiped out your kind when we had the chance." +"What happened? Run out of small children to butcher?" + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Listen to me, Ambassador. Your time has come and gone. It's our turn now! + One night you'll wake up and find our teeth at *your* throat. Sleep well, + Ambassador. Sleep lightly." + -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"I apologize for the .. the incident with G'Kar, Commander. It was a + mistake. *I* will not repeat it. I *will* kill him though. Sooner or + later. Somewhere." +"Ambassador." +"My people.. We have a way you see. We know how, and sometimes even when, + we are going to die. Comes in a dream. In my dream I am an old man, it's + 20 years from now, and I *am* dying. My hands wrapped around someone's + throat, and his around mine. We have squeezed the life out of each other. + The first time I saw G'Kar I recognized him as the one from the dream. + It *will* happen. 20 years from now, we'll die with hands around each + others' throats." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Commander, please. On the issue of galactic peace, I'm long past innocence + and fast approaching apathy. It's all a game -- a paper fantasy of names + and borders. Only one thing matters, Commander. Blood calls out for blood." + -- Londo to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"If Carn is dead, there will be war. Today, tomorrow, the day after, it + doesn't matter. If it's the last thing I do, if it's the last breath I + take, there will be war. This I swear to you, Commander. This I swear." + -- Londo to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"You eat like a starving man." +"Seeing death has the way of doing that to me." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"If you ask me, the universe is going to hell in a handbasket." + -- Garibaldi to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass." +"Who? The Narn or the Centauri?" +"Yes." + -- Kosh and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Mr. Garibaldi, you are sitting in *my* station, using *my* equipment. + Is there a reason for this, or to save time should I just go ahead and + snap your hands off at the wrist?" + -- Ivanova to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"The Council, the Council can go to hell. And the emergency session + can go to hell. And you, you can go to hell too. I wouldn't want you + to feel left out!" + -- Londo to Vir Cotto in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Londo, Londo, *why* are you doing this?" +"Because, we are a race of lunatics and cowards." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Well, unlike me, the Lieutenant Commander takes a while + to warm up to people, especially when she's working." + -- Garibaldi to Winters in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"I will confess that I look forward to the day when we have + cleansed the Universe of the Centauri and carved their bones + into little flutes for Narn children. It is a dream I have." +"Be careful, Ambassador. Not every dream I've heard lately + ends well for you." + -- G'Kar and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"We've had plenty of experience with sneak attacks. Pearl Harbor, the + terrorists' nuking of San Diego, the destruction of our first Mars colony. + It's a long and bloody history. Do you know what we learned from it? + That a sneak attack is the first resort of a coward." + -- Sinclair to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"What's wrong, Ambassador? Don't have the guts for a fair fight?" + -- Sinclair to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"The Earth Alliance can't go around being the galaxy's policemen." + -- The Senator to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"To start a war over blood spilled so long ago.. Where does it end? + You kill them and take their land. They kill you and take the land + back. On and on and on. The cycle of hatred." +"*Justice*, not hatred. We have no desire to start a war." + -- Delenn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Mr. Garibaldi! Just now, would you really have killed *me*?" +"Yes. Yes, I would've, but I'm just as glad I didn't have to. + The paperwork's a pain in the butt." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Perhaps tomorrow we can start over on better terms." +"I very much doubt it. Good night." + -- Talia and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Had the silly thing in reverse." + -- Duck Dodgers in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Commander, there's a problem. Commander?" + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +%% +"Always this busy around here?" +"Yes. We like it that way." + -- Dr. Franklin and LtCmdr. Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"If I can't make it, you'll have to blow up that ship before it hits." +"Why not destroy it now?" +"First contact protocol, Lieutenant Commander. Only when conditions + present a clear and present danger. If this is a new technology, + a new race, I want that ship intact." +"This *isn't* a clear and present danger? I must read the rulebook again." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"Send it away, while you still can." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"No. I have been to your world. Can you feel it?" +"Feel what?" +"Low. Quick. Muffled. Terrified. It comes. It comes. It comes." + -- Soul Hunter #1 and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"Quick flash. The deep blue of pain." +"Dull. Muffled. Slower now. Closer now. Over your shoulder. It comes. + The transition. A shadow. The long exhalation of the spirit. Can you + see it, healer? Can you see it?" +"Gone. Gone now. Gone. Gone. Gone. If you could only see. If you could + only see." + -- Soul Hunter #1 in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"We are not thieves. We are preservers." +"I thought that might get your attention." +"We act only for the greater good." + -- Soul Hunter #1 and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"Minbari: pale, bloodless. Look in their eyes and see nothing but mirrors, + infinities of reflection. Will not let us help them, no." + -- Soul Hunter #1 in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"Minbari: jealous, selfish, private. We have saved only a few. Very rare. + Rarest of all: their leader, Dukhat, dying. Your fault. Your war. The + pinnacle of Minbari evolution. We came. I, others. They made a wall of + bodies to stop us. He died .. and his dreams, his ideas .. all that he + was, all that he could ever be .. gone, wasted. Jealous. Gone. Gone." + -- Soul Hunter #1 to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred + years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. It wouldn't + be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start + to get it right and then .. it's over." +"Doesn't matter. If we lived two hundred years, we'd still be human. + We'd still make the same mistakes." +"You're a pessimist." +"I'm *Russian*, Doctor. We understand these things." + -- Dr. Franklin and LtCmdr. Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"And what will you do then?" +"Free them, release them." +"You mean kill them." +"They will join with the souls of all our people. Melt one into another + until they are born into the next generation of Minbari. Remove those + souls and the whole suffers. We are diminished. Each generation becomes + less than the one before." +"A great lie. A pretty fantasy. The soul ends with death, unless react to + preserve it. We *will* help you .. in spite of yourselves. I know you. + You were there at the death of your leader Dukhat." +"We stopped you from taking what you had no right to take." +"You stopped me from saving him. That is where it began to go wrong. + The lost souls. One after another after another. Voices still. I failed + because you stopped me." + -- Soul Hunter #1 and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"I remember. They called you Satai Delenn of the Grey Council. + Curious. Curious. What is one of the great leaders of the Minbari + doing here playing ambassador?" + -- Soul Hunter #1 to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"I hate it when you get heroic. It cuts into my business. + A man's gotta earn a living, you know?" + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"You would plan such a thing? You would *do* such a thing? Incredible." + -- Soul Hunter #1 to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"Why do you fight for her? Don't you understand? She is Satai. She is Satai. + I've seen her soul. They're using you. They're *using* *you*!" + -- Soul Hunter #1 to Sinclair about Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"We were right .. about you." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"It can wait. There's always time" + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"If I may ask, what happened to my brother's collection?" +"Life's full of mysteries. Consider this one of them." + -- Soul Hunter #2 and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +%% +"Gentlemen, of all things in life, are females not the finest?" +"On that, Mollari, we can at least agree." + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"I am Ko'Dath, the new head of your diplomatic staff." +"Yes. I wasn't expecting you for several yea.. days." + -- Ko'Dath and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"You know, sometimes I *almost* feel sorry for G'Kar." + -- Londo to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?" + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"And after spending a day dealing with Ambassador G'Kar, + I long to sink my teeth into something .." + -- Londo to Adira in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"What if we are seen together? What will people say?" +"They'll say.. they'll say Ambassador Mollari is a most fortunate man. + We Centauri live our lives for appearances, possessions, status, title. + These are the things by which we define ourselves. But when I look beneath + the mask I am forced to wear, I see only emptyness. And then I think of + you .. and I say: to hell with appearances." + -- Adira and Londo in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"And Vir!" +"Yes, sir?" +"Don't give away the homeworld." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"Just don't give away the homeworld." + -- G'Kar to Ko'Dath in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"Keep them talking. I'm going to find Londo and bring him here." +"What if he refuses?" +"Then I hurt him." + -- Sinclair and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"I'll even seal it with a kiss." +"That should make G'Kar's day." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"How are we gonna find this friend of Adira's?" +"I have a friend or two down here myself." +"I take it these are not them." + -- Sinclair and Londo in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"Gold channel opened." +"All right lieutenant gremlim. This time your butt is mine." + -- Computer and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"Oh, the gratitude of the Narn is well known throughout the galaxy." + -- G'Kar to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"I never knew you could be so devious, Commander." +"Coming from you, Ambassador, that's a real compliment." + -- G'Kar and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"My dear G'Kar. How can I ever thank you? *You* have saved my career, + and the honor of the entire Centauri Republic." +"*What*?" + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +%% +"You still haven't told me when the commander is due back?" +"Soon." +"How soon is soon?" +"Longer than a little while, faster than later." + -- Mary Ann Cramer and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"Commander's a hands-on kind of guy. He'll grab any chance to take + out a ship. He's like that." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"Savor the mystery, Stephen. We don't get nearly enough of them." + -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"Nothing in his personnel jacket to suggest a heart condition.." +"Yes, and exactly which medical school did you attend, Mr. Garibaldi?" + -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"This is a blueprint for living machines. The Vorlons have one. + Some people even say the Minbari have them. We haven't seen + enough of them up close to get any idea of how they work." + -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"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 transferred to an + outpost so far off the starmaps you couldn't find it with a hunting dog + and an ouiji board." +"Don't sweat it. Just be that charming, efflorescent 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." + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"Stephen. It's been 15 hours. We are gonna grow old and die in here. + Stephen? Stephen, there's a Martian war machine parked outside. + They'd like to have a word with you about the common cold." + -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"In the last five years, I've seen things off-world you can't even imagine. + I've stood in the Abendi desert and watched all seven moons go into eclipse. + I've walked in vaults that have been sealed longer than there's been a + human race, breathing air that's five million years old. You call that a + shortcut, if you will, but I've lived. By God, Stephen, I have *lived*." + -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"Don't. You're too young to experience that much pain." + -- Ivanova to ISN reporter Mary Ann Cramer in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"Win, lose or draw, this thing's going to know it was in a fight." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"But people can be fooled. So to prevent them from being confused by any + misleading instructions from the enemy, they hardwired the machine half + of the weapons not to respond to anyone who wasn't pure Ikarran. There's + one problem, Commander. How do you define a pure Ikarran, or a pure human? + No one is pure. No one." + -- Franklin to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"I'm gonna try and make it mad." +"Make it mad? Are you nuts? Commander!" + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"You forgot the first rule of a fanatic. When you become obsessed + with the enemy, you *become* the enemy." + -- Sinclair to 'Tular' in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"Interplanetary Expeditions, the corporation that financed the + dig on Ikarra 7 is a front. A front for a bio weapons supplier." + -- Vance Hendricks to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"I know a lot of guys who came out of the war changed. Some came out better, + some came out worse. A lot of them had this problem. The war gave them + definition, direction, purpose. Without it they don't know how to fit in + anymore, so they keep looking for ways to go out in a blaze of glory. + Some people call that being a hero, maybe so. I don't know, I've never + been one. Me, I think they're looking for something worth dying for + because it's easier than finding something worth living for." +"Finished?" +"Yeah. I guess that covers it." +"Michael. I don't have an answer for you. And .. I think maybe I should. + Thanks." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"If you'll excuse me. If you need me, I'll be over there, + getting drunk with the rest of the aliens." + -- Susan Ivanova to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"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?" +"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 Aristophenes .. + and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars." + -- Mary Ann Cramer interviews Cmdr. Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Infection" +%% +"I don't care if you're the Easter bunny. You're not bringing *this* + [knife] on the station." + -- Garibaldi to a pilgrim in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"I'm thinking of thinking of calling her right after my afternoon nap. + I'm thinking of thinking of sending her flowers right after Bonnie gets back. + So many fishies left in the sea. + So many fishies, but no one for meee.. + I'm thinking of thinking of hooking a love soon after supper is done." + -- G'Kar's song in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Are you Ambassador G'Kar?" +"This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters. This is Ambassador G'Kar's table. This + is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner. What part of this progression escapes you?" + -- Tu'Pari and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"It's a celebration of life. It comes from a time in our world history when + two dominant species were fighting for supremecy. Our people, and a species + we called Xon. At year's end we'd count how many of our people survived and + we celebrated our good fortune." + -- Vir in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Do you know what the last Xon said just before he died? [Clutches heart] + *AAAAAAAAAAAARGHHH!!!*" + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Can I kill him now?" +"Let me get back to you." +"Are you sure you don't want to see her?" +"Absolutely." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Oh, come on, Commander! Loosen up! You are supposed to enjoy yourself!" +"I *am*! Words just can't express how much I'm enjoying this." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Ah, our household gods. In a world where every day is a struggle for + survival, you need all the gods you can get." + -- Londo to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Gods by the bushel! Gods by the pound! Gods for all occasions!" + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Did I ever tell you [Delenn] that you are very cute for a Minbari? Even + you [Garibaldi] are cute, in an annoying sort of way. Everybody's cute! + Everybody's cute! Even me. But in purple.. I'm stunning!" [collapses] + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Ah! He has become one with his inner self!" +"He's passed out." +"That too." + -- Vir and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"I don't mean to alarm you, but your pants are talking to you." +"I know. I was just, uh--" +"Yes, you're a very busy man. Well, I'll let you and your pants get back + to your business and I'll get back to mine. Take care, Jeff." + -- Catherine Sakai & Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"What would you say if I told you that councillor Du'Rog hired someone + to kill me? Someone close to me." +"Ambassador, with all due respect, if it were me, you wouldn't be here + for us to have this conversation." + -- G'Kar and Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Ambassador, it is not my place to speculate on how + anything gets into your bed." + -- Na'Toth to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"I fight my own battles! I survived our war of independance, five years + on the council and two prior assasination attempts. I can survive this." + -- G'Kar to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Earthers have a phrase: 'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.' + I believe they stole it from us." + -- G'Kar to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"I can not have an aide who will not look up. + You will be forever walking into things." + -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"You will not use my title Satai. You will address me only as Delenn. + Do you understand?" +"No, but understanding is not required, only obedience." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Is this a breach of protocol?" +"I'm off duty." +"I thought you are never off duty." +"Maybe you didn't know me as well as you think." + -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"The other half of the dance goes something like this: We meet, renew + acquaintances, talk about old times at the academy, you ask about my + aunt, I ask about your brother, we lie about not missing each other + and we end up in bed together. And then you leave." +"Or you leave. Last time it was you." +"No it wasn't." +"Yes it was." +"No. .. Was it? .. You're right, last time it *was* me. Oh god, who + can keep it all straight anymore." + -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"I usually think about you in summer." +"I think about you in the fall." +"We never could agree on anything." + -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Will you follow me into fire, into storm, into darkness, into death? + And the nine said: 'yes.' Then do this in testimony to the one who will + follow, will bring death couched into promise of new life, and renewal + disguised as defeat. .. + From birth, through death and renewal, you must put aside old things, + old fears, old lives. This is your death, the death of flesh, + the death of pain, the death of yesterday. Taste of it and be not afraid, + for I am with you to the end of time. .. Taste of it. .. And so it begins." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Where is he?! I was told a bodyguard would be at the ceremony. + I was all alone! Taste your own death indeed!" + -- G'Kar to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Just trying to get your story down, Ambassador." +"It's not my story, it's the truth!" + -- Garibaldi and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"And just let me say, Ambassador, from the bottom of my heart: + Hot pink is definitely your color." + -- Garibaldi to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Don't touch me unless you mean it!" + -- Catherine Sakai to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"My orders are quite specific. You are to know pain. You are to know fear. + And then you are to die at the required hour. I confess I'll be happy when + this assignment is finished. Delaying the target's suspicions can be so + time-consuming." + -- Tu'Pari to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"The pain must be overwhelming. Why hold it in? Cry out, + Ambassador. With luck, someone will hear you." +"I would die before giving you that satisfaction." + -- Tu'Pari and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"That hurt." +"Ambassador, it was the only way to disable the pain-givers. I had to hit + them as hard as possible, as often as possible and still make it appear + as though I were beating you into another incarnation." +"And you didn't enjoy it in the least." +"I didn't say that." + -- G'Kar and Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"With luck, they may never find you, but if they do, you will know pain.." +"..and you will know fear.." +"..and then you will die. Have a pleasant flight." + -- G'Kar & Na'Toth to Tu'Pari in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"Oh, it's a rebirth ceremony, all right. It also doubles as + a marriage ceremony. Depending on how seriously anyone took it, + somebody got married the other day." +"Maybe that's why G'Kar was smiling. Funny. I didn't think Londo was + his type." + -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"See you next Wednesday." + -- Cmdr. Sinclair to Sakai in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +%% +"There's a problem, Commander. You missed a button." + -- Sakai to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"Get out of my head. You wanna talk to me, *talk* to me." + -- Sinclair to Bester in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"There are rules and there are *Rules*, Commander." + -- Psi Cop Kelsey to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"Since we bear a greater responsibility, we are afforded greater + latitude, in the interest of efficiency." + -- Psi Cop Bester to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"And Psi Cops? What are you rated?" +"P12. Someone has to keep an eye on the rest." +"Yes, but who watches the watchmen?" + -- Ivanova and Psi Cop Kelsey in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"What kind of *covert* operation?" +"That information is on a need-to-know basis, Commander. + And you don't need to know." + -- Sinclair and Bester in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"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." + -- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"Because in this business, whoever has the strongest telepath, wins. The + military wants to scan the enemy. The enemy wants a telepath strong enough + to block the scan and we want someone who can cut through the block." + -- Ironheart to Talia in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"Only one in every thousand humans has telepathic abilities. Only one in + every ten thousand telepaths has telekinetic abilities. And half of them + are clinically insane." + -- Ironheart to Talia in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi, but you're welcome to try .. + anytime .. anywhere." + -- Psi Cop Bester in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"What the hell?" +"Mindquake." + -- Sinclair and Psi Cop Kelsey in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"We had our orders." +"Mister, I don't care if you had a personal message from God complete + with stone tablets. You lied to me. You held information and put this + station at risk." + -- Bester and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"Mr. Ironheart is no longer what you or I would consider entirely human." +"Then what is he?" +"We don't know." + -- Bester and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"Good ol' Psi Corps. You guys never cease to amaze me! All the moral + fiber of Jack the Ripper. What do you do in your spare time? Juggle + babies over a fire pit? Oops, there goes another calculated risk!" +"You're not helping the situation." +"Lady, *you* are the situation." + -- Ivanova to and Psi Cop Kelsey in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing, Commander: control. Control over + telepaths, the economy, the courts, over matter, over thought itself." + -- Jason Ironheart to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"That's a lie." +"Yes, it is. What's your point?" + -- Bester and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"Be seeing you, Commander." + -- Bester to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"Just one question. Why?" +"Why not?" +"It's not an answer." +"Oh, yes it is. It's simply not an answer you like or + the answer you expect. There's a difference." + -- Sakai and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"Narns, Humans, Centauri .. we all do what we do for the same reason: + because it seems like a good idea at the time." + -- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"I told you before you left: 'No one here is entirely what they appear.' + If I surprised you, all the better. Good day, Ms. Sakai." + -- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"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." + -- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"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 yet explained + everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957 and + they must walk there .. alone." + -- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +%% +"There was a time, Mr. Garibaldi, when one could walk through Green Sector + without need of escort." +"I assure you, we're doing everything we can to correct that, Ambassador." +"Then you are required to do better, Commander. *Much* better." + -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"You're a vicious man." +"I'm Head of Security. It's in the job description." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"What am *I* supposed to do with them?" +"You're always saying the Centauri are an advanced race. + *You* figure it out." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"Ugly and old, yes? Then their families must be both rich and powerful." + -- Londo to Kiron and Aria in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"*Love*?! What does *love* have to do with marriage?" + -- Londo to Kiron and Aria in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"We take no interest in the affairs of others." + -- Ambassador Kosh to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"That's quite a viewer. I've never seen anything quite like it before. + What is it?" +"Efficient." + -- Sinclair and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"The Vorlons are very secretive. They don't want anyone to know what they + look like, what they breathe or how their biology works. I mean, who knows + how much that suit is really necessary and how much is just camouflage to + keep us from seeing what's inside." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"Love? Pah. Overrated. Here, look, these are *my* three wives: Pestilence, + Famine and Death. Do you think I married them for their personalities? + Their personalities could *shatter* entire planets! Arranged marriages, + every one, but they worked out. They inspired me. Knowing that they were + waiting at home for me is what keeps me here -- 75 lights years away." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"So much for Babylon 5's highly vaunted justice." + -- G'Kar to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"I could strangle that damn G'Kar." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"I would expect such logic from a poet. What + can a Minbari know about Centauri feeling?" + -- Londo to Shaal Mayan in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"And we won. Not because we outfought them, not because we were + luckier than them or stronger than them or smarter than them. + We won because the damn Minbari *let* us win." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"We want to put Earth back at the center of the universe, *our* universe, + get rid of alien influences, get rid of aliens, put Earth first. We *must* + get back to our roots. Let humans *be* humans." + -- Malcolm Biggs to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"Human ways are often unfathomable, but in time, + one learns to live with them." +"If one has an exceedingly strong constitution." + -- Delenn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +%% +"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." + -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"What about you, Ambassador? What did you do during the war?" +"A topic for another time. Good day, doctor." + -- Franklin and Delenn in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Stay in formation. Hold the Line. No one gets through, no matter what." + -- Sinclair on the Line in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Maybe you're asleep. Maybe you're insane. Maybe you're dead. + Maybe you're in Hell! Not that it matters much, Commander Sinclair, + because wherever you are, wherever you go, you're mine." + -- Knight Two in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Homeguard leader convicted. + Lester Found Guilty In Attack on Minbari Embassy." +"Narns Settle Raghesh 3 Controversy." +"President Promises Balanced Budget by 2260." +"Psi-Corps in Election Tangle. Did Psi-Corps violate its charter by + endorsing vice president?" +"Special Section: Pros & Cons in Inter-Species Mating." +"San Diego Still Considered Too Radioactive for Occupancy." +"Copyright Trial Continues in Bookzap Flap." + -- Universe Today front page in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Curious. We have the memories of your entire life to play around with, + but your thoughts are rooted here in this station. It means a lot to you, + doesn't it?" + -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"My ship was damaged. I blacked out." +"So you testified. Just one problem: I don't believe you .. + and I'm not the only one." + -- Sinclair and Knight Two in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Mr. Garibaldi, there're days I'm very glad I don't have to + think the way you do." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Your name is Jeffrey David Sinclair, rank commander, age 39, born on Mars + colony May 3rd 2218, 9:15 AM Earth standard time. Enlisted in Earth Force + Defense 2237, promoted to fighter pilot 2240, promoted again to squad leader + less than a year later. A career officer like you father and his father + and his father." + -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Smart money said you'd make admiral one day. So what happened, *Commander*? + Where did you fall off the merry-go-round?" + -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Well, well. Looks like the pain is real for both of us." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"The war was over! The Minbari had surrendered on the eve of their victory. + They gave up, just like that. And you expect us to believe that you slept + through the whole thing? Your ship was off the screens for 24 hours! + You didn't just black out. Your ship disappeared." + -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Nobody wants to die, especially not out there in the cold of space, + so you surrendered. They took you aboard their ship, fixed you some milk + and cookies and asked you to work for them, be their eyes, their ears, + their voice. You agreed. You and god knows how many other people. + And then they let you go." + -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"When I looked at those ships, I didn't just see my death. + I saw the death of the whole damn human race." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Not like this. Not like this! If I'm going out, I'm taking you bastards + with me! Target main cruiser, set for full velocity ram, afterburners on + my mark. Mark." + -- Sinclair on the Line in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"What do you want? Why are you doing this? Who are you? + I know you. I know who you are. I know you." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"There's something in my head. It says .. maybe you're still inside. + Maybe we're both still inside." + -- Knight Two in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"He must never know what happened. If he should find out, + he must be killed. Do you understand, Delenn?" + -- Council #1 about Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +%% +"Ambassador Kosh. Is there something I can do for you?" +"I wish to engage your services." +"For what?" +"Business." +"What sort of business?" +"Important." +"Ambassador, I'd be happy to assist you, but there are certain details I + must know before taking any commission. Not to mention getting clearances + from the--" +"All arranged, as is paint. We will meet in red 3 at the hour of scampering." +"The hour of scampering?" + -- Talia Winters and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"Listen, sister. If she dies, you'll rotten in a cage until + your spots turn grey." + -- Garibaldi to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"Understanding is a three-edged sword." + -- Kosh to Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"He has no thoughts.. at all. It is as if his mind were empty." +"Excellent. We may now commence our business. Abbut." +"Crab .. Nebula." + -- Talia Winters, Kosh and Abbut in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"Commander Sinclair. All information in this matter is on a need-to-know + basis. And you do *not* need to know. Have a pleasant day." + -- Senator Hidoshi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"You know the way of command. Yes, the Windswords are right to fear you." +"What do you know about Windswords?" +"They've sheltered me for many years, in return for certain services. + They speak of you often, Sinclair. They say you have a hole in your mind." + -- Jha'dur [Deathwalker] and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"And these .. these phrases you keep speaking in. + They don't make any sense." +"Ah, you seek meaning?" +"Yes." +"Then listen to the music, *not* the song." + -- Kosh and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"Mr. Abbut, could you tell me what these negotiations are all about?" +"I could, .. but it's not good to reflect too much." + -- Talia Winters and Abbut in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"Delicious irony, don't you think? That those who cursed + us will have to thank us for the rest of time." + -- Jha'dur to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"That's when the Council first learned she was with them. Of course + we could not reveal it then. And like all secrets long kept, we can + not bear the shame of admitting it now." + -- Lennier to Sinclair about Jha'dur in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"Vakar Ashok, our gun arrays are now fixed on your ship and will fire the + instant you come into range. You will find their power quite impressive.. + for a few seconds." + -- Ivanova to a Drazi Sunhawk in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"A herring is just a herring, but a good cigar is a Cuban." +"A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles. + Do you understand, Miss Winters?" + -- Abbut and Kosh to Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"What is he? And what was on that data crystal he gave you?" +"Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future." + -- Talia Winters and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"You will fall upon one another like wolves. It'll 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. That's my + monument, Commander." + -- Jha'dur [Deathwalker] in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"Well, all's well that ends well?" + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"You are not ready for immortality." + -- Kosh to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"Ambassador Kosh has been a busy boy today." +"They say God works in mysterious ways." +"Maybe so, but He's a con-man compared to the Vorlon." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +%% +"You don't understand. Food animals are cut open. They don't have a soul, + so it's all right. But Chosen of God may not be punctured." + -- M'ola to Dr. Franklin about Shon in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"What?" +"Nothing. I certainly have plenty of things to occupy myself here. + Yes, sir. I think I'll just walk to and fro for a while. Maybe over + to my console. After that maybe I'll try pacing fro and to just for the + kick of it. Oh, then there is this view of course. Granted it's not quite + the same as if you are outside .. with someone who's got over 100 hours + of combat flying experience." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"One way or another, I'm gonna save that boy's life. Whatever it costs." + -- Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"Just how much justice can you afford?" + -- Londo to M'ola in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"The avalanche has already started. + It is too late for the pebbles to vote." + -- Kosh to M'ola in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"We are only trying to save our child." +"That is also what doctor Franklin believes he's doing. + Whose belief is correct? And how do we prove it?" + -- M'ola and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"'Sure' is for people with nothing on the line. + You and me, we just get on with it." + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"A Globitt-egg?" +"Actually it's only a piece of .. industrial goo. But please don't + tell doctor Franklin I said so. He still believes it's an egg." + -- Sinclair and Shon in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"May God save us from false religion." +"What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then + maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how + you say your prayers, just as long as you say them." + -- Dr. Franklin and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"Come on. Come on. Yes! Good. Good. .. *Not* good." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"Who asked you to play God?" +"Every damn patient who comes through that door, that's who! People come to + doctors because they want us to be gods. They want us to make it better .. + or make it not so. They want to be healed and they come to me when their + prayers aren't enough. Well, if I have to take the responsibility, then I + claim the authority too. I did good. And we both know it. And no one is + going to take that away." + -- Sinclair and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"I'm waiting. For an apology." +"You better check the temperature in Hell first." + -- Doctor Franklin and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't change anything. + It can drive you crazy." +"It's all words. Just words." + -- Sinclair and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"What happened out there?" +"Nothing." +"*Nothing*? I just got back the repair-order on your fighter. It will be + in the shop for a week, minimum. And on top of that, I hear you broke regs + about leaving formation and engaging on combat without backup." +"It was an educated risk. .. Sometimes it works out." +"And sometimes it doesn't. It's a long story. Come on, I'll fill you in." + -- Garibaldi and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Believers" +%% +"Boy, I need a drink. Water, straight up." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +%% +"Grip Rail At All Times." + -- A sign in a low-grav travel tube in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +%% +"You are going to resist, I hope." + -- Ivanova to Major Lianna Kemmer in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +%% +"I demand you open a channel to Earth at once." +"I'm a Lieutenant Commander on Earth Force, Major. I don't take demands. + If you will *request*, I will consider it." +"Very well, then. I *request* that you open a channel to Earthdome." +"Request denied. Have a nice day." + -- Major Kemmer and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +%% +"Ilaros?" +"Goddess of luck, patron of gamblers. She and I have + had a long and rather dubious relationship." + -- Garibaldi and Londo in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +%% +"Well, you have been talking to Mollari. + It was inevitable he would send you to me." +"How?" +"Oh, my people watch him, his people watch me, + we *all* watch one another here, Mr. Garibaldi." + -- G'Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +%% +"Oh, you could serve us in any number of ways. + Analyst, security expert, cryptographer.." + -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +%% +"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: + energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." + -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +%% +"It's not justice you are after, Major, it's blood." + -- Sinclair to Lianna Kemmer in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +%% +"I'll see you the next time the president visits. + He's fond of Babylon 5, you know." +"Then make sure nothing happens to him. + We need all the friends we can get." +"I will." + -- Major Kemmer and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +%% +"Ms. Connolly, we are not here to assign blame." +"Maybe you aren't, Commander, but my government will want to know who + is responsible for damaging our ship." + -- Sinclair and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"The accident was caused by equipment failure. Clustered effect, + the microchips blew out." +"How is that possible?" +"Looks like the contractor installed substandard chips throughout the + entire system. That would explain how they managed such a low bid + on the installation. We are checking it all now." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"Oh, why does the universe hate me." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"Accidents happen." + -- Senator Hidoshi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"You left your door unlocked, Ambassador, how careless of you. I thought + it best to sit here and guard your room until you return." +"And did you find anything of interest in my humble quarters while + you were guarding it?" +"No." +"No." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"We all believe in something .. greater than ourselves, + even if it's just the blind forces of chance." +"Chance favors the warrior." + -- G'Kar and Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"We have a right to defend ourselves, Neeoma." +"But not with violence." +"I beg your pardon, Commander, but if someone pushed you, + wouldn't you push back?" + -- Eduardo Delvientos & Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"Are you telling me this is about a flower?" +"Not just a flower, Commander, the very symbol of my faith. All followers + of G'Quan must perform a ritual once a year when our sun rises precisely + behind the G'Quan mountain. Each year the celebrant must acquire a new + plant for the ceremony." + -- Sinclair and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"You should never hand someone a gun unless you are sure + where they will point, and no mistake." + -- Sinclair to Orin Zinto in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"Commander, you are a far more spiritual man than I gave you credit for." +"There are a couple Jesuit teachers I know who might disagree with you." + -- G'Kar and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"Today, you have made new enemies. If I were you, Commander, I would watch + things very carefully. You are not the most popular person in government + circles right now." + -- Senator Hidoshi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"The gift of time. + The gift of life. + The gift of wisdom. + The gift of light. + For these things we are thankful. + For these things we pray." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +%% +"Good morning. The time is ou-four-thirty, Earth-standard, Wednesday, + August third, 2258. Personal log shows no outstanding appointments. + Shall I download station-logs for past six hours?" +"Sure, grab it, store it, shove it." +"Clarification?" +"Never mind. Why does my mouth always taste like old carpet in the morning?" +"Unknown. Checking medical logs." + -- Computer and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"Sleep well?" +"Sleeping is not the problem. Waking up.. that is a problem. + I've always had hard time getting up when it's dark outside." +"But in space it's always dark." +"I know, I know." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"I've been out of circulation. Spent the last few years doing + some exploration out on the rim." +"Find anything interesting?" +"Yes." + -- Morden and a customs guard in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"Not long ago something happened. I've been keeping it to myself, but the + truth is, I need some help. Mostly, I need a friend." +"You've got both. What's the deal?" +"I told you about the Battle of the Line, 24 hours of my life I couldn't + remember. Lately I've started to piece together a few things. Not all of + if, just enough to know that something .. happened to me back there. I've + gone as far as I can with my own investigation, but this is more your area + of expertise. I need your help. Try and find out what happened and why." + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"This is not a piece of jewelry, this is not 'the merchandise'. + This is the Eye, the oldest symbol of Centauri nobility, + the property of the very first emperor." + -- Londo to Trader in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"But to me, it's just another commission. My job is to find things, + objects, people, you name it." + -- Trader to Londo in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"Take the famine as a blessing, Ambassador: a weeding + out of the excess population." +"One more comment like that, Mollari, and you will + become part the excess population." + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"What do I want? The Centauri stripped my world. I want justice." +"But *what* do you want?" +"To suck the marrow off their bones, and grind their skulls to powder." +"What do you want?" +"To tear down their cities, blacken their sky, sow their ground with salt. + To completely, utterly erase them." +"And then what?" +".. I don't know. As long as my home world's safety is guaranteed, + I don't know that it matters." +"I see. Well, thank you very much for your time, Ambassador. Good day." +"Nonsense." [to himself] + -- G'Kar and Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"Oh! This place. Great Makers, this place! No! See this: destruction, + fire. Babylon will fall, this place will be destroyed. Fire, death, + pain, fire, death, pain. No. No!" + -- Lady Ladira in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"Then you don't believe her vision?" +"She's been wrong before. On my first birthday she said that someday + I would be killed by .. the shadows." +"Shadows?" +"Doesn't exactly make sense, does it?" + -- Londo and Lord Kiro in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"They are here." + -- Delenn about Morden's visit in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"Ambassador, I was just on my way to see you. My name is--" +"I'm sorry, but I don't have time to chat right now. + I suggest you make an appointment." +"I did." +"Then make another one. Never a transport tube when you need it.." +"Ambassador, I was authorized to speak to you--" +"Yes, yes! Look, what do you want?" +"That's just what I was gonna ask you. What do you want?" +"You are a lunatic, go away. Pester someone else." + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"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 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 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?" [leaves] +".. Yes. Yes it does." [to himself] + -- Londo to Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"Leave this place. They are not for you. Go. Leave. Now." + -- Ambassador Kosh to Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"The station took some minor damage, we've got maintenance bots working + on it. Few injuries here and there, nothing major. It seems Ambassador + Kosh's encounter suit was damaged, but he's not telling how, just asked + for some equipment to have it fixed." + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"Let me buy you a drink! Let me buy you an entire *fleet* of drinks!" + -- Londo shouts after Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"You probably know you weren't the first in line to run this place." +"I suspected as much. I was surprised when they called me. + How far down the list was I?" +"Pretty far. Despite the problems this is still a high-profile job, a real + plum. Admirals, generals, the whole brass was lined up hoping to get it, + but every name was rejected until they got to you." +"Rejected by whom?" +"The Minbari government. They were the first to sign on to support Babylon 5 + on the condition they had approval over who was assigned to run this place. + They wanted you." +"Why?" +"Unknown." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"The future is always changing. We create the future: with our words, + our deeds and with our beliefs. This is a possible future, Commander, + and it is my hope that you may yet avoid it." + -- Lady Ladira to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +%% +"Liner White Star arriving from Earth is now docking in bay 5. + Passangers will disembark through customs area 7." + -- An Announcement in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"One of these days, Garibaldi, you are gonna learn to watch your back." + -- Walker Smith to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"So they told me it wasn't my time yet. They said they'd make it worth + my while to retire for a few years." +"So you told them to stuff it." +"And I wasn't that polite about it." + -- Walker Smith and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"What did you say this was again?" +"It's treel. It's .. sort of fish, Centauri-raisen." +"Treel? It's kosher?" +"That I can't say." +"Well, I don't recall treel being mentioned in Tora, so.. Ah, wonderful!" + -- Rabbi Yossel Koslov and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"So, how are things back home?" +"They change, they stay the same. Russia is Russia. Your father used to say: + 'If regret could be harvested, Russia would be the world's fruit-basket.'" + -- Ivanova and Rabbi Yossel Koslov in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"May I return to my post?" +"No, you may not. Have a chair." +"I prefer to stand." +"That's an order." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"You are the best officer I've ever served with, Ivanova. I couldn't run + this station without you. But I also consider you a friend. And as your + friend, I'm telling you it does no good to bottle up your feelings. Your + father is dead. You need to express your grief or it'll eat you up." +"I appreciate your concern, Commander, and your friendship, but .. my + feelings are my own, and how I display them, or not, is my choice. + Now, if I may return to my duty." +"Susan, before you make that choice, make sure you know what it is you + are really feeling." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"Then the tragedy is greater than I thought. Without forgiveness you + can not mourn, and without mourning you can never let go of the pain." + -- Rabbi Yossel Koslov to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"Earth-registered liner White Star is now in final boarding for departure + to Earth. All outbound passangers must proceed to docking bay 7." + -- An announcement in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"Does he've got a chance?" +"He will fight bravely." + -- Garibaldi and Caliban in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"In sports Babylon 5 is about to be the site of a history-making event + as ex-SportCorp boxing star Walker Smith appears to be the first human + to fight in the Mutai." +"What did I tell you, Mike -- history." +"Well, just hope you don't wind up history." + -- Sports Announcer, Walker Smith and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"That's what the game is all about. + To be the best you have to *face* the best." + -- Walker Smith to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"I'm ready to go back on duty, sir." +"Good, I've had my fill of double shifts." +"Perhaps we'll remember that the next time Ms. Sakai visits the station." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"Garibaldi, thanks. See you when I come back for the rematch." +"Oh, give me a break." +"Watch your back." + -- Garibaldi and Walker Smith in Babylon 5:"TKO" +%% +"They say food digests better if you chew it first." +"Don't talk, I've seen you eat. Does the term Doppler-effect ring a bell?" + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"Why is it Ombuds Zimmerman never gets these cases? Only me." + -- Ombuds Wellington in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"On Earth the Grail is nothing but a myth. It's a nice story to tell your + kids. For someone who spends his entire life looking for it .. is .. + well, it's not often taken very seriously." +"How sad. He is a holy man, a true seeker. Among my people a true seeker + is treated with the outmost reverence and respect. It doesn't matter that + his Grail may or may not exist, what matters is that he strives for the + perfection of his soul and the salvation of his race and that he has never + wavered a lost faith." +"I wish him luck. He's probably the only true seeker we have." +"Then perhaps you don't know yourself .. as well as you think." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"Make me a happy man. Let me clean out down-below. If I put all my teams + out, I can wipe 9/10 of the crime rate in one sweep." +"Most of them are just people with nowhere else to go. They come here + looking for a new life, a new job, and when they don't find it, they can't + afford transport back. What are you gonna do, Mr. Garibaldi? Shove them + out an airlock?" +"Don't tempt me." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"My brother's burdens are my own. What I want to know is *why* you + believe you can't leave the station." +"Because if I do, it'll blow up, or disappear, or something else + awful like that will happen. Come on, laugh. Everyone else does. + It's real, the Babylon curse." +"I'm not laughing, Thomas. I understand obsession very well. I've + spent the better part of my life searching for something that no one + else believes in. And I will continue searching until I die." + -- Aldous Gajic and Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"I'd say you have the wrong nickname. They should've called you Lucky." +"How do you figure?" +"To have escaped the worst each time, that's a blessing. You are a very + lucky man. Perhaps each time you were exactly where you were meant to be." +"I've never thought of it like that." +"We never do." + -- Aldous Gajic and Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"You need to find another witness." +"When the word gets out about Miriam, I've got as much chance + of doing that as seeing a Vorlon doing strip-tease." + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"Hideous creatures, hideous. We came across them in our colonizing days. + We lost an *entire* colony before we threw up a quarantine. The only good + na'ka'leen is a dead na'ka'leen. .. This is of course a purely theoretical + question? A whim of yours that .. that you might ask? Yes?" +"Well, not really." +"They're not. They couldn't be, here? I'll have the files transferred to you + immediately. If you want me, I'll be in my quarters, under top security. + I strongly suggest you do the same." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"There are two castes of Minbari. The warrior caste and the religious caste. + The warrior caste would not understand. It is not their way." +"So we will not tell them, and spare them the confusion." + -- Lennier and Delenn to Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"These two sides of your culture, do they ever agree on anything?" +"Yes. And when they do, it is a terrible thing. A terrible power, as recent + events have shown us. Let us hope it never again happens in our lifetime." + -- Aldous Gajic and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"You think he's genuine." +"Aldous? Yes. Question is: a genuine what? One man's lunatic is + another's true seeker." +"You have been hanging around Delenn too much." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"Vir! What are you doing?" +"Why, I'm being efficient, sir." +"A few more like you, Vir, and the entire Centauri Republic + will *efficient* itself to extinction." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"Fools to the left of me, *feeders* to the right. + I need to find a *real* job." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"And then I met a man. He said he was the last of his kind. + He told me that I was a man of infinite promise and goodness. + When he was dying, he gave me this staff. Now I am the last. + The numbers add up again, Thomas. The numbers *do* add up." + -- Aldous Gajic to Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"Hey, can I learn to do that?" +"You can learn whatever you want to learn, because + you are a man of infinite promise and goodness." + -- Jinxo and Aldous Gajic in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"See yourself for what you *are*, not what others try to make you." + -- Aldous Gajic to Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"Why?" +"Deuce wanted the people to think that he had the Vorlons working + for him. Figured it would add to his image and intimidate people." +"Why?" +"Well, after all, no one knows exactly what you look like. + That makes some people .. a little nervous." +"Good." + -- Kosh and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"It's a hard thing to live your life searching for something + and never find it." +"Are you speaking of Aldous .. or someone else?" +".. Aldous." +"But there you are wrong. He *found* what he was looking for. + What we're all looking for: a reason." +"For what?" +"Everything, Commander. Everything." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"Are you sure it's dead?" +"I'm positive. It's dead as a rock. I saw it with my own eyes." +"How do you know it's not just resting? Feeders are sneaky, you know." +"Londo, trust me." +".. Hah. Well, there you are, Vir. I told you there is nothing to worry + about. He's young, sometimes he panics, you know how it is." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"The doc's dissecting it, wants to try to figure out how it can move + so fast. He's learning all kinds of things about it." +"Such as?" +"Well, when they are about to attack they get quiet, so the key is: + as long as you can hear them, as long as there is noise around, + you're safe. But if you ever hear nothing, .. worry." + -- Garibaldi and Vir with Londo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"No boom?" +"No boom." +"No boom *today*. Boom tomorrow. There's *always* a boom tomorrow. + What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. + Boom, sooner or later. *BOOM*!" + -- Garibaldi, Sinclair, and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Grail" +%% +"Antique. Mint condition. The Kawasaki engine ZX-11, vintage 1992. And we + are talking liquid-cool dual-overhead-cam 16-valve 1052-cc inline-four, + twin-ram air induction, six-speed gear-box and 320-millimeter front disc + with four-piston calibers. It's the best-performance bike of its time. + Or it will be when I figure out how to put the damn thing together." +"Well, sounds most impressive. What exactly does it do?" +"What does it do? It's a motorcycle. You ride it. Wrooom!.." +"Ah, a vehicle." +"Oh, it's more than just a vehicle. This baby's a piece of Earth history." +"History? That is an interest of mine." + -- Garibaldi and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +"You're starting to irritate me, Mr. Franks, and I don't + like being irritated. It gives me gas." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +"I will not submit to a telephatic scan, Commander. + It's against my person and my principles. +"I don't like it any better than you do. Enough people + have played with my brain already this year." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +"Mr. Gray, I'm grateful the Psi Corps give you purpose in life, but when + that purpose includes scanning *my* mind to prove *my* loyalty, it's not + only an invasion of my privacy, but my honor. As for fear, if you enter + my mind for any reason I will twist your head off and use it for a chamber + pot. If you'll excuse me." + -- Ivanova to Mr. Gray in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +"Protests are as much useful with the Vorlons + as fairie-wings on a cement-truck." + -- Garibaldi to Colonel Ari Ben Zayn in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +"If I knew who God was, I would thank her." + -- Garibaldi to Ari Ben Zayn in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +"It looks like you and Ben Zayn have something in common." +"What?" +"You were both considered for command of Babylon 5. Now, he was + in the top ten, you were .. well, somewhere below that." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +[Sinclair knocks out Colonel Ben Zayn.] +"I assume the investigation is concluded." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +"Behold. The Ninja ZX-11." +"What have you done?" +"You are not pleased?" +"I said you could work on it a little, not .. *finish* it." +"I do not understand." +"I wanted to build it myself. It was kind of a purpose in my life. + Now it's .. done." + -- Lennier and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +"Too bad we can't ride it." +"Oh, it's quite ridable." +"Don't tell me you came up with some gas too." +"Gasoline is harmful to both living beings and the atmosphere, + as your people discovered. I have installed a Minbari power + source instead. Clean, and efficient." +"Get out of here." +"Yes. Of course." + -- Garibaldi and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +"And Mr. Bester?" +"Mr. Bester is not the type to come too far out of the shadows + and there are bound to be some questions raised over this." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +[Garibaldi and Lennier driving a motorcycle in the Central Corridor.] +"It's good to have things back to normal." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +%% +"Mitchell, stay in formation, it might be a .. Oh my God. + It's a trap. *Mitchell*!" +"I've got a clear shot. I can take him, I can take him." +"Break off!" +"I'm hit. Ejecting. *Aaargh*!" + -- Sinclair and Mitchell in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Commander, we've just finished a security scan. + The Minbari's coming with its gun ports open. + She's armed for a fight." + -- Corwin to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"We are on a peaceful mission, Commander." +"Then why are your gun ports open?" +"We have no interest in explaining our ways to you." + -- Alyt Neroon and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"You are not being reasonable." +"Fine. It's my call and I'm making it." + -- Talia Winters and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"You know, Jeff, I can't believe you are really going to attend the ceremony. + I mean this Branmer guy planned and led the attack on the Line." +"I know, he commanded one of the ships that splashed my team, but the war is + over. At least that's what I keep telling myself." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Alyt Neroon. I welcome you on behalf of all Minbari on this station. + It is an unhappy journey on which you travel." +"For a warrior there is no other end to the journey." + -- Delenn and Alyt Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"You don't like it, do you?" +"My preferences are not under discussion, Commander." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Earth Central Data Center" +"Beldon, Alisa" +"Born: 12 July 2244" +"Place of Birth: Los Angeles Incorporated" +"Father: Eliot Beldon, Born: Earth, Assigned to B5 construction 2256, + terminated 2258. Work file closed. No further data." +"Mother: Esparanza Beldon, Maiden name: Pintro, Born: Earth, Deceased 2250, + Cause: Statford's plague" +"Education: Graduated Malcolm X Elementary Earth 2256, Registered B5 JH + April 2257, Last Attendance March 10 2258, Grade level 3." +"Religion: Obeah" +"Current status: Dependent Minor" +"No further data available." + -- EA Data Display in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"That will suffice for now. These are my *requirements*, Commander." +"This is my station. I don't take orders here." +"Impetuous. Is this how you reacted on the Line, Commander?" +"This isn't the Line." +"No. *We* were in control there." + -- Neroon and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"This was the greatest of us. Warrior, leader, the hero of the Line. He + fought with honor, bravery, and with vision. Now, he belongs to the ages." + -- Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"This is a grave offense, Commander. Unforgivable. Minbari warriors are + heedless of their own lives in battle, but the body of a warrior must be + treated with extreme reverence." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"No matter how great the loss, it is not our way to let a single clan + dictate Minbari policy." + -- Delenn to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"There is nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Great general, yes. The last thing he wanted to be. Before he became + a warrior in the Star Riders clan, Branmer was a high priest of the + religious caste. The holy war against Earth forced him to became a war + leader. He was a brilliant tactician. He believed in the rightness + of the war. He fought as if it was a matter of conscience, never + ceased to be a priest in his heart." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"I'm afraid I don't have a choice. I'll have to make a deeper inquiry." + -- Garibaldi to a Pak'ma'ra in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Oh, by the way. Do you know what they say Narn taste like?" +"Yeah, chicken. Man, I *really* need a vacation." + -- Dr. Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Stop it. Stop it, both of you. You keep arguing over what you want. + You don't care about what I want. You don't even ask." +"All right, Alisa. What *do* you want?" + -- Alisa Beldon and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"For the Minbari psi-ability is considered a gift and their use is + extended as a gift to those who have need for them." +"They are not paid?" +"Only with the high regard of our people. It is not a job, it is a + calling. It is enough for them to be of service." + -- Delenn and Alisa Beldon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Those who wish to help others, to serve others, + are greatly respected within our culture." + -- Delenn to Alisa Beldon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Is there something going on around here by a dead body?" +"Yes, why?" +"I saw something about the body. I know what happened to it." + -- Alisa Beldon and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"You see, a rift between the religious and warrior castes begun when + our warriors were ordered to surrender. If what happened to the body + were to become general knowledge, it would further that rift." + -- Delenn to Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"There is no shame in wanting to honor him, Alyt Neroon. I've fought on the + Line against Branmer. I saw his valor and leadership first hand. Because his + body .. disappeared and I .. feel some responsibility toward the Minbari + people. There is no higher testimony to a warrior's courage and skill than + praise from his enemy. I would like to send that message to your homeworld, + and a personal message; a testimony to the Shai Alyt." + -- Sinclair to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"We fought long enough. Maybe it's time we started talking with one another." + -- Sinclair to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Branmer's life was more significant than his battles. Let the warrior + caste praise his courage in the war, and let the rest praise him for + what he truly was: a man of peace." +"You talk like a Minbari, Commander. Perhaps there was some *small* wisdom + in letting your species survive." +"We'd like to think so." +"Until another day, then." + -- Sinclair and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Alisa could become an instrument of great communication between Humans + and Minbari. We suffer a lack there, as you know, Commander." +"The future in exchange for the past. I think that's very workable." + -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"There was one other thing. A word. 'Chrysalis'. I don't know what it means." +"It's a cocoon, I think." + -- Alisa Beldon to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +%% +"Problem with the transfer tube?" +"No, not really. It seems like every time I get into the tube, Mr. Garibaldi + is there. It's like he knows." +"Talia, Mr. Garibaldi is many things, but he's not omniscient." +[Garibaldi appears] +"I think I'll take the stairs." +"I think I'll join you." + -- Sinclair and Winters in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"An interesting riddle, Commander. I thought the planet beneath us + was uninhabited." +"That's what we thought. None of our prior surveys found any sign of + life down there." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"Perhaps not now, but in the past, someone or something might have + lived down there." +"If that's true. It would seem you may have awaken something." + -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"I would suggest that there is a difference between being unreasonable and + being angry. Ambassador G'Kar is *angry* most of the time, but even the + greatest anger fades with time." +"My dear ambassador Delenn, I'm sure that for you this is true, but for G'Kar + and his people; they will all that they can to destroy us, until the + universe itself decays and collapses. If the Narns all stood together in + one place and hated, all at the same time, that hatred could *fly* across + dozens of light-years and reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash. That's + how much they hate us." + -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"You don't have to respond unkind." +"Of course we do. There's a natural law. Physics tells us that for every + action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate + them, they hate us back. And so, here we are: victims of mathematics." + -- Sinclair and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"He never listens." +"He will, sooner or later." +"How can you be sure?" +"Because the alternative is too terrible to consider. Without the hope + that things will get better, that our inheriters will know a world that + is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless, and evolution is + vastly overrated. Good day, Commander." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"Incorrect answer. The third principle of sentient life is the capacity + for self-sacrifice, the conscious ability to override evolution and + self-preservation for a cause, a friend, a loved one." + -- Draal to Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"It has been too long, Delenn. You have forgotten your training. + Soon you will have forgotten all about your old friend, Draal." +"Not if I live to be a thousand and one." + -- Draal and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"A curious answer from one who taught me that + a half truth is the worst kind of lie." + -- Delenn to Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"If you can't get through, how I'm--" +"The Psi Corps has an intelligence and training operation in Syria Planum." +"How did you know about the center? That's supposed to be classified." +"It is, but it has never stopped me before." + -- Talia and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"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. .. Civilians! [Looks up] I was just kidding about + the God part -- no offense." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"It's also a potential first-contact situation. I'd say we pretty much + have to go down there and check it out. Wouldn't you agree, Lt.Commander?" +"Absolutely." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"Ah, Mr. Garibaldi, off duty I see. Ahm. Water, fascinating! + I *never* touch the stuff myself." + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"Suddenly, I looked up and this beautiful dancer is leaning down over the + stage, and looking right into my eyes. And she said: 'Whatever it is, + it can't be that bad.' And then she kissed me, right here." + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"Mr. Garibaldi. Whatever it is, it can't be that bad." +"You try to kiss me and I'll break your arm." +"We are not that close, Mr. Garibaldi." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. + It's a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it." + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +[Sinclair throws a rock to a laser defense system] +"Well, that'll cut down on tourism." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"Commander?" +"Yeah?" +"I think I've gotta go to the bathroom." +"Tell me about it." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"I rather enjoyed the song." +"Don't tell him." +"You're sure?" +"Trust me." + -- Draal and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"They're not happy about you knowing about the center either." +"Well, it's an imperfect universe." + -- Talia and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"Help me, or your people, *all* your people will die. + You must help me." + -- Varn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"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." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +%% +"Like my granddad used to say: 'Nuke them until they glow and shoot + them in the dark.' That'll take care of them, just like magic." +"Magic? Want to see magic? I've got a little magic trick for you." + -- Mars Hater and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"But it didn't work, did it? Because you can't get near the planet's + surface without a properly encoded jamming device." +"What? Why wasn't I informed?" +"You didn't ask." +"Commander, I demand you turn over this jamming device at once." +"It's being repaired, but I'll see what I can do. Babylon Control out." + -- Sinclair and Pierce in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"Commander, we didn't use a jamming device. + We don't even *have* a jamming device." +"I know, but he doesn't know that." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"So, if we go down there, it blows. If we don't it blows anyway, + just a little later. It's a good thing I'm russian, we're used to + hopeless situations." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"You did find something down there, didn't you? Something valuable perhaps. + I wish to remind you that my government has contributed substantial amounts + of money to this station. We are entitled to an equal share of *anything* + you find down there." + -- Londo to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"Ambassador. Do you really want to know what's going on down there right now?" +"Yes, absolutely." +"Boom. Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom. *BOOM*! Have a nice day." + -- Ivanova and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"No. You. Help. Planet below. Do not land. Do not approach. Will explode. + Destroy you .. all. Without the heart. Without another." + -- Varn to Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"Babylon 5 Public Archive: Earth English" +"Subject More Melancholy Uxorious" +"Hell Mutilate Suppose Erupt" +"Orak Forbin Nomad Skynet" +"Baby Elephant Zoom Chickpea" +"Humble Squeeze Impress Starchy" +"Human Metaphor Similar Larch" +"Sourdough Hardly Mcauliffe Light" +"Assert Chocolate Special Rumor" +"Hole Upbeat Buzzards South" +"Gasket Sack Ironic Epoch" +"Gelding Apathy Uniform Religion" +"Rubber Easy Stringy Love" +"Each Compress Slip Canonical" +"Eye Inability Clothes Middle" +"Am Uterous Hold Cartridge" +"Knot Nod Receptive Copyright" +"A Stringer Ligate Caught" +"Number Complete Scrim Whalebone" +"Aye Mutilate Canon Webbed" +"Ama Respite Floor Cuprous" +"Free Prime Frank Scrim" +"Man Plaintiff Suspicious Aloud" +"Scribble Dichotomy Atom Trigger" +"Cricket Modify Unreal Fauna" +"Mallet Oscillate Jowl Obsession" + -- B5 Public Archive in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +[about Captain Ellis Pierce] +"Worst case of testosterone poisoning I have ever seen." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"No. Outcast. Violent. My people cast them out centuries ago. Signal was + not meant for them. Was put here to hide from them. Given to me when the + rest of my people died. Sacred trust, legacy for the future. I am guardian, + protector. I live in the heart of the machine. We are one. 500 of your + years have I waited in the machine." + -- Varn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"Please, you must stop them. Do not let them take the machine. + It's not for them. It's not for this time." + -- Varn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"You know what Varn meant by 'another', don't you?" +"Yes. Varn could not ask it, could not say the words. But it was in his + eyes. He's probably forbidden to ask directly. But the answer is there + if you had ears to hear it." + -- Delenn and Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"Now, landing thrusters.. landing thrusters, hmm. Now if I were a + landing thruster, which one of these would I be?" + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"There is no other way. Please believe me. All my life I've searched for a + way to serve others. To me there is no higher calling, no greater destiny + than to live for another, and if necessary, to die for another. To somehow + make the world a better place. I've done all I could on my world. I came + looking for a reason, a way to live out my remaining years with direction + and purpose. Here I've found it. I will save lives." + -- Draal to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"I am sending this message to all three parties involved in the struggle for + the control of this planet. It belongs to none of you. It belongs only to + itself .. and to the future. Commander Sinclair, the secrets buried here + must remain secrets. They would give any race an advantage over all others, + thus it is in the interest of all races that *none* should gain exclusive + control of it. We entrust the safekeeping of this place to the Babylon 5 + Advisory Council. We will rely upon your guidance, Commander, and the + enlightened self-interest of the Council to make sure that this world is + left alone until the time is right." + -- Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"The third principle of sentient life is it's capacity for self-sacrifice. + For a cause, a loved one, for a friend." + -- Delenn to Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"Why didn't you come to us, and let us handle it?" +"Because if I had, I know in my heart that Commander Sinclair would be + the one down there right now. He's looking for a purpose. But his destiny + lies elsewhere." + -- Garibaldi and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"Franz? What the hell kind of a name is Franz?" + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +%% +"God I hate mornings." +"We noticed. Personally I find it the best part of the day." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"We all have our cross to bear." +"The time I learned to really appreciate mornings was during the three years + I spent being taught by Jesuits. We used to get up at five o'clock every + morning for sunrise mass, then one hour of meditation before class. We'd + sit, quiet, in peace. Breathing in, breathing out. Breathing in, breathing + out. Breathing in, breathing out." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"I'll notify your next of kin." + -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Some things one must do alone." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Well, Commander, it's hard to explain. There's no damage to the body, + no shock, no trauma. Everything points to death by natural causes." +"So, why is that hard to explain?" +"Because in this case the natural cause was old age." + -- Garibaldi and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"B4 as in Babylon 4?" +"Well, I can't figure out why. B4 vanished without a trace over + four years ago. I don't get it." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Earth Alliance Vessel ID Archive" +"Babylon 4: 0010835-081677" + -- Babylon 4 Vessel ID in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"This is nuts. The station just doesn't disappear and reappear + four years later like some kind of a flying Dutchman." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"You're so serious all the time. Not every conversation has to be + the end of the world as we know it." + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"[sigh] Fasten, then zip. You?" +"Fasten, zip!" + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"How much longer?" +"One hour, fifty-seven minutes. .. Wanna talk socks?" +"No!" +"It's just a question." +"I'm not having this conversation." + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Summoned, I come. In Valen's name I take the place that has been prepared + for me. I'm Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. + We stand between the darkness .. and the light." + -- Delenn in Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"It has been ten cycles since Dukhat has left this world to take his place + with Valen and the nine who were. Ten cycles since our people have had a + leader. The time of mourning is complete. We must now choose another." + -- A Grey Council Member to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"My calling is to serve, not to lead." + -- Delenn to Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Prophecy will attend to itself." + -- Grey Council Spokesman to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Commander, they've broken through level seven and eight! + Can't stop them, they're everywhere." +"Garibaldi!" +"Look, I've rigged the fusion reactors but there's not much time. Get + going, I'll hold them as long as I can. Move it! Come on, this isn't a + conversation. Jeff, it's okay, I finally understand. This is the moment + I was born for. Now go. Go!" + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"I wish to reconvene the Council. I must speak to them." +"That has *never* been done! .. But, if it were to be done at all, + this is as good and as bad a time as any." + -- Delenn and A Grey Council Member in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Oh. Not the one, no." +"Not the one what?" +"Not the one. Won't talk. Can't talk. Not the one. They told me, they did. + Zathras listens, he does, yes. Zathras listens and does what he's told." + -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"The One is hurt. Must find. Zathras must find help." +"What are you doing here?" +"*Need* this place. Need this. Used to fight. They told Zathras, + biggest of all Babylon stations we need. Needing we take. There is + no more to telling." + -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Zathras tells, maybe we don't break Zathras' scrawny little neck." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Great War. Terrible War. There is much killings. Everyone fighting. + A great darkness. It is the end of everything. Zathras warned but, oh no, + no one listened to poor Zathras, no. Great War, but great hope of peace. + Need place. Place to gather, to fight, to organize." +"You need Babylon 4 as a base of operations in a war, is that it?" +"To help save galaxy, on the side of light. So they tell me. Must have. + Or it is the end of all. The One leads us. The One tells us to go, we go. + We live for the One. We would die for the One. We pull this place through + time to save us all." + -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Much apologizing. Mathematics not Zathras' skill." + -- Zathras to Major Krantz in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"They fight, they argue, they are ruled by passions and fears." +"Yes, and that is their strength. They do not seek conformity. They do not + surrender. Out of their differences comes symmetry, the unique capacity + to fight against impossible odds. Hurt them .. and they only come back + stronger. The passions we deplore have taken them to their place in the + stars and will propel them to a great destiny. Their only weakness is that + they do not recognize their own greatness. They forget that they have come + to this place through two million years of evolution, struggle and blood. + That they are better than they think, and nobler than they know. They carry + within them the capacity to walk among the stars, like giants. They are the + future. And we have much to learn from them." + -- Grey Council and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"What happens to you when it jumps?" +"Zathras die. But Zathras die for cause. Maybe stop great war. Maybe Zathras + great hero. Maybe build statue to Zathras. Others come, remember Zathras." + -- Krantz and Zathras in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, + Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras." + -- Zathras to Major Louis Krantz in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Zathras does not want to die. But if it is the only way, + then Zathras dies. It is life." + -- Zathras to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"I don't understand you Michael. We have got a good life here, we've got + history. You have met this Sinclair twice and now you are off to + Babylon 5, just like that. Doesn't what we have mean anything to you?" + -- Lise Hampton to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Go. You must. Listen to Zathras. You have a destiny. + Go. Please. Go for Zathras." + -- Zathras to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"I tried. I tried to warn them. But it all happened, + just the way I remembered." +"I know. It's time. We have to go. They are waiting for us." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"These are curious times, Delenn. I feel a great change in my bones. A new + beginning, an end, I can not say. We are surrounded by signs and portents. + And I feel a darkness pressing on our backs. If ever you have needed me, + I am here. Now, Valen go with you and light your way." + -- Delenn's friend to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"Great, and I missed it." +"Not necessarily, Lt.Commander. We don't know where Babylon 4 was going, + or when it was going. Who knows, it may show up again sometime." +"Well, if it does, this time *I'm* going and Garibaldi is staying here." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +%% +"I hardly know anything about you." +"From birth I was raised in the temple and studied the ways of the + religious caste. Six months ago I came here. There is nothing else." + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"Reading is no substitute for experience." + -- Londo to Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"I will show you the Babylon 5 that *I* know. You will find that a + revelation of the highest order." +"I don't know, Ambassador." +"Oh, my good *dear* friend. Trust me!" + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"Next! We start by removing your clothes." +"Not without dinner and flowers." + -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"That's why I didn't tell you." +"I don't like having to hear about this in the grapevine, doctor. I'm in + charge of station operations. This is a station and *this* is certainly + for operations." + -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"Spacing is only invoked under conditions of mutiny or treason. For the + crime of murder, there are only three penalties legally open to us." + -- Ombuds Wellington in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"I don't want to do this again. I was inside a killer's mind before, + on the Mars colony. There's gotta be another way." + -- Talia to Ombuds Wellington in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"It works all right. It restores, renews, envigorates. It is good for + ailments of the flesh, the blood and the bone." + -- Laura Rosen to Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"Here, my friend, *here* you will *see* the heart and soul of Babylon 5. + Also, its spleen, its kidnies, a veritable parade of internal organs. + Sit. Sit." + -- Londo to Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"There's no alcohol in here, is there?" +"Alcohol? No, of course not. Here, drink up." +"Because my people do not react well at all to alcohol. Even a small + quantity causes psychotic impulses and violent, homicidal rages." + -- Lennier and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"All her life the only thing that mattered to my mother was being a doctor, + a healer. She worked days, nights, weekends, but she could never keep up + with it all so she .. started taking stims to stay up nights working. + Pretty soon she was taking them all the time. She was addicted. She + wouldn't admit it and she wouldn't listen to anyone. Until one day she + made a mistake. .. Someone died." +"I'm sorry." +"When they took away her license, they took away her reason for living." + -- Janice Rosen and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"So, you're going to walk around my head, eh? I'd think twice if I were + you. Something might just jump out of the shadows and bite you." + -- Karl Edward Mueller to Talia in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"How many? How many?" +"How many worlds are there? How many banquets? How many flowers waiting to + be harvested? How many new voices waiting to be recruited into my choir?" + -- Talia and Karl Mueller in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"Interesting. Do you know that the odds of this particular + combination are 5000 to 1 against?" +"Lennier!" +"Yes, Londo?" +"Stop that." +"Ah, does that mean I won again?" + -- Lennier and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"Hrm. Is it cold in here, or is it just me?" +"Actually, the temperature appears to be quite moderate." + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"You heard Mr. Garibaldi. You did the right thing." +"Darling, I did the *necessary* thing. That is not + always the same as the right thing." + -- Janice and Laura Rosen in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"I'm still waiting for an explanation, gentlemen." +"Yes, and I'm prepared to give you one, Commander, as soon as the + room stops spinning." +"This station creates gravity by rotation. It never stops spinning." +"Well, you begin to see my problem." + -- Sinclair and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"Why?" +"In Minbari culture we are taught that it is an honor to help + another save face." +"But Delenn?" +"Will know better, but will not inquire out of respect. + Good day, Ambassador." + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"Yes, it's true. Yes. Here, Li, Goddess of passion, a synthesis of + male and female Centauri. Did you think these were just decorations?" +"I'm going to take a vow of silence concerning this entire conversation. + Good day." + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"They are a strange people, .. but they're okay." + -- Londo to Li about Minbari in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"The first thing is to *study* it to find out how and why it works. + And who knows, it might be able to preserve someone's life when nothing + else works. Volunteers, who donate a little life energy the way people + used to donate blood before synthetics were perfected." + -- Franklin to Laura Rosen in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +%% +"Our patrols are necessary for Narn planetary security." +"Keep this up, G'Kar and soon you won't have a planet to protect." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"You've gotta stop them. They're gonna kill him. They're gonna kill him." + -- Petrov to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Must've been something *really* big to make him come all this way hurting + like that. The last thing he said was: 'They're going to kill him.'" +"Kill who?" +"I don't know. But I'm gonna find out." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"--after which the president and his escort left the Mars colony on a good + will tour of the outer planet colonies. Sources close to the president have + hinted that he'll give a major policy speech new year's day from the jump + point on Io. The speech is likely to concern human-alien relations over the + remainder of his five year term." + -- ISN in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"So, now with the new year coming I've been going over it in my head, + and-- Look, do you want to get married or don't you?" +"Yes." + -- Sinclair and Sakai in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Vir, how many gods are there in our pantheon? I've lost count + since the last emperor was elevated to godhood. +"48. No, no, 49, 50 if you count Zuug but, you know, I never thought + you should--" +"All right, let's say 50." +"50." +"Now out of that 50, how many gods do you think *I* must have offended to + have ended up with G'Kar's teeth buried so deeply in my throat that I + can barely breathe?" +"All of them?" +"Sounds right. And now I have to go back to the Council and explain to + them that in the interest of peace the Centauri government will agree + to *give* quadrant 37 to the Narns. I think I will stick my head in the + station's fusion reactor. It would be quicker. And I suspect, after a + while I might even come to enjoy it. But this .. this, this, this is + like being nibbled to death by .. what are those Earth creatures + called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet .. go 'quack'?" +"Cats." +"Cats. I'm being nibbled to death by *cats*." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Did you see ambassador Kosh?" +"I did." +"Did you relay my question precisely, word for word." +"I did." +"His reaction?" +"Just one word. He said: 'Yes.'" + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Mr. Morden. You never gave me a chance to thank you after you rescued + the Eye from those triple-damn raiders." +"Unnecessary, I'm here to be of service, Ambassador. My associates believe + that you are a person of great potential." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what + you see is all that you'll ever be. Then you accept it .. or you kill + yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors. No, nothing can be changed." + -- Londo to Morden in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"And you don't want credit for this grand endeavour?" +"No. We're simply here to help. Good day, Ambassador." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Yes. Thank you. Now I will keep the promise. + Goodbye. You will not see me again .. as I am now." + -- Delenn to Kosh in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Big mistake, hot-shot. You shouldn't poke around in things you + don't understand. This is too big for you." +"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm shaking in my boots." + -- Devereaux and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Is there something wrong with your hearing?" +"No, just for a moment I thought I had entered an alternate universe + or such. Ambassador, are you sure you are *feeling* all right?" +"Vir. I'm quite sober." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"I'm afraid the Ambassador is resting. He is rather fatigued from his + *heavy* schedule. Perhaps if you came back-- .. I believe the Ambassador + can see you now." + -- Na'Toth to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"In order to be free you had to learn to fight. No one questions that. + But you've overcompensated. You are like abused children who have grown + big enough to do the same thing to someone else as if it would somehow + balance the scales. It won't. If you let the anger cloud your judgement, + it will destroy you." + -- Sinclair to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Just that I've had this feeling lately. That we are standing at a + crossroads, and I don't like where we're going. But there's still time + to choose another path. You can be part of that process, G'Kar. Choose + wisely. Not just for the Centauri but for the good of your own people + as well." +"We'll all do what we have to do." + -- Sinclair and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"So, what's the occasion?" +"Who says there has to be an occasion to invite you to join us for dinner?" +"I didn't get to be a head of security for my good looks." + -- Garibaldi and Sakai in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"What's the frequency on that transmitter?" +"Can't make it out." +"Here, let me see that. 1010105? That's the Gold channel frequency for + Earth Force One. Why would someone want to jam president's.. Oh my god!" + -- Garibaldi and Jack in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Come to my quarters and I'll tell you as much as I can. .. + But don't wait too long, Commander. Some things have been + set in motion. And I do not have much time." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Ten thousand of our best warriors dead. As if some great hand reached out + of space and .. just erased them." +"It wasn't the Humans. The Centauri don't have the will. And the Vorlons + don't care. The Minbari wouldn't do it. The other worlds aren't powerful + enough for a strike like this. .. There's someone else out there, Na'Toth." + -- Na'Toth and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Are you sure there's no other way?" +"What must happen will happen. Valen said this day would come. + Were we to stand in the way of prophecy?" +"But.. What if you are wrong?" +"Then speak well of me when I'm gone." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"All I'm getting is a recorded message from the tachion relay station + from Proxima." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Ambassador. You wanted to see me." +"Yes. What have you done?" +"Only what you asked me to do. You had a problem with quadrant 37, + we took care of it for you." +"Yes, but you killed ten thousand Narns!" +"I didn't know you cared. Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, + what's the difference? They are Narns, Ambassador, your sworn enemy." + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"And so it begins. You have forgotten something." + -- Kosh to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Lennier?" +"You are too late." +"What is it?" +"A chrysalis. She is .. changing." +"Into what?" +"I don't know." + -- Sinclair and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"And one more thing. Tell the commander .. he was right. We *were* at + a crossroads, and there is no going back. Expect me .. when you see me." + -- G'Kar [recording] to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Yes. I think he's ready. He's perfect for our needs. No. No. He suspects + *nothing*. And when the time is right, Ambassador Mollari will do exactly + as we wish. Destiny is on *our* side." + -- Morden to his associates in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"Nothing's the same anymore." + -- Sinclair to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +%% +"I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"Lieutenant Commander. This may be breaking the chain of command, but I have + some news and I felt I should deliver that news myself. Your commanding + officer, commander Sinclair will not be returning to Babylon 5. He's being + reassigned, permanently." + -- General William Hague to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"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." + -- Captain John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"So, she's done it, hasn't she. She's in there. We told her to wait. + Prophesy will attend to itself, we told her. Now we are committed to + the path." + -- Hedronn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"What's our status?" +"Chief of security is in critical condition in medlab. He thinks there's + a conspiracy concerning the president's death. Ambassador G'Kar has + mysteriously vanished. After two years we still don't know what Ambassador + Kosh looks like inside his encounter suit. And Ambassador Delenn is in a + cocoon." +"A cocoon? As in a moth or a butterfly?" +"Yes, sir. About yea high." +"Interesting place you have here." + -- Captain Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"And this will be your quarters. I hope it's satisfactory." +"It's fine, fine. Certainly a lot bigger than what I'm used to. Does this + place come with a shower? I mean, a real live honest-to-god shower with + running water and everything?" +"Executive suites and command quarters all have showers with live + honest-to-god water. The rest get vibe showers. Our water reclamation + system can't handle much more than that." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"They tell us *Sinclair* is now on our world." +"He's an ambassador." +"So you say. But the Grey Council never tells anyone the whole truth, + does it." + -- Kalain and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"Well, the human body is an amazing thing. It can cure itself, or it + can simply decide one day that the world is too painful to deal with + and won't cooperate no matter how hard you try to heal it." + -- Franklin to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"If you are going to kill me, then do so. Otherwise, + I have considerable work to do." + -- Lennier to Kalain in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"Ambassador Delenn is indisposed at the moment. Perhaps you would + come back later, *much* later." + -- Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"They fight bravely. They can not harm our ships, but they continue to try." +"Whether they fight or not, they know they will die anyway. So, really, is + this bravery or simple desperation?" +"Perhaps they are the same thing." + -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"We should bring one of them aboard for questioning. If our next step + is a final assault on their world, we must know their defenses." +"Very well, Delenn. Choose. But quickly. We are fast running out + of candidates." +"That one." + -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"It is our belief that every generation of Minbari is reborn in each + following generation. Remove those souls and the whole suffers. We are + diminished. Over the last 2000 years there have been fewer Minbari born + into each generation. And those who are born.. do not seem equal to those + who came before. It is almost as if our greater souls have been .. + disappearing." + -- Lennier to Sheridan & Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"And I thought *I* was a pessimist!" + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"I spoke with the president. He is the only other human who knows why the + Minbari surrendered. He doesn't believe the stuff about our sharing of + Minbari souls, and I can't say that I do either. But they [Minbari] believe + it." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"I learned a while ago that there's enough guilt in the world to go around + without grabbing for more. Give yourself benefit of a doubt." + -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"I told them, Delenn, as I was ordered. I only wish I could've told them the + rest. About the great enemy that is returning. About the prophesy that the + two sides of our spirit must unite against the darkness or be destroyed. + They say it will take both of our races to stop the darkness." + -- Lennier in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"Five minutes to spare." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +%% +"DANGER + Biohazard + DANGER" + -- A sign in a transport ship in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"Warning: Hazardous materials storage facility" + -- A sign in a transport ship in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"Caution: Magnetic surfaces" + -- A sign in a transport ship in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"Ambassador Delenn remains indisposed." +"'Indisposed'! She's in a cocoon!" +"Yes?" + -- Lennier and Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"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 about G'Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"The destruction of the Narn base in quadrant 37 is drawing quite + a lot of attention." +"Yes, that was the intent." +"And you are absolutely certain that it can not be traced back to me?" +"Oh, beyond a shadow of a doubt." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"Yes. But what happens if I may ask for another of these .. little + demonstrations?" +"Then we'll provide it. Simply choose your target. A colony, an outpost.." +"Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it?" +"One thing at a time, Ambassador. One thing at a time." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"It's better you are running it and someone else is at this end." +"He's my patient." +"When I took over B5, he became my responsibility. I don't think losing + my head of security two weeks into the job will look good in my resume." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"Weep for the future, Na'Toth. Weep for us all." +"Are you all right?" +"I have looked into the darkness, Na'Toth. You can not do that and never be + quite the same again. When you told me about the destruction of our base at + quadrant 37, I knew that only a major power could attempt an assault of that + magnitude. But none of the governments here could've done it. Which left + only two possibilites: a new race, or an old race. A very old race." + -- G'Kar to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"G'Quan spoke of a great war long ago, against an enemy so terrible it + nearly overwhelmed the stars themselves. G'Quan said that before the + enemy was thrown down, it dwelled in a system at the rim of known space. + I searched for days, going from one system to another. Then, on dark + deserted worlds, where there should be no life, where no living thing + has walked in over thousand years, something is moving, gathering its + forces, quietly, quietly, hoping to go unnoticed. We must warn the + others, Na'Toth. After a thousand years, the darkness has come again." + -- G'Kar to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"Mollari, the grievances between my people and yours will never be + resolved except with Centauri blood. Accept that as a given." +"Well it's good to know we're appreciated." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"But there may be some dangers that threaten both our peoples, not to mention + the Minbari, the Earthers, the League and everyone else around here. Except + possibly the Vorlons, I don't know what could threaten them, really." + -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"Is she still alive?" +"*That* is a very good question." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"I am not ill, doctor. What I .. have become, what I suffer, + requires you .. alone." + -- Delenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"What .. am I? What *am* I?" + -- Delenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"I trusted you. I taught you everything I knew. I gave you every break. + I even treated you like my own brother. Why? My god." +"I got my instructions." +"From who?" +"There's a new order coming back home, Garibaldi. You can either be part + of it or you can be stepped on; a winner or a loser. I'm with the side + that's going to win." +"Homeguard?" +"Homeguard? They're a bunch of misfits. You really don't have a clue, + do you, Garibaldi?" +"Look, if I were you, I'd start talking straight, because right now + you're in a whole world of trouble." +"You don't even know what trouble is. But you're going to find out, + real soon." + -- Garibaldi and Jack in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"Hey, Garibaldi. Be seeing you." + -- Jack to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"Ambassador Sinclair has been allowed to live on my world as an act of + good faith to create a greater understanding between the Minbari and + humans. In return I have undergone this .. change with the blessings + of my government so that I may become a bridge between our worlds in + the hope that we will never know war between us again." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +%% +"What the hell kind of a security chief am I supposed to be if I can't + see something like that?" +"You can't be expected to know everything." +"Yes I can. I could've known and I should've known. And now, I .. I just + don't know if I'm any damn use to anybody anymore. I keep asking myself + what qualifies me to take back my job and .. I haven't got an answer. + I wish the hell I did." + -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"What you are asking could be considered treason." +"Or the first step in restoring our people to their rightful place in the + galaxy. Depending on who writes the history books. I think it will be us." + -- Londo and Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"I've decided that it is time for you to start learning the fine art of + diplomacy. You can handle the low priority conflicts. It would help me + focus on the other problems. Besides, added responsibility comes with + any promotion. I know it's annoying and inconvenient, but--" +"Did you say 'promotion'?" +"Yes, would you like some juice? It's fresh from the hydroponic garden. + I told them to leave the pulp in. That's the best part. Don't you think, + *Commander*?" + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"Vir, do you believe in fate?" +"Well, actually, I believe there are currents in the Universe. Eddies and + tides that pull us one way or the other. Some we have to fight, some we + have to embrace. Unfortunately, the currents that we have to fight look + exactly like the currents we have to embrace. The currents that we *think* + are the one that's gonna make us stronger, they are the ones that are going + to destroy us. And the ones that we think are going to destroy us, they are + the ones that are going to make us stronger. Now, the other current--" +"*Vir*! Yes or no?" +"Yes! You know, somewhat, why?" + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"The Universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy." + -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"You don't frighten easily." +"I work for Ambassador Mollari. After a while nothing bothers you." + -- Elric and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"There's an old saying: 'Do not try the patience of wizards for they + are subtle and quick to anger.'" + -- Elric to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"You will have to wear a cast. And it's gonna hurt." +"Swell. Ouch." +"I can give you something for the pain." +"Oh, great, *now* you can give me something for the pain. Where were + you when I was going through puberty?" + -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"I have absolute trust in your abilities, Commander." +"Well, that's a hell of a thing to tell someone. Hah! + No pressure, fine. Fine." + -- Sheridan and Cmdr Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"Londo, they are going away. Money doesn't matter to them. + Power doesn't matter to them." +"Money and power always matter." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"Look, we bought a cake, al'right. It's been sitting there for two days now." +"Are you kidding me? You pass up a cake for two days? What's the deal? + What've you done with the real Lou Welch, huh? Hey, security! Security, + over here! We've got another guy with a changeling net." + -- Lou Welch and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"I do think there are some things we don't understand. If we'd be back in + time a thousand years, trying to explain this place to people, they could + only accept it in terms of magic." +"Then perhaps it *is* magic. The magic of the human heart, focused and + made manifest by technology. Every day you here create greater miracles + than a burning bush." + -- Captain Sheridan and Elric in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of + laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations + of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things." + -- Elric to Captain Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall + in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain, or to + say goodbye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor, how to be rich, how + to rediscover dream the world has stolen from you." + -- Elric to Captain Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"There is a storm coming up, black and terrible storm." + -- Elric to Captain Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"I'm here to sell you something to make your life easier, cleaner, and + all-around happier. Yes, sir, the ACME handy, dandy, micro helper, + right here in this box." + -- Garibaldi to a Drazi guard in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"I have to find a way to *stop* this." +"You could always .. apologize." +"Apologize? *Never*!" +"Congratulations. You are now the owner of 500'000 shares of + Fireflies Incorporated." +"On the other hand.." + -- Londo, Vir and Computer in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"Rules of combat older than contact with other races. Did not mention + aliens. Rules change caught up in committee. Not come through yet." + -- Former Green Leader in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"I don't trust anybody. When somebody tells me we've got a message from + Ivanova, I don't believe until I get it from her point blank." +"So, in other words you are perfect for the job. Because you are paranoid + and compulsive." +"Or compulsively paranoid." +"Who told you to say that?" + -- Garibaldi,Sheridan,Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"Now, if I may ask, does this torment end when you leave, or am I going to + have to spend the rest of my life paying for one little mistake?" +"Oh, I'm afraid you have to spend the rest of your life paying for your + mistakes. *Not* this one of course, it's trivial, I have withdrawn the + spell, but there will be others." +"What are you talking about?" +"You are touched by darkness, Ambassador. I see it as a blemish that will + grow with time. I could warn you of course, but you would not listen. + I could kill you, but someone would take your place. So I do the only + thing I can, I go." + -- Londo and Elric in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"Well take this for what little it will profit you. 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." +"My followers?" +"Your victims." + -- Elric and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +%% +"John, she's Minbari?" +"A-ha." +"She doesn't look like one. I mean, she does, but she doesn't. + I mean, what's the deal?" +"We're still trying to figure that one out. There's the story she + told us, but then, the Minbari never tell you the whole truth." + -- Captain Jack Maynard and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +%% +"People don't eat right. Skipped meals, eat strange things at + odd hours. I mean, *someone* has to look after your health." +"Okay, fine. Diet." +"No no no no. Food plan." +"Got it." + -- Dr. Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +%% +"Well, it wasn't in hyperspace though. But you know, things can get kind of + weird out on the Rim too. It's funny. You never know what you're gonna find + when you look over the edge of what's known and into what's not. + We were in sector 857, and I took my nav. officer, Lt. Patrick with me + for a lookaround in one of our scoutships." +"And?" +"Well, I noticed that we'd gotten out of sight of the Cortez and I was .. + I was just about ready to turn back when I saw something. Maybe a thousand + kilometers away, black against space. Now, the reason that I know it was + there is that it blotted out the stars behind it. I don't know the exact + shape of it, but .. it was *big*. I turned to Pat, asked if he could see + it, and when I looked back, it had vanished." + -- Captain Jack Maynard and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +%% +"10 pounds?" +"Well, a 10-pound gain isn't too bad, but you could afford to lose it. + Here's a list of foods I want you to avoid. No meat, low fat. Lots of + vegetables." +"Rabbit food." +"Well, it's only for a little while, Captain. We'll get those 10 pounds + off in no time." +"Who's 'we'?" +"Well, a doctor and his patient are a team, Captain, don't you agree?" +"Sure. And since we're a team, why don't you do the diet part." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +%% +"I am more 'one of us' at this moment than I have ever been. + More than you will ever know." + -- Delenn to Teronn in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +%% +"If everything is satisfactory, Doctor, I'll be returning to my duties." +"Just one last thing, Commander. I worked out this food plan for you." +"Are you telling me to go on a diet? I'll have you know I don't have an + ounce of fat in my body. I exercise vigorously once a day despite my + injury, and--" +"When you do eat, you don't eat enough of the right things. You have + deficiencies in calsium, iron and several other minerals. And it's + hampering your recovery. Now, I recommend iron supplements, and an + increased diet.. food plan, to replenish you system." +"I'll gain weight!" +"Well, briefly, yes." +"Figures. All my life I've fought against imperialism. Now, suddenly + I *am* the expanding Russian frontier." +"But with very nice borders." + -- Ivanova and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +%% +"An old friend of mine once quoted me an ancient Egyptian blessing: + 'God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.'" + -- Sheridan to Zeta Squadron in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +%% +"Universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy places, + but they are right. Wherever we are, it's the right place .. and the right + time. Pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of constantly being + born." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +%% +"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." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +%% +"Ever had a long talk with ambassador Delenn, Commander?" +"Yes, from time to time. Why?" +"She and the universe .. seem to have a special relationship." +"Don't we all?" + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +%% +"Judgement Day is coming and it don't care what you look like and I + have seen it. An army of darkness, soldiers of the devil, or something + like that. We are all in great *danger*, that barks upon this station." + -- Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +"Now, unless you have a class C missionary license, it's time for little R&R." + -- Garibaldi to Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +"You were about to accuse the Centauri Ambassador of being in league + with the devil, which may not be far from the truth." + -- Garibaldi to Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +"What else have I missed?" +"Noh. The usual. The good times, and the bad times, the revelations, the + revolutions. Outbreaks of hysteria, the parade of scandals, promises, + constitutions, and the occasional war. The last big ones were against the + Dilgar, which we won, and against the Minbari, which.. Well, that's a + long story." + -- Mariah Cirrus and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +"And we still haven't outgrown violence?" +"No. It's gonna take a lot more than a hundred years + to evolve a better human." + -- Mariah Cirrus and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +"Take my advice and go back to the time you came from. + The future isn't what it used to be." + -- G'Kar to Mariah Cirrus in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +"You are all gonna die. A soldier of darkness has come on that ship from the + past. I have seen it. Don't close your eyes, don't sleep, it will find you." + -- Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +"The forces of darkness do not move openly. They work *through* others, + *use* others. When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered, + hid themselves away in secret places and waited. Now, the dark hand is + reaching out and recalling them from their sleep." + -- Markab Ambassador in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +"You've got a plan?" +"Try not to get killed." +"Brilliant." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +"These PPG's don't do much more than sting it. Prowls around hurt for a while + and comes back stronger." +"Well, one bee sting may be an annoyance, but a hundred of them can kill you." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +"You said the ship was reprogrammed to a new destination. + So where was it going?" +"It was heading for the Rim. To the exact place where ambassador + G'Kar told us an ancient enemy was gathering its forces." +"Z'ha'dum." +"You think it's a coincidence?" +"A few weeks ago I probably would've said 'yes'. But now, 'no'. + Something is going on, Commander." +"I know. Between you and me, it's scaring the hell out of me." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +%% +[a problem in the ambassadorial section] +"I'll handle it." +"Help is on the way. Hah! It's good to be the Captain." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"These are volatile times, Captain. Practicalities are more + important than principles if lives are to be saved." + -- Sen. Elise Voudreau to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"Someone's been lying to you, Captain." +"Or to you." +"I'm a telepath." +"Telepaths are human beings." + -- Winters and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"I'll arrange for an escort." +"One escort, at your service." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi to Winters in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"Command?" +"Code Alfa 66 Zeta 3." + -- Abel Horn in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"Control states Ms. Winters could jeopardize mission. + Eliminate her, then continue with phase 2." + -- Control? to Abel Horn in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"Well, you know how I feel about telepaths." +"Do I ever. You threw one out of a third story window on Io." +"There was an ample pool below the window." +"Alas, I assume you knew that." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"And you don't trust Psi Corps?" +"No. Do you?" +"Telepaths are gifted and cursed in ways I can never hope to understand. + They are still human beings, good, bad, or indifferent. No. I trust in + individuals, not organizations." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"Captain, I sure would like to know where you are going with this?" +"Someplace very dark. I hope to God I'm wrong." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"Earthforce Intelligence I/6538" +"Criminal Record Confirmed" +"Abel Horn is a suspect in over 75 such incidents. In 2252 he was sentenced + to Phobos maximum security outpost for involvement in the computer theft of + over 50 million conglomerate credits. Served 1 year. Then was transferred + to Lunis Planum prison base. He then served 3 months and escaped April 16, + 2253." +"Current Status: Deceased 2258" +"Cause: Died in Mars rebellion" +"Circumstances of Death: Destroyed in outer atmosphere combat skirmish Beta-5 + as a result of plasma burst from Earthforce Star Cruiser Pournelle." +"Death Recorded: by Phobos Outpost 20" + -- Earthforce Intelligence File in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"It's trickier than you thought." +"Thanks. Mr. Wizard." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"You hurt that lady, I'll see that it takes you ten days to die." +"I'm already dead, mister security-man." + -- Garibaldi and Abel Horn in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"Is there something?" +"There's a whole list, but let's start with how you knew about + the Lazarus project." +"Some people .. collect coins or art. I collect secrets: black projects, + conspiracies, secret organizations. They fascinate me." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"For the past six years there've been rumours about a rogue agency operating + deep inside EarthGov. A dirty-trick-squad, dealing in black projects, and + star-chamber justice. It took me three years just to get a name: Bureau 13. + And the man who gave me that name died soon after. I'm convinced they exist + and they are behind this incident." + -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"There's a spider in the web, Mr. Garibaldi. And I intend to find it + .. and kill it." + -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"13." +"Report from Babylon5 control. Mission only partly successful. Isogi + terminated but unit was destroyed before he could leave station for Mars." +"Is the Bureau at hazard?" +"Control does not believe so." +"Belief is not enough. He is to follow up until he is certain. 13 out." + -- 13 and Control in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +%% +"It is a *pleasure* to *meet* you. It *is* a pleasure to meet you. + It is a pleasure to meet you." + -- Vir in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"So, what's the problem?" +"I don't know. *That's* the problem." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"What's he hiding, Vir? Tell me. I won't bite, Vir." +"With all due respect, Madam, that's not what I have heard." +"All right. That *one* time." +"Twice." + -- Timov and Vir in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Believe me, Vir, if you knew her as I do, you wouldn't miss her a bit." +"Oh, Timov, Timov. Why do you always try to draw me into your little + *verbal* fencing matches?" +"Because I don't have a real sword handy." + -- Timov and Daggair in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Commander, I want you to understand. I aqcuired human characteristics to + bring your people and mine closer together. To symbolise our mutuality. + It is supposed to be a dignified and inspiring position for both Humans + and Minbari. So, will you please explain to me why this.. *this* ..!" +"Hair." +"..refuses to co-operate!" + -- Delenn and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"I'm sorry. I guess I'm reading too much into it, but people seem to be + implying that .. I shouldn't get too comfortable." +"Oh nonsense. It's not as if anyone expects you to, oh, vanish overnight + under mysterious circumstances to a strange Minbari post. Why, that would + be unprecedented in the station's history." + -- Sheridan and G'kar in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"The secret of our marriage's success, Londo, is our lack of communication. + You've jeopardised that success and I would know why." + -- Timov in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Petulant, isn't she? Oh well, breeding will tell." +"A bitch like you would know about breeding." + -- Daggair and Timov in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"And you are?" +"Garibaldi, head of security." +"Oh, so if I'm feeling insecure, hugging you will make me feel better." + -- Matt Stoner and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Certification of my participation in an authorized archaeological dig. + List of contents are there. You'll find this little item among them. + It's all quite legitimate, officer. I can help you with the big words, + if you're having trouble." + -- Matt Stoner to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Would you like me to tell you all about her? Is that it? + Would you like to hear where she likes to be touched?" +"*Don't* push it." +"The little noises she makes. Does she cry out or sigh softly?" + -- Stoner and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"If Talia Winters so much as breaths a word that you've been harassing + her, you'll be spaced so fast you'll think you were born in a vacuum." + -- Garibaldi to Stoner in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"I'll be keeping an eye on you." +"Use both eyes. You'll need them." + -- Garibaldi and Stoner in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"You seriously expect me to become involved in your sexual olympics?" +"They are merely expressing their feelings for me." +"I can do that." [slaps Londo in the face] +"You haven't changed." +"You have. You've *devolved*." + -- Timov and Londo in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Ahh! A deck of cards! From my dear friend Lennier." +"And I marked them exactly as you requested.." +"Shhs!" + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Hey, how about I call you an idiot in public and you can + convict me for revealing state secrets." + -- Stoner to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Are you okay? Londo, do you know where you are?" +"Either in Medlab, or in Hell. Either way, the decor needs work." + -- Dr. Franklin and Londo in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Stick it!" +"How odd. I didn't even know *we* were married." + -- Dr. Franklin and Londo in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"You know, the problem with mysteries is that in order to get + rid of the headaches I have to figure them out." + -- G'Kar to Mariel in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"I warn you, Mariel, do not be overconfident. If I were married to + Londo Mollari I'd be concerned." +"G'kar, if *you* were married to Londo Mollari, we'd all be concerned." + -- G'kar and Mariel in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Ladies, it's been a *pleasure* meeting you." + -- Vir to Londo's wifes in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"Commander. Susan. I wish to thank you again for your patience and + understanding." +"No, not a problem." +"Taking on human characteristics has been something of an education + for both of us." +"Well, if you've any other problems, any other questions at all, just ask." +"Well, now that you mention it. Do you have any idea why I suddenly started + getting these .. odd cramps?" + -- Delenn and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +%% +"You were raised by the Corp, clothed by the Corp. + We are your father and your mother." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"Are you sure you know what you are doing?" +"Absolutely. Those paper pushers back home probably figured that since I'm + new here, I'll go along with the whole rent idea, just to make everybody + happy. That's how it starts, believe me. They nibble a little bit here, + little bit there. Next thing you know you are not even in charge of your + own command anymore." +"No taxation without representation. Get me liberty or get me death!" +"Abso-fraggin-lutely. A bunch of .. butt-scratching, hand-wringing, + penny-pinching, lets-stick-it-to-the-new-guy pin-heads, all of them. + 30 credits a week! I say let them cut back on those expense-account + lunches, *then* come talk to me, right?" + -- Franklin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"We do not have cats on Minbar, we have gogs." +"Gogs?" +"Gogs. Such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure + that we never take ourselves too seriously." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"We believe that no race can be truly intelligent without laughter." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"Mary had a little lamb" +"her fleece was white as snow" +"and everywhere that Mary went" +"the lamb was sure to go." + -- Rogue Telepaths in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"I heard a good one today. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a + lightbulb?" +"I don't know, sir. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" +"None. They always surrender right before they finish the job and they + never tell you why." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"Knock, knock." +"Who's there?" +"Kosh." +"Kosh who?" +"Gesundheit." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"Then what *are* you saying?" +"I'm not saying what I'm saying. I'm not saying what I'm thinking. + As a matter of fact, I'm not thinking what I'm thinking. There's only + one thing in my mind right now." +"What's that?" +"I need a drink." + -- Dr.Franklin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"You are more than you think you are." +"Then what am I?" +"The future." + -- Lurker and Winters in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"Item two. You snore." +"No, I don't." +"Yes, you do." +"*No*, I don't." +"Captain, either you snore or last night we had a hell of a breach + in the hull." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"They gave in?" +"Ahem, no." +"You gave in?" +"Not exactly. I'm deducting 60 credits per week from the budget set aside + to maintaining combat readyness and applying it against the rent." +"On what grounds?" +"On the grounds that I'm not ready to fight anybody until I've had a decent + nights sleep in my own damn bed. You got a problem with that?" +"No, none whatsoever. I rather like the idea of Earth Central paying rent + to itself. There's a certain symmetry." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +%% +"You have always served me well, old friend. And sometimes I think + I do not thank you as much as I should. .. Goodbye." + -- Emperor to Prime Minister in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"So, you are going to allow this, even over my objections?" +"What? Did I somehow turn invisible or something? Yes, Ambassador. The + Emperor is allowed to come aboard. Now, if this bothers you, I suggest + you stay in your quarters, stick your fingers in your ears and hum real + loud until its over. Unless you'd like to try something as breathtakingly + rational as trying to open up a *dialogue*. G'Kar, you are in a position + to negotiate directly with the head of the Centauri Republic, and you are + wasting it on a .. tantrum." + -- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"We've taken the liberty of writing your speech for you. I've had experts + in psycholinguistics working on it for weeks. It's perfect; fiery, but + dignified; elegant, but strong." + -- Refa to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"Yes. It's a strange feeling, Kha'Mak, to know suddenly that all the + decisions in your life have brought you to this place. There is no + longer doubt or uncertainty. The future now consists of only three + probabilities. .. In the moment that I strike, the Emperor and I will + both die. Or he will die and I will spend my life in prison. Or I will + fail and be killed. For the first time in my life, the path is clear." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"It has occurred to me recently that *I* have never chosen anything. + I was born into a role that had been prepared for me. I did everything + I was asked to do, because it never *occurred* to me to choose otherwise. + And now, at the end of my life, I wonder what might've been." +"That's why my father taught me to live each second as though it would be + the last moment of my life. He said: 'If you love, love without reservation. + If you fight, fight without fear.' He called it the way of the warrior." +"No regrets then?" +"A few. But just a few. You?" +"Oh, enough to fill a lifetime. 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 inbetween. But there + is still time to seize that one last fragile moment. To choose something + better, to make a difference, as you say. And I intend to do just that." + -- Centauri Emperor and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"Londo, *don't* *do* *this*." +"I have no choice." +"Yes, you do. Londo, please, please, please, I *know* you don't listen to + me, but I'm asking you just this one time. *Don't* *do* *this*. There is + no turning back once you start down that road." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"I understand .. just fine. .. By this time tomorrow we will be at war + with the Narn. May the Great Maker forgive me." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"I was ready. I had prepared myself. I had made my peace with the universe, + put all my affairs in order. I had the *dagger* in my *hand*! And he has + the indecency to start dying on his own. Never in my life have I seen a + worse case of timing." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"Maybe it's good news. With luck he's feeling better. All they have + to do is to prop him up for two minutes and-- I'll call you back." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"Hello, old friend. It's been a while. I'm entrusting this message to an + associate of mine who has sworn to bring it to you at any cost, including + his own life. My job on the Minbari homeworld is more than just representing + Earth. The president doesn't know about that part yet and .. I don't think + it would be wise of you to tell him. There's a great darkness coming, + Michael. Some of the Minbari have been waiting for it a long time." +"The bearer of this message is one of my Rangers. Some are Minbari, most + are humans. They've been drawn here to learn to work together and prepare + for the fight ahead." +"Their job for now is to patrol the frontier, to listen, to watch, and + return with reports too sensitive to entrust to regular channels. They + are my eyes and ears. Where you see them, you see me." +"In the name of our friendship I ask that you give them every courtesy and + co-operation. I wish I could tell you more. I wish I could warn you, but + the others don't think it's time yet. Stay close to the Vorlon and watch + out for the shadows. They move .. when you are not looking at them." + -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"How will this end?" +"In fire." + -- Centauri Emperor and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"Sheridan's rule number 29: Always make your opponent think you know + more than you really know." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"Mollari. What did he say, really?" +"He said .. that we are both *damned*." +"Well. It's a small enough price to pay for immortality." + -- Refa and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"For a hundred years the Centauri occupied our world, devastating it. We + swore we would never let that happen again. This attack on our largest + civilian colony has inflicted terrible damage and loss of life. They've + crossed the line we can not allow them to cross. As a result two hours + ago my government officially declared war against the Centauri Republic. + Our hope for peace is over. We are now at war. .. We are now at war." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"No, I have no desire to become Emperor. No, I prefer to work behind the + scenes. The reward is nearly as great .. and the risk far, far less." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"Hello, old friend." + -- Sinclair to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +%% +"No traffic, no complaints, no noise. Traders, troublemakers, and + ambassadors, all tugged snuggly in their little beds. I love this + time of night." +"There is no night in deep space. And time is a meaningless concept + when you stop to think about it." + -- Ivanova and Corwin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +%% +"I had an Alfredo Garibaldi under my command during + the Dilgar invasion. Excellent soldier." +"That's my dad." +"So much for genetics." + -- General Richard Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +%% +"Few days, long enough for us to get our gifts in place." +"Gifts?" +"New weapon systems for your defense grid. The very latest of Earth Force + R&D. When they are on line, Babylon 5 will have enough firepower to take + on a warship." + -- General Richard Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +%% +"The galaxy is changing and Babylon 5 must change with it." + -- General Franklin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +%% +"I'm a doctor. My duty is to heal." +"Then heal humans. Stephen, I know you are fascinated by these alien + creatures, but they are a threat to humanity. And they always will be. + Help your own kind." +"Life is life. Whether it's wrapped in skins, scales, or feathers. Now, + if you *respected* these beings instead of constantly trying to murder + them, you would appreciate that." + -- Stephen Franklin and Gen. Richard Franklin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +%% +"We are all slaves to our histories. If there is to be a .. + bright future, we must learn to break those chains." + -- Delenn to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +%% +"If you'll excuse me, the natives are restless." + -- Garibaldi to Delenn in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +%% +"A man who won't stand up for his own principles is not really a man at all." + -- General Richard Franklin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +%% +"For a security-slug you are a lousy liar." + -- Dodger to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +%% +"Being asked to serve on the Council is a matter of soul, not of flesh. + The change that you have gone through.. it shouldn't matter." +"But it does, Lennier. I've made a decision and now I must face the + consequences." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"Lennier, for the first time .. I feel very much .. alone." +"No. Never alone, Delenn. Never alone." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"This isn't a clear and present danger, Commander. Just a quick look around + to see what the problem is. I haven't felt space beneath me since I got + here in January and I miss it. Besides, if I don't put some flight time in + soon, I'll lose my flight pay." +"Very well, but you'll take a full escort." +"All right, all right. I'll be in and out in an hour. What could go wrong?" + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"I'm not worried about that." +"Of course not. You are young. And youth is both foolish and vulnerable." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"Your diagnosis, Doctor?" +"Well, the patient is confused, delusional. Unable to separate his natural + sense of loyalty for his home team from the reality that they *stink*, and + only got to the playoffs on a *technicality*." + -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"Helen Keller?" +"Heat of the moment." + -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"Until later, *Satai* Delenn." + -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"Summoned, I take the place that has been prepared for me. I am Grey. + I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between + the darkness and the light." +"They will not come, Delenn." +"But I was summoned." +"To receive judgement, yes. Not to appear as one of the Nine." +"I am entitled to a hearing. I'm allowed to defend myself." +"That was before you disobeyed us. You were told to wait before taking this + action. Before becoming .. alien to us. You've been away from us for too + long, Delenn. Your contact with the humans have changed more than your + appearance. If you are no longer one of us, how can you be one of the Nine?" +"My heart has not changed." +"We no longer know your heart, Delenn. The Council has voted to remove you + from our presence. From this day forth you are no longer a member of the + Grey Council, no longer Satai. I'm sorry, Delenn." + -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"Why are you doing this? Why are you torturing me? + You can at least tell me what you want." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"Twenty cycles I stood beside you as one of the Nine. I called many of + you friends. And now you call me outcast. You know me. You know I believe + in the task that is before us, the Great War that is coming. I have not + turned my back on you. In trying to help I have sacrificed all that I was, + and all that I am. We can no longer allow ourselves to be separated by + names and borders. Our two sides must unite .. or be destroyed. Do not make + my sacrifice a vain one. Allow me to finish what I started. In the name of + our friendship, for the future of our people, let me remain in Babylon 5." + -- Delenn to the Grey Council in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"When Valen called the Nine together he chose 3 from the worker caste, 3 from + the religious caste and 3 from the warrior caste. My replacement should've + been from the religious caste. Four from the warrior caste gives them + unprecedented power." + -- Delenn to the Grey Council in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"And your belief that you are satisfying prophesy is a presumption of the + highest order. And yet .. it is true that you are now the perfect liaison + between us and the Earthers. You have no home with either of us. So, please, + act out your fantasy, be our go-between. return to Babylon 5, and *stay* + there." + -- Neroon to Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"The first obligation of a prisoner is to escape, right?" + -- Sheridan to a Narn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"Shhh! Do you know who I am?" +"The man in-between is searching for you." +"You are the hand." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"Why are you here?" +"We were never away. For the first time your mind is quiet enough + to hear me." +"Why am I here?" +"You have *always* been here." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"It's not fair." +"No. It's not. Death never is." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"You have *always* been here." + -- Kosh to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"Santiago understood the importance of Babylon 5. He knew that if anything + happened to him, president Clark will appoint some hard-nosed jar-head + to run this place. Well, we both know you are not that. But, from your + record you look like that." + -- General Hague to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"A soldier's record tells a lot about a person. Not just what he's done, + but how he's done it and why. And you have an uncommon failing for someone + in your position, Captain. You are 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." + -- General Hague to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"But it's time we stopped reacting and started acting." + -- General Hague to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +%% +"G'Kar, everyone in this room knows too well that the first casualty of + war is always the truth." + -- Sheridan to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"Do whatever you have to. Just get them to sign on." +"Will do. Thank you, sir." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"The war is young, the Centauri are still in the process of committing their + forces. Some in their government are unsure about the entire affair. They + only need a reason not to fight. If the Minbari intervened, you could + provide that reason. You could save hundreds of thousands of lives." + -- G'Kar to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"You must know .. your actions in the recent past, the things you've said, + make it difficult for anyone to come to your aid now." +"I know. But what else could I do?" + -- Delenn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"I was there when our war against Earth begun, and our ship encountered an + Earth vessel for the first time. Afraid of us, the unknown, they fired. + I saw our leader die, I heard the cries for revenge, for blood, for death. + In return we nearly exterminated an entire species. Our people are tired + of war, G'Kar. You can not ask them to go through all that again." + -- Delenn to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"Transport 32A" + -- Docking Elevator Designation in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"Six months ago they were hardly aware of me. Now, *suddenly* everyone + is my friend, everyone wants something. I wanted respect. Instead I've + turned to a wishing-well with legs." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"I do not understand. Why go through all this to save the lives of + potentially inferior species? Evolution is driven by blood. The weak + die, and the strong survive. By preserving the sick and wounded of other + races you pollute the genetic pool. It does not serve evolution." + -- Taq (for Correlilmurzon) in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"I don't believe that any form of sentient life is inferior to any other." +"Yes, we often hear that argument from inferior species and their + sympathizers." + -- Franklin and Taq (Correlilmurzon) in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"No, I don't want a receipt." +"Then what do you want?" +"I want you to stay! And have a little drink for me. I want you to be happy, + I want *me* to be happy. I want you to be happy for me and me to be happy + for you. Is that so much to ask around here? Why is everyone here walking + around like they are afraid of me?" +"Maybe we are." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"Most impressive." +"Excuse me?" +"We have isolated ourselves from inferior species but you.. you've shown the + will and the strength to isolate the genetically inferior parts of your own + species as an evolutionary protection." +"I don't think you understand. This wasn't intentional." +"You're too modest, you're too modest. It's a brilliant move, Commander." + -- Taq (Correlilmurzon) and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"Ambassador, I have 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?" + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"I .. do not have the same resources I once had, Captain. But .. + what I have is at your disposal." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"Well, you could put a bag over his head and do it for Babylon 5. + .. Maybe not." +"I'm doomed." +"I could inject you with something, make you sick. After all, he doesn't know + a thing about anybody's biology but his own. He'd probably fall for it." +"That's it!" +"I'll get a needle." + -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"Next time: *My* way." + -- Note to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"It is good to have frieds, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi? Even if maybe .. + only for a little while." +"Even if only for a little while." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +%% +"Bay 13? Nobody goes to bay 13." +"That's what the Commander tried to tell him." + -- Garibaldi and Corwin in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"Commander, I want all outgoing ships checked out before they leave. + Slow down jump clearances as much as you can. Tell them we are having + .. mechanical problems." +"That they'll believe." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"He is the best there is." +"Stephen. The last time you vouched for a doctor friend of yours we had + three dead bodies, half the station was trashed and an Ikarran war machine + was burning through decks and shooting at everything." + -- Doctor Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"I found myself near bay 13 earlier and had look on your ship. It's an + amazing piece of work. It made me realize just how much we still don't + know about you, your culture, your people. And I was thinking, maybe we + should spend some time together soon. Build some bridges, work toward + a greater understanding of one another." +"Why?" +"You tell me. You're the one who popped in my dream when I was in that alien + ship a few weeks ago. It felt like.. I don't know.. like you called me." +"I sought understanding. I listened to the song. Your thoughts became a song." +"Has this ever happened before?" +"Once." + -- Kosh and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"These guys are about as subtle as a brick through a glass window, + but they know their stuff. I'd hate to be on the wrong side with + this bunch against me." + -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"We need to accumulate as much evidence as we can so *when* we go + public with this we'll hit the target. Because in this game, Captain, + we only get one shot." + -- Aide to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"I don't believe anybody." +"What a wonderful world you live in." +"Yeah, well, the rent is cheap, the pay is decent and I get to make + my own hours." + -- Garibaldi and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"Won't you be recognized?" +"Are you kidding? First, I don't get into down-below a lot. Second, when I + do they don't see me, they see the badge. And third, I have an excellent + disguise. Lets go." +"Why is my life suddenly passing before my eyes?" + -- Doctor Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"Good. The sooner we get him out of here into a nice, comfortable + interrogation room, the happier I'll be about the whole thing. Yep. + You're right. He's gotta be in down-below." +"Well, sir, you don't know that for sure." +"Commander, where else could he be? I mean, come on, next thing you'll + say he's in down-town." +"I didn't see anything called 'down-town'." +"Well, it's sort of an unofficial name for this area right in here. It's + between the hull and the water reclamation system. It's pretty much the + most unpleasent part of the station, not counting the methane bathrooms. + It's full of heavy machinery, lead walls and pipe all over the place." +"Lead? That is just the kind of thing he'd use to block the scanners." +"You think so?" +"Cranston here. Take the search team out of down-below for now. Check levels + fifty and fifty-one between the blue and grey sectors. And post guards at + all the entrances and exits to down-below." + -- Sheridan, Ivanova and Agent Cranston in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"Maybe somebody should've labeled the future: some assembly required." + -- Garibaldi to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"You wanted to see me?" +"You wanted to see me." +"Oh, I guess everybody does. To see what you really are, + inside that encounter suit." +"They are not ready. They would not understand." +"Am I ready?" +"No. You do not even understand yourself." +"Could you help me to understand you?" +"Can you help me to understand *you*?" +"Well, I can try. Is that what you want? In exchange of information + I tell you something about me and you tell me something about you." +"No. You do not understand. Go." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"Dammit, what do you want? What do you want from me? You know, ever since + I got here I've had the feeling that .. that you've been watching me. The + record shows you hardly ever went to council meetings until I showed up. + When I was captured, it was you .. reached out and .. touched my mind. + And now you call me here. Why? Just to throw me out? Are we just toys to + you, huh? What do you want?" +"Never ask that question." +"At least I got a response out of you. So, what will it be, Ambassador?" +"I will teach you." +"About yourself?" +"About *you*. Until you are ready." +"For what?" +"To fight legends." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"You were his teacher, what did he get in first-aid class?" +"4.0" +"*3.7*!" + -- Garibaldi, Dr. Franklin and Dr. Jacobs in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"It's what we suspected all along, but could never prove. The Vorlons + use organic technology. It's a living ship. Conscious, aware." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"While I was asleep. The .. the ship, it .. it *sang* to me." + -- Dr. Jacobs in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +%% +"Merchandising? We'll be merchandised? You can't be serious, sir." +"I heard this was in the works a few weeks ago. I fought against it. + And lost." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"'Welcome to Babylon 5, the last best hope for a quick buck.'" +"Commander." +"But it's just demeaning. We're not just some .. deep space franchise. + This station is *about* something." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"Find that Minbari witness I mentioned in my report. + He will back me up, I am absolutely sure." +"Ah. Description?" +"Bald, with a bone on his head." +"We are gonna need a real big line-up room." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"I answer to other Minbari, not freaks." + -- Ashan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"Now, I want to talk with your witness, he is lying!" +"For your sake, I did not hear that. Nor did you Lennier." +"What are you talking about?" +"Minbari do not lie, Captain. It would be a stain upon honor and soul." + -- Sheridan, Delenn & Lennier in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"For someone of other species to make such an accusation, it would require + an *immediate* and *fatal* response from the accused." +"Then he is in .. *error* where the truth is involved and I want to speak + with him *now*." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"Are you expected?" +"No. Dreaded." + -- Zack Allan, Guinevere Corey in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"Whose side are you on?" +"We are on the side of the truth. Is there another?" + -- Ashan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"I don't appreciate being called ignorant in front of others." +"I'm sorry. Is naive better?" +"And I don't need a lawyer." +"Now we're back to ignorant." + -- Sheridan and Corey in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"I'll never forget what you once said to me: + 'Never fear answers, only fear running out of questions.'" +"Ivanova, I never said that." +"You didn't?" +"No." +"Oh, well, I'll let you know who did." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"Why? What's inside there?" +"One moment of perfect beauty." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"Oh, yes, I'm keeping your secrets. Londo, I feel like I'm falling in + a pit and there's no way of climbing out." +"Do you want to leave, is that it? I can arrange it. You can go back + home to--" +"To what? To my family? Do you think that if they wanted me around I + would even be here. They just wanted me anywhere, anywhere away. + They had me sent here two years ago because, frankly, there wasn't + much competition for the job. This was a joke to them. Before I left, + my uncle said to me you and I deserve each other." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"I had no idea. *No* idea at all." +"Yes." +"Thank you." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"Another lesson? What this time?" +".. Beauty. .. In the dark." +"Must be working. You begin to talk *just* like a Vorlon." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"It's a mockery. It doesn't even have any .. ahhem .. attributes." +"Attributes?" +"Do I have to spell it out for you?" + -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"I see. So, you feel like you've been symbolically cast.. in a bad light." +"Well put." + -- Ivanova & Sheridan to Londo in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"Who said the Minbari don't lie?" + -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"I never forget the feeling of helplessness. I never thought there + could be anything worse than being all alone in the night." +"But there is. Being all alone in a crowd." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"Their honor? 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." + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"Babylon control to Theta One. Can you trace that unidentified object?" +"Negative, Babylon control. I don't see a .. [thud]" +"Theta one, have you encountered unidentified object? Can you describe it?" +"Negative, Babylon control. I don't think so. Not on a bet. Heading back to + the barn." + -- Babylon control and Keffer in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +%% +"In the process of putting this report together, it didn't take us + long to learn the most important rule of survival aboard Babylon 5: + 'Expect the unexpected.'" + -- Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"36 Hours, sponsored by Interplanetary Expeditions -- + Exploring the past to create a better future." + -- Voiceover in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"We are already in far greater jeopardy than you can possibly imagine." + -- G'Kar to Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"Overall I've found this to be a good working environment and a valuable + experience. I've learned a lot while I've been here." +"And you have never felt that your safety was compromised?" +"No, Ma'm." +"So, this has been a positive experience for you. You enjoy working with + everyone?" +"Yes. It's a calm, pleasant environment. I don't think I have ever seen + anyone get upset here." + -- Lt. Corwin and Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"I guess it's the old joke. You don't have to be crazy to work here, + but it helps. I suppose there is a .. certain attraction to being out + here on the edge like this, a new frontier." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"Babylon 5 has been through some dramatic changes in administration since it + became operational. Would you attribute these changes to .. bad management? + Or to quote former Senator Hidoshi, 'Is this horse just too big for anybody + to ride?'" +"Changes are part of the military life. Everybody goes into this + knowing that tomorrow you could be someplace that you hadn't even + heard of 24 hours ago." + -- Cynthia Torqueman and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"He must have hit the wrong button because the air doors slammed shut, the + space doors opened, and he .. just flew out into space. And the one thing + they never tell you is that you don't die instantly in vacuum. He just hung + there against the black like a puppet with his strings all tangled up.. + or one of those old cartoons where you run off the edge of the cliff and + your legs keep going. You could see that he was trying to breathe, but there + was nothing. The one thing I remember when they pulled in his body.. his + eyes were frozen. A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about + shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will." + -- Franklin to Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"According to figures released by the newly formed Office of Public Morale, + President William Clark has risen to dramatic new levels of popularity + because of his administration's emphasis on addressing the needs of earth." + -- Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"Anytime you lose a war, you just .. you just wait a few years, and you'll + hear from everyone who thought that we could've won if they had done the + fighting." +"Except, of course, Captain, we didn't lose the war. + The Minbari *did* surrender." +"Of course." + -- Sheridan and Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"Every day I get up, and I hope nothing will happen. I'd love to be just + bored out of my skull for 24 hours, and .. I guess I keep hoping that + someday, somewhere I'll make a difference, that at the end of the day + everything we've gone through here for the past few years will mean + something." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"I volunteered for this change in the hope that it would lead to a better + understanding between our peoples." +"Over 1/4 of a million humans were killed in the war with your people. + How do you think the families of those victims will feel about your .. + change?" +"I, .. I don't know. I, . I would hope .." +"I think they would feel hurt .. betrayed .. that by assuming a human face, + you are taking a part of us you're not entitled to. What would you say to + them, to all the husbands and wives and children and brothers and sisters + of the people who were killed in the war with your people and *now* see a + Minbari with a *human* face?" + -- Delenn and Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"An inspection of the destroyed Centauri has found conclusive proof that + she was carrying fusion bombs and support equipment for ion cannons, + mass drivers, and heavy-energy weapons." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"Roughly 150 of your years ago, the Centauri came to our world. Narn was a + green and fertile place then. We greeted them in peace and spent the next + 100 years in chains, but we never gave up hope. We formed a resistance, + learned their secrets, turned their own machines against them, and finally + drove them from our world." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"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." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"Please. The Narn have rewritten history enough, don't you think? If they + wanted us gone, we were hardly going to force the issue, but ever since, + they have grown more and more irrational, have gone out of their way to + harm us, to seize Centauri territory. Finally, we had to take a stand. + They were the ones who declared war, remember. Not us. We want only peace." + -- Londo to Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"You're right, Johnny. You know, there are a lot of other kids who feel just + the same way you do. They're confused and afraid, but they don't have to be. + The problem isn't that other kids don't like you, it's that they don't + understand you, but we do. You're special. You're a latent telepath about + to come into full bloom." +"My Johnny, a telepath?" +"Probably, but to be sure, take him down to the Psi-Corps testing centre + first thing tomorrow." +"How do I find them?" +"We're everywhere, for your convenience." + -- Psi Corps Advertisement in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"If you know someone who might be a telepath, or think you might be one + yourself, help them get the help they need. Call the Corps." +"Call government information for more on a Psi-Corps center near you. This + message has been brought to you by the Ministry for Public Information + and your local Psi-Corps recruitment office." + -- Psi Corps Advertisement in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"The Psi Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps." + -- Psi Corps Advertisement in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"We learn. That's what humans do." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"Of course it is, for the simple reason that no one else would've ever built + a place like this. Humans share one unique quality. They build communities. + If the Narns or the Centauri or any other race built a station like this, + it would be used only by their own people, but everywhere humans go, they + create communities out of diverse and sometimes hostile populations. + It is a great gift and a terrible responsibility, one that cannot be + abandoned." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"The job of Babylon 5 is not to enforce the peace. It's to create the peace. + And this place was built on the assumption that we could work out our + problems and build a better future, and that, to me, is the key issue. + See, in the last few years .. we've stumbled. We stumbled at the death of + the president, the war, and on and on. And when you stumble a lot, you .. + you start looking at your feet. 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, 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. Only by making people understand that can we hope + to create a better world for ourselves and our posterity." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +%% +"What do *you* want?" +"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'd look up at your lifeless eyes and wave + like *this*. Can you and your associates arrange it for me, Mr. Morden?" + -- Morden and Vir in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"That's him, all right. I never forget a face. Morden. Same ID as on the + Icarus." +"He's supposed to be dead. Why didn't the security net catch him?" +"Captain, come on. We don't get every death certificate from every Earth + Alliance ship and colony." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"So, what can I do for you?" +"Well, actually it's more a question of what I can do for you, really, and + what we can together do for Earth. I'm regional director of the newly-formed + Ministry of Peace, or Minipax, as we like to call it around the office. + We're trying to round up support for a series of new programs we're + launching." +"What kind of programs?" +"Folks back home are awfully nervous about all the fighting going on out + here. They need reassurance, you see? They need an environment dedicated + to peace, not war. But we can never have peace with our neighbours until + we're at peace with ourselves, so we at the Ministry of Peace are trying + to find new ways to do just that, ways we can better help each other, + work with each other." + -- Winters and Pierce Macabee in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Nice shoes. I'll admit my knowledge of the law is somewhat limited, but .. I + believe it's tradition if you're going to hold someone, you should at least + .. charge him .. with something." + -- Morden to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"When a patient starts to slip away .. when he looks at you .. and his eyes + grab hold of you the way a drowning man grabs hold of anything to keep him + from sinking.. I mean, afraid .. so afraid .. and then, just at the last, + it's as if they look past you to 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. 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." + -- Franklin to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"As the name implies, you must also be watchful. Peace can be made or broken + with a gun, a word, an idea, even a thought. Now, those who work *against* + peace sow the seeds of discontent. They plant false stories, they undermine + the public good. It's not because they are necessarily evil. It's because + they don't know any better. They're rejected, they're unhappy, and they lash + out in the only way they can. So, If we could be made aware of these + problems as they occur, then we can find these people, we can talk to these + people, we can embrace them again in the arms of society, while, at the same + time, protecting society from misinformation and harmful ideas. We're less + interested in actions than we are in attitudes. We must help protect society + against its own worst instincts. And by taking these bold steps, we *will* + help to ensure a better future for everyone. I'm proud to be a part of it, + and I hope you'll all join me in becoming part of the Night Watch." + -- Pierce Macabee in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Psi-Corps rules prohibit unauthorized scans in civil or criminal + investigations." +"How can it be unauthorized? According to Earth Central records, + *he* is supposed to be dead. Can a dead man object?" +"Captain, you're trying to use the letter of the law to defeat + the spirit of the law." + -- Winters and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"It was terrible, like falling into a bottomless well. And cold, so cold. + And just for a second I thought I saw this .." +"What? What did you see?" +".. A shape. I don't know. It was probably nothing." + -- Winters and Franklin in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"This is the only way. And we will tell you those answers. But be warned. + Once you know his secret, once you know what we have known the last three + years, you'll never sleep well again. Come, Captain, the greatest nightmare + of our time is waiting for you." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than either of + our races. Once, long ago, they walked among the stars like giants, vast, + timeless. Taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim, created great + empires, but to all things, there is an end. Slowly, over a million years, + the First Ones went away. Some passed beyond the stars never to return. + Some simply disappeared." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Not all of the First Ones have gone away. A few stayed behind, hidden, + or asleep, waiting for the day when they may be needed. When the Shadows + come again." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Shadows?" +"We have no other name for them. The Shadows were old when even the Ancients + were young. They battled one another over and over, across a million years. + The last great war against the Shadows was 10000 years ago. It was the last + time the Ancients walked openly among us. But the Shadows were only defeated + .. not destroyed. 1000 years ago, the Shadows returned to their places of + power, rebuilt them, and began to stretch forth their hand. Before they + could strike, they were defeated by an alliance of worlds, including the + Minbari .. and the few remaining First Ones who have not yet passed beyond + the veil. When they had finished, the First Ones went away .. all .. + but one." +"There's still one of them left. Where?" + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Recognized? By whom?" +"Everyone." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"'Yes' was the answer. What was the question?" +"Have the Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?" + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Once awakened, the Shadows could not allow them to leave, in case + they might warn others. Those who would not serve were killed." +"But were they all killed? Delenn, maybe .. maybe some of them were + kept alive as prisoners. Anna might still be alive! Morden--" +"Must be released." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"What? What did you see?" +"Nothing. Shadows." + -- Zack and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"You've been trying to help me so we can understand each other. It's not + what I want anymore. I want you to teach me .. how to fight them, how to + beat them. Because sooner or later I'm going to Z'ha'dum. And I'm going + to stop them." +"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die." +"Then I die. But I will not go down easily, and I will not go down alone. + You'll teach me?" +"Yes." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" +%% +"At least you don't have to spend your day in the Triangle." +"Triangle?" +"Grey sector. Ever since B5 went online, there've been all kind of stories + about the place. Strange lights, weird noises, people vanishing. Maintenance + nicknamed it the B5 Triangle. Now they swear that something's making their + scanners go haywire." +"Anything to the stories?" +"Nah, every station has its phantoms." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"I have been attacked by aliens before, but never by dead ones." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"Every generation of Centauri mourns for the golden days when their power + was like unto the gods. It's counterproductive. I mean, why make history + if you fail to learn by it?" +"You know, Vir, you have what the earthers call a negative personality." +"No, I don't." +"There. You see?" + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"Centauri have bowed to the whims of other races for too long. Now we will + show the galaxy our true spirit, beginning with those .. those thrice-damned + Narn." +"Emperor Turhan, may the gods comfort him, never wanted another war with the + Narn." +"The emperor was a good man, but he was wrong about the Narn. War with them + was inevitable. They have given us little choice in the matter." +"The Narn did not start this conflict. They were forced into it by a faction + within our own midst, the same faction who murdered Prime Minister Malachi + and put that infantile puppet Cartagia on the throne!" + -- Londo and Urza in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"Commander, everything in order?" +"Remarkably so. It is beginning to worry me." +"Do you always worry when things are going well?" +"I don't have time to worry about them when they are not." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"I thought you said the .. records were all confiscated." +"I made a copy. You never know when I might want to write my memoirs." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"Knowledge is a basic tool of politics. Mine is considerable." + -- Urza Jaddo to Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"You cannot build an empire based on slaughter .. and deceit." + -- Urza Jaddo to Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"Disgrace is preferable to death." +"There was a time when I would've agreed with you. That time has passed." +"Londo, this is insane." +"Insanity is part of the times! You must learn to embrace the madness, + let it fire you." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"Londo.. You had no choice. He would've killed you." +"He could've killed me any time. He was right, you know. I never could best + him with a kutari. But my death would not have saved his family." +"I don't understand." +"By the laws of the morago, the victor must accept the loser's family as + part of his own. They're House Mollari now. They cannot be harmed by the + resolution passed against Urza. He sacrificed himself. I have made many + choices lately, Vir. And today, for the first time.. I'm not sure those + choices were right." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"It's not too late to make some new choices." +"No. The blood is already on my hands. Right or wrong, .. + I must follow the path .. to its end." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +%% +"I thought Zeta squadron was on break." +"It is, but some time ago, Keffer saw or thought he saw something in + hyperspace, a ship of some kind, unknown configuration. He's been spending + some of his free time looking for it." +"Tell Lieutenant Keffer to return to base. I want all freelance expeditions + curbed from now on. His fighter's to be recharged and ready to go within + the hour." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"Something here doesn't add up. And unlike Mr. Garibaldi, + I don't like mysteries." + -- Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"For a meal with such an honored guest, there are rituals and traditions. + The food must be sanctified during each of the fifteen stages of cooking. + For instance, the spices must be blessed and a specific prayer spoken when + they are used, each spice can only be used once, of course, and in the + correct order. If an error is made, entire meal must be abandoned and you + must begin again from scratch." +"So, when do you sleep?" +"One does not sleep during the cooking. It could lead to error. So, for two + days Lennier has not slept. In order to remain pure, he has taken only water + and bread." + -- Lennier,Sheridan,Delenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"As there are rituals to follow in preparing the meal of this nature, there + are other rituals that must be observed when eating the meal. Otherwise the + food is no longer sanctified and .. Lennier must begin all over again." +"Heh. Well, we certainly wouldn't want that, would we?" + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"It is then tradition for the guest to set aside one piece of flarn in + the memory of Valen in the place that is set aside for his return." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"We must now wait for a few moments before eating again. + In between, we meditate upon food." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"In the memory of the nine and the one." + -- Sheridan waking up in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"No, no, I was not. I .. I was meditating." +"The sound you were making is part of human meditation?" +"I don't snore." + -- Sheridan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"Now, I want to know how terminal and how contagious." +"It is one hundred percent terminal. And one hundred percent .. contagious." + -- Franklin & Dr. Lazarenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"The disease only appeared once before, centuries ago on a small island on + our world noted for certain excesses. When it was struck down, the rest + of my people believed it was a punishment by the gods for their lack of + morality. They even named the disease after the island devastated by it: + Drafa." + -- Lazarenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"We are the pure. If we believe, then the dark angel of Drafa + will pass over us. Hurry. Inside now, everyone inside." + -- Ambassador F'shara in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"They're in pain, frightened, dying. Minbari are taught that at such a + time, the afflicted should be ministered to, comforted." +"They're not your own people, Delenn." +"I didn't know that similarity was required for the exercise of compassion. + They are afraid. We wish to do what little we can." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"Don't look away, Captain. All life is transitory, a dream. We all come + together in the same place, at the end of time. If I don't see you again + here, I will see you, in a little while, in a place where no shadows fall." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"You should get some sleep." +"Can't. Too much to do." +"That's your third stim tonight. Too much isn't good for you." +"If we don't figure this out, it's really not going to matter, now, is it?" + -- Lazarenn and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"Faith manages." + -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"Faith .. manages." + -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"You were very funny. Everything to you was a problem to be solved, a test + to be passed. But you know, Stephen, sometimes the test is not to find the + answer. It's to see how you react when you realize there is no answer." + -- Lazarenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"When I was a child, I once visited the city with my family and became + separated from my parents. The more I looked for them, the more lost I + became. The streets became smaller, narrower, darker. I was so afraid. + Then .. I found myself in an old temple. And .. I thought .. I will wait + here. I will be safe here .. and they will come, they will come for me." +"Did they?" +"Not at first. Hours passed. The temple was cold and deserted. I fell asleep. + When I woke up, there was someone standing over me. He looked down and + smiled, and .. my fear went away. He stood there, bright against the + darkness, and said that I was going to be all right, that if I .. believed + .. then my parents will come for me. He said, 'I will not allow harm to come + to my little ones here, in my great house.' Just then .. the door opened, + and my parents came running in." + -- Delenn and Sh'naal in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"Faith manages." + -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"Lennier, is there anyone? Anyone at all?" +".. No. No one." + -- Dr.Franklin and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"What do you call two billion dead Markabs? + Planetary redecorating." + -- Bartender in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +%% +"I didn't know you read Universe Today." +"Aah. After my last encounter with your reporters, I felt that + I should be more prepared in the future. I find this notion + of the press .. a fascinating, sometimes troubling concept." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Back home, if there is something you need to know, you are told + just what you require and no more. It's tradition." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"You know, ah, while this incessant curiosity may seem necessary to you, + Minbari respect the privacy of others by not prying into their affairs. + To express *undue* *curiosity*--" +"Unable to insert 'Eye on Minbari' section. Do you wish to accept edition + anyway?" +"Uh. Yes, yes I do." +"'Eye on Minbari'?" +"It is good to know what your people are thinking and saying about my people. + .. And, uh, I often learn things about my own world before I'm told what + 'I need to know and no more'." + -- Delenn, Computer and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Pakmara use only. Do not enter." + -- Toilet sign in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"I have been nothing but compassionate and understanding. I mean, all + you had to do was to admit you were wrong and I was right and everything + would've been fine." + -- Ivanova to Winters in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Lyta Alexander. She was the first commercial telepath assigned to + Babylon 5 little over two years ago. She arrived January 3, 2257. + She left about six weeks later." + -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Tell him that someone here, one of you, is a traitor. And I can prove it." + -- Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"What I'm about to tell you cost two good men their lives. It nearly + cost mine. This place is important to a lot of people. More important + than you could possibly know. So, I had to come back, to warn you." + -- Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Seven days ago .. One of our best people was murdered on his way back + from an intelligence-gathering operation in Syria Planum." +"That's interesting. Psi-corps has a research center there." +"Our agent found out about a secret Psi-corps program, a sleeper program." + -- Lyta Alexander and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Our guess is that it's someone on the command staff, or close to it, + since the mole would be looking for vital information. All we have + is a code name: *Control*." + -- Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Why is it, every time you finally get things calmed down and everything + is going great, life decides to .. kick you in the butt." +"But what?" +"What?" +"You said that life decides to kick you, *but*?" +"No, no. It's a .. it's a part of the body. It's a .. Oh, you have the + damnest gaps in your vocabulary." +"Preparing to come here, I was not taught the more .. *colorful* aspects + of your language. It was considered inappropriate for one of the religious + caste." +"You're missing out on a lot." +"So I gather. Butt. *Butt*. I butt, you butt, he or she butts." +"No. No, it's--" +"Butt butt. Butt butt?" +"You sound like a motor boat." +"Motor-butt? I don't think I like the sound of that." +"Well, I don't blame you. I'm against the whole idea." +"Then we are in agreement." +"Abso-fraggin'-lutely." +"Well, there you see." +"What?" +"Something's gone your way today. It's the way the universe works. + Wait just a little while, and the wheel turns." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"That's one cabinet that will never threaten us again." +"I'm sorry, I just-- it's been one of those days." + -- Talia and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"You said you both interned with the corps. Which department + did she intern with?" +"Psi-cops. When she found out she didn't like it, she changed departments + and became a commercial teep like me. Oh, 'teep'. It's sort of an in-joke + around the corps. Teeps for telepaths, teeks for telekinetics." + -- Ivanova and Talia in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"I told you that my mother was a telepath, and ever since I was born she + could slip into my thoughts in a way that I could never even describe to + you. What I didn't tell you .. is that I learned how to keep her out when + I wanted to and that every once in a while .. I was the one who touched + her mind. .. I'm a latent telepath." + -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Garibaldi believes her." +"Garibaldi doesn't believe anyone." +"Exactly." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"That's enough! Now, look at us. This is exactly what Psi-corps wants. + They want us paranoid and afraid of each other. 'Divide and conquer.' + It's the oldest rule in the book, you know that." +"I guess this wouldn't be a good time for me to suggest we all join + hands and sing Kumbaya?" + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"The corps is mother! The corps is father! You're dead, Lyta Alexander! + We'll find you! The corps will find you!" + -- Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"And what was on that data crystal he gave you?" +"Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future." + -- Talia Winters and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Always the romantic. The program is complete. The Talia you knew no longer + exists. There's just me. .. You don't know what it's like living only in + the shadows of her mind, watching, laughing at all of you out here: foolish, + petty, *stupid*. There I was, trapped inside, able to come out only at night + when she was asleep. Her invisible sister. And you believed *everything* + she said to you, all the things you wanted to hear, all the words I + whispered in her thoughts while she lay sleeping, the words that would get + her closer to you .. and to what you knew. You should see the look on your + face .. my *good* .. and *dear* friend Susan." + -- Talia Winters to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Only at night .. alone .. would I open that small door in my mind where I + kept the memory of you and listen to your voice, listen to you sing me to + sleep. I hope I can come back again .. but I don't know. Until then .. Kosh + .. I want to see you again .. just one more time before I go." + -- Lyta Alexander to Kosh in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +%% +"Oh, and you can bring one other. You know who." + -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"Mass drivers! They have been outlawed by every civilized planet!" +"These are uncivilized times." +"We have treaties." +"Ink on a page." + -- Londo and Refa in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"Sure you know where you are going?" +"Of course. I have an excellent memory." +"Positive?" +"Abso-fragging-lutely-dammit. Since our last discussion I have + been studying your use of language. Do you approve?" +"Well, we'll talk about that later. Left or right?" +"Left. .. I believe." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"You have changed. .. I like it." + -- Draal to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"I know Delenn has told you about the coming darkness. And, lately, I've + learned about your role in shall we say .. a conspiracy of light aimed + at your own government." + -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"I said a year ago that this place was to be left alone until the time was + right. That time has arrived. Now that I know the full capabilities of this + place, I am prepared to place them at your disposal." + -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"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." + -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"I'm never alone. My thoughts are always among the stars. And I've learned + that there are a few others living here who maintain the great machine. + I speak with them from time to time. They are quite .. interesting. There + is one particular who.." + -- Draal in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"So much to do, so little time. We must get to work! Zathras! + *Zathras*! Grrr, never around when he is needed!" + -- Draal in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"You are the only one of the Kha'Ri who is still safe." + -- A Narn to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the 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 can not + stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. + Though it take a thousand years, we will be *free*." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"Tell them, that from this place we will deliver notice to the parliaments + of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness. And we will + hold that line, .. no matter the cost." + -- Sheridan to Rangers in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +%% +"Lennier said you were calling for me." +"Yes." +"Is there something wrong?" +"You, perhaps. We have sent for you an inquisitor." +"An inquisitor? Why?" +"To be sure, about you. You will submit to his authority." +"How will I know who it is?" +"You will know, *if* you survive." + -- Delenn and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"Kosh must be certain that my choice was correct and made for the right + reasons." +"If you do the right thing for the wrong reasons, the work becomes corrupted, + impure, and ultimately self-destructive. Ambassador Kosh wishes confirmation + that the right people are in the right place at the right time." + -- Delenn and Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"Nothing changes. Corruption, immorality, chaos." + -- Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"The truth? You are not ready for the truth. The facts? If that's the only + way to get to my work. Yes, the Vorlons have been to Earth. The Vorlons + have been everywhere. The Vorlons are." + -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"I was found by the Vorlons, taken, transported, and brought into their + service. They told me everything about everything and the scales fell off + my eyes and they were opened to universe of majesty and terror that you + could never imagine. They call upon me when I'm needed, and preserve me + when I'm not. And they have called upon me now for this interrogation." + -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"Mr. Garibaldi. I have been on this station long enough to know that you + don't ask leading questions unless you already know the answers. So, why + don't we just pretend I've lied about it, you've caught me in your web of + ineluctable logic and cut to the point." + -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"We are already, as you so quaintly put it, going straight to hell. + We can not escape what's coming." +"Maybe not, but there's nothing wrong with taking a good ahead start." + -- G'Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"I meant, why are you doing this?" +"Because you didn't lie to me." +"But you must have known that ahead of time." +"Like you said, I never start a conversation unless I know where it's going, + but I always leave a little room for someone to disappoint me. Thanks for + not doing it." + -- G'Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"Unacceptable! What a sad thing you are. Unable to answer even such a simple + question without falling back on references, and genialities and what *other* + people call you. Have you *nothing* of your own? Nothing to stand on that is + not provided, defined, delineated, stamped, sanctioned, numbered, and + approved by others? How can you expected to fight for someone else when you + haven't the fairest idea who you are?" + -- Sebastian to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"We all have a destiny." +"Do we? How magnanimous of you." +"Sometimes we do not see it, because we have been taught to believe that + we are not important." + -- Delenn and Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"Why are you here, now, in this place, in this life?" +"I was meant to be here." +"Meant?" +"Yes." +"By whom?" +"I do not know." +"Then how can you be sure?" +"I don't know." +"No, you don't?" +"Does it matter? +"What do you mean?" +"If I believe I'm here now for a reason--" +"And if the world says otherwise?" +"Then the world is wrong!" +"And Delenn is right? Perhaps the world is right and *Delenn* is + wrong? Have you ever considered that? Have you?" +"Yes. Sometimes." +"Then there may yet be hope for you." + -- Sebastian and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"Do you know what your problem is, Delenn? You are a piece of the machine + that thinks it is the whole of the machine. The flute that believes itself + a symphony. You have malfunctioned. Admit it, and you'll feel better. Your + only destiny is to be a nail that is hammered down. Bang, bang, bang." + -- Sebastian to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"No. Be a nice Minbari, conform, be quiet, admit that you are inadequate." +"No!" +"Bang!" + -- Sebastian and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"You are linked at the hip. Just as bad as she is. But you are not just a + dreamer, you are a soldier. How far are you prepared to go? How much + are you prepared to risk? How many people are you prepared to sacrifice + for victory? Are you willing to die friendless, alone, deserted by + everyone? Because that's what may be required of you in the war that is + to come." + -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"What about the people you work with, the people you call friends? Are you + willing to sacrifice them? What about your *family*, what about your God, + what about truth, what about blood, what about right, what about wrong, + what about your future, what about faith, what about sin, what about hell, + what about death, what about life?" + -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"*Stop*! Your quarrel is with *me*. You were sent to investigate *me*. + Let him go. If you want to take someone, take me." +"Well, well. A mutual admiration and sacrificial society." + -- Delenn and Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"This body is only a shell. You can not touch me. You can not harm me. + I'm not afraid." + -- Delenn to Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"At last, my job is finished. *Yours* is just beginning. When the + darkness comes, know this: you *are* the right people, in the right + place at the right time." + -- Sebastian to Delenn & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"The city was drowning in decay, .. chaos, immorality. A message needed to be + sent, etched in blood, for all the world to see: a warning. In the pursuit + of my .. holy cause, I .. did things, terrible things, unspeakable things. + The world condemned me, but it didn't matter, because I believed I was right + and the world was wrong. I believed I was the divine messenger. I believed + I was--" +"Chosen?" +".. I was .. *found* by the Vorlons. They showed me the terrible depth of my + mistake, .. my crimes, my .. *presumption*. I have done 400 years of penance + in their service. A job, for which they said I was ideally suited. Now, + perhaps, they will finally let me die." +"I think that *might* be wise." +"Good luck to you in *your* holy cause, Captain Sheridan. May *your* choices + have better results than mine. Remembered, *not* as a messenger, remembered + not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero, not even as Sebastian. + Remembered only .. as *Jack*." + -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +%% +"Sometimes, I get so close and .. it seems I am shut off the important + things." +"The useless feeling. The ambassador is definitely going through some + changes, he even looks different." +"Indeed. And now with the military starting a stampede over everyone and + everything .." +".. people coming and going, and secret meetings .." +".. you never know what it's all about, until later, when its too late." +"And they never listen to us." +"Makes me nervous." [together] +"Same time tomorrow?" +"Sure." + -- Lennier and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"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 in our time." + -- Frederick Lantz in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"I remember the first time I put on this uniform. I felt ten feet tall. + Like I could take on the *whole* galaxy before breakfast. Now I look at + it, and it's just cloth. I don't know what it means anymore, what it + stands for." +"You know, it's going to be newyear in little over a week. Maybe 2260 is + the year that we redefine it, make it mean something again." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"Everyone said it was impossible to take out a Minbari warcruiser, but you + did it. The way things are going, I figured out that it might be nice to + have a remainder that impossible is possible." + -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"This isn't a request, Captain. It's a direct order from the joint + chiefs *and* the president. And you have two choices. Apologize, or + disobey a direct order from your superiors. As this would be an act of + insubordination, you will be removed from your position and someone more + .. reasonable will be installed to replace you." + -- Mr. Welles to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"I apologize. I'm .. sorry. 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. .. As with everything else, it's the thought that counts." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"Automatic door. Keep clear." + -- Sign on a shuttle in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"The whole station is talking about what happened. Every race that was in the + garden saw something different, yet .. the same. Being of light." +"Yes, each according to his or her type." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"Millions of years the Vorlons have visited other worlds. Guided them and.." +"Manipulated us? Programmed us, so that when we saw them we would react + the right way?" +"It is, as you say, a matter of perspective. What matters is that he has + revealed himself to those who understand. You, me, and those who have been + watching. The Shadows will know what Kosh has done, they will worry, afraid, + that he will not reveal himself unless the Vorlons were prepared to stand + against them." +"Are they?" +"I do not think so. But as long as the Shadows believe that the rest of us + are unaware of their existence, we have time to prepare." +"Then I just hope no one finds about them until .." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"Nothing. I saw .. nothing." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"It was the end of the year 2259 and the war was upon us. As anticipated, a + few days after the Earth-Centauri treaty was announced, the Centauri widened + their war to include many of the Non-Aligned Worlds. And there was another + war brewing closer to home. A personal one, whose cost would be higher than + any of us could imagine." +"We came to this place, because Babylon 5 was out last, best hope for peace. + By the end of 2259, we knew that it had failed. But in so doing it became + something greater. As the war expanded, it became our last, best hope for + victory, because sometimes peace is another word for surrender, and because + secrets have a way of getting out." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"Strategic analysts in Earthdome have indicated they don't know + who this new race might be, but promise to find out." + -- ISN in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +%% +"Ambassador. I've been looking for you. Last week, after you saved my life, + I didn't really get a chance to thank you properly. I've tried to reach you + since then, but .. you haven't answered my calls. Is everything all right?" +"Being seen by so many at once was a great strain. I returned to my ship to + rest. You have a question?" +"Nobody knows it was you. Everyone saw something .. different, something from + the legends of their own world. But it was still a terrible risk. After + taking such .. such care to hide what you really are, why take that chance?" +"It was necessary." +"Well, as answers go, short to the point, utterly useless and totally + consistent, what I've come to expect from a Vorlon." +"Good." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"You know, I just had a thought. You've been back and forth to your homeworld + so many times since you got here, how do I know you are the same Vorlon? + Inside that encounter-suit you could be anyone." +"I have *always* been here." +"Oh yeah, you said that about me too." +"Yes." +"I really hate it when you do that." +"Good." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"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." + -- Commander Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"You know, I'm getting little tired of these unannounced visits by VIPs who + will not tell us why they are coming or what they are going to do when + they get here." +"I'll leave it to you to try take all the fun out of life. I mean, come on, + where's your sense of mystery, adventure?" +"Are you trying to cheer me up?" +"No, sir. Wouldn't dream of it." +"Good. I hate being cheered up. It's depressing." +"Well, in that case, we all are going to die horrible, painful, bleeding + deaths." +"Thank you, I feel so much better now." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"We have danced our last little dance, Mr. Morden. + Now it is time for *you* to *go* *away*." + -- Londo to Morden in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"It's hard to gauge size in hyperspace, but it's big and it's powerful, and + it's totally unknown to us. It attacked and killed one of our pilots. It's + clearly from a highly-advanced civilization. We are down-playing this at + home, trying to convince the public we know what it is, where it's from + and that we are not worried. We don't have a clue." + -- David Endawi in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"These ships, once they target you, they never stop, never slow down, never + give up, until they have destroyed you. They are nearly invincible." +"I don't believe that. Every ship has a weakness." +"Believe what you will, then experience changes your mind. Take a good look, + John, and remember it well. That is the face of our enemy." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"Can you tell me if you have seen this before?" +"Yes. In a dream." +"In a dream?" +"I'm standing .. somewhere, on Centauri Prime, I think. And I am .. looking + up. And there are ships, just like this, passing .. overhead. First a few, + and then more, a thousand, two thousand, so many that they blot out the sun. + Terrible sight, terrible." +"That's all?" +"It is enough. .. No, that's all I know." + -- David Endawi and Londo in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"I haven't had chance to fill you in on everything until now. And I apologize + for that. But from what I've just heard we don't have a lot of time. This is + Marcus, he's a--" +"A Ranger. They've been trained to fight the Shadows and keep an eye on what + is happening outside Babylon 5. The Rangers in this area are in the direct + control of you, Ambassador Delenn, and Garibaldi is functioning as your + liaison. Did I leave anything out?" +"When did you..? How did you..?" +"Captain, the day something happens around here and I *don't* know about it, + worry." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"I thought the Rangers will be trained on Minbar." +"Many of them are, yes. But there is a wisdom in, as you say, + not putting all of your eggs in one basket." + -- Garibaldi and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"We've spent too much time reacting when we should have been acting. + Let's take the offensive for a change. Fire up the shuttle, Commander, + we've got work to do." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"What guarantee do we have that your forces do not decide to turn around + and attack us?" +"None. Ambassador, we both know what promises and treaties mean. All I can + say is that we have what we want. The rest is no concern to us." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"I'm not authorized for that kind of information." +"But you are the head of security." +"Then 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 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 have tried most of the other + ambassadors, why don't you speak to G'Kar, maybe he knows something about + this ship." +"Under the terms of our recent treaty, I am not authorized to have any + official conversation with the Narn without Centauri approval." +"So you'll ask unofficially. And I can give you reasonable assurances that + the head of security will not report you for doing so." +"Because you won't tell yourself about it?" +"That's right. I never get involved with my own life. It's too much trouble." +"This is a very strange place you have here, Mr. Garibaldi." +"Thank you." + -- Garibaldi and David Endawi in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"They came to our world over a thousand of your years ago, long before + we went to the stars ourselves. They set up a base in one of our southern + continents. They took little interest in us. G'Quan believed they were + engaged in a war far outside our own world." +"G'Quan?" +"One of our greatest spiritual leaders. The book of G'Quan is copied by hand + from the original with every note and line precisely drawn. This ship and + your ship are the same. I tried to warn the others that the ancient enemy + was returning, but no one listened. Perhaps now they will." +"But if this is correct, why would they just disappear for a thousand years?" +"To all things there is a time, Mr. Endawi. Perhaps this is theirs." + -- G'Kar and David Endawi in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"They missed!? They never miss!" + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"Not that I can see. The ship is a complete mystery to all of them." +"Good. My associates will be very happy to hear that. There's no need to + *rush* things. Your government can dismiss this as an isolated incident." +"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." + -- a Senator, Morden and a Psi Cop in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"Well, then, I have a question. Been granted, I am stuck at medlab most of + the time, and granted, I'm usually the last one to know anything around + here, and granted, we've all been pretty busy lately, but would someone + *please* tell me what the hell these Shadows are?" + -- Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than any of + our races. They walked among the stars like giants, vast, timeless. + They created great empires, taught the new races, explored beyond the rim. + The oldest of the ancients are the Shadows. We have no other name for them." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +%% +"God goes by many names, perhaps some alien sounding, different faces, and + history, but all describing the same Creator. We've come here to learn *all* + those names, in hopes of better understanding the One who's behind them." + -- Brother Theo to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"I heard a joke today. I probably shouldn't repeat it, but .. who are you + going to tell? How many Centauri does it take to .. ahem screw in a + lightbulb? .. Just one, *but* in the great old days of Republic hundreds + of servants would change a thousand lightbulbs at our slightest whim." + -- Londo to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"This is insane! We *must* work together!" +"No. As the humans say: Up yours, guy!" + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"*We're* *in* *here*! *Can* *anyone* *hear* *us*?" +"I hear you." [giggle, laugh] +"*In* *here*!" +"We are here." [giggle, laugh] + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"Not many fishes left in the sea. Not many fishes, just Londo and me. + *Not* many fishes left in the sea. Not many fishes, just Londo and me." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"Now look, we play this one by the book." [Lights go out.] +"Somebody just rewrote to book." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"As long as the trigger keeps transmitting, no *boom*." + -- Robert J. Carlson to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"These are *chaotic* *times*, Captain. I'm simply an instrument of my time. + People need to understand fear. Do you understand fear? Do you?" + -- Robert J. Carlson to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"It's nothing personal, Captain. It's just the times." + -- Robert J. Carlson to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"No. It didn't. It's not fair. It's not fair!" +"What can I say? Life's tough sometimes." + -- Robert J. Carlson and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"How do you feel?" +"As though great many heavy objects had fallen on me. + But I suspect I will live." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"I did what I did because all life is sacred. But when the object of your + actions does not share that belief.. I fear I have served the present by + sacrificing the future." + -- Lennier about Londo in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"There, you see! I'm going to live." +"So it would seem. Well, it's an imperfect universe." +"Bastard." +"Monster." +"Fanatic." +"Murderer." +"You are *insane*!" +"And that is why we'll win." +"Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5 they say. Will be an *easy* assignment. + Ah, I *hate* my life." +"So do I." +"*Shut* *up*!" + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +%% +"You have the gun. All I've got is .. what I've got." +"No way. I drop you and your guards will kill me." +"Maybe. Maybe not, hell, anything happens to me, everyone gets an *instant* + promotion. You've got the gun, go ahead, go for it. I'll wait for you." + -- Sheridan and Troublemaker in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"Energy-cap. I palmed it when I shoved the gun in his pocket." +"You are going to give *me* an ulcer." +"Okay, okay, next time I'll give him a live gun. You really do want that + promotion, don't you?" +"Next time you gonna ..?!" + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"Hey, did I ever tell you I looked through the Captain's personnel file?" +"You *what*?!" +"Shhh!" +"Michael, that information is strictly off limits." +"I did it when he first came aboard. I like to know who I'm dealing with. + And who knew he turn out to be okay, huh? Right now, according to his file, + Sheridan is a good tactical thinker. He can take an inferior defensive force + and turn it into an offensive force capable of taking on a better-equipped + enemy. Now, he did it with the Black Star, he did it during the Mars riots. + Now, you ask me, he is the one chance we've got to make it through this + thing alive." +"Maybe. .. Did you look through *my* files when I came onboard?" +"Commander, that information is strictly off limits." + -- Garibaldi and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"So is that what it's about, pride? It's not enough that we have beaten them, + we have to break them?" +"Yes, I'm sorry, I thought you understood that. I don't want our people to go + through this again in another hundred years. There's a way things are done, + Vir, nothing personal." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"Sort of like an inter-stellar gardener, plucking out all of the + weeds so that the flowers can grow." +"Basically, yes." +"Well, let's just hope that High-IQ boys back home give us all the + right answers to this test. Otherwise we're gonna get hit with + a 500000-megaton weedwhacker." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"I want to *protect* you." +"I don't want to be protected!" +"Well, I'm afraid it's not your decision. It's already done. You've been + promoted. You'll earn more money, receive more attention, women may even + come to find you attractive .. in time." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"Londo, if I leave, you'll be alone." +"Pah, I've always been alone." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"I don't want to get killed because of a typo, it would be embarrassing." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"Always finding good in every situation, Captain?" +"Absolutely. If I didn't, I might end up like you." +"*Hey*, what's that supposed to mean? Did anybody else hear that?" + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"I swear, if we'll live through this, someone is going to find their + automatic shower-preferences reprogrammed for ice-water." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"15 seconds. Captain, send or no send?" +"No send." +"Oh boy." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"Captain, are you all right?" +"Nuts." +"What's wrong? I mean, we've survived." +"Right, which means that I have to go to that stupid transport association + meeting. Oh, well." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"If I'll live through this job .. without completely losing my mind, + it will be a miracle of biblical proportions." +"Well, there goes my faith in the Almighty." + -- Ivanova and Lt. Corwin in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"If I stay here, your families are in jeopardy. + Is anything more important than their safety?" +"Yes, their freedom." + -- G'Kar and a Narn in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +%% +"Your Ambassador Delenn has a wonderful phrase: 'Faith *manages*.'" + -- Brother Theo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"Ambassador, you wanted to see me?" +"Yes. Formality. Ritual. You should be informed." +"Informed of what?" +"Returning." + -- Ivanova and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"The next thing I remember I was on the Vorlon Homeworld." +"Well, come on. Tell us about it." +"I can't. I wish I could, but I'm not allowed to talk about most of what I + saw. The rest, .. you wouldn't believe anyway." + -- Lyta Alexander & Franklin in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"It said: 'Death walks among you.' I know what I saw." + -- Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"I was just surprised to see you, that's all. Do you know, that I was + thinking about you *just* the other day. My *extremely* overpaid sources + told me that you have been seen arriving here in a *Vorlon* transport. Now, + they are profoundly unreliable pool of information on the best of days, so + I said: 'No, it can not be her. The Vorlons do not pick up hitch-hikers. Not + even one as attractive as you. Besides, if it were you, *surely* you would + come by and say hello to your old friend, Londo.'" + -- Londo to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"*Fine*! And keep your threats to yourself! Nightmares. + The way my life has been going lately, who'd notice?" + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"Among my people it is considered an honor to aid + any true seeker in his quest." + -- Delenn to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"It is a.. it is very hard to explain. We do not believe in any individual + god or gods. But rather, we believe that the soul is a -- what is a good + term -- a non-localized phenomenon." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"Well, if I project a beam of light at the wall, you see the light on + the wall, but the wall is not the source of the light. It comes in from + somewhere else. The soul is also a projection. It does not exist inside + us any more than the light exists inside the wall. But this .. shell is + the only way we can perceive it." + -- Lennier to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"We believe that the universe itself is conscious in a way we can never truly + understand. It is engaged in a search for meaning. So it .. breaks itself + apart, investing its own consciousness in every form of life." + -- Delenn to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"*We* are the universe, trying to understand itself." + -- Delenn to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"Valen was the greatest of us. A thousand years ago he came from nowhere, + formed the Grey Council, and brought peace to our people. They say he was + a Minbari, not born of Minbari." + -- Lennier to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"Why would an uneasy conscience show up in a lab report?" + -- Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"Where does revenge end, and justice begin?" + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +%% +"Wars are won or lost before they are fought. The preparation, attitude, + strategy, and the selection of proper allies. In the growing war against + the Shadows, maybe there are some allies we have not approached yet. Many + times over the last million years the Shadows were fought to a stand-still + by the First Ones, races immeasurable older than our own. After the last + war, a thousand years ago, we believed the first ones went away forever, + passing beyond the galactic rim, where no human or minbari has ever + ventured. But the vorlons remained, it is possible that some of the others + may still be around." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"According to legend, some went to sleep in secret places, deep beneath their + ancient cities, where no one can bother them. The rest walk among the stars, + on errands we never hope to understand, barely aware of our existance." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"Delenn tells me that you are going to try contacting the First Ones. It is + a *magnificent* idea. A *daring*, and *splendid* idea. In doing so you will + see things no human has seen before. It will be *fun*. Assuming you are not + vaporised, dissected, or otherwise killed in an assortment of supremely + horrible and painful ways. *Exciting*, isn't it?" + -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"I asked for Captain Sheridan." +"He's busy." +"I don't like surprises." +"Really? I love them myself. I mean, to me everything is a surprise. You're + a surprise, this place is a surprise. You see this? Paper-cut, hurts like + hell. Anybody else would be upset, but to me it's just one more wonderful + surprise. I mean, I even surprise myself sometimes. Now, I guess there's + nothing wrong me surprising you? Right?" +"Hahhahaha. I *like* you. You're trouble." +"Well, thank you. It's the nicest thing anybody has said about me in days." + -- Draal and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"Earth doesn't have homeless. We don't have the problem. Well, yes, there + are *some* displaced people, here and there, but they've chosen to be in + their position. They're either lazy or they're criminal or they're mentally + unstable." +"They can't get a job." +"Earth-gov has promised a job to everyone that wants one. So, if someone + doesn't have a job, they must not want one." + -- Julie Musante and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"Poverty?" +"It's the same." +"Crime?" +"Yes, there is some, but it's all caused by the mentally unstable. And we've + *just* instituted correctional centers to filter them out at an early age." +"Prejudice?" +"No, we are just one happy planet." + -- Julie Musante and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"I'm here to protect you." + -- Julie Musante to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"Well, here we are. If you just plug yourself in to the matrix, we'll take + it from there." +"Ahm, it's .. ahm .. occupied." +"Oh, yes, of course, my mistake. I spend so much time out of my body, + I sometimes forget where it is. If you'll excuse me." + -- Draal and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"All life forms are connected. Look for the path. Look for the path." + -- Draal to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"I can't leave without an explanation. She'll be all over me." +"Looks to me she's already all over you." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"Good luck, Captain. I think you are about to go where everyone has + gone before." + -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"With our basic freedom in stake, no response can be too extreme. There + maybe some minor and *temporary* abridgments in the traditionally protected + areas, such as speech and association, but only until this crisis is over." + -- Julie Musante in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"I think you just hit a nerve. Vorlons must owe them money or something." +"This also tells they understand our language. They are just not willing + to speak to us using that." +"Who knew they were French?" + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"The Minbari taught me: + 'Claim victory in your heart and the Universe will follow.'" +"Fine, great. Claim victory in your heart and up your--" + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"I told you I could help. The book of G'Quan. Read it. We'll talk afterwards." +"I don't read Narn." +"Learn." + -- G'Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +%% +"I will not support murder. We can *not* kill him." +"Can we wound him? Just a little?" + -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"Far be it from me to try and talk you out of your paranoia, Captain. + You choose not to trust me. Well, that's sad, and unfortunate. But + unlike the rest of you, I have no intention of letting it get into the + way of my work. Doctor. Trust, Captain. You should try it sometime." + -- Bester to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"I'm here to save your butts. Next time, show a little gratitude." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"A darkness carried in the heart can not be cured by moving + the body from one place to another." + -- Lennier to Vir in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"My blood is the same color as yours. And what I do, I do to protect Earth, + same as you. You don't like how I do it, that's your prerogative. But there + are things going on out there that you know nothing about. Threats to the + human race that no one never hears about, because we stopped them. There + are dangers all around us. And whether you like us or not, we may be all + that stands between you and the abyss." + -- Bester to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"I thought the sleepers keep you from scanning anyone." +"That's right." +"So, how did you know he was lying?" +"Well, the odds were good that he was lying about *something*. Liars are + always afraid that somebody is going to see through them. So, I just + provided him with a vehicle for his paranoia. Your captain's opinions + non-withstanding, the badge and a uniform do have certain.. advantages." +"Like intimidation?" +"Absolutely. Just like.. *your* badge and .. *your* uniform." + -- Garibaldi and Bester in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"Londo, the Minbari are very lovely people, interested in culture, and art.." +"Decorative, and soft. Probably out to impose their views on everyone else." +"But their cities are thousands of years old." +"The lack of new construction is a sure sign of a faltering economy. + This could make them very aggressive." +"They are deeply spiritual people, Londo." +"*That* you can leave in. It always scares people." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"If I had my talent working, I could've warned you when he was coming." +"And if I had a baseball bat, we could hang you from the ceiling and play + pinjata. I still think I should've gone straight to G'Kar." +"We have no evidence that he made the sale yet. Why annoy the Narn without + cause if we are wrong? Shut off the problem at the source and the rest + attends to itself. A pinjata, huh? So, you think of me as something bright + and cheerful full of toys and candy for young children. Thank you! + That makes me feel.. much better about our relationship." + -- Bester and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"Who would believe it? The great and powerful Londo Mollari got + his job because no one else was stupid enough to take it." + -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"Who are you?" +"I am .. who I have always been." + -- G'Kar and 'his father' in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"We are a dying people, G'Kar. So are the Centauri. Obsessed with each + other's death until death is all we can see, and death is all we deserve." + -- Narn Image to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"What is there left for Narn if all of creation falls around us? There's + *nothing*. No hope, no dream, no future, no life. Unless we turn from the + cycle of death toward something greater. If we *are* a dying people, then + let us die with honor, by helping the others as no one else can." +"I don't understand." +"Because you have let them distract you. Blind you with hate. You cannot see + the battle for what it is. We are fighting to save one another, we must + realize we are not alone. We rise and fall together. And some of us must be + sacrificed if all are to be saved. Because, if we fail in this, then none of + us will be saved. And the Narn will be only a memory." + -- Narn Image and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"Why now? Why not earlier? All this time, where have you been?" +"I have always been here." + -- G'Kar and Narn Image in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +%% +"Shadow vessels. They were sighted in sector 800 two days ago. Seems they're + gathering, creating a border on the edge of the Centauri space." + -- A ranger to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +%% +"Listen, now that you have been promoted, I was thinking. We spend a lot of + time up here together, but we never really get a chance to talk. So I was + thinking maybe we could get together and talk about what you see yourself + doing down the road, just .. you know, get to know each other a bit better." +"Well. Ah. Sure. We could, .. I don't know, meet in the mess hall for + breakfast?" +"No, you can't have a private conversation up there. The dishes cluttering, + people talking.. So, why don't you come by my quarters later in the day and + we can have a cup of coffee. Real coffee. Just don't ask me where I got it." + -- Ivanova and Lt. Corwin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +%% +"Hi! Something I can help you with?" +"I don't know, I was thinking .. flowers." +"Thinking flowers is good, giving flowers is better. What's the occasion?" +"I'm not sure, but I think I have a date." +"She asked you out?" +"She asked me *in*, her place." +"Works fast. Is she agressive?" +"You could say that." +"Hah. Lucky guy." +"It's not like that. Well, it's not like that *yet*. .. I think." + -- Flower salesman and David Corwin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +%% +"There are three of them with guns against two of us with *nothing*. + They'll gun us down before we get half across the room." +"All we need is one of them to leave the room. Then there will be + only one man with the gun." +"Excuse me, where I come from, one man from three leaves two." +"Where I come from is a far more interesting place." + -- Franklin and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +%% +"I sense in her a key, as yet unturned." +"And what exactly does that mean?" +"I don't know. But I should think it would be *fascinating* to find out." + -- Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +%% +"You see that tube on the corner of the table there? That's a medical + scanner, the Copeland J5000, very advanced. I was bringing it to him. + You need to get it to him immediately. I know, I know, why should you + believe me, it could be a weapon or something. Check it out yourself. + Just look at the open end, yeah, then shake, shake it twice firmly to + activate the scanner." + -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +%% +"It says we were created half a million years ago. Bred to be living records + of all those we have seen and touched. For all that time we have travelled + through the galaxy in our host bodies. We have seen double sunset on worlds + so far away you have no name for them. We remember music that was played + before your kind learned to speak. Within us is the living memory, deeds and + stories, civilizations and passions, wars and struggle, great beauty. But in + time even we die, unless we find shelter within other living beings. So, we + seek out those who have nothing to look forward to, those whose lives are at + an end, those who know they will be never more than they are now, those who + will never know beauty, or peace, or purpose and we give them that. Through + us they are born to a new life." + -- Vindrizi to Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +%% +"I've taken the opportunity provided by my incarceration to meditate, + to think. Sometimes, I even sing." +"I know, we got a petition." +"For or against?" +"Based on the sound, they think we are torturing you in here." + -- G'Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +%% +"In here, Mr Garibaldi, you can not hide from yourself. Everything out there + has only one purpose. To distract us from ourselves, what is truly important. + There are no distractions in here. We can learn much from silence." + -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +%% +"Seven years ago I was stationed on Mars. We were always getting false leads + on artifacts supposedly buried beneath the Martian soil for thousands of + years. Nothing ever came of it. And then one day our sonic probes picked up + something three hundred feet below the surface of Syria Planum. We didn't + know what it was. Except that it wasn't a natural formation. And given it's + depth, it had been there at least a thousand years. It was in the middle of + Martian winter, so it took weeks to dig half of it from the ground. But that + much was enough to give me nightmares for the rest of my life. It's the same + ship we have seen on the news lately. That one looks like it came straight + from hell." + -- Dr. Mary Kirkish in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +%% +"But back home they are saying they have never seen ships like this before." +"They are lying. I was there." + -- Sheridan and Dr. Mary Kirkish in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +%% +"How can you sleep in these things?" +"It's quite simple with proper meditation. Because we consider sleeping + in horizontal to be tempting death." +"Yeah, if I'm sleeping in this, I'm tempting fate .. all night." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +%% +"And according to one of our units on the border of Centauri space, they've + continued massing their fleet. We don't know why. Maybe they expect a counter + attack, it's hard to say. And they have much to be concerned about. There's + always the threat of an attack by say, a giant space dragon, the kind that + leaves the sun every thirty days. It's a nuisance, but what would you expect + from reptiles. Did I mention that my nose was on fire? That I have fifteen + wild badgers living in my trousers? I'm sorry, would you prefer ferrets?" + -- Marcus to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +%% +"The shadow vessels use living creatures as their central core. Whoever + steps inside merges with it, becomes one with the ship. After that it's + fully functional. They must be sending one in right now." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +%% +"In Valen's name. It's awake." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +%% +"No. No, this report is totally inappropriate. You have to do it again." +"But Londo, why? I've spent weeks working on this report. I didn't even + sleep on the flight back from Minbar so I could go over it again. I've + checked *every* *single* *detail* myself. It's absolutely accurate." +"Yes, Vir, I'm sure it is. And that is the problem. Here, you say: + 'The Minbari have carefully preserved their cities over the course + of centuries'." +"That's right, absolutely." +"No, what you should say instead is: 'Their cities are very old indicating + a decaying culture.'" +"*What*?" +"And here: 'The Minbari put great emphasis on art, literature and music.' + Say instead: 'They are decadent people, interested only in the pursuit of + .. of dubious pleasures.' Dubious-part is very important. It doesn't *mean* + anything, but it *scares* people every time. All right?" + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"I thought the purpose of filing these reports was to provide accurate + intelligence." +"Vir, intelligence has nothing to do with politics." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"Here, 'They are tolerant of differences among other cultures.'" +"Yes." +"No, make that: 'They have no well-defined sense of morality.' + They'll *love* that back home." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"'Everything's gone to hell, John. God help us all. You're on your own.'" + -- Gen. Hague's message to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"Emergency evac pod access way." + -- Sign outside C&C in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"Captain, how did this happen? What did we do wrong?" +"I don't know, Lieutenant. I don't know." + -- Lt. Corwin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"I might have something for you in a little while, Mr. Garibaldi. + When the time is right." + -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"I need to know if the grand destiny I see before me is what is, or what + might be." +"So you want her to tell you it's all going to happen the way you see it?" +"No, I want her to tell me it won't." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"I believe that I have been touched. That I am meant for something greater. + A greater darkness or a greater good, I can no longer say. All I have ever + wanted is to serve our people. I need to see what is before me. If I should + escape it, or embrace it. If there is any longer a choice." +"There is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves + with the decision we have already made. If you understand that, there's + hope. If not .." + -- Londo and Lady Morella in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"You must understand, Ta'Lon, I have had a revelation." +"What kind of revelation?" +"Most profound and substantial one, Ta'Lon. The kind of revelation that + transforms your mind, .. your soul, .. your heart, .. even your flesh. + So that you are a new creature. We born in the instant of understanding." + -- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"What do you understand now that you did not understand before?" +"It's all here, in these pages. I have tried to write down what I have seen. + It may take the rest of my life to explain what I *saw* in that one singular + instant. To save our people, we must sacrifice our people, sacrifice + ourselves, pride our vengeance, be willing to die by the thousands, by the + millions. For one another. The more we fight for ourselves, the more we will + lose ourselves. We are linked, Ta'Lon. Our fate is like an image caught in + a mirror. If we deny the other, we deny *ourselves*. And we will cease to + exist." +"And who or what is this 'other'?" +"The universe itself, Ta'Lon. But the Humans, they are the key. And together, + you and I, and the rest, we will turn that key. Because on the other side, + there's salvation for all of us." + -- Ta'Lon and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"G'Kar, what are you doing here?" +"[whispering] Saving all of us. I've had .. an idea." + -- Ivanova and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"Always plant a lie inside a truth, makes it easier to swallow." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"You have a chance few others will ever have, Mollari. You still have three + opportunities to avoid the fire that waits for you at the end of your + journey. You've already wasted two others. You must save the eye that does + not see. You must not kill the one who is already dead. And at the last, + you must surrender yourself to your greatest fear, knowing that it will + destroy you. Now, if you fail all the others, that is your final chance for + redemption." +"I .. don't understand." +"The future reveals itself only reluctantly, Ambassador. Take the sign for + what it is. Look for it when it appears." +"I will, thank you." + -- Lady Morella and Londo in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"One more thing. You *will* be Emperor. That part of your destiny can not + be avoided." +"I see." +"[to Vir] You will also be Emperor." + -- Lady Morella and Londo in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"Lady Morella, please. We can not *both* be Emperor." +"Correct. One of you will become Emperor .. after the other is dead. + That is all we see and all we wish to see." + -- Londo and Lady Morella in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"I have time. All the time in the world. Do you?" + -- G'Kar to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +%% +"He has a wife back home, three small children, an abessinian cat named Max. + That's what makes this war different from anything we have ever gone + through before. This time we *know* everyone we kill." + -- Major Ed Ryan in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +%% +"Delenn, please be careful. The Grey Council is not what it was. They may not + receive you well, if they will see you at all." +"They *will* see me whether they like it or not. It's time someone made them + face reality." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +%% +"Three years. For three years I warned you this day was coming. But you + would not listen. *Pride*, you said, *presumption*. And now the Shadows are + on the move. The Centauri and the younger worlds are at war, the Narns have + fallen. Even the Humans are fighting one another. The *pride* was yours, + the presumption was yours. For a thousand years we have been awaiting for + fulfilment of prophecy, and when it finally happens, you scorn it, you + reject it. Because you no longer believe it yourselves. 'We stand between + the candle and the star, between the darkness and the light.' You say the + words, but your hearts are empty, your ears closed to the truth. You stand + for nothing but your own petty interests. 'Problems of others are not our + concern.' I do not blame you for standing silent in your shame. You, who + knew what was coming, but refused to take up the burden of this war. If the + warrior caste will not fight, then the rest of us will. If the Council has + lost its way, if it will not lead, if we have abandoned our covenant with + Valen, the Council should be broken, as was prophecied. We must stand with + the others *now*, before it's too late. Between the worker caste and the + religious caste we control two thirds of our forces. Do you, I say, listen + to the voice of your conscience? Break the Council, and come with we. Our + time of isolation is over. We move *now*, together, or not at all." + -- Delenn to Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +%% +"What was the first lesson I ever taught you?" +"Never start a fight, but always finish it." + -- David Sheridan to John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +%% +"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. + Withdraw, .. or be destroyed." [in the White Star!] +"Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship." +"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with Minbari + fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, + be somewhere else." + -- Delenn and Captain Drake in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +%% +"Traitors can't hide." + -- Nightwatch banner in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +%% +"So once we open up all the comm channels, they can send a message out to + override the system, erase our passwords and lock us out. Cute. They can + shut down the defense grid, life support.." +"No problem. I have got the access codes locked away. Shouldn't be too much + trouble to go and change the passwords." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"We have to reassure everyone that we are in control of the situation. + We can't do that hiding in our offices." +"I still think you should have an armed escort." +"Kind of defeats the purpose, Mr. Garibaldi. I can take care of myself." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Opinion doesn't enter into it. What is, is. Prophecy said one day we would + unite with the other half of our soul in a war with the ancient enemy. + This we have done." +"Prophecies are poor guide to the future. You only understand it when the + events are already upon you. And .. not all of the prophecies are good + ones. There's darkness and fire still ahead of us. There are no guarantees + that any of us will survive it." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"I told you to wait!" +"I had a clear shot." +"You had *nothing*! You take him down, he's a martyr. 500 men will stand + up where he fell. Now, we do this by the numbers, or not at all. Don't + worry, before this is over, we'll have our pound of flesh." + -- Boggs and Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"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." +"We can handle it. Our resources are greater than you think." + -- Londo and Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"I have gotten into the habit of recording important meetings. One never + know when an inconvenient truth would fall between the cracks and vanish." + -- Londo to Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Mr. Morden and his associates worry me. After the Narns were defeated, I + took steps to put some distance between us. Refa, I have the feeling that + he and his associates are carving a great, dark hole in the middle of the + universe. And when they go down, anyone nearby will go with them." +"That will not happen. You don't appreciate their strength." +"I appreciate their strength all right. And that is why this unfocused + aggression worries me. By drawing our forces into dozen smaller wars you + have effectively weakened our main line of defense, should they turn an + eye to Centauri Prime." +"They will not do that." +"No, they will not, because you are going to take steps to prevent it. + And you start by breaking off your relationship with Mr. Morden." + -- Londo to Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Oh, Londo, you are a *fool*. You walk away from the greatest power I have + even seen, and now you expect *me* to do the same. They are the *key* to my + eventual rise to the throne. Why would I abandon them?" +"Because I have asked you. And because your loyalty to our people should be + greater than your ambition. And because I have poisoned your drink." + -- Lord Refa and Londo in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Yes, and it is *very* interesting poison. It comes in two parts. Both are + harmless on their own, but when combined, quite lethal. The first settles + into the blood stream and the intestinal wounds. It stays there for years, + silent, dormant, waiting. When the other half of the poison enters the + body, the two meet, have a little party in your cardiovascular system. + And suddenly, you .. are .. quite .. dead." + -- Londo to Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Your drink contained the first half of the poison." +"Why? Why did you do this?" +"To guarantee your co-operation. And because, sooner or later you would + do it to me. Yes, we are returning to the old ways, Refa. And poison was + always the instrument of choice in the old Republic. Being something of + an sentimentalist, I got here *first*." +"What do you want me to do?" +"You have encouraged that fool Cartagia to attack worlds that have no value + to us. You will now encourage him otherwise. You will bolster our lines of + defense around Centauri Prime. And you have nothing more to do with Mr. + Morden. If you do not comply, one of my agents in the royal palace will + introduce you to the second half of the poison. To your health, Lord Refa." + -- Londo and Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"We have gone through so much pain, John. If we do not put it behind us, + if we are not sworn into new possibilities, it will surely destroy us." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Toebone's connected to the footbone, + footbone's connected to the anklebone, + the anklebone's connected to the legbone, + legbone's connected to the hipbone, + now hear the word of the Lord." + -- Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"You've been nervous about this ever since I mentioned it. What are you + afraid of?" +"Nothing. Well, spiders." +"Marcus, the rebirth ceremony was part of your training on Minbar." +"I missed it, overslept." +"It lasts all day." +"Oh, that's right, I was ill. Wanted to go, .. couldn't. Same as now. + Loved to, can't really, next time. Ah, someone I have been waiting for." + -- Delenn and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Could you tell me a little more about what is involved in this rebirth + ceremony?" +"Reflection, meditation upon what has gone before, what is now, and what + is to come." + -- Londo and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Ah, for a moment I was thinking women, drinking and debauchery. I forgot I + was speaking to a Minbari. This, by you, is a good time, is it? What else?" +"You must tell someone a secret that you have never told anyone else before. + And you must give away something that is of great value to you." +"Ah, how positively festive!" + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"It is time for us to come together, to restore that which has been torn + apart, and to heal the wounds we have suffered." +"With everything that has been going on, I'm surprised you invited me." +"In the matter of confessions, meditation and the closing of past wounds, + Ambassador, you were at the top of my list." +"I'm already attending to my past, my present and what remains of my future. + I do not require your assistance. Or your *approval*. Enjoy your ceremony, + Delenn. I intend to have other plans." + -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"I'll try and stop by for the closing ceremonies." +"What matters is everything leading up to that point. + Leaving behind the old, preparing to be reborn." +"I have already been born once, and quite sufficiently, I think." + -- G'Kar and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Well, it was a good idea while it lasted." +"It *still* *is* a good idea. We will hold the ceremony. If some choose + not to attend, the loss is theirs." + -- Marcus and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Everything I was, everything I had, all of it died that night. + I don't have anything left to give." +"And that is exactly what you must give up. Yes, you have lost much, endured + much, sacrificed greatly, but you cling to the memory of your sacrifices, + of all the things you have lost or left behind. They *drag* behind you, + like chains of your own making. They can have a terrible power over you, + Marcus. The power of grief, and loss, and regret. Yes, you have let go of + the people, the places, the things, but you have not let go of the pain. + You have not forgiven yourself." +"For what?" +"Being alive." + -- Marcus and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Hello. I'll deal myself in." +"I thought we had an understanding. We don't bother you, you don't bother us." +"That was before a close friend of mine was abducted by some very bad people. + Being rather bad people yourselves, it occurs to me one of you might know + where she is." +"We don't talk to security, why should we talk to you?" +"Because if you don't, then in five minutes I'll be the only person of this + table still standing. Five minutes after that, I'll be the only person in + this room still standing. So, who's in?" + -- Marcus and a 'bad boy' in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Among Minbari, one individual leads, but we move as one. We are at our best + when we move together, and we are at our worst when we move together. When + our leader was killed by your people, we went mad together. We stayed mad + for a very long time, a maddness that almost consumed your world, until + finally, before it was too late, we woke up together. But you, you are + alone, you have no one to awaken you from your madness. For this, and + nothing else, I feel pity for you." + -- Delenn to Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Oh bugger, now I have to wait for someone to wake up." + -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"I see they trained you well back home." +"Yeah, they always said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger." +"And?" +"I'm not repressed anymore." + -- Lennier and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"I know that Delenn is fated for another, and I have accepted that, + in my heart. But I have vowed to stay at her side through all things + for as long as I live." + -- Lennier to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"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." + -- Marcus to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Always bet on stupidity." + -- Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"No more! No more of you! No more Nightwatch, no more hostages, no more + lies. Not on my station, not on my watch. *No* *more*! No more." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"Hello Delenn. Now, I was thinking, you couldn't come to the ceremony, the + ceremony should come to you. I've given up something that really mattered + to me, the uniform and everything that goes with it. I've never told anyone + before now.. When you were hurt, when you were in my arms, I was ready to + kill that guy with my bare hands. I realized I have never told you how much + I cared about you, how much you mean to me. I think it's time you knew that. + I can no longer imagine my world .. without you in it. I don't .. know + exactly when or how it happened, .. but I'm glad it did." + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"No one knows, but .. I'm afraid all the time .. what I might do + if I ever let go." + -- Garibaldi to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"I think I loved Talia." + -- Ivanova to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"I .. think I have a problem." + -- Franklin to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen someone who's been reborn before? + The crisis, for now, is over. Tell the ships .. we are open for business." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +%% +"What do you mean, 100 credits?" +"I mean, more than 99, less than 101. What, do you have a hearing problem, + or a math problem? Look, I can't get into conceptual arguments with you, + I've got people waiting." +"That's three times the delivery charge for package this size." +"That was before we had a revolution around here. Now, in my little corner + of Earth Force the mail still gets delivered. If I've got to use trapdoors, + alien transports and back channels to get the mail in and out of here, + that's what I do, because that's my job. Neither rain, nor snow, nor + meteors, nor alien invasion nor.." +"Look, this is extortion." +"It's business. You see, when my costs go up, I have to pass it down along + to the consumer. That's *you*, in case that's another one of those concepts + you've got a problem with." + -- Garibaldi and the mailman in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +%% +"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." + -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +%% +"Two figures on either side, one Human, the other Minbari. They blend + together in the middle to signify the two halves of our souls uniting + against the common enemy." + -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +%% +"By G'Quan, I can't recall the last time I was in a fight like that. No moral + ambiguity, no .. hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces. + *They* were the bad guys, as you say, we were the good guys. And they made + a very satisfying *thump* when they hit the floor." +"It's wrong for the strong to prey on the weak. That idea was the very heart + of the Round Table. To correct injustice, to promote a society of laws, not + arms." +"*Well* *said*!" +"*That* is the purpose which God and the Crown have set before me. I can not + achieve that locked away in some room." +"*No*, of course not! What room?" +"I sense in you a warrior born." + -- G'Kar and Arthur in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +%% +"But this is the *post* *office*. This could get us in *real* trouble." + -- A Sec.Guard to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +%% +"I will vouch for his character! I saw the *entire* thing .. because I was + there. I was in it. I was .. And they made a very agreeable thump. Or did + I mention that?" + -- G'Kar to Marcus in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +%% +"I'll miss him." +"Even if he wasn't Arthur?" +"Now, now. Next thing you'll be saying he's [Kosh] not Merlin. + Merlin was a great teacher, you know." +"I'm not hearing this." +"They say he aged backwards. That was how he was able to foretell the + future by remembering it. Which means he came *from* the future. Maybe + he had Arthur form the round table by remembering us." + -- Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +%% +"The Emperor has just finished reviewing your reports from Minbar. He asked + me to convey his *compliments* on your hard work, even if some parts of it + do read as if they were written by Ambassador Mollari." +"He advised me on a few things." +"I thought as much. Londo belongs to the old school. He thinks we must be + protected from the truth. But these are perilous times. We must have accurate + information about what other worlds are doing. You would do well to follow + your *own* judgement in the future." + -- Centauri Minister and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"Oh, I heard a new joke. Hehahaahhh. What is more dangerous than a + locked room full of angry Narns?" +"Heh, I don't know. What is more dangerous than a locked room full of + angry Narns?" +"One angry Narn with a key." + -- Centauri Minister and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"Same thing night after night, one bad dream after another. You know, I + get the one where your teeth are breaking off or falling out and you wake + up going aaah!" +"Oh yeah, I know that one." +"Or you are lost in a maze somewhere, or you're someplace I have never been + before. This morning I dreamt that I walked into C&C totally .. unprepared + for my work." +"Oh. Interested in little time-honored psychoanalysis?" +"No, I'll just bury my soul in the breakfast and ask you to give me some + silver-ware." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"I have already dealt with all that." +"Consciously, but from what you are saying, subconsciously you are still + trying to work it all through. You don't know where you fit anymore, how + to define yourself, you are feeling vulnerable, lost, and exposed. It's + all perfectly obvious and completely understandable." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"It'll pass. Your subconscious just needs to work it all through. Hey, it + could be worse, you could be having dreams where you are showing up to work + naked. You would be in real trouble." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"Yes, you can help me. Two hours ago. *Two* hours ago I called you. I told + you that there is .. a bug, an insect in my quarters." +"Well, we've been a little busy." +"Now, listen to me. I do not like insects. I do not like little *brown* + *things* with eight legs. I do not like *anything* with eight legs. Well, + except for the Vinzini, but only because they are terrible at cards. + Something to do with compound eyes, I think. I want this thing *dead*! + -- Londo and B5 Maintenance in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"I would like to see you tonight." +"Are you not seeing me now? I would think that you see me every time we meet, + unless I have become translucent or .. insubstantial and nobody has stopped + to inform me until now." +"Let me say I would like to see you in a *different* light, candlelight for + instance. Over dinner." +"Tonight?" + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"Humans can be a very depressing people." +"Only if we get turned down for dinner." +"Well, we can't have that, now can we?" + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"And how are things at the royal court?" +"You know, collusion, politicking, scheming, innuendo, gossip. + The same old thing." +"Good. Good. And your reports? I assume they went over well." +"Yes, sir. Very well." +"Did you tell them I helped with our reports?" +"No, there was no need to, they noticed it right off." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"When I marry, I want it to be for love." +"Ah, a radical?" + -- Vir and Lyndisty in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"Wow. It's quite a view, isn't it?" +"I know, I can never get enough of it." +"Standing here in front of the stars like this, looking out, down, up, + all at once, kind of makes you feel naked in front of the universe." + -- Zack and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"Mr. Cotto, you're late." +"I'm sorry. I was otherwise engaged. Engaged and married, as it is. + Not that I knew about it or anything.." +"You are not making sense." +"I imagine I'm not, but that's the kind of day I'm having." + -- Ivanova and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"Is she all right?" +"Yes, Lyndisty, my wife. Well, soon to be. You know, it's .. it's done, but + it's not *really* done .. but it's .. phew .. a long, long story. But, you + know, at first, you know, I didn't think, but now .. oh, she's .. well. Oh, + can I ask you a question as long as you are here?" + -- Ivanova and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"There were other women, but I never got past one." +"You mean first base." +"No, no, I mean one. You see, we have six a .. we have *six*, you see, and + each one is a different level of intimacy and pleasure. So, you know, first + you have one, and that's naa-naa. Then there's two .. and by you get to + five it's a heehaa-heehaa." + -- Vir and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"All I can say is that enthusiasm, sincerity, genuine compassion, and + humor can carry you through any .. lack of .. prior experience with .. + high numerical value." +"Wow, I'm gonna remember that. Thank you, *thank* you." + -- Ivanova and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"*Six*! Huh!" + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"Back home nobody cares about dead Narns, only living ones." + -- Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"And to tell you the truth.. I hate to say this, but .. + I think I really enjoy being a sneak." +"Then I hereby appoint you the official Babylon 5 sneak in residence." +"Oh, thank you." +"Now get the hell out of my chair." +"Yes, sir." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +%% +"ISN, the galaxy's most important network." + -- ISN announcer in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"I can only wait so long." +"I thought your patience was infinite." +"Since space and time are curved, the infinite sooner or later bends + back upon itself and ends up where it begun. And so have I." + -- G'Kar and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"You know, if this keeps up, I'm gonna start thinking that people around + here .. just don't like me." + -- Bester to a welcome party in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"I was expecting the captain." +"He sent me." +"Did he? He has a better sense of humor than I thought." + -- Bester and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"You know, it's come to my attention lately that we have a common enemy. + There's an old saying: 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend.' President + Clark isn't calling the shots back home, there're others whispering in + his ear. I don't know who they are or where they are from, but do I know + they are not human. I have only heard one name for them: Shadows. My guess + is you know more about them than I do, but you are probably not interested + in sharing that information. Are you?" + -- Bester to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"You know the real reason you don't like me, Commander? It's the jealousy + of evolution. Normals like you are obsolete. The future belongs to telepaths + .. and I intend to make sure that future happens. One way or another." + -- Bester to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"But we can't be on top if the aliens get there first and some of them have. + Through Clark they infiltrated the Psi Corps. And apparently they have their + own plans for my telepaths. Whoever these aliens are, they are interfering + with *my* plans for the future. I won't have it! And so, I need someone who + feels the same way I do. .. Which brings me to you. You'd like to hurt them, + Commander? Because I think I know how. If you are up for it. + -- Bester to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"So, how did you find about all of this?" +"I'm .. a telepath. .. Work it out." + -- Sheridan and Bester in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"We knew that the Shadows, the ancient enemies, as you call them, had + returned. We knew they were rebuilding their forces preparing to strike. We + knew that they were seeking allies and that the Centauri were the first to + enlist. When you came back from the area near Z'ha'dum, and warned us about + the enemies' return, we could've spoken out. We could've confirmed your + story. We chose to remain silent." +"Who is 'we'?" +"The Grey Council. I was still a part of them at that time. Once the decision + was made, I could not disobey." +"So you stayed silent. And with the help of these .. Shadows, the Centauri + destroyed my world. Enslaved or killed millions of my people." +"G'Kar, if we *had* spoken out, if we *had* come public with what we knew, + most of the other worlds would never have believed us. It would have changed + *nothing*. Your world would still have fallen. With one critical difference. + There are billions of Narns still surviving on your world. If we had exposed + the Shadows, they could have struck openly before we had time to prepare, + and *none* of your people would have survived. G'Kar, under the Centauri + there is at least the hope of survival. With the Shadows, there is no hope + at all. We had to choose between the death of millions and the death of + *billions*, whole planets." + -- Delenn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"'Some must be sacrificed for all to be saved.' First I took that as a + revelation for the future. Now I see that it is as much about how we got + here as about where we are going. I think that one sentence is the greatest + burden I have ever known." + -- G'Kar to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"You are right, nothing would've been changed. Except that my people would now + be a dead race." +"You have come a long way, G'Kar. Further than I would've guessed. Sheridan's + promise binds me as well it does him. We will take you into the Council, + G'Kar. And someday, when all this is over, perhaps you will find it in your + heart to forgive me." +"Perhaps, but not today." + -- G'Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"Can we intercept?" +"The White Star is powered by a magnetic and gravitational system like all + Minbari cruisers. You can use a magnetic discharge to capture the escaped + vessel." +"A simple 'yes' would've sufficed, Mr. Lennier. Grab it." + -- Sheridan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"The machine says: 'kill, to protect.' The sign hurts us. We can not hear + the machine." +"What machine?" +"*Live*. In my mind. I am the machine. We join, we flight. It is dark. + Terrible. Help me, please, make it stop talking in my mind." + -- Carolyn and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"What did you see inside her mind before she passed out?" +"Those things. Those *Shadow* vessels. How much do you know about them?" +"Delenn said they are some kind of organic technology and they use living + beings as .. as their central operating system." + -- Sheridan, Bester and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"Your war .. is now my war." + -- Bester to Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"'The enemy of my enemy is my friend.'" +"You sound dubious?" +"He's still a Psi-Cop. I don't trust him, never will. He has invested + interest in helping us for now, but once this is all over, he'll turn + on us. You do know that?" + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"Hello, hello, hello, and .. hello." +"Michael, you look like the proverbial cat that ate the equally proverbial + canary." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"I've got it. I've got it. I've got it. It's right here. It's right here." +"Do not thump the book of G'Quan. It is disrespectful." + -- Garibaldi and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"We have a weapon. My God, people, we have a weapon." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"The Shadows have just started attacking Brakiri space, openly, + they are not hiding anymore. They are finally on the move." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +%% +"August third, 2260. Personal diary. 10 days ago, for the first time, + the Shadows began attacking openly." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"Nobody has seen Kosh in almost a week. When the Vorlon goes to ground, + I worry. What's going through his .. its .. mind? I can't even guess." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"It's not about value. It's .. I don't know what it is. I don't know what + the Shadows want exactly, but they are not on anybody's side but their own." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"I thought we had a deal. We carved up the galaxy, you and I." +"Yes, we did. And what you do in your half is your business. + What I do in mine is mine." +"We need your government to continue its campaign." +"Yes. And why is that, huh? I don't think you have any interest in restoring + the glory of the Centauri Republic. No. I think you are *using* us as .. + shall we say, agents of chaos. Convenient distraction making it easier for + your associates to do whatever they wish to do. Yes?" + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"Yes, I *have* ideas, some possibilities, but at this moment the stone cold + fact is that none of us can stand up to those ships. If we could just score + *one* victory against the Shadows, it'd be enough to make some of the others + come around." +"Perhaps we should give them a victory." +"Oh, just like that?" +"Just like that." +"And how do you suggest we do that?" +"I'm sure you'll think of something." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"You can never go wrong with garters. .. Hmm, *you* might." + -- Vendor to Vir in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"Anything I can do to help?" +"Hmm. Short of dying, no, can't think of a thing." + -- Morden and Vir in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"Nobody wants to fight a war unless they know there is at least a chance + of winning. You can give them that hope. As one of the older races your + technology has to be at last as good as the Shadows'. If you can convince + your government to send out an expedition to engage one or two of their + ships.." +"*No*." +"I know you can't take the entire Shadow fleet by yourselves. But if you + could beat them in just one fight, it could be the break we need to get + everyone organized. Then we would have a real chance. You could do it, + couldn't you? +"Perhaps. But there are still few of us. It is not our time. It is yours. + We are not prepared yet." +"Don't turn your back on me. Don't you ever try to walk away from me! Just + who the hell do you think you are? Wait, I know what you think you are, + what you want us to believe. But I don't buy it. For three years now you've + been pulling everyones strings, getting us to do all the work, and you + haven't done a damn thing but stand there and look cryptic. It's about time + you started pulling your own weight around here." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"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.'" +"Impudent." +"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." +"Incorrect. Leave now." +"No." +"Disobedient." +"Up yours!" + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"So, the real Kosh shows his colors at last, huh? You angry now? Angry + enough to kill me, because that's the only way I'm leaving, unless your + people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something. I've got + nothing to lose. My own government wants to kill me, and if we lose this + war I'm just as dead. Our only chance is to get the other races on board + for this fight and right now you are the key to doing that." +"It is not yet time." +"And who decides that time? You? You put me in this position, you asked me + to fight this damn war. Well, it's about time you let me fight it my way." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"I will do as you ask. .. But there is a price to pay. I will not be there + to help you when you go to Z'ha'dum." +"You already said if I go to Z'ha'dum, I'll die." +"Yes. Now." +"Right. If that's the tradeoff, if you want to withhold your help when the + time comes, that's fine. I'll go there alone." +"You do not understand. But you will." + -- Kosh and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"My grandfather had a saying: + 'Good news can wait. Bad news will refuse to leave.'" + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"I don't have much time, son. I want you to know you were right. I didn't + want to admit that. Just .. pride, I guess. Yet, my age, you get kind of + set in your ways. That *had* to be done, don't blame yourself .. for what + happened later." +"Dad? Are you .. all right?" +"It's too late for me. I'm sorry for what I did before. I knew what was + ahead. I guess .. I guess I was afraid. When you have lived as long as I + have, you kind of get used to it. I wish I could've done more for you. There + is so much I should've said, and .. now it's too late. You're right, it's + time you begin fighting this war your way. .. Aah, I gotta go now, John." + -- his 'father' to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"No, no. Don't leave." +"It's all right, son. See, as long as you're here, I'll always be here." + -- Sheridan to his 'father' in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"Everybody around me dies, Mr. Morden, except the ones that most deserve it. + That is about to *change*. You said that you would go away for as long as + *I* wanted. I no longer want that. All I want now is revenge. They took from + me .. the one thing that I have .. have ever *truly* loved. And you will + help me, Mr. Morden, to strike them down. Give me this, and the safety of + my people, and let the rest of the galaxy *burn*. I don't care anymore. + Will you help me, Mr. Morden?" +"Of course, Ambassador. As ever I'm always in your service." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"I've got a lot to figure out, it's time I got started." + -- Franklin to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +%% +"Tell the others to continue their work in my absence, + nothing must interfere with that." + -- Sinclair to Rathenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Well, with your help we created something bigger than we are. It has a + life of its own. Come what may, the rangers will finish the work ahead." + -- Sinclair to Rathenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"I have the strangest feeling I will never see him again." +"He is the closed circle. He is returning to the beginning." +"The beginning of what?" + -- Rathenn and a Vorlon in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"They're coming through! Repeat, they're coming through! This is Earth + Alliance station Babylon 5. They're all over the place. .. They're + killing us. Can anyone hear me? They're killing us." + -- Future Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Well, it's a fake. I have never sent out a distress-call like that." +"Or, you just haven't sent it yet." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Will you be staying long?" +"*That* is a far more interesting question than you might suspect." + -- Zack and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"He's here, isn't he?" +"Yes." +"Then it's time. We are Grey, we stand between the candle and the star. + .. He's my friend, Lennier." +"I know. But it *must* be done, or the dream will die, and countless + others will die with it." +"I wish I had more time, but now, *time* is all we have." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"We haven't had a Shadow attack in nearly eight days. My guess is they + are reconsidering their strategy after the Vorlons got involved." +"They're worried. That means they'll hit us twice as hard when they come + back." +"Assuming a worst-case scenario." +"The way things have been going lately, I've decided to take Ivanova-lessons." + -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Just as Zathras said. Not good. Definitely not good." +"We must tell Draal." +"No! It's taking all of Draal's concentration to control Great Machine. + If we distract, very bad. He'd drop the time field. *Everyone* dies. + Draal told Zathras what to do. So Zathras will do. Or much, much dying." + -- Zathras and Caretaker #2 in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"There are no coincidencies, Captain." + -- Sinclair to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Captain. If I were you, I would quit while I was ahead. Back on Minbar, + there was a saying among the other rangers. Only way to get a straight + answer from Ranger One was to look every reply in a mirror while hanging + upside-down from the ceiling." +"Did it work?" +"Oddly enough, yes. Or, after a while you passed out and had a vision. + Either one, the result was pretty much the same." + -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Can anyone help us? This is commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5. To any + ships in grid epsilon. We are under attack. I repeat, we are under attack. + The captain is dead, defense grid is down, they are boarding us, they are + coming in all over the place. We've tried to evacuate as many as we can, + and Garibaldi has rigged the fusion reactor, but.. my god, here they come. + Switch to external cameras. They've got weapons lock. Here comes. Here + comes. Aahg." + -- Future Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"So, you are saying the Minbari .. that *you* stole Babylon 4?" +"Not quite." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Delenn, are you saying we stole Babylon 4?" + -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Delenn, the question of who stole Babylon 4 is the biggest mystery of the + last decade. Now you are telling me that it was .. *me*? Is me, is going + to be me? You can't be serious." +"John, with Babylon 4 we will be able to save my people and yours. It is + history, it's already been done. All we have to do now is make sure that + we do it then." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"I believe it." +"If Entil'Zha believes it, I believe it." +"I'll be in the car." + -- Sinclair, Marcus & Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Sorry, sorry, sorry, much apologizings. Zathras has great responsibilities, + was thinking great thoughts, did not see you. Was looking for the One. Was + thinking great thoughts, very sorry. Very sorry." + -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"There you are. Being very honored to meet you. I'm being called.." +"Zathras. We've met before on Babylon 4." +"No. .. Zathras does not.." +"It was my past, your future. Zathras, this is very important. When you + meet me again, it will be me, but it won't be me now. So, you are not say + anything that may change the past. Do you understand?" +"Zathras understand. .. No. Zathras not understand, but Zathras do. Zathras + good at doings, not understandings. Zathras honored to meet you for *many* + reasons." + -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Zathras also honored to meet *you* .. for other reasons." +"Oh, such as?" +"Oh, no, Draal give Zathras list of things not to say. This was one. No, not + good. Not supposed to mention one, or the One or .. You never heard that." +"What else is on this list of things you are not supposed to mention?" +"Zathras does not remember. But if Zathras remember later, Zathras tells you." + -- Zathras and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Stop. Display message from Sinclair." +"Unable to comply. Password required for access." +"Password? What password?" +"Unable to comply." + -- Garibaldi and Computer in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"The White Star is based on Vorlon organic technology, it learns from + experience, changes, evolves. The skin of the ship now uses the Vorlon + defense system. Most of the energy is reflected away, leaving only the + physical impact." +"Well, as my great grandfather used to say: 'Cool.'" + -- Lennier and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Time stabilizer damaged. He's unstuck in time. Zathras warned, + but no one listen to Zathras, no." +"What do you mean unstuck in time? Where is he? In the past? + In the future?" +"Cannot say. Saying I would know. Do not know, so can not say. + *Very* damaged. Zathras can never have anything nice." + -- Zathras and Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Welcome back from the abyss, Sheridan. Your timing, as always is quite + exceptional. Just in time to die." + -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"This was not part of the plan. I did not expect this. We can not even know + where in time Sheridan has gone." +"He'll be all right. /I know what's coming. Are you alright?/" +"/No. I'm sorry./" +"/Don't be./ All my life, I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. + Now, I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitations, no + doubts. The path is clear." + -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"What I am doing is what someone should've done a long time ago. Putting + *you* out of *my* misery. Fitting punishment for your *crimes*." +"What crimes? I'm not.." +"The crime of neglect, the crime of convenience. During your little war, you + drove away the Shadows, oh yes, but you did not think to clean up your mess. + The few of their dominions, their dock servants, came to Centauri Prime, + well, where is the harm in that, yes? You want to see the harm? *Do* *you*? + There is the legacy of your war!" + -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Yes, yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's + needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death, but at least there + is symmetry. Go, go, Zathras take care." + -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"Ready?" +"Why do your people always ask if someone is ready right before you are + going to do something massively unwise?" +"Tradition." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +%% +"There's the legacy of your war. The price *we* paid, when you abandoned + us to the enemies you escaped from." +"But this couldn't happen, not in this amount of time. What year is this?" +"This is the *last* year, and the last day, and the last hour of *your* life. + *Seventeen* *years* since you began your great crusade. *Seventeen*!" + -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"Sheridan. Make your peace with whatever gods you worship. You will meet + them next time I send for you. I can't recall my world from what it has + become, but I can thank you, *properly*, for your role in it." + -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"We need to find an access panel. Usually they're sealed up once the station + goes operational, but this place just went online, so with any luck, there + should be a couple still open." +"Sorry, don't believe in luck." +"Well, luck is about the only thing we've got on our side right now. Sure as + hell we don't have much of anything else." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"Great move, how did you know they were coming?" +"Didn't. But right now would be the worst time to be discovered, so it + was logical it happened now. Like I said, I don't believe in luck. .. + Well, on the other hand.." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"Carry this, Zathras. Fix this, Zathras. Poor Zathras, no one listen .. + to Zathras, but no one.." + -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"What is it?" +"I'm not sure, it was the strangest feeling. I think the way you describe + it is .. as if someone had just walked over my grave." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"From what Londo said, I get the impression that we won the war. But not + completely." +"The war is never completely won. There are always new battles to be fought + against the darkness. Only the names change. But we, we achieved everything + we set out to achieve. We created something that will endure for a thousand + years. But the *price*, John, the terrible, terrible price." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"No, this future can only be changed by surrendering to the Shadows. + And that price is too high to pay." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"You will excuse me if I do not stand. I have had considerable to drink. + It is .. the only way that we can be alone. We do not wish to wake it." +"Wake what?" +"Didn't you two not know? You can not see it while it is awake. We all + have our keepers, you see. I gave a very good performance. Yes, it was + satisfied. Doesn't care why I do what I do, as long as I do it, as long + as you are dead." + -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"My life is almost over. My world, all I hoped for, gone. You two are my + last chance, for this place, for my people, for my own redemption. There + is a ship, hidden behind the palace, my guard will take you there. In + exchange for your lives, all I ask is that you and your allies help to + free my people. I can do nothing more for them." + -- Londo to Sheridan & Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"We have unfinished business between us, G'Kar. Let us make an end of it, + quickly, before it stops me. I am as tired of my life as you are." + -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"He's quite mad, you know. He actually thinks that Sheridan is going to + materialize in there." +"Marcus, we are stealing a station to fight in a war that was almost a + thousand years ago. We are all mad." + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"No one *ever* listens to Zathras. Quite mad, they say. It is good that + Zathras does not mind. He's even grown to like it. Oh yes." + -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"What happened?" +"Time-device activated prematurely. Not good. Malfunction." + -- Delenn and Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"Danger though. Time system is not stable. Very delicate. Must adjust before + we try again. Or we come *forever* lost in time. *Very* dangerous." +"Great, doesn't anything come under warranty anymore?" + -- Zathras and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"No. No. No. No-no. Not good. No, no." +"Come on, find what you need and lets get away from here. We are running + out of time." +"Can not run out of time, there is infinite time. *You* are finite, *Zathras* + is finite. This is wrong tool. No. No. Not good. No. No. Never use this." + -- Zathras and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"Observation Dome: + Unauthorized persons in the OBS DOME will + be forcibly removed from this sector." + -- Sign outside Babylon 4 C&C in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"This isn't my stabilizer. There's no sign of damage. Someone must have put + this on me, switch places." +"But if you are here, then who's running around out there in the blue suit?" + -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"Go now, leave me." +"I can't." +"Go. You must. Listen to Zathras. You have a destiny. Go, please. + Go for Zathras." + -- Zathras and past Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"Babylon 4 to Garibaldi. Babylon 4 to shuttle one. Garibaldi, do you + read me? Watch your back, Michael, watch your back." +"Target is outside of communication range. Unable to make contact." + -- Sinclair and Computer in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"I tried. I tried to warn them. But it all happened, + just the way I remembered." +"I know. It's time. We have to go. They are waiting for us." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"Zathras, something I don't understand. You said you follow the one, but + the one you pointed to was .." +"Was Delenn. Hehe, yes, Zathras knew. Zathras is oldest living caretaker of + great machine, 110 years old. Zathras has studied the great machine, knows + things even *Draal* does not know yet. And I know you [Sinclair]. And I know + *you* [Delenn]. And I know *you* [Sheridan]. All Minbari belief is around + three. Three castes, worker, warrior, religious. Three languages, Light, + Dark, Grey. The Nine of the Grey Council, three times three. All is three. + As you are three. As you are one. As you are *the* *One*. You are the one + who was [Sinclair]. You are the one who is [Delenn]. You are the one who + will be [Sheridan]. You are the beginning of the story, and the middle of + the story, and the end of the story. That creates the next great story. Ah, + in your heart, you know what Zathras says is true. Go now, Zathras' place + is with the one who was. We have a destiny." + -- Sinclair and Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"Yes. That door is closed forever. And it is not the only one. Lennier told + you that a thousand years ago, human and Minbari souls begun to merge. + Minbari souls were being born in human bodies. Something happened that + opened that door between us. My change was in part to even the scales and + restore balance between our races, using the device my people discovered a + thousand years ago. You see, if my people had found Babylon 4 with a human + aboard, they would never have accepted it." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"Dear God, a Minbari not born of Minbari." + -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"I welcome you and present this place to you as a gift. I am called Valen, + and we have much work ahead of us." + -- Valen to two Minbari in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +%% +"What guarantees will you give me that the crews will not open fire on a + Centauri vessel as it approaches Babylon 5?" +"It's the same guarantee I gave when I said that none of the other Narns + would break into your quarters in the middle of the night and slit your + throat." +"Mr. Garibaldi, you have never given me that promise." +"You're right. Sleep tight." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"With everything that has been going around here lately he just needed to + get out a little, stretch his legs a bit, so he took a walk. Outside. On + the forward cargo stabilizers." + -- Garibaldi to Ivanova about Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +".. MAG-STRIP AT ALL TIMES UNLESS ANCHORED" + -- Text in the forward cargo stabilizers in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Breen. You've managed to import breen from homeworld. How?" +"It .. isn't actually breen." +"But the smell, the taste.." +"It's an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It's a strange thing, + but *every* sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs. + I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never + get explained or which will drive you mad if you ever learned the truth." + -- Na'kal and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Your government neglected to tell me your name. How should I refer + to you when we are alone?" +"Kosh." +"Oh, yes, I understand that's how we are to refer to you publically, + but .. privately?" +"Kosh." + -- Sheridan and Kosh #2 in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"We are all Kosh." + -- Kosh #2 in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Well, he's a Vorlon all right." +"Yep!" + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Why is everything around here always a long story? Why isn't anything ever + a short story? A paragraph? Look, just give me the short version, okay?" +"All right. Walkabout." +"That's it?" +"That or the long version, so, you make your pick." + -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"The theory is: if you are separated from yourself, you start walking and + you keep walking until you meet yourself. Then you sit down and have a long + talk. You talk about everything that you've learned, everything that you .. + felt. And you talk until you run out of words. Now, that's vital, because + the real important things can't be said. And then, if you are lucky, you + look up and there's just you, and you can go home." + -- Dr. Franklin to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Where?" +"I'm sorry. I wasn't here. I was doing what he told me to do. + He wasn't with me when he left. Not even a piece of him. I swear." +"Failed. Gone." +"No, I'm sorry. It's my fault." +"There was no other?" +"No. Not that I knew of. I'm sorry. He's gone." +"Follow." + -- Kosh #2 and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Despite their strength the Vorlons are delicate people. They do not react + well to change, and they are not very forgiving of mistakes. It's been a + long time since one of them died, they are taking it pretty hard." + -- Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Is there a problem?" + -- Kosh in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"As you know, Mr. Garibaldi recently uncovered information which seems to + indicate the Shadows have a weakness. Their ships are based on organic + technology which may be vulnerable to telepathic interference. In theory a + telepath might be able to jam their central operating system leaving them + vulnerable to an attack." +"I noticed a number of conditional phrases in that: 'seems to indicate a + weakness', 'maybe vulnerable', 'in theory'." +"Exactly. Maybe we are right, maybe we ain't. Unfortunately war doesn't + tolerate ambiguities. We have to find out if we are right." + -- Sheridan and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Of course he doesn't! It's easy to fight when you've got a lot of ships to + work with. The real crunch comes when you are down to almost nothing. Then + you either play it safe and you probably lose it all or you take a chance. + After everything we've been through with your people, Sheridan was crazy to + send our pilots out to fight for your ship. They didn't want to go, they + didn't want to get blown out of the sky and leave B5 defenseless, and they + sure as hell didn't want to die. But they did it because Sheridan *told* + them to do it, and because it was *right*." +"This time it is possible he could be wrong." +"Yeah, it's possible. But you don't follow an order because you know for sure + it's gonna work out. You do what you are told, because your CO has the moral + authority that says you *may* *not* *come* *back*. But the cause is just, + and fair, and necessary. That's why Sheridan is out there, and dammit, + that's where the cruiser should be too! It's not Na'kal's decision, G'Kar, + he doesn't see the big picture. You do, so in my book, and *your* book, that + makes it your responsibility. Deal with it!" + -- Garibaldi and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"They killed him. They tore him apart!" + -- Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Can you tell me what you felt?" +"I could feel it shifting around in my mind trying to slip away. + I almost lost it *twice*." +"It's all right now, we found out what we came to find out." +"No, it's not all right. I tried to stop it, but I think it got off a + distress call before we killed it." + -- Sheridan and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"They ran?" +"Yes they did, Mr. Lennier. They did indeed." + -- Lennier and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"And so it begins." + -- Kosh to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Before, I told you I don't have a piece of Kosh. But it's possible, + I don't know for sure, but it may be, someone else does." + -- Lyta to Kosh #2 in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +%% +"Name?" +"Harry, Harry Sanders." +"Are you a telepath?" +"Sure, what does the job pay?" +"Well, it's not a job, it's more like an adventure. Chance to help fight + the bad guys." +"Good. Look, are we talking about hourly or weekly salary, because I've + got expenses to cover." +"Well, one thing at a time. If you are a telepath, are you Psi Corps?" +"No, they missed me." +"No, Psi Corps doesn't miss anybody." +"Well, some things just fall through the cracks." +"Psi Corps doesn't have any cracks." +"I escaped, okay? Now, where do I sign?" +"What am I thinking?" +"I don't work for free." +"*What* *am* *I* *thinking*?" +"Right. .. Got it. And I think you are real cute too. Look, I *really* + need this job." +"But you are not a telepath." +"I can learn. I'm a quick study." +"Out." +"I'll be an intern. I work cheap." +"*Out*!" +"Great, see, it's not what you can do, it's who you know. *Typical*!" + -- Zack and a 'telepath' in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"The Rangers were here because he was here. Where you are, the Rangers + will be. We are coming into a critical time, Delenn, they will need you. + Please, say 'yes'." + -- Rathenn to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"Did they fix it?" +"Yeah." +"You are right, it *is* unusual." + -- Garibaldi and Zack in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"Thin air? Why is it always thin air? Never fat air, chubby air, + mostly-fit-could-stand-lose-a-few-pounds air?" + -- Garibaldi to a Supervisor in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"You chose not to act. Someone had to." +"Perhaps. That is why we let you have them in the beginning. Even allowed + Sinclair to train them. Even though it meant diluting their purity by + allowing humans to join alongside our own people. We were quite tolerant + of your activities. But now that their training is complete they require + new leadership. By right of tradition, the warrior caste should be given + command of the Rangers. That was the law, as set down by Valen. Three + castes: worker, religious, warrior. They build, you pray, we fight." + -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"Out of respect I give you this opportunity to walk away from the path you + have taken. Refuse the position of Ranger One, and turn control of the + Rangers to the warrior caste, where it belongs." +"Or?" +"I'm sworn to stop you, Delenn. By any and all means necessary." + -- Neroon and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"We knew the Warrior caste was unhappy with our activities." +"Unhappy? Delenn, he's planning to kill you." +"That is .. one interpretation." +"He said he would use any and all means necessary. I respectfully suggest + that he intends to go far beyond harsh language." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"You shouldn't be here. You're in trouble." + -- A Dummy to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"I'm trying to avoid breaking a promise by .. breaking a promise. I promised + Delenn that I would not speak of this to the Captain or let him know. She + did not mention you by name, but that was implicit. If I tell the others in + the chain of command, then Sheridan will find out and I will have broken the + promise. But if I break my promise by telling you, since you are not in the + chain of command, he may not find out about this and I will have not broken + the promise." +"I'm in awe, Lennier. The way you can take a straightforward, logical + preposition and turned it inside-out so that in the end it says .. what you + want it to say instead of what it actually means. Does this come naturally + or did you .. attend some special martial arts class for the philosophically + inclined?" + -- Lennier and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"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." + -- Marcus to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"There is now blood between us, and there is blood between the warrior caste + and the humans. I do not think they would die for me. But they would die .. + for you. .. *Entil'Zha*." + -- Neroon to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"This should never have been allowed to happen, not for my sake." +"If not for yours, then who elses?" +"You could've got him killed." +"Delenn, all we know is that we will die. It's only a matter of how, when + and whether or not it is with honor. He did what any of us would've done. + Respectfully, Delenn, I think this is the one thing about your position + you do not yet understand. You cherish life, life is your goal. But for + the greater part to live, some must die, or be harmed in its defense, and + yours. There is no other way." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"He will not hear you." +"Then I will speak briefly." + -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"Denn Shar, you said. To the death. And death there was. The death was mine. + To see a human invoke the name of Valen, be willing to die for one of my + kind when I was intent upon killing one of my own, the rightness of my + cause disappeared. Strange, that a human in his last moments should be more + of a Minbari than I. Perhaps it is true what Delenn said. That we are not of + the same blood, but we are of the same heart." + -- Neroon to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"The next time .. the next time .. you want a revelation .. could you + possibly find a way .. that isn't .. quite so .. uncomfortable?" + -- Marcus to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"Okay. Well, first, there was this missing maintenance man. Only he wasn't + missing, he was killed by a Zarg. But I'm getting ahead of myself. That + was after I found out that the entire 17th floor grey sector had completely + disappeared. Well, not disappeared exactly, this weird cult had taken over + the place, see, and there was this dummy that shot tranqs out of his eyes. + Very strange, but it was also supposed to be perfect. Now *that* was the + thing about it, but there wasn't a way out, but there was, except it was + spiritual. You had to die a perfect death, that's where the Zarg came in + and either it was going to kill me or I was to kill it and.. Am I going too + fast for you?" + -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +%% +"Londo, has it occurred to you that half the other races are at war? + We have to figure out what to do about them. About us. And you are + worried about G'Kar. We have a lot bigger concerns here." +"Big concerns grow from small concerns. You plant them, water them with + tears, fertilize them with unconcern. If you ignore them, they grow. + I have ignored this problem long enough." + -- Vir & Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"Temporary? Nice word, isn't it?" + -- Theo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"Ivanova sent me to find you. She said you haven't been sleeping, that you've + barely been eating. She said that you have been, in her words, carrying on + 'cranky'. I looked up the word cranky, it said 'grouchy'. I looked up + grouchy, it said 'crotchety'. No wonder you have such an eccentric culture. + None of your words have their own meanings, you have to look up one word to + understand another. It never ends." +"Something here doesn't make sense." +"That's what I thought when I came across 'crotchety'. This can not be a real + word, I said." +"The Shadows keep attacking random targets, *very* illogical. On the other + hand, once engaged, their tactics are *very* successful, *very* logical. + It's a contradiction." +"Unless the random attacks *are* logical in some way we haven't yet + determined." +"Exactly." +"So, you have been sitting here trying to think illogically about logical + possibilities or logically about illogical possibilities." +"Huh? Yes, yes." +"No wonder you are cranky. Grouchy. .. Never mind. Your face just broke the + language barrier." +"I'm tired, I haven't had a good nights sleep since Kosh died. Having the + kind of nightmares that make your hair stand on end." +"Well, that would explain the Centauri. You need food and rest. The humans, + who you've been waiting for have arrived and would like to have dinner with + us." +"No, no, I don't have time. If they want to come here.." +"So, I told them 'yes'." +"Delenn!" +"Since Minbari do not lie, except to save another, my reputation is now at + stake. If you say 'no', I will be publically dishonored." +"You don't fight fair." +"True. Dinner is in two standard hours. I will see you there." +"Pain in the butt." +"Grouch." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"You are young, Vir. You don't understand. But you will." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"I didn't think so, but if I was wrong, I was wrong. I'd rather do something, + and make a mistake than be frightened and be doing nothing. That's the + problem back home. Folks have been conned to thinking they can't change the + world, have to accept what is. I'll tell you something my friends. The world + is changing every day, the only question is who's doing it." + -- Rev. Dexter in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"Legs get funny when you get older. You are sitting, they want to stand. + You stand, they want to lay down. You lay down, they want to go for a walk." + -- Rev. Dexter in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"Now, I didn't say work. I said responsibility. I've seen people since I came + aboard. They all come to you with questions, problems, concerns, so, who do + you go to? Who do you talk to?" +"There isn't anybody. It's my responsibility, I can't put it on anyone else." +"I didn't say you should *put* it on anyone else, either. Just talking about + it, sharing the burden as much as you can." + -- Rev. Will Dexter and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"Every day, here and at home, we are warned about the enemy. But who is the + enemy? Is it the alien? Well, we are all alien to one another. Is it the + one who believes differently than we do? No, not at all, my frieds. The + enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the one who tells you + that you must hate that which is different. Because, in the end, that hate + will turn on you. And that same hate will destroy you." + -- Rev. Dexter in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"Hello, Refa. If you are seeing this message, it is because in a very few + minutes you will be dead. I have made sure that the guards assigned to you + are loyal to house Mollari. They will not obey you from this moment forward. + You've taken from me, that which I loved, Refa. You also took the life of + prime minister Malakai, a good and dear friend. You have inconvenienced me, + and threatened my position in the Royal Court, and weakened our defenses by + your constant warfare. None of which matters to G'Kar or his associates. + But I think they do care about what you have done to them, Refa. Yes, I + think they care about that a great deal." +"I have given G'Kar documents which prove that *you* are the one who + orchestrated the bombing of Narn homeworld against my advice. That you + personally were involved in the creation of death camps and genetic + cleansing programs. That you are personally responsible of the death of + five or six million Narns. And I think that they would like to thank you, + personally, for your efforts." +"On the off chance that G'Kar might not believe me, I have arranged for + two thousand Narns now in custody to be freed. Half in advance, half + pending his co-operation. In all a sufficient inducement, I think. You see, + it's not enough for me to .. *simply* *kill* *you*, Refa. I could do that at + home, or here. But through your death on Narn, I will discredit your house + and all opposition in the Royal Court. Goodbye, Refa." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"Make sure this is found on his body. Leave his face and head intact. + They will be needed later for identification. The rest is yours." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"Londo, they could've killed me." +"Nonsense, you are not important enough to kill." +"But I'm important enough for you to lie to. At least I thought I knew you, + but I never knew you at all, did I." + -- Vir & Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +%% +"The others have gone to speak with their governments. They have authorized + me to speak in their place. .. You will have all the ships we can spare, + Delenn. I only hope that you are right, because it will cost us greatly, + if you are wrong." + -- Drazi council member to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"We've got commander Ivanova on channel 4." +"Put her through." + -- Lt. Corwin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"We are ready to go, Captain. Any last minute instructions?" +"Beside from an old Egyptian blessing, I can't think of a thing." +"Then we'll see you .. when we see you." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"An old Egyptian blessing?" +"'May gods stand between you and harm in all the empty places + where you must walk.'" + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"You know, I have just been thinking. He shouldn't be doing this. He + shouldn't have to be doing this. I feel like *I* screwed up." +"Hey, come on Chief, it's not your fault. I heard what happened. You + offered to help, he walked away." +"Yeah, I know, but the thing is: sometimes people walk away because they + *want* to be alone, and sometimes they walk away because they want to see + if you care enough to follow them into hell. I think I went the wrong way." +"Look, he's gotta get his head screwed on straight. You can't do that for + him." +"Yeah, you are right. It's just.. I've had my own problems. I've been where + he is. I've walked away from lot of things in my life. I just hope he can + find his way back again." + -- Garibaldi and Zack in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"Marcus. Marcus! *Marcus*!" +"What? I'm awake." +"It's your watch." +"Right. I knew that, I was just resting my eyes." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"You seem to be pretty fluent in Minbari." +"You can't finish your training until you can speak and think in their + language." +"I'm surprised. When they were training the Rangers I figured they would + emphasize infiltration and combat techniques, not language skills." +"For them it's all the same thing." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"I'll wake you in four hours." +"Thanks. That's assuming I can get any sleep in these. The Captain warned me + about these things, but I had *no* idea.." +"They are wery restful, good for the back." +"Well, someday I want to be stationed in somewhere with *big* four-poster bed, + canopy, and maybe a window with a view of a garden." +"I like gardens, .. and big four-poster beds. .. + Right. See you in four hours." + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"John, we've been over this. I should be there, with you, and with the fleet. + We are in this together. And .. afterward, when we are finished with this, + we will spend the night together." +"?!" +"Not like that. You see, when Minbari become close, as we have become close, + it is tradition that they spend three nights together. The male sleeps and + the female watches." +"Watches what?" +"During the day, we all put on the face we think will do us the most good. + But at certain point in your sleep, as you relax, your true face is revealed. + If the female approves of his true face, she will stay two more nights and + continue to observe." +"Hmm, what if she doesn't like what she sees?" +"Then they go their seperate ways. If he insists, she'll stay one more night. + She can leave when he falls asleep, file a complaint with the elders, even + cut off his .. his access to her family." +"Oh. What if she *does* like what she sees?" +"Later. History awaits." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"Very stupid." +"Yeah. It was that, wasn't it. Always trying to be the hero. Never stopping + to think first. Now, look where it got you." +"I must be going in shock." +"You said you had to keep walking until you met yourself. Well, here I am. + So, if we are gonna talk, let's talk, because I don't think you have a lot + of time." + -- Franklin and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"That's a *lot* of ships." +"That's a bloody awful lot of ships." +"Jump engines back on line yet?" +"No. If I signal the fleet, they just might pick it up. If they do, we + can't get away, .." +"Well, who wants to live forever?" +"I do, actually. But what the hell. Signal away." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"You know what your problem is? All your life you've run away from + everything. Home didn't work out, wouldn't talk to your father, so you just + .. walked away. You didn't have the patience for a long internship back + home, so you just ran out and started hitch-hiking on starships. You didn't + want to turn over your *precious* notes on Minbari biology during the war, + so you just burned them instead and walked away again. You used work to run + away from your personal life and stims to run away from your work. And right + now, you are running away from everything. Don't you die on me yet. I'm not + through with you. You finally had it all, didn't you? You had a good job, + people who cared about you and you messed it up! 'I have to leave before + they fire me. I have to go find myself.' What a bunch of mealy-mouthed + self-indulgent foundationist crap! Take responsibility for your actions, for + crying out loud. You go in there and you *fight* for what matters to you, + don't just walk away because it's easier. What did you say? Oh, I'm sorry, + I forgot. You are too busy *dying*, aren't you? I guess that's a bit more + important to you right now. Well, fine, you do what you want, because you + and I, we parted ways a long time ago. So just go ahead and die, because + I really don't care anymore." + -- Franklin to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"Blood-pressure is dropping faaast. You should be getting real cold right + about now. That's shock and trauma, and the rest will follow soon. You know, + so we can get this over with. I mean, you weren't that happy with your life + at the first place, were you? I mean, this one has hardly been used." +"I .. I want.." +"You want what? I mean, what do you want? What could you possibly want?" +"I wanna.. I wanna.. do it all again." +"Why, you would just mess it up again. Where do you think you're going?" +"I wanna do it again. I wanna do it again." +"Is that right? Then get up off the damn floor. I don't care how much it + hurts. Don't you go passing out on me, because that's just another kind of + running away. Now, you take the reponsibility. Show me that you want it. + Get up off the damn floor. That's it. Come on. Come on. Get up on your own + two feet and stand up, you stand up." +"I wanna do it all over again." + -- Franklin and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"I say there's a big question. Now that we have shown that we can hurt them, + how long until they come knocking on our front door?" +"That's what worries me." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"You know, with all this, I just hope you found what you were looking for + out there." +"I don't know. I guess I found what I .. what I needed, not what I wanted." +"Which was?" +"Short sharp kick to the head." +"Oh hell, I could've done that for you, all you had to do was ask." +"Well, you would've enjoyed it too much." +"So, you didn't .. meet yourself?" +"Yeah, I did. Found out I didn't like myself either." +"Well, as revelation go, I guess I have heard worse." + -- Garibaldi and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"Signs, portents, dreams, next thing we'll be reading tea leafs and chicken + entrails. All we do know is that we are vulnerable now. I want squadrons on + fly-by at all times. We should expect something to be coming our way sooner + or later. The way our luck works, it will probably be sooner." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"The job is waiting for you, if you want it." +"Are you sure you want to do this?" +"If you are sure you want to take it." +"I want it. I think now I can do better. I mean, that was the problem, the + stims they .. they let me do more, but what I needed was to do better." +"I wish you'd come to talk to me before you made your decision to resign." +"I was running away. Same as I have always done. I didn't want to face how + I'd feel if you fired me, so I just quit." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"You had to find your own way?" +"I *ran* away. I realized that I always defined myself in terms what I + wasn't. I wasn't a good soldier like my father, I wasn't .. the job.. I + wasn't a good prospect for marriage or kids. Always what I wasn't, never + what I was. But when you do that, you miss the moments. And the moments + are all we've got. When I thought I was going to die, even after everything + that's happened, I realized I didn't want to let go. I was willing to do + it all over again and this time I could appreciate the moments. I can't go + back, but I can appreciate what I have right now, and I can define myself + by what I am, instead of what I'm not." +"And what are you?" +"Alive. Everything else is negotiable." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"Hello. You must be Delenn. I'm Anna Sheridan, John's wife." + -- Anna Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +%% +"Humans have a phrase: 'What is past, is prologue.'" + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Minbari also have a phrase: 'What is past, is also sometimes the future.'" + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"I know there's a lot that you don't know. I know there's a lot that you + don't understand. I'm here to fix that. Don't you want to know what's it + all about? What's it *really* all about? I can do that. All you have to + do is come with me." +"Where?" +"Where else, to Z'ha'dum." + -- Anna to John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"So the next time we find out where the Shadows plan to strike, + we can mine the area, and as soon as they come out of hyperspace .." +"Then, as you so concisely say, *boom*." + -- Ivanova and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"John, I *do* love you. If you believe nothing else I ever say, + please, please believe that." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Another drink!" +"Londo, you have been like this ever since the diplomatic pouch arrived + this morning. At least you can do is tell me what's wrong." +"Oh, Vir. I have been promoted. I've been offered a position in the Royal + Court as an advisor to Emperor Cartagia in matters of planetary security, + very important position." +"This is great news, why would you be upset?" +"*Because*, it should've come to me twenty years ago when I could've + appreciated it. Because it wasn't given to me because I *earned* it. + They are, I think, afraid of me. Through our friend, Mr. Morden, I + have gained influence, money, power and they think I will move against + Cartagia." +"Then why would they reward you?" +"It's not a reward, it's a leash. I would need to divide my time between + here and the homeworld. They really mean: they watch me very carefully, + and if I do anything suspicious, they'll find me in the morning with my + throat slit, ear to ear." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"While you are at it, I need a few things taken care of. It's all here. + You will of course keep this confidential." +"These days, what around here isn't confidential. I'll take care of .. + son of a bitch." +"It's against regulations to address a senior officer in those terms, + Mr. Garibaldi." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die." + -- Kosh to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"I wish we could've taken a different ship. This one is based partially on + Vorlon technology. The aliens believe they'll die if anything remotely + vorlon touches Z'ha'dum." +"Then we won't risk it. When we get there, we'll take the shuttle down + to the surface." + -- Anna and John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Who are you?" +"Now, that's really not important." +"Who are you?" +"Who decides that the workday is from 9 to 5, instead of 11 to 4? Who + decides that the hemlines will be below the knee this year and short + again next year? Who draws up the borders, controls the currency, + handles *all* of the decisions that happen transparently around us?" +"I don't know." +"Ah! I'm with them. Same group, different department. Think of me as a + sort of middleman, and the name is Justin. Come in, sit, sit. The tea + is getting cold." + -- Sheridan and Justin in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"You see, John, back a million years ago, there were forces prowling around + the galaxy beyond *anything* that we could understand. *And*, like anything + else, most of them outgrew this little quadrant of the universe and headed + off toward greener pastures. Now, two of them stayed behind. Shepherds, you + might call them. They wanted to look after the younger races, bring them + around, help them *evolve* into something better." +"One of these was the Vorlons. The other .. was, what you call, the Shadows." + -- Justin and Morden in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"The Vorlons are like your parents, I suppose. They want you to play nice, + clean your room, do it by the rules. I guess you could call them Lords of + Order." +"The others, the ones who live here, believe that strength only comes from + conflict. They want to release our potential, not bottle it up." + -- Justin and Anna in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"It's really simple. You bring two sides together. They fight. A lot of them + die, but those who survive are stronger, smarter and better." +"It's like knocking over an ant-hill. Every new generation gets stronger, + the ant-hill gets redesigned, made better." + -- Justin and Morden in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Commander, I'm picking up a disturbance." +"Location?" +"All around us." + -- Lt. Corwin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"It was supposed to be an equal balance between our side and the Vorlons, + but the Vorlons decided that their way was the right way. They enlisted + the support of other worlds, like the Minbari. They even started interfering + with the development of younger races." +"When you look at a Vorlon, you see what they want you to see. They've + manipulated us so we would respond favourably to them. They've even + interfered at a genetic level by taking humans and then .. adjusting + them. Why do you think certifiable telepaths came out of nowhere a + hundred years ago?" + -- Anna and Morden in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"John, there's nowhere to run. Come back inside, we can work this out. I + know this isn't the Anna you knew. What I am is what was made in her, a new + personality. She can never come back. But I can love you as well as she did." + -- Anna to John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"Jump. Jump, now!" + -- Kosh to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"What the hell!" + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and + unexpectedly. .. All around us, 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.'" + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" +%% +"The Shadows have paused in their pursuit of war and everywhere there is a + sense of imminent change. Whether it is a change for good or ill, no one + can tell. As no one has yet answered two very important questions: where + is Mr. Garibaldi and what happened to Captain Sheridan at Z'ha'dum." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"It was the year of fire, the year of destruction, the year we took back what + was ours. It was the year of rebirth, the year of great sadness, the year of + pain, and the year of joy. It was a new age. It was the end of history. It + was the year everything changed. The year is 2261; the place: Babylon 5." + -- The Main Cast in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"You can not *win* this war, Commander. You can only *survive* it. + And we intend to survive it." + -- Drazi Council Member to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"He did not come, again." +"Yes, and I intend to find out why." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Minister, I have met Cartagia three times before, twice when he was an + infant. He *drooled* most of the time, I wonder if he's continued the habit, + and again when he was 15 trying to peek up the dresses of some young women. + I promise you, I will be *just* as impressed by him now as I was then. Yes?" + -- Londo and Minister in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Ah, Mollari. It's wonderful to see you again." +"And you, Majesty. I could swear you have not changed since the last + few times I saw you." +"Oh, you are of course too generous. What do you think, Mollari?" +"It is .. ahem .. short, Majesty. Shorter than is traditional for someone + of your position." + -- Emperor Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"I suppose there are those that might object, but they remain silent, + because the emperor is always .. right. Is he not, Mollari?" +"That is our tradition." + -- Emperor Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Hello Mollari." +"Mr. Morden?" +"In the flesh. What's left of it. Sit. We have much to discuss." +"Mr. Morden, you are.." +"Unwell. My associates tell me I will be better soon. I wasn't as near + the *incident* as others." +"And Sheridan?" +"Which one? You know what they say: 'What goes up, must come down.' + 'Seen one Sheridan, seen them all.' 'Ashes, ashes, and they all fall down.'" + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Flesh is transitory, flesh is a prison, flesh is .. an instrument. + Flesh can be replaced. And flesh does as it's told. Or they will + become *most* annoyed." + -- Morden to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"He meant you?" +"What's left of me. I'm just a .. *shadow* of my former self." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"I don't care. I won't do it!" +"Of course you will, Mollari. Because you're drawn to power, because you + are my friend. Because you are afraid of what someone else might do in + your place." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"The stories we've heard about what happened at Z'ha'dum. Are they true?" +"Yes." +"What do you intend to do about them?" +"Nothing." +"But if Sheridan is still alive, if there's even a chance." +"Irrelevant." +"Irrelevant? How can you say that? You know how much depends on him." +"He has opened an unexpected door. We do now what must be *done* now. + *His* purpose has been fullfilled." +"You have the power to send a force to investigate. If he's alive, he + can be rescued." +"No one returns from Z'ha'dum." +"That's what we thought about Anna Sheridan. You were wrong then, you + could be wrong now. Are you afraid to admit that you are capable of + another mistake? He pledged for you, worked for you, for me, for + everyone here. If you turn away now, if you abandon him to die on + Z'ha'dum, I will have no more respect left for you. Do you understand me?" +"Respect is irrelevant." + -- Delenn and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Our thoughts form the universe, they always matter." + -- G'Kar to Zack in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"It takes a rare kind of wisdom to accept change and redemption in another. + Many would refuse, seeing only what was, not what is. Mr. Garibaldi gave + me that chance. I must repay him." + -- G'Kar to Zack in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Read the old books, Mollari. They speak of the ancient gods, + they speak about *them*. Power, power beyond description." +"If their power is so great, why do they need to hide behind us? + They are using us as shields. When the war comes here, our people + will die first!" +"Some are always sacrificed for the greater good." +"What greater good?" +"Ah! Mine of course!" + -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"What are a few million lives compared to the glory of becoming a living god?" + -- Cartagia in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Is there anywhere else you need me to carry you?" +"No. Go." +"Doesn't feel the same as when I carried Kosh with me, it's darker somehow. + Is everything all right?" +"Yes." +"You're planning something, aren't you? Something that you aren't telling me." +"You are free for a time. Do not interfere." + -- Lyta and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Londo?" +"Vir, I woke you. I'm sorry, I forgot the time difference there." +"It's all right, I was just about to get up .. in about six hours." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Is there something wrong?" +"Something: no. Everything: yes. Conspiracies require more than one person. + And there's no one here I trust. Come quickly, Vir, we have much to do." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"They heard us. They know we are here. The eye .. is looking for us." +"I've felt this before. I've been here before." + -- Lyta and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Lennier, get us the hell out of here." +"Initiating 'getting the hell out of here' maneuver." + -- Ivanova and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Of course the others know, but they are afraid to move against him. + Whoever does so will almost certainly be killed." +"That would be a drawback." +"These creatures must be driven away before it's too late. + We must stop Cartagia no matter the cost." +"The cost? That would be the dying thing, right?" + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Vir, there is a terrible truth: As one accumulates power, one loses + friends. One only has those who wish to use you, and those you wish + to use. And yet, in all of this, *you* have somehow managed to walk + through the corridors of power and not be touched. I can only assume + you have not been paying attention. And still, the hideous truth is, + *you* are the closest thing I have to a friend. I'm as shocked and + dismayed by this as you are, but there it is. I need a friend, Vir, + and I need a patriot, and you are both. Will you help me, please?" + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Commander's personal log. I wish it didn't have to be like this, but I + can't keep on denying it. The Captain's dead, and I have to accept that. + What matters now is finishing the work that he begun. I have some ideas + how to do that, but I'm gonna need some help. I think I know where to go + .. to find it. I have to let him go, and just get on with the work. + I think .. I *hope* it's what he would've wanted." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Who are you?" +"Who are *you*?" +"How did I get here?" +"You were born." +"Why am I alive?" +"Well, that *is* the question, isn't it?" + -- Sheridan and Lorien in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +%% +"Medlab's quiet these days. The League of non-aligned worlds has broken up + and everyone's going back to their homeworlds to prepare for the next stage + of war. We know the enemy is gonna strike back. Rumour has it that this + time's gonna be the last time. This time they're gonna end it. All we can + do now is wait for the other shoe to drop or try to find something useful + to do before the end. Right now, short of hand holding, or sympathetic ear, + I can't think of a one damn thing." + -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"Who are you? What do you want? Who are you? What do you want? + Who are you? *Who* are *you*?" + -- Sheridan's dream in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"You are thinking about escape again, aren't you? Don't. There is no way off + Z'ha'dum. You might as well give up, reconcile yourself as I did." +"The first obligation of a prisoner is to escape." + -- Lorien & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"Words have meaning and names have power. The universe begun with a word, + you know. But which came first: the word or the thought behind the word?" + -- Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"What question?" +"Who are you?" +"How did you know about it?" +"It's a dangerous question, isn't it? There's *never* a good answer to it. + I suppose, that's the point." + -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"There are only two possibilities. If you hit bottom, then you are dead. + If you did not hit bottom, you are still falling and all of this is a dream. + Unless .. you are in-between." +"Between what?" +"Between moments." + -- Lorien & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Always running out of time. Yours is almost used up. + You're between seconds, lost in the infinite possibilities between a tick + and tock. Tick, you're alive. Tock.. Well, it was a good life, but a short + one. Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick--" + -- Lorien to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"You're closer now, aren't you. Yes, I see you are. But closer to tick or + closer to tock? I don't know. Only *time* will tell. And here, between + the moments, we have all the time in the world." + -- Lorien to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"The man says he doesn't want to talk to you. Leave him alone." +"We're having a private conversation. It is no concern of yours." +"It's my bar, I'm making it my concern. Now get out." +"I've come a long way. I intend to finish my conversation." + -- Bartender & G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"I've sometimes heard the humans say: 'Minbari never tell anyone the whole + truth.' But I'm no longer a whole Minbari and should've changed my heart + more than I did. But I loved him and I wanted to protect him. I should've + loved him less and trusted him more." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"Doesn't make sense." +"You're right, that's the bit that worries me." +"If you are going to be worried every time the universe doesn't make sense, + you are going to be worried every moment of every day for the rest of your + natural life." + -- G'Kar and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"I was doing fine until you showed up with that .. *thing* in hand." +"It's a Minbari fighting pike, several hundred years old. You are just + jealous because you don't have one. Bad case of pikal envy, if you ask me." + -- G'Kar and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"They seem rather eager to find you. Eagerness like that--" +"--worries you. Hell, I suppose I should appreciate your concern. + Compassion is a rare commodity these days." +"So, why are you doing this?" +"He's my friend. I've never had a friend before who wasn't a Narn. And you?" +"I never had a friend before who *was* a Narn, .. and damn few of any other + kind. Most of them are dead." + -- G'Kar and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"The job now is to turn this around and make it into something positive. + My dad always told me that's the only way you deal with pain; you don't + surrender, you don't fight it, you turn it into something positive. He + used to say: 'If you are falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. + You've got nothing to lose.'" + -- Sheridan's log in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"As a dear friend said to me: 'If you are falling off a mountain, you may as + well try to fly.' Here, the end, I offer you one final chance to fly." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"And you. Have you anything to say?" +"Do you by any chance happen to know where Mr. Garibaldi might be?" + -- Cartagia & G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"There is a monster on the throne, G'Kar, a well-protected monster. + He must be removed, and *you* may be the means I have been waiting for." + -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"You didn't ask the price .. for my co-operation." +"You are not exactly in a position to bargain, G'Kar." +"Neither are you. You want my help .. for the sake of your people. I will + give it .. for the sake of my own. If I remove the monster from your throne, + you will remove the monster .. from my world. Leave Narn, set my world free. + Promise me this, and I will do as you ask." +"You have my word." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"This is the fire I set when I woke up down here. I've come full circle." +"Don't we all?" + -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"Yes, of course I care. It's a terrible thing when your children fight. + I warned the others, but they didn't listen. They *never* listen." + -- Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"That was you?" +"Perhaps. We all have secrets and surprises. Did you know + you have a Vorlon inside you? Well, a piece of one." + -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"Kosh." +"Is that its name? I think I met it once long ago." + -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"You must let go. Surrender yourself to death. The death of flesh, + the death of fear. Step into the abyss, and let go." + -- Lorien to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"It's easy to find something worth dying for. + Do you have anything worth living for?" +"I can't see you anymore." +"As it should be." +"What if I fall off.. How will I know you'll catch me?" +"I caught you before." +"What if I die?" +"I can not create life, but I can breathe on the remaining embers.. + It may not work." +"But I can hope." +"*Hope* is all we have." + -- Lorien & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"Do you have anything worth living for?" +"Sleep now. I will watch and catch you if you should fall." +"Delenn!" + -- Lorien, Delenn, Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +%% +"Flak'sha [Engines at full..] + Shin'drabi [high power] + Hat'rashu [hatrack ratcatcher.] + and dolo [to port weapons..] + ishi'den [brickbat lingerie.]" + -- Ivanova to Marcus and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"Tell the crew: 'Anyone who laughs will answer to me personally.'" + -- Delenn to Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"What's next on the list?" +"Sector 87/20/42. At least a dozen ships have reported seeing something + rather godlike in the area, and since neither you nor I were there, it + must be one of the First Ones." +"You are having delusions of grandeur again." +"Well, if you're gonna have delusions, you may as well go for the really + *satisfying* ones." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"I can't believe it. Did you see him?" +"I was right there, Vir. I saw him." +"How can you see G'Kar like that and feel *nothing*?" +"I feel, Vir. I wish that I didn't, it would make this all much easier. + We must play along until the time is right." +"I don't know if G'Kar can survive that long." +"He will survive. He must. For my sake as well as his own." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"Damned! Damned! Damned silence. He refuses to bow, he refuses to drink." +"Majesty!" +"Did you know we assigned one of our *best* pain technicians -- pain + technicians, they used to be called torturers, ever since they got + organized it's 'pain technicians' -- Why are you here? One of our very + best torturers, I felt certain he would break him. Two hours he worked, + not a sound. I said: 'Give me a cry, rin-tintsy(?). Give me a shout, + a whimper, a scream.' Silence! So, I got to it myself. You can't leave + these things to others, they never get it right! And well, you can see + for yourself. If I didn't know better, I would say he was a mute. Silence! + I'm beginning to understand what you're going through with this G'Kar. + How you put up with this at all, I have no idea." +"He was a small burden." + -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"Silence! Silence! Where's the joy in that, really? He's so insubordinate, + I can't have him challenging my authority that way." + -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"He can't force you to live like this, can he?" +"Yes, he can." + -- Delenn and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"I thought he would welcome the chance to strike at the Shadows." +"I think the Vorlons have plans of their own. There's .. there's something + going on.. Something they haven't told us yet." +"Do you have any idea?" +"No, and frankly, I'm afraid to ask. I don't think that they care about what + happens to us anymore, Delenn. I think their game just got bigger than that." + -- Delenn and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"While I was carrying you, you felt cold, hard. What are you hiding from me?" +"Your work for now is done here. Go. Sleep." +"I have a right to know. I've done everything you asked. I let your people + modify me, enhance my telepathic abilities so I'd be more suited to carry + a Vorlon around in my head, because I believed. Kosh, the real Kosh wasn't + like this. I think in some level he cared about us, about me. With you it's + as if I'm being used and then thrown away when I'm not needed anymore. + Dammit! I have earned some respect! And I have earned some answers!" +"Respect? From whom?" + -- Lyta and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"Would you know my thoughts? Would you?" + -- Kosh to Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"I'm picking something up." +"A unicorn? .. Sorry." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"Captain, we're sorry. We thought you were dead." +"I was. I'm better now." + -- Drazi spokesman and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"We can end this. Not just for now, + not just for the next thousand years, but forever." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"When most of the First Ones left, two of them, the Shadows and Vorlons, + stayed behind. Their job was to keep an eye on the younger races, help + them along, but .. they couldn't decide or agree on what had to be done. + The Vorlons believed that strength comes through order and discipline, + the Shadows believe in promoting evolution through conflict, starting + wars." +"Those are diametrically opposite positions." +"Exactly. Now, at first there was a balance between the two sides. + They abided by rules of engagement, respected each others positions, + but that changed over time." + -- Sheridan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"Why the wars? Why the fighting? If each side agreed to respect the other.." +"I don't know who started it first, Delenn, but somewhere along the line they + both decided that their way was the right way, the only way, and we've been + caught in the middle ever since." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"This latest incident, everything that's happened lately, it's convinced the + Vorlons that their only alternative is to destroy the Shadows and anyone + touched by them. Like an infection, you have to .. cut it out." +"And any healthy tissue that's cut out along the way.. well, that's okay, + because it's all for a good cause." + -- Lyta and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"Since the Shadows are ready to strike back at any time now, + we are caught in the middle again." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"We could barely stop the Shadows, how do we stop them *and* the Vorlons?" +"I don't know. All I know is that unless you do stop them, it won't matter + who wins and who loses, because none of us, not a single world in 70 light + years in any direction, will live to see it." + -- Garibaldi and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +%% +"Once again, please remain calm. Right now our greatest enemy is fear." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"You heard?" +"I heard. +"They need to believe." +"Not in me." +"You can't save them all." +"I'll try." +"You'll fail." +"We'll see." + -- Lorien and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"[I see] The stars, Majesty. Nothing more." +"Then you are not looking hard enough. Vorlons are out there, Londo. + They've gone mad, attacking any world, any base, any colony where my + associates have influence." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"After the last war my associates hid many of their ships on distant + worlds. The Vorlons want to make sure it doesn't happen again." +"There are over 100 of those ships here. I assume they will be leaving now." +"I'm afraid not." +"The Vorlons.." +"Will never attack Centauri Prime. Small colonies, deep range planets, sure. + But to destroy a world as big as this, no. They don't have the will." + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"I call them my shadow cabinet. I think you can appreciate the irony. + They certainly can." + -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"Minister Dugari. You remember him, don't you? Always coughing, + most distressing, but we finally cured it." + -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"Don't send the ships. Let it burn, Mollari. Let it all end in fire." + -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"Cough. Take a deep breath, and .. exhale. Quack like a duck. + Sorry, little med-school humor." + -- Franklin to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"What do you want me to do?" +"I want the Vorlon gone." +"Fine. I'll just go up to him and ask him to leave, that'll work." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"Is it my imagination, or is Mr. Garibaldi crankier than usual?" + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"I heard what happened. I came to warn you. Sheridan and the others are + going to move against you." +"It is done. They are irrelevant." +"I know, I know they can't harm you, but I was thinking it can't hurt to have + all the information you can about what's going on. To protect yourself and + the cause." +"How?" +"I told you I wasn't here when Ambassador Kosh died. I didn't have any of his + essence with me, I thought he was gone. But for a while I suspected that + someone else here had a piece of him. I think I know who it is, but I can't + draw Kosh out of him, he won't let me." +"A human?" +"Yes." +"Imprisons one of us?" +"Yes." +"Intolerable." +"If there is still a piece of him there, you can draw it out of him. + Use what it knows and take it back to Vorlon when this is all over. + I cared about Kosh. I'd like to know he finally made it home." +"Show me." +"But the guards.." +"They will not bother us again. Show me." + -- Lyta and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"Your thoughts are troubled." +"I'm worried about Kosh, that's all. After everything we've been through, + I'd hate to lose the last of him now and.." +"What are you hiding?" +"Nothing." +"Open your thoughts to me." +"We don't have time for this." +"*Open*!" + -- Kosh and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"It's Kosh. Kosh was inside him." +"Yes. The last of Kosh, and some of him, and some of me." + -- Delenn and Lorien in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"He was gravely wounded at Z'ha'dum. He was dying. He was dead. I did all I + could to help him, but I can not create life, only the universe can do that. + I can extend, enhance, there is no magic, nothing spiritual about it, only + the application of energies, healing and rebuilding cells." + -- Lorien to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"I wanted you to have this. I got it down at the Zocalo. It's not what I + had exactly in mind, but .. It's temporary until I can get you a real + engagement ring." + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"I was just thinking. I don't like the way he's looking at me. + I'm trying to decide what to do about it. Would you care to make + a suggestion?" +"Oh, no, I'm sure whatever your Majesty decides will be appropriate. + I shall go and pack." + -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"No, I don't care at all for the way he looks. Pluck out his eye." +"Which one?" +"I don't know. Doesn't matter. .. *That* one." + -- Cartagia and a guard in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +%% +"There is no choice. By the end of this day, either + Cartagia is dead or Centauri Prime will be destroyed." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"I've decided to take you with me." +"Majesty?" +"A god must have a high priest, must he not? And when the Shadows rise + from the ashes of Centauri Prime and reward my loyalty with godhood, + I want *you* to be the *first* one in my temple. I haven't decided + where to build it yet, but I.." +"Then you will not be on Centauri Prime when the Vorlons come?" +"Of course not. You and I will watch from a distance." + -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"G'Kar. Great Maker! Your eye? Cartagia?" +"My eye.. offended him. Doesn't matter. I can see things now.. that were + invisible to me before. An empty eye sees through to an empty heart." + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"Humor is such a subjective thing, don't you think, Mollari." + -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"How fast does the poison work?" +"Very quickly, he said almost instantaneously." +"'Almost'? How fast is almost? Time enough for him to stagger back into + the main room and cry out: 'Londo killed me'? Or maybe just enough time + for him to say: 'Londo kill..aargh'?" +"And then he won't even get that out, I mean, maybe he just go: + 'Lon.. arrgh'. Or maybe he's totally delirious and then say everything + backwards and say: 'Kill Londo! Arrgh'. .. I was just making a play on.." +"Well, it's time." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"The Emperor believed in heeding the wisdom of the gods. Well, twice + the Emperor of the Centauri Republic has died while acting in relation + to Narn. Emperor Turhan were trying to make peace, and now Cartagia. + I believe Cartagia would say that this is a sign from the gods. + A sign to leave this place forever." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"We do not have time for games, Vir. The ship is waiting." +"I was toasting Emperor Cartagia. And since he was not here, I drank for + him. And then I couldn't be rude, so I had to drink with him. And so, + first it was me drinking for him. And then him drinking for me. And then + I kind of got into this kind of cycle." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"I can not tell you that your pain will ever go away. I can not tell you + that you'll ever forget his face. I can only tell you that it *was* + necessary. You may have helped to save our people. You did a hard thing. + But you still have your heart, and your heart is a good one. You would not + be in such great pain otherwise. That means there is still hope for you. + And for that.. I find that I *still* envy you." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"Then, G'Kar, you will lead us against our oppressors. You will be the + instrument of our vengeance. With you directing us, we will finally + destroy the Centauri." +"You have just tossed someone off that throne. Would you put another in + his place so quickly? The Kha'Ri spoke with many equal voices, not the + one voice of a single leader." +"We need strength to lead us, *fire* to forge us. We saw that in the + Centauri, learned that from them." +"Then you have learned the wrong lessons. I will not take the throne. + If the Kha'Ri is restored, I will take my place among them, but that's + all. I did not fight to remove one dictator just to become another myself." +"But the Centauri--" +"--*are* *a* *lost* *people*! They ought to be pitied. They are already + on a course for self-destruction. They do not need help from us. We need + to redress our wounds, help our people, rebuild our cities." + -- G'Lorn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"We must strike back!" +"No." +"I never thought you were a *coward*, G'Kar. We suffered and died during + their occupation. Where were you? What have you endured?" +"What have I endured? Hahahahaha.." + -- G'Lorn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"Tho' we are not now that strength which in old days" +"Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are" +"One equal temper of heroic hearts," +"Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will" +"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +%% +"There is time for one more. This is the last. It's important + to have them all. Keep sending the signal." + -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"He's making a crucible, which he hopes will force out the truth. + Quite brave, possibly futile, but .. *very* human." + -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"Vorlon observation post destroyed." + -- Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"Win or lose, we'll go down fighting. Pour it on, Mr. Lennier. + Take us into the fire." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"I was told you were ready to leave." +"Almost. You are awfully impatient for someone who's supposed to be immortal." +"Not immortal as you mean it. My race can die .. through illness or injury." +"Where are the rest of them?" +"They fell ill and died, were injured and died. The rest went away. + I am the last .. and I was the first." +"I have to admit I'm a little bit sceptical about that." +"Scepticism is the language of the mind. What does your .. heart tell you?" +"My heart and I don't speak anymore." +"Yes, I have noticed that." + -- Lorien and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"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." + -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"You misunderstand me, Prime Minister. I was merely being specific. + In my experience, if you can not say what you mean, you can never + mean what you say. The details are everything." + -- Drano to Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"Your patience is also a weapon, when used properly. We will arrive when + we arrive and we will have the weapons we have. You can not win this war + through force, you must .. understand your way out of this. Sheridan knows. + What remains to be seen is whether he *knows* that he knows." + -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"There are three billion people here. The Vorlons would never attack a + civilian population that big. The ships stay." +"You are afraid, aren't you? *They're* afraid. And speaking of your + associates, we must make sure that we can talk privately. Do not move." + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"You are insane." +"On any other day, Mr. Morden, you would be wrong. Today, today is a very + different day. One last time: remove your ships." +"No. You don't frighten me, Mollari. If you try to attack our forces, + you'll lose." +"Yes, your ships are very impressive in the air, or in space. But at this + moment they are on the ground." +"Fine. They're on the ground, but they can sense an approaching ship miles + away. So what are you going to do, Mollari? Blow up the island?" +"Actually, .. now that you mention it." +"Noooo!" + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"You just made a mistake, Londo. Even if my associates lose this war + they have allies. They'll make sure Centauri Prime pays the price for + what you've done here today." + -- Morden to Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"Good morning, gentlemen. This is your wakeup call." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"There is nothing to tell. + You thought we could not touch you. You were wrong." + -- 'Vorlon Lyta' to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"And you they have left .. for us." + -- 'Shadow Lyta' to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"Oh, but I *do* understand. But that's what's got you worried, isn't it? + A Vorlon said understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side + .. and the truth. The truth is we don't need you anymore." + -- Sheridan to 'Vorlons' in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"You don't want to kill the messenger, you just want to kill the message." + -- Sheridan to 'Vorlons' in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"After all, if you destroyed the Vorlons, they'll never know you won. + They'll never see that you were right and they were wrong. It's about + ideology." + -- Delenn to 'Shadows' in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"Will you come with us?" +"I have been here since the beginning. I will not leave you now. I will go + with you beyond the rim. And we will see again all those who went ahead of + us, all those who we have missed for so long." + -- Shadows and Lorien in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"Then we will not be alone?" +"No, never alone." + -- Vorlons and Lorien in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +[First Ones leaving] +"Did we just win?" +"Don't jinx it." + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"We are all alone now, just the younger races. We can't blame anyone else + from now on. It's a new age, Delenn, a third age." +"Why third?" +"We begun in chaos, too primitive to make our own decisions. Then we were + manipulated from outside by forces that thought *they* knew what was best + for us. And now .. now we are finally standing on our own. Lorien was right, + it's a great responsibility. This is ours now." +"Strange. The galaxy seems somehow smaller now that the First Ones are gone + forever." +"It feels like the magic's gone now." +"No, not gone. Now we make our own magic. Now we create our own legends. + Now we build the future. Now we stop--" +"--being afraid of shadows." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +%% +"Maybe the doc's right. Embrace the moment. In the end, that's all we have. + Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. + Give me today, and I *will* be happy." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"The royal bloodline isn't what it used to be. Too much intermarrying I + suppose. I always say: 'When you reduce a family tree to a family bush, + you just can't hide as much beneath it.'" + -- Minister to Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"A regent? Oh my heavens, who would take *that* job? It pays very well, I + hear, but it's simply a ceremonial role." +"Actually, they've selected you." +"It hardly seems worth.. Me?" + -- Minister and Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"I'm thinking .. pastels!" + -- Centauri Regent to his court in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. + The one is never equal to the other." + -- G'Kar to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"No one can blame you for feeling a little stressed out. + Maybe a few days away.." +"I don't want a few days away. I don't want a vacation or a leave of + absence for a five-day pass to Disney planet. I just want out." + -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"Anything unusual gets flagged." +"And am I to fall into the category of unusual, Mr. Allan?" +"Well, I didn't think we'd be seeing you again anytime soon, Ambassador." +"Yes, I gathered that from the look of unvarnished joy on your face when you + saw me. Perhaps you would like to sit before you are overcome by ecstasy." +"Thanks, I'm fine. So, what happened? They got tired of you back home?" +"Tired? Of course not, don't be absurd. The Emperor himself said I would only + be allowed to leave over his dead body. I said: 'Well, how strange, Mr. Allan + said I would only be allowed *back* on to Babylon 5 over *his* dead body.' + With my very busy schedule I can only accomodate so many requests. I know + it's a burden, but you will *simply* *have* to wait your *turn*." + -- Zack and Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"The only reason that guy is still alive is that half the time I don't know + what the hell he's talking talking about. The other half, I wish I didn't. + But that's why it's important to check in on customs on a regular basis. + You never know who's gonna walk in that.." + -- Zack about Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"Just a guess, Mr. Allan, but I suggest the word you are looking for is + 'door'. Now, please notify the captain that I'm here, I need to meet with + him and the rest of the command staff ASAP. I assume my usual quarters + in the brig are available. I have grown so attached to the place." +"For you Mr. Bester, always." + -- Bester and Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"I'm sorry. I don't know what else to say. I'm sorry." +"Welcome hooome, Mr. Gaaaribaaaldi." +"Thank you, G'Kar." +"What?" +"I can't breathe." +"Sorry." + -- Garibaldi and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"All for nothing? Absolutely not! Yes, true, if I hadn't gone after you, + the Centauri would never have captured me and yes, it cost me my eye, + but it put me into the right place to strike a deal with Mollari. Because + of that deal, my world is now free." + -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront [pat] the universe + with good [pat] [pat] intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and + reward [pat] your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way + you expect." + -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"Psi-Cops are trained to make everyone nervous, but Bester can make + even other Psi-Cops nervous." +"Hell, the man can make poison ivy nervous." + -- Lyta and Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"My world is now free. You longer exist in my universe. Pray that we never + notice one another again." + -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"I want you to know that I object to this, Captain. Ms. Alexander has no + business being here. She's a blip. By all right I should arrest her and + take back with me." +"You could do that. And I could nail your head to the table, set fire to + it, and feed your charred remains to the Pak'ma'ra. But it's an imperfect + world and we never get exactly what we want. So get used to it." +"Captain, this is pointless. She is a P5. If I were really going to try + something, she's not powerful enough to block me anyway. You're just + embarrassing yourself, and her. Haven't we learned by now to trust each + other." +"No. Now, sit." + -- Bester and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"You know, the one thing in life that you can be sure about is that you + are going to make mistakes." + -- Garibaldi to Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"The way I figure it, we are all entitled to one really big, incredibly + stupid screw-up in our lives. Maybe this is one of those, we'll see." + -- Garibaldi to Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"The war's over, we won. We should get a few days off before the next big + crisis. It never seems to work out that way." +"No. And you wouldn't have it any other way." +"I beg your pardon?" +"You are a problem solver. You are one of these people who'll pick up a rope + that's got all tangled up and spend entire day untangling it. Because it's + a challenge, because it defies your sense of order in the universe, and + because you can. Sometimes I try to picture you sitting on a beach with + absolutely nothing to do." +"And?" +"And, the picture always ends with your head imploding." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"Dream! That's all. Just a bad dream." + -- Centauri Regent in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +%% +"Commander! Did you threaten to grab hold of this man by the collar and + throw him out an airlock?" +"Yes I did." +"I'm shocked. Shocked and dismayed. I'd remind you that we are short on + supplies here. We can't afford to take perfectly good clothing and throw + it out into space. *Always* take the jacket off first, I've told you that + before. Sorry, she meant to say: 'Stripped naked and thrown out an airlock.' + I apologize for any confusion this may have caused." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +%% +"You work for no one but us. You work for no one but us. + You *work* for no one but us. You work for no one but us. + Us. Us. Us! Us!" + -- A Voice to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +%% +"When I said my quarters were cold, I did not mean: 'Oh, I think it's a + little chilly in here, perhaps I'll throw a blanket on the bed.' No, I said + it was *cold*! As in: 'Oh, look, my left arm has snapped off like an icicle + and shattered on the floor.' This is highly inappropriate, Captain." +"You are right. There are several other parts of your body I much rather see + snapped off." + -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +%% +"With Clark, Anything that gets into the way, disappears." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +%% +"There is no force in this galaxy that can stop what we have done here + together. Nothing will be able to stop us." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +%% +"To celebrate this latest victory against the tyranny of a fanatical few + who have endangered the lives of our citizens, Clark proclaimed today a + planetary holiday. Curfew has been extended two full hours until 9 PM Earth + standard time, so go out and enjoy." + -- Alison Higgins in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +%% +"A struggle against Earth?" +"Of course. If they don't understand, we will make them understand." +"Anything that gets into the way, disappears." +"There's a lot of people back home who might be concerned about what you are + saying. It sounds as if you are putting the mingling of human and Minbari + above the safety of your own world." +"There is no force in this galaxy that can stop what we have done here + together. Nothing will be able to stop us." + -- Randall, 'Delenn', 'Sheridan' in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +%% +"Ouch! She did that on purpose." +"Yes, I believe she did. I will deal with this. /Good Work. + Give me a moment with the human. And next time .. Use a bigger needle./" +"Yeah. And don't you forget it!" + -- Zack and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"I think I got it." +"Just as long as it isn't in backwards. + I've peered into my own soul more than enough lately." + -- Franklin and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"It's not my proper color!" + -- G'Kar to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"Where did you say you were going?" +"I was.. I was just going to.. Nowhere that can't wait for a little while." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"It also occurred to me, as I told you, it is tradition for Minbari + to spend three nights together. The female--" +"--watches and the male sleeps until his true face is revealed, I know. + Whatever you see in a face mashed against a pillow and drooling, I don't + know, but I try not to be judgemental about alien cultures, when they are + dressed like *that*." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"Sheridans are survivors, always have been." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"What was your name, child?" +"Delenn." +"Delenn." +"Yes." +"Of the family of Mir." +"Yes, Master." +"You have a proud heritage, Delenn of Mir. Prouder than you know. There + is nothing to fear in the dreaming. Only that which we bring with us. + The dreaming takes us forward and the dreaming takes us back. Walk with + me in the dreaming, Delenn." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"For two days we have been debating an issue of some small importance. + We have from time to time heard of a race known as humans. The Centauri + have had dealings with them for some time. They are reportedly + primitive, passionate, .. dangerous. The question: do we establish + contact with these humans? They have each said no. All for different + reasons. Would you like to hear them?" +"Perhaps another would be better suited.." +"The correct answer is 'yes'." +"Yes." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"Valen said: 'The greatest enemy is the one you do not know. You can predict + the actions of those who are familiar to you. The one you can not predict + is the one who can harm you.'" +"And what do *you* say?" +"If we do not know these humans, then they are a mystery to us. The universe + puts a mystery in front of us as a gift. Politeness requires that we at + least *try* to solve it." +"A-haa! You are curious, you would like to know, to simply understand. + Simple curiosity." + -- Delenn and Dukhat in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"I could override their decision, but nothing would be served. + Authority should never be used as a club, Delenn." +"But, then why?" +"When one of us does a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish + thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the *truth* is where + it needs to be." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"Raise your eyes and look at me." +"It's disrespectful." +"I can not have an aide who will not look up. + You will be forever walking into things." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"I am become Grey. I stand between the darkness and the light, .. + between the candle and the star." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"There is nothing to fear in the dreaming. + Only that which we bring with us. + Walk with me in the dreaming, Callenn." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"There was a purpose in my selection. Your heritage.. + You are a child of Valen." + -- Dukhat to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"The guards resisted at first. The Grey council is suspended, + but the security remains. I managed to *explain* matters to them. + They will recover.. in time." + -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +%% +"Speaking of which, as of now I'm relieving you of command." +"Ivanova, your sense of humor has always been on the edge of good taste, + *but*--" +"I'm serious, John." +"On what grounds?" +"You haven't taken any personal time in over nine months. And in that time + we have broken away from earth, fought a war, you have been declared dead + at least once, and you know how tiring that can be." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +%% +"There isn't much chance of me winning this argument, is there?" +"None whatsoever. I never give up when I'm right. + Your only option is to surrender." +"Who taught you to negotiate like that?" +"You did." +"Oh. Well, then I assume this enforced vacation is to begin immediately." +"Started when I walked in that door." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +%% +"Me, I go for insta-heats." + -- Captain Jack to Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +%% +"Entertainment channel unavailable due to jamming. + Movie channel unavailable due to jamming. + Sports channel unavailable due to jamming. + Adult channel unavailable due to jamming. + ISN available." + -- Babylon 5 television selection in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +%% +"Lyta had a little Vorlon. Her skin was pale as snow. + And everywhere that Lyta went, her Vorlon was sure to go." + -- Captain Jack recites the passphrase in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +%% +"Just my luck. The first time in my life I am a war hero and nobody + knows about it. And worst of all, I'm married to you." + -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +%% +"Everyone's entitled to a fresh start." +"You're even willing to forget about the business--" +"Yes, even though it did make Mr. Garibaldi's hair fall out. + You had no way of knowing what was in that bottle. That's my + story and I'm sticking to it, just in case he asks." + -- Ivanova and a smuggler in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +%% +"If you could look any more unhappy, please do not tell me. + There are some things I would rather not know." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +%% +"He's not what he appears to be! Give it up, will you." + -- Garibaldi about Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +%% +"Woo-hoo?" + -- Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +%% +"With the Grey Council no more, the three castes are mainly + concerned with protecting their own interests." + -- Forell to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +%% +"Can't you send out Lennier? It might be dangerous." +"John! It pleases me that you care for what I have become. + But never forget who I was, what I am, and what I can do." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +%% +"Our job, as always, is simply to state the facts and + let the truth attend to itself." + -- ISN Reporter in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +%% +"Look, if they want to play games, well fine. We can play games too, only we + can play them better, because we have the *truth* on our side. You can't + kill the truth. .. Actually, you *can* kill the truth, but it always comes + back to haunt you later." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +%% +"You have a face people trust." +"I'd rather have a face people fear." +"That too, but.." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +%% +"Dukhat says: 'When there is good news we always ask if it's true, + because it is so difficult to believe. But when there is bad news + we rarely inquire because it's so easy to believe.'" + -- Forell to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +%% +"Touch passion when it comes your way, Stephen. It's rare enough + as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name." + -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +%% +"The Drakh want peaceful relations. They want only a place to have for + their own, because--" +"--because they have just lost their home." +"Yes. There was an evacuation. Some kind of natural disaster, they said." + -- Forell and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +%% +"Before the war Dukhat wanted to know more about your people, so I + began studying your history. I came to the conclusion that of all the + races we had encountered humans were the most dangerous. Because humans + form communities, and from that diversity comes a strength no single race + can withstand. That is your strength and it is *that* which makes you + dangerous." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +%% +"Fighting a war is easy. Destroying is easy. Building a new world out of + what's left of the old, that is what's hard. But that is your strength. + So much is falling apart out there. You must help to put it back together." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +%% +"If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, + you have a long wait ahead of you." + -- Sheridan to Zack in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +%% +"If we're gonna broadcast all the way back home, we're going to need a + helluva lot more power than we've got now. And I don't know where we're + gonna get it. I mean, I've been working on this for days, I don't have a + clue." +"What about Epsilon 3? During the war we evacuated a lot of the wounded + down there for safe-keeping. Now, I've spent a lot of time looking around, + there's enough power down there to broadcast clear to the Rim." +"Or, -- just a crazy thought -- I could try Epsilon 3." +"Yeah, you could do that, yeah." +"I mean, it's the logical choice. Anybody could see that in about two + seconds. I mean, only a complete fool would fail to see that." +"Well, I wouldn't.." +"It's absolutely obvious." +"Well, *I* wouldn't have thought of it, that's for sure." +"No, you are far too modest, Stephen." +"No, no, no. That's why you get paid big bucks, after all." +"Yep, that's my job." + -- Ivanova and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +%% +"Excuse me, I need to see Draal." +"Oh, Draal is very busy! Have had four ground quakes on other side of + planet. Damage to weather control system, to great machine." +"Zathras!" +"Yes?" +"What the hell are you doing here?" +"Zathras work here. Zathras were born here. You work up there, Zathras + work down here. You dress like that, Zathras dress like this." +"That's not--" +"Just covering *all* possibilities. Zathras does not want you being + confoosed. Bye." +"Hey! Wait a minute! You are not supposed to be here. We left you + a thousand years in the past." +"No! We have never met before. But Zathras very pleased to be meeting you." +"No, we *have* met." +"No. Oh. No, noo. No no. You did not meet Zathras. You met *Zathras*." + -- Ivanova and Zathras in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +%% +"Let's try this again." +"As you wish." +"Zathras came with us to Babylon 4." +"Yes." +"Zathras stayed in the past with Valen." +"Yes." +"*You* are Zathras." +"Yes." +"Therefore, *you* went into the past." +"No, that was not Zathras, that was *Zathras*. There are 10 of us, all of + family Zathras, each one named Zathras. Slight differences in how you + pronounce. Zathraas, Zathras, Zathras.. You are seeing now?" +"There are ten of you?" +"Yes! Well, nine *now*." +"And Zathras?" +"Zathras gone! Zathras *warned* Zathras, but Zathras never listened to + Zathras. Zathras was quiet one in family. *SO*! What can Zathras be doing + for you?" + -- Ivanova and Zathras in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +%% +"Everyone always coming to Zathras with problems. Great responsibilities. + But Zathras does not mind. Zathras trained in crisis management." +"That's great, lets--" +"But only Zathras have no one to talk to. No one manages poor Zathras, + you see. So Zathras talks to dirt. Sometimes talks to walls, or talks to + ceilings. But dirt is closer. Dirt is used, through everyone walking on it. + Just like Zathras, but we've come to like it. It is our role. It is our + *destiny* in the universe. So, you see, sometimes dirt has insects in it. + And Zathras likes insects. Not so good for conversation, but much proteine + for diet. Ha! Zathras fix now, this way." + -- Zathras and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +%% +"It's easy to come together for a common enemy. + Now our job is to come together for a common goal." + -- Sheridan to G'Kar & Londo in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +%% +"Yeah, I know. Every time you try to get them do something for their + own good, they figure you've got some sort of a hidden agenda." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"I am tired of doing things the hard way. + There's an easier way to convince them." +"And how do we do that?" +"By *not* convinving them. Ha-ha!" + -- Sheridan and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"When I was a child, my father used to carry me through the city on his + shoulders. I've never seen such beauty. The city was eternal, its beauty + eternal. We heard of the Grey Council, but the name was always spoken with + awe and reverence. They held our world together. They were the peace + promised by Valen; thousand years of peace among the three castes." + -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"I think of my beautiful city in flames, Lennier. The streets where I walked, + the temples, the great crystal spires .. that sighed music whenever the wind + touched them. I think of it, and I cry, Lennier. And I wonder: did I do this + when I broke the Grey Council?" +"Valen always said the Council will be broken in the Great Shadow War." +"Lennier, you know the truth as well as I do. Valen only knew what + Sinclair knew, could not see beyond that. Once he left us, the future + became fluid. I had assumed things would continue on, like some great + clockwork mechanism. As long as the war was won, we would be all right. + I was wrong." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"I need your help, Neroon." +"My help? I remind you that not very long ago I fought to keep you from + taking control of the Rangers. We have not exactly been friends." +"No, but your actions have always been motivated by one desire: to do what + is right for our people. The warrior caste can not be allowed to win this + war. The religious caste can not be allowed to win. You know as well as I + that if either side achieves dominance, the delicate balance of our + civilisation will be destroyed." +"You should have thought of that before you broke the Grey Council." +"What is done is done, Neroon. What matters now is the future." + -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"Yes, we've disagreed, even fought, but I would rather have someone who + opposed me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause than + someone who was always on my side because it was expected and required. + I've questioned your judgement and wisdom, your temperament, but never + your loyalty." +"Was that a compliment?" +"After a fashion." +"Then you trust me?" +"After a fashion." + -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"But we are two against a world gone mad. What can we do against that?" +"Nothing. Until we get their attention. For that I need your help." + -- Neroon and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"I don't really think it's my place to comment." +"Captain!" +"All I can say is we certainly wouldn't be there if we weren't wanted." +"Then they asked for the ships?" +"I can't confirm that." +"But you're not denying it either." +"But not denying it doesn't make it true any more than not confirming + it makes it false. Are you with me so far?" +"I'm .. not sure." +"Ambassador, there are so many things in the universe that are and so many + things that aren't. If I were to take the time to deny all the things that + aren't, we'd be here for centuries, wouldn't we?" + -- Sheridan and Drazi Amb. in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"Make a big deal out of it .. as much as you can, given nothing happened." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"First, one brief announcement. I just wanted to mention for those who have + asked that *absolutely* nothing whatsoever happened today in sector 83/9/12. + I repeat, nothing happened. Please remain calm." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"Incredible. Only the warrior caste could actually turn on one of their own. + They have always been erratic. And you, .. you are the steady rock beneath + my feet. Thank you." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"I have been training him, as Dukhat trained me. He has been .. a light for + my footsteps. Never asking, only giving. Without him, I would stumble and + fall and never get up again. Thank you for looking after him, Neroon." + -- Delenn about Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"I assumed your behavior was prompted by a sense of your own superiority, + your ego, .. the usual fanaticism we have come to expect from the religious + caste. In the last year, I've begun to realize that I was wrong. Dukhat + chose you above all to follow him. Slowly, dimly, I begin to understand why. + I do not know what lays ahead of us, Delenn, but I do know it is *right* + that we are here together." +"Is that a compliment, Neroon?" +"After a fashion." + -- Neroon and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"If I had told her the whole truth, it would've destroyed her belief in the + strength and the wisdom of our caste. Delenn does not walk in the same + world you and I walk in. She does not see the same world you and I see. + In her world we are better than we are, we care more than we care. We act + towards each other with compassion. I much prefer her world to that of my + own, and I will not allow anything to threaten that." + -- Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +%% +"Perhaps in the future when you rejoin the Psi Corps, + we can discuss this again." + -- Businesswoman to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"Our people need leadership, not dogma, action, not meditation. We assumed + they were our equal in all things. They've now learned otherwise." + -- Shakiri to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"And.. Well, there's just no delicate way to say this. I want your body." +"*What!* Are you out of your mind?" +"Heh, that's a very funny question to ask a telepath, .. since we spend so + much of our time in other peoples' minds. I don't want it *now*, Lyta, + just when you are not .. using it anymore, after .. your passing." + -- Bester and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"What is your empathic range?" +"Well, officially, 20-25 meters." +"Unofficially?" +"Further .. *much*." + -- Garibaldi and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"I said we surrender. I did not say that we gave up our sovereign rights to + form a new government. Dukhat said that in every battle one side or the + other must surrender eventually. It's the natural order of things, There's + no dishonor in that, no shame. We recognize the superior forces of the + warrior caste. We have, after all, spent several centuries arming you, + helping you learn the art of combat. What threat are we against that?" +"Then you acknowledge we are stronger?" +"Stronger, yes. But wiser? For a thousand years we guided our people + through wisdom, not arms. Will we set that aside so quick?" + -- Delenn and Shakiri in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"Valen said: 'Will you follow me to fire?' Will you?" + -- Delenn to Shakiri in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"You said that a warrior does not fear death, Shakiri. You said that death + is only one of the consequencies, neither valued nor feared above the other. + Death is merely a release from our obligations. Why then are you afraid, + Shakiri? Have you put your importance above our own people?" +"Don't take their side!" +"I speak for my *people*. Who do you speak for? And what are you willing + to do? They are waiting for your answer." + -- Neroon to Shakiri in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"I was born .. warrior caste, but I see now .. the calling of my + heart .. is religious. War is over. Listen to her. Listen!" + -- Neroon in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"Today we rebuild what was broken. Today we restore the Grey Council. + I summon the nine as Valen called them together long ago." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"In the past it has been our tradition to seek balance. We have called + three from each caste: worker, warrior, religious. But now that changes." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"You had forgotten the worker caste, hadn't you? When our two sides fight, + they're the ones caught in the middle, forgotten that it's their time to + serve to build, and to die. They built the temples we pray in, the ships + you fight in. They look to us to guide their hands. But prayers are + fleeting and wars forgotten. What is built endures. They do not wish to + conquer or convert, only to build the future. And now, they will have that + chance. The religious caste and the warrior caste will advise and councel. + We will serve, as is proper. Religion and war must act in the *service* of + the people, not the other way around. This place.. this place is reserved + in memory of Neroon, until the day it is taken by the One who is to come. + You are the heart, the hands, and the voice of our people. Judge wisely + and well." + -- Delenn to Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +%% +"Captain's personal log, September 2nd, 2261. Enough is enough." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"We'll hit them in waves. Try to isolate the ships we need to destroy from + the ones who won't fight unless they have to. Then we'll give them a chance + to surrender or join up." +"And if they don't?" +"We take them out. Hey, I don't like the idea any more than you do, but + either we commit ourselves to this completely or we don't do it. Once we + pull the first trigger we can't hesitate to pull the next one, because they + sure won't. Now, once we're in, we're in: no surrender, no retreat." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"I didn't do it! I didn't do it! Thank the Great Maker it was just a dream." + -- Vir in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"So from now on I guess the operational phrase is 'Trust no one.'" +"No. Trust Ivanova, trust yourself, anybody else: shoot them." + -- Corwin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"Hello, G'Kar. I don't believe I have ever been in your quarters before. + Unless you count a cell on Centauri Prime." +"I apologize for the lack of chains. The cleaning service must have + removed them." +"It has much the same feeling as your world: dry, .. red, .. and + depressing." + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"How is the eye?" +"It sees." + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"I have no interest in your thanks." +"I did not think that you would, but it is there anyway. [sighs] + As I said, a hard year." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"When I saw you in that cell, beaten, chained .. As I said, we have never + been friends, we will never be friends. There is too much blood between + us, too much history. But I did feel for you, as much as I did not want + to. In the beginning, it was little more than sympathy one might feel for + any trapped animal. But in time .. I came to respect you. +"Your respect matters to me even less than your thanks." +"You are not going to give me even an inch, are you? + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"You may not believe this, G'Kar, but all I ever wanted is what is *right* + for my world. I'm a patriot, as you are. I have made some .. very poor + choices in the last two years. Because I did not *think*, those choices + almost destroyed my world, and yours. That is a humbling realization, G'Kar. + If with a single wrong word I can become the enemy, do I any longer really + understand who the enemy is?" + -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"Because, while I do not know who the enemy is any longer, I do know who + my friends are, and that I have not done as well by them as I should. + I hope to change that. I hope to do better." + -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"Before war broke out between our governments, you bought me a drink. + I wish to return the favor. For the first time in a hundred years, we + have something in common beyond hatred. I find that most extraordinary, + and so a drink to the humans, and to the bridge that they created between + us in the hope for a better future for both our worlds." + -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"Earth's Last Best Hope" + -- A Poster in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"It looks as if we won." +"No, we achieved the mission objective. It is not a victory. + Too many on both sides had to die for it." + -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +%% +"Mars. I can't believe I'm back on Mars. Three times before this place + almost killed me. I swore I'd never give it another chance to finish + the job. Humans have got no business being here. No business at all." + -- Garibaldi's Log in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" +%% +"Everything is illusion, Mr. Garibaldi. Concepts [constructs] of language, + light, metaphor; nothing is real." + -- Wade to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" +%% +"Nobody takes power. They're given power by the rest of us, + because we are stupid or afraid or both. " + -- William Edgars in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" +%% +"What you just told me, is that the whole truth?" +"It's as close to the truth as you or anyone else will ever get, + Mr. Garibaldi." + -- Garibaldi and Edgars in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" +%% +"Mars. Three times before this place almost killed me. And now I have + finally finished the job. I can't feel anything anymore. I don't know + what I care about anymore, except Lise. I screwed up both our lives + pretty good. Now I get to make up for it. Assuming any of us can ever + make up for anything we have done in the past. Maybe we can't, maybe + we just have to live with it and get on with it, and do what we have + to, never what we want to. It has to be done. I hope you can see that + one day." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" +%% +"Somewhere on Beta colony, there is .. an institution. And one room in + that institution .. there is a man, who spends his days and nights + screaming at .. things only he can see. Things we planted in his mind." + -- Lyta to Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +%% +"They taught me what a telepath was and what we can do. And all that + time I had never been afraid of who we were. Until that day .. when + we did what we had to do because no one else would fight." + -- Lyta to Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +%% +"Do you think the Captain is all right?" +"He knows what he's doing, he'll be fine. + Assuming Mr. Garibaldi can still be trusted." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +%% +"What's going on? You all look like a Pak'ma'ra just ate your cat." + -- Ivanova to Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +%% +"We interrupt our regular programming for this important announcement. + The leader of the renegade fleet that has been trying to destabilize + Earth for months has *finally* been located and detained. Captain John + Sheridan, formerly of Earth Force, was captured earlier today by forces + loyal to president Clark and is now being held in a secure facility. + Unlike many of his victims, he is being given proper care and treatment + until a hearing can be convened." + -- ISN Broadcast in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +%% +"We're engaged in a very dangerous game, Mr. Garibaldi. In this game you + have to pick your target very carefully, because you only have one shot. + And this is much, *much* bigger than you suspect." +"President Clark isn't the real problem, he's trivial. One way or another + he'll be gone in a few years, but the telepaths he put in power, the Psi + Corp, those will be with us forever. That's the real danger." + -- Wade and Edgars in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +%% +"I knew there were forces out there with plans for my telepaths, but this.. + I had no idea. The sheer scope of it. Well, we'll stop it now, of course, + in our own way." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +%% +"By nature Mr. Garibaldi is rebellious, stubborn, and suspicious. + He has an innate distrust to the authority figures. And he is very + good at figuring out when conspiracies are taking place and tracking + it back to its source. We need that part of him, so I don't wanna risk + tampering with him." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +%% +"The Captain once told me: 'The person is expendable, the job is not.' + We keep going." + -- Ivanova to Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +%% +"When I ask a question, you will respond at once. You will not hesitate, + you will not consider, you will not lie. Co-operation will be rewarded, + resistance .. will be punished." + -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +%% +"There is nothing to be gained by trying to harm me, I am not the enemy. + To be the enemy, I must have some personal stake in what happens to you. + I am not interested in that at all. I'm here to do a job, nothing more. + You are a name, a file, and a case number, that's all." + -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +%% +"It does prove though how everything is a matter of perspective. You see + what you think is daylight, and you assume it's morning. Take it away, + you think it's night. Offer you a sandwich, if it's convenient, you'll + think it's mid-day. The truth is fluid, the truth is subjective." + -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +%% +"The truth is sometimes what you believe it to be, and other times + what you *decide* it to be. My task is to make you decide to believe + differently." + -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +%% +"You have been interrogated before?" +"Yes." +"Anyone I know?" +"You'd be surprised." + -- Interrogator and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +%% +"No! *You* have no rights. There's no courtroom here, Captain. No tribunals, + no attorneys, no justice, no mercy, no fairness, no hope, no last minute + escape. You will walk through that door when you confess and not one second + before." + -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +%% +"It's great to have you back, Captain." +"Thanks. It's good to be back. I was starting to think I would never + get out of that place." + -- Franklin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"We don't use names." +"Codes then?" +"Just.. numbers." + -- Sheridan and Interrogator in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"Besides, we don't want co-operation. We want conversion. We want repentance." + -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"It was Bester. It was him all along. He altered me when I was missing, he + messed with my mind. He made me turn against everybody I knew because he was + trying to find out who was behind a conspiracy against the Psi Corps." +"Yeah, and the dog ate your homework." + -- Garibaldi and #1 in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"You've got any proof? Anything to back up this story of yours? Anything?" +"Yeah. I've got a receipt from the Psi Corps certifying that my brain was dry + cleaned, pressed and starched." + -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"Now, a headache I can get over. I'm not sure if I'm going to + get over being dead anytime soon." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"The truth speaks for itself. I'm just a messenger." + -- Lyta to #1 in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"Look, we have to make them understand that if they target innocent people, + they can't run, they can't hide. I mean, President Clark is issuing the + orders, but they are pulling the trigger." + -- Ivanova to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"During the Shadow War Sheridan risked his life and the lives of every human + on this station to help save our worlds. Would the Gaim have done that for + the Pak'ma'ra? Would the Drazi have done that for .. for the Narn? No. + That sacrifice must be rewarded." +"Since the war we have begun working together as never before. In the past we + had nothing in common, but now, the humans have become the *glue* that holds + us together." + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"If Sheridan's forces are defeated, then Earth will turn in upon itself. + They will become isolated or they'll turn against the rest of us." +"Politically it is very wise." +"Morally it is even wiser." +"Politics and morality on the same side! That doesn't happen every day, + Delenn." + -- Vir, Londo, G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"We wanted to send a message, that the Council speaks as one for the right + reasons, not out of any personal agenda. Sheridan is not alone, and *you* + are not alone. The League stands with you. We *all* stand with you." + -- G'Kar to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"Why can't we go anyplace nice?" + -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"All right, who gulped? Somebody gulped. Look, we have got a long + way to go. We're supposed to sip, not gulp." +"I didn't gulp." +"No?" +"I sipped." +"You I believe." +"Now, why do you believe her and not me?" +"Because when you lie, it's all over your face. She's a much better + liar than you are." +"Thank you. .. Wait a minute!" + -- Garibaldi, Franklin, Lyta in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"They are loyal to the new order. They won't defect and they won't give up." + -- David Eisensen in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"Rangers never bluff." + -- Marcus to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"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." + -- Guard to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"It's the last time I'll ever trust you." +"Also the first." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"Who am I? I'm Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sofie Ivanov. + I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry + ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last + living thing that you're *ever* going to see. *God* sent me." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +%% +"November 1st, 2261. Doctor's personal log. We're ready." + -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +%% +"No, they picked me because I'm from the old school: a soldier doesn't take + arms against his own government, no matter how justified you feel doing it. + And because Sheridan was one of my students back in the Academy. I taught + him everything he knows. I know how he thinks, I know how he fights. To + tell you the truth, I've always admired him. And now I'm gonna have to kill + him, and his ship and everyone around him. It's a terrible day, Charlie. + I wish the hell I'd never live to see it." + -- General Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +%% +"I assume that you worked out that whole longitude-latitude thing. + I know you get confused sometimes." +"You're right, you're right. I keep mixing them up. .. I got it right. + Well, I *think* I got it right. Okay, fine. Which goes vertically, + longitude or latitude?" + -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +%% +"But he wouldn't want to go offensive unless .. + he has an ace in the hole. But what is it?" + -- General Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +%% +"What can one telepath do against an entire destroyer?" +"Well, these aren't normal telepaths." + -- EF NCO and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +%% +"Engineering, this is General Lefcourt. In case you didn't notice, the enemy + just pulled our shorts up over our head and tied them into a knot. You will + get the ship under control ASAP, or I will come down there and skin the hide + off every last one of you." + -- General Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +%% +"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*." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +%% +"From the office of William Morgan Clark" +"The a(S)cension of the ordinary man." +"The as(C)ension of the ordinary man." +"The ascension (O)f the ordinary man." +"The ascension of the o(R)dinary man." +"The as(C)ension of the ordinary man." +"The ascension of t(H)e ordinary man." +"The ascension of th(E) ordinary man." +"The ascension of the or(D)inary man." +"The ascension of the ordinary man." +"Th(E) ascension of the ordinary man." +"The (A)scension of the ordinary man." +"The ascension of the o(R)dinary man." +"The ascension of (T)he ordinary man." +"The ascension of t(H)e ordinary man." +"The ascension of the ordinary man." + -- Clark's note in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +%% +"Only a sane and careful study of the facts will allow us to separate + those who were willing partners in President Clark's reign of terror + from those who co-operated only in fear of their lives." + -- President Susanna Luchenko in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"You're late!" +"No, no, no, *you're* early." +"I'm never premature." +"Oh, well, *that* is a surprise, given what I've heard. I'm sure it's a + matter of perspective, really. But for a Narn, two minutes must be a long + time, so if you go the duration, it's an accomplishment. But for the + Centauri, *hours* can go by before you even get to the good parts." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"You're going to be Emperor, Londo. Isn't that *wonderful?*" +"Yes, Vir, wonderful news." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"I find it amazing that you think that threats still mean anything to me. + 'Do this or you're a dead man.' Death: been there, done that." + -- Sheridan to Bester in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"I know, I know what's it like to lose someone, only to find her and + then lose her a second time. I wouldn't wish that to anyone, not even + you, as much as I might want to." + -- Sheridan to Bester in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"I see nothing amusing in this situation, Londo." +"No, no. You are right, there isn't. It's just that..[giggle] I'm so rarely + in the presence of living history. It.. it thins the atmosphere, makes you + giddy. [giggle] You realize that you are quite mad for even considering + this?" +"Perhaps." + -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"As you were. Well, Captain, you caused quite a stir. Half of Earth Force + wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the medal of honor. The other half + wants you taken out and shot. As a politician you learn how to compromise. + Which by all right means I should give you the medal of honor then have you + shot. I confess the idea had a certain appeal when I mentioned it to the + Joint Chiefs two hours ago." + -- President Susanna Luchenko to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"So, morally I was right, but politically I'm inconvenient." +"Inconvenient doesn't even begin to cover it. + Now we have to clean up the mess." + -- Sheridan and President Susanna Luchenko in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"The bitch of it is that you probably did the right thing. But you did it + in the wrong way. In the inconvenient way. Now you have to pay the penalty + for that. I know it stinks, but that's the way it is." + -- President Susanna Luchenko to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned + that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and that + those choices have consequencies, not just for ourselves, but for others. + We must assume responsibility for those consequencies." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"For many years all of us here have priced our good relations with Earth. + You have shown through your example that strength comes from a multitude of + voices brought together for a common cause. Humans form communities. In that + spirit we have voted to dissolve the League of Non-Aligned worlds and create + a new alliance, based on mutual co-operation and respect. An alliance, born + in the diverse voices of many worlds, joined by their desire to build a + better future and their decision to voluntarily recognize a common + authority." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"Their [Rangers] goal is to create the peace, not enforce the peace." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"I fully understand, Madame President. No one in this room is more suspicious + of these things than I am, no race more prideful than the Centauri. But we + are tired of war and believe that this will help to create peace between us." +"Peace is a concept. If I'm going to sell this to my Generals and the public, + I'm going to need something a little more tangible." + -- Londo and President Luchenko in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"You!" +"Funny thing about retiring: you no sooner pick out the places you want + to go on vacation and someone comes at you with another job offer." + -- General Foote and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"Mister President?" +"It's a--" +"--another long story." + -- David and John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"Don't. Don't do that, no, come on. The sun's almost coming up. + I've got to get some sleep .. eventually." + -- Garibaldi to Lise in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"So, how does it feel to make history?" +"You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it." +"G'Kar, you are a depressing person." +"Thank you." +"And stop eating that. We don't even know what it is." +"Something called 'rice'." +"Yes, and if it were any good, do you think they would be standing there + throwing it at people? As marriage ceremonies go, the humans are very + strange indeed. Still, they're quite a couple, aren't they?" +"Yes, they are." +"Almost makes you wish that you could peek in on them. See how's it going. + G'Kar, the artificial eye that doctor Franklin gave you. Where is it?" + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"It was the end of the Earth year 2261 and it was the dawn of a new age for + all of us. It was the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. + The next 20 years would see great changes, great joy and great sorrow. + The telepath war. The Drakh war. The New Alliance would waver and crack, + but in the end it will hold, because what is built endures, and what is + loved endures. And Babylon 5, .. Babylon 5 endures." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +%% +"Well, we figured you probably want to come back with as little fanfare as + possible, your usual low-key approach." +"But there's a time and a place for everything and this is the time and + this is *definitely* the place for one hell of a party!" + -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"So, Doctor, who died?" +"What are you talking about?" +"Among my people this is how we celebrate state funerals. Our marriage + ceremonies are solemn, sober, moments of reflection, also regret, + disagreement, argument and mutual recrimination. Once you know it can't + get any worse you can relax and enjoy the marriage. But to *start* with + something like this.. No, it is a very bad sign for the future." + -- Londo and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"What matters is what we did here, together. In a hundred years it won't + matter who we were. They probably won't even remember." +"That's true." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"What amazes me is the way that everyone is trying to turn Sheridan into + some kind of hero. This is the man who resigned his commission in Earth + Force under dubious conditions." + -- Henry Ellis in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"He can barely get along with his own race, and now he's gonna stitch + together an alliance of *radically* different aliens and make it work. + No, this whole shebang is doomed from the get-go." + -- Henry Ellis in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"Obviously there's a degree of uncertainty in *any* new political situation. + This next year will prove critical for Sheridan and the rest of his people. + Look what they are up against: he has to ride herd on the dozen or so alien + races that have signed on to this alliance and probably don't fully + understand what's being required of them. There are still sporadic fighting + between many of those members. On top of that, he has supply problems, + telepath problems, raiding parties, not to mention distrust among elements + of his own government here at home. This man has his work cut out for him, + but I *know* that he can handle it." + -- Senator Elizabeth Metarie in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"The first thing you have to do is separate fantasy from reality. The + publicity machine of the Alliance would have you believe that somehow *all* + this came about because of what a few people did. But large political + movements are rarely the workup of any one person. The individual at the + center gives permission for others to act, can *inspire* others. But the + individual really can not affect changes on an act of will. *They* did not + do, they allowed others to do." + -- Dr. Barbara Tashaki in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"We all have a profound psychological need to believe in heroes, the shining + knight on the white horse. If they don't exist, we create them. Sheridan + and Delenn are two classic examples. If you look at the social dynamic around + them, they actually didn't do anything. They were the open vessels in which + people poured their hopes and their dreams. That sets up sort of a gestalt, + where events take on a life of their own." + -- William Exeter in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"John Sheridan was a good, kind, and decent man." +"Delenn, wait! You came all this way just to say *that?*" +"You came just this far to say less?" + -- Delenn and Dr. Jim Latimere in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"You do not wish to know .. anything. You wish only to speak. That which you + know, you ignore, because it is inconvenient. That which you do not know, + you invent. But none of that matters, except that he was a good man, a kind + man, who cared about the world, even when the world cared nothing for him." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"Not propaganda, goodfacts, as opposed to realfacts. + Facts the government has endorsed." + -- Daniel to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"Earth needs room to expand. The Rangers and the Alliance + prove a hindrance to our plans to expand." + -- Daniel in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"What we can not take by force, we will *win* by subversion. + And in the end we will bury you." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"There must be something we can do." +"We're dead, we are not even here, just our memories, our thought patterns." +"That must be worth something. What we are is not a matter of flesh, it's + a matter of will." + -- Delenn and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"You see, the thing is, me and Sheridan were close, but *I* was the one who + did most of the strategic planning during the war. Now, a resource like that + you may not want to wipe it out just yet. I could help you." + -- Garibaldi to Daniel in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"The funny thing about being a holographic record is that you don't really + exist, except in patterns of light, shadow, information." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"Holograms do not lie, Danny-boy." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"The ways of Rome are like onto God. They are mysterious and sometimes they + transcend understanding. They confess to an inability to see the wisdom of + our mission: to keep alive the knowledge of the past. The knowledge that + would've been lost forever after the Great Burn 500 years ago. Science and + technology, yes, is that really their calling? But it *is* ours." + -- Brother Alwyn Macomber in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we can not + continue, that the whole of our whole lives is without meaning." + -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"Not useless, but it is also not enough. Faith and reason are the shoes on + your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one." + -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"That's all that faith requires. That we surrender ourselves to + the possibility of hope. For that I'm content." + -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"We *will* rebuild the Earth, though it may take us another 2000 years. + This time we will build it better." + -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"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." + -- Man in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"And I was wondering if they will remember us hundred years from now, + or a thousand. Then I figured: probably not." +"But it doesn't matter. We did what we did because it was right, not + to be remembered. History will attend to itself, it always does." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"Dedicated to all the people who predicted that the Babylon Project would + fail in its mission. Faith manages." + -- Dedication in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +%% +"Just personalities, any .. internal conflicts I need to be made aware of. + Beyond that, I've thoroughly researched Babylon 5's operational procedures, + personnel records .. I'm pretty much up to speed on all the reports." +"With all due respect, there's a lot that doesn't fit into a report." +"Then the report is incomplete." + -- Captain Lochley and Corwin in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"It's nothing personal, but I need to send a message to Babylon 5. That's + what you Rangers are for, right? Getting messages from one place to another. + So you're the right person in the right place at the right time. + For me anyway." + -- John to a Ranger in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"And so it begins." +"There is a hole in your mind." +"What do you want?" +"No one here is exactly what he appears." +"Nothing's the same anymore." +"Commander Sinclair .. is being reassigned." +"Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it?" +"I see a great hand reaching out of the stars." +"Who are you?" +"President Clark has signed a decree today declaring martial law." +"These orders have forced us to declare independence." +"Weapons supplies." +"Unless your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something." +"You're the one who was." +"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die." +"Why are you here?" +"Do you have anything worth living for?" +"I think of my beautiful city in flames." +"Like giants in a playground." +"Get the hell out of our galaxy!" +"We are here to place president Clark under arrest." + -- Season Opener in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"The newly elected president of the Interstellar Alliance, about to be + officially sworn in, washing his own socks? You're a very strange man, + even for a human." +"Why, thank you." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"You're good with diplomacy when possible, but you know how to fight when + you have to. And you speak your mind. Now, whoever's running B5 for the + next year is going to be on the hot seat. I chose you strictly on your + background. You are the perfect choice." + -- Sheridan to Lochley in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"I want the authority to go with it. I won't be interfered with or + second-guessed or micromanaged. .. Sir." + -- Lochley to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"I'm sorry, but I'm--" +"Working. Yes, I can see. Books, manuals, directives, regulations, the + geometries that circumscribe your awaken life, drawn narrower and + narrower until nothing fits inside them anymore. My name is Byron." + -- Lochley and Byron in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"Well, Mr. Garibaldi says it's very well written." +"Well, I .. I'm sorry, there's just the one copy for now, and well .. when + I loaned it to Mr. Garibaldi, it came back with coffee stains. I can't--" + -- Sheridan and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"I will not sleep, eat, drink, nothing! The words and I will be locked in + mortal combat until one of us surrenders." + -- G'Kar to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"That's a tall order." +"Perhaps. But where is it written that all our dreams must be small ones?" + -- Lochley and Byron in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"As strong as you think you are, the one thing you can't stop is the lone + gunman determined to kill you, even if he gets killed in the process. + I'm that man, Sheridan." + -- John in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"On my world, we have learned that an inauguration is simply a signal to + assassins that a new target has been set up on the firing range." + -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"I'm glad you talked him out of it. I have no desire to be struck + blind by the sight of Londo naked." + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"Whoever speaks for the Alliance speaks with one voice for many. + Consequently, this contains the first page of every holy book of every race + that has joined the new Alliance. Whoever speaks for the Alliance does so + with the understanding that it is the inalienable right of every sentient + being to live free, to pursue their dreams, to address wrongs within their + own society without fear of retribution, to believe as their conscience + requires in matters of faith, but also to respect the rights of others to + believe differently, or not at all. Do you, John J. Sheridan--" + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"You want to be president?" +"Yes." +"Put your hand on the book and say, 'I do.'" +"I do." +"Fine. Done. Let's eat." + -- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +%% +"Do you know what this is, hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that + vacant look in your eyes that says, 'Hold my head into your ear, and you'll + hear the sea.' This is bravari, very old bravari, very expensive bravari. + Do you understand bravari, hmm?" + -- Londo to Zack in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +%% +"I was going to tell you tonight, Delenn, after dinner." +".. Why?" +"Because .. bad news improves on a good meal. Valen said--" +"Lennier." + -- Lennier & Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +%% +"I don't believe this. What is it with this place? I mean, last week someone + tries to assassinate Sheridan, and now someone tries to poison Londo. + My God! What is wrong with you people? Don't you have anything else better + to do? Why don't you get a hobby? Read a book or something?" + -- Vir in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +%% +"You couldn't sleep either." +"No. I heard about your .. situation." +"I heard about yours. As Mr. Garibaldi would say, + it's been one hell of a day." +"Yes, a hell of a day." +"And a hell of a year." +"A hell of a 5 years." +"A hell of a life." +".. You win." + -- Vir and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +%% +"The dream is prophecy." +"Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn't, it's a metaphor. You + could put a gun to your head tomorrow and pull the trigger, and then the + dream is *just* a dream, and the prophecy is *just* a metaphor, and so are + you. You're out of time, Londo. Turn around." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +%% +"You're wrong, Mollari. Whether it was me or my world, whether it was a total + stranger or your worst enemy, you were a *witness*! It doesn't matter if + they stopped. It doesn't matter if they'd listen. *You* had an obligation to + speak out!" + -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +%% +"I would remind the Drazi ambassador that the Centauri Republic has + already signed the declaration. And if the Centauri can sign it, + anybody can sign it." +"That's right. .. Wait a minute." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"G'Kar is taking it as a personal rejection since he wrote the damn thing." +"Oh, writers. They are a sensitive bunch." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"I'm not big on telepaths myself. I'm not big on guns either. But if everyone + else has them, I want to make sure I get my hands on the biggest one I can." + -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"You've misspelled this. There's no 'Y' in liberties." +"Oh, go away. Repress someone else." +"As you wish." + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"Afternoon. My name's Michael Garibaldi--" +"Yes, it is. And the answer is no." +"Wait a second. You didn't hear what I had to say." +"Yes, I did. I heard your proposition, I heard what you thought I would + probably say in response, and I heard the counter-arguments you planned + to use. I know you're having some discomfort with those shoes and that + lunch is not sitting well with you just now." + -- Garibaldi and Byron in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"Do you know what a telepath has to do in order to avoid picking up stray + thoughts? We have to kick down our natural abilities, run rhymes and little + songs through our heads 'round and 'round. All that to keep from picking up + what you're broadcasting loud enough to be heard halfway down the hall. + You're one of those people who rehearses everything, Mr. Garibaldi. You + never enter a situation until you've gone over it and over it a hundred + times, worked out what you will say and what the other person will say, + how you'll respond. It's .. quite remarkable and extremely depressing. + That little personality quirk must have cost you more than a few + relationships. Mundanes want us to fill our heads with noise and babble + so we won't hear what you're shouting at the top of your minds." + -- Byron to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"Oh, I can just hear Londo now: + I imagine you are finding your principles most inconvenient now, yes?" + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"Send all of them. Or at least as many as we can afford. Dukhat once told me: + 'If you can create sufficient fear in your eemies, you may not have to fight + them. Always remember that terror is also a form of communication.'" +"Oh, he taught you well." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"The rumor around Psi Corps is that's what happened to Mr. Bester. Did you + know that? They say he was always volunteering for deathbed scans. I guess + he wanted to know what was on the other side. They say he was there inside + someone's mind when they died, and .. he went too deep. Saw more than anyone + should ever see. And when the door closed .. the rest of him .. maybe the + best of him .. never came back." + -- Lyta to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"Lyta, they believe in this new Alliance. They think they can make a + difference, help people. But they're trying, Lyta. They're trying so hard, + and they're gonna need all the help they can get, whether they know it or + not. I came back because I figured they deserve a fighting chance to make + this work, and I'm gonna give it to them. You do this for me, and I swear, + I will never ask you for anything ever again. .. Till the next time." + -- Garibaldi to Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is + not narn or human or centauri or gaim 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 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. The small, still voice that 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 begin + to realize this singular truth and this singular rule that we must be kind + to one another. Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each + voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of + creation, the fire that will light our way to a better future. We are one." +"We are one." + -- Sheridan / G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"Tell me that it matters to you that I help your friend." +"It matters to me." +"We will find him two among us who are trained beyond reproach. They will + find for him all the things that are hidden, all the things that are dark, + and all the things that are secret." + -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"Do you know if they had a chance to send out a distress call?" +"Oh, no. They were shot right out of the sky with great efficiency." + -- Drazi Ambassador and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"Ah, Mr. President. Oh, good, good, good. I was looking for these." +"What are you doing?" +"Well, we need to get everyone to sign them again." +"What? We .. Do you understand what we went through to get them signed + even once?" +"I revised it again. It's better." +"G'Kar!" +"But look." +"It's better." + -- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"We've got to watch this, Delenn. We've got to watch this very closely. + Because we are standing on the proverbial slippery slope, and if we're + not careful, there's a big fall out there that's just waiting to happen." + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +%% +"Apparently, wing of a hostile alien force that's scouting out this sector + for likely worlds to invade. For 'likely' read 'soft and vulnerable.' Our + task is to make sure they either don't leave here, or they leave convined + that we are neither soft nor vulnerable and way too much trouble to invade. + We win this battle, they go away, we save ourselves a great deal of trouble + in the future. We lose, this'll get a hell of a lot worse." + -- Captain Lochley in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"You've seen him and Delenn together, right? Now that's true love, + my friend. You don't see that very often." +"Quite very true. He's a good man." +"Yep. A good man." +"I heard he was dead once." +"Yeah, well, nobody's perfect, Bo." + -- Mack and Bo in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"Hey, .. Can I ask you a question?" +"Shoot." +"What the hell are these things for?" +"What do you mean?" +"I mean, what do they do?" +"What do you mean what do they do? You run 'em along the floor, like this." +"Ok. So what does it do? It's not any cleaner." +"Don't know. Maybe it looks for cracks on the floor or it does something to + the metal .. makes it stronger. I don't know." +"So you don't know either?" +"No." +"Well .. I guess it's time for lunch." +"Yep." + -- Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"What does it taste like?" +"Hard to say, Bo. Um, kind of, um .. spooish, I guess." +"No. You're supposed to say chicken." +"Huh?" +"It's a joke. Whenever you eat something strange and someone asks, 'What + does it taste like?' you're supposed to say chicken. It's funny that way." +"It doesn't *taste* like chicken." + -- Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"So, what happened to the doctor that helped your dad?" +"Shot and killed by his own men. Said he was a traitor." + -- Bo and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"You're supposed to be the head of covert intelligence. Right now, I'm not + seeing a hell of a lot of intelligence. Covert, overt, or otherwise!" + -- Lochley to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"At the moment of death, there is a passing of energy. An explosion of + consciousness. It permeates everything in close proximity: your clothes, + jewelry, .. anything. We can still feel him, .. what he was, .. what he + did, .. his hopes, .. and fears, .. and expectations. It's still there + for a few minutes. .. Then it will disappear. .. Joining him in silence." + -- Byron in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"Bringing us into a world that fears us and hates us, + nature did not leave us entirely without protection." + -- Byron in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"I was .. never a child. I had responsibilities. I've had responsibilities + for as long as I can remember. Duty. Honor. Family." +"Ah. That explains a great deal." +"Really? And what exactly does it explain, G'Kar?" +"I spent my years in one shelter after another. But sooner or later, I was + able to leave the shelter and walk out into the daylight. You do not have + that luxury. You carry your shelter with you, .. every day. You didn't grow + up. You grew old." + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"Then, as you said to me once: 'I will see you in a little while, + in a place where no shadows fall.'" + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"If I'm launched in a life pod and let's say, shortly after the launch, + the equipment is accidentally smashed from the inside, what would happen + to the pod?" + -- Delenn to Mack & Bo in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"Now .. time being circular .. if we know that this will happen, then we + may as well assume that it has happened already and that the life pod is + not safe for me to enter." + -- Delenn to Mack & Bo in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"Suddenly, I think I understand Sheridan a lot better." +"How so?" +"Well, dead or alive I'd claw my way out of hell and straight through 10 + miles of solid rock to see that smile again." + -- Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +%% +"You are a source of constant annoyance to me, Turval, but only because + you're right more often than you're wrong. And why should i keep this joy + to myself? I choose to share you with the universe. Valen help them all." + -- Sech Durhan to Sech Turval in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"It's good to see you down here again. Didn't know whether you'd still hang + around with us grunts now that you've been *promoted*." +"It's still just little ol' me, Zack. I don't change. I don't have the time." + -- Zack and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"Now, there have been a lot of rumors about you since you got on board this + station, captain. Maybe everybody else is afraid to ask. I don't have that + problem. You see, I don't work for you. I answer only to Sheridan. So I + want to know, just for me, which side were you on?" + -- Garibaldi to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"You just keep doing what you're doing. Michael will come around, + eventually. He's a good man." +"I know. I just .. I just never thought I'd meet a second man as + strong-willed, stubborn, and annoying as I am. My cup runneth over." + -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"We have no idea what to do with the Pak'ma'ra. They're slow, greedy, + selfish, not very bright. They refuse to speak anything other than their + own language, so we have to use a translator. And they're carrion-eaters. + If it's not five days dead and decayed, they won't touch it." + -- Sech Durhan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"Our training methods were created by Minbari to serve Minbari. But if there + is any lesson to be learned from the humans, it is that we are made stronger + by our differences, not weaker. If the Pak'ma'ra cannot learn to be what we + think they should be, then perhaps we should learn to use them for what they + are." + -- Delenn to Sech Durhan in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"This may not be a good idea." +"We should learn about all the dark places here, since that + is where we will do our work. .. In the dark." + -- Tannier and Rastenn in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"We create the meaning in our lives. It does not exist independently. Being + Anla-shok does not mean worrying about what others will think about us. + It does not mean deciding what to do based upon whether or not it serves + our sense of ego or destiny. It means living each moment as if it were your + last one. It means doing each right thing because it is the right thing. + The scale doesn't matter. The where, the when, the how, or in what cause .. + none of those things matter. In my life, I've discovered very few truths. + Here is the greatest truth I know: Your death, Rastenn, will have a meaning + if it comes while you're in fullest pursuit of your heart." + -- Sech Turval to Rastenn in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"As Anla-shok, we choose to do that which frightens us, knowing that there + are no guarantees. He may lose. We cannot help him." +"Then he will stand alone." +"At the end, Captain, .. we all stand alone." + -- Delenn and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"Attend, students, this is a classic archetype in action. The strong man or + 'bully', as the humans call it, essentially a coward whose only skill is + convincing others to do what he's afraid to do himself." +"Notice the lack of technique, no follow through. Another flaw in this + particular personality type. .. all muscle, no brain." + -- Sech Turval and Sech Durhan in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"You, uh, got the captain's file there?" +"No. Go away." +"I could just peek--" +"You know, Michael, you and the Minbari have one thing in common: + You never know when to leave something *alone*." + -- Garibaldi and Zack in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +%% +"That's got to be a great feeling; Emperor Mollari the First." +"The Second." +"There was one before you?" +"Yes. Long ago. He, too, ended badly." +"Now, come on, you've got your whole life ahead of you. + Why would you say a thing like that?" +"Because I know. My people always know. I don't know why, or how, + or where, but I can feel it to the very core of my being, Mr. Allan. + This is where it begins to go badly for all of us." + -- Zack and Londo in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"The willow is deceptively strong. It bends, but it does not break. + Its roots are deep and can withstand the worst storm. It promises + rest, and shade, and cool breezes to those who would find rest + beneath it. You have become my willow. and we have all found shelter + in your kindness." + -- Byron to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"I do not feel as if I am doing enough for the Alliance, Delenn." +"Be careful, G'Kar. When the universe hears you say something like that, + it tends to answer in the most surprising ways." + -- G'Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"How am I doing so far?" +"Annoyingly logical." +"Thank you." +"It wasn't a compliment." + -- Lochley and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"I'm caught in a web of my own good intentions." +"Well, the road to hell is paved with them, sir." +"I know, but why does it have to go through this office?" + -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"Where are you going?" +"To pound someone, Mr. Allan. Wou win. I just + decided if you can't join them, beat them." + -- Zack and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"Not bad. Tell me, is that really telekinesis, or are you just pushing the + nerve endings, making them feel as if they've been slapped? Either way, + it's taken a lot out of you, Lyta. You're sweating, flushed. How many times + can you do that, Lyta? Can you do just one at a time? Maybe two? How about + three? How about a half dozen of us?" +"I don't know. Like you said, I'm new at this. I could even make a mistake. + Maybe even pop a blood vessel in someone's head by accident by pushing too + hard. Feel like playing the odds, Mr. Bester?" + -- Bester and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"What the hell is your problem?" +"For starters, I don't know you, therefore I don't trust you." +"The world's full of people you don't know." +"I worry about that all the time." +"Tough. Get over it." + -- Lochley and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"Now, I don't actually like him, and I sure as hell don't trust him, + but so far he hasn't done anything unpleasant to me. I'm sure he will, + because this place seems to bring that out in everyone, but until then, + I have an obligation to be courteous." +"And I have an obligation to shove his face through a bulkhead." +"Your hobbies are your concern, Mr. Garibaldi. Just do it where + I can't see it, and do it quietly." + -- Lochley and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"We met fresh out of officer training school. We hit it off, + fell crazy in love, got married, realized we'd made a terrible + mistake, fell crazy out of love, and split up." + -- Lochley to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"I could hide you." +"I believe you could. I believe you would protect me until the stars + themselves went cold and dead, but my people need me, and i must go + to them." + -- Lyta and Byron in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"He should have a bodyguard assigned to him at all times while he is there. + Someone we can rely on, someone, uh .. someone we can trust. Someone strong + .. strong enough to.." + -- Delenn to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"The Alliance is about learning to overcome our distrust and form a new + community. Can you think of a better symbol?" +"No, and I'm trying, believe me." +"You would naturally have to accompany him on all state business and be + there to guard him. In the palace. In the Royal Court." +"A Narn in the Centauri Royal Court? Ha Ha Ha! It is a curiously + satisfying image, Delenn." + -- Delenn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"'Earth Alliance medical routine, number 725-IT7.' Dr. Franklin just hit + me with the paperwork a couple of hours ago. 'No interstellar traveler + who's been in unknown space shall be allowed within the borders of + Earth-controlled space until after a 60-day quarantine period.'" + -- Lochley to Bester in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"Just keep an eye on them, Captain. Don't trust them for a second, + because, sooner or later, they will turn on you. You know all about + that, don't you, Byron?" + -- Bester to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"G'Kar? You've assigned G'Kar as my bodyguard?" +"Yes. I think your generosity in working with him will be an excellent + symbol of unity for all the other races who could join the alliance." +"A symbol." +"Yes." +"And you tried this line on G'Kar?" +"I did." +"And did it work?" +"Completely." +"Great Maker." + -- Londo and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"I want the aisle seat." +"Oh, no, no, no. You sit on the inside. I want the aisle." +"If you sit on the aisle, I cannot protect you." +"But .. I don't like the inside. It's too cramped. I become nauseous." +"I'll make sure they have a supply of space sickness bags." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"You don't have to solve every problem all at once. Problems are solved + in pieces. If you're on the seventh floor of a burning building, you + can either die or jump out the window. Once you're out the window, + you're alive for another two seconds, during which time you figure + out the solution to the next problem and so on and so on." + -- Lochley to Corwin in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this" +"My love will guide you, my love will hold you" +"And my love will show you the way" +"There will come a tomorrow where we're free from our sorrows" +"And our love will show us the way" +"We are strong in each other, we're sister and brother" +"And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this" +"My love will guide you, my love will hold you" +"And my love will show you the way" +"There will come a tomorrow where we're free from our sorrows" +"And our love will show us the way" + -- Telepaths Sing in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +%% +"Pak'ma'ra are chosen of God, very special. We can eat of all the + creatures who walk, and fly, and crawl, but not of the fish in the sea." +"So you can handle mammals of all kinds, even reptiles, but no fish. + Interesting. Your system may be set up to destroy harmful bacteria on + a selective basis. I'd like to do an analysis of your upper intestinal + system. This .. is a barium compound, perfectly harmless. It'll help me + track how your system handles outside material." +"Not on approved list." +"Well, everything you eat doesn't have to be dead for 5 days. + This is a non-organic compound, and it does not fall in the same + category, so don't worry, now. You'll be fine. We do this all the time." + -- Pak'ma'ra and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +%% +"That's why we're all here: to better understand one another and treat + each other with sympathy and compassion, commodities which are all too + often in short supply." + -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +%% +"Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the right place, but this is getting out of hand. + How many more of you people are coming here?" +"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? That question baffled + religious thinkers for centuries, until someone finally hit upon the + answer: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? As many as + want to. How many of my brother and sister telepaths are coming? + As many as want to." + -- Zack and Byron in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +%% +"You don't understand." +"No, I understand, Zack. I understand plenty. You and the others needed my + help during the shadow war, and I did that. I put my life on the line, + and what did I get? You were going to boot me into smaller quarters + because I couldn't afford anything better? The only way I got out of that + was to rejoin the Psi-corps, and you don't even want to know the deal + I had to make to pull that one off." +"Lyta--" +"I'm not finished. After all that, you had the nerve to ask me to risk my + life a second time during the civil war back home, and, stupid me, I did it. + And what did I get out of *that*? Nothing, nada, zip, zilch. I got no life, + no hope, no prospects. Now along comes Byron. And for the first time in a + long while, I feel like someone actually cares about what happens to me." +"I care what happens to you, Lyta." +"Yeah, well, maybe that's true. But talk is cheap, Zack. Byron is putting + his life on the line to create something for his people. And I'm one of + them. He's given us back a sense of dignity and community. I'm proud of + that, and I'm proud of him." + -- Zack and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +%% +"Was one the same as three? Was three the same as one and two?" +"Wh--?" +"Was there any difference between one, two, and three?" +"I..I--" +"And what would you expect to get out of four, five, and six that you did + not get out of one, two, and three? Your anger has nothing to do with me. + What will satisfy your anger will never come from me or anyone else here. + I'm afraid you must look for it elsewhere." + -- Byron and a bully in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +%% +"No tyranny has ever really lasted. No government based on violence has + endured. Sooner or later, they all fall. We're here to build a new life + for ourselves, a home among the stars. Would you build a home on a + foundation you knew would not last?" + -- Byron to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +%% +"Do you know what you are?" +"What?" +"A B.C.F.M.O. A brightly colored fast moving object. You don't just walk into + a room. You blaze in and blaze out again, like a comet. There's much more to + you than meets the eye." +"If you only knew." + -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +%% +"Byron, the Vorlons changed me. More than you could possibly know. + I don't know what it'll do once you get past my barriers and I get + past yours. It could burn you." +"Then let it burn." + -- Lyta and Byron in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +%% +"It was the Vorlons." +"Yes." +"They created telepaths on a hundred worlds. Interfered with their genetic + development. Took people from their homeworlds and adjusted them over the + course of the centuries." +"Yes." +"Because they needed telepaths in their war against the Shadows. Needed us + as cannon fodder." +"Yes." +"We would be normal. We would have *lives*. We would be able to walk and live + and work among normals without fear of persecution if the Vorlons had not + interfered with our normal development. We were made for their benefit, + to save them. We were told that our abilities were our gift and our curse, + and that we were somehow responsible for it. But we're not. We're not." + -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +%% +"All I know is that they hate comets. Even mentioning a comet to a Brakiri + is some kind of, like, awful taboo. Death. It's the symbol of death." + -- Garibaldi to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"He's hosting a cocktail party for, uh .. Rebo and Zooty. + Now, later tonight, we are having dinner with them." +"Rebo and Zooty are here? Zoot zoot? This is truly a day of wonders." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"Oh, this is a moment you can tell your children about, Captain." +"I'll get on to having some right away." +"What?" +"I said I have an appointment with the Brakiri ambassador. + I'm on my way." + -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"G'Kar, as you can see, I'm rather busy, but I believe you know Ambassador + Kullenbrak. He's here to--" +"I know! That is why I came. I strongly advise you against this transaction. + It is dangerous and foolish and unwise." +"Religious toleration is foolish?" +"This is not a matter of toleration. You do not know what you are doing." +"The declaration of principles of the alliance .. You *are* familiar + with it, I trust?" +"I wrote it!" +"It states that religious belief shall be sacrosanct." + -- Lochley and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"You see, Minbari humor is based not on physical danger or embarrassment + or rejection, like human humor, but rather on the failure to obtain, uh .. + emotional or spiritual enlightenment." + -- Rebo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"You know, I was really hoping to talk to Zooty, you know, without + the machine." +"Yeah. He never breaks character, not even around me. In 10 years, + I've only heard him say one word without the machine." +"Oh. Oh. What's the word?" +"Why." +"Oh, just curious." +"No, no. that was the word: 'Why'. In 10 years I haven't figured + it out myself." + -- Sheridan and Rebo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"So .. When you were emperor, it meant something. Subduer of the Xon and the + Shoggren. .. Now .. Ptttp! *Anyone* can be emperor. I can be emperor. *Vir* + can be emperor. If Vir can be emperor, a small earth cat can be emperor. .. + Come on. Talk to me. It's the day of the dead." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"I thought you'd be pleased to see me." +"But I .. I thought you were dead." +"Ah. You know, the reports of my death, they weren't even exaggerated + a little bit. Yeah, I'm .. I'm dead. But, you know, I missed you, + and how often do dead people get second chances?" + -- Garibaldi and Dodger in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"You don't party? Jeez, Lizzie, what'd you grow up to be? We had such fun, + didn't we? Didn't we have such fun?" +"No. We were cold, sick, and we were hungry all the time. + We did things to survive. I've done my best to forget." + -- Zoe and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"There seems to be a slight problem, sir. It's kind of hard to + explain. We seem to be missing a piece of the station. We can't + reach it. We can't communicate with it." +"That piece is almost a square mile across. You can't just lose + something that big." +"I agree, but it's still missing." + -- Corwin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"Any Emily Dickinson poem can be sung to the tune of + the Yellow Rose of Texas." + -- Dodger to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"You don't come to the dead for wisdom, Lennier." + -- Morden to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"Why did you help me? I know what kind of a man you were." +"Give a dog a bad name, and you can hang him with it. You shouldn't listen + to everything Sheridan tells you. Actually, I'm surprised he's not here + tonight, since he died at Z'ha'dum. Is there any coffee here or not?" + -- Lennier and Morden in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"I'm prophetic, not infallible." +"I think you are neither, but at least you have shown me there is truly life + beyond death." +"Not necessarily, but you'll find that out soon enough." + -- Morden and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"You know, making people laugh is .. is ok. I mean, I .. I enjoy getting a + laugh, but, uh, I don't know. We wanna do something more important." +"But you two have a real gift. I mean, when things were bad under president + Clark, you two said things on your show that no one else would dare to say." + -- Rebo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"But no one takes comedians seriously." +"Isn't that a contradiction?" + -- Rebo and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"No. We say serious things in a funny way, but when the joke comes, people + stop listening. The real comedy all happens in the senate. They do .. they + do one idiotic thing after another, but people listen because they say it + seriously. I don't know whether we're leaving comedy to go into clown + school, but all I do know is that, uh .. comedians don't matter." +"Well, if you don't matter, nothing matters. I mean, the only reason politics + exist is to ensure that people have the freedom to laugh." + -- Rebo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"So who is this Sheridan guy? .. It doesn't matter. So did you get married?" +"Married. Um, actually, to that Sheridan guy. Didn't work." + -- Zoe and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"I think we need a little mystery once in a while. Oh, and, uh, speaking of + mysteries, I have a message for you. It's from someone named Kosh." +".. What's the message?" +"'When the long night comes, return to the end of the beginning.'" +"Uh, thank you, Captain." + -- Lochley and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"You're so funny. From now on, I will always watch you. Zoot zoot. + Very funny. I thought perhaps you could perform at my inauguration. + however, to make a Centauri laugh, I have to give you a piece of advice." + -- Londo to Rebo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"What did he say?" +"'Because it tells me to.'" + -- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +%% +"Each member race has been hit equally. And the attacks have been totally + random, so that rules out border skirmishes or political disagreements. + there's no one obvious to blame." +"Which means they'll blame each other, randomly. + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"He is my bodyguard." +"Well, it's good to know that your excellency's sense of humor is still + intact after such a long voyage. Well, now perhaps if we could show you + to your room." +"Minister Vitari, I wasn't joking. His name is G'Kar, and he .. he *is* + my bodyguard. And I can find my room very well on my own, thank you." + -- Londo & Minister Vitari in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"While some telepaths on other worlds it evolved naturally, the majority + were created by the Vorlons through centuries of genetic manipulation. + They created us so that we can be used by the other worlds as weapons + in their war against the Shadows. That is all we are to them: things to + be used and thrown away. All that was bad enough. But to find that we + would not even be telepaths, would not be hunted down and caged and + controlled, if the Vorlons had not interfered with out genetic makeup, + made us into what we are." + -- Byron in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"Some of the staff have found him wandering the palace late at night. They + say he talks to himself, cries, wails, curses, and then falls silent when + somebody approaches. Sometimes he tells he has something important to tell + you and then a cloud seems to pass over his face and he walks away. Once, + before his aides could bring him back to his room he told a guard to kill + him, but he was not himself. Of course he was quite drunk at the time." + -- Lord Jano to Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"Once I would've thought *pastels* for the curtains, but I think we are + well beyond pastels now. No, no bright colors anymore, just darkness." + -- Regent to Lord Jano in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"I so wanted to see you again. .. You do understand, Jano, that if it were + my decision, I would never let anyone harm you, I would never let anyone + hurt you. If it were my decision. .. But it's not my decision, you see. + .. Not my decision at all." + -- Regent to Lord Jano in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"Besides, everyone knows the true source of pain is neither the hand nor + the heart. It is the mouth. Is it not, Minister?" + -- G'Kar to Minister Vole in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"We now have all your secrets. .. Give us a homeworld of our own and you + will never hear of us again. Fail to do so and all your secrets will be + revealed." + -- Byron in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"Never, ever, *ever* trust a telepath. I swear to you that I'm + gonna have that tattooed inside my eyelids." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"If you were hated by your own race, forced to join the Psi-Corps .. or + forced to take drugs to inhibit your talents for the rest of you life, + if you had been hunted and enslaved by the others, would you not want + a place of your own? A place where others like you could gather safely + without fear of persecution." +"Okay, I grant you that on a strictly idealistic level it's understandable. + But they did it the wrong way, the inconvenient way." +"I seem to recall the Earth president said the same thing to you after + your civil war." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"It's bad luck to die on empty stomach." + -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"Regent Verini!" +"Hello, Mollari. Beautiful night, isn't it? As nights go, and they go + so quickly now." +"Are you all right?" +"Yes, yes. .. No. I, I'm glad we got there in time to save you, Mollari. + You know, you were the only one who treated me fairly when Cartagia + was here. But he's still here, isn't he? His legacy." +"It was you who saved me?" +"No. Not exactly. It was them. They like you, you know. That's why they + saved you. They say you are just like them, they say-- They say you + have much in common." +"They? Who are they?" +"Shhh! Quietly Londo, quietly. Will follow me, you will be emperor soon." +"Yes." +"I'm sorry. I'm so .. so sorry." + -- Londo and Regent in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"What could they be doing with our ships, I wonder." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +%% +"They have other ways to slow us down." + -- Zach to Lochley in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +%% +"Would you like some spoo? It's fresh!" +"Pfah! Get that away from me. Spoo needs to age. It takes time to + cultivate its flavor. Fresh spoo would insult a Centauri." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +%% +"Why is that we always break up our history by the .. the wars, not the + years of peace? The hundred years war, war of 1812, the first three world + wars, the Dilgar war, the war of the shining star, the Minbari war, the + Shadow war. Why the war and not the peace? Because it's exciting, and + because on some level people like to see something big fall apart and + explode from the inside out. And right now, John, we're that something." + -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +%% +"And we have to do it without killing a guard, without raising any + alarms, and without anyone noticing that she is gone. My next trick: + I shall fly around the room under my own power." + -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +%% +"Khrm." +"It's .. animal magnetism, what can I say?" + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +%% +"How do we avoid being noticed?" +"We don't. We do everything we can to *be* noticed. And thus become + invisible." +"I do not understand." +"The royal court has been trained not to see what is inappropriate." + -- Na'Toth and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +%% +"I'll do whatever I can not to hurt them. You forget: we are more same + than different. We are all telepaths and we are all on this together." + -- Bester to Lochley in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +%% +"Every great fall begins with a single mistake." + -- Drazi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +%% +"We should expect some losses on their side, but let's try to keep it within + acceptable limits. The Corps is mother, the Corps is father -- in that way + these are our children that've gone astray. We have to at least *try* to + bring them in alive so that we can correct their thinking." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"Our job is to protect normals from rogue telepaths. Perhaps now you'll + understand why we are necessary. Every race to develop telepaths has had + to find some way to control them: through laws, religion, drugs, or + extermination. We may not be pretty .. but we're hell of a lot better + than your alternatives." + -- Bester to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"There's only one thing more dangerous than Mr. Garibaldi when he's loud. + .. It's when he's dead silent." + -- Sheridan to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"No." +"This isn't a discussion, Bester." +"Yes, it is. You won't shoot." + -- Bester and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"Let me ask you something, Mr. Garibaldi, purely philosophical question. + On a scale of 1 to 10, .. how stupid do you think I am anyway?" + -- Bester to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"I tried to teach them, to show them that there is another way than + violence. Did I fail that badly?" +"You can't change human nature, Byron." +"Then there is not much point in living, is there? We can't hope for + something better, something nobler, at least something kinder." + -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"I'm a strong P12." +"But all P12's are automatically designated .. Psi-Cops. + You were a Psi-Cop?" +"Not just a Psi-Cop. Bester's protegé." + -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"What do you know about neural blocks?" + -- Garibaldi to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"You say you're doing this for a cause. What kind of sympathy you're + gonna get by killing innocent people in cold blood? If you want to + send a message, this ain't it." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"Didn't have to end like this." +"It still doesn't." +"Yes it does. We can't go back now. There's too much blood. + We are no longer who we were. We are what we have become, + what you [Bester] made us!" + -- Byron and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this.." + -- Byron (sings) in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"You're satisfied, Mr. Bester?" +"No, not at all. I don't understand it. Despite of it all, I always thought + that at the end of the day we're on the same side. They just needed someone + to explain it to them .. so they'll understand who the real enemy was." +"Us, the mundanes." +"We weren't supposed to fight each other, not like this. I don't understand, + .. I truly .. don't." + -- Sheridan and Bester in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"ISN has just learned that the main headquarters for the Psi-Corps was bombed + early this morning by unknown parties. The only clues found at the scene + were the words 'remember Byron' painted on the side of the building." + -- ISN news in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +%% +"G'Kar, this is a strange thing. In the past it was a great relief to + leave Babylon 5 and a great joy to return home. Now it is a relief to + leave Centauri Prime and be anywhere else. I don't know what to call home + anymore." +"Have you considered the possibility that you are simply not meant to be + happy no matter where you are?" +"No, I haven't. Not until you witched it. I thought you were supposed to be + protecting me, looking out for my best interests." +"I am. The warrior in me is watching out for your life, but the Narn in + me has decided that it's your spririt that's in the greatest need of + protection." +"Now, is it me, or are people looking at us?" +"At me, actually." +"Why?" +"I don't know." + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"I've always said this about you: Nothing so improves your company like + the lack of it. The less they see of you, the more they like you." + -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"Ta'Lon? Ta'Lon, is it you?" +"It's me most days, except for those days when I don't feel quite like + myself and I suppose that I am someone else, but for now: yes, it's me." + -- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"Where is my book? It is my only copy!" +"Yes, that is precisely the point. The Kha'Ri felt that if anything happened + to you, the book of G'Kar would never see the light of day, so they .. + liberated it." +"*Liberated* *it?*" +"We took it home. Those that read it were very moved by it and they made some + copies." +"*Copies?!*" +"Just a few, .. for their frieds. A few more, .. later few more copies." +"How many?!" +"That's hard to say, exactly. There was some confusion when it went to + the printers." +"*Printers?!* I've only been gone for a month, Ta'Lon, there can't be that + many copies floating around this quickly. How many?" +"Five or six .. hundred .. thousand." +"*What?*" +"I've been told that it will out-sell the book of G'Quan. .. Congratulations, + citizen G'Kar. You are now a religious icon." + -- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"Michael. You know, if you've ever got a problem, anything at all + you want to talk about, you know where to find me, don't you?" +"I hear you. See ya." + -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"Good morning, G'Kar. Well, this is a delight, I didn't know you had + children." +"Neither did I." +"Yes, most unsettling when that happens, or then in your case most amusing." + -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"So, what happened to your hair?" + -- Tafiq Azir to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"It's not about teaching something, it's about unlearning hatred and + unlearning fear. As a warrior, I can not teach them these things. + But you can." + -- Ta'Lon to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"All my life .. I have been responsible only for myself. When I risk, + I risked alone to avoid making others pay the price for my mistakes. + They want me to chose them another way. What if I show then the wrong + way? What if they come to me not because of the lesson but because of + the teacher? I worry, Ta'Lon, that my shadow may become greater than + the message." +"If that happens, I give you my word that I will personally kill you." +"This is supposed to put my mind at ease?" +"I'm a warrior. It's what I have to give. You and I both have our burdens + to bear, G'Kar. I will carry mine, .. if you will carry yours." + -- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"From here on out we tell Londo only what he needs to know and that's all." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"Keep an eye on him, G'Kar. He may be our only chance to solve this + thing. But I'd rather not do it at the cost of his life." +"And eyes are all I have these days." + -- Sheridan and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"In the past we had little to do with other races. Evolution teaches us + that we must fight that which is different in order secure land, food, + and mates for ourselves, but we must reach a point when the nobility of + intellect asserts itself and says: No. We need not be afraid of those + we are different, we can embrace that difference and learn from it." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"Effective January one, 2263, I will be the new head of xenobiological + research at EarthDome." + -- Franklin to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +%% +"Besides, we don't often see a sense of humor in Psi-Cops." +"Reports of our depression are wastly exaggerated." + -- Lauren Ashley and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" + -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"Protect the Family" + -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"OBEY" + -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"BabCom" +"Stay in touch with family and businesses alike with state of the art + communications and delivery services. Let us be your new partner." +"Babylon 5 for the business of today and the hope in tomorrow." + -- Ad in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"TRUST THE CORPS" + -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"Do you get used to it?" +"When it's one of ours, no. With mundanes it's easier. They hate it when + you say that, but it's true. They kill and slave and abuse each other with + efficiency and enthusiasm. Why should we value their lives when they don't? + It's a little harder with rogues and blibs. Being a telepath means you're + special, and rare, and valuable." + -- Lauren Ashley and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"Jonathan Harris" +"Rating: P10" +"DOB: 4.15.2239 +"Height: 171.5cm" +"Weight: 70.45kg" +"Hair: Black" +"Eyes: Brown" +"POB: Tucson, Ar" +"PCI: Age 10" +"Training:" +" Basic Psionics" +" Op Research" +" Deep Scan 2" +" Interrogation" +" Block Dev 2" +" Field Tech" +"Education:" +" Calculus 4b" +" Psych 4" +" Languages," +" Gn, Ea" +" History" +" Ea" +" Ai" +" Wr" +" Economics" +" Ea" +" Uni" +" Politics," +" --gional" +" --obal" +" --iversal" +" ---l Interests:" +" --usical Music" +" ---try" +" ---ing" +" --nery" +" --ding" +" ---ing" +" --uncty" + -- ID File in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"Does the mothership ever leave hyperspace?" +"Only for repairs and we can do so it without being seen. No reason for the + rest of the world to know what our resources are. The rest of the time it + just sits here in hyperspace for months at a time carrying missions back + and forth and waiting until we need it, just like all the others." + -- Chen Hikaru and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"Don't you ever go away? Haven't you caused enough trouble for one lifetime?" +"It's a pleasure to see you too, Mr. Allan. Where can I find captain Lochley? + I should check in with her." +"She's busy, you can check in with me. Card. So what is it this time, Mr. + Bester? Hunting out freedom-fighters, pulling wings off flies, annexing + Sudetenland." + -- Zack and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"You're disobeying instructions." +"I'm showing initiative." + -- Ashley and Hikaru in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"He was dead before we got here." +"Yeah, they told me, but I never let the facts get into + the way of a good grudge." + -- Bester and Zack in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"I've seen all kinds, kid. Seen an alien come through here last week with + eight compound eyes and a glass stomach. Two fingers of gin, he's down, + completely unconscious for a two full hours, and he wants to do it again. + I've seen a naked Pak'ma'ra once. You know that hump on their back? It's + not a hump at all, it's a--" + -- Bartender in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"These papers, different styles of handwriting, different names, but not + different people. The same person, with multiple personalities. That's why + we misidentified his rating. One personality *was* a P10, the other was a + P12. It's rare, but it has happened before." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"Oh, come on, doctor, we have a history here. Tell the truth. + You don't want me here a second more than I want to be here." +"Personally, no. But as a doctor I have to treat all my patients equally, + even the annoying self-righteous arrogant ones with self-important delusions + of godhood." +"Thank you, I feel far more at home now." + -- Bester and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"Game, set, match. Be seeing you, doctor." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +%% +"I was beginning to wonder if you're going to make it, Lennier." +"I said that I would never leave you, that I would be here when you needed + me the most. Tell me what you want done and I will make it happen, no matter + the cost." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"I said we had reason, not proof. We can't go public with what we + suspect until we can *prove* their involvement." + -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"As a friend he would need to protect you. As my husband he would need + to protect me from anything that might happen to you." +"I think, in that respect, he does not know you as well as he should." +"He knows me, but he also loves me. And sometimes the one gets in the + way of the other." +"Yes, I .. imagine it could do that." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"Vir! You are not biologically equipped to handle fast food." +"I know, I know, but it .. it tastes so great going down. + Coming up again it's not so terrific, but--" +"Well, you'll have to change that. We can't have someone in your + position eating at MacBari's, now can we?" +"Yes, but-- What position?" + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"It's politics, Vir. Never take it personally." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"No, the captain does not believe in indiscreet questions. + He believes the only way to get pertinent information is to + ask impertinent questions." + -- Findell to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"So, Ambassador, how is the wife? Not too tired, I hope." + -- Londo to Drazi Ambassador in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"He often leaves out important piece of information like that. + It is .. frustrating." +"It is, I think, the human way of doing things. They try to encourage + initiative so that we may better react to sudden changes. Our own + techniques tend to be .. rigid." + -- Findell and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"All our holy books are reproduced *exactly* as written. Line for + line, word for word, right down to the flaws in the paper." + -- G'Kar to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"It is not necessary to know. It is only necessary to try." + -- Lennier to Findell in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"Ah, yes, but what is truth and what is God?" +"[sigh] Truth is a .. river." +"And what is God?" +"God is .. the mouth of the river." + -- Narn Acolyte and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"To be Anla-Shok means understanding that there is nothing to fear in + death except the failure to complete our assigned mission. *Death* + is not the enemy, *death* simply *is*." + -- Captain Enrico Montoya in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"What happened to Vir?" +"Oh, I promoted him. .. + Now, *now* he's ready to be the ambassador for Centauri." + -- Zack and Londoin Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"Sh--Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed. + I had a little -- oh, that's a big drink -- about an hour ago + and it went right to my head. .. What did I do .. with that link? + You Linky, Linky, Linky? Here, Linky? Ow, the missing link!" + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed. + I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +%% +"You failed me [Sheridan]" +"Where were you? [Zack]" + -- Blood writings on the floor in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"Don't fight it. No, you're not gonna win. The more you fight it, + the stronger it gets." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"I've decided to stop hiding what the Vorlons did to me. I'm testing to + see what I can do, how far I can go. I had no idea. You shouldn't have + woken up. This is just a dream. *This* .. *never* .. *happened*." + -- Lyta to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"We can get you all the telepaths you need." +"But not the ones I want. Look, I understand your desire to create a + homeworld for telepaths. I'm not unsymphatetic, but what you're asking + is beyond the capabilities of my company, or any others. You need + someone with a lot more resources and no contractual obligations to the + Psi-Corps. Good luck trying to find him." + -- Lyta and a business man in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"You would think they don't trust us." +"I don't think anyone trusts anyone right now, Londo." +"You say it as if it were a bad thing. No one really trusts anyone, Vir. + It's the natural order of things. But until now it has never interfered + with business. I find this very strange." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"I'm sorry." +"I don't *want* you to be sorry. I don't need your pity. I don't need + anybody's pity. All I know is that I'm tired of being controlled. + Controlled by others, by fear, by my past, by what everybody else + expects of me and it's enough. *Enough.* .. And this. This is my own + private little active rebellion, yeah. I may not be able to control what + other people do to me, but I can at least be in control what I do to + myself." + -- Lise and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"Now, it is absolutely inappropriate of you to pull a stunt like that + without telling me. I can not have you making--" +"You are right." +".. I-- Ow, dammit, Delenn. I've been working up a god mad all day and + I am not about to let you undercut it by agreeing with me." +"It *was* inappropriate for me to assign Lennier to that part of space + without informing you. *Just* as it was inappropriate for you *not* to + assign him there. I admitted mine with perfect honesty. Now you can + admit yours." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"Further, he will not stop, will not slow down, will not give up + until he has proof that the Centauri are behind these attacks." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"I don't know how long that offer was good for, but I just wanted + to tell you that I .. accept your proposition." +"Which part?" +"The part where I give you access to my .. genetic material." +"Ow." +"Assuming you're still interested." + -- Lyta and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"I've been told each world's internal affairs are considered + private. And this is as internal an affair I can think of." + -- Lyta to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"Oh, and you mentioned wondering what my pleasure threshold is. + I just recently found out. .. I don't have one. Have a very, + very nice day, G'Kar." + -- Lyta to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +%% +"I was not pretending. I went to Centauri Prime as your guest, your + protector and perhaps even as your conscience, but not as anyone's + eyes and ears. So no, I will not be testifying before the council." + -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"As of right now the Centauri Republic stands alone." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"If something like this were going on, I would know about it!" + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"In *war* these things happen. We are not at war. We do not strike first + and we do not blow up cargo transports like pirates or barbarians." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"He says it's important." +"Tell me when it is ever *not* important. All right, please, just tell me + when it is ever *not* important. Go ahead, go ahead, take your time, + I can wait. Oh, no, that's right, I can't wait because it's important." + -- Zack and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"You seem awfully cranky, Michael. You've been taking your vitamins?" + -- Zack to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"Michael, this may be our only chance to avoid a shooting war. So it is + why it is so important that you get the information to us as fast as you + can so that we have time to get the White Stars into position." +"You can rely on me, I'll get it done." + -- Sheridan & Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"Prime Minister, welcome back. I was hoping you returned home, + got out of the line of fire." +"Thank you, but I rather there wasn't a line of fire." +"Is that why you brought .. *it* along, to hear our terms?" +"No, he is still here as my bodyguard, that's all. Where I go, he goes." + -- Minister and Londo in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"My condolences." +"Thank you. It's a burden, but I've come to accept it." + -- Minister and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"He has diplomatic immunity." +"We are not diplomats." + -- Franklin and Brakiri in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"That's enough. I said that's enough! Now, we gave you a promise. And we + are bound by that promise. And damn you asking for it. And damn me for + agreeing to it. And damn all of us to hell, because that is exactly where + we are going. We talked about peace. You didn't want peace. We talked about + co-operation. You didn't want co-operation. You want war. Is that it? + You want a war? Well, you've got a war!" + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"I told you before: Where I go, he goes. And where he goes, I go." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"What does the candle represent?" +"Life." +"Whose life?" +"All life, every life. We're all born as molecules in the hearts of a billion + stars, molecules that do not understand politics, policies and differences. + In a billion years we, foolish molecules forget who we are and where we + came from. Desperate acts of ego. We give ourselves names, fight over lines + on maps. And pretend our light is better than everyone else's. The flame + reminds us of the piece of those stars that live inside us. A spark that + tells us: you should know better. The flame also reminds us that life is + precious, as each flame is unique. When it goes out, it's gone forever. + And there will never be another quite like it. So many candles will go out + tonight. I wonder some days if we can see anything at all." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +%% +"Personal journal, Captain Elizabeth Lochley, addendum. The Centauri war + continues to spiral out of control. The thread of retaliation has already + reached Babylon 5. Over half dozen Centauri have been murdered in just the + last three days." + -- Captain Lochley in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"If this continues, we may have no choice but to quarantine the Centauri. + We'll have to try and limit them to parts of the station where they won't + run into anyone they are currently at war with. Unfortunately, that seems + to be just about everyone right now. So, my options seem to be somewhat + limited." + -- Captain Lochley in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"The Centauri have begun targeting enemy jumpgates." +"But-- It's a violation of every rule of civilized warfare. Wars come and go, + but the jumpgates have to go on. Otherwise the entire hyperspace beacon + system falls apart. If that happens, it'll hurt them as much as anyone else." + -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"Something's bothering you. What is it?" +"I need to ask you to do something I don't want to ask you to do." +"If it's about me wearing those little-- I appreciate the gift and I didn't + say I wouldn't wear them, I just said that .. for me, from a Minbari + perspective, I thought that it looked silly." +"No, it's not anything to do with that." +"[Sigh] Business then?" + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"But don't take any unnecessary risks." +"People always say that. They want to find lives in which risk is + unnecessary. There's only one problem with that: It's impossible." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"As you know, our ships have been in combat with .. well, just about + everyone, really. Our biggest losses have been on the Drazi space. They + are real good fighters. Not terrific conversationalists, and their table + manners can make you go blind in one eye, but .. really tough behind the + weapons consoles. But .. on the occasion that we've destroyed one of their + ships, we have always returned their bodies to them. They have not made the + same for us in return." + -- Vir to Lyta & Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"I'm willing to go along and help out Stephen, we've worked well together in + the past, but .. considering the risk involved I'm gonna have to ask for a + slightly higher fee than usual." +"Well, all right, I can--" +"500'000 credits." + -- Lyta to Vir in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"Has she changed or is it me?" +"Oh, she's changed. Have you talked to Londo about this? Maybe he could .. + pull some strings." +"The prime minister is otherwise engaged just now." + -- Vir and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"I still think you should leave, Mollari." +"No. I said where you go, I go. It's become a matter of principle." +"You picked a terrible moment in your social evolution to develop principles. + Perhaps you can start with something simpler, the moral equivalent of the + opposable thumb, for instance." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"Who .. who are you? What do they want from me?" +"Yes. He will be sufficient." + -- Londo and Drakh in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"You were having a nightmare." +"Yes, terrible." + -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"Who knew the could make such a .. stench .. Great Maker, I don't even want + to thing about it. I couldn't stay there a moment longer. And the smell's + not the worst of it, it was the *burning* in my eyes. I think my *buttons* + are melting." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"Anyway, those are their tactics. What is the overall strategy? They can't + just fight a war to fight a war and honk off your neighbors. There have + to be definite and to their minds achievable goals. Now what are they? + What does it look like they might be? Are they moving toward anything." +"Their strategy has not yet become clear." +"And this doesn't seem strange to you?" + -- Sheridan and Kulomani in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"--the other way, maybe you could--" +"Yeah, you're right." +"Why don't you just *ask* somebody?" +"No, no. I've got a map. Don't worry about that." +"What is it with you men?" +"Here we go." +"Are you sure you know where we're going?" +"Yes, it's the .. same hotel that .. Michael stayed at. + Said the room service is good and bed is cheap and staff is friendly." +"Meaning the food stinks, the rooms are small and the staff will knife + you in the back when you're not looking." +"Exactly. All right, I think it's .. it's that way." + -- Lyta and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"We have no Centauri bodies here." + -- Dr. Varia in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"I know this. I know what this is." + -- Lyta in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"Hello, Mollari." +"Regent?" +"I told you we would speak again before the end. I always try to keep my + promises, especially to those who have been kind to me .. as you have been." +"It is no burden. Regent, I have been trying to see you for some time. + Our ships--" +"Yes. .. I know." +"Then you gave the order." +"After a fashion. I have always tried to do the right thing, *you* know, + when circumstances allowed." +"We all do, Regent." +"Yes. And now it is your time. Mine is almost over. I have to say, I'll be + glad of it. I'm so tired of it all, Londo. I'm glad .. I won't live to see + what follows." +"Why? What is going to follow?" + -- Regent and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"What do you mean there weren't any crew aboard?" +"Garibaldi said that there were two seperate Centauri fleets engaged in the + war: one defensive, one offensive, that no one in the Centauri military + knew anything about the attacks, only that they were defending themselves + against us. Now we know why." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"This is leftover Shadow technology, Mr. President. Vorlons gave me + information on them in case I ever ran across one of them. And I understand + a few years ago one was found by the Psi Corps. It's an organic device used + to control a ship from a long distance. You put two or three of these on + board a starship and .. you don't even need a crew." + -- Lyta to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"It's going to be a pretty night, the last one I will ever see." +"You shouldn't talk that way, Regent. You still have many years + ahead of you. That's why it's important to recall the ships. We can still + make peace." +"Oh, there will be peace, for a while. It never lasts, really. They said so. + They said two things, actually. That there will be peace and that it won't + last. They also said I would be dead by morning and that tomorrow .. you + will be emperor. They said many, many things. Things I didn't want to hear. + Things I didn't understand. And things I didn't *want* to understand." +"They? Who are *they*, Regent?" +"Oh, you will find out for yourself soon enough, Londo. You shouldn't rush + your last *free* hours. And there were something else they told me .. to do. + And I did it just a few moments before I came to see you. The last thing I + will ever have to do for them. And in a way .. I'm glad it's over." +"What did they ask you to do?" +"To send away all the ships .. guarding Centauri Prime on a false emergency + and turn off the planetary defense network." +"No!" +"I think I'll stay .. and watch from here. The sky should be lighting up any + time now. I imagine .. it will be .. quite beautiful." +"*No!*" + -- Regent and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +%% +"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." + -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"No, she's always quiet. We think maybe there's something wrong with her." +"Yes .. or something very right. The quiet ones are the ones that change the + universe, Luc Derardi. The loud ones only take the credit." + -- Luc Derardi and Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"My people can handle themselves. We took care of the Dilgar. + We can take care of the Minbari." +"Ahh, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you." + -- General Lefcourt and Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"Then let them appear, to give us something to believe in. If the Vorlons + do not see the danger, then perhaps the danger does not exist." + -- Coplann in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"Yes, they should, but if the legends surrounding the Vorlons are correct, + remember that they do not reveal themselves quickly and never all at once." +"What are you saying?" +"I'm not saying anything. I didn't say anything then, and I'm not saying + anything now." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"Are you saying I'm being deceived?" +"I'm not saying anything. I did not say anything then, and I'm not saying + anything now. Unless you are saying you've seen a Vorlon." +"I'm saying even less than you, except for this. When the darkness comes, + if you ever have doubt about your actions, all you need do is look into + the face of a Vorlon. Once you see that, all doubt is erased forever." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"Why do you come here, Delenn?" +"I come to serve." +"Who do you serve?" +"I serve the truth." +"What is the truth?" +"That we are one people, one voice." +"Will you follow me into fire? Will you follow me into darkness? + Will you follow me into death?" +"I will." +"Then follow." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"I am become Grey. I stand between the darkness and the light, .. + between the candle and the star." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"Susan. What are you doing here? You're supposed to be at the university." +"Well, you know me, never where I'm supposed to be." + -- Ganya and Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"The warrior caste loves to win and hates to lose. It is easier to fight + a weaker opponent and be guaranteed victory than to oppose a far more + dangerous enemy." + -- Lenonn to Morann in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"They say we'll need allies. In particular, a race that is so far unknown to + us called humans. If we have not already done so by now, it is my hope that + you will work with the Vorlons to find these humans and bring them into the + battle on our side." + -- Dukhat recording to Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"Humans?" +"Yes. They are the key." + -- Delenn and Kosh in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"And if the only way out is for Earth to surrender?" +"Officially that's up to the negotiators. Those are my orders. Unofficially.. + We're losing this war, John. And if the only way the human race can survive + is to surrender.. then we will surrender." + -- Sheridan and Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. 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." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"The truth points to itself." +"What?" +"The truth points to itself." +"I do not understand." +"You will." + -- Kosh and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"We should bring one of them aboard for questioning. If our next step + is a final assault on their world, we must know their defenses." +"Very well, Delenn. Choose. But quickly. We are fast running out of + candidates." + -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% +"I need another bottle. I need *several* more bottles. And then .. + wait one hour and bring the prisoners here." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +%% From 125e608a57c1a103909de470e12f773665db7212 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SS007979 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 09:47:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/6] Code Clean-Up --- .../github/javafaker/service/FakeValues.java | 16 ++-- .../service/FakeValuesInterface.java | 2 +- .../javafaker/service/FakeValuesService.java | 7 +- .../service/FakeValuesGroupingTest.java | 87 ++++++++++--------- 4 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValues.java b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValues.java index 56bd8e541..582164224 100644 --- a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValues.java +++ b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValues.java @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ public class FakeValues implements FakeValuesInterface { private final Locale locale; private final String filename; private final String path; - private Map values; + private Map values; FakeValues(Locale locale) { this(locale, getFilename(locale), getFilename(locale)); @@ -44,15 +44,15 @@ private static String language(Locale l) { } @Override - public Map get(String key) { + public Map get(String key) { if (values == null) { values = loadValues(); } - return values == null ? null : (Map) values.get(key); + return values == null ? null : (Map) values.get(key); } - private Map loadValues() { + private Map loadValues() { String pathWithLocaleAndFilename = "/" + locale.getLanguage() + "/" + this.filename; String pathWithFilename = "/" + filename + ".yml"; String pathWithLocale = "/" + locale.getLanguage() + ".yml"; @@ -70,12 +70,12 @@ private Map loadValues() { return null; } - final Map valuesMap = new Yaml().loadAs(stream, Map.class); - Map localeBased = (Map) valuesMap.get(locale.getLanguage()); + final Map valuesMap = new Yaml().loadAs(stream, Map.class); + Map localeBased = (Map) valuesMap.get(locale.getLanguage()); if (localeBased == null) { - localeBased = (Map) valuesMap.get(filename); + localeBased = (Map) valuesMap.get(filename); } - return (Map) localeBased.get("faker"); + return (Map) localeBased.get("faker"); } private InputStream findStream(String filename) { diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesInterface.java b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesInterface.java index dd2a2a970..bd0483aa5 100644 --- a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesInterface.java +++ b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesInterface.java @@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ import java.util.Map; public interface FakeValuesInterface { - Map get(String key); + Map get(String key); } diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesService.java b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesService.java index 6dc403da2..031ffe33a 100644 --- a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesService.java +++ b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesService.java @@ -122,7 +122,9 @@ private Locale normalizeLocale(Locale locale) { * @return */ public Object fetch(String key) { - List valuesArray = (List) fetchObject(key); + List valuesArray = new ArrayList(); + if (fetchObject(key) instanceof ArrayList) + valuesArray = (ArrayList)fetchObject(key); return valuesArray == null ? null : valuesArray.get(randomService.nextInt(valuesArray.size())); } @@ -176,7 +178,6 @@ public String safeFetch(String key, String defaultIfNull) { * dot. E.g. name.first_name * @return */ - @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public Object fetchObject(String key) { String[] path = key.split("\\."); @@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ public Object fetchObject(String key) { for (int p = 0; currentValue != null && p < path.length; p++) { String currentPath = path[p]; if (currentValue instanceof Map) { - currentValue = ((Map) currentValue).get(currentPath); + currentValue = ((Map) currentValue).get(currentPath); } else { currentValue = ((FakeValuesInterface) currentValue).get(currentPath); } diff --git a/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesGroupingTest.java b/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesGroupingTest.java index 09ba3ccce..9c1379fea 100644 --- a/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesGroupingTest.java +++ b/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesGroupingTest.java @@ -1,41 +1,46 @@ -package com.github.javafaker.service; - -import org.junit.Before; -import org.junit.Test; - -import java.util.Locale; - -import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is; -import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.notNullValue; -import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat; - -public class FakeValuesGroupingTest { - - private FakeValuesGrouping fakeValuesGrouping; - private FakeValues addressValues; - - @Before - public void before() { - fakeValuesGrouping = new FakeValuesGrouping(); - addressValues = new FakeValues(Locale.ENGLISH, "address.yml", "address"); - fakeValuesGrouping.add(addressValues); - } - - @Test - public void handlesOneFakeValue() { - assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("address"), is(addressValues.get("address"))); - assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("address"), is(notNullValue())); - } - - @Test - public void handlesMultipleFakeValues() { - FakeValues catValues = new FakeValues(Locale.ENGLISH, "cat.yml", "creature"); - fakeValuesGrouping.add(catValues); - - assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("address"), is(addressValues.get("address"))); - assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("address"), is(notNullValue())); - - assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("creature"), is(catValues.get("creature"))); - assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("creature"), is(notNullValue())); - } -} +package com.github.javafaker.service; + +import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is; +import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat; +import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo; +import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.notNullValue; + +import java.util.Locale; + +import org.junit.Before; +import org.junit.Test; + +import com.google.common.collect.Maps; + +@SuppressWarnings("unchecked") +public class FakeValuesGroupingTest { + + private FakeValuesGrouping fakeValuesGrouping; + private FakeValues addressValues; + + @Before + public void before() { + fakeValuesGrouping = new FakeValuesGrouping(); + addressValues = new FakeValues(Locale.ENGLISH, "address.yml", "address"); + fakeValuesGrouping.add(addressValues); + } + + @Test + public void handlesOneFakeValue() { + assertThat(Maps.difference(fakeValuesGrouping.get("address"), addressValues.get("address")).areEqual(), equalTo(true)); + assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("address"), is(notNullValue())); + } + + @Test + public void handlesMultipleFakeValues() { + FakeValues catValues = new FakeValues(Locale.ENGLISH, "cat.yml", "creature"); + fakeValuesGrouping.add(catValues); + + assertThat(Maps.difference(fakeValuesGrouping.get("address"), addressValues.get("address")).areEqual(), equalTo(true)); + assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("address"), is(notNullValue())); + + assertThat(Maps.difference(fakeValuesGrouping.get("creature"), addressValues.get("creature")).areEqual(), equalTo(true)); + assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("creature"), is(notNullValue())); + } + +} \ No newline at end of file From 04290b00a9394f730a78c0fa016dae1373194461 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SS007979 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 10:31:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 3/6] Adding Babylon5 class and test --- README.md | 1 + .../java/com/github/javafaker/Babylon5.java | 17 + src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Faker.java | 6 + src/main/resources/en/babylon5.yml | 10979 ++++++++++++++++ .../com/github/javafaker/Babylon5Test.java | 20 + .../github/javafaker/integration/FakerIT.java | 1 + 6 files changed, 11024 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Babylon5.java create mode 100644 src/main/resources/en/babylon5.yml create mode 100644 src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/Babylon5Test.java diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 322e367aa..ef8dde0f3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Fakers * App * Artist * Avatar +* Babylon5 * Back To The Future * Aviation * Beer diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Babylon5.java b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Babylon5.java new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c3c78bce2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Babylon5.java @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +package com.github.javafaker; + +public class Babylon5 { + private final Faker faker; + + protected Babylon5(Faker faker) { + this.faker = faker; + } + + public String character() { + return faker.resolve("babylon5.characters"); + } + + public String quote() { + return faker.resolve("babylon5.quotes"); + } +} diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Faker.java b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Faker.java index 68d7861e2..7fc2e5ec2 100644 --- a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Faker.java +++ b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/Faker.java @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ public class Faker { private final Relationships relationships; private final Nation nation; private final Dune dune; + private final Babylon5 babylon5; public Faker() { this(Locale.ENGLISH); @@ -187,6 +188,7 @@ public Faker(Locale locale, Random random) { this.relationships = new Relationships(this); this.nation = new Nation(this); this.dune = new Dune(this); + this.babylon5 = new Babylon5(this); } /** @@ -609,6 +611,10 @@ public Dune dune() { return dune; } + public Babylon5 babylon5() { + return babylon5; + } + public String resolve(String key) { return this.fakeValuesService.resolve(key, this, this); } diff --git a/src/main/resources/en/babylon5.yml b/src/main/resources/en/babylon5.yml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6ef814218 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/main/resources/en/babylon5.yml @@ -0,0 +1,10979 @@ +en: + faker: + babylon5: + characters: ["Lyta Alexander", "Zack Allan", "Colonel Ari Ben Zayn", "Alfred Bester", + "Branmer", "Byron", "Emperor Cartagia", "Doctor Sarah Chambers", "Morgan Clark", + "Marcus Cole", "David Corwin", "Vir Cotto", "Delenn", "Draal", "Dukhat", "William Edgars", + "Max Eilerson", "Richard Franklin", "Stephen Franklin", "G'Kar", "Galen", + "Michael Garibaldi", "Garibaldi's Aide", "Captain Matthew Gideon", "General William Hague", + "Lise Hampton", "Jason Ironheart", "Susan Ivanova", "Warren Keffer", "Kosh", + "Benjamin Kyle", "General Robert Lefcourt", "Lennier", "Elizabeth Lochley", "Lorien", + "Susanna Luchenko", "Lieutenant John Matheson", "Londo Mollari", "Morden", "Na'Toth", + "Dureena Nafeel", "Neroon", "Number One", "Pius XV", "Lord Refa", "Catherine Sakai", + "President Luis Santiago", "Senna", "Anna Sheridan", "David Sheridan", "John Sheridan", + "Jeffrey Sinclair", "Laurel Takashima", "Ta'Lon", "Brother Theo", "Turhan", "Ulkesh", + "Valen", "Dius Vintari", "Milo Virini", "Lou Welch", "Talia Winters", "Zathras"] + quotes: [' +"I was there, at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind. It began in the + Earth year 2257 with the founding of the last of the Babylon stations, + located deep in neutral space. + It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats + and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place, but + we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. + Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given + form, a dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds + could live side-by-side in mutual respect, a dream that was endangered as + never before by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction. + Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story." + -- Ambassador Londo Mollari''s opening in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"NAME: VARNER, DEL" +"ORIGIN: EARTH" +"DES/ATMOS: HUMAN/O2" +"SEX: MALE" +"DOB: 6/27/18" +" PHYS CHR" +"MEDICAL: NO DISTG" +" TRANS REC" +" VISAS" + -- Varner Identicard in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"NAME: ALEXANDER, LYTA" +"ORIGIN: EARTH" +"DES/ATMOS: HUMAN/O2" +"SEX: FEMALE" +"DOB: 12/10/25" +" PHYS CHR" +"MEDICAL: NO DISTG" +" LICENSED PSI" +" VISAS" +" TRANS REC" +"CRIM HIST: NONE" + -- Lyta Identicard in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"TIKI.. MOJO 073 .. 0708 .. McAuliffe NCC .. tMU77 ELVIS STILL LOVES YOU.. + LILGUY 017017 .. NEILY " + -- Lyta Identicard (Left top) in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"ALEXANDER, LYTA" +"PSIONIC INFO" +"PSI LEVEL: P5" +"GENERATION: 8" +"REGISTERED PSI CORPS 10/18/52" +"LICENSE N617CC860" +"CURRENT ASSIGN: TIGRIS SEC BABYLON 5" + -- Lyta Identicard PSI MENU in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"The Narn Regime is dedicated to peace!" + -- G''Kar to LtCmdr. Laurel Takashima in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"If it makes you feel any better, I can send them a fruit basket." + -- LtCmdr. Laurel Takashima to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5." + -- Commander Sinclair to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Babylons one, two and three were sabotaged and destroyed. Number + four vanished without a trace 24 hours after becoming operational. + To this day no one knows what happened to it." + -- Sinclair to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Notice the waves, each moving in its own order, predictable, + unchanging. But drop in a single stone and see how the pattern + changes. Everything around it is altered." + -- Ambassador Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of + one mind to change the Universe, but none said it as clearly as this." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Do you not have files on the Vorlons?" +"Absolutely. Very large files. There''s nothing in them, + of course. How much do *you* have?" +"More than you it would seem. Naturally it''s all classified." +"Naturally." + -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Here is a copy of everything I have. It may be of use. + If anyone asks, say it fell from the sky." + -- Delenn to Sinclair about Vorlon files in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Commander, you know everything about your stone garden. But + clearly, you have not spent nearly enough time looking at it." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Damn. You see, it''s your fault. You''re bad luck. I''ve always said + that about him. Now, come on, come on. Look, you''re a security chief. + Shouldn''t you be out *securing* something?" + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"We have no telepaths among my people. A genetic oversight I suppose. + One which you could help correct. I am empowered to compensate you + quite handsomely for your genetic background." + -- Ambassador G''Kar to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Would you prefer to be conscious or unconscious during the mating? I would + prefer conscious, but I don''t know what your .. pleasure threshold is." + -- G''Kar to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"We were talking the other day about how nobody has seen a Vorlon before. + And he said that according to legend, one human *did* see a Vorlon, + and turned to stone." +"Well, that''s just a legend." +"Probably." +"Probably." + -- Takashima and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Even for an alien, this one is pretty alien." + -- Dr. Kyle to Sinclair about Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"We have unlimited manpower and the will to use it! + Can you imagine what we could achieve together?" +"I can, which is why it must never be allowed to happen." + -- G''Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"I suppose there''ll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and + shooting at one another. You would''ve thought sooner or later it + would go out of fashion." + -- Ambassador Londo Mollari to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"You make very good sharks, Mr. Garibaldi. We were pretty good sharks + ourselves once, but somehow, along the way, we forgot how to bite. + There was a time when this whole quadrant belonged to us. What are + we now? Twelve worlds and a thousand monuments to past glories. + Living off memories and stories, selling *trinkets*." + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"My god, man. We''ve become a tourist attraction. ''See the great + Centauri Republic -- open 9 to 5, Earth time.''" + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Nice shark, .. pretty shark." + -- Londo to his drink in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"I haven''t broken the rules in a long time, + doctor, so I guess .. I''m about due." + -- Takashima to Dr. Kyle in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"That''s not fair." +"No, it''s not, but that''s what we''re stuck with." + -- Lyta Alexander and Dr. Kyle in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"I don''t trust telepaths. Never have; never will." + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Michael, I picked you because you are right for the job. You are not + politicking, you are not subtle, and sometimes you are a pain in the + ass. And I wouldn''t have it any other way." + -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"We had to stop them, .. no matter what it cost. They came at us + out of nowhere. We never had a chance. The sky was full of stars + and every star an exploding ship -- one of ours." + -- Sinclair about the Line in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"No, we were beaten. We didn''t stop them, they stopped themselves. + I wish the hell I knew why." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Tell them [Vorlons] to get stuffed." + -- Takashima in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"There is a hole .. in your mind." + -- The Assassin to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Commander, this little breach of security isn''t going + to affect my Christmas bonus, is it?" + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"There we were, a fleet so large it nearly eclipsed the sun. + Suddenly, we fell on them like a wave, foiling upon a shore--" + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Delenn, just before he died, the Minbari assassin looked + at me and said: ''There''s a hole in your mind.''" +"An old Minbari insult. Nothing you need worry about." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"I would never tell you anything that was not in your best interest." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"''To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.''" + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"A poem: a story in meter or rhyme." +"Ahh. ''There once was a man from Nantucket..''" +"You''ve been talking to Garibaldi again, haven''t you?" + -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"This is Lieutenant Commander Laurel Takashima. Our docking bays + stand ready to receive you. Babylon 5 is open for business." + -- Takashima in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" +',' +"Commander, there''s a problem." + -- LtCmdr. Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"All I''m asking is that you trust me." +"Trust you? Londo, my brain will be five days dead before I ever trust a + Centauri. The first time we met you people, the first time we met any other + civilization, you told us you practically ran the entire galaxy." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Appearances aside, we are two completely different species." +"A clerical error." + -- Garibaldi and Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Okay, we made a mistake. I''m sorry. Here, open my wrist." +"Centauri don''t have major arteries in their wrist." +"Of course we don''t. What do you think, I''m stupid?" + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"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." + -- Commander Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Your diligence is commendable. Anything else?" +"No, I just--" +"Then, if you''ll excuse me, but I''m in the middle of 15 things, + all of them annoying. Thank you for coming by." + -- Ivanova to Winters in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Not the Minbari, it''s not their way. They are too honorable to pull + something like this." +"I''m surprised to hear you describe the Minbari that way. After all, + you fought them during the war." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"My father always told me: ''The best way to understand someone is to + fight him, make him angry. That''s when you see the real person.''" + -- Sinclair to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"He taught me everything I know about flying, and combat. He said to ignore + the propaganda, focus on what you see. I''ve never seen the Minbari fight + dishonorably. They never pull a sneak attack." + -- Sinclair to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"So, who are you voting for?" +"I think I''ll vote for Marie Crane. .. I do not like Santiago. I always + thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin and his + vice-president has several. This, to me, is not a good combination." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"You bastard! You won''t get away with this. + We''ll strike back and we''ll strike back hard!" + -- Londo to G''kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?" + -- G''Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"We should''ve wiped out your kind when we had the chance." +"What happened? Run out of small children to butcher?" + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Listen to me, Ambassador. Your time has come and gone. It''s our turn now! + One night you''ll wake up and find our teeth at *your* throat. Sleep well, + Ambassador. Sleep lightly." + -- G''Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"I apologize for the .. the incident with G''Kar, Commander. It was a + mistake. *I* will not repeat it. I *will* kill him though. Sooner or + later. Somewhere." +"Ambassador." +"My people.. We have a way you see. We know how, and sometimes even when, + we are going to die. Comes in a dream. In my dream I am an old man, it''s + 20 years from now, and I *am* dying. My hands wrapped around someone''s + throat, and his around mine. We have squeezed the life out of each other. + The first time I saw G''Kar I recognized him as the one from the dream. + It *will* happen. 20 years from now, we''ll die with hands around each + others'' throats." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Commander, please. On the issue of galactic peace, I''m long past innocence + and fast approaching apathy. It''s all a game -- a paper fantasy of names + and borders. Only one thing matters, Commander. Blood calls out for blood." + -- Londo to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"If Carn is dead, there will be war. Today, tomorrow, the day after, it + doesn''t matter. If it''s the last thing I do, if it''s the last breath I + take, there will be war. This I swear to you, Commander. This I swear." + -- Londo to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"You eat like a starving man." +"Seeing death has the way of doing that to me." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"If you ask me, the universe is going to hell in a handbasket." + -- Garibaldi to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass." +"Who? The Narn or the Centauri?" +"Yes." + -- Kosh and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Mr. Garibaldi, you are sitting in *my* station, using *my* equipment. + Is there a reason for this, or to save time should I just go ahead and + snap your hands off at the wrist?" + -- Ivanova to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"The Council, the Council can go to hell. And the emergency session + can go to hell. And you, you can go to hell too. I wouldn''t want you + to feel left out!" + -- Londo to Vir Cotto in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Londo, Londo, *why* are you doing this?" +"Because, we are a race of lunatics and cowards." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Well, unlike me, the Lieutenant Commander takes a while + to warm up to people, especially when she''s working." + -- Garibaldi to Winters in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"I will confess that I look forward to the day when we have + cleansed the Universe of the Centauri and carved their bones + into little flutes for Narn children. It is a dream I have." +"Be careful, Ambassador. Not every dream I''ve heard lately + ends well for you." + -- G''Kar and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"We''ve had plenty of experience with sneak attacks. Pearl Harbor, the + terrorists'' nuking of San Diego, the destruction of our first Mars colony. + It''s a long and bloody history. Do you know what we learned from it? + That a sneak attack is the first resort of a coward." + -- Sinclair to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"What''s wrong, Ambassador? Don''t have the guts for a fair fight?" + -- Sinclair to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"The Earth Alliance can''t go around being the galaxy''s policemen." + -- The Senator to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"To start a war over blood spilled so long ago.. Where does it end? + You kill them and take their land. They kill you and take the land + back. On and on and on. The cycle of hatred." +"*Justice*, not hatred. We have no desire to start a war." + -- Delenn and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Mr. Garibaldi! Just now, would you really have killed *me*?" +"Yes. Yes, I would''ve, but I''m just as glad I didn''t have to. + The paperwork''s a pain in the butt." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Perhaps tomorrow we can start over on better terms." +"I very much doubt it. Good night." + -- Talia and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Had the silly thing in reverse." + -- Duck Dodgers in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Commander, there''s a problem. Commander?" + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" +',' +"Always this busy around here?" +"Yes. We like it that way." + -- Dr. Franklin and LtCmdr. Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"If I can''t make it, you''ll have to blow up that ship before it hits." +"Why not destroy it now?" +"First contact protocol, Lieutenant Commander. Only when conditions + present a clear and present danger. If this is a new technology, + a new race, I want that ship intact." +"This *isn''t* a clear and present danger? I must read the rulebook again." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"Send it away, while you still can." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"No. I have been to your world. Can you feel it?" +"Feel what?" +"Low. Quick. Muffled. Terrified. It comes. It comes. It comes." + -- Soul Hunter #1 and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"Quick flash. The deep blue of pain." +"Dull. Muffled. Slower now. Closer now. Over your shoulder. It comes. + The transition. A shadow. The long exhalation of the spirit. Can you + see it, healer? Can you see it?" +"Gone. Gone now. Gone. Gone. Gone. If you could only see. If you could + only see." + -- Soul Hunter #1 in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"We are not thieves. We are preservers." +"I thought that might get your attention." +"We act only for the greater good." + -- Soul Hunter #1 and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"Minbari: pale, bloodless. Look in their eyes and see nothing but mirrors, + infinities of reflection. Will not let us help them, no." + -- Soul Hunter #1 in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"Minbari: jealous, selfish, private. We have saved only a few. Very rare. + Rarest of all: their leader, Dukhat, dying. Your fault. Your war. The + pinnacle of Minbari evolution. We came. I, others. They made a wall of + bodies to stop us. He died .. and his dreams, his ideas .. all that he + was, all that he could ever be .. gone, wasted. Jealous. Gone. Gone." + -- Soul Hunter #1 to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"It''s all so brief, isn''t it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred + years, but it''s barely a second compared to what''s out there. It wouldn''t + be so bad if life didn''t take so long to figure out. Seems you just start + to get it right and then .. it''s over." +"Doesn''t matter. If we lived two hundred years, we''d still be human. + We''d still make the same mistakes." +"You''re a pessimist." +"I''m *Russian*, Doctor. We understand these things." + -- Dr. Franklin and LtCmdr. Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"And what will you do then?" +"Free them, release them." +"You mean kill them." +"They will join with the souls of all our people. Melt one into another + until they are born into the next generation of Minbari. Remove those + souls and the whole suffers. We are diminished. Each generation becomes + less than the one before." +"A great lie. A pretty fantasy. The soul ends with death, unless react to + preserve it. We *will* help you .. in spite of yourselves. I know you. + You were there at the death of your leader Dukhat." +"We stopped you from taking what you had no right to take." +"You stopped me from saving him. That is where it began to go wrong. + The lost souls. One after another after another. Voices still. I failed + because you stopped me." + -- Soul Hunter #1 and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"I remember. They called you Satai Delenn of the Grey Council. + Curious. Curious. What is one of the great leaders of the Minbari + doing here playing ambassador?" + -- Soul Hunter #1 to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"I hate it when you get heroic. It cuts into my business. + A man''s gotta earn a living, you know?" + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"You would plan such a thing? You would *do* such a thing? Incredible." + -- Soul Hunter #1 to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"Why do you fight for her? Don''t you understand? She is Satai. She is Satai. + I''ve seen her soul. They''re using you. They''re *using* *you*!" + -- Soul Hunter #1 to Sinclair about Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"We were right .. about you." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"It can wait. There''s always time" + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"If I may ask, what happened to my brother''s collection?" +"Life''s full of mysteries. Consider this one of them." + -- Soul Hunter #2 and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" +',' +"Gentlemen, of all things in life, are females not the finest?" +"On that, Mollari, we can at least agree." + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"I am Ko''Dath, the new head of your diplomatic staff." +"Yes. I wasn''t expecting you for several yea.. days." + -- Ko''Dath and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"You know, sometimes I *almost* feel sorry for G''Kar." + -- Londo to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?" + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"And after spending a day dealing with Ambassador G''Kar, + I long to sink my teeth into something .." + -- Londo to Adira in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"What if we are seen together? What will people say?" +"They''ll say.. they''ll say Ambassador Mollari is a most fortunate man. + We Centauri live our lives for appearances, possessions, status, title. + These are the things by which we define ourselves. But when I look beneath + the mask I am forced to wear, I see only emptyness. And then I think of + you .. and I say: to hell with appearances." + -- Adira and Londo in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"And Vir!" +"Yes, sir?" +"Don''t give away the homeworld." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"Just don''t give away the homeworld." + -- G''Kar to Ko''Dath in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"Keep them talking. I''m going to find Londo and bring him here." +"What if he refuses?" +"Then I hurt him." + -- Sinclair and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"I''ll even seal it with a kiss." +"That should make G''Kar''s day." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"How are we gonna find this friend of Adira''s?" +"I have a friend or two down here myself." +"I take it these are not them." + -- Sinclair and Londo in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"Gold channel opened." +"All right lieutenant gremlim. This time your butt is mine." + -- Computer and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"Oh, the gratitude of the Narn is well known throughout the galaxy." + -- G''Kar to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"I never knew you could be so devious, Commander." +"Coming from you, Ambassador, that''s a real compliment." + -- G''Kar and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"My dear G''Kar. How can I ever thank you? *You* have saved my career, + and the honor of the entire Centauri Republic." +"*What*?" + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" +',' +"You still haven''t told me when the commander is due back?" +"Soon." +"How soon is soon?" +"Longer than a little while, faster than later." + -- Mary Ann Cramer and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"Commander''s a hands-on kind of guy. He''ll grab any chance to take + out a ship. He''s like that." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"Savor the mystery, Stephen. We don''t get nearly enough of them." + -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"Nothing in his personnel jacket to suggest a heart condition.." +"Yes, and exactly which medical school did you attend, Mr. Garibaldi?" + -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"This is a blueprint for living machines. The Vorlons have one. + Some people even say the Minbari have them. We haven''t seen + enough of them up close to get any idea of how they work." + -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"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 transferred to an + outpost so far off the starmaps you couldn''t find it with a hunting dog + and an ouiji board." +"Don''t sweat it. Just be that charming, efflorescent 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." + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"Stephen. It''s been 15 hours. We are gonna grow old and die in here. + Stephen? Stephen, there''s a Martian war machine parked outside. + They''d like to have a word with you about the common cold." + -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"In the last five years, I''ve seen things off-world you can''t even imagine. + I''ve stood in the Abendi desert and watched all seven moons go into eclipse. + I''ve walked in vaults that have been sealed longer than there''s been a + human race, breathing air that''s five million years old. You call that a + shortcut, if you will, but I''ve lived. By God, Stephen, I have *lived*." + -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"Don''t. You''re too young to experience that much pain." + -- Ivanova to ISN reporter Mary Ann Cramer in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"Win, lose or draw, this thing''s going to know it was in a fight." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"But people can be fooled. So to prevent them from being confused by any + misleading instructions from the enemy, they hardwired the machine half + of the weapons not to respond to anyone who wasn''t pure Ikarran. There''s + one problem, Commander. How do you define a pure Ikarran, or a pure human? + No one is pure. No one." + -- Franklin to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"I''m gonna try and make it mad." +"Make it mad? Are you nuts? Commander!" + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"You forgot the first rule of a fanatic. When you become obsessed + with the enemy, you *become* the enemy." + -- Sinclair to ''Tular'' in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"Interplanetary Expeditions, the corporation that financed the + dig on Ikarra 7 is a front. A front for a bio weapons supplier." + -- Vance Hendricks to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"I know a lot of guys who came out of the war changed. Some came out better, + some came out worse. A lot of them had this problem. The war gave them + definition, direction, purpose. Without it they don''t know how to fit in + anymore, so they keep looking for ways to go out in a blaze of glory. + Some people call that being a hero, maybe so. I don''t know, I''ve never + been one. Me, I think they''re looking for something worth dying for + because it''s easier than finding something worth living for." +"Finished?" +"Yeah. I guess that covers it." +"Michael. I don''t have an answer for you. And .. I think maybe I should. + Thanks." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"If you''ll excuse me. If you need me, I''ll be over there, + getting drunk with the rest of the aliens." + -- Susan Ivanova to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"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?" +"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 Aristophenes .. + and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars." + -- Mary Ann Cramer interviews Cmdr. Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Infection" +',' +"I don''t care if you''re the Easter bunny. You''re not bringing *this* + [knife] on the station." + -- Garibaldi to a pilgrim in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"I''m thinking of thinking of calling her right after my afternoon nap. + I''m thinking of thinking of sending her flowers right after Bonnie gets back. + So many fishies left in the sea. + So many fishies, but no one for meee.. + I''m thinking of thinking of hooking a love soon after supper is done." + -- G''Kar''s song in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Are you Ambassador G''Kar?" +"This is Ambassador G''Kar''s quarters. This is Ambassador G''Kar''s table. This + is Ambassador G''Kar''s dinner. What part of this progression escapes you?" + -- Tu''Pari and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"It''s a celebration of life. It comes from a time in our world history when + two dominant species were fighting for supremecy. Our people, and a species + we called Xon. At year''s end we''d count how many of our people survived and + we celebrated our good fortune." + -- Vir in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Do you know what the last Xon said just before he died? [Clutches heart] + *AAAAAAAAAAAARGHHH!!!*" + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Can I kill him now?" +"Let me get back to you." +"Are you sure you don''t want to see her?" +"Absolutely." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Oh, come on, Commander! Loosen up! You are supposed to enjoy yourself!" +"I *am*! Words just can''t express how much I''m enjoying this." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Ah, our household gods. In a world where every day is a struggle for + survival, you need all the gods you can get." + -- Londo to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Gods by the bushel! Gods by the pound! Gods for all occasions!" + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Did I ever tell you [Delenn] that you are very cute for a Minbari? Even + you [Garibaldi] are cute, in an annoying sort of way. Everybody''s cute! + Everybody''s cute! Even me. But in purple.. I''m stunning!" [collapses] + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Ah! He has become one with his inner self!" +"He''s passed out." +"That too." + -- Vir and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"I don''t mean to alarm you, but your pants are talking to you." +"I know. I was just, uh--" +"Yes, you''re a very busy man. Well, I''ll let you and your pants get back + to your business and I''ll get back to mine. Take care, Jeff." + -- Catherine Sakai & Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"What would you say if I told you that councillor Du''Rog hired someone + to kill me? Someone close to me." +"Ambassador, with all due respect, if it were me, you wouldn''t be here + for us to have this conversation." + -- G''Kar and Na''Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Ambassador, it is not my place to speculate on how + anything gets into your bed." + -- Na''Toth to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"I fight my own battles! I survived our war of independance, five years + on the council and two prior assasination attempts. I can survive this." + -- G''Kar to Na''Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Earthers have a phrase: ''Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.'' + I believe they stole it from us." + -- G''Kar to Na''Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"I can not have an aide who will not look up. + You will be forever walking into things." + -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"You will not use my title Satai. You will address me only as Delenn. + Do you understand?" +"No, but understanding is not required, only obedience." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Is this a breach of protocol?" +"I''m off duty." +"I thought you are never off duty." +"Maybe you didn''t know me as well as you think." + -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"The other half of the dance goes something like this: We meet, renew + acquaintances, talk about old times at the academy, you ask about my + aunt, I ask about your brother, we lie about not missing each other + and we end up in bed together. And then you leave." +"Or you leave. Last time it was you." +"No it wasn''t." +"Yes it was." +"No. .. Was it? .. You''re right, last time it *was* me. Oh god, who + can keep it all straight anymore." + -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"I usually think about you in summer." +"I think about you in the fall." +"We never could agree on anything." + -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Will you follow me into fire, into storm, into darkness, into death? + And the nine said: ''yes.'' Then do this in testimony to the one who will + follow, will bring death couched into promise of new life, and renewal + disguised as defeat. .. + From birth, through death and renewal, you must put aside old things, + old fears, old lives. This is your death, the death of flesh, + the death of pain, the death of yesterday. Taste of it and be not afraid, + for I am with you to the end of time. .. Taste of it. .. And so it begins." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Where is he?! I was told a bodyguard would be at the ceremony. + I was all alone! Taste your own death indeed!" + -- G''Kar to Na''Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Just trying to get your story down, Ambassador." +"It''s not my story, it''s the truth!" + -- Garibaldi and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"And just let me say, Ambassador, from the bottom of my heart: + Hot pink is definitely your color." + -- Garibaldi to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Don''t touch me unless you mean it!" + -- Catherine Sakai to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"My orders are quite specific. You are to know pain. You are to know fear. + And then you are to die at the required hour. I confess I''ll be happy when + this assignment is finished. Delaying the target''s suspicions can be so + time-consuming." + -- Tu''Pari to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"The pain must be overwhelming. Why hold it in? Cry out, + Ambassador. With luck, someone will hear you." +"I would die before giving you that satisfaction." + -- Tu''Pari and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"That hurt." +"Ambassador, it was the only way to disable the pain-givers. I had to hit + them as hard as possible, as often as possible and still make it appear + as though I were beating you into another incarnation." +"And you didn''t enjoy it in the least." +"I didn''t say that." + -- G''Kar and Na''Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"With luck, they may never find you, but if they do, you will know pain.." +"..and you will know fear.." +"..and then you will die. Have a pleasant flight." + -- G''Kar & Na''Toth to Tu''Pari in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"Oh, it''s a rebirth ceremony, all right. It also doubles as + a marriage ceremony. Depending on how seriously anyone took it, + somebody got married the other day." +"Maybe that''s why G''Kar was smiling. Funny. I didn''t think Londo was + his type." + -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"See you next Wednesday." + -- Cmdr. Sinclair to Sakai in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" +',' +"There''s a problem, Commander. You missed a button." + -- Sakai to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"Get out of my head. You wanna talk to me, *talk* to me." + -- Sinclair to Bester in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"There are rules and there are *Rules*, Commander." + -- Psi Cop Kelsey to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"Since we bear a greater responsibility, we are afforded greater + latitude, in the interest of efficiency." + -- Psi Cop Bester to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"And Psi Cops? What are you rated?" +"P12. Someone has to keep an eye on the rest." +"Yes, but who watches the watchmen?" + -- Ivanova and Psi Cop Kelsey in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"What kind of *covert* operation?" +"That information is on a need-to-know basis, Commander. + And you don''t need to know." + -- Sinclair and Bester in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"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." + -- G''Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"Because in this business, whoever has the strongest telepath, wins. The + military wants to scan the enemy. The enemy wants a telepath strong enough + to block the scan and we want someone who can cut through the block." + -- Ironheart to Talia in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"Only one in every thousand humans has telepathic abilities. Only one in + every ten thousand telepaths has telekinetic abilities. And half of them + are clinically insane." + -- Ironheart to Talia in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi, but you''re welcome to try .. + anytime .. anywhere." + -- Psi Cop Bester in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"What the hell?" +"Mindquake." + -- Sinclair and Psi Cop Kelsey in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"We had our orders." +"Mister, I don''t care if you had a personal message from God complete + with stone tablets. You lied to me. You held information and put this + station at risk." + -- Bester and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"Mr. Ironheart is no longer what you or I would consider entirely human." +"Then what is he?" +"We don''t know." + -- Bester and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"Good ol'' Psi Corps. You guys never cease to amaze me! All the moral + fiber of Jack the Ripper. What do you do in your spare time? Juggle + babies over a fire pit? Oops, there goes another calculated risk!" +"You''re not helping the situation." +"Lady, *you* are the situation." + -- Ivanova to and Psi Cop Kelsey in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing, Commander: control. Control over + telepaths, the economy, the courts, over matter, over thought itself." + -- Jason Ironheart to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"That''s a lie." +"Yes, it is. What''s your point?" + -- Bester and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"Be seeing you, Commander." + -- Bester to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"Just one question. Why?" +"Why not?" +"It''s not an answer." +"Oh, yes it is. It''s simply not an answer you like or + the answer you expect. There''s a difference." + -- Sakai and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"Narns, Humans, Centauri .. we all do what we do for the same reason: + because it seems like a good idea at the time." + -- G''Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"I told you before you left: ''No one here is entirely what they appear.'' + If I surprised you, all the better. Good day, Ms. Sakai." + -- G''Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"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." + -- G''Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"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 yet explained + everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957 and + they must walk there .. alone." + -- G''Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" +',' +"There was a time, Mr. Garibaldi, when one could walk through Green Sector + without need of escort." +"I assure you, we''re doing everything we can to correct that, Ambassador." +"Then you are required to do better, Commander. *Much* better." + -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"You''re a vicious man." +"I''m Head of Security. It''s in the job description." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"What am *I* supposed to do with them?" +"You''re always saying the Centauri are an advanced race. + *You* figure it out." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"Ugly and old, yes? Then their families must be both rich and powerful." + -- Londo to Kiron and Aria in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"*Love*?! What does *love* have to do with marriage?" + -- Londo to Kiron and Aria in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"We take no interest in the affairs of others." + -- Ambassador Kosh to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"That''s quite a viewer. I''ve never seen anything quite like it before. + What is it?" +"Efficient." + -- Sinclair and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"The Vorlons are very secretive. They don''t want anyone to know what they + look like, what they breathe or how their biology works. I mean, who knows + how much that suit is really necessary and how much is just camouflage to + keep us from seeing what''s inside." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"Love? Pah. Overrated. Here, look, these are *my* three wives: Pestilence, + Famine and Death. Do you think I married them for their personalities? + Their personalities could *shatter* entire planets! Arranged marriages, + every one, but they worked out. They inspired me. Knowing that they were + waiting at home for me is what keeps me here -- 75 lights years away." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"So much for Babylon 5''s highly vaunted justice." + -- G''Kar to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"I could strangle that damn G''Kar." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"I would expect such logic from a poet. What + can a Minbari know about Centauri feeling?" + -- Londo to Shaal Mayan in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"And we won. Not because we outfought them, not because we were + luckier than them or stronger than them or smarter than them. + We won because the damn Minbari *let* us win." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"We want to put Earth back at the center of the universe, *our* universe, + get rid of alien influences, get rid of aliens, put Earth first. We *must* + get back to our roots. Let humans *be* humans." + -- Malcolm Biggs to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"Human ways are often unfathomable, but in time, + one learns to live with them." +"If one has an exceedingly strong constitution." + -- Delenn and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" +',' +"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." + -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"What about you, Ambassador? What did you do during the war?" +"A topic for another time. Good day, doctor." + -- Franklin and Delenn in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Stay in formation. Hold the Line. No one gets through, no matter what." + -- Sinclair on the Line in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Maybe you''re asleep. Maybe you''re insane. Maybe you''re dead. + Maybe you''re in Hell! Not that it matters much, Commander Sinclair, + because wherever you are, wherever you go, you''re mine." + -- Knight Two in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Homeguard leader convicted. + Lester Found Guilty In Attack on Minbari Embassy." +"Narns Settle Raghesh 3 Controversy." +"President Promises Balanced Budget by 2260." +"Psi-Corps in Election Tangle. Did Psi-Corps violate its charter by + endorsing vice president?" +"Special Section: Pros & Cons in Inter-Species Mating." +"San Diego Still Considered Too Radioactive for Occupancy." +"Copyright Trial Continues in Bookzap Flap." + -- Universe Today front page in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Curious. We have the memories of your entire life to play around with, + but your thoughts are rooted here in this station. It means a lot to you, + doesn''t it?" + -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"My ship was damaged. I blacked out." +"So you testified. Just one problem: I don''t believe you .. + and I''m not the only one." + -- Sinclair and Knight Two in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Mr. Garibaldi, there''re days I''m very glad I don''t have to + think the way you do." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Your name is Jeffrey David Sinclair, rank commander, age 39, born on Mars + colony May 3rd 2218, 9:15 AM Earth standard time. Enlisted in Earth Force + Defense 2237, promoted to fighter pilot 2240, promoted again to squad leader + less than a year later. A career officer like you father and his father + and his father." + -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Smart money said you''d make admiral one day. So what happened, *Commander*? + Where did you fall off the merry-go-round?" + -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Well, well. Looks like the pain is real for both of us." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"The war was over! The Minbari had surrendered on the eve of their victory. + They gave up, just like that. And you expect us to believe that you slept + through the whole thing? Your ship was off the screens for 24 hours! + You didn''t just black out. Your ship disappeared." + -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Nobody wants to die, especially not out there in the cold of space, + so you surrendered. They took you aboard their ship, fixed you some milk + and cookies and asked you to work for them, be their eyes, their ears, + their voice. You agreed. You and god knows how many other people. + And then they let you go." + -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"When I looked at those ships, I didn''t just see my death. + I saw the death of the whole damn human race." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Not like this. Not like this! If I''m going out, I''m taking you bastards + with me! Target main cruiser, set for full velocity ram, afterburners on + my mark. Mark." + -- Sinclair on the Line in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"What do you want? Why are you doing this? Who are you? + I know you. I know who you are. I know you." + -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"There''s something in my head. It says .. maybe you''re still inside. + Maybe we''re both still inside." + -- Knight Two in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"He must never know what happened. If he should find out, + he must be killed. Do you understand, Delenn?" + -- Council #1 about Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" +',' +"Ambassador Kosh. Is there something I can do for you?" +"I wish to engage your services." +"For what?" +"Business." +"What sort of business?" +"Important." +"Ambassador, I''d be happy to assist you, but there are certain details I + must know before taking any commission. Not to mention getting clearances + from the--" +"All arranged, as is paint. We will meet in red 3 at the hour of scampering." +"The hour of scampering?" + -- Talia Winters and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"Listen, sister. If she dies, you''ll rotten in a cage until + your spots turn grey." + -- Garibaldi to Na''Toth in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"Understanding is a three-edged sword." + -- Kosh to Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"He has no thoughts.. at all. It is as if his mind were empty." +"Excellent. We may now commence our business. Abbut." +"Crab .. Nebula." + -- Talia Winters, Kosh and Abbut in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"Commander Sinclair. All information in this matter is on a need-to-know + basis. And you do *not* need to know. Have a pleasant day." + -- Senator Hidoshi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"You know the way of command. Yes, the Windswords are right to fear you." +"What do you know about Windswords?" +"They''ve sheltered me for many years, in return for certain services. + They speak of you often, Sinclair. They say you have a hole in your mind." + -- Jha''dur [Deathwalker] and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"And these .. these phrases you keep speaking in. + They don''t make any sense." +"Ah, you seek meaning?" +"Yes." +"Then listen to the music, *not* the song." + -- Kosh and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"Mr. Abbut, could you tell me what these negotiations are all about?" +"I could, .. but it''s not good to reflect too much." + -- Talia Winters and Abbut in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"Delicious irony, don''t you think? That those who cursed + us will have to thank us for the rest of time." + -- Jha''dur to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"That''s when the Council first learned she was with them. Of course + we could not reveal it then. And like all secrets long kept, we can + not bear the shame of admitting it now." + -- Lennier to Sinclair about Jha''dur in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"Vakar Ashok, our gun arrays are now fixed on your ship and will fire the + instant you come into range. You will find their power quite impressive.. + for a few seconds." + -- Ivanova to a Drazi Sunhawk in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"A herring is just a herring, but a good cigar is a Cuban." +"A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles. + Do you understand, Miss Winters?" + -- Abbut and Kosh to Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"What is he? And what was on that data crystal he gave you?" +"Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future." + -- Talia Winters and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"You will fall upon one another like wolves. It''ll 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. That''s my + monument, Commander." + -- Jha''dur [Deathwalker] in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"Well, all''s well that ends well?" + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"You are not ready for immortality." + -- Kosh to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"Ambassador Kosh has been a busy boy today." +"They say God works in mysterious ways." +"Maybe so, but He''s a con-man compared to the Vorlon." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" +',' +"You don''t understand. Food animals are cut open. They don''t have a soul, + so it''s all right. But Chosen of God may not be punctured." + -- M''ola to Dr. Franklin about Shon in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"What?" +"Nothing. I certainly have plenty of things to occupy myself here. + Yes, sir. I think I''ll just walk to and fro for a while. Maybe over + to my console. After that maybe I''ll try pacing fro and to just for the + kick of it. Oh, then there is this view of course. Granted it''s not quite + the same as if you are outside .. with someone who''s got over 100 hours + of combat flying experience." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"One way or another, I''m gonna save that boy''s life. Whatever it costs." + -- Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"Just how much justice can you afford?" + -- Londo to M''ola in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"The avalanche has already started. + It is too late for the pebbles to vote." + -- Kosh to M''ola in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"We are only trying to save our child." +"That is also what doctor Franklin believes he''s doing. + Whose belief is correct? And how do we prove it?" + -- M''ola and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"''Sure'' is for people with nothing on the line. + You and me, we just get on with it." + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"A Globitt-egg?" +"Actually it''s only a piece of .. industrial goo. But please don''t + tell doctor Franklin I said so. He still believes it''s an egg." + -- Sinclair and Shon in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"May God save us from false religion." +"What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then + maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn''t care how + you say your prayers, just as long as you say them." + -- Dr. Franklin and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"Come on. Come on. Yes! Good. Good. .. *Not* good." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"Who asked you to play God?" +"Every damn patient who comes through that door, that''s who! People come to + doctors because they want us to be gods. They want us to make it better .. + or make it not so. They want to be healed and they come to me when their + prayers aren''t enough. Well, if I have to take the responsibility, then I + claim the authority too. I did good. And we both know it. And no one is + going to take that away." + -- Sinclair and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"I''m waiting. For an apology." +"You better check the temperature in Hell first." + -- Doctor Franklin and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"Sometimes doing the right thing doesn''t change anything. + It can drive you crazy." +"It''s all words. Just words." + -- Sinclair and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"What happened out there?" +"Nothing." +"*Nothing*? I just got back the repair-order on your fighter. It will be + in the shop for a week, minimum. And on top of that, I hear you broke regs + about leaving formation and engaging on combat without backup." +"It was an educated risk. .. Sometimes it works out." +"And sometimes it doesn''t. It''s a long story. Come on, I''ll fill you in." + -- Garibaldi and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Believers" +',' +"Boy, I need a drink. Water, straight up." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +',' +"Grip Rail At All Times." + -- A sign in a low-grav travel tube in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +',' +"You are going to resist, I hope." + -- Ivanova to Major Lianna Kemmer in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +',' +"I demand you open a channel to Earth at once." +"I''m a Lieutenant Commander on Earth Force, Major. I don''t take demands. + If you will *request*, I will consider it." +"Very well, then. I *request* that you open a channel to Earthdome." +"Request denied. Have a nice day." + -- Major Kemmer and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +',' +"Ilaros?" +"Goddess of luck, patron of gamblers. She and I have + had a long and rather dubious relationship." + -- Garibaldi and Londo in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +',' +"Well, you have been talking to Mollari. + It was inevitable he would send you to me." +"How?" +"Oh, my people watch him, his people watch me, + we *all* watch one another here, Mr. Garibaldi." + -- G''Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +',' +"Oh, you could serve us in any number of ways. + Analyst, security expert, cryptographer.." + -- G''Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +',' +"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: + energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." + -- G''Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +',' +"It''s not justice you are after, Major, it''s blood." + -- Sinclair to Lianna Kemmer in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +',' +"I''ll see you the next time the president visits. + He''s fond of Babylon 5, you know." +"Then make sure nothing happens to him. + We need all the friends we can get." +"I will." + -- Major Kemmer and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" +',' +"Ms. Connolly, we are not here to assign blame." +"Maybe you aren''t, Commander, but my government will want to know who + is responsible for damaging our ship." + -- Sinclair and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"The accident was caused by equipment failure. Clustered effect, + the microchips blew out." +"How is that possible?" +"Looks like the contractor installed substandard chips throughout the + entire system. That would explain how they managed such a low bid + on the installation. We are checking it all now." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"Oh, why does the universe hate me." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"Accidents happen." + -- Senator Hidoshi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"You left your door unlocked, Ambassador, how careless of you. I thought + it best to sit here and guard your room until you return." +"And did you find anything of interest in my humble quarters while + you were guarding it?" +"No." +"No." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"We all believe in something .. greater than ourselves, + even if it''s just the blind forces of chance." +"Chance favors the warrior." + -- G''Kar and Na''Toth in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"We have a right to defend ourselves, Neeoma." +"But not with violence." +"I beg your pardon, Commander, but if someone pushed you, + wouldn''t you push back?" + -- Eduardo Delvientos & Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"Are you telling me this is about a flower?" +"Not just a flower, Commander, the very symbol of my faith. All followers + of G''Quan must perform a ritual once a year when our sun rises precisely + behind the G''Quan mountain. Each year the celebrant must acquire a new + plant for the ceremony." + -- Sinclair and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"You should never hand someone a gun unless you are sure + where they will point, and no mistake." + -- Sinclair to Orin Zinto in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"Commander, you are a far more spiritual man than I gave you credit for." +"There are a couple Jesuit teachers I know who might disagree with you." + -- G''Kar and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"Today, you have made new enemies. If I were you, Commander, I would watch + things very carefully. You are not the most popular person in government + circles right now." + -- Senator Hidoshi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"The gift of time. + The gift of life. + The gift of wisdom. + The gift of light. + For these things we are thankful. + For these things we pray." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" +',' +"Good morning. The time is ou-four-thirty, Earth-standard, Wednesday, + August third, 2258. Personal log shows no outstanding appointments. + Shall I download station-logs for past six hours?" +"Sure, grab it, store it, shove it." +"Clarification?" +"Never mind. Why does my mouth always taste like old carpet in the morning?" +"Unknown. Checking medical logs." + -- Computer and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"Sleep well?" +"Sleeping is not the problem. Waking up.. that is a problem. + I''ve always had hard time getting up when it''s dark outside." +"But in space it''s always dark." +"I know, I know." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"I''ve been out of circulation. Spent the last few years doing + some exploration out on the rim." +"Find anything interesting?" +"Yes." + -- Morden and a customs guard in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"Not long ago something happened. I''ve been keeping it to myself, but the + truth is, I need some help. Mostly, I need a friend." +"You''ve got both. What''s the deal?" +"I told you about the Battle of the Line, 24 hours of my life I couldn''t + remember. Lately I''ve started to piece together a few things. Not all of + if, just enough to know that something .. happened to me back there. I''ve + gone as far as I can with my own investigation, but this is more your area + of expertise. I need your help. Try and find out what happened and why." + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"This is not a piece of jewelry, this is not ''the merchandise''. + This is the Eye, the oldest symbol of Centauri nobility, + the property of the very first emperor." + -- Londo to Trader in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"But to me, it''s just another commission. My job is to find things, + objects, people, you name it." + -- Trader to Londo in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"Take the famine as a blessing, Ambassador: a weeding + out of the excess population." +"One more comment like that, Mollari, and you will + become part the excess population." + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"What do I want? The Centauri stripped my world. I want justice." +"But *what* do you want?" +"To suck the marrow off their bones, and grind their skulls to powder." +"What do you want?" +"To tear down their cities, blacken their sky, sow their ground with salt. + To completely, utterly erase them." +"And then what?" +".. I don''t know. As long as my home world''s safety is guaranteed, + I don''t know that it matters." +"I see. Well, thank you very much for your time, Ambassador. Good day." +"Nonsense." [to himself] + -- G''Kar and Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"Oh! This place. Great Makers, this place! No! See this: destruction, + fire. Babylon will fall, this place will be destroyed. Fire, death, + pain, fire, death, pain. No. No!" + -- Lady Ladira in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"Then you don''t believe her vision?" +"She''s been wrong before. On my first birthday she said that someday + I would be killed by .. the shadows." +"Shadows?" +"Doesn''t exactly make sense, does it?" + -- Londo and Lord Kiro in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"They are here." + -- Delenn about Morden''s visit in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"Ambassador, I was just on my way to see you. My name is--" +"I''m sorry, but I don''t have time to chat right now. + I suggest you make an appointment." +"I did." +"Then make another one. Never a transport tube when you need it.." +"Ambassador, I was authorized to speak to you--" +"Yes, yes! Look, what do you want?" +"That''s just what I was gonna ask you. What do you want?" +"You are a lunatic, go away. Pester someone else." + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"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 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 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?" [leaves] +".. Yes. Yes it does." [to himself] + -- Londo to Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"Leave this place. They are not for you. Go. Leave. Now." + -- Ambassador Kosh to Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"The station took some minor damage, we''ve got maintenance bots working + on it. Few injuries here and there, nothing major. It seems Ambassador + Kosh''s encounter suit was damaged, but he''s not telling how, just asked + for some equipment to have it fixed." + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"Let me buy you a drink! Let me buy you an entire *fleet* of drinks!" + -- Londo shouts after Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"You probably know you weren''t the first in line to run this place." +"I suspected as much. I was surprised when they called me. + How far down the list was I?" +"Pretty far. Despite the problems this is still a high-profile job, a real + plum. Admirals, generals, the whole brass was lined up hoping to get it, + but every name was rejected until they got to you." +"Rejected by whom?" +"The Minbari government. They were the first to sign on to support Babylon 5 + on the condition they had approval over who was assigned to run this place. + They wanted you." +"Why?" +"Unknown." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"The future is always changing. We create the future: with our words, + our deeds and with our beliefs. This is a possible future, Commander, + and it is my hope that you may yet avoid it." + -- Lady Ladira to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" +',' +"Liner White Star arriving from Earth is now docking in bay 5. + Passangers will disembark through customs area 7." + -- An Announcement in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"One of these days, Garibaldi, you are gonna learn to watch your back." + -- Walker Smith to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"So they told me it wasn''t my time yet. They said they''d make it worth + my while to retire for a few years." +"So you told them to stuff it." +"And I wasn''t that polite about it." + -- Walker Smith and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"What did you say this was again?" +"It''s treel. It''s .. sort of fish, Centauri-raisen." +"Treel? It''s kosher?" +"That I can''t say." +"Well, I don''t recall treel being mentioned in Tora, so.. Ah, wonderful!" + -- Rabbi Yossel Koslov and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"So, how are things back home?" +"They change, they stay the same. Russia is Russia. Your father used to say: + ''If regret could be harvested, Russia would be the world''s fruit-basket.''" + -- Ivanova and Rabbi Yossel Koslov in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"May I return to my post?" +"No, you may not. Have a chair." +"I prefer to stand." +"That''s an order." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"You are the best officer I''ve ever served with, Ivanova. I couldn''t run + this station without you. But I also consider you a friend. And as your + friend, I''m telling you it does no good to bottle up your feelings. Your + father is dead. You need to express your grief or it''ll eat you up." +"I appreciate your concern, Commander, and your friendship, but .. my + feelings are my own, and how I display them, or not, is my choice. + Now, if I may return to my duty." +"Susan, before you make that choice, make sure you know what it is you + are really feeling." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"Then the tragedy is greater than I thought. Without forgiveness you + can not mourn, and without mourning you can never let go of the pain." + -- Rabbi Yossel Koslov to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"Earth-registered liner White Star is now in final boarding for departure + to Earth. All outbound passangers must proceed to docking bay 7." + -- An announcement in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"Does he''ve got a chance?" +"He will fight bravely." + -- Garibaldi and Caliban in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"In sports Babylon 5 is about to be the site of a history-making event + as ex-SportCorp boxing star Walker Smith appears to be the first human + to fight in the Mutai." +"What did I tell you, Mike -- history." +"Well, just hope you don''t wind up history." + -- Sports Announcer, Walker Smith and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"That''s what the game is all about. + To be the best you have to *face* the best." + -- Walker Smith to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"I''m ready to go back on duty, sir." +"Good, I''ve had my fill of double shifts." +"Perhaps we''ll remember that the next time Ms. Sakai visits the station." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"Garibaldi, thanks. See you when I come back for the rematch." +"Oh, give me a break." +"Watch your back." + -- Garibaldi and Walker Smith in Babylon 5:"TKO" +',' +"They say food digests better if you chew it first." +"Don''t talk, I''ve seen you eat. Does the term Doppler-effect ring a bell?" + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"Why is it Ombuds Zimmerman never gets these cases? Only me." + -- Ombuds Wellington in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"On Earth the Grail is nothing but a myth. It''s a nice story to tell your + kids. For someone who spends his entire life looking for it .. is .. + well, it''s not often taken very seriously." +"How sad. He is a holy man, a true seeker. Among my people a true seeker + is treated with the outmost reverence and respect. It doesn''t matter that + his Grail may or may not exist, what matters is that he strives for the + perfection of his soul and the salvation of his race and that he has never + wavered a lost faith." +"I wish him luck. He''s probably the only true seeker we have." +"Then perhaps you don''t know yourself .. as well as you think." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"Make me a happy man. Let me clean out down-below. If I put all my teams + out, I can wipe 9/10 of the crime rate in one sweep." +"Most of them are just people with nowhere else to go. They come here + looking for a new life, a new job, and when they don''t find it, they can''t + afford transport back. What are you gonna do, Mr. Garibaldi? Shove them + out an airlock?" +"Don''t tempt me." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"My brother''s burdens are my own. What I want to know is *why* you + believe you can''t leave the station." +"Because if I do, it''ll blow up, or disappear, or something else + awful like that will happen. Come on, laugh. Everyone else does. + It''s real, the Babylon curse." +"I''m not laughing, Thomas. I understand obsession very well. I''ve + spent the better part of my life searching for something that no one + else believes in. And I will continue searching until I die." + -- Aldous Gajic and Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"I''d say you have the wrong nickname. They should''ve called you Lucky." +"How do you figure?" +"To have escaped the worst each time, that''s a blessing. You are a very + lucky man. Perhaps each time you were exactly where you were meant to be." +"I''ve never thought of it like that." +"We never do." + -- Aldous Gajic and Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"You need to find another witness." +"When the word gets out about Miriam, I''ve got as much chance + of doing that as seeing a Vorlon doing strip-tease." + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"Hideous creatures, hideous. We came across them in our colonizing days. + We lost an *entire* colony before we threw up a quarantine. The only good + na''ka''leen is a dead na''ka''leen. .. This is of course a purely theoretical + question? A whim of yours that .. that you might ask? Yes?" +"Well, not really." +"They''re not. They couldn''t be, here? I''ll have the files transferred to you + immediately. If you want me, I''ll be in my quarters, under top security. + I strongly suggest you do the same." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"There are two castes of Minbari. The warrior caste and the religious caste. + The warrior caste would not understand. It is not their way." +"So we will not tell them, and spare them the confusion." + -- Lennier and Delenn to Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"These two sides of your culture, do they ever agree on anything?" +"Yes. And when they do, it is a terrible thing. A terrible power, as recent + events have shown us. Let us hope it never again happens in our lifetime." + -- Aldous Gajic and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"You think he''s genuine." +"Aldous? Yes. Question is: a genuine what? One man''s lunatic is + another''s true seeker." +"You have been hanging around Delenn too much." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"Vir! What are you doing?" +"Why, I''m being efficient, sir." +"A few more like you, Vir, and the entire Centauri Republic + will *efficient* itself to extinction." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"Fools to the left of me, *feeders* to the right. + I need to find a *real* job." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"And then I met a man. He said he was the last of his kind. + He told me that I was a man of infinite promise and goodness. + When he was dying, he gave me this staff. Now I am the last. + The numbers add up again, Thomas. The numbers *do* add up." + -- Aldous Gajic to Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"Hey, can I learn to do that?" +"You can learn whatever you want to learn, because + you are a man of infinite promise and goodness." + -- Jinxo and Aldous Gajic in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"See yourself for what you *are*, not what others try to make you." + -- Aldous Gajic to Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"Why?" +"Deuce wanted the people to think that he had the Vorlons working + for him. Figured it would add to his image and intimidate people." +"Why?" +"Well, after all, no one knows exactly what you look like. + That makes some people .. a little nervous." +"Good." + -- Kosh and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"It''s a hard thing to live your life searching for something + and never find it." +"Are you speaking of Aldous .. or someone else?" +".. Aldous." +"But there you are wrong. He *found* what he was looking for. + What we''re all looking for: a reason." +"For what?" +"Everything, Commander. Everything." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"Are you sure it''s dead?" +"I''m positive. It''s dead as a rock. I saw it with my own eyes." +"How do you know it''s not just resting? Feeders are sneaky, you know." +"Londo, trust me." +".. Hah. Well, there you are, Vir. I told you there is nothing to worry + about. He''s young, sometimes he panics, you know how it is." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"The doc''s dissecting it, wants to try to figure out how it can move + so fast. He''s learning all kinds of things about it." +"Such as?" +"Well, when they are about to attack they get quiet, so the key is: + as long as you can hear them, as long as there is noise around, + you''re safe. But if you ever hear nothing, .. worry." + -- Garibaldi and Vir with Londo in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"No boom?" +"No boom." +"No boom *today*. Boom tomorrow. There''s *always* a boom tomorrow. + What? Look, somebody''s got to have some damn perspective around here. + Boom, sooner or later. *BOOM*!" + -- Garibaldi, Sinclair, and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Grail" +',' +"Antique. Mint condition. The Kawasaki engine ZX-11, vintage 1992. And we + are talking liquid-cool dual-overhead-cam 16-valve 1052-cc inline-four, + twin-ram air induction, six-speed gear-box and 320-millimeter front disc + with four-piston calibers. It''s the best-performance bike of its time. + Or it will be when I figure out how to put the damn thing together." +"Well, sounds most impressive. What exactly does it do?" +"What does it do? It''s a motorcycle. You ride it. Wrooom!.." +"Ah, a vehicle." +"Oh, it''s more than just a vehicle. This baby''s a piece of Earth history." +"History? That is an interest of mine." + -- Garibaldi and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +"You''re starting to irritate me, Mr. Franks, and I don''t + like being irritated. It gives me gas." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +"I will not submit to a telephatic scan, Commander. + It''s against my person and my principles. +"I don''t like it any better than you do. Enough people + have played with my brain already this year." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +"Mr. Gray, I''m grateful the Psi Corps give you purpose in life, but when + that purpose includes scanning *my* mind to prove *my* loyalty, it''s not + only an invasion of my privacy, but my honor. As for fear, if you enter + my mind for any reason I will twist your head off and use it for a chamber + pot. If you''ll excuse me." + -- Ivanova to Mr. Gray in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +"Protests are as much useful with the Vorlons + as fairie-wings on a cement-truck." + -- Garibaldi to Colonel Ari Ben Zayn in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +"If I knew who God was, I would thank her." + -- Garibaldi to Ari Ben Zayn in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +"It looks like you and Ben Zayn have something in common." +"What?" +"You were both considered for command of Babylon 5. Now, he was + in the top ten, you were .. well, somewhere below that." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +[Sinclair knocks out Colonel Ben Zayn.] +"I assume the investigation is concluded." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +"Behold. The Ninja ZX-11." +"What have you done?" +"You are not pleased?" +"I said you could work on it a little, not .. *finish* it." +"I do not understand." +"I wanted to build it myself. It was kind of a purpose in my life. + Now it''s .. done." + -- Lennier and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +"Too bad we can''t ride it." +"Oh, it''s quite ridable." +"Don''t tell me you came up with some gas too." +"Gasoline is harmful to both living beings and the atmosphere, + as your people discovered. I have installed a Minbari power + source instead. Clean, and efficient." +"Get out of here." +"Yes. Of course." + -- Garibaldi and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +"And Mr. Bester?" +"Mr. Bester is not the type to come too far out of the shadows + and there are bound to be some questions raised over this." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +[Garibaldi and Lennier driving a motorcycle in the Central Corridor.] +"It''s good to have things back to normal." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" +',' +"Mitchell, stay in formation, it might be a .. Oh my God. + It''s a trap. *Mitchell*!" +"I''ve got a clear shot. I can take him, I can take him." +"Break off!" +"I''m hit. Ejecting. *Aaargh*!" + -- Sinclair and Mitchell in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Commander, we''ve just finished a security scan. + The Minbari''s coming with its gun ports open. + She''s armed for a fight." + -- Corwin to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"We are on a peaceful mission, Commander." +"Then why are your gun ports open?" +"We have no interest in explaining our ways to you." + -- Alyt Neroon and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"You are not being reasonable." +"Fine. It''s my call and I''m making it." + -- Talia Winters and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"You know, Jeff, I can''t believe you are really going to attend the ceremony. + I mean this Branmer guy planned and led the attack on the Line." +"I know, he commanded one of the ships that splashed my team, but the war is + over. At least that''s what I keep telling myself." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Alyt Neroon. I welcome you on behalf of all Minbari on this station. + It is an unhappy journey on which you travel." +"For a warrior there is no other end to the journey." + -- Delenn and Alyt Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"You don''t like it, do you?" +"My preferences are not under discussion, Commander." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Earth Central Data Center" +"Beldon, Alisa" +"Born: 12 July 2244" +"Place of Birth: Los Angeles Incorporated" +"Father: Eliot Beldon, Born: Earth, Assigned to B5 construction 2256, + terminated 2258. Work file closed. No further data." +"Mother: Esparanza Beldon, Maiden name: Pintro, Born: Earth, Deceased 2250, + Cause: Statford''s plague" +"Education: Graduated Malcolm X Elementary Earth 2256, Registered B5 JH + April 2257, Last Attendance March 10 2258, Grade level 3." +"Religion: Obeah" +"Current status: Dependent Minor" +"No further data available." + -- EA Data Display in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"That will suffice for now. These are my *requirements*, Commander." +"This is my station. I don''t take orders here." +"Impetuous. Is this how you reacted on the Line, Commander?" +"This isn''t the Line." +"No. *We* were in control there." + -- Neroon and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"This was the greatest of us. Warrior, leader, the hero of the Line. He + fought with honor, bravery, and with vision. Now, he belongs to the ages." + -- Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"This is a grave offense, Commander. Unforgivable. Minbari warriors are + heedless of their own lives in battle, but the body of a warrior must be + treated with extreme reverence." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"No matter how great the loss, it is not our way to let a single clan + dictate Minbari policy." + -- Delenn to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"There is nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he''s right." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Great general, yes. The last thing he wanted to be. Before he became + a warrior in the Star Riders clan, Branmer was a high priest of the + religious caste. The holy war against Earth forced him to became a war + leader. He was a brilliant tactician. He believed in the rightness + of the war. He fought as if it was a matter of conscience, never + ceased to be a priest in his heart." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"I''m afraid I don''t have a choice. I''ll have to make a deeper inquiry." + -- Garibaldi to a Pak''ma''ra in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Oh, by the way. Do you know what they say Narn taste like?" +"Yeah, chicken. Man, I *really* need a vacation." + -- Dr. Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Stop it. Stop it, both of you. You keep arguing over what you want. + You don''t care about what I want. You don''t even ask." +"All right, Alisa. What *do* you want?" + -- Alisa Beldon and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"For the Minbari psi-ability is considered a gift and their use is + extended as a gift to those who have need for them." +"They are not paid?" +"Only with the high regard of our people. It is not a job, it is a + calling. It is enough for them to be of service." + -- Delenn and Alisa Beldon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Those who wish to help others, to serve others, + are greatly respected within our culture." + -- Delenn to Alisa Beldon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Is there something going on around here by a dead body?" +"Yes, why?" +"I saw something about the body. I know what happened to it." + -- Alisa Beldon and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"You see, a rift between the religious and warrior castes begun when + our warriors were ordered to surrender. If what happened to the body + were to become general knowledge, it would further that rift." + -- Delenn to Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"There is no shame in wanting to honor him, Alyt Neroon. I''ve fought on the + Line against Branmer. I saw his valor and leadership first hand. Because his + body .. disappeared and I .. feel some responsibility toward the Minbari + people. There is no higher testimony to a warrior''s courage and skill than + praise from his enemy. I would like to send that message to your homeworld, + and a personal message; a testimony to the Shai Alyt." + -- Sinclair to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"We fought long enough. Maybe it''s time we started talking with one another." + -- Sinclair to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Branmer''s life was more significant than his battles. Let the warrior + caste praise his courage in the war, and let the rest praise him for + what he truly was: a man of peace." +"You talk like a Minbari, Commander. Perhaps there was some *small* wisdom + in letting your species survive." +"We''d like to think so." +"Until another day, then." + -- Sinclair and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Alisa could become an instrument of great communication between Humans + and Minbari. We suffer a lack there, as you know, Commander." +"The future in exchange for the past. I think that''s very workable." + -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"There was one other thing. A word. ''Chrysalis''. I don''t know what it means." +"It''s a cocoon, I think." + -- Alisa Beldon to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" +',' +"Problem with the transfer tube?" +"No, not really. It seems like every time I get into the tube, Mr. Garibaldi + is there. It''s like he knows." +"Talia, Mr. Garibaldi is many things, but he''s not omniscient." +[Garibaldi appears] +"I think I''ll take the stairs." +"I think I''ll join you." + -- Sinclair and Winters in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"An interesting riddle, Commander. I thought the planet beneath us + was uninhabited." +"That''s what we thought. None of our prior surveys found any sign of + life down there." + -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"Perhaps not now, but in the past, someone or something might have + lived down there." +"If that''s true. It would seem you may have awaken something." + -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"I would suggest that there is a difference between being unreasonable and + being angry. Ambassador G''Kar is *angry* most of the time, but even the + greatest anger fades with time." +"My dear ambassador Delenn, I''m sure that for you this is true, but for G''Kar + and his people; they will all that they can to destroy us, until the + universe itself decays and collapses. If the Narns all stood together in + one place and hated, all at the same time, that hatred could *fly* across + dozens of light-years and reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash. That''s + how much they hate us." + -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"You don''t have to respond unkind." +"Of course we do. There''s a natural law. Physics tells us that for every + action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate + them, they hate us back. And so, here we are: victims of mathematics." + -- Sinclair and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"He never listens." +"He will, sooner or later." +"How can you be sure?" +"Because the alternative is too terrible to consider. Without the hope + that things will get better, that our inheriters will know a world that + is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless, and evolution is + vastly overrated. Good day, Commander." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"Incorrect answer. The third principle of sentient life is the capacity + for self-sacrifice, the conscious ability to override evolution and + self-preservation for a cause, a friend, a loved one." + -- Draal to Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"It has been too long, Delenn. You have forgotten your training. + Soon you will have forgotten all about your old friend, Draal." +"Not if I live to be a thousand and one." + -- Draal and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"A curious answer from one who taught me that + a half truth is the worst kind of lie." + -- Delenn to Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"If you can''t get through, how I''m--" +"The Psi Corps has an intelligence and training operation in Syria Planum." +"How did you know about the center? That''s supposed to be classified." +"It is, but it has never stopped me before." + -- Talia and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"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. .. Civilians! [Looks up] I was just kidding about + the God part -- no offense." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"It''s also a potential first-contact situation. I''d say we pretty much + have to go down there and check it out. Wouldn''t you agree, Lt.Commander?" +"Absolutely." + -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"Ah, Mr. Garibaldi, off duty I see. Ahm. Water, fascinating! + I *never* touch the stuff myself." + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"Suddenly, I looked up and this beautiful dancer is leaning down over the + stage, and looking right into my eyes. And she said: ''Whatever it is, + it can''t be that bad.'' And then she kissed me, right here." + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"Mr. Garibaldi. Whatever it is, it can''t be that bad." +"You try to kiss me and I''ll break your arm." +"We are not that close, Mr. Garibaldi." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. + It''s a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it." + -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +[Sinclair throws a rock to a laser defense system] +"Well, that''ll cut down on tourism." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"Commander?" +"Yeah?" +"I think I''ve gotta go to the bathroom." +"Tell me about it." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"I rather enjoyed the song." +"Don''t tell him." +"You''re sure?" +"Trust me." + -- Draal and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"They''re not happy about you knowing about the center either." +"Well, it''s an imperfect universe." + -- Talia and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"Help me, or your people, *all* your people will die. + You must help me." + -- Varn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"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." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" +',' +"Like my granddad used to say: ''Nuke them until they glow and shoot + them in the dark.'' That''ll take care of them, just like magic." +"Magic? Want to see magic? I''ve got a little magic trick for you." + -- Mars Hater and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"But it didn''t work, did it? Because you can''t get near the planet''s + surface without a properly encoded jamming device." +"What? Why wasn''t I informed?" +"You didn''t ask." +"Commander, I demand you turn over this jamming device at once." +"It''s being repaired, but I''ll see what I can do. Babylon Control out." + -- Sinclair and Pierce in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"Commander, we didn''t use a jamming device. + We don''t even *have* a jamming device." +"I know, but he doesn''t know that." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"So, if we go down there, it blows. If we don''t it blows anyway, + just a little later. It''s a good thing I''m russian, we''re used to + hopeless situations." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"You did find something down there, didn''t you? Something valuable perhaps. + I wish to remind you that my government has contributed substantial amounts + of money to this station. We are entitled to an equal share of *anything* + you find down there." + -- Londo to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"Ambassador. Do you really want to know what''s going on down there right now?" +"Yes, absolutely." +"Boom. Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom. *BOOM*! Have a nice day." + -- Ivanova and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"No. You. Help. Planet below. Do not land. Do not approach. Will explode. + Destroy you .. all. Without the heart. Without another." + -- Varn to Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"Babylon 5 Public Archive: Earth English" +"Subject More Melancholy Uxorious" +"Hell Mutilate Suppose Erupt" +"Orak Forbin Nomad Skynet" +"Baby Elephant Zoom Chickpea" +"Humble Squeeze Impress Starchy" +"Human Metaphor Similar Larch" +"Sourdough Hardly Mcauliffe Light" +"Assert Chocolate Special Rumor" +"Hole Upbeat Buzzards South" +"Gasket Sack Ironic Epoch" +"Gelding Apathy Uniform Religion" +"Rubber Easy Stringy Love" +"Each Compress Slip Canonical" +"Eye Inability Clothes Middle" +"Am Uterous Hold Cartridge" +"Knot Nod Receptive Copyright" +"A Stringer Ligate Caught" +"Number Complete Scrim Whalebone" +"Aye Mutilate Canon Webbed" +"Ama Respite Floor Cuprous" +"Free Prime Frank Scrim" +"Man Plaintiff Suspicious Aloud" +"Scribble Dichotomy Atom Trigger" +"Cricket Modify Unreal Fauna" +"Mallet Oscillate Jowl Obsession" + -- B5 Public Archive in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +[about Captain Ellis Pierce] +"Worst case of testosterone poisoning I have ever seen." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"No. Outcast. Violent. My people cast them out centuries ago. Signal was + not meant for them. Was put here to hide from them. Given to me when the + rest of my people died. Sacred trust, legacy for the future. I am guardian, + protector. I live in the heart of the machine. We are one. 500 of your + years have I waited in the machine." + -- Varn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"Please, you must stop them. Do not let them take the machine. + It''s not for them. It''s not for this time." + -- Varn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"You know what Varn meant by ''another'', don''t you?" +"Yes. Varn could not ask it, could not say the words. But it was in his + eyes. He''s probably forbidden to ask directly. But the answer is there + if you had ears to hear it." + -- Delenn and Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"Now, landing thrusters.. landing thrusters, hmm. Now if I were a + landing thruster, which one of these would I be?" + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"There is no other way. Please believe me. All my life I''ve searched for a + way to serve others. To me there is no higher calling, no greater destiny + than to live for another, and if necessary, to die for another. To somehow + make the world a better place. I''ve done all I could on my world. I came + looking for a reason, a way to live out my remaining years with direction + and purpose. Here I''ve found it. I will save lives." + -- Draal to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"I am sending this message to all three parties involved in the struggle for + the control of this planet. It belongs to none of you. It belongs only to + itself .. and to the future. Commander Sinclair, the secrets buried here + must remain secrets. They would give any race an advantage over all others, + thus it is in the interest of all races that *none* should gain exclusive + control of it. We entrust the safekeeping of this place to the Babylon 5 + Advisory Council. We will rely upon your guidance, Commander, and the + enlightened self-interest of the Council to make sure that this world is + left alone until the time is right." + -- Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"The third principle of sentient life is it''s capacity for self-sacrifice. + For a cause, a loved one, for a friend." + -- Delenn to Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"Why didn''t you come to us, and let us handle it?" +"Because if I had, I know in my heart that Commander Sinclair would be + the one down there right now. He''s looking for a purpose. But his destiny + lies elsewhere." + -- Garibaldi and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"Franz? What the hell kind of a name is Franz?" + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" +',' +"God I hate mornings." +"We noticed. Personally I find it the best part of the day." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"We all have our cross to bear." +"The time I learned to really appreciate mornings was during the three years + I spent being taught by Jesuits. We used to get up at five o''clock every + morning for sunrise mass, then one hour of meditation before class. We''d + sit, quiet, in peace. Breathing in, breathing out. Breathing in, breathing + out. Breathing in, breathing out." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"I''ll notify your next of kin." + -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Some things one must do alone." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Well, Commander, it''s hard to explain. There''s no damage to the body, + no shock, no trauma. Everything points to death by natural causes." +"So, why is that hard to explain?" +"Because in this case the natural cause was old age." + -- Garibaldi and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"B4 as in Babylon 4?" +"Well, I can''t figure out why. B4 vanished without a trace over + four years ago. I don''t get it." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Earth Alliance Vessel ID Archive" +"Babylon 4: 0010835-081677" + -- Babylon 4 Vessel ID in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"This is nuts. The station just doesn''t disappear and reappear + four years later like some kind of a flying Dutchman." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"You''re so serious all the time. Not every conversation has to be + the end of the world as we know it." + -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"[sigh] Fasten, then zip. You?" +"Fasten, zip!" + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"How much longer?" +"One hour, fifty-seven minutes. .. Wanna talk socks?" +"No!" +"It''s just a question." +"I''m not having this conversation." + -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Summoned, I come. In Valen''s name I take the place that has been prepared + for me. I''m Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. + We stand between the darkness .. and the light." + -- Delenn in Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"It has been ten cycles since Dukhat has left this world to take his place + with Valen and the nine who were. Ten cycles since our people have had a + leader. The time of mourning is complete. We must now choose another." + -- A Grey Council Member to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"My calling is to serve, not to lead." + -- Delenn to Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Prophecy will attend to itself." + -- Grey Council Spokesman to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Commander, they''ve broken through level seven and eight! + Can''t stop them, they''re everywhere." +"Garibaldi!" +"Look, I''ve rigged the fusion reactors but there''s not much time. Get + going, I''ll hold them as long as I can. Move it! Come on, this isn''t a + conversation. Jeff, it''s okay, I finally understand. This is the moment + I was born for. Now go. Go!" + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"I wish to reconvene the Council. I must speak to them." +"That has *never* been done! .. But, if it were to be done at all, + this is as good and as bad a time as any." + -- Delenn and A Grey Council Member in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Oh. Not the one, no." +"Not the one what?" +"Not the one. Won''t talk. Can''t talk. Not the one. They told me, they did. + Zathras listens, he does, yes. Zathras listens and does what he''s told." + -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"The One is hurt. Must find. Zathras must find help." +"What are you doing here?" +"*Need* this place. Need this. Used to fight. They told Zathras, + biggest of all Babylon stations we need. Needing we take. There is + no more to telling." + -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Zathras tells, maybe we don''t break Zathras'' scrawny little neck." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Great War. Terrible War. There is much killings. Everyone fighting. + A great darkness. It is the end of everything. Zathras warned but, oh no, + no one listened to poor Zathras, no. Great War, but great hope of peace. + Need place. Place to gather, to fight, to organize." +"You need Babylon 4 as a base of operations in a war, is that it?" +"To help save galaxy, on the side of light. So they tell me. Must have. + Or it is the end of all. The One leads us. The One tells us to go, we go. + We live for the One. We would die for the One. We pull this place through + time to save us all." + -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Much apologizing. Mathematics not Zathras'' skill." + -- Zathras to Major Krantz in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"They fight, they argue, they are ruled by passions and fears." +"Yes, and that is their strength. They do not seek conformity. They do not + surrender. Out of their differences comes symmetry, the unique capacity + to fight against impossible odds. Hurt them .. and they only come back + stronger. The passions we deplore have taken them to their place in the + stars and will propel them to a great destiny. Their only weakness is that + they do not recognize their own greatness. They forget that they have come + to this place through two million years of evolution, struggle and blood. + That they are better than they think, and nobler than they know. They carry + within them the capacity to walk among the stars, like giants. They are the + future. And we have much to learn from them." + -- Grey Council and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"What happens to you when it jumps?" +"Zathras die. But Zathras die for cause. Maybe stop great war. Maybe Zathras + great hero. Maybe build statue to Zathras. Others come, remember Zathras." + -- Krantz and Zathras in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, + Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras." + -- Zathras to Major Louis Krantz in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Zathras does not want to die. But if it is the only way, + then Zathras dies. It is life." + -- Zathras to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"I don''t understand you Michael. We have got a good life here, we''ve got + history. You have met this Sinclair twice and now you are off to + Babylon 5, just like that. Doesn''t what we have mean anything to you?" + -- Lise Hampton to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Go. You must. Listen to Zathras. You have a destiny. + Go. Please. Go for Zathras." + -- Zathras to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"I tried. I tried to warn them. But it all happened, + just the way I remembered." +"I know. It''s time. We have to go. They are waiting for us." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"These are curious times, Delenn. I feel a great change in my bones. A new + beginning, an end, I can not say. We are surrounded by signs and portents. + And I feel a darkness pressing on our backs. If ever you have needed me, + I am here. Now, Valen go with you and light your way." + -- Delenn''s friend to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"Great, and I missed it." +"Not necessarily, Lt.Commander. We don''t know where Babylon 4 was going, + or when it was going. Who knows, it may show up again sometime." +"Well, if it does, this time *I''m* going and Garibaldi is staying here." + -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" +',' +"I hardly know anything about you." +"From birth I was raised in the temple and studied the ways of the + religious caste. Six months ago I came here. There is nothing else." + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"Reading is no substitute for experience." + -- Londo to Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"I will show you the Babylon 5 that *I* know. You will find that a + revelation of the highest order." +"I don''t know, Ambassador." +"Oh, my good *dear* friend. Trust me!" + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"Next! We start by removing your clothes." +"Not without dinner and flowers." + -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"That''s why I didn''t tell you." +"I don''t like having to hear about this in the grapevine, doctor. I''m in + charge of station operations. This is a station and *this* is certainly + for operations." + -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"Spacing is only invoked under conditions of mutiny or treason. For the + crime of murder, there are only three penalties legally open to us." + -- Ombuds Wellington in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"I don''t want to do this again. I was inside a killer''s mind before, + on the Mars colony. There''s gotta be another way." + -- Talia to Ombuds Wellington in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"It works all right. It restores, renews, envigorates. It is good for + ailments of the flesh, the blood and the bone." + -- Laura Rosen to Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"Here, my friend, *here* you will *see* the heart and soul of Babylon 5. + Also, its spleen, its kidnies, a veritable parade of internal organs. + Sit. Sit." + -- Londo to Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"There''s no alcohol in here, is there?" +"Alcohol? No, of course not. Here, drink up." +"Because my people do not react well at all to alcohol. Even a small + quantity causes psychotic impulses and violent, homicidal rages." + -- Lennier and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"All her life the only thing that mattered to my mother was being a doctor, + a healer. She worked days, nights, weekends, but she could never keep up + with it all so she .. started taking stims to stay up nights working. + Pretty soon she was taking them all the time. She was addicted. She + wouldn''t admit it and she wouldn''t listen to anyone. Until one day she + made a mistake. .. Someone died." +"I''m sorry." +"When they took away her license, they took away her reason for living." + -- Janice Rosen and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"So, you''re going to walk around my head, eh? I''d think twice if I were + you. Something might just jump out of the shadows and bite you." + -- Karl Edward Mueller to Talia in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"How many? How many?" +"How many worlds are there? How many banquets? How many flowers waiting to + be harvested? How many new voices waiting to be recruited into my choir?" + -- Talia and Karl Mueller in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"Interesting. Do you know that the odds of this particular + combination are 5000 to 1 against?" +"Lennier!" +"Yes, Londo?" +"Stop that." +"Ah, does that mean I won again?" + -- Lennier and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"Hrm. Is it cold in here, or is it just me?" +"Actually, the temperature appears to be quite moderate." + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"You heard Mr. Garibaldi. You did the right thing." +"Darling, I did the *necessary* thing. That is not + always the same as the right thing." + -- Janice and Laura Rosen in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"I''m still waiting for an explanation, gentlemen." +"Yes, and I''m prepared to give you one, Commander, as soon as the + room stops spinning." +"This station creates gravity by rotation. It never stops spinning." +"Well, you begin to see my problem." + -- Sinclair and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"Why?" +"In Minbari culture we are taught that it is an honor to help + another save face." +"But Delenn?" +"Will know better, but will not inquire out of respect. + Good day, Ambassador." + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"Yes, it''s true. Yes. Here, Li, Goddess of passion, a synthesis of + male and female Centauri. Did you think these were just decorations?" +"I''m going to take a vow of silence concerning this entire conversation. + Good day." + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"They are a strange people, .. but they''re okay." + -- Londo to Li about Minbari in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"The first thing is to *study* it to find out how and why it works. + And who knows, it might be able to preserve someone''s life when nothing + else works. Volunteers, who donate a little life energy the way people + used to donate blood before synthetics were perfected." + -- Franklin to Laura Rosen in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" +',' +"Our patrols are necessary for Narn planetary security." +"Keep this up, G''Kar and soon you won''t have a planet to protect." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"You''ve gotta stop them. They''re gonna kill him. They''re gonna kill him." + -- Petrov to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Must''ve been something *really* big to make him come all this way hurting + like that. The last thing he said was: ''They''re going to kill him.''" +"Kill who?" +"I don''t know. But I''m gonna find out." + -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"--after which the president and his escort left the Mars colony on a good + will tour of the outer planet colonies. Sources close to the president have + hinted that he''ll give a major policy speech new year''s day from the jump + point on Io. The speech is likely to concern human-alien relations over the + remainder of his five year term." + -- ISN in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"So, now with the new year coming I''ve been going over it in my head, + and-- Look, do you want to get married or don''t you?" +"Yes." + -- Sinclair and Sakai in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Vir, how many gods are there in our pantheon? I''ve lost count + since the last emperor was elevated to godhood. +"48. No, no, 49, 50 if you count Zuug but, you know, I never thought + you should--" +"All right, let''s say 50." +"50." +"Now out of that 50, how many gods do you think *I* must have offended to + have ended up with G''Kar''s teeth buried so deeply in my throat that I + can barely breathe?" +"All of them?" +"Sounds right. And now I have to go back to the Council and explain to + them that in the interest of peace the Centauri government will agree + to *give* quadrant 37 to the Narns. I think I will stick my head in the + station''s fusion reactor. It would be quicker. And I suspect, after a + while I might even come to enjoy it. But this .. this, this, this is + like being nibbled to death by .. what are those Earth creatures + called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet .. go ''quack''?" +"Cats." +"Cats. I''m being nibbled to death by *cats*." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Did you see ambassador Kosh?" +"I did." +"Did you relay my question precisely, word for word." +"I did." +"His reaction?" +"Just one word. He said: ''Yes.''" + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Mr. Morden. You never gave me a chance to thank you after you rescued + the Eye from those triple-damn raiders." +"Unnecessary, I''m here to be of service, Ambassador. My associates believe + that you are a person of great potential." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what + you see is all that you''ll ever be. Then you accept it .. or you kill + yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors. No, nothing can be changed." + -- Londo to Morden in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"And you don''t want credit for this grand endeavour?" +"No. We''re simply here to help. Good day, Ambassador." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Yes. Thank you. Now I will keep the promise. + Goodbye. You will not see me again .. as I am now." + -- Delenn to Kosh in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Big mistake, hot-shot. You shouldn''t poke around in things you + don''t understand. This is too big for you." +"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I''m shaking in my boots." + -- Devereaux and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Is there something wrong with your hearing?" +"No, just for a moment I thought I had entered an alternate universe + or such. Ambassador, are you sure you are *feeling* all right?" +"Vir. I''m quite sober." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"I''m afraid the Ambassador is resting. He is rather fatigued from his + *heavy* schedule. Perhaps if you came back-- .. I believe the Ambassador + can see you now." + -- Na''Toth to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"In order to be free you had to learn to fight. No one questions that. + But you''ve overcompensated. You are like abused children who have grown + big enough to do the same thing to someone else as if it would somehow + balance the scales. It won''t. If you let the anger cloud your judgement, + it will destroy you." + -- Sinclair to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Just that I''ve had this feeling lately. That we are standing at a + crossroads, and I don''t like where we''re going. But there''s still time + to choose another path. You can be part of that process, G''Kar. Choose + wisely. Not just for the Centauri but for the good of your own people + as well." +"We''ll all do what we have to do." + -- Sinclair and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"So, what''s the occasion?" +"Who says there has to be an occasion to invite you to join us for dinner?" +"I didn''t get to be a head of security for my good looks." + -- Garibaldi and Sakai in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"What''s the frequency on that transmitter?" +"Can''t make it out." +"Here, let me see that. 1010105? That''s the Gold channel frequency for + Earth Force One. Why would someone want to jam president''s.. Oh my god!" + -- Garibaldi and Jack in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Come to my quarters and I''ll tell you as much as I can. .. + But don''t wait too long, Commander. Some things have been + set in motion. And I do not have much time." + -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Ten thousand of our best warriors dead. As if some great hand reached out + of space and .. just erased them." +"It wasn''t the Humans. The Centauri don''t have the will. And the Vorlons + don''t care. The Minbari wouldn''t do it. The other worlds aren''t powerful + enough for a strike like this. .. There''s someone else out there, Na''Toth." + -- Na''Toth and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Are you sure there''s no other way?" +"What must happen will happen. Valen said this day would come. + Were we to stand in the way of prophecy?" +"But.. What if you are wrong?" +"Then speak well of me when I''m gone." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"All I''m getting is a recorded message from the tachion relay station + from Proxima." + -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Ambassador. You wanted to see me." +"Yes. What have you done?" +"Only what you asked me to do. You had a problem with quadrant 37, + we took care of it for you." +"Yes, but you killed ten thousand Narns!" +"I didn''t know you cared. Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, + what''s the difference? They are Narns, Ambassador, your sworn enemy." + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"And so it begins. You have forgotten something." + -- Kosh to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Lennier?" +"You are too late." +"What is it?" +"A chrysalis. She is .. changing." +"Into what?" +"I don''t know." + -- Sinclair and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"And one more thing. Tell the commander .. he was right. We *were* at + a crossroads, and there is no going back. Expect me .. when you see me." + -- G''Kar [recording] to Na''Toth in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Yes. I think he''s ready. He''s perfect for our needs. No. No. He suspects + *nothing*. And when the time is right, Ambassador Mollari will do exactly + as we wish. Destiny is on *our* side." + -- Morden to his associates in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"Nothing''s the same anymore." + -- Sinclair to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" +',' +"I can only conclude that I''m paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"Lieutenant Commander. This may be breaking the chain of command, but I have + some news and I felt I should deliver that news myself. Your commanding + officer, commander Sinclair will not be returning to Babylon 5. He''s being + reassigned, permanently." + -- General William Hague to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"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." + -- Captain John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"So, she''s done it, hasn''t she. She''s in there. We told her to wait. + Prophesy will attend to itself, we told her. Now we are committed to + the path." + -- Hedronn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"What''s our status?" +"Chief of security is in critical condition in medlab. He thinks there''s + a conspiracy concerning the president''s death. Ambassador G''Kar has + mysteriously vanished. After two years we still don''t know what Ambassador + Kosh looks like inside his encounter suit. And Ambassador Delenn is in a + cocoon." +"A cocoon? As in a moth or a butterfly?" +"Yes, sir. About yea high." +"Interesting place you have here." + -- Captain Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"And this will be your quarters. I hope it''s satisfactory." +"It''s fine, fine. Certainly a lot bigger than what I''m used to. Does this + place come with a shower? I mean, a real live honest-to-god shower with + running water and everything?" +"Executive suites and command quarters all have showers with live + honest-to-god water. The rest get vibe showers. Our water reclamation + system can''t handle much more than that." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"They tell us *Sinclair* is now on our world." +"He''s an ambassador." +"So you say. But the Grey Council never tells anyone the whole truth, + does it." + -- Kalain and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"Well, the human body is an amazing thing. It can cure itself, or it + can simply decide one day that the world is too painful to deal with + and won''t cooperate no matter how hard you try to heal it." + -- Franklin to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"If you are going to kill me, then do so. Otherwise, + I have considerable work to do." + -- Lennier to Kalain in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"Ambassador Delenn is indisposed at the moment. Perhaps you would + come back later, *much* later." + -- Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"They fight bravely. They can not harm our ships, but they continue to try." +"Whether they fight or not, they know they will die anyway. So, really, is + this bravery or simple desperation?" +"Perhaps they are the same thing." + -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"We should bring one of them aboard for questioning. If our next step + is a final assault on their world, we must know their defenses." +"Very well, Delenn. Choose. But quickly. We are fast running out + of candidates." +"That one." + -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"It is our belief that every generation of Minbari is reborn in each + following generation. Remove those souls and the whole suffers. We are + diminished. Over the last 2000 years there have been fewer Minbari born + into each generation. And those who are born.. do not seem equal to those + who came before. It is almost as if our greater souls have been .. + disappearing." + -- Lennier to Sheridan & Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"And I thought *I* was a pessimist!" + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"I spoke with the president. He is the only other human who knows why the + Minbari surrendered. He doesn''t believe the stuff about our sharing of + Minbari souls, and I can''t say that I do either. But they [Minbari] believe + it." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"I learned a while ago that there''s enough guilt in the world to go around + without grabbing for more. Give yourself benefit of a doubt." + -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"I told them, Delenn, as I was ordered. I only wish I could''ve told them the + rest. About the great enemy that is returning. About the prophesy that the + two sides of our spirit must unite against the darkness or be destroyed. + They say it will take both of our races to stop the darkness." + -- Lennier in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"Five minutes to spare." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" +',' +"DANGER + Biohazard + DANGER" + -- A sign in a transport ship in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"Warning: Hazardous materials storage facility" + -- A sign in a transport ship in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"Caution: Magnetic surfaces" + -- A sign in a transport ship in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"Ambassador Delenn remains indisposed." +"''Indisposed''! She''s in a cocoon!" +"Yes?" + -- Lennier and Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"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 about G''Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"The destruction of the Narn base in quadrant 37 is drawing quite + a lot of attention." +"Yes, that was the intent." +"And you are absolutely certain that it can not be traced back to me?" +"Oh, beyond a shadow of a doubt." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"Yes. But what happens if I may ask for another of these .. little + demonstrations?" +"Then we''ll provide it. Simply choose your target. A colony, an outpost.." +"Why don''t you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you''re at it?" +"One thing at a time, Ambassador. One thing at a time." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"It''s better you are running it and someone else is at this end." +"He''s my patient." +"When I took over B5, he became my responsibility. I don''t think losing + my head of security two weeks into the job will look good in my resume." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"Weep for the future, Na''Toth. Weep for us all." +"Are you all right?" +"I have looked into the darkness, Na''Toth. You can not do that and never be + quite the same again. When you told me about the destruction of our base at + quadrant 37, I knew that only a major power could attempt an assault of that + magnitude. But none of the governments here could''ve done it. Which left + only two possibilites: a new race, or an old race. A very old race." + -- G''Kar to Na''Toth in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"G''Quan spoke of a great war long ago, against an enemy so terrible it + nearly overwhelmed the stars themselves. G''Quan said that before the + enemy was thrown down, it dwelled in a system at the rim of known space. + I searched for days, going from one system to another. Then, on dark + deserted worlds, where there should be no life, where no living thing + has walked in over thousand years, something is moving, gathering its + forces, quietly, quietly, hoping to go unnoticed. We must warn the + others, Na''Toth. After a thousand years, the darkness has come again." + -- G''Kar to Na''Toth in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"Mollari, the grievances between my people and yours will never be + resolved except with Centauri blood. Accept that as a given." +"Well it''s good to know we''re appreciated." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"But there may be some dangers that threaten both our peoples, not to mention + the Minbari, the Earthers, the League and everyone else around here. Except + possibly the Vorlons, I don''t know what could threaten them, really." + -- G''Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"Is she still alive?" +"*That* is a very good question." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"I am not ill, doctor. What I .. have become, what I suffer, + requires you .. alone." + -- Delenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"What .. am I? What *am* I?" + -- Delenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"I trusted you. I taught you everything I knew. I gave you every break. + I even treated you like my own brother. Why? My god." +"I got my instructions." +"From who?" +"There''s a new order coming back home, Garibaldi. You can either be part + of it or you can be stepped on; a winner or a loser. I''m with the side + that''s going to win." +"Homeguard?" +"Homeguard? They''re a bunch of misfits. You really don''t have a clue, + do you, Garibaldi?" +"Look, if I were you, I''d start talking straight, because right now + you''re in a whole world of trouble." +"You don''t even know what trouble is. But you''re going to find out, + real soon." + -- Garibaldi and Jack in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"Hey, Garibaldi. Be seeing you." + -- Jack to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"Ambassador Sinclair has been allowed to live on my world as an act of + good faith to create a greater understanding between the Minbari and + humans. In return I have undergone this .. change with the blessings + of my government so that I may become a bridge between our worlds in + the hope that we will never know war between us again." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Revelations" +',' +"What the hell kind of a security chief am I supposed to be if I can''t + see something like that?" +"You can''t be expected to know everything." +"Yes I can. I could''ve known and I should''ve known. And now, I .. I just + don''t know if I''m any damn use to anybody anymore. I keep asking myself + what qualifies me to take back my job and .. I haven''t got an answer. + I wish the hell I did." + -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"What you are asking could be considered treason." +"Or the first step in restoring our people to their rightful place in the + galaxy. Depending on who writes the history books. I think it will be us." + -- Londo and Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"I''ve decided that it is time for you to start learning the fine art of + diplomacy. You can handle the low priority conflicts. It would help me + focus on the other problems. Besides, added responsibility comes with + any promotion. I know it''s annoying and inconvenient, but--" +"Did you say ''promotion''?" +"Yes, would you like some juice? It''s fresh from the hydroponic garden. + I told them to leave the pulp in. That''s the best part. Don''t you think, + *Commander*?" + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"Vir, do you believe in fate?" +"Well, actually, I believe there are currents in the Universe. Eddies and + tides that pull us one way or the other. Some we have to fight, some we + have to embrace. Unfortunately, the currents that we have to fight look + exactly like the currents we have to embrace. The currents that we *think* + are the one that''s gonna make us stronger, they are the ones that are going + to destroy us. And the ones that we think are going to destroy us, they are + the ones that are going to make us stronger. Now, the other current--" +"*Vir*! Yes or no?" +"Yes! You know, somewhat, why?" + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"The Universe doesn''t give you any points for doing things that are easy." + -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"You don''t frighten easily." +"I work for Ambassador Mollari. After a while nothing bothers you." + -- Elric and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"There''s an old saying: ''Do not try the patience of wizards for they + are subtle and quick to anger.''" + -- Elric to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"You will have to wear a cast. And it''s gonna hurt." +"Swell. Ouch." +"I can give you something for the pain." +"Oh, great, *now* you can give me something for the pain. Where were + you when I was going through puberty?" + -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"I have absolute trust in your abilities, Commander." +"Well, that''s a hell of a thing to tell someone. Hah! + No pressure, fine. Fine." + -- Sheridan and Cmdr Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"Londo, they are going away. Money doesn''t matter to them. + Power doesn''t matter to them." +"Money and power always matter." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"Look, we bought a cake, al''right. It''s been sitting there for two days now." +"Are you kidding me? You pass up a cake for two days? What''s the deal? + What''ve you done with the real Lou Welch, huh? Hey, security! Security, + over here! We''ve got another guy with a changeling net." + -- Lou Welch and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"I do think there are some things we don''t understand. If we''d be back in + time a thousand years, trying to explain this place to people, they could + only accept it in terms of magic." +"Then perhaps it *is* magic. The magic of the human heart, focused and + made manifest by technology. Every day you here create greater miracles + than a burning bush." + -- Captain Sheridan and Elric in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of + laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations + of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things." + -- Elric to Captain Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall + in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain, or to + say goodbye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor, how to be rich, how + to rediscover dream the world has stolen from you." + -- Elric to Captain Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"There is a storm coming up, black and terrible storm." + -- Elric to Captain Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"I''m here to sell you something to make your life easier, cleaner, and + all-around happier. Yes, sir, the ACME handy, dandy, micro helper, + right here in this box." + -- Garibaldi to a Drazi guard in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"I have to find a way to *stop* this." +"You could always .. apologize." +"Apologize? *Never*!" +"Congratulations. You are now the owner of 500''000 shares of + Fireflies Incorporated." +"On the other hand.." + -- Londo, Vir and Computer in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"Rules of combat older than contact with other races. Did not mention + aliens. Rules change caught up in committee. Not come through yet." + -- Former Green Leader in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"I don''t trust anybody. When somebody tells me we''ve got a message from + Ivanova, I don''t believe until I get it from her point blank." +"So, in other words you are perfect for the job. Because you are paranoid + and compulsive." +"Or compulsively paranoid." +"Who told you to say that?" + -- Garibaldi,Sheridan,Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"Now, if I may ask, does this torment end when you leave, or am I going to + have to spend the rest of my life paying for one little mistake?" +"Oh, I''m afraid you have to spend the rest of your life paying for your + mistakes. *Not* this one of course, it''s trivial, I have withdrawn the + spell, but there will be others." +"What are you talking about?" +"You are touched by darkness, Ambassador. I see it as a blemish that will + grow with time. I could warn you of course, but you would not listen. + I could kill you, but someone would take your place. So I do the only + thing I can, I go." + -- Londo and Elric in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"Well take this for what little it will profit you. 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." +"My followers?" +"Your victims." + -- Elric and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" +',' +"John, she''s Minbari?" +"A-ha." +"She doesn''t look like one. I mean, she does, but she doesn''t. + I mean, what''s the deal?" +"We''re still trying to figure that one out. There''s the story she + told us, but then, the Minbari never tell you the whole truth." + -- Captain Jack Maynard and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +',' +"People don''t eat right. Skipped meals, eat strange things at + odd hours. I mean, *someone* has to look after your health." +"Okay, fine. Diet." +"No no no no. Food plan." +"Got it." + -- Dr. Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +',' +"Well, it wasn''t in hyperspace though. But you know, things can get kind of + weird out on the Rim too. It''s funny. You never know what you''re gonna find + when you look over the edge of what''s known and into what''s not. + We were in sector 857, and I took my nav. officer, Lt. Patrick with me + for a lookaround in one of our scoutships." +"And?" +"Well, I noticed that we''d gotten out of sight of the Cortez and I was .. + I was just about ready to turn back when I saw something. Maybe a thousand + kilometers away, black against space. Now, the reason that I know it was + there is that it blotted out the stars behind it. I don''t know the exact + shape of it, but .. it was *big*. I turned to Pat, asked if he could see + it, and when I looked back, it had vanished." + -- Captain Jack Maynard and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +',' +"10 pounds?" +"Well, a 10-pound gain isn''t too bad, but you could afford to lose it. + Here''s a list of foods I want you to avoid. No meat, low fat. Lots of + vegetables." +"Rabbit food." +"Well, it''s only for a little while, Captain. We''ll get those 10 pounds + off in no time." +"Who''s ''we''?" +"Well, a doctor and his patient are a team, Captain, don''t you agree?" +"Sure. And since we''re a team, why don''t you do the diet part." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +',' +"I am more ''one of us'' at this moment than I have ever been. + More than you will ever know." + -- Delenn to Teronn in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +',' +"If everything is satisfactory, Doctor, I''ll be returning to my duties." +"Just one last thing, Commander. I worked out this food plan for you." +"Are you telling me to go on a diet? I''ll have you know I don''t have an + ounce of fat in my body. I exercise vigorously once a day despite my + injury, and--" +"When you do eat, you don''t eat enough of the right things. You have + deficiencies in calsium, iron and several other minerals. And it''s + hampering your recovery. Now, I recommend iron supplements, and an + increased diet.. food plan, to replenish you system." +"I''ll gain weight!" +"Well, briefly, yes." +"Figures. All my life I''ve fought against imperialism. Now, suddenly + I *am* the expanding Russian frontier." +"But with very nice borders." + -- Ivanova and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +',' +"An old friend of mine once quoted me an ancient Egyptian blessing: + ''God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.''" + -- Sheridan to Zeta Squadron in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +',' +"Universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy places, + but they are right. Wherever we are, it''s the right place .. and the right + time. Pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of constantly being + born." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +',' +"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." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +',' +"Ever had a long talk with ambassador Delenn, Commander?" +"Yes, from time to time. Why?" +"She and the universe .. seem to have a special relationship." +"Don''t we all?" + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" +',' +"Judgement Day is coming and it don''t care what you look like and I + have seen it. An army of darkness, soldiers of the devil, or something + like that. We are all in great *danger*, that barks upon this station." + -- Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +"Now, unless you have a class C missionary license, it''s time for little R&R." + -- Garibaldi to Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +"You were about to accuse the Centauri Ambassador of being in league + with the devil, which may not be far from the truth." + -- Garibaldi to Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +"What else have I missed?" +"Noh. The usual. The good times, and the bad times, the revelations, the + revolutions. Outbreaks of hysteria, the parade of scandals, promises, + constitutions, and the occasional war. The last big ones were against the + Dilgar, which we won, and against the Minbari, which.. Well, that''s a + long story." + -- Mariah Cirrus and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +"And we still haven''t outgrown violence?" +"No. It''s gonna take a lot more than a hundred years + to evolve a better human." + -- Mariah Cirrus and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +"Take my advice and go back to the time you came from. + The future isn''t what it used to be." + -- G''Kar to Mariah Cirrus in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +"You are all gonna die. A soldier of darkness has come on that ship from the + past. I have seen it. Don''t close your eyes, don''t sleep, it will find you." + -- Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +"The forces of darkness do not move openly. They work *through* others, + *use* others. When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered, + hid themselves away in secret places and waited. Now, the dark hand is + reaching out and recalling them from their sleep." + -- Markab Ambassador in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +"You''ve got a plan?" +"Try not to get killed." +"Brilliant." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +"These PPG''s don''t do much more than sting it. Prowls around hurt for a while + and comes back stronger." +"Well, one bee sting may be an annoyance, but a hundred of them can kill you." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +"You said the ship was reprogrammed to a new destination. + So where was it going?" +"It was heading for the Rim. To the exact place where ambassador + G''Kar told us an ancient enemy was gathering its forces." +"Z''ha''dum." +"You think it''s a coincidence?" +"A few weeks ago I probably would''ve said ''yes''. But now, ''no''. + Something is going on, Commander." +"I know. Between you and me, it''s scaring the hell out of me." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" +',' +[a problem in the ambassadorial section] +"I''ll handle it." +"Help is on the way. Hah! It''s good to be the Captain." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"These are volatile times, Captain. Practicalities are more + important than principles if lives are to be saved." + -- Sen. Elise Voudreau to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"Someone''s been lying to you, Captain." +"Or to you." +"I''m a telepath." +"Telepaths are human beings." + -- Winters and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"I''ll arrange for an escort." +"One escort, at your service." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi to Winters in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"Command?" +"Code Alfa 66 Zeta 3." + -- Abel Horn in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"Control states Ms. Winters could jeopardize mission. + Eliminate her, then continue with phase 2." + -- Control? to Abel Horn in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"Well, you know how I feel about telepaths." +"Do I ever. You threw one out of a third story window on Io." +"There was an ample pool below the window." +"Alas, I assume you knew that." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"And you don''t trust Psi Corps?" +"No. Do you?" +"Telepaths are gifted and cursed in ways I can never hope to understand. + They are still human beings, good, bad, or indifferent. No. I trust in + individuals, not organizations." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"Captain, I sure would like to know where you are going with this?" +"Someplace very dark. I hope to God I''m wrong." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"Earthforce Intelligence I/6538" +"Criminal Record Confirmed" +"Abel Horn is a suspect in over 75 such incidents. In 2252 he was sentenced + to Phobos maximum security outpost for involvement in the computer theft of + over 50 million conglomerate credits. Served 1 year. Then was transferred + to Lunis Planum prison base. He then served 3 months and escaped April 16, + 2253." +"Current Status: Deceased 2258" +"Cause: Died in Mars rebellion" +"Circumstances of Death: Destroyed in outer atmosphere combat skirmish Beta-5 + as a result of plasma burst from Earthforce Star Cruiser Pournelle." +"Death Recorded: by Phobos Outpost 20" + -- Earthforce Intelligence File in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"It''s trickier than you thought." +"Thanks. Mr. Wizard." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"You hurt that lady, I''ll see that it takes you ten days to die." +"I''m already dead, mister security-man." + -- Garibaldi and Abel Horn in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"Is there something?" +"There''s a whole list, but let''s start with how you knew about + the Lazarus project." +"Some people .. collect coins or art. I collect secrets: black projects, + conspiracies, secret organizations. They fascinate me." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"For the past six years there''ve been rumours about a rogue agency operating + deep inside EarthGov. A dirty-trick-squad, dealing in black projects, and + star-chamber justice. It took me three years just to get a name: Bureau 13. + And the man who gave me that name died soon after. I''m convinced they exist + and they are behind this incident." + -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"There''s a spider in the web, Mr. Garibaldi. And I intend to find it + .. and kill it." + -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"13." +"Report from Babylon5 control. Mission only partly successful. Isogi + terminated but unit was destroyed before he could leave station for Mars." +"Is the Bureau at hazard?" +"Control does not believe so." +"Belief is not enough. He is to follow up until he is certain. 13 out." + -- 13 and Control in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" +',' +"It is a *pleasure* to *meet* you. It *is* a pleasure to meet you. + It is a pleasure to meet you." + -- Vir in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"So, what''s the problem?" +"I don''t know. *That''s* the problem." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"What''s he hiding, Vir? Tell me. I won''t bite, Vir." +"With all due respect, Madam, that''s not what I have heard." +"All right. That *one* time." +"Twice." + -- Timov and Vir in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Believe me, Vir, if you knew her as I do, you wouldn''t miss her a bit." +"Oh, Timov, Timov. Why do you always try to draw me into your little + *verbal* fencing matches?" +"Because I don''t have a real sword handy." + -- Timov and Daggair in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Commander, I want you to understand. I aqcuired human characteristics to + bring your people and mine closer together. To symbolise our mutuality. + It is supposed to be a dignified and inspiring position for both Humans + and Minbari. So, will you please explain to me why this.. *this* ..!" +"Hair." +"..refuses to co-operate!" + -- Delenn and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"I''m sorry. I guess I''m reading too much into it, but people seem to be + implying that .. I shouldn''t get too comfortable." +"Oh nonsense. It''s not as if anyone expects you to, oh, vanish overnight + under mysterious circumstances to a strange Minbari post. Why, that would + be unprecedented in the station''s history." + -- Sheridan and G''kar in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"The secret of our marriage''s success, Londo, is our lack of communication. + You''ve jeopardised that success and I would know why." + -- Timov in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Petulant, isn''t she? Oh well, breeding will tell." +"A bitch like you would know about breeding." + -- Daggair and Timov in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"And you are?" +"Garibaldi, head of security." +"Oh, so if I''m feeling insecure, hugging you will make me feel better." + -- Matt Stoner and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Certification of my participation in an authorized archaeological dig. + List of contents are there. You''ll find this little item among them. + It''s all quite legitimate, officer. I can help you with the big words, + if you''re having trouble." + -- Matt Stoner to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Would you like me to tell you all about her? Is that it? + Would you like to hear where she likes to be touched?" +"*Don''t* push it." +"The little noises she makes. Does she cry out or sigh softly?" + -- Stoner and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"If Talia Winters so much as breaths a word that you''ve been harassing + her, you''ll be spaced so fast you''ll think you were born in a vacuum." + -- Garibaldi to Stoner in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"I''ll be keeping an eye on you." +"Use both eyes. You''ll need them." + -- Garibaldi and Stoner in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"You seriously expect me to become involved in your sexual olympics?" +"They are merely expressing their feelings for me." +"I can do that." [slaps Londo in the face] +"You haven''t changed." +"You have. You''ve *devolved*." + -- Timov and Londo in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Ahh! A deck of cards! From my dear friend Lennier." +"And I marked them exactly as you requested.." +"Shhs!" + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Hey, how about I call you an idiot in public and you can + convict me for revealing state secrets." + -- Stoner to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Are you okay? Londo, do you know where you are?" +"Either in Medlab, or in Hell. Either way, the decor needs work." + -- Dr. Franklin and Londo in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Stick it!" +"How odd. I didn''t even know *we* were married." + -- Dr. Franklin and Londo in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"You know, the problem with mysteries is that in order to get + rid of the headaches I have to figure them out." + -- G''Kar to Mariel in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"I warn you, Mariel, do not be overconfident. If I were married to + Londo Mollari I''d be concerned." +"G''kar, if *you* were married to Londo Mollari, we''d all be concerned." + -- G''kar and Mariel in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Ladies, it''s been a *pleasure* meeting you." + -- Vir to Londo''s wifes in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"Commander. Susan. I wish to thank you again for your patience and + understanding." +"No, not a problem." +"Taking on human characteristics has been something of an education + for both of us." +"Well, if you''ve any other problems, any other questions at all, just ask." +"Well, now that you mention it. Do you have any idea why I suddenly started + getting these .. odd cramps?" + -- Delenn and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" +',' +"You were raised by the Corp, clothed by the Corp. + We are your father and your mother." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"Are you sure you know what you are doing?" +"Absolutely. Those paper pushers back home probably figured that since I''m + new here, I''ll go along with the whole rent idea, just to make everybody + happy. That''s how it starts, believe me. They nibble a little bit here, + little bit there. Next thing you know you are not even in charge of your + own command anymore." +"No taxation without representation. Get me liberty or get me death!" +"Abso-fraggin-lutely. A bunch of .. butt-scratching, hand-wringing, + penny-pinching, lets-stick-it-to-the-new-guy pin-heads, all of them. + 30 credits a week! I say let them cut back on those expense-account + lunches, *then* come talk to me, right?" + -- Franklin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"We do not have cats on Minbar, we have gogs." +"Gogs?" +"Gogs. Such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure + that we never take ourselves too seriously." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"We believe that no race can be truly intelligent without laughter." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"Mary had a little lamb" +"her fleece was white as snow" +"and everywhere that Mary went" +"the lamb was sure to go." + -- Rogue Telepaths in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"I heard a good one today. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a + lightbulb?" +"I don''t know, sir. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" +"None. They always surrender right before they finish the job and they + never tell you why." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"Knock, knock." +"Who''s there?" +"Kosh." +"Kosh who?" +"Gesundheit." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"Then what *are* you saying?" +"I''m not saying what I''m saying. I''m not saying what I''m thinking. + As a matter of fact, I''m not thinking what I''m thinking. There''s only + one thing in my mind right now." +"What''s that?" +"I need a drink." + -- Dr.Franklin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"You are more than you think you are." +"Then what am I?" +"The future." + -- Lurker and Winters in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"Item two. You snore." +"No, I don''t." +"Yes, you do." +"*No*, I don''t." +"Captain, either you snore or last night we had a hell of a breach + in the hull." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"They gave in?" +"Ahem, no." +"You gave in?" +"Not exactly. I''m deducting 60 credits per week from the budget set aside + to maintaining combat readyness and applying it against the rent." +"On what grounds?" +"On the grounds that I''m not ready to fight anybody until I''ve had a decent + nights sleep in my own damn bed. You got a problem with that?" +"No, none whatsoever. I rather like the idea of Earth Central paying rent + to itself. There''s a certain symmetry." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" +',' +"You have always served me well, old friend. And sometimes I think + I do not thank you as much as I should. .. Goodbye." + -- Emperor to Prime Minister in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"So, you are going to allow this, even over my objections?" +"What? Did I somehow turn invisible or something? Yes, Ambassador. The + Emperor is allowed to come aboard. Now, if this bothers you, I suggest + you stay in your quarters, stick your fingers in your ears and hum real + loud until its over. Unless you''d like to try something as breathtakingly + rational as trying to open up a *dialogue*. G''Kar, you are in a position + to negotiate directly with the head of the Centauri Republic, and you are + wasting it on a .. tantrum." + -- G''Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"We''ve taken the liberty of writing your speech for you. I''ve had experts + in psycholinguistics working on it for weeks. It''s perfect; fiery, but + dignified; elegant, but strong." + -- Refa to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"Yes. It''s a strange feeling, Kha''Mak, to know suddenly that all the + decisions in your life have brought you to this place. There is no + longer doubt or uncertainty. The future now consists of only three + probabilities. .. In the moment that I strike, the Emperor and I will + both die. Or he will die and I will spend my life in prison. Or I will + fail and be killed. For the first time in my life, the path is clear." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"It has occurred to me recently that *I* have never chosen anything. + I was born into a role that had been prepared for me. I did everything + I was asked to do, because it never *occurred* to me to choose otherwise. + And now, at the end of my life, I wonder what might''ve been." +"That''s why my father taught me to live each second as though it would be + the last moment of my life. He said: ''If you love, love without reservation. + If you fight, fight without fear.'' He called it the way of the warrior." +"No regrets then?" +"A few. But just a few. You?" +"Oh, enough to fill a lifetime. 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 inbetween. But there + is still time to seize that one last fragile moment. To choose something + better, to make a difference, as you say. And I intend to do just that." + -- Centauri Emperor and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"Londo, *don''t* *do* *this*." +"I have no choice." +"Yes, you do. Londo, please, please, please, I *know* you don''t listen to + me, but I''m asking you just this one time. *Don''t* *do* *this*. There is + no turning back once you start down that road." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"I understand .. just fine. .. By this time tomorrow we will be at war + with the Narn. May the Great Maker forgive me." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"I was ready. I had prepared myself. I had made my peace with the universe, + put all my affairs in order. I had the *dagger* in my *hand*! And he has + the indecency to start dying on his own. Never in my life have I seen a + worse case of timing." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"Maybe it''s good news. With luck he''s feeling better. All they have + to do is to prop him up for two minutes and-- I''ll call you back." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"Hello, old friend. It''s been a while. I''m entrusting this message to an + associate of mine who has sworn to bring it to you at any cost, including + his own life. My job on the Minbari homeworld is more than just representing + Earth. The president doesn''t know about that part yet and .. I don''t think + it would be wise of you to tell him. There''s a great darkness coming, + Michael. Some of the Minbari have been waiting for it a long time." +"The bearer of this message is one of my Rangers. Some are Minbari, most + are humans. They''ve been drawn here to learn to work together and prepare + for the fight ahead." +"Their job for now is to patrol the frontier, to listen, to watch, and + return with reports too sensitive to entrust to regular channels. They + are my eyes and ears. Where you see them, you see me." +"In the name of our friendship I ask that you give them every courtesy and + co-operation. I wish I could tell you more. I wish I could warn you, but + the others don''t think it''s time yet. Stay close to the Vorlon and watch + out for the shadows. They move .. when you are not looking at them." + -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"How will this end?" +"In fire." + -- Centauri Emperor and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"Sheridan''s rule number 29: Always make your opponent think you know + more than you really know." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"Mollari. What did he say, really?" +"He said .. that we are both *damned*." +"Well. It''s a small enough price to pay for immortality." + -- Refa and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"For a hundred years the Centauri occupied our world, devastating it. We + swore we would never let that happen again. This attack on our largest + civilian colony has inflicted terrible damage and loss of life. They''ve + crossed the line we can not allow them to cross. As a result two hours + ago my government officially declared war against the Centauri Republic. + Our hope for peace is over. We are now at war. .. We are now at war." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"No, I have no desire to become Emperor. No, I prefer to work behind the + scenes. The reward is nearly as great .. and the risk far, far less." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"Hello, old friend." + -- Sinclair to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" +',' +"No traffic, no complaints, no noise. Traders, troublemakers, and + ambassadors, all tugged snuggly in their little beds. I love this + time of night." +"There is no night in deep space. And time is a meaningless concept + when you stop to think about it." + -- Ivanova and Corwin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +',' +"I had an Alfredo Garibaldi under my command during + the Dilgar invasion. Excellent soldier." +"That''s my dad." +"So much for genetics." + -- General Richard Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +',' +"Few days, long enough for us to get our gifts in place." +"Gifts?" +"New weapon systems for your defense grid. The very latest of Earth Force + R&D. When they are on line, Babylon 5 will have enough firepower to take + on a warship." + -- General Richard Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +',' +"The galaxy is changing and Babylon 5 must change with it." + -- General Franklin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +',' +"I''m a doctor. My duty is to heal." +"Then heal humans. Stephen, I know you are fascinated by these alien + creatures, but they are a threat to humanity. And they always will be. + Help your own kind." +"Life is life. Whether it''s wrapped in skins, scales, or feathers. Now, + if you *respected* these beings instead of constantly trying to murder + them, you would appreciate that." + -- Stephen Franklin and Gen. Richard Franklin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +',' +"We are all slaves to our histories. If there is to be a .. + bright future, we must learn to break those chains." + -- Delenn to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +',' +"If you''ll excuse me, the natives are restless." + -- Garibaldi to Delenn in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +',' +"A man who won''t stand up for his own principles is not really a man at all." + -- General Richard Franklin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +',' +"For a security-slug you are a lousy liar." + -- Dodger to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" +',' +"Being asked to serve on the Council is a matter of soul, not of flesh. + The change that you have gone through.. it shouldn''t matter." +"But it does, Lennier. I''ve made a decision and now I must face the + consequences." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"Lennier, for the first time .. I feel very much .. alone." +"No. Never alone, Delenn. Never alone." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"This isn''t a clear and present danger, Commander. Just a quick look around + to see what the problem is. I haven''t felt space beneath me since I got + here in January and I miss it. Besides, if I don''t put some flight time in + soon, I''ll lose my flight pay." +"Very well, but you''ll take a full escort." +"All right, all right. I''ll be in and out in an hour. What could go wrong?" + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"I''m not worried about that." +"Of course not. You are young. And youth is both foolish and vulnerable." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"Your diagnosis, Doctor?" +"Well, the patient is confused, delusional. Unable to separate his natural + sense of loyalty for his home team from the reality that they *stink*, and + only got to the playoffs on a *technicality*." + -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"Helen Keller?" +"Heat of the moment." + -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"Until later, *Satai* Delenn." + -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"Summoned, I take the place that has been prepared for me. I am Grey. + I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between + the darkness and the light." +"They will not come, Delenn." +"But I was summoned." +"To receive judgement, yes. Not to appear as one of the Nine." +"I am entitled to a hearing. I''m allowed to defend myself." +"That was before you disobeyed us. You were told to wait before taking this + action. Before becoming .. alien to us. You''ve been away from us for too + long, Delenn. Your contact with the humans have changed more than your + appearance. If you are no longer one of us, how can you be one of the Nine?" +"My heart has not changed." +"We no longer know your heart, Delenn. The Council has voted to remove you + from our presence. From this day forth you are no longer a member of the + Grey Council, no longer Satai. I''m sorry, Delenn." + -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"Why are you doing this? Why are you torturing me? + You can at least tell me what you want." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"Twenty cycles I stood beside you as one of the Nine. I called many of + you friends. And now you call me outcast. You know me. You know I believe + in the task that is before us, the Great War that is coming. I have not + turned my back on you. In trying to help I have sacrificed all that I was, + and all that I am. We can no longer allow ourselves to be separated by + names and borders. Our two sides must unite .. or be destroyed. Do not make + my sacrifice a vain one. Allow me to finish what I started. In the name of + our friendship, for the future of our people, let me remain in Babylon 5." + -- Delenn to the Grey Council in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"When Valen called the Nine together he chose 3 from the worker caste, 3 from + the religious caste and 3 from the warrior caste. My replacement should''ve + been from the religious caste. Four from the warrior caste gives them + unprecedented power." + -- Delenn to the Grey Council in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"And your belief that you are satisfying prophesy is a presumption of the + highest order. And yet .. it is true that you are now the perfect liaison + between us and the Earthers. You have no home with either of us. So, please, + act out your fantasy, be our go-between. return to Babylon 5, and *stay* + there." + -- Neroon to Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"The first obligation of a prisoner is to escape, right?" + -- Sheridan to a Narn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"Shhh! Do you know who I am?" +"The man in-between is searching for you." +"You are the hand." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"Why are you here?" +"We were never away. For the first time your mind is quiet enough + to hear me." +"Why am I here?" +"You have *always* been here." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"It''s not fair." +"No. It''s not. Death never is." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"You have *always* been here." + -- Kosh to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"Santiago understood the importance of Babylon 5. He knew that if anything + happened to him, president Clark will appoint some hard-nosed jar-head + to run this place. Well, we both know you are not that. But, from your + record you look like that." + -- General Hague to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"A soldier''s record tells a lot about a person. Not just what he''s done, + but how he''s done it and why. And you have an uncommon failing for someone + in your position, Captain. You are 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." + -- General Hague to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"But it''s time we stopped reacting and started acting." + -- General Hague to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" +',' +"G''Kar, everyone in this room knows too well that the first casualty of + war is always the truth." + -- Sheridan to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"Do whatever you have to. Just get them to sign on." +"Will do. Thank you, sir." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"The war is young, the Centauri are still in the process of committing their + forces. Some in their government are unsure about the entire affair. They + only need a reason not to fight. If the Minbari intervened, you could + provide that reason. You could save hundreds of thousands of lives." + -- G''Kar to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"You must know .. your actions in the recent past, the things you''ve said, + make it difficult for anyone to come to your aid now." +"I know. But what else could I do?" + -- Delenn and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"I was there when our war against Earth begun, and our ship encountered an + Earth vessel for the first time. Afraid of us, the unknown, they fired. + I saw our leader die, I heard the cries for revenge, for blood, for death. + In return we nearly exterminated an entire species. Our people are tired + of war, G''Kar. You can not ask them to go through all that again." + -- Delenn to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"Transport 32A" + -- Docking Elevator Designation in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"Six months ago they were hardly aware of me. Now, *suddenly* everyone + is my friend, everyone wants something. I wanted respect. Instead I''ve + turned to a wishing-well with legs." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"I do not understand. Why go through all this to save the lives of + potentially inferior species? Evolution is driven by blood. The weak + die, and the strong survive. By preserving the sick and wounded of other + races you pollute the genetic pool. It does not serve evolution." + -- Taq (for Correlilmurzon) in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"I don''t believe that any form of sentient life is inferior to any other." +"Yes, we often hear that argument from inferior species and their + sympathizers." + -- Franklin and Taq (Correlilmurzon) in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"No, I don''t want a receipt." +"Then what do you want?" +"I want you to stay! And have a little drink for me. I want you to be happy, + I want *me* to be happy. I want you to be happy for me and me to be happy + for you. Is that so much to ask around here? Why is everyone here walking + around like they are afraid of me?" +"Maybe we are." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"Most impressive." +"Excuse me?" +"We have isolated ourselves from inferior species but you.. you''ve shown the + will and the strength to isolate the genetically inferior parts of your own + species as an evolutionary protection." +"I don''t think you understand. This wasn''t intentional." +"You''re too modest, you''re too modest. It''s a brilliant move, Commander." + -- Taq (Correlilmurzon) and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"Ambassador, I have 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?" + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"I .. do not have the same resources I once had, Captain. But .. + what I have is at your disposal." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"Well, you could put a bag over his head and do it for Babylon 5. + .. Maybe not." +"I''m doomed." +"I could inject you with something, make you sick. After all, he doesn''t know + a thing about anybody''s biology but his own. He''d probably fall for it." +"That''s it!" +"I''ll get a needle." + -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"Next time: *My* way." + -- Note to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"It is good to have frieds, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi? Even if maybe .. + only for a little while." +"Even if only for a little while." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" +',' +"Bay 13? Nobody goes to bay 13." +"That''s what the Commander tried to tell him." + -- Garibaldi and Corwin in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"Commander, I want all outgoing ships checked out before they leave. + Slow down jump clearances as much as you can. Tell them we are having + .. mechanical problems." +"That they''ll believe." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"He is the best there is." +"Stephen. The last time you vouched for a doctor friend of yours we had + three dead bodies, half the station was trashed and an Ikarran war machine + was burning through decks and shooting at everything." + -- Doctor Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"I found myself near bay 13 earlier and had look on your ship. It''s an + amazing piece of work. It made me realize just how much we still don''t + know about you, your culture, your people. And I was thinking, maybe we + should spend some time together soon. Build some bridges, work toward + a greater understanding of one another." +"Why?" +"You tell me. You''re the one who popped in my dream when I was in that alien + ship a few weeks ago. It felt like.. I don''t know.. like you called me." +"I sought understanding. I listened to the song. Your thoughts became a song." +"Has this ever happened before?" +"Once." + -- Kosh and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"These guys are about as subtle as a brick through a glass window, + but they know their stuff. I''d hate to be on the wrong side with + this bunch against me." + -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"We need to accumulate as much evidence as we can so *when* we go + public with this we''ll hit the target. Because in this game, Captain, + we only get one shot." + -- Aide to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"I don''t believe anybody." +"What a wonderful world you live in." +"Yeah, well, the rent is cheap, the pay is decent and I get to make + my own hours." + -- Garibaldi and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"Won''t you be recognized?" +"Are you kidding? First, I don''t get into down-below a lot. Second, when I + do they don''t see me, they see the badge. And third, I have an excellent + disguise. Lets go." +"Why is my life suddenly passing before my eyes?" + -- Doctor Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"Good. The sooner we get him out of here into a nice, comfortable + interrogation room, the happier I''ll be about the whole thing. Yep. + You''re right. He''s gotta be in down-below." +"Well, sir, you don''t know that for sure." +"Commander, where else could he be? I mean, come on, next thing you''ll + say he''s in down-town." +"I didn''t see anything called ''down-town''." +"Well, it''s sort of an unofficial name for this area right in here. It''s + between the hull and the water reclamation system. It''s pretty much the + most unpleasent part of the station, not counting the methane bathrooms. + It''s full of heavy machinery, lead walls and pipe all over the place." +"Lead? That is just the kind of thing he''d use to block the scanners." +"You think so?" +"Cranston here. Take the search team out of down-below for now. Check levels + fifty and fifty-one between the blue and grey sectors. And post guards at + all the entrances and exits to down-below." + -- Sheridan, Ivanova and Agent Cranston in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"Maybe somebody should''ve labeled the future: some assembly required." + -- Garibaldi to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"You wanted to see me?" +"You wanted to see me." +"Oh, I guess everybody does. To see what you really are, + inside that encounter suit." +"They are not ready. They would not understand." +"Am I ready?" +"No. You do not even understand yourself." +"Could you help me to understand you?" +"Can you help me to understand *you*?" +"Well, I can try. Is that what you want? In exchange of information + I tell you something about me and you tell me something about you." +"No. You do not understand. Go." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"Dammit, what do you want? What do you want from me? You know, ever since + I got here I''ve had the feeling that .. that you''ve been watching me. The + record shows you hardly ever went to council meetings until I showed up. + When I was captured, it was you .. reached out and .. touched my mind. + And now you call me here. Why? Just to throw me out? Are we just toys to + you, huh? What do you want?" +"Never ask that question." +"At least I got a response out of you. So, what will it be, Ambassador?" +"I will teach you." +"About yourself?" +"About *you*. Until you are ready." +"For what?" +"To fight legends." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"You were his teacher, what did he get in first-aid class?" +"4.0" +"*3.7*!" + -- Garibaldi, Dr. Franklin and Dr. Jacobs in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"It''s what we suspected all along, but could never prove. The Vorlons + use organic technology. It''s a living ship. Conscious, aware." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"While I was asleep. The .. the ship, it .. it *sang* to me." + -- Dr. Jacobs in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" +',' +"Merchandising? We''ll be merchandised? You can''t be serious, sir." +"I heard this was in the works a few weeks ago. I fought against it. + And lost." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"''Welcome to Babylon 5, the last best hope for a quick buck.''" +"Commander." +"But it''s just demeaning. We''re not just some .. deep space franchise. + This station is *about* something." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"Find that Minbari witness I mentioned in my report. + He will back me up, I am absolutely sure." +"Ah. Description?" +"Bald, with a bone on his head." +"We are gonna need a real big line-up room." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"I answer to other Minbari, not freaks." + -- Ashan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"Now, I want to talk with your witness, he is lying!" +"For your sake, I did not hear that. Nor did you Lennier." +"What are you talking about?" +"Minbari do not lie, Captain. It would be a stain upon honor and soul." + -- Sheridan, Delenn & Lennier in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"For someone of other species to make such an accusation, it would require + an *immediate* and *fatal* response from the accused." +"Then he is in .. *error* where the truth is involved and I want to speak + with him *now*." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"Are you expected?" +"No. Dreaded." + -- Zack Allan, Guinevere Corey in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"Whose side are you on?" +"We are on the side of the truth. Is there another?" + -- Ashan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"I don''t appreciate being called ignorant in front of others." +"I''m sorry. Is naive better?" +"And I don''t need a lawyer." +"Now we''re back to ignorant." + -- Sheridan and Corey in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"I''ll never forget what you once said to me: + ''Never fear answers, only fear running out of questions.''" +"Ivanova, I never said that." +"You didn''t?" +"No." +"Oh, well, I''ll let you know who did." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"Why? What''s inside there?" +"One moment of perfect beauty." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"Oh, yes, I''m keeping your secrets. Londo, I feel like I''m falling in + a pit and there''s no way of climbing out." +"Do you want to leave, is that it? I can arrange it. You can go back + home to--" +"To what? To my family? Do you think that if they wanted me around I + would even be here. They just wanted me anywhere, anywhere away. + They had me sent here two years ago because, frankly, there wasn''t + much competition for the job. This was a joke to them. Before I left, + my uncle said to me you and I deserve each other." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"I had no idea. *No* idea at all." +"Yes." +"Thank you." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"Another lesson? What this time?" +".. Beauty. .. In the dark." +"Must be working. You begin to talk *just* like a Vorlon." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"It''s a mockery. It doesn''t even have any .. ahhem .. attributes." +"Attributes?" +"Do I have to spell it out for you?" + -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"I see. So, you feel like you''ve been symbolically cast.. in a bad light." +"Well put." + -- Ivanova & Sheridan to Londo in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"Who said the Minbari don''t lie?" + -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"I never forget the feeling of helplessness. I never thought there + could be anything worse than being all alone in the night." +"But there is. Being all alone in a crowd." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"Their honor? 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." + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"Babylon control to Theta One. Can you trace that unidentified object?" +"Negative, Babylon control. I don''t see a .. [thud]" +"Theta one, have you encountered unidentified object? Can you describe it?" +"Negative, Babylon control. I don''t think so. Not on a bet. Heading back to + the barn." + -- Babylon control and Keffer in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" +',' +"In the process of putting this report together, it didn''t take us + long to learn the most important rule of survival aboard Babylon 5: + ''Expect the unexpected.''" + -- Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"36 Hours, sponsored by Interplanetary Expeditions -- + Exploring the past to create a better future." + -- Voiceover in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"We are already in far greater jeopardy than you can possibly imagine." + -- G''Kar to Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"Overall I''ve found this to be a good working environment and a valuable + experience. I''ve learned a lot while I''ve been here." +"And you have never felt that your safety was compromised?" +"No, Ma''m." +"So, this has been a positive experience for you. You enjoy working with + everyone?" +"Yes. It''s a calm, pleasant environment. I don''t think I have ever seen + anyone get upset here." + -- Lt. Corwin and Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"I guess it''s the old joke. You don''t have to be crazy to work here, + but it helps. I suppose there is a .. certain attraction to being out + here on the edge like this, a new frontier." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"Babylon 5 has been through some dramatic changes in administration since it + became operational. Would you attribute these changes to .. bad management? + Or to quote former Senator Hidoshi, ''Is this horse just too big for anybody + to ride?''" +"Changes are part of the military life. Everybody goes into this + knowing that tomorrow you could be someplace that you hadn''t even + heard of 24 hours ago." + -- Cynthia Torqueman and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"He must have hit the wrong button because the air doors slammed shut, the + space doors opened, and he .. just flew out into space. And the one thing + they never tell you is that you don''t die instantly in vacuum. He just hung + there against the black like a puppet with his strings all tangled up.. + or one of those old cartoons where you run off the edge of the cliff and + your legs keep going. You could see that he was trying to breathe, but there + was nothing. The one thing I remember when they pulled in his body.. his + eyes were frozen. A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about + shoving somebody out an airlock. I don''t think it''s funny. Never will." + -- Franklin to Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"According to figures released by the newly formed Office of Public Morale, + President William Clark has risen to dramatic new levels of popularity + because of his administration''s emphasis on addressing the needs of earth." + -- Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"Anytime you lose a war, you just .. you just wait a few years, and you''ll + hear from everyone who thought that we could''ve won if they had done the + fighting." +"Except, of course, Captain, we didn''t lose the war. + The Minbari *did* surrender." +"Of course." + -- Sheridan and Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"Every day I get up, and I hope nothing will happen. I''d love to be just + bored out of my skull for 24 hours, and .. I guess I keep hoping that + someday, somewhere I''ll make a difference, that at the end of the day + everything we''ve gone through here for the past few years will mean + something." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"I volunteered for this change in the hope that it would lead to a better + understanding between our peoples." +"Over 1/4 of a million humans were killed in the war with your people. + How do you think the families of those victims will feel about your .. + change?" +"I, .. I don''t know. I, . I would hope .." +"I think they would feel hurt .. betrayed .. that by assuming a human face, + you are taking a part of us you''re not entitled to. What would you say to + them, to all the husbands and wives and children and brothers and sisters + of the people who were killed in the war with your people and *now* see a + Minbari with a *human* face?" + -- Delenn and Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"An inspection of the destroyed Centauri has found conclusive proof that + she was carrying fusion bombs and support equipment for ion cannons, + mass drivers, and heavy-energy weapons." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"Roughly 150 of your years ago, the Centauri came to our world. Narn was a + green and fertile place then. We greeted them in peace and spent the next + 100 years in chains, but we never gave up hope. We formed a resistance, + learned their secrets, turned their own machines against them, and finally + drove them from our world." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"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." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"Please. The Narn have rewritten history enough, don''t you think? If they + wanted us gone, we were hardly going to force the issue, but ever since, + they have grown more and more irrational, have gone out of their way to + harm us, to seize Centauri territory. Finally, we had to take a stand. + They were the ones who declared war, remember. Not us. We want only peace." + -- Londo to Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"You''re right, Johnny. You know, there are a lot of other kids who feel just + the same way you do. They''re confused and afraid, but they don''t have to be. + The problem isn''t that other kids don''t like you, it''s that they don''t + understand you, but we do. You''re special. You''re a latent telepath about + to come into full bloom." +"My Johnny, a telepath?" +"Probably, but to be sure, take him down to the Psi-Corps testing centre + first thing tomorrow." +"How do I find them?" +"We''re everywhere, for your convenience." + -- Psi Corps Advertisement in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"If you know someone who might be a telepath, or think you might be one + yourself, help them get the help they need. Call the Corps." +"Call government information for more on a Psi-Corps center near you. This + message has been brought to you by the Ministry for Public Information + and your local Psi-Corps recruitment office." + -- Psi Corps Advertisement in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"The Psi Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps." + -- Psi Corps Advertisement in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"We learn. That''s what humans do." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"Of course it is, for the simple reason that no one else would''ve ever built + a place like this. Humans share one unique quality. They build communities. + If the Narns or the Centauri or any other race built a station like this, + it would be used only by their own people, but everywhere humans go, they + create communities out of diverse and sometimes hostile populations. + It is a great gift and a terrible responsibility, one that cannot be + abandoned." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"The job of Babylon 5 is not to enforce the peace. It''s to create the peace. + And this place was built on the assumption that we could work out our + problems and build a better future, and that, to me, is the key issue. + See, in the last few years .. we''ve stumbled. We stumbled at the death of + the president, the war, and on and on. And when you stumble a lot, you .. + you start looking at your feet. 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, 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. Only by making people understand that can we hope + to create a better world for ourselves and our posterity." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" +',' +"What do *you* want?" +"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''d look up at your lifeless eyes and wave + like *this*. Can you and your associates arrange it for me, Mr. Morden?" + -- Morden and Vir in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"That''s him, all right. I never forget a face. Morden. Same ID as on the + Icarus." +"He''s supposed to be dead. Why didn''t the security net catch him?" +"Captain, come on. We don''t get every death certificate from every Earth + Alliance ship and colony." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"So, what can I do for you?" +"Well, actually it''s more a question of what I can do for you, really, and + what we can together do for Earth. I''m regional director of the newly-formed + Ministry of Peace, or Minipax, as we like to call it around the office. + We''re trying to round up support for a series of new programs we''re + launching." +"What kind of programs?" +"Folks back home are awfully nervous about all the fighting going on out + here. They need reassurance, you see? They need an environment dedicated + to peace, not war. But we can never have peace with our neighbours until + we''re at peace with ourselves, so we at the Ministry of Peace are trying + to find new ways to do just that, ways we can better help each other, + work with each other." + -- Winters and Pierce Macabee in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Nice shoes. I''ll admit my knowledge of the law is somewhat limited, but .. I + believe it''s tradition if you''re going to hold someone, you should at least + .. charge him .. with something." + -- Morden to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"When a patient starts to slip away .. when he looks at you .. and his eyes + grab hold of you the way a drowning man grabs hold of anything to keep him + from sinking.. I mean, afraid .. so afraid .. and then, just at the last, + it''s as if they look past you to 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. 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." + -- Franklin to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"As the name implies, you must also be watchful. Peace can be made or broken + with a gun, a word, an idea, even a thought. Now, those who work *against* + peace sow the seeds of discontent. They plant false stories, they undermine + the public good. It''s not because they are necessarily evil. It''s because + they don''t know any better. They''re rejected, they''re unhappy, and they lash + out in the only way they can. So, If we could be made aware of these + problems as they occur, then we can find these people, we can talk to these + people, we can embrace them again in the arms of society, while, at the same + time, protecting society from misinformation and harmful ideas. We''re less + interested in actions than we are in attitudes. We must help protect society + against its own worst instincts. And by taking these bold steps, we *will* + help to ensure a better future for everyone. I''m proud to be a part of it, + and I hope you''ll all join me in becoming part of the Night Watch." + -- Pierce Macabee in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Psi-Corps rules prohibit unauthorized scans in civil or criminal + investigations." +"How can it be unauthorized? According to Earth Central records, + *he* is supposed to be dead. Can a dead man object?" +"Captain, you''re trying to use the letter of the law to defeat + the spirit of the law." + -- Winters and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"It was terrible, like falling into a bottomless well. And cold, so cold. + And just for a second I thought I saw this .." +"What? What did you see?" +".. A shape. I don''t know. It was probably nothing." + -- Winters and Franklin in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"This is the only way. And we will tell you those answers. But be warned. + Once you know his secret, once you know what we have known the last three + years, you''ll never sleep well again. Come, Captain, the greatest nightmare + of our time is waiting for you." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than either of + our races. Once, long ago, they walked among the stars like giants, vast, + timeless. Taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim, created great + empires, but to all things, there is an end. Slowly, over a million years, + the First Ones went away. Some passed beyond the stars never to return. + Some simply disappeared." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Not all of the First Ones have gone away. A few stayed behind, hidden, + or asleep, waiting for the day when they may be needed. When the Shadows + come again." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Shadows?" +"We have no other name for them. The Shadows were old when even the Ancients + were young. They battled one another over and over, across a million years. + The last great war against the Shadows was 10000 years ago. It was the last + time the Ancients walked openly among us. But the Shadows were only defeated + .. not destroyed. 1000 years ago, the Shadows returned to their places of + power, rebuilt them, and began to stretch forth their hand. Before they + could strike, they were defeated by an alliance of worlds, including the + Minbari .. and the few remaining First Ones who have not yet passed beyond + the veil. When they had finished, the First Ones went away .. all .. + but one." +"There''s still one of them left. Where?" + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Recognized? By whom?" +"Everyone." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"''Yes'' was the answer. What was the question?" +"Have the Shadows returned to Z''ha''dum?" + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Once awakened, the Shadows could not allow them to leave, in case + they might warn others. Those who would not serve were killed." +"But were they all killed? Delenn, maybe .. maybe some of them were + kept alive as prisoners. Anna might still be alive! Morden--" +"Must be released." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"What? What did you see?" +"Nothing. Shadows." + -- Zack and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"You''ve been trying to help me so we can understand each other. It''s not + what I want anymore. I want you to teach me .. how to fight them, how to + beat them. Because sooner or later I''m going to Z''ha''dum. And I''m going + to stop them." +"If you go to Z''ha''dum, you will die." +"Then I die. But I will not go down easily, and I will not go down alone. + You''ll teach me?" +"Yes." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z''ha''dum" +',' +"At least you don''t have to spend your day in the Triangle." +"Triangle?" +"Grey sector. Ever since B5 went online, there''ve been all kind of stories + about the place. Strange lights, weird noises, people vanishing. Maintenance + nicknamed it the B5 Triangle. Now they swear that something''s making their + scanners go haywire." +"Anything to the stories?" +"Nah, every station has its phantoms." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"I have been attacked by aliens before, but never by dead ones." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"Every generation of Centauri mourns for the golden days when their power + was like unto the gods. It''s counterproductive. I mean, why make history + if you fail to learn by it?" +"You know, Vir, you have what the earthers call a negative personality." +"No, I don''t." +"There. You see?" + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"Centauri have bowed to the whims of other races for too long. Now we will + show the galaxy our true spirit, beginning with those .. those thrice-damned + Narn." +"Emperor Turhan, may the gods comfort him, never wanted another war with the + Narn." +"The emperor was a good man, but he was wrong about the Narn. War with them + was inevitable. They have given us little choice in the matter." +"The Narn did not start this conflict. They were forced into it by a faction + within our own midst, the same faction who murdered Prime Minister Malachi + and put that infantile puppet Cartagia on the throne!" + -- Londo and Urza in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"Commander, everything in order?" +"Remarkably so. It is beginning to worry me." +"Do you always worry when things are going well?" +"I don''t have time to worry about them when they are not." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"I thought you said the .. records were all confiscated." +"I made a copy. You never know when I might want to write my memoirs." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"Knowledge is a basic tool of politics. Mine is considerable." + -- Urza Jaddo to Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"You cannot build an empire based on slaughter .. and deceit." + -- Urza Jaddo to Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"Disgrace is preferable to death." +"There was a time when I would''ve agreed with you. That time has passed." +"Londo, this is insane." +"Insanity is part of the times! You must learn to embrace the madness, + let it fire you." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"Londo.. You had no choice. He would''ve killed you." +"He could''ve killed me any time. He was right, you know. I never could best + him with a kutari. But my death would not have saved his family." +"I don''t understand." +"By the laws of the morago, the victor must accept the loser''s family as + part of his own. They''re House Mollari now. They cannot be harmed by the + resolution passed against Urza. He sacrificed himself. I have made many + choices lately, Vir. And today, for the first time.. I''m not sure those + choices were right." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"It''s not too late to make some new choices." +"No. The blood is already on my hands. Right or wrong, .. + I must follow the path .. to its end." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" +',' +"I thought Zeta squadron was on break." +"It is, but some time ago, Keffer saw or thought he saw something in + hyperspace, a ship of some kind, unknown configuration. He''s been spending + some of his free time looking for it." +"Tell Lieutenant Keffer to return to base. I want all freelance expeditions + curbed from now on. His fighter''s to be recharged and ready to go within + the hour." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"Something here doesn''t add up. And unlike Mr. Garibaldi, + I don''t like mysteries." + -- Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"For a meal with such an honored guest, there are rituals and traditions. + The food must be sanctified during each of the fifteen stages of cooking. + For instance, the spices must be blessed and a specific prayer spoken when + they are used, each spice can only be used once, of course, and in the + correct order. If an error is made, entire meal must be abandoned and you + must begin again from scratch." +"So, when do you sleep?" +"One does not sleep during the cooking. It could lead to error. So, for two + days Lennier has not slept. In order to remain pure, he has taken only water + and bread." + -- Lennier,Sheridan,Delenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"As there are rituals to follow in preparing the meal of this nature, there + are other rituals that must be observed when eating the meal. Otherwise the + food is no longer sanctified and .. Lennier must begin all over again." +"Heh. Well, we certainly wouldn''t want that, would we?" + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"It is then tradition for the guest to set aside one piece of flarn in + the memory of Valen in the place that is set aside for his return." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"We must now wait for a few moments before eating again. + In between, we meditate upon food." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"In the memory of the nine and the one." + -- Sheridan waking up in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"No, no, I was not. I .. I was meditating." +"The sound you were making is part of human meditation?" +"I don''t snore." + -- Sheridan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"Now, I want to know how terminal and how contagious." +"It is one hundred percent terminal. And one hundred percent .. contagious." + -- Franklin & Dr. Lazarenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"The disease only appeared once before, centuries ago on a small island on + our world noted for certain excesses. When it was struck down, the rest + of my people believed it was a punishment by the gods for their lack of + morality. They even named the disease after the island devastated by it: + Drafa." + -- Lazarenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"We are the pure. If we believe, then the dark angel of Drafa + will pass over us. Hurry. Inside now, everyone inside." + -- Ambassador F''shara in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"They''re in pain, frightened, dying. Minbari are taught that at such a + time, the afflicted should be ministered to, comforted." +"They''re not your own people, Delenn." +"I didn''t know that similarity was required for the exercise of compassion. + They are afraid. We wish to do what little we can." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"Don''t look away, Captain. All life is transitory, a dream. We all come + together in the same place, at the end of time. If I don''t see you again + here, I will see you, in a little while, in a place where no shadows fall." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"You should get some sleep." +"Can''t. Too much to do." +"That''s your third stim tonight. Too much isn''t good for you." +"If we don''t figure this out, it''s really not going to matter, now, is it?" + -- Lazarenn and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"Faith manages." + -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"Faith .. manages." + -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"You were very funny. Everything to you was a problem to be solved, a test + to be passed. But you know, Stephen, sometimes the test is not to find the + answer. It''s to see how you react when you realize there is no answer." + -- Lazarenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"When I was a child, I once visited the city with my family and became + separated from my parents. The more I looked for them, the more lost I + became. The streets became smaller, narrower, darker. I was so afraid. + Then .. I found myself in an old temple. And .. I thought .. I will wait + here. I will be safe here .. and they will come, they will come for me." +"Did they?" +"Not at first. Hours passed. The temple was cold and deserted. I fell asleep. + When I woke up, there was someone standing over me. He looked down and + smiled, and .. my fear went away. He stood there, bright against the + darkness, and said that I was going to be all right, that if I .. believed + .. then my parents will come for me. He said, ''I will not allow harm to come + to my little ones here, in my great house.'' Just then .. the door opened, + and my parents came running in." + -- Delenn and Sh''naal in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"Faith manages." + -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"Lennier, is there anyone? Anyone at all?" +".. No. No one." + -- Dr.Franklin and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"What do you call two billion dead Markabs? + Planetary redecorating." + -- Bartender in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" +',' +"I didn''t know you read Universe Today." +"Aah. After my last encounter with your reporters, I felt that + I should be more prepared in the future. I find this notion + of the press .. a fascinating, sometimes troubling concept." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Back home, if there is something you need to know, you are told + just what you require and no more. It''s tradition." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"You know, ah, while this incessant curiosity may seem necessary to you, + Minbari respect the privacy of others by not prying into their affairs. + To express *undue* *curiosity*--" +"Unable to insert ''Eye on Minbari'' section. Do you wish to accept edition + anyway?" +"Uh. Yes, yes I do." +"''Eye on Minbari''?" +"It is good to know what your people are thinking and saying about my people. + .. And, uh, I often learn things about my own world before I''m told what + ''I need to know and no more''." + -- Delenn, Computer and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Pakmara use only. Do not enter." + -- Toilet sign in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"I have been nothing but compassionate and understanding. I mean, all + you had to do was to admit you were wrong and I was right and everything + would''ve been fine." + -- Ivanova to Winters in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Lyta Alexander. She was the first commercial telepath assigned to + Babylon 5 little over two years ago. She arrived January 3, 2257. + She left about six weeks later." + -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Tell him that someone here, one of you, is a traitor. And I can prove it." + -- Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"What I''m about to tell you cost two good men their lives. It nearly + cost mine. This place is important to a lot of people. More important + than you could possibly know. So, I had to come back, to warn you." + -- Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Seven days ago .. One of our best people was murdered on his way back + from an intelligence-gathering operation in Syria Planum." +"That''s interesting. Psi-corps has a research center there." +"Our agent found out about a secret Psi-corps program, a sleeper program." + -- Lyta Alexander and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Our guess is that it''s someone on the command staff, or close to it, + since the mole would be looking for vital information. All we have + is a code name: *Control*." + -- Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Why is it, every time you finally get things calmed down and everything + is going great, life decides to .. kick you in the butt." +"But what?" +"What?" +"You said that life decides to kick you, *but*?" +"No, no. It''s a .. it''s a part of the body. It''s a .. Oh, you have the + damnest gaps in your vocabulary." +"Preparing to come here, I was not taught the more .. *colorful* aspects + of your language. It was considered inappropriate for one of the religious + caste." +"You''re missing out on a lot." +"So I gather. Butt. *Butt*. I butt, you butt, he or she butts." +"No. No, it''s--" +"Butt butt. Butt butt?" +"You sound like a motor boat." +"Motor-butt? I don''t think I like the sound of that." +"Well, I don''t blame you. I''m against the whole idea." +"Then we are in agreement." +"Abso-fraggin''-lutely." +"Well, there you see." +"What?" +"Something''s gone your way today. It''s the way the universe works. + Wait just a little while, and the wheel turns." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"That''s one cabinet that will never threaten us again." +"I''m sorry, I just-- it''s been one of those days." + -- Talia and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"You said you both interned with the corps. Which department + did she intern with?" +"Psi-cops. When she found out she didn''t like it, she changed departments + and became a commercial teep like me. Oh, ''teep''. It''s sort of an in-joke + around the corps. Teeps for telepaths, teeks for telekinetics." + -- Ivanova and Talia in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"I told you that my mother was a telepath, and ever since I was born she + could slip into my thoughts in a way that I could never even describe to + you. What I didn''t tell you .. is that I learned how to keep her out when + I wanted to and that every once in a while .. I was the one who touched + her mind. .. I''m a latent telepath." + -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Garibaldi believes her." +"Garibaldi doesn''t believe anyone." +"Exactly." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"That''s enough! Now, look at us. This is exactly what Psi-corps wants. + They want us paranoid and afraid of each other. ''Divide and conquer.'' + It''s the oldest rule in the book, you know that." +"I guess this wouldn''t be a good time for me to suggest we all join + hands and sing Kumbaya?" + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"The corps is mother! The corps is father! You''re dead, Lyta Alexander! + We''ll find you! The corps will find you!" + -- Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"And what was on that data crystal he gave you?" +"Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future." + -- Talia Winters and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Always the romantic. The program is complete. The Talia you knew no longer + exists. There''s just me. .. You don''t know what it''s like living only in + the shadows of her mind, watching, laughing at all of you out here: foolish, + petty, *stupid*. There I was, trapped inside, able to come out only at night + when she was asleep. Her invisible sister. And you believed *everything* + she said to you, all the things you wanted to hear, all the words I + whispered in her thoughts while she lay sleeping, the words that would get + her closer to you .. and to what you knew. You should see the look on your + face .. my *good* .. and *dear* friend Susan." + -- Talia Winters to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Only at night .. alone .. would I open that small door in my mind where I + kept the memory of you and listen to your voice, listen to you sing me to + sleep. I hope I can come back again .. but I don''t know. Until then .. Kosh + .. I want to see you again .. just one more time before I go." + -- Lyta Alexander to Kosh in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" +',' +"Oh, and you can bring one other. You know who." + -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"Mass drivers! They have been outlawed by every civilized planet!" +"These are uncivilized times." +"We have treaties." +"Ink on a page." + -- Londo and Refa in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"Sure you know where you are going?" +"Of course. I have an excellent memory." +"Positive?" +"Abso-fragging-lutely-dammit. Since our last discussion I have + been studying your use of language. Do you approve?" +"Well, we''ll talk about that later. Left or right?" +"Left. .. I believe." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"You have changed. .. I like it." + -- Draal to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"I know Delenn has told you about the coming darkness. And, lately, I''ve + learned about your role in shall we say .. a conspiracy of light aimed + at your own government." + -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"I said a year ago that this place was to be left alone until the time was + right. That time has arrived. Now that I know the full capabilities of this + place, I am prepared to place them at your disposal." + -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"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." + -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"I''m never alone. My thoughts are always among the stars. And I''ve learned + that there are a few others living here who maintain the great machine. + I speak with them from time to time. They are quite .. interesting. There + is one particular who.." + -- Draal in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"So much to do, so little time. We must get to work! Zathras! + *Zathras*! Grrr, never around when he is needed!" + -- Draal in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"You are the only one of the Kha''Ri who is still safe." + -- A Narn to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the 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 can not + stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. + Though it take a thousand years, we will be *free*." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"Tell them, that from this place we will deliver notice to the parliaments + of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness. And we will + hold that line, .. no matter the cost." + -- Sheridan to Rangers in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" +',' +"Lennier said you were calling for me." +"Yes." +"Is there something wrong?" +"You, perhaps. We have sent for you an inquisitor." +"An inquisitor? Why?" +"To be sure, about you. You will submit to his authority." +"How will I know who it is?" +"You will know, *if* you survive." + -- Delenn and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"Kosh must be certain that my choice was correct and made for the right + reasons." +"If you do the right thing for the wrong reasons, the work becomes corrupted, + impure, and ultimately self-destructive. Ambassador Kosh wishes confirmation + that the right people are in the right place at the right time." + -- Delenn and Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"Nothing changes. Corruption, immorality, chaos." + -- Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"The truth? You are not ready for the truth. The facts? If that''s the only + way to get to my work. Yes, the Vorlons have been to Earth. The Vorlons + have been everywhere. The Vorlons are." + -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"I was found by the Vorlons, taken, transported, and brought into their + service. They told me everything about everything and the scales fell off + my eyes and they were opened to universe of majesty and terror that you + could never imagine. They call upon me when I''m needed, and preserve me + when I''m not. And they have called upon me now for this interrogation." + -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"Mr. Garibaldi. I have been on this station long enough to know that you + don''t ask leading questions unless you already know the answers. So, why + don''t we just pretend I''ve lied about it, you''ve caught me in your web of + ineluctable logic and cut to the point." + -- G''Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"We are already, as you so quaintly put it, going straight to hell. + We can not escape what''s coming." +"Maybe not, but there''s nothing wrong with taking a good ahead start." + -- G''Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"I meant, why are you doing this?" +"Because you didn''t lie to me." +"But you must have known that ahead of time." +"Like you said, I never start a conversation unless I know where it''s going, + but I always leave a little room for someone to disappoint me. Thanks for + not doing it." + -- G''Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"Unacceptable! What a sad thing you are. Unable to answer even such a simple + question without falling back on references, and genialities and what *other* + people call you. Have you *nothing* of your own? Nothing to stand on that is + not provided, defined, delineated, stamped, sanctioned, numbered, and + approved by others? How can you expected to fight for someone else when you + haven''t the fairest idea who you are?" + -- Sebastian to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"We all have a destiny." +"Do we? How magnanimous of you." +"Sometimes we do not see it, because we have been taught to believe that + we are not important." + -- Delenn and Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"Why are you here, now, in this place, in this life?" +"I was meant to be here." +"Meant?" +"Yes." +"By whom?" +"I do not know." +"Then how can you be sure?" +"I don''t know." +"No, you don''t?" +"Does it matter? +"What do you mean?" +"If I believe I''m here now for a reason--" +"And if the world says otherwise?" +"Then the world is wrong!" +"And Delenn is right? Perhaps the world is right and *Delenn* is + wrong? Have you ever considered that? Have you?" +"Yes. Sometimes." +"Then there may yet be hope for you." + -- Sebastian and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"Do you know what your problem is, Delenn? You are a piece of the machine + that thinks it is the whole of the machine. The flute that believes itself + a symphony. You have malfunctioned. Admit it, and you''ll feel better. Your + only destiny is to be a nail that is hammered down. Bang, bang, bang." + -- Sebastian to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"No. Be a nice Minbari, conform, be quiet, admit that you are inadequate." +"No!" +"Bang!" + -- Sebastian and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"You are linked at the hip. Just as bad as she is. But you are not just a + dreamer, you are a soldier. How far are you prepared to go? How much + are you prepared to risk? How many people are you prepared to sacrifice + for victory? Are you willing to die friendless, alone, deserted by + everyone? Because that''s what may be required of you in the war that is + to come." + -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"What about the people you work with, the people you call friends? Are you + willing to sacrifice them? What about your *family*, what about your God, + what about truth, what about blood, what about right, what about wrong, + what about your future, what about faith, what about sin, what about hell, + what about death, what about life?" + -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"*Stop*! Your quarrel is with *me*. You were sent to investigate *me*. + Let him go. If you want to take someone, take me." +"Well, well. A mutual admiration and sacrificial society." + -- Delenn and Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"This body is only a shell. You can not touch me. You can not harm me. + I''m not afraid." + -- Delenn to Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"At last, my job is finished. *Yours* is just beginning. When the + darkness comes, know this: you *are* the right people, in the right + place at the right time." + -- Sebastian to Delenn & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"The city was drowning in decay, .. chaos, immorality. A message needed to be + sent, etched in blood, for all the world to see: a warning. In the pursuit + of my .. holy cause, I .. did things, terrible things, unspeakable things. + The world condemned me, but it didn''t matter, because I believed I was right + and the world was wrong. I believed I was the divine messenger. I believed + I was--" +"Chosen?" +".. I was .. *found* by the Vorlons. They showed me the terrible depth of my + mistake, .. my crimes, my .. *presumption*. I have done 400 years of penance + in their service. A job, for which they said I was ideally suited. Now, + perhaps, they will finally let me die." +"I think that *might* be wise." +"Good luck to you in *your* holy cause, Captain Sheridan. May *your* choices + have better results than mine. Remembered, *not* as a messenger, remembered + not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero, not even as Sebastian. + Remembered only .. as *Jack*." + -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" +',' +"Sometimes, I get so close and .. it seems I am shut off the important + things." +"The useless feeling. The ambassador is definitely going through some + changes, he even looks different." +"Indeed. And now with the military starting a stampede over everyone and + everything .." +".. people coming and going, and secret meetings .." +".. you never know what it''s all about, until later, when its too late." +"And they never listen to us." +"Makes me nervous." [together] +"Same time tomorrow?" +"Sure." + -- Lennier and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"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 in our time." + -- Frederick Lantz in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"I remember the first time I put on this uniform. I felt ten feet tall. + Like I could take on the *whole* galaxy before breakfast. Now I look at + it, and it''s just cloth. I don''t know what it means anymore, what it + stands for." +"You know, it''s going to be newyear in little over a week. Maybe 2260 is + the year that we redefine it, make it mean something again." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"Everyone said it was impossible to take out a Minbari warcruiser, but you + did it. The way things are going, I figured out that it might be nice to + have a remainder that impossible is possible." + -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"This isn''t a request, Captain. It''s a direct order from the joint + chiefs *and* the president. And you have two choices. Apologize, or + disobey a direct order from your superiors. As this would be an act of + insubordination, you will be removed from your position and someone more + .. reasonable will be installed to replace you." + -- Mr. Welles to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"I apologize. I''m .. sorry. 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. .. As with everything else, it''s the thought that counts." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"Automatic door. Keep clear." + -- Sign on a shuttle in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"The whole station is talking about what happened. Every race that was in the + garden saw something different, yet .. the same. Being of light." +"Yes, each according to his or her type." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"Millions of years the Vorlons have visited other worlds. Guided them and.." +"Manipulated us? Programmed us, so that when we saw them we would react + the right way?" +"It is, as you say, a matter of perspective. What matters is that he has + revealed himself to those who understand. You, me, and those who have been + watching. The Shadows will know what Kosh has done, they will worry, afraid, + that he will not reveal himself unless the Vorlons were prepared to stand + against them." +"Are they?" +"I do not think so. But as long as the Shadows believe that the rest of us + are unaware of their existence, we have time to prepare." +"Then I just hope no one finds about them until .." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"Nothing. I saw .. nothing." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"It was the end of the year 2259 and the war was upon us. As anticipated, a + few days after the Earth-Centauri treaty was announced, the Centauri widened + their war to include many of the Non-Aligned Worlds. And there was another + war brewing closer to home. A personal one, whose cost would be higher than + any of us could imagine." +"We came to this place, because Babylon 5 was out last, best hope for peace. + By the end of 2259, we knew that it had failed. But in so doing it became + something greater. As the war expanded, it became our last, best hope for + victory, because sometimes peace is another word for surrender, and because + secrets have a way of getting out." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"Strategic analysts in Earthdome have indicated they don''t know + who this new race might be, but promise to find out." + -- ISN in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" +',' +"Ambassador. I''ve been looking for you. Last week, after you saved my life, + I didn''t really get a chance to thank you properly. I''ve tried to reach you + since then, but .. you haven''t answered my calls. Is everything all right?" +"Being seen by so many at once was a great strain. I returned to my ship to + rest. You have a question?" +"Nobody knows it was you. Everyone saw something .. different, something from + the legends of their own world. But it was still a terrible risk. After + taking such .. such care to hide what you really are, why take that chance?" +"It was necessary." +"Well, as answers go, short to the point, utterly useless and totally + consistent, what I''ve come to expect from a Vorlon." +"Good." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"You know, I just had a thought. You''ve been back and forth to your homeworld + so many times since you got here, how do I know you are the same Vorlon? + Inside that encounter-suit you could be anyone." +"I have *always* been here." +"Oh yeah, you said that about me too." +"Yes." +"I really hate it when you do that." +"Good." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"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." + -- Commander Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"You know, I''m getting little tired of these unannounced visits by VIPs who + will not tell us why they are coming or what they are going to do when + they get here." +"I''ll leave it to you to try take all the fun out of life. I mean, come on, + where''s your sense of mystery, adventure?" +"Are you trying to cheer me up?" +"No, sir. Wouldn''t dream of it." +"Good. I hate being cheered up. It''s depressing." +"Well, in that case, we all are going to die horrible, painful, bleeding + deaths." +"Thank you, I feel so much better now." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"We have danced our last little dance, Mr. Morden. + Now it is time for *you* to *go* *away*." + -- Londo to Morden in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"It''s hard to gauge size in hyperspace, but it''s big and it''s powerful, and + it''s totally unknown to us. It attacked and killed one of our pilots. It''s + clearly from a highly-advanced civilization. We are down-playing this at + home, trying to convince the public we know what it is, where it''s from + and that we are not worried. We don''t have a clue." + -- David Endawi in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"These ships, once they target you, they never stop, never slow down, never + give up, until they have destroyed you. They are nearly invincible." +"I don''t believe that. Every ship has a weakness." +"Believe what you will, then experience changes your mind. Take a good look, + John, and remember it well. That is the face of our enemy." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"Can you tell me if you have seen this before?" +"Yes. In a dream." +"In a dream?" +"I''m standing .. somewhere, on Centauri Prime, I think. And I am .. looking + up. And there are ships, just like this, passing .. overhead. First a few, + and then more, a thousand, two thousand, so many that they blot out the sun. + Terrible sight, terrible." +"That''s all?" +"It is enough. .. No, that''s all I know." + -- David Endawi and Londo in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"I haven''t had chance to fill you in on everything until now. And I apologize + for that. But from what I''ve just heard we don''t have a lot of time. This is + Marcus, he''s a--" +"A Ranger. They''ve been trained to fight the Shadows and keep an eye on what + is happening outside Babylon 5. The Rangers in this area are in the direct + control of you, Ambassador Delenn, and Garibaldi is functioning as your + liaison. Did I leave anything out?" +"When did you..? How did you..?" +"Captain, the day something happens around here and I *don''t* know about it, + worry." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"I thought the Rangers will be trained on Minbar." +"Many of them are, yes. But there is a wisdom in, as you say, + not putting all of your eggs in one basket." + -- Garibaldi and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"We''ve spent too much time reacting when we should have been acting. + Let''s take the offensive for a change. Fire up the shuttle, Commander, + we''ve got work to do." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"What guarantee do we have that your forces do not decide to turn around + and attack us?" +"None. Ambassador, we both know what promises and treaties mean. All I can + say is that we have what we want. The rest is no concern to us." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"I''m not authorized for that kind of information." +"But you are the head of security." +"Then 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 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 have tried most of the other + ambassadors, why don''t you speak to G''Kar, maybe he knows something about + this ship." +"Under the terms of our recent treaty, I am not authorized to have any + official conversation with the Narn without Centauri approval." +"So you''ll ask unofficially. And I can give you reasonable assurances that + the head of security will not report you for doing so." +"Because you won''t tell yourself about it?" +"That''s right. I never get involved with my own life. It''s too much trouble." +"This is a very strange place you have here, Mr. Garibaldi." +"Thank you." + -- Garibaldi and David Endawi in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"They came to our world over a thousand of your years ago, long before + we went to the stars ourselves. They set up a base in one of our southern + continents. They took little interest in us. G''Quan believed they were + engaged in a war far outside our own world." +"G''Quan?" +"One of our greatest spiritual leaders. The book of G''Quan is copied by hand + from the original with every note and line precisely drawn. This ship and + your ship are the same. I tried to warn the others that the ancient enemy + was returning, but no one listened. Perhaps now they will." +"But if this is correct, why would they just disappear for a thousand years?" +"To all things there is a time, Mr. Endawi. Perhaps this is theirs." + -- G''Kar and David Endawi in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"They missed!? They never miss!" + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"Not that I can see. The ship is a complete mystery to all of them." +"Good. My associates will be very happy to hear that. There''s no need to + *rush* things. Your government can dismiss this as an isolated incident." +"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." + -- a Senator, Morden and a Psi Cop in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"Well, then, I have a question. Been granted, I am stuck at medlab most of + the time, and granted, I''m usually the last one to know anything around + here, and granted, we''ve all been pretty busy lately, but would someone + *please* tell me what the hell these Shadows are?" + -- Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than any of + our races. They walked among the stars like giants, vast, timeless. + They created great empires, taught the new races, explored beyond the rim. + The oldest of the ancients are the Shadows. We have no other name for them." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" +',' +"God goes by many names, perhaps some alien sounding, different faces, and + history, but all describing the same Creator. We''ve come here to learn *all* + those names, in hopes of better understanding the One who''s behind them." + -- Brother Theo to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"I heard a joke today. I probably shouldn''t repeat it, but .. who are you + going to tell? How many Centauri does it take to .. ahem screw in a + lightbulb? .. Just one, *but* in the great old days of Republic hundreds + of servants would change a thousand lightbulbs at our slightest whim." + -- Londo to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"This is insane! We *must* work together!" +"No. As the humans say: Up yours, guy!" + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"*We''re* *in* *here*! *Can* *anyone* *hear* *us*?" +"I hear you." [giggle, laugh] +"*In* *here*!" +"We are here." [giggle, laugh] + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"Not many fishes left in the sea. Not many fishes, just Londo and me. + *Not* many fishes left in the sea. Not many fishes, just Londo and me." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"Now look, we play this one by the book." [Lights go out.] +"Somebody just rewrote to book." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"As long as the trigger keeps transmitting, no *boom*." + -- Robert J. Carlson to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"These are *chaotic* *times*, Captain. I''m simply an instrument of my time. + People need to understand fear. Do you understand fear? Do you?" + -- Robert J. Carlson to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"It''s nothing personal, Captain. It''s just the times." + -- Robert J. Carlson to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"No. It didn''t. It''s not fair. It''s not fair!" +"What can I say? Life''s tough sometimes." + -- Robert J. Carlson and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"How do you feel?" +"As though great many heavy objects had fallen on me. + But I suspect I will live." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"I did what I did because all life is sacred. But when the object of your + actions does not share that belief.. I fear I have served the present by + sacrificing the future." + -- Lennier about Londo in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"There, you see! I''m going to live." +"So it would seem. Well, it''s an imperfect universe." +"Bastard." +"Monster." +"Fanatic." +"Murderer." +"You are *insane*!" +"And that is why we''ll win." +"Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5 they say. Will be an *easy* assignment. + Ah, I *hate* my life." +"So do I." +"*Shut* *up*!" + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" +',' +"You have the gun. All I''ve got is .. what I''ve got." +"No way. I drop you and your guards will kill me." +"Maybe. Maybe not, hell, anything happens to me, everyone gets an *instant* + promotion. You''ve got the gun, go ahead, go for it. I''ll wait for you." + -- Sheridan and Troublemaker in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"Energy-cap. I palmed it when I shoved the gun in his pocket." +"You are going to give *me* an ulcer." +"Okay, okay, next time I''ll give him a live gun. You really do want that + promotion, don''t you?" +"Next time you gonna ..?!" + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"Hey, did I ever tell you I looked through the Captain''s personnel file?" +"You *what*?!" +"Shhh!" +"Michael, that information is strictly off limits." +"I did it when he first came aboard. I like to know who I''m dealing with. + And who knew he turn out to be okay, huh? Right now, according to his file, + Sheridan is a good tactical thinker. He can take an inferior defensive force + and turn it into an offensive force capable of taking on a better-equipped + enemy. Now, he did it with the Black Star, he did it during the Mars riots. + Now, you ask me, he is the one chance we''ve got to make it through this + thing alive." +"Maybe. .. Did you look through *my* files when I came onboard?" +"Commander, that information is strictly off limits." + -- Garibaldi and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"So is that what it''s about, pride? It''s not enough that we have beaten them, + we have to break them?" +"Yes, I''m sorry, I thought you understood that. I don''t want our people to go + through this again in another hundred years. There''s a way things are done, + Vir, nothing personal." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"Sort of like an inter-stellar gardener, plucking out all of the + weeds so that the flowers can grow." +"Basically, yes." +"Well, let''s just hope that High-IQ boys back home give us all the + right answers to this test. Otherwise we''re gonna get hit with + a 500000-megaton weedwhacker." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"I want to *protect* you." +"I don''t want to be protected!" +"Well, I''m afraid it''s not your decision. It''s already done. You''ve been + promoted. You''ll earn more money, receive more attention, women may even + come to find you attractive .. in time." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"Londo, if I leave, you''ll be alone." +"Pah, I''ve always been alone." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"I don''t want to get killed because of a typo, it would be embarrassing." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"Always finding good in every situation, Captain?" +"Absolutely. If I didn''t, I might end up like you." +"*Hey*, what''s that supposed to mean? Did anybody else hear that?" + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"I swear, if we''ll live through this, someone is going to find their + automatic shower-preferences reprogrammed for ice-water." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"15 seconds. Captain, send or no send?" +"No send." +"Oh boy." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"Captain, are you all right?" +"Nuts." +"What''s wrong? I mean, we''ve survived." +"Right, which means that I have to go to that stupid transport association + meeting. Oh, well." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"If I''ll live through this job .. without completely losing my mind, + it will be a miracle of biblical proportions." +"Well, there goes my faith in the Almighty." + -- Ivanova and Lt. Corwin in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"If I stay here, your families are in jeopardy. + Is anything more important than their safety?" +"Yes, their freedom." + -- G''Kar and a Narn in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" +',' +"Your Ambassador Delenn has a wonderful phrase: ''Faith *manages*.''" + -- Brother Theo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"Ambassador, you wanted to see me?" +"Yes. Formality. Ritual. You should be informed." +"Informed of what?" +"Returning." + -- Ivanova and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"The next thing I remember I was on the Vorlon Homeworld." +"Well, come on. Tell us about it." +"I can''t. I wish I could, but I''m not allowed to talk about most of what I + saw. The rest, .. you wouldn''t believe anyway." + -- Lyta Alexander & Franklin in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"It said: ''Death walks among you.'' I know what I saw." + -- Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"I was just surprised to see you, that''s all. Do you know, that I was + thinking about you *just* the other day. My *extremely* overpaid sources + told me that you have been seen arriving here in a *Vorlon* transport. Now, + they are profoundly unreliable pool of information on the best of days, so + I said: ''No, it can not be her. The Vorlons do not pick up hitch-hikers. Not + even one as attractive as you. Besides, if it were you, *surely* you would + come by and say hello to your old friend, Londo.''" + -- Londo to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"*Fine*! And keep your threats to yourself! Nightmares. + The way my life has been going lately, who''d notice?" + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"Among my people it is considered an honor to aid + any true seeker in his quest." + -- Delenn to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"It is a.. it is very hard to explain. We do not believe in any individual + god or gods. But rather, we believe that the soul is a -- what is a good + term -- a non-localized phenomenon." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"Well, if I project a beam of light at the wall, you see the light on + the wall, but the wall is not the source of the light. It comes in from + somewhere else. The soul is also a projection. It does not exist inside + us any more than the light exists inside the wall. But this .. shell is + the only way we can perceive it." + -- Lennier to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"We believe that the universe itself is conscious in a way we can never truly + understand. It is engaged in a search for meaning. So it .. breaks itself + apart, investing its own consciousness in every form of life." + -- Delenn to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"*We* are the universe, trying to understand itself." + -- Delenn to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"Valen was the greatest of us. A thousand years ago he came from nowhere, + formed the Grey Council, and brought peace to our people. They say he was + a Minbari, not born of Minbari." + -- Lennier to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"Why would an uneasy conscience show up in a lab report?" + -- Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"Where does revenge end, and justice begin?" + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" +',' +"Wars are won or lost before they are fought. The preparation, attitude, + strategy, and the selection of proper allies. In the growing war against + the Shadows, maybe there are some allies we have not approached yet. Many + times over the last million years the Shadows were fought to a stand-still + by the First Ones, races immeasurable older than our own. After the last + war, a thousand years ago, we believed the first ones went away forever, + passing beyond the galactic rim, where no human or minbari has ever + ventured. But the vorlons remained, it is possible that some of the others + may still be around." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"According to legend, some went to sleep in secret places, deep beneath their + ancient cities, where no one can bother them. The rest walk among the stars, + on errands we never hope to understand, barely aware of our existance." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"Delenn tells me that you are going to try contacting the First Ones. It is + a *magnificent* idea. A *daring*, and *splendid* idea. In doing so you will + see things no human has seen before. It will be *fun*. Assuming you are not + vaporised, dissected, or otherwise killed in an assortment of supremely + horrible and painful ways. *Exciting*, isn''t it?" + -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"I asked for Captain Sheridan." +"He''s busy." +"I don''t like surprises." +"Really? I love them myself. I mean, to me everything is a surprise. You''re + a surprise, this place is a surprise. You see this? Paper-cut, hurts like + hell. Anybody else would be upset, but to me it''s just one more wonderful + surprise. I mean, I even surprise myself sometimes. Now, I guess there''s + nothing wrong me surprising you? Right?" +"Hahhahaha. I *like* you. You''re trouble." +"Well, thank you. It''s the nicest thing anybody has said about me in days." + -- Draal and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"Earth doesn''t have homeless. We don''t have the problem. Well, yes, there + are *some* displaced people, here and there, but they''ve chosen to be in + their position. They''re either lazy or they''re criminal or they''re mentally + unstable." +"They can''t get a job." +"Earth-gov has promised a job to everyone that wants one. So, if someone + doesn''t have a job, they must not want one." + -- Julie Musante and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"Poverty?" +"It''s the same." +"Crime?" +"Yes, there is some, but it''s all caused by the mentally unstable. And we''ve + *just* instituted correctional centers to filter them out at an early age." +"Prejudice?" +"No, we are just one happy planet." + -- Julie Musante and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"I''m here to protect you." + -- Julie Musante to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"Well, here we are. If you just plug yourself in to the matrix, we''ll take + it from there." +"Ahm, it''s .. ahm .. occupied." +"Oh, yes, of course, my mistake. I spend so much time out of my body, + I sometimes forget where it is. If you''ll excuse me." + -- Draal and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"All life forms are connected. Look for the path. Look for the path." + -- Draal to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"I can''t leave without an explanation. She''ll be all over me." +"Looks to me she''s already all over you." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"Good luck, Captain. I think you are about to go where everyone has + gone before." + -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"With our basic freedom in stake, no response can be too extreme. There + maybe some minor and *temporary* abridgments in the traditionally protected + areas, such as speech and association, but only until this crisis is over." + -- Julie Musante in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"I think you just hit a nerve. Vorlons must owe them money or something." +"This also tells they understand our language. They are just not willing + to speak to us using that." +"Who knew they were French?" + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"The Minbari taught me: + ''Claim victory in your heart and the Universe will follow.''" +"Fine, great. Claim victory in your heart and up your--" + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"I told you I could help. The book of G''Quan. Read it. We''ll talk afterwards." +"I don''t read Narn." +"Learn." + -- G''Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" +',' +"I will not support murder. We can *not* kill him." +"Can we wound him? Just a little?" + -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"Far be it from me to try and talk you out of your paranoia, Captain. + You choose not to trust me. Well, that''s sad, and unfortunate. But + unlike the rest of you, I have no intention of letting it get into the + way of my work. Doctor. Trust, Captain. You should try it sometime." + -- Bester to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"I''m here to save your butts. Next time, show a little gratitude." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"A darkness carried in the heart can not be cured by moving + the body from one place to another." + -- Lennier to Vir in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"My blood is the same color as yours. And what I do, I do to protect Earth, + same as you. You don''t like how I do it, that''s your prerogative. But there + are things going on out there that you know nothing about. Threats to the + human race that no one never hears about, because we stopped them. There + are dangers all around us. And whether you like us or not, we may be all + that stands between you and the abyss." + -- Bester to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"I thought the sleepers keep you from scanning anyone." +"That''s right." +"So, how did you know he was lying?" +"Well, the odds were good that he was lying about *something*. Liars are + always afraid that somebody is going to see through them. So, I just + provided him with a vehicle for his paranoia. Your captain''s opinions + non-withstanding, the badge and a uniform do have certain.. advantages." +"Like intimidation?" +"Absolutely. Just like.. *your* badge and .. *your* uniform." + -- Garibaldi and Bester in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"Londo, the Minbari are very lovely people, interested in culture, and art.." +"Decorative, and soft. Probably out to impose their views on everyone else." +"But their cities are thousands of years old." +"The lack of new construction is a sure sign of a faltering economy. + This could make them very aggressive." +"They are deeply spiritual people, Londo." +"*That* you can leave in. It always scares people." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"If I had my talent working, I could''ve warned you when he was coming." +"And if I had a baseball bat, we could hang you from the ceiling and play + pinjata. I still think I should''ve gone straight to G''Kar." +"We have no evidence that he made the sale yet. Why annoy the Narn without + cause if we are wrong? Shut off the problem at the source and the rest + attends to itself. A pinjata, huh? So, you think of me as something bright + and cheerful full of toys and candy for young children. Thank you! + That makes me feel.. much better about our relationship." + -- Bester and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"Who would believe it? The great and powerful Londo Mollari got + his job because no one else was stupid enough to take it." + -- G''Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"Who are you?" +"I am .. who I have always been." + -- G''Kar and ''his father'' in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"We are a dying people, G''Kar. So are the Centauri. Obsessed with each + other''s death until death is all we can see, and death is all we deserve." + -- Narn Image to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"What is there left for Narn if all of creation falls around us? There''s + *nothing*. No hope, no dream, no future, no life. Unless we turn from the + cycle of death toward something greater. If we *are* a dying people, then + let us die with honor, by helping the others as no one else can." +"I don''t understand." +"Because you have let them distract you. Blind you with hate. You cannot see + the battle for what it is. We are fighting to save one another, we must + realize we are not alone. We rise and fall together. And some of us must be + sacrificed if all are to be saved. Because, if we fail in this, then none of + us will be saved. And the Narn will be only a memory." + -- Narn Image and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"Why now? Why not earlier? All this time, where have you been?" +"I have always been here." + -- G''Kar and Narn Image in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" +',' +"Shadow vessels. They were sighted in sector 800 two days ago. Seems they''re + gathering, creating a border on the edge of the Centauri space." + -- A ranger to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +',' +"Listen, now that you have been promoted, I was thinking. We spend a lot of + time up here together, but we never really get a chance to talk. So I was + thinking maybe we could get together and talk about what you see yourself + doing down the road, just .. you know, get to know each other a bit better." +"Well. Ah. Sure. We could, .. I don''t know, meet in the mess hall for + breakfast?" +"No, you can''t have a private conversation up there. The dishes cluttering, + people talking.. So, why don''t you come by my quarters later in the day and + we can have a cup of coffee. Real coffee. Just don''t ask me where I got it." + -- Ivanova and Lt. Corwin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +',' +"Hi! Something I can help you with?" +"I don''t know, I was thinking .. flowers." +"Thinking flowers is good, giving flowers is better. What''s the occasion?" +"I''m not sure, but I think I have a date." +"She asked you out?" +"She asked me *in*, her place." +"Works fast. Is she agressive?" +"You could say that." +"Hah. Lucky guy." +"It''s not like that. Well, it''s not like that *yet*. .. I think." + -- Flower salesman and David Corwin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +',' +"There are three of them with guns against two of us with *nothing*. + They''ll gun us down before we get half across the room." +"All we need is one of them to leave the room. Then there will be + only one man with the gun." +"Excuse me, where I come from, one man from three leaves two." +"Where I come from is a far more interesting place." + -- Franklin and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +',' +"I sense in her a key, as yet unturned." +"And what exactly does that mean?" +"I don''t know. But I should think it would be *fascinating* to find out." + -- Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +',' +"You see that tube on the corner of the table there? That''s a medical + scanner, the Copeland J5000, very advanced. I was bringing it to him. + You need to get it to him immediately. I know, I know, why should you + believe me, it could be a weapon or something. Check it out yourself. + Just look at the open end, yeah, then shake, shake it twice firmly to + activate the scanner." + -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +',' +"It says we were created half a million years ago. Bred to be living records + of all those we have seen and touched. For all that time we have travelled + through the galaxy in our host bodies. We have seen double sunset on worlds + so far away you have no name for them. We remember music that was played + before your kind learned to speak. Within us is the living memory, deeds and + stories, civilizations and passions, wars and struggle, great beauty. But in + time even we die, unless we find shelter within other living beings. So, we + seek out those who have nothing to look forward to, those whose lives are at + an end, those who know they will be never more than they are now, those who + will never know beauty, or peace, or purpose and we give them that. Through + us they are born to a new life." + -- Vindrizi to Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" +',' +"I''ve taken the opportunity provided by my incarceration to meditate, + to think. Sometimes, I even sing." +"I know, we got a petition." +"For or against?" +"Based on the sound, they think we are torturing you in here." + -- G''Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +',' +"In here, Mr Garibaldi, you can not hide from yourself. Everything out there + has only one purpose. To distract us from ourselves, what is truly important. + There are no distractions in here. We can learn much from silence." + -- G''Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +',' +"Seven years ago I was stationed on Mars. We were always getting false leads + on artifacts supposedly buried beneath the Martian soil for thousands of + years. Nothing ever came of it. And then one day our sonic probes picked up + something three hundred feet below the surface of Syria Planum. We didn''t + know what it was. Except that it wasn''t a natural formation. And given it''s + depth, it had been there at least a thousand years. It was in the middle of + Martian winter, so it took weeks to dig half of it from the ground. But that + much was enough to give me nightmares for the rest of my life. It''s the same + ship we have seen on the news lately. That one looks like it came straight + from hell." + -- Dr. Mary Kirkish in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +',' +"But back home they are saying they have never seen ships like this before." +"They are lying. I was there." + -- Sheridan and Dr. Mary Kirkish in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +',' +"How can you sleep in these things?" +"It''s quite simple with proper meditation. Because we consider sleeping + in horizontal to be tempting death." +"Yeah, if I''m sleeping in this, I''m tempting fate .. all night." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +',' +"And according to one of our units on the border of Centauri space, they''ve + continued massing their fleet. We don''t know why. Maybe they expect a counter + attack, it''s hard to say. And they have much to be concerned about. There''s + always the threat of an attack by say, a giant space dragon, the kind that + leaves the sun every thirty days. It''s a nuisance, but what would you expect + from reptiles. Did I mention that my nose was on fire? That I have fifteen + wild badgers living in my trousers? I''m sorry, would you prefer ferrets?" + -- Marcus to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +',' +"The shadow vessels use living creatures as their central core. Whoever + steps inside merges with it, becomes one with the ship. After that it''s + fully functional. They must be sending one in right now." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +',' +"In Valen''s name. It''s awake." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" +',' +"No. No, this report is totally inappropriate. You have to do it again." +"But Londo, why? I''ve spent weeks working on this report. I didn''t even + sleep on the flight back from Minbar so I could go over it again. I''ve + checked *every* *single* *detail* myself. It''s absolutely accurate." +"Yes, Vir, I''m sure it is. And that is the problem. Here, you say: + ''The Minbari have carefully preserved their cities over the course + of centuries''." +"That''s right, absolutely." +"No, what you should say instead is: ''Their cities are very old indicating + a decaying culture.''" +"*What*?" +"And here: ''The Minbari put great emphasis on art, literature and music.'' + Say instead: ''They are decadent people, interested only in the pursuit of + .. of dubious pleasures.'' Dubious-part is very important. It doesn''t *mean* + anything, but it *scares* people every time. All right?" + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"I thought the purpose of filing these reports was to provide accurate + intelligence." +"Vir, intelligence has nothing to do with politics." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"Here, ''They are tolerant of differences among other cultures.''" +"Yes." +"No, make that: ''They have no well-defined sense of morality.'' + They''ll *love* that back home." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"''Everything''s gone to hell, John. God help us all. You''re on your own.''" + -- Gen. Hague''s message to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"Emergency evac pod access way." + -- Sign outside C&C in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"Captain, how did this happen? What did we do wrong?" +"I don''t know, Lieutenant. I don''t know." + -- Lt. Corwin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"I might have something for you in a little while, Mr. Garibaldi. + When the time is right." + -- G''Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"I need to know if the grand destiny I see before me is what is, or what + might be." +"So you want her to tell you it''s all going to happen the way you see it?" +"No, I want her to tell me it won''t." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"I believe that I have been touched. That I am meant for something greater. + A greater darkness or a greater good, I can no longer say. All I have ever + wanted is to serve our people. I need to see what is before me. If I should + escape it, or embrace it. If there is any longer a choice." +"There is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves + with the decision we have already made. If you understand that, there''s + hope. If not .." + -- Londo and Lady Morella in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"You must understand, Ta''Lon, I have had a revelation." +"What kind of revelation?" +"Most profound and substantial one, Ta''Lon. The kind of revelation that + transforms your mind, .. your soul, .. your heart, .. even your flesh. + So that you are a new creature. We born in the instant of understanding." + -- G''Kar and Ta''Lon in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"What do you understand now that you did not understand before?" +"It''s all here, in these pages. I have tried to write down what I have seen. + It may take the rest of my life to explain what I *saw* in that one singular + instant. To save our people, we must sacrifice our people, sacrifice + ourselves, pride our vengeance, be willing to die by the thousands, by the + millions. For one another. The more we fight for ourselves, the more we will + lose ourselves. We are linked, Ta''Lon. Our fate is like an image caught in + a mirror. If we deny the other, we deny *ourselves*. And we will cease to + exist." +"And who or what is this ''other''?" +"The universe itself, Ta''Lon. But the Humans, they are the key. And together, + you and I, and the rest, we will turn that key. Because on the other side, + there''s salvation for all of us." + -- Ta''Lon and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"G''Kar, what are you doing here?" +"[whispering] Saving all of us. I''ve had .. an idea." + -- Ivanova and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"Always plant a lie inside a truth, makes it easier to swallow." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"You have a chance few others will ever have, Mollari. You still have three + opportunities to avoid the fire that waits for you at the end of your + journey. You''ve already wasted two others. You must save the eye that does + not see. You must not kill the one who is already dead. And at the last, + you must surrender yourself to your greatest fear, knowing that it will + destroy you. Now, if you fail all the others, that is your final chance for + redemption." +"I .. don''t understand." +"The future reveals itself only reluctantly, Ambassador. Take the sign for + what it is. Look for it when it appears." +"I will, thank you." + -- Lady Morella and Londo in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"One more thing. You *will* be Emperor. That part of your destiny can not + be avoided." +"I see." +"[to Vir] You will also be Emperor." + -- Lady Morella and Londo in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"Lady Morella, please. We can not *both* be Emperor." +"Correct. One of you will become Emperor .. after the other is dead. + That is all we see and all we wish to see." + -- Londo and Lady Morella in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"I have time. All the time in the world. Do you?" + -- G''Kar to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" +',' +"He has a wife back home, three small children, an abessinian cat named Max. + That''s what makes this war different from anything we have ever gone + through before. This time we *know* everyone we kill." + -- Major Ed Ryan in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +',' +"Delenn, please be careful. The Grey Council is not what it was. They may not + receive you well, if they will see you at all." +"They *will* see me whether they like it or not. It''s time someone made them + face reality." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +',' +"Three years. For three years I warned you this day was coming. But you + would not listen. *Pride*, you said, *presumption*. And now the Shadows are + on the move. The Centauri and the younger worlds are at war, the Narns have + fallen. Even the Humans are fighting one another. The *pride* was yours, + the presumption was yours. For a thousand years we have been awaiting for + fulfilment of prophecy, and when it finally happens, you scorn it, you + reject it. Because you no longer believe it yourselves. ''We stand between + the candle and the star, between the darkness and the light.'' You say the + words, but your hearts are empty, your ears closed to the truth. You stand + for nothing but your own petty interests. ''Problems of others are not our + concern.'' I do not blame you for standing silent in your shame. You, who + knew what was coming, but refused to take up the burden of this war. If the + warrior caste will not fight, then the rest of us will. If the Council has + lost its way, if it will not lead, if we have abandoned our covenant with + Valen, the Council should be broken, as was prophecied. We must stand with + the others *now*, before it''s too late. Between the worker caste and the + religious caste we control two thirds of our forces. Do you, I say, listen + to the voice of your conscience? Break the Council, and come with we. Our + time of isolation is over. We move *now*, together, or not at all." + -- Delenn to Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +',' +"What was the first lesson I ever taught you?" +"Never start a fight, but always finish it." + -- David Sheridan to John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +',' +"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. + Withdraw, .. or be destroyed." [in the White Star!] +"Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship." +"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with Minbari + fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, + be somewhere else." + -- Delenn and Captain Drake in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +',' +"Traitors can''t hide." + -- Nightwatch banner in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" +',' +"So once we open up all the comm channels, they can send a message out to + override the system, erase our passwords and lock us out. Cute. They can + shut down the defense grid, life support.." +"No problem. I have got the access codes locked away. Shouldn''t be too much + trouble to go and change the passwords." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"We have to reassure everyone that we are in control of the situation. + We can''t do that hiding in our offices." +"I still think you should have an armed escort." +"Kind of defeats the purpose, Mr. Garibaldi. I can take care of myself." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Opinion doesn''t enter into it. What is, is. Prophecy said one day we would + unite with the other half of our soul in a war with the ancient enemy. + This we have done." +"Prophecies are poor guide to the future. You only understand it when the + events are already upon you. And .. not all of the prophecies are good + ones. There''s darkness and fire still ahead of us. There are no guarantees + that any of us will survive it." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"I told you to wait!" +"I had a clear shot." +"You had *nothing*! You take him down, he''s a martyr. 500 men will stand + up where he fell. Now, we do this by the numbers, or not at all. Don''t + worry, before this is over, we''ll have our pound of flesh." + -- Boggs and Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"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." +"We can handle it. Our resources are greater than you think." + -- Londo and Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"I have gotten into the habit of recording important meetings. One never + know when an inconvenient truth would fall between the cracks and vanish." + -- Londo to Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Mr. Morden and his associates worry me. After the Narns were defeated, I + took steps to put some distance between us. Refa, I have the feeling that + he and his associates are carving a great, dark hole in the middle of the + universe. And when they go down, anyone nearby will go with them." +"That will not happen. You don''t appreciate their strength." +"I appreciate their strength all right. And that is why this unfocused + aggression worries me. By drawing our forces into dozen smaller wars you + have effectively weakened our main line of defense, should they turn an + eye to Centauri Prime." +"They will not do that." +"No, they will not, because you are going to take steps to prevent it. + And you start by breaking off your relationship with Mr. Morden." + -- Londo to Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Oh, Londo, you are a *fool*. You walk away from the greatest power I have + even seen, and now you expect *me* to do the same. They are the *key* to my + eventual rise to the throne. Why would I abandon them?" +"Because I have asked you. And because your loyalty to our people should be + greater than your ambition. And because I have poisoned your drink." + -- Lord Refa and Londo in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Yes, and it is *very* interesting poison. It comes in two parts. Both are + harmless on their own, but when combined, quite lethal. The first settles + into the blood stream and the intestinal wounds. It stays there for years, + silent, dormant, waiting. When the other half of the poison enters the + body, the two meet, have a little party in your cardiovascular system. + And suddenly, you .. are .. quite .. dead." + -- Londo to Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Your drink contained the first half of the poison." +"Why? Why did you do this?" +"To guarantee your co-operation. And because, sooner or later you would + do it to me. Yes, we are returning to the old ways, Refa. And poison was + always the instrument of choice in the old Republic. Being something of + an sentimentalist, I got here *first*." +"What do you want me to do?" +"You have encouraged that fool Cartagia to attack worlds that have no value + to us. You will now encourage him otherwise. You will bolster our lines of + defense around Centauri Prime. And you have nothing more to do with Mr. + Morden. If you do not comply, one of my agents in the royal palace will + introduce you to the second half of the poison. To your health, Lord Refa." + -- Londo and Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"We have gone through so much pain, John. If we do not put it behind us, + if we are not sworn into new possibilities, it will surely destroy us." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Toebone''s connected to the footbone, + footbone''s connected to the anklebone, + the anklebone''s connected to the legbone, + legbone''s connected to the hipbone, + now hear the word of the Lord." + -- Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"You''ve been nervous about this ever since I mentioned it. What are you + afraid of?" +"Nothing. Well, spiders." +"Marcus, the rebirth ceremony was part of your training on Minbar." +"I missed it, overslept." +"It lasts all day." +"Oh, that''s right, I was ill. Wanted to go, .. couldn''t. Same as now. + Loved to, can''t really, next time. Ah, someone I have been waiting for." + -- Delenn and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Could you tell me a little more about what is involved in this rebirth + ceremony?" +"Reflection, meditation upon what has gone before, what is now, and what + is to come." + -- Londo and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Ah, for a moment I was thinking women, drinking and debauchery. I forgot I + was speaking to a Minbari. This, by you, is a good time, is it? What else?" +"You must tell someone a secret that you have never told anyone else before. + And you must give away something that is of great value to you." +"Ah, how positively festive!" + -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"It is time for us to come together, to restore that which has been torn + apart, and to heal the wounds we have suffered." +"With everything that has been going on, I''m surprised you invited me." +"In the matter of confessions, meditation and the closing of past wounds, + Ambassador, you were at the top of my list." +"I''m already attending to my past, my present and what remains of my future. + I do not require your assistance. Or your *approval*. Enjoy your ceremony, + Delenn. I intend to have other plans." + -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"I''ll try and stop by for the closing ceremonies." +"What matters is everything leading up to that point. + Leaving behind the old, preparing to be reborn." +"I have already been born once, and quite sufficiently, I think." + -- G''Kar and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Well, it was a good idea while it lasted." +"It *still* *is* a good idea. We will hold the ceremony. If some choose + not to attend, the loss is theirs." + -- Marcus and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Everything I was, everything I had, all of it died that night. + I don''t have anything left to give." +"And that is exactly what you must give up. Yes, you have lost much, endured + much, sacrificed greatly, but you cling to the memory of your sacrifices, + of all the things you have lost or left behind. They *drag* behind you, + like chains of your own making. They can have a terrible power over you, + Marcus. The power of grief, and loss, and regret. Yes, you have let go of + the people, the places, the things, but you have not let go of the pain. + You have not forgiven yourself." +"For what?" +"Being alive." + -- Marcus and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Hello. I''ll deal myself in." +"I thought we had an understanding. We don''t bother you, you don''t bother us." +"That was before a close friend of mine was abducted by some very bad people. + Being rather bad people yourselves, it occurs to me one of you might know + where she is." +"We don''t talk to security, why should we talk to you?" +"Because if you don''t, then in five minutes I''ll be the only person of this + table still standing. Five minutes after that, I''ll be the only person in + this room still standing. So, who''s in?" + -- Marcus and a ''bad boy'' in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Among Minbari, one individual leads, but we move as one. We are at our best + when we move together, and we are at our worst when we move together. When + our leader was killed by your people, we went mad together. We stayed mad + for a very long time, a maddness that almost consumed your world, until + finally, before it was too late, we woke up together. But you, you are + alone, you have no one to awaken you from your madness. For this, and + nothing else, I feel pity for you." + -- Delenn to Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Oh bugger, now I have to wait for someone to wake up." + -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"I see they trained you well back home." +"Yeah, they always said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger." +"And?" +"I''m not repressed anymore." + -- Lennier and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"I know that Delenn is fated for another, and I have accepted that, + in my heart. But I have vowed to stay at her side through all things + for as long as I live." + -- Lennier to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"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." + -- Marcus to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Always bet on stupidity." + -- Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"No more! No more of you! No more Nightwatch, no more hostages, no more + lies. Not on my station, not on my watch. *No* *more*! No more." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"Hello Delenn. Now, I was thinking, you couldn''t come to the ceremony, the + ceremony should come to you. I''ve given up something that really mattered + to me, the uniform and everything that goes with it. I''ve never told anyone + before now.. When you were hurt, when you were in my arms, I was ready to + kill that guy with my bare hands. I realized I have never told you how much + I cared about you, how much you mean to me. I think it''s time you knew that. + I can no longer imagine my world .. without you in it. I don''t .. know + exactly when or how it happened, .. but I''m glad it did." + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"No one knows, but .. I''m afraid all the time .. what I might do + if I ever let go." + -- Garibaldi to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"I think I loved Talia." + -- Ivanova to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"I .. think I have a problem." + -- Franklin to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"What''s the matter? Haven''t you ever seen someone who''s been reborn before? + The crisis, for now, is over. Tell the ships .. we are open for business." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" +',' +"What do you mean, 100 credits?" +"I mean, more than 99, less than 101. What, do you have a hearing problem, + or a math problem? Look, I can''t get into conceptual arguments with you, + I''ve got people waiting." +"That''s three times the delivery charge for package this size." +"That was before we had a revolution around here. Now, in my little corner + of Earth Force the mail still gets delivered. If I''ve got to use trapdoors, + alien transports and back channels to get the mail in and out of here, + that''s what I do, because that''s my job. Neither rain, nor snow, nor + meteors, nor alien invasion nor.." +"Look, this is extortion." +"It''s business. You see, when my costs go up, I have to pass it down along + to the consumer. That''s *you*, in case that''s another one of those concepts + you''ve got a problem with." + -- Garibaldi and the mailman in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +',' +"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." + -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +',' +"Two figures on either side, one Human, the other Minbari. They blend + together in the middle to signify the two halves of our souls uniting + against the common enemy." + -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +',' +"By G''Quan, I can''t recall the last time I was in a fight like that. No moral + ambiguity, no .. hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces. + *They* were the bad guys, as you say, we were the good guys. And they made + a very satisfying *thump* when they hit the floor." +"It''s wrong for the strong to prey on the weak. That idea was the very heart + of the Round Table. To correct injustice, to promote a society of laws, not + arms." +"*Well* *said*!" +"*That* is the purpose which God and the Crown have set before me. I can not + achieve that locked away in some room." +"*No*, of course not! What room?" +"I sense in you a warrior born." + -- G''Kar and Arthur in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +',' +"But this is the *post* *office*. This could get us in *real* trouble." + -- A Sec.Guard to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +',' +"I will vouch for his character! I saw the *entire* thing .. because I was + there. I was in it. I was .. And they made a very agreeable thump. Or did + I mention that?" + -- G''Kar to Marcus in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +',' +"I''ll miss him." +"Even if he wasn''t Arthur?" +"Now, now. Next thing you''ll be saying he''s [Kosh] not Merlin. + Merlin was a great teacher, you know." +"I''m not hearing this." +"They say he aged backwards. That was how he was able to foretell the + future by remembering it. Which means he came *from* the future. Maybe + he had Arthur form the round table by remembering us." + -- Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" +',' +"The Emperor has just finished reviewing your reports from Minbar. He asked + me to convey his *compliments* on your hard work, even if some parts of it + do read as if they were written by Ambassador Mollari." +"He advised me on a few things." +"I thought as much. Londo belongs to the old school. He thinks we must be + protected from the truth. But these are perilous times. We must have accurate + information about what other worlds are doing. You would do well to follow + your *own* judgement in the future." + -- Centauri Minister and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"Oh, I heard a new joke. Hehahaahhh. What is more dangerous than a + locked room full of angry Narns?" +"Heh, I don''t know. What is more dangerous than a locked room full of + angry Narns?" +"One angry Narn with a key." + -- Centauri Minister and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"Same thing night after night, one bad dream after another. You know, I + get the one where your teeth are breaking off or falling out and you wake + up going aaah!" +"Oh yeah, I know that one." +"Or you are lost in a maze somewhere, or you''re someplace I have never been + before. This morning I dreamt that I walked into C&C totally .. unprepared + for my work." +"Oh. Interested in little time-honored psychoanalysis?" +"No, I''ll just bury my soul in the breakfast and ask you to give me some + silver-ware." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"I have already dealt with all that." +"Consciously, but from what you are saying, subconsciously you are still + trying to work it all through. You don''t know where you fit anymore, how + to define yourself, you are feeling vulnerable, lost, and exposed. It''s + all perfectly obvious and completely understandable." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"It''ll pass. Your subconscious just needs to work it all through. Hey, it + could be worse, you could be having dreams where you are showing up to work + naked. You would be in real trouble." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"Yes, you can help me. Two hours ago. *Two* hours ago I called you. I told + you that there is .. a bug, an insect in my quarters." +"Well, we''ve been a little busy." +"Now, listen to me. I do not like insects. I do not like little *brown* + *things* with eight legs. I do not like *anything* with eight legs. Well, + except for the Vinzini, but only because they are terrible at cards. + Something to do with compound eyes, I think. I want this thing *dead*! + -- Londo and B5 Maintenance in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"I would like to see you tonight." +"Are you not seeing me now? I would think that you see me every time we meet, + unless I have become translucent or .. insubstantial and nobody has stopped + to inform me until now." +"Let me say I would like to see you in a *different* light, candlelight for + instance. Over dinner." +"Tonight?" + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"Humans can be a very depressing people." +"Only if we get turned down for dinner." +"Well, we can''t have that, now can we?" + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"And how are things at the royal court?" +"You know, collusion, politicking, scheming, innuendo, gossip. + The same old thing." +"Good. Good. And your reports? I assume they went over well." +"Yes, sir. Very well." +"Did you tell them I helped with our reports?" +"No, there was no need to, they noticed it right off." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"When I marry, I want it to be for love." +"Ah, a radical?" + -- Vir and Lyndisty in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"Wow. It''s quite a view, isn''t it?" +"I know, I can never get enough of it." +"Standing here in front of the stars like this, looking out, down, up, + all at once, kind of makes you feel naked in front of the universe." + -- Zack and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"Mr. Cotto, you''re late." +"I''m sorry. I was otherwise engaged. Engaged and married, as it is. + Not that I knew about it or anything.." +"You are not making sense." +"I imagine I''m not, but that''s the kind of day I''m having." + -- Ivanova and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"Is she all right?" +"Yes, Lyndisty, my wife. Well, soon to be. You know, it''s .. it''s done, but + it''s not *really* done .. but it''s .. phew .. a long, long story. But, you + know, at first, you know, I didn''t think, but now .. oh, she''s .. well. Oh, + can I ask you a question as long as you are here?" + -- Ivanova and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"There were other women, but I never got past one." +"You mean first base." +"No, no, I mean one. You see, we have six a .. we have *six*, you see, and + each one is a different level of intimacy and pleasure. So, you know, first + you have one, and that''s naa-naa. Then there''s two .. and by you get to + five it''s a heehaa-heehaa." + -- Vir and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"All I can say is that enthusiasm, sincerity, genuine compassion, and + humor can carry you through any .. lack of .. prior experience with .. + high numerical value." +"Wow, I''m gonna remember that. Thank you, *thank* you." + -- Ivanova and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"*Six*! Huh!" + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"Back home nobody cares about dead Narns, only living ones." + -- Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"And to tell you the truth.. I hate to say this, but .. + I think I really enjoy being a sneak." +"Then I hereby appoint you the official Babylon 5 sneak in residence." +"Oh, thank you." +"Now get the hell out of my chair." +"Yes, sir." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" +',' +"ISN, the galaxy''s most important network." + -- ISN announcer in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"I can only wait so long." +"I thought your patience was infinite." +"Since space and time are curved, the infinite sooner or later bends + back upon itself and ends up where it begun. And so have I." + -- G''Kar and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"You know, if this keeps up, I''m gonna start thinking that people around + here .. just don''t like me." + -- Bester to a welcome party in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"I was expecting the captain." +"He sent me." +"Did he? He has a better sense of humor than I thought." + -- Bester and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"You know, it''s come to my attention lately that we have a common enemy. + There''s an old saying: ''The enemy of my enemy is my friend.'' President + Clark isn''t calling the shots back home, there''re others whispering in + his ear. I don''t know who they are or where they are from, but do I know + they are not human. I have only heard one name for them: Shadows. My guess + is you know more about them than I do, but you are probably not interested + in sharing that information. Are you?" + -- Bester to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"You know the real reason you don''t like me, Commander? It''s the jealousy + of evolution. Normals like you are obsolete. The future belongs to telepaths + .. and I intend to make sure that future happens. One way or another." + -- Bester to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"But we can''t be on top if the aliens get there first and some of them have. + Through Clark they infiltrated the Psi Corps. And apparently they have their + own plans for my telepaths. Whoever these aliens are, they are interfering + with *my* plans for the future. I won''t have it! And so, I need someone who + feels the same way I do. .. Which brings me to you. You''d like to hurt them, + Commander? Because I think I know how. If you are up for it. + -- Bester to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"So, how did you find about all of this?" +"I''m .. a telepath. .. Work it out." + -- Sheridan and Bester in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"We knew that the Shadows, the ancient enemies, as you call them, had + returned. We knew they were rebuilding their forces preparing to strike. We + knew that they were seeking allies and that the Centauri were the first to + enlist. When you came back from the area near Z''ha''dum, and warned us about + the enemies'' return, we could''ve spoken out. We could''ve confirmed your + story. We chose to remain silent." +"Who is ''we''?" +"The Grey Council. I was still a part of them at that time. Once the decision + was made, I could not disobey." +"So you stayed silent. And with the help of these .. Shadows, the Centauri + destroyed my world. Enslaved or killed millions of my people." +"G''Kar, if we *had* spoken out, if we *had* come public with what we knew, + most of the other worlds would never have believed us. It would have changed + *nothing*. Your world would still have fallen. With one critical difference. + There are billions of Narns still surviving on your world. If we had exposed + the Shadows, they could have struck openly before we had time to prepare, + and *none* of your people would have survived. G''Kar, under the Centauri + there is at least the hope of survival. With the Shadows, there is no hope + at all. We had to choose between the death of millions and the death of + *billions*, whole planets." + -- Delenn and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"''Some must be sacrificed for all to be saved.'' First I took that as a + revelation for the future. Now I see that it is as much about how we got + here as about where we are going. I think that one sentence is the greatest + burden I have ever known." + -- G''Kar to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"You are right, nothing would''ve been changed. Except that my people would now + be a dead race." +"You have come a long way, G''Kar. Further than I would''ve guessed. Sheridan''s + promise binds me as well it does him. We will take you into the Council, + G''Kar. And someday, when all this is over, perhaps you will find it in your + heart to forgive me." +"Perhaps, but not today." + -- G''Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"Can we intercept?" +"The White Star is powered by a magnetic and gravitational system like all + Minbari cruisers. You can use a magnetic discharge to capture the escaped + vessel." +"A simple ''yes'' would''ve sufficed, Mr. Lennier. Grab it." + -- Sheridan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"The machine says: ''kill, to protect.'' The sign hurts us. We can not hear + the machine." +"What machine?" +"*Live*. In my mind. I am the machine. We join, we flight. It is dark. + Terrible. Help me, please, make it stop talking in my mind." + -- Carolyn and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"What did you see inside her mind before she passed out?" +"Those things. Those *Shadow* vessels. How much do you know about them?" +"Delenn said they are some kind of organic technology and they use living + beings as .. as their central operating system." + -- Sheridan, Bester and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"Your war .. is now my war." + -- Bester to Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"''The enemy of my enemy is my friend.''" +"You sound dubious?" +"He''s still a Psi-Cop. I don''t trust him, never will. He has invested + interest in helping us for now, but once this is all over, he''ll turn + on us. You do know that?" + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"Hello, hello, hello, and .. hello." +"Michael, you look like the proverbial cat that ate the equally proverbial + canary." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"I''ve got it. I''ve got it. I''ve got it. It''s right here. It''s right here." +"Do not thump the book of G''Quan. It is disrespectful." + -- Garibaldi and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"We have a weapon. My God, people, we have a weapon." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"The Shadows have just started attacking Brakiri space, openly, + they are not hiding anymore. They are finally on the move." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" +',' +"August third, 2260. Personal diary. 10 days ago, for the first time, + the Shadows began attacking openly." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"Nobody has seen Kosh in almost a week. When the Vorlon goes to ground, + I worry. What''s going through his .. its .. mind? I can''t even guess." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"It''s not about value. It''s .. I don''t know what it is. I don''t know what + the Shadows want exactly, but they are not on anybody''s side but their own." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"I thought we had a deal. We carved up the galaxy, you and I." +"Yes, we did. And what you do in your half is your business. + What I do in mine is mine." +"We need your government to continue its campaign." +"Yes. And why is that, huh? I don''t think you have any interest in restoring + the glory of the Centauri Republic. No. I think you are *using* us as .. + shall we say, agents of chaos. Convenient distraction making it easier for + your associates to do whatever they wish to do. Yes?" + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"Yes, I *have* ideas, some possibilities, but at this moment the stone cold + fact is that none of us can stand up to those ships. If we could just score + *one* victory against the Shadows, it''d be enough to make some of the others + come around." +"Perhaps we should give them a victory." +"Oh, just like that?" +"Just like that." +"And how do you suggest we do that?" +"I''m sure you''ll think of something." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"You can never go wrong with garters. .. Hmm, *you* might." + -- Vendor to Vir in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"Anything I can do to help?" +"Hmm. Short of dying, no, can''t think of a thing." + -- Morden and Vir in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"Nobody wants to fight a war unless they know there is at least a chance + of winning. You can give them that hope. As one of the older races your + technology has to be at last as good as the Shadows''. If you can convince + your government to send out an expedition to engage one or two of their + ships.." +"*No*." +"I know you can''t take the entire Shadow fleet by yourselves. But if you + could beat them in just one fight, it could be the break we need to get + everyone organized. Then we would have a real chance. You could do it, + couldn''t you? +"Perhaps. But there are still few of us. It is not our time. It is yours. + We are not prepared yet." +"Don''t turn your back on me. Don''t you ever try to walk away from me! Just + who the hell do you think you are? Wait, I know what you think you are, + what you want us to believe. But I don''t buy it. For three years now you''ve + been pulling everyones strings, getting us to do all the work, and you + haven''t done a damn thing but stand there and look cryptic. It''s about time + you started pulling your own weight around here." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"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.''" +"Impudent." +"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." +"Incorrect. Leave now." +"No." +"Disobedient." +"Up yours!" + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"So, the real Kosh shows his colors at last, huh? You angry now? Angry + enough to kill me, because that''s the only way I''m leaving, unless your + people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something. I''ve got + nothing to lose. My own government wants to kill me, and if we lose this + war I''m just as dead. Our only chance is to get the other races on board + for this fight and right now you are the key to doing that." +"It is not yet time." +"And who decides that time? You? You put me in this position, you asked me + to fight this damn war. Well, it''s about time you let me fight it my way." + -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"I will do as you ask. .. But there is a price to pay. I will not be there + to help you when you go to Z''ha''dum." +"You already said if I go to Z''ha''dum, I''ll die." +"Yes. Now." +"Right. If that''s the tradeoff, if you want to withhold your help when the + time comes, that''s fine. I''ll go there alone." +"You do not understand. But you will." + -- Kosh and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"My grandfather had a saying: + ''Good news can wait. Bad news will refuse to leave.''" + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"I don''t have much time, son. I want you to know you were right. I didn''t + want to admit that. Just .. pride, I guess. Yet, my age, you get kind of + set in your ways. That *had* to be done, don''t blame yourself .. for what + happened later." +"Dad? Are you .. all right?" +"It''s too late for me. I''m sorry for what I did before. I knew what was + ahead. I guess .. I guess I was afraid. When you have lived as long as I + have, you kind of get used to it. I wish I could''ve done more for you. There + is so much I should''ve said, and .. now it''s too late. You''re right, it''s + time you begin fighting this war your way. .. Aah, I gotta go now, John." + -- his ''father'' to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"No, no. Don''t leave." +"It''s all right, son. See, as long as you''re here, I''ll always be here." + -- Sheridan to his ''father'' in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"Everybody around me dies, Mr. Morden, except the ones that most deserve it. + That is about to *change*. You said that you would go away for as long as + *I* wanted. I no longer want that. All I want now is revenge. They took from + me .. the one thing that I have .. have ever *truly* loved. And you will + help me, Mr. Morden, to strike them down. Give me this, and the safety of + my people, and let the rest of the galaxy *burn*. I don''t care anymore. + Will you help me, Mr. Morden?" +"Of course, Ambassador. As ever I''m always in your service." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"I''ve got a lot to figure out, it''s time I got started." + -- Franklin to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" +',' +"Tell the others to continue their work in my absence, + nothing must interfere with that." + -- Sinclair to Rathenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Well, with your help we created something bigger than we are. It has a + life of its own. Come what may, the rangers will finish the work ahead." + -- Sinclair to Rathenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"I have the strangest feeling I will never see him again." +"He is the closed circle. He is returning to the beginning." +"The beginning of what?" + -- Rathenn and a Vorlon in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"They''re coming through! Repeat, they''re coming through! This is Earth + Alliance station Babylon 5. They''re all over the place. .. They''re + killing us. Can anyone hear me? They''re killing us." + -- Future Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Well, it''s a fake. I have never sent out a distress-call like that." +"Or, you just haven''t sent it yet." + -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Will you be staying long?" +"*That* is a far more interesting question than you might suspect." + -- Zack and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"He''s here, isn''t he?" +"Yes." +"Then it''s time. We are Grey, we stand between the candle and the star. + .. He''s my friend, Lennier." +"I know. But it *must* be done, or the dream will die, and countless + others will die with it." +"I wish I had more time, but now, *time* is all we have." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"We haven''t had a Shadow attack in nearly eight days. My guess is they + are reconsidering their strategy after the Vorlons got involved." +"They''re worried. That means they''ll hit us twice as hard when they come + back." +"Assuming a worst-case scenario." +"The way things have been going lately, I''ve decided to take Ivanova-lessons." + -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Just as Zathras said. Not good. Definitely not good." +"We must tell Draal." +"No! It''s taking all of Draal''s concentration to control Great Machine. + If we distract, very bad. He''d drop the time field. *Everyone* dies. + Draal told Zathras what to do. So Zathras will do. Or much, much dying." + -- Zathras and Caretaker #2 in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"There are no coincidencies, Captain." + -- Sinclair to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Captain. If I were you, I would quit while I was ahead. Back on Minbar, + there was a saying among the other rangers. Only way to get a straight + answer from Ranger One was to look every reply in a mirror while hanging + upside-down from the ceiling." +"Did it work?" +"Oddly enough, yes. Or, after a while you passed out and had a vision. + Either one, the result was pretty much the same." + -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Can anyone help us? This is commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5. To any + ships in grid epsilon. We are under attack. I repeat, we are under attack. + The captain is dead, defense grid is down, they are boarding us, they are + coming in all over the place. We''ve tried to evacuate as many as we can, + and Garibaldi has rigged the fusion reactor, but.. my god, here they come. + Switch to external cameras. They''ve got weapons lock. Here comes. Here + comes. Aahg." + -- Future Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"So, you are saying the Minbari .. that *you* stole Babylon 4?" +"Not quite." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Delenn, are you saying we stole Babylon 4?" + -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Delenn, the question of who stole Babylon 4 is the biggest mystery of the + last decade. Now you are telling me that it was .. *me*? Is me, is going + to be me? You can''t be serious." +"John, with Babylon 4 we will be able to save my people and yours. It is + history, it''s already been done. All we have to do now is make sure that + we do it then." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"I believe it." +"If Entil''Zha believes it, I believe it." +"I''ll be in the car." + -- Sinclair, Marcus & Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Sorry, sorry, sorry, much apologizings. Zathras has great responsibilities, + was thinking great thoughts, did not see you. Was looking for the One. Was + thinking great thoughts, very sorry. Very sorry." + -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"There you are. Being very honored to meet you. I''m being called.." +"Zathras. We''ve met before on Babylon 4." +"No. .. Zathras does not.." +"It was my past, your future. Zathras, this is very important. When you + meet me again, it will be me, but it won''t be me now. So, you are not say + anything that may change the past. Do you understand?" +"Zathras understand. .. No. Zathras not understand, but Zathras do. Zathras + good at doings, not understandings. Zathras honored to meet you for *many* + reasons." + -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Zathras also honored to meet *you* .. for other reasons." +"Oh, such as?" +"Oh, no, Draal give Zathras list of things not to say. This was one. No, not + good. Not supposed to mention one, or the One or .. You never heard that." +"What else is on this list of things you are not supposed to mention?" +"Zathras does not remember. But if Zathras remember later, Zathras tells you." + -- Zathras and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Stop. Display message from Sinclair." +"Unable to comply. Password required for access." +"Password? What password?" +"Unable to comply." + -- Garibaldi and Computer in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"The White Star is based on Vorlon organic technology, it learns from + experience, changes, evolves. The skin of the ship now uses the Vorlon + defense system. Most of the energy is reflected away, leaving only the + physical impact." +"Well, as my great grandfather used to say: ''Cool.''" + -- Lennier and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Time stabilizer damaged. He''s unstuck in time. Zathras warned, + but no one listen to Zathras, no." +"What do you mean unstuck in time? Where is he? In the past? + In the future?" +"Cannot say. Saying I would know. Do not know, so can not say. + *Very* damaged. Zathras can never have anything nice." + -- Zathras and Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Welcome back from the abyss, Sheridan. Your timing, as always is quite + exceptional. Just in time to die." + -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"This was not part of the plan. I did not expect this. We can not even know + where in time Sheridan has gone." +"He''ll be all right. /I know what''s coming. Are you alright?/" +"/No. I''m sorry./" +"/Don''t be./ All my life, I''ve had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. + Now, I''m like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitations, no + doubts. The path is clear." + -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"What I am doing is what someone should''ve done a long time ago. Putting + *you* out of *my* misery. Fitting punishment for your *crimes*." +"What crimes? I''m not.." +"The crime of neglect, the crime of convenience. During your little war, you + drove away the Shadows, oh yes, but you did not think to clean up your mess. + The few of their dominions, their dock servants, came to Centauri Prime, + well, where is the harm in that, yes? You want to see the harm? *Do* *you*? + There is the legacy of your war!" + -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Yes, yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people''s + needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death, but at least there + is symmetry. Go, go, Zathras take care." + -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"Ready?" +"Why do your people always ask if someone is ready right before you are + going to do something massively unwise?" +"Tradition." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" +',' +"There''s the legacy of your war. The price *we* paid, when you abandoned + us to the enemies you escaped from." +"But this couldn''t happen, not in this amount of time. What year is this?" +"This is the *last* year, and the last day, and the last hour of *your* life. + *Seventeen* *years* since you began your great crusade. *Seventeen*!" + -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"Sheridan. Make your peace with whatever gods you worship. You will meet + them next time I send for you. I can''t recall my world from what it has + become, but I can thank you, *properly*, for your role in it." + -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"We need to find an access panel. Usually they''re sealed up once the station + goes operational, but this place just went online, so with any luck, there + should be a couple still open." +"Sorry, don''t believe in luck." +"Well, luck is about the only thing we''ve got on our side right now. Sure as + hell we don''t have much of anything else." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"Great move, how did you know they were coming?" +"Didn''t. But right now would be the worst time to be discovered, so it + was logical it happened now. Like I said, I don''t believe in luck. .. + Well, on the other hand.." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"Carry this, Zathras. Fix this, Zathras. Poor Zathras, no one listen .. + to Zathras, but no one.." + -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"What is it?" +"I''m not sure, it was the strangest feeling. I think the way you describe + it is .. as if someone had just walked over my grave." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"From what Londo said, I get the impression that we won the war. But not + completely." +"The war is never completely won. There are always new battles to be fought + against the darkness. Only the names change. But we, we achieved everything + we set out to achieve. We created something that will endure for a thousand + years. But the *price*, John, the terrible, terrible price." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"No, this future can only be changed by surrendering to the Shadows. + And that price is too high to pay." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"You will excuse me if I do not stand. I have had considerable to drink. + It is .. the only way that we can be alone. We do not wish to wake it." +"Wake what?" +"Didn''t you two not know? You can not see it while it is awake. We all + have our keepers, you see. I gave a very good performance. Yes, it was + satisfied. Doesn''t care why I do what I do, as long as I do it, as long + as you are dead." + -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"My life is almost over. My world, all I hoped for, gone. You two are my + last chance, for this place, for my people, for my own redemption. There + is a ship, hidden behind the palace, my guard will take you there. In + exchange for your lives, all I ask is that you and your allies help to + free my people. I can do nothing more for them." + -- Londo to Sheridan & Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"We have unfinished business between us, G''Kar. Let us make an end of it, + quickly, before it stops me. I am as tired of my life as you are." + -- Londo to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"He''s quite mad, you know. He actually thinks that Sheridan is going to + materialize in there." +"Marcus, we are stealing a station to fight in a war that was almost a + thousand years ago. We are all mad." + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"No one *ever* listens to Zathras. Quite mad, they say. It is good that + Zathras does not mind. He''s even grown to like it. Oh yes." + -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"What happened?" +"Time-device activated prematurely. Not good. Malfunction." + -- Delenn and Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"Danger though. Time system is not stable. Very delicate. Must adjust before + we try again. Or we come *forever* lost in time. *Very* dangerous." +"Great, doesn''t anything come under warranty anymore?" + -- Zathras and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"No. No. No. No-no. Not good. No, no." +"Come on, find what you need and lets get away from here. We are running + out of time." +"Can not run out of time, there is infinite time. *You* are finite, *Zathras* + is finite. This is wrong tool. No. No. Not good. No. No. Never use this." + -- Zathras and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"Observation Dome: + Unauthorized persons in the OBS DOME will + be forcibly removed from this sector." + -- Sign outside Babylon 4 C&C in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"This isn''t my stabilizer. There''s no sign of damage. Someone must have put + this on me, switch places." +"But if you are here, then who''s running around out there in the blue suit?" + -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"Go now, leave me." +"I can''t." +"Go. You must. Listen to Zathras. You have a destiny. Go, please. + Go for Zathras." + -- Zathras and past Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"Babylon 4 to Garibaldi. Babylon 4 to shuttle one. Garibaldi, do you + read me? Watch your back, Michael, watch your back." +"Target is outside of communication range. Unable to make contact." + -- Sinclair and Computer in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"I tried. I tried to warn them. But it all happened, + just the way I remembered." +"I know. It''s time. We have to go. They are waiting for us." + -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"Zathras, something I don''t understand. You said you follow the one, but + the one you pointed to was .." +"Was Delenn. Hehe, yes, Zathras knew. Zathras is oldest living caretaker of + great machine, 110 years old. Zathras has studied the great machine, knows + things even *Draal* does not know yet. And I know you [Sinclair]. And I know + *you* [Delenn]. And I know *you* [Sheridan]. All Minbari belief is around + three. Three castes, worker, warrior, religious. Three languages, Light, + Dark, Grey. The Nine of the Grey Council, three times three. All is three. + As you are three. As you are one. As you are *the* *One*. You are the one + who was [Sinclair]. You are the one who is [Delenn]. You are the one who + will be [Sheridan]. You are the beginning of the story, and the middle of + the story, and the end of the story. That creates the next great story. Ah, + in your heart, you know what Zathras says is true. Go now, Zathras'' place + is with the one who was. We have a destiny." + -- Sinclair and Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"Yes. That door is closed forever. And it is not the only one. Lennier told + you that a thousand years ago, human and Minbari souls begun to merge. + Minbari souls were being born in human bodies. Something happened that + opened that door between us. My change was in part to even the scales and + restore balance between our races, using the device my people discovered a + thousand years ago. You see, if my people had found Babylon 4 with a human + aboard, they would never have accepted it." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"Dear God, a Minbari not born of Minbari." + -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"I welcome you and present this place to you as a gift. I am called Valen, + and we have much work ahead of us." + -- Valen to two Minbari in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" +',' +"What guarantees will you give me that the crews will not open fire on a + Centauri vessel as it approaches Babylon 5?" +"It''s the same guarantee I gave when I said that none of the other Narns + would break into your quarters in the middle of the night and slit your + throat." +"Mr. Garibaldi, you have never given me that promise." +"You''re right. Sleep tight." + -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"With everything that has been going around here lately he just needed to + get out a little, stretch his legs a bit, so he took a walk. Outside. On + the forward cargo stabilizers." + -- Garibaldi to Ivanova about Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +".. MAG-STRIP AT ALL TIMES UNLESS ANCHORED" + -- Text in the forward cargo stabilizers in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Breen. You''ve managed to import breen from homeworld. How?" +"It .. isn''t actually breen." +"But the smell, the taste.." +"It''s an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It''s a strange thing, + but *every* sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs. + I suspect it''s one of those great universal mysteries which will either never + get explained or which will drive you mad if you ever learned the truth." + -- Na''kal and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Your government neglected to tell me your name. How should I refer + to you when we are alone?" +"Kosh." +"Oh, yes, I understand that''s how we are to refer to you publically, + but .. privately?" +"Kosh." + -- Sheridan and Kosh #2 in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"We are all Kosh." + -- Kosh #2 in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Well, he''s a Vorlon all right." +"Yep!" + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Why is everything around here always a long story? Why isn''t anything ever + a short story? A paragraph? Look, just give me the short version, okay?" +"All right. Walkabout." +"That''s it?" +"That or the long version, so, you make your pick." + -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"The theory is: if you are separated from yourself, you start walking and + you keep walking until you meet yourself. Then you sit down and have a long + talk. You talk about everything that you''ve learned, everything that you .. + felt. And you talk until you run out of words. Now, that''s vital, because + the real important things can''t be said. And then, if you are lucky, you + look up and there''s just you, and you can go home." + -- Dr. Franklin to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Where?" +"I''m sorry. I wasn''t here. I was doing what he told me to do. + He wasn''t with me when he left. Not even a piece of him. I swear." +"Failed. Gone." +"No, I''m sorry. It''s my fault." +"There was no other?" +"No. Not that I knew of. I''m sorry. He''s gone." +"Follow." + -- Kosh #2 and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Despite their strength the Vorlons are delicate people. They do not react + well to change, and they are not very forgiving of mistakes. It''s been a + long time since one of them died, they are taking it pretty hard." + -- Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Is there a problem?" + -- Kosh in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"As you know, Mr. Garibaldi recently uncovered information which seems to + indicate the Shadows have a weakness. Their ships are based on organic + technology which may be vulnerable to telepathic interference. In theory a + telepath might be able to jam their central operating system leaving them + vulnerable to an attack." +"I noticed a number of conditional phrases in that: ''seems to indicate a + weakness'', ''maybe vulnerable'', ''in theory''." +"Exactly. Maybe we are right, maybe we ain''t. Unfortunately war doesn''t + tolerate ambiguities. We have to find out if we are right." + -- Sheridan and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Of course he doesn''t! It''s easy to fight when you''ve got a lot of ships to + work with. The real crunch comes when you are down to almost nothing. Then + you either play it safe and you probably lose it all or you take a chance. + After everything we''ve been through with your people, Sheridan was crazy to + send our pilots out to fight for your ship. They didn''t want to go, they + didn''t want to get blown out of the sky and leave B5 defenseless, and they + sure as hell didn''t want to die. But they did it because Sheridan *told* + them to do it, and because it was *right*." +"This time it is possible he could be wrong." +"Yeah, it''s possible. But you don''t follow an order because you know for sure + it''s gonna work out. You do what you are told, because your CO has the moral + authority that says you *may* *not* *come* *back*. But the cause is just, + and fair, and necessary. That''s why Sheridan is out there, and dammit, + that''s where the cruiser should be too! It''s not Na''kal''s decision, G''Kar, + he doesn''t see the big picture. You do, so in my book, and *your* book, that + makes it your responsibility. Deal with it!" + -- Garibaldi and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"They killed him. They tore him apart!" + -- Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Can you tell me what you felt?" +"I could feel it shifting around in my mind trying to slip away. + I almost lost it *twice*." +"It''s all right now, we found out what we came to find out." +"No, it''s not all right. I tried to stop it, but I think it got off a + distress call before we killed it." + -- Sheridan and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"They ran?" +"Yes they did, Mr. Lennier. They did indeed." + -- Lennier and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"And so it begins." + -- Kosh to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Before, I told you I don''t have a piece of Kosh. But it''s possible, + I don''t know for sure, but it may be, someone else does." + -- Lyta to Kosh #2 in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" +',' +"Name?" +"Harry, Harry Sanders." +"Are you a telepath?" +"Sure, what does the job pay?" +"Well, it''s not a job, it''s more like an adventure. Chance to help fight + the bad guys." +"Good. Look, are we talking about hourly or weekly salary, because I''ve + got expenses to cover." +"Well, one thing at a time. If you are a telepath, are you Psi Corps?" +"No, they missed me." +"No, Psi Corps doesn''t miss anybody." +"Well, some things just fall through the cracks." +"Psi Corps doesn''t have any cracks." +"I escaped, okay? Now, where do I sign?" +"What am I thinking?" +"I don''t work for free." +"*What* *am* *I* *thinking*?" +"Right. .. Got it. And I think you are real cute too. Look, I *really* + need this job." +"But you are not a telepath." +"I can learn. I''m a quick study." +"Out." +"I''ll be an intern. I work cheap." +"*Out*!" +"Great, see, it''s not what you can do, it''s who you know. *Typical*!" + -- Zack and a ''telepath'' in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"The Rangers were here because he was here. Where you are, the Rangers + will be. We are coming into a critical time, Delenn, they will need you. + Please, say ''yes''." + -- Rathenn to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"Did they fix it?" +"Yeah." +"You are right, it *is* unusual." + -- Garibaldi and Zack in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"Thin air? Why is it always thin air? Never fat air, chubby air, + mostly-fit-could-stand-lose-a-few-pounds air?" + -- Garibaldi to a Supervisor in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"You chose not to act. Someone had to." +"Perhaps. That is why we let you have them in the beginning. Even allowed + Sinclair to train them. Even though it meant diluting their purity by + allowing humans to join alongside our own people. We were quite tolerant + of your activities. But now that their training is complete they require + new leadership. By right of tradition, the warrior caste should be given + command of the Rangers. That was the law, as set down by Valen. Three + castes: worker, religious, warrior. They build, you pray, we fight." + -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"Out of respect I give you this opportunity to walk away from the path you + have taken. Refuse the position of Ranger One, and turn control of the + Rangers to the warrior caste, where it belongs." +"Or?" +"I''m sworn to stop you, Delenn. By any and all means necessary." + -- Neroon and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"We knew the Warrior caste was unhappy with our activities." +"Unhappy? Delenn, he''s planning to kill you." +"That is .. one interpretation." +"He said he would use any and all means necessary. I respectfully suggest + that he intends to go far beyond harsh language." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"You shouldn''t be here. You''re in trouble." + -- A Dummy to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"I''m trying to avoid breaking a promise by .. breaking a promise. I promised + Delenn that I would not speak of this to the Captain or let him know. She + did not mention you by name, but that was implicit. If I tell the others in + the chain of command, then Sheridan will find out and I will have broken the + promise. But if I break my promise by telling you, since you are not in the + chain of command, he may not find out about this and I will have not broken + the promise." +"I''m in awe, Lennier. The way you can take a straightforward, logical + preposition and turned it inside-out so that in the end it says .. what you + want it to say instead of what it actually means. Does this come naturally + or did you .. attend some special martial arts class for the philosophically + inclined?" + -- Lennier and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"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." + -- Marcus to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"There is now blood between us, and there is blood between the warrior caste + and the humans. I do not think they would die for me. But they would die .. + for you. .. *Entil''Zha*." + -- Neroon to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"This should never have been allowed to happen, not for my sake." +"If not for yours, then who elses?" +"You could''ve got him killed." +"Delenn, all we know is that we will die. It''s only a matter of how, when + and whether or not it is with honor. He did what any of us would''ve done. + Respectfully, Delenn, I think this is the one thing about your position + you do not yet understand. You cherish life, life is your goal. But for + the greater part to live, some must die, or be harmed in its defense, and + yours. There is no other way." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"He will not hear you." +"Then I will speak briefly." + -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"Denn Shar, you said. To the death. And death there was. The death was mine. + To see a human invoke the name of Valen, be willing to die for one of my + kind when I was intent upon killing one of my own, the rightness of my + cause disappeared. Strange, that a human in his last moments should be more + of a Minbari than I. Perhaps it is true what Delenn said. That we are not of + the same blood, but we are of the same heart." + -- Neroon to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"The next time .. the next time .. you want a revelation .. could you + possibly find a way .. that isn''t .. quite so .. uncomfortable?" + -- Marcus to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"Okay. Well, first, there was this missing maintenance man. Only he wasn''t + missing, he was killed by a Zarg. But I''m getting ahead of myself. That + was after I found out that the entire 17th floor grey sector had completely + disappeared. Well, not disappeared exactly, this weird cult had taken over + the place, see, and there was this dummy that shot tranqs out of his eyes. + Very strange, but it was also supposed to be perfect. Now *that* was the + thing about it, but there wasn''t a way out, but there was, except it was + spiritual. You had to die a perfect death, that''s where the Zarg came in + and either it was going to kill me or I was to kill it and.. Am I going too + fast for you?" + -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" +',' +"Londo, has it occurred to you that half the other races are at war? + We have to figure out what to do about them. About us. And you are + worried about G''Kar. We have a lot bigger concerns here." +"Big concerns grow from small concerns. You plant them, water them with + tears, fertilize them with unconcern. If you ignore them, they grow. + I have ignored this problem long enough." + -- Vir & Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"Temporary? Nice word, isn''t it?" + -- Theo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"Ivanova sent me to find you. She said you haven''t been sleeping, that you''ve + barely been eating. She said that you have been, in her words, carrying on + ''cranky''. I looked up the word cranky, it said ''grouchy''. I looked up + grouchy, it said ''crotchety''. No wonder you have such an eccentric culture. + None of your words have their own meanings, you have to look up one word to + understand another. It never ends." +"Something here doesn''t make sense." +"That''s what I thought when I came across ''crotchety''. This can not be a real + word, I said." +"The Shadows keep attacking random targets, *very* illogical. On the other + hand, once engaged, their tactics are *very* successful, *very* logical. + It''s a contradiction." +"Unless the random attacks *are* logical in some way we haven''t yet + determined." +"Exactly." +"So, you have been sitting here trying to think illogically about logical + possibilities or logically about illogical possibilities." +"Huh? Yes, yes." +"No wonder you are cranky. Grouchy. .. Never mind. Your face just broke the + language barrier." +"I''m tired, I haven''t had a good nights sleep since Kosh died. Having the + kind of nightmares that make your hair stand on end." +"Well, that would explain the Centauri. You need food and rest. The humans, + who you''ve been waiting for have arrived and would like to have dinner with + us." +"No, no, I don''t have time. If they want to come here.." +"So, I told them ''yes''." +"Delenn!" +"Since Minbari do not lie, except to save another, my reputation is now at + stake. If you say ''no'', I will be publically dishonored." +"You don''t fight fair." +"True. Dinner is in two standard hours. I will see you there." +"Pain in the butt." +"Grouch." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"You are young, Vir. You don''t understand. But you will." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"I didn''t think so, but if I was wrong, I was wrong. I''d rather do something, + and make a mistake than be frightened and be doing nothing. That''s the + problem back home. Folks have been conned to thinking they can''t change the + world, have to accept what is. I''ll tell you something my friends. The world + is changing every day, the only question is who''s doing it." + -- Rev. Dexter in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"Legs get funny when you get older. You are sitting, they want to stand. + You stand, they want to lay down. You lay down, they want to go for a walk." + -- Rev. Dexter in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"Now, I didn''t say work. I said responsibility. I''ve seen people since I came + aboard. They all come to you with questions, problems, concerns, so, who do + you go to? Who do you talk to?" +"There isn''t anybody. It''s my responsibility, I can''t put it on anyone else." +"I didn''t say you should *put* it on anyone else, either. Just talking about + it, sharing the burden as much as you can." + -- Rev. Will Dexter and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"Every day, here and at home, we are warned about the enemy. But who is the + enemy? Is it the alien? Well, we are all alien to one another. Is it the + one who believes differently than we do? No, not at all, my frieds. The + enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the one who tells you + that you must hate that which is different. Because, in the end, that hate + will turn on you. And that same hate will destroy you." + -- Rev. Dexter in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"Hello, Refa. If you are seeing this message, it is because in a very few + minutes you will be dead. I have made sure that the guards assigned to you + are loyal to house Mollari. They will not obey you from this moment forward. + You''ve taken from me, that which I loved, Refa. You also took the life of + prime minister Malakai, a good and dear friend. You have inconvenienced me, + and threatened my position in the Royal Court, and weakened our defenses by + your constant warfare. None of which matters to G''Kar or his associates. + But I think they do care about what you have done to them, Refa. Yes, I + think they care about that a great deal." +"I have given G''Kar documents which prove that *you* are the one who + orchestrated the bombing of Narn homeworld against my advice. That you + personally were involved in the creation of death camps and genetic + cleansing programs. That you are personally responsible of the death of + five or six million Narns. And I think that they would like to thank you, + personally, for your efforts." +"On the off chance that G''Kar might not believe me, I have arranged for + two thousand Narns now in custody to be freed. Half in advance, half + pending his co-operation. In all a sufficient inducement, I think. You see, + it''s not enough for me to .. *simply* *kill* *you*, Refa. I could do that at + home, or here. But through your death on Narn, I will discredit your house + and all opposition in the Royal Court. Goodbye, Refa." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"Make sure this is found on his body. Leave his face and head intact. + They will be needed later for identification. The rest is yours." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"Londo, they could''ve killed me." +"Nonsense, you are not important enough to kill." +"But I''m important enough for you to lie to. At least I thought I knew you, + but I never knew you at all, did I." + -- Vir & Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" +',' +"The others have gone to speak with their governments. They have authorized + me to speak in their place. .. You will have all the ships we can spare, + Delenn. I only hope that you are right, because it will cost us greatly, + if you are wrong." + -- Drazi council member to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"We''ve got commander Ivanova on channel 4." +"Put her through." + -- Lt. Corwin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"We are ready to go, Captain. Any last minute instructions?" +"Beside from an old Egyptian blessing, I can''t think of a thing." +"Then we''ll see you .. when we see you." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"An old Egyptian blessing?" +"''May gods stand between you and harm in all the empty places + where you must walk.''" + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"You know, I have just been thinking. He shouldn''t be doing this. He + shouldn''t have to be doing this. I feel like *I* screwed up." +"Hey, come on Chief, it''s not your fault. I heard what happened. You + offered to help, he walked away." +"Yeah, I know, but the thing is: sometimes people walk away because they + *want* to be alone, and sometimes they walk away because they want to see + if you care enough to follow them into hell. I think I went the wrong way." +"Look, he''s gotta get his head screwed on straight. You can''t do that for + him." +"Yeah, you are right. It''s just.. I''ve had my own problems. I''ve been where + he is. I''ve walked away from lot of things in my life. I just hope he can + find his way back again." + -- Garibaldi and Zack in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"Marcus. Marcus! *Marcus*!" +"What? I''m awake." +"It''s your watch." +"Right. I knew that, I was just resting my eyes." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"You seem to be pretty fluent in Minbari." +"You can''t finish your training until you can speak and think in their + language." +"I''m surprised. When they were training the Rangers I figured they would + emphasize infiltration and combat techniques, not language skills." +"For them it''s all the same thing." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"I''ll wake you in four hours." +"Thanks. That''s assuming I can get any sleep in these. The Captain warned me + about these things, but I had *no* idea.." +"They are wery restful, good for the back." +"Well, someday I want to be stationed in somewhere with *big* four-poster bed, + canopy, and maybe a window with a view of a garden." +"I like gardens, .. and big four-poster beds. .. + Right. See you in four hours." + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"John, we''ve been over this. I should be there, with you, and with the fleet. + We are in this together. And .. afterward, when we are finished with this, + we will spend the night together." +"?!" +"Not like that. You see, when Minbari become close, as we have become close, + it is tradition that they spend three nights together. The male sleeps and + the female watches." +"Watches what?" +"During the day, we all put on the face we think will do us the most good. + But at certain point in your sleep, as you relax, your true face is revealed. + If the female approves of his true face, she will stay two more nights and + continue to observe." +"Hmm, what if she doesn''t like what she sees?" +"Then they go their seperate ways. If he insists, she''ll stay one more night. + She can leave when he falls asleep, file a complaint with the elders, even + cut off his .. his access to her family." +"Oh. What if she *does* like what she sees?" +"Later. History awaits." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"Very stupid." +"Yeah. It was that, wasn''t it. Always trying to be the hero. Never stopping + to think first. Now, look where it got you." +"I must be going in shock." +"You said you had to keep walking until you met yourself. Well, here I am. + So, if we are gonna talk, let''s talk, because I don''t think you have a lot + of time." + -- Franklin and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"That''s a *lot* of ships." +"That''s a bloody awful lot of ships." +"Jump engines back on line yet?" +"No. If I signal the fleet, they just might pick it up. If they do, we + can''t get away, .." +"Well, who wants to live forever?" +"I do, actually. But what the hell. Signal away." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"You know what your problem is? All your life you''ve run away from + everything. Home didn''t work out, wouldn''t talk to your father, so you just + .. walked away. You didn''t have the patience for a long internship back + home, so you just ran out and started hitch-hiking on starships. You didn''t + want to turn over your *precious* notes on Minbari biology during the war, + so you just burned them instead and walked away again. You used work to run + away from your personal life and stims to run away from your work. And right + now, you are running away from everything. Don''t you die on me yet. I''m not + through with you. You finally had it all, didn''t you? You had a good job, + people who cared about you and you messed it up! ''I have to leave before + they fire me. I have to go find myself.'' What a bunch of mealy-mouthed + self-indulgent foundationist crap! Take responsibility for your actions, for + crying out loud. You go in there and you *fight* for what matters to you, + don''t just walk away because it''s easier. What did you say? Oh, I''m sorry, + I forgot. You are too busy *dying*, aren''t you? I guess that''s a bit more + important to you right now. Well, fine, you do what you want, because you + and I, we parted ways a long time ago. So just go ahead and die, because + I really don''t care anymore." + -- Franklin to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"Blood-pressure is dropping faaast. You should be getting real cold right + about now. That''s shock and trauma, and the rest will follow soon. You know, + so we can get this over with. I mean, you weren''t that happy with your life + at the first place, were you? I mean, this one has hardly been used." +"I .. I want.." +"You want what? I mean, what do you want? What could you possibly want?" +"I wanna.. I wanna.. do it all again." +"Why, you would just mess it up again. Where do you think you''re going?" +"I wanna do it again. I wanna do it again." +"Is that right? Then get up off the damn floor. I don''t care how much it + hurts. Don''t you go passing out on me, because that''s just another kind of + running away. Now, you take the reponsibility. Show me that you want it. + Get up off the damn floor. That''s it. Come on. Come on. Get up on your own + two feet and stand up, you stand up." +"I wanna do it all over again." + -- Franklin and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"I say there''s a big question. Now that we have shown that we can hurt them, + how long until they come knocking on our front door?" +"That''s what worries me." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"You know, with all this, I just hope you found what you were looking for + out there." +"I don''t know. I guess I found what I .. what I needed, not what I wanted." +"Which was?" +"Short sharp kick to the head." +"Oh hell, I could''ve done that for you, all you had to do was ask." +"Well, you would''ve enjoyed it too much." +"So, you didn''t .. meet yourself?" +"Yeah, I did. Found out I didn''t like myself either." +"Well, as revelation go, I guess I have heard worse." + -- Garibaldi and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"Signs, portents, dreams, next thing we''ll be reading tea leafs and chicken + entrails. All we do know is that we are vulnerable now. I want squadrons on + fly-by at all times. We should expect something to be coming our way sooner + or later. The way our luck works, it will probably be sooner." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"The job is waiting for you, if you want it." +"Are you sure you want to do this?" +"If you are sure you want to take it." +"I want it. I think now I can do better. I mean, that was the problem, the + stims they .. they let me do more, but what I needed was to do better." +"I wish you''d come to talk to me before you made your decision to resign." +"I was running away. Same as I have always done. I didn''t want to face how + I''d feel if you fired me, so I just quit." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"You had to find your own way?" +"I *ran* away. I realized that I always defined myself in terms what I + wasn''t. I wasn''t a good soldier like my father, I wasn''t .. the job.. I + wasn''t a good prospect for marriage or kids. Always what I wasn''t, never + what I was. But when you do that, you miss the moments. And the moments + are all we''ve got. When I thought I was going to die, even after everything + that''s happened, I realized I didn''t want to let go. I was willing to do + it all over again and this time I could appreciate the moments. I can''t go + back, but I can appreciate what I have right now, and I can define myself + by what I am, instead of what I''m not." +"And what are you?" +"Alive. Everything else is negotiable." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"Hello. You must be Delenn. I''m Anna Sheridan, John''s wife." + -- Anna Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" +',' +"Humans have a phrase: ''What is past, is prologue.''" + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Minbari also have a phrase: ''What is past, is also sometimes the future.''" + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"I know there''s a lot that you don''t know. I know there''s a lot that you + don''t understand. I''m here to fix that. Don''t you want to know what''s it + all about? What''s it *really* all about? I can do that. All you have to + do is come with me." +"Where?" +"Where else, to Z''ha''dum." + -- Anna to John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"So the next time we find out where the Shadows plan to strike, + we can mine the area, and as soon as they come out of hyperspace .." +"Then, as you so concisely say, *boom*." + -- Ivanova and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"John, I *do* love you. If you believe nothing else I ever say, + please, please believe that." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Another drink!" +"Londo, you have been like this ever since the diplomatic pouch arrived + this morning. At least you can do is tell me what''s wrong." +"Oh, Vir. I have been promoted. I''ve been offered a position in the Royal + Court as an advisor to Emperor Cartagia in matters of planetary security, + very important position." +"This is great news, why would you be upset?" +"*Because*, it should''ve come to me twenty years ago when I could''ve + appreciated it. Because it wasn''t given to me because I *earned* it. + They are, I think, afraid of me. Through our friend, Mr. Morden, I + have gained influence, money, power and they think I will move against + Cartagia." +"Then why would they reward you?" +"It''s not a reward, it''s a leash. I would need to divide my time between + here and the homeworld. They really mean: they watch me very carefully, + and if I do anything suspicious, they''ll find me in the morning with my + throat slit, ear to ear." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"While you are at it, I need a few things taken care of. It''s all here. + You will of course keep this confidential." +"These days, what around here isn''t confidential. I''ll take care of .. + son of a bitch." +"It''s against regulations to address a senior officer in those terms, + Mr. Garibaldi." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"If you go to Z''ha''dum, you will die." + -- Kosh to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"I wish we could''ve taken a different ship. This one is based partially on + Vorlon technology. The aliens believe they''ll die if anything remotely + vorlon touches Z''ha''dum." +"Then we won''t risk it. When we get there, we''ll take the shuttle down + to the surface." + -- Anna and John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Who are you?" +"Now, that''s really not important." +"Who are you?" +"Who decides that the workday is from 9 to 5, instead of 11 to 4? Who + decides that the hemlines will be below the knee this year and short + again next year? Who draws up the borders, controls the currency, + handles *all* of the decisions that happen transparently around us?" +"I don''t know." +"Ah! I''m with them. Same group, different department. Think of me as a + sort of middleman, and the name is Justin. Come in, sit, sit. The tea + is getting cold." + -- Sheridan and Justin in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"You see, John, back a million years ago, there were forces prowling around + the galaxy beyond *anything* that we could understand. *And*, like anything + else, most of them outgrew this little quadrant of the universe and headed + off toward greener pastures. Now, two of them stayed behind. Shepherds, you + might call them. They wanted to look after the younger races, bring them + around, help them *evolve* into something better." +"One of these was the Vorlons. The other .. was, what you call, the Shadows." + -- Justin and Morden in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"The Vorlons are like your parents, I suppose. They want you to play nice, + clean your room, do it by the rules. I guess you could call them Lords of + Order." +"The others, the ones who live here, believe that strength only comes from + conflict. They want to release our potential, not bottle it up." + -- Justin and Anna in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"It''s really simple. You bring two sides together. They fight. A lot of them + die, but those who survive are stronger, smarter and better." +"It''s like knocking over an ant-hill. Every new generation gets stronger, + the ant-hill gets redesigned, made better." + -- Justin and Morden in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Commander, I''m picking up a disturbance." +"Location?" +"All around us." + -- Lt. Corwin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"It was supposed to be an equal balance between our side and the Vorlons, + but the Vorlons decided that their way was the right way. They enlisted + the support of other worlds, like the Minbari. They even started interfering + with the development of younger races." +"When you look at a Vorlon, you see what they want you to see. They''ve + manipulated us so we would respond favourably to them. They''ve even + interfered at a genetic level by taking humans and then .. adjusting + them. Why do you think certifiable telepaths came out of nowhere a + hundred years ago?" + -- Anna and Morden in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"John, there''s nowhere to run. Come back inside, we can work this out. I + know this isn''t the Anna you knew. What I am is what was made in her, a new + personality. She can never come back. But I can love you as well as she did." + -- Anna to John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"Jump. Jump, now!" + -- Kosh to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"What the hell!" + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and + unexpectedly. .. All around us, 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.''" + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Z''ha''dum" +',' +"The Shadows have paused in their pursuit of war and everywhere there is a + sense of imminent change. Whether it is a change for good or ill, no one + can tell. As no one has yet answered two very important questions: where + is Mr. Garibaldi and what happened to Captain Sheridan at Z''ha''dum." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"It was the year of fire, the year of destruction, the year we took back what + was ours. It was the year of rebirth, the year of great sadness, the year of + pain, and the year of joy. It was a new age. It was the end of history. It + was the year everything changed. The year is 2261; the place: Babylon 5." + -- The Main Cast in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"You can not *win* this war, Commander. You can only *survive* it. + And we intend to survive it." + -- Drazi Council Member to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"He did not come, again." +"Yes, and I intend to find out why." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Minister, I have met Cartagia three times before, twice when he was an + infant. He *drooled* most of the time, I wonder if he''s continued the habit, + and again when he was 15 trying to peek up the dresses of some young women. + I promise you, I will be *just* as impressed by him now as I was then. Yes?" + -- Londo and Minister in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Ah, Mollari. It''s wonderful to see you again." +"And you, Majesty. I could swear you have not changed since the last + few times I saw you." +"Oh, you are of course too generous. What do you think, Mollari?" +"It is .. ahem .. short, Majesty. Shorter than is traditional for someone + of your position." + -- Emperor Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"I suppose there are those that might object, but they remain silent, + because the emperor is always .. right. Is he not, Mollari?" +"That is our tradition." + -- Emperor Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Hello Mollari." +"Mr. Morden?" +"In the flesh. What''s left of it. Sit. We have much to discuss." +"Mr. Morden, you are.." +"Unwell. My associates tell me I will be better soon. I wasn''t as near + the *incident* as others." +"And Sheridan?" +"Which one? You know what they say: ''What goes up, must come down.'' + ''Seen one Sheridan, seen them all.'' ''Ashes, ashes, and they all fall down.''" + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Flesh is transitory, flesh is a prison, flesh is .. an instrument. + Flesh can be replaced. And flesh does as it''s told. Or they will + become *most* annoyed." + -- Morden to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"He meant you?" +"What''s left of me. I''m just a .. *shadow* of my former self." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"I don''t care. I won''t do it!" +"Of course you will, Mollari. Because you''re drawn to power, because you + are my friend. Because you are afraid of what someone else might do in + your place." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"The stories we''ve heard about what happened at Z''ha''dum. Are they true?" +"Yes." +"What do you intend to do about them?" +"Nothing." +"But if Sheridan is still alive, if there''s even a chance." +"Irrelevant." +"Irrelevant? How can you say that? You know how much depends on him." +"He has opened an unexpected door. We do now what must be *done* now. + *His* purpose has been fullfilled." +"You have the power to send a force to investigate. If he''s alive, he + can be rescued." +"No one returns from Z''ha''dum." +"That''s what we thought about Anna Sheridan. You were wrong then, you + could be wrong now. Are you afraid to admit that you are capable of + another mistake? He pledged for you, worked for you, for me, for + everyone here. If you turn away now, if you abandon him to die on + Z''ha''dum, I will have no more respect left for you. Do you understand me?" +"Respect is irrelevant." + -- Delenn and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Our thoughts form the universe, they always matter." + -- G''Kar to Zack in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"It takes a rare kind of wisdom to accept change and redemption in another. + Many would refuse, seeing only what was, not what is. Mr. Garibaldi gave + me that chance. I must repay him." + -- G''Kar to Zack in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Read the old books, Mollari. They speak of the ancient gods, + they speak about *them*. Power, power beyond description." +"If their power is so great, why do they need to hide behind us? + They are using us as shields. When the war comes here, our people + will die first!" +"Some are always sacrificed for the greater good." +"What greater good?" +"Ah! Mine of course!" + -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"What are a few million lives compared to the glory of becoming a living god?" + -- Cartagia in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Is there anywhere else you need me to carry you?" +"No. Go." +"Doesn''t feel the same as when I carried Kosh with me, it''s darker somehow. + Is everything all right?" +"Yes." +"You''re planning something, aren''t you? Something that you aren''t telling me." +"You are free for a time. Do not interfere." + -- Lyta and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Londo?" +"Vir, I woke you. I''m sorry, I forgot the time difference there." +"It''s all right, I was just about to get up .. in about six hours." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Is there something wrong?" +"Something: no. Everything: yes. Conspiracies require more than one person. + And there''s no one here I trust. Come quickly, Vir, we have much to do." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"They heard us. They know we are here. The eye .. is looking for us." +"I''ve felt this before. I''ve been here before." + -- Lyta and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Lennier, get us the hell out of here." +"Initiating ''getting the hell out of here'' maneuver." + -- Ivanova and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Of course the others know, but they are afraid to move against him. + Whoever does so will almost certainly be killed." +"That would be a drawback." +"These creatures must be driven away before it''s too late. + We must stop Cartagia no matter the cost." +"The cost? That would be the dying thing, right?" + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Vir, there is a terrible truth: As one accumulates power, one loses + friends. One only has those who wish to use you, and those you wish + to use. And yet, in all of this, *you* have somehow managed to walk + through the corridors of power and not be touched. I can only assume + you have not been paying attention. And still, the hideous truth is, + *you* are the closest thing I have to a friend. I''m as shocked and + dismayed by this as you are, but there it is. I need a friend, Vir, + and I need a patriot, and you are both. Will you help me, please?" + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Commander''s personal log. I wish it didn''t have to be like this, but I + can''t keep on denying it. The Captain''s dead, and I have to accept that. + What matters now is finishing the work that he begun. I have some ideas + how to do that, but I''m gonna need some help. I think I know where to go + .. to find it. I have to let him go, and just get on with the work. + I think .. I *hope* it''s what he would''ve wanted." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Who are you?" +"Who are *you*?" +"How did I get here?" +"You were born." +"Why am I alive?" +"Well, that *is* the question, isn''t it?" + -- Sheridan and Lorien in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" +',' +"Medlab''s quiet these days. The League of non-aligned worlds has broken up + and everyone''s going back to their homeworlds to prepare for the next stage + of war. We know the enemy is gonna strike back. Rumour has it that this + time''s gonna be the last time. This time they''re gonna end it. All we can + do now is wait for the other shoe to drop or try to find something useful + to do before the end. Right now, short of hand holding, or sympathetic ear, + I can''t think of a one damn thing." + -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"Who are you? What do you want? Who are you? What do you want? + Who are you? *Who* are *you*?" + -- Sheridan''s dream in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"You are thinking about escape again, aren''t you? Don''t. There is no way off + Z''ha''dum. You might as well give up, reconcile yourself as I did." +"The first obligation of a prisoner is to escape." + -- Lorien & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"Words have meaning and names have power. The universe begun with a word, + you know. But which came first: the word or the thought behind the word?" + -- Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"What question?" +"Who are you?" +"How did you know about it?" +"It''s a dangerous question, isn''t it? There''s *never* a good answer to it. + I suppose, that''s the point." + -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"There are only two possibilities. If you hit bottom, then you are dead. + If you did not hit bottom, you are still falling and all of this is a dream. + Unless .. you are in-between." +"Between what?" +"Between moments." + -- Lorien & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Always running out of time. Yours is almost used up. + You''re between seconds, lost in the infinite possibilities between a tick + and tock. Tick, you''re alive. Tock.. Well, it was a good life, but a short + one. Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick--" + -- Lorien to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"You''re closer now, aren''t you. Yes, I see you are. But closer to tick or + closer to tock? I don''t know. Only *time* will tell. And here, between + the moments, we have all the time in the world." + -- Lorien to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"The man says he doesn''t want to talk to you. Leave him alone." +"We''re having a private conversation. It is no concern of yours." +"It''s my bar, I''m making it my concern. Now get out." +"I''ve come a long way. I intend to finish my conversation." + -- Bartender & G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"I''ve sometimes heard the humans say: ''Minbari never tell anyone the whole + truth.'' But I''m no longer a whole Minbari and should''ve changed my heart + more than I did. But I loved him and I wanted to protect him. I should''ve + loved him less and trusted him more." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"Doesn''t make sense." +"You''re right, that''s the bit that worries me." +"If you are going to be worried every time the universe doesn''t make sense, + you are going to be worried every moment of every day for the rest of your + natural life." + -- G''Kar and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"I was doing fine until you showed up with that .. *thing* in hand." +"It''s a Minbari fighting pike, several hundred years old. You are just + jealous because you don''t have one. Bad case of pikal envy, if you ask me." + -- G''Kar and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"They seem rather eager to find you. Eagerness like that--" +"--worries you. Hell, I suppose I should appreciate your concern. + Compassion is a rare commodity these days." +"So, why are you doing this?" +"He''s my friend. I''ve never had a friend before who wasn''t a Narn. And you?" +"I never had a friend before who *was* a Narn, .. and damn few of any other + kind. Most of them are dead." + -- G''Kar and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"The job now is to turn this around and make it into something positive. + My dad always told me that''s the only way you deal with pain; you don''t + surrender, you don''t fight it, you turn it into something positive. He + used to say: ''If you are falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. + You''ve got nothing to lose.''" + -- Sheridan''s log in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"As a dear friend said to me: ''If you are falling off a mountain, you may as + well try to fly.'' Here, the end, I offer you one final chance to fly." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"And you. Have you anything to say?" +"Do you by any chance happen to know where Mr. Garibaldi might be?" + -- Cartagia & G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"There is a monster on the throne, G''Kar, a well-protected monster. + He must be removed, and *you* may be the means I have been waiting for." + -- Londo to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"You didn''t ask the price .. for my co-operation." +"You are not exactly in a position to bargain, G''Kar." +"Neither are you. You want my help .. for the sake of your people. I will + give it .. for the sake of my own. If I remove the monster from your throne, + you will remove the monster .. from my world. Leave Narn, set my world free. + Promise me this, and I will do as you ask." +"You have my word." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"This is the fire I set when I woke up down here. I''ve come full circle." +"Don''t we all?" + -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"Yes, of course I care. It''s a terrible thing when your children fight. + I warned the others, but they didn''t listen. They *never* listen." + -- Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"That was you?" +"Perhaps. We all have secrets and surprises. Did you know + you have a Vorlon inside you? Well, a piece of one." + -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"Kosh." +"Is that its name? I think I met it once long ago." + -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"You must let go. Surrender yourself to death. The death of flesh, + the death of fear. Step into the abyss, and let go." + -- Lorien to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"It''s easy to find something worth dying for. + Do you have anything worth living for?" +"I can''t see you anymore." +"As it should be." +"What if I fall off.. How will I know you''ll catch me?" +"I caught you before." +"What if I die?" +"I can not create life, but I can breathe on the remaining embers.. + It may not work." +"But I can hope." +"*Hope* is all we have." + -- Lorien & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"Do you have anything worth living for?" +"Sleep now. I will watch and catch you if you should fall." +"Delenn!" + -- Lorien, Delenn, Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" +',' +"Flak''sha [Engines at full..] + Shin''drabi [high power] + Hat''rashu [hatrack ratcatcher.] + and dolo [to port weapons..] + ishi''den [brickbat lingerie.]" + -- Ivanova to Marcus and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"Tell the crew: ''Anyone who laughs will answer to me personally.''" + -- Delenn to Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"What''s next on the list?" +"Sector 87/20/42. At least a dozen ships have reported seeing something + rather godlike in the area, and since neither you nor I were there, it + must be one of the First Ones." +"You are having delusions of grandeur again." +"Well, if you''re gonna have delusions, you may as well go for the really + *satisfying* ones." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"I can''t believe it. Did you see him?" +"I was right there, Vir. I saw him." +"How can you see G''Kar like that and feel *nothing*?" +"I feel, Vir. I wish that I didn''t, it would make this all much easier. + We must play along until the time is right." +"I don''t know if G''Kar can survive that long." +"He will survive. He must. For my sake as well as his own." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"Damned! Damned! Damned silence. He refuses to bow, he refuses to drink." +"Majesty!" +"Did you know we assigned one of our *best* pain technicians -- pain + technicians, they used to be called torturers, ever since they got + organized it''s ''pain technicians'' -- Why are you here? One of our very + best torturers, I felt certain he would break him. Two hours he worked, + not a sound. I said: ''Give me a cry, rin-tintsy(?). Give me a shout, + a whimper, a scream.'' Silence! So, I got to it myself. You can''t leave + these things to others, they never get it right! And well, you can see + for yourself. If I didn''t know better, I would say he was a mute. Silence! + I''m beginning to understand what you''re going through with this G''Kar. + How you put up with this at all, I have no idea." +"He was a small burden." + -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"Silence! Silence! Where''s the joy in that, really? He''s so insubordinate, + I can''t have him challenging my authority that way." + -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"He can''t force you to live like this, can he?" +"Yes, he can." + -- Delenn and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"I thought he would welcome the chance to strike at the Shadows." +"I think the Vorlons have plans of their own. There''s .. there''s something + going on.. Something they haven''t told us yet." +"Do you have any idea?" +"No, and frankly, I''m afraid to ask. I don''t think that they care about what + happens to us anymore, Delenn. I think their game just got bigger than that." + -- Delenn and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"While I was carrying you, you felt cold, hard. What are you hiding from me?" +"Your work for now is done here. Go. Sleep." +"I have a right to know. I''ve done everything you asked. I let your people + modify me, enhance my telepathic abilities so I''d be more suited to carry + a Vorlon around in my head, because I believed. Kosh, the real Kosh wasn''t + like this. I think in some level he cared about us, about me. With you it''s + as if I''m being used and then thrown away when I''m not needed anymore. + Dammit! I have earned some respect! And I have earned some answers!" +"Respect? From whom?" + -- Lyta and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"Would you know my thoughts? Would you?" + -- Kosh to Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"I''m picking something up." +"A unicorn? .. Sorry." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"Captain, we''re sorry. We thought you were dead." +"I was. I''m better now." + -- Drazi spokesman and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"We can end this. Not just for now, + not just for the next thousand years, but forever." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"When most of the First Ones left, two of them, the Shadows and Vorlons, + stayed behind. Their job was to keep an eye on the younger races, help + them along, but .. they couldn''t decide or agree on what had to be done. + The Vorlons believed that strength comes through order and discipline, + the Shadows believe in promoting evolution through conflict, starting + wars." +"Those are diametrically opposite positions." +"Exactly. Now, at first there was a balance between the two sides. + They abided by rules of engagement, respected each others positions, + but that changed over time." + -- Sheridan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"Why the wars? Why the fighting? If each side agreed to respect the other.." +"I don''t know who started it first, Delenn, but somewhere along the line they + both decided that their way was the right way, the only way, and we''ve been + caught in the middle ever since." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"This latest incident, everything that''s happened lately, it''s convinced the + Vorlons that their only alternative is to destroy the Shadows and anyone + touched by them. Like an infection, you have to .. cut it out." +"And any healthy tissue that''s cut out along the way.. well, that''s okay, + because it''s all for a good cause." + -- Lyta and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"Since the Shadows are ready to strike back at any time now, + we are caught in the middle again." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"We could barely stop the Shadows, how do we stop them *and* the Vorlons?" +"I don''t know. All I know is that unless you do stop them, it won''t matter + who wins and who loses, because none of us, not a single world in 70 light + years in any direction, will live to see it." + -- Garibaldi and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" +',' +"Once again, please remain calm. Right now our greatest enemy is fear." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"You heard?" +"I heard. +"They need to believe." +"Not in me." +"You can''t save them all." +"I''ll try." +"You''ll fail." +"We''ll see." + -- Lorien and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"[I see] The stars, Majesty. Nothing more." +"Then you are not looking hard enough. Vorlons are out there, Londo. + They''ve gone mad, attacking any world, any base, any colony where my + associates have influence." + -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"After the last war my associates hid many of their ships on distant + worlds. The Vorlons want to make sure it doesn''t happen again." +"There are over 100 of those ships here. I assume they will be leaving now." +"I''m afraid not." +"The Vorlons.." +"Will never attack Centauri Prime. Small colonies, deep range planets, sure. + But to destroy a world as big as this, no. They don''t have the will." + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"I call them my shadow cabinet. I think you can appreciate the irony. + They certainly can." + -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"Minister Dugari. You remember him, don''t you? Always coughing, + most distressing, but we finally cured it." + -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"Don''t send the ships. Let it burn, Mollari. Let it all end in fire." + -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"Cough. Take a deep breath, and .. exhale. Quack like a duck. + Sorry, little med-school humor." + -- Franklin to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"What do you want me to do?" +"I want the Vorlon gone." +"Fine. I''ll just go up to him and ask him to leave, that''ll work." + -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"Is it my imagination, or is Mr. Garibaldi crankier than usual?" + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"I heard what happened. I came to warn you. Sheridan and the others are + going to move against you." +"It is done. They are irrelevant." +"I know, I know they can''t harm you, but I was thinking it can''t hurt to have + all the information you can about what''s going on. To protect yourself and + the cause." +"How?" +"I told you I wasn''t here when Ambassador Kosh died. I didn''t have any of his + essence with me, I thought he was gone. But for a while I suspected that + someone else here had a piece of him. I think I know who it is, but I can''t + draw Kosh out of him, he won''t let me." +"A human?" +"Yes." +"Imprisons one of us?" +"Yes." +"Intolerable." +"If there is still a piece of him there, you can draw it out of him. + Use what it knows and take it back to Vorlon when this is all over. + I cared about Kosh. I''d like to know he finally made it home." +"Show me." +"But the guards.." +"They will not bother us again. Show me." + -- Lyta and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"Your thoughts are troubled." +"I''m worried about Kosh, that''s all. After everything we''ve been through, + I''d hate to lose the last of him now and.." +"What are you hiding?" +"Nothing." +"Open your thoughts to me." +"We don''t have time for this." +"*Open*!" + -- Kosh and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"It''s Kosh. Kosh was inside him." +"Yes. The last of Kosh, and some of him, and some of me." + -- Delenn and Lorien in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"He was gravely wounded at Z''ha''dum. He was dying. He was dead. I did all I + could to help him, but I can not create life, only the universe can do that. + I can extend, enhance, there is no magic, nothing spiritual about it, only + the application of energies, healing and rebuilding cells." + -- Lorien to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"I wanted you to have this. I got it down at the Zocalo. It''s not what I + had exactly in mind, but .. It''s temporary until I can get you a real + engagement ring." + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"I was just thinking. I don''t like the way he''s looking at me. + I''m trying to decide what to do about it. Would you care to make + a suggestion?" +"Oh, no, I''m sure whatever your Majesty decides will be appropriate. + I shall go and pack." + -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"No, I don''t care at all for the way he looks. Pluck out his eye." +"Which one?" +"I don''t know. Doesn''t matter. .. *That* one." + -- Cartagia and a guard in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" +',' +"There is no choice. By the end of this day, either + Cartagia is dead or Centauri Prime will be destroyed." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"I''ve decided to take you with me." +"Majesty?" +"A god must have a high priest, must he not? And when the Shadows rise + from the ashes of Centauri Prime and reward my loyalty with godhood, + I want *you* to be the *first* one in my temple. I haven''t decided + where to build it yet, but I.." +"Then you will not be on Centauri Prime when the Vorlons come?" +"Of course not. You and I will watch from a distance." + -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"G''Kar. Great Maker! Your eye? Cartagia?" +"My eye.. offended him. Doesn''t matter. I can see things now.. that were + invisible to me before. An empty eye sees through to an empty heart." + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"Humor is such a subjective thing, don''t you think, Mollari." + -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"How fast does the poison work?" +"Very quickly, he said almost instantaneously." +"''Almost''? How fast is almost? Time enough for him to stagger back into + the main room and cry out: ''Londo killed me''? Or maybe just enough time + for him to say: ''Londo kill..aargh''?" +"And then he won''t even get that out, I mean, maybe he just go: + ''Lon.. arrgh''. Or maybe he''s totally delirious and then say everything + backwards and say: ''Kill Londo! Arrgh''. .. I was just making a play on.." +"Well, it''s time." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"The Emperor believed in heeding the wisdom of the gods. Well, twice + the Emperor of the Centauri Republic has died while acting in relation + to Narn. Emperor Turhan were trying to make peace, and now Cartagia. + I believe Cartagia would say that this is a sign from the gods. + A sign to leave this place forever." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"We do not have time for games, Vir. The ship is waiting." +"I was toasting Emperor Cartagia. And since he was not here, I drank for + him. And then I couldn''t be rude, so I had to drink with him. And so, + first it was me drinking for him. And then him drinking for me. And then + I kind of got into this kind of cycle." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"I can not tell you that your pain will ever go away. I can not tell you + that you''ll ever forget his face. I can only tell you that it *was* + necessary. You may have helped to save our people. You did a hard thing. + But you still have your heart, and your heart is a good one. You would not + be in such great pain otherwise. That means there is still hope for you. + And for that.. I find that I *still* envy you." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"Then, G''Kar, you will lead us against our oppressors. You will be the + instrument of our vengeance. With you directing us, we will finally + destroy the Centauri." +"You have just tossed someone off that throne. Would you put another in + his place so quickly? The Kha''Ri spoke with many equal voices, not the + one voice of a single leader." +"We need strength to lead us, *fire* to forge us. We saw that in the + Centauri, learned that from them." +"Then you have learned the wrong lessons. I will not take the throne. + If the Kha''Ri is restored, I will take my place among them, but that''s + all. I did not fight to remove one dictator just to become another myself." +"But the Centauri--" +"--*are* *a* *lost* *people*! They ought to be pitied. They are already + on a course for self-destruction. They do not need help from us. We need + to redress our wounds, help our people, rebuild our cities." + -- G''Lorn and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"We must strike back!" +"No." +"I never thought you were a *coward*, G''Kar. We suffered and died during + their occupation. Where were you? What have you endured?" +"What have I endured? Hahahahaha.." + -- G''Lorn and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"Tho'' we are not now that strength which in old days" +"Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are" +"One equal temper of heroic hearts," +"Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will" +"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" +',' +"There is time for one more. This is the last. It''s important + to have them all. Keep sending the signal." + -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"He''s making a crucible, which he hopes will force out the truth. + Quite brave, possibly futile, but .. *very* human." + -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"Vorlon observation post destroyed." + -- Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"Win or lose, we''ll go down fighting. Pour it on, Mr. Lennier. + Take us into the fire." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"I was told you were ready to leave." +"Almost. You are awfully impatient for someone who''s supposed to be immortal." +"Not immortal as you mean it. My race can die .. through illness or injury." +"Where are the rest of them?" +"They fell ill and died, were injured and died. The rest went away. + I am the last .. and I was the first." +"I have to admit I''m a little bit sceptical about that." +"Scepticism is the language of the mind. What does your .. heart tell you?" +"My heart and I don''t speak anymore." +"Yes, I have noticed that." + -- Lorien and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"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." + -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"You misunderstand me, Prime Minister. I was merely being specific. + In my experience, if you can not say what you mean, you can never + mean what you say. The details are everything." + -- Drano to Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"Your patience is also a weapon, when used properly. We will arrive when + we arrive and we will have the weapons we have. You can not win this war + through force, you must .. understand your way out of this. Sheridan knows. + What remains to be seen is whether he *knows* that he knows." + -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"There are three billion people here. The Vorlons would never attack a + civilian population that big. The ships stay." +"You are afraid, aren''t you? *They''re* afraid. And speaking of your + associates, we must make sure that we can talk privately. Do not move." + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"You are insane." +"On any other day, Mr. Morden, you would be wrong. Today, today is a very + different day. One last time: remove your ships." +"No. You don''t frighten me, Mollari. If you try to attack our forces, + you''ll lose." +"Yes, your ships are very impressive in the air, or in space. But at this + moment they are on the ground." +"Fine. They''re on the ground, but they can sense an approaching ship miles + away. So what are you going to do, Mollari? Blow up the island?" +"Actually, .. now that you mention it." +"Noooo!" + -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"You just made a mistake, Londo. Even if my associates lose this war + they have allies. They''ll make sure Centauri Prime pays the price for + what you''ve done here today." + -- Morden to Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"Good morning, gentlemen. This is your wakeup call." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"There is nothing to tell. + You thought we could not touch you. You were wrong." + -- ''Vorlon Lyta'' to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"And you they have left .. for us." + -- ''Shadow Lyta'' to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"Oh, but I *do* understand. But that''s what''s got you worried, isn''t it? + A Vorlon said understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side + .. and the truth. The truth is we don''t need you anymore." + -- Sheridan to ''Vorlons'' in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"You don''t want to kill the messenger, you just want to kill the message." + -- Sheridan to ''Vorlons'' in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"After all, if you destroyed the Vorlons, they''ll never know you won. + They''ll never see that you were right and they were wrong. It''s about + ideology." + -- Delenn to ''Shadows'' in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"Will you come with us?" +"I have been here since the beginning. I will not leave you now. I will go + with you beyond the rim. And we will see again all those who went ahead of + us, all those who we have missed for so long." + -- Shadows and Lorien in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"Then we will not be alone?" +"No, never alone." + -- Vorlons and Lorien in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +[First Ones leaving] +"Did we just win?" +"Don''t jinx it." + -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"We are all alone now, just the younger races. We can''t blame anyone else + from now on. It''s a new age, Delenn, a third age." +"Why third?" +"We begun in chaos, too primitive to make our own decisions. Then we were + manipulated from outside by forces that thought *they* knew what was best + for us. And now .. now we are finally standing on our own. Lorien was right, + it''s a great responsibility. This is ours now." +"Strange. The galaxy seems somehow smaller now that the First Ones are gone + forever." +"It feels like the magic''s gone now." +"No, not gone. Now we make our own magic. Now we create our own legends. + Now we build the future. Now we stop--" +"--being afraid of shadows." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" +',' +"Maybe the doc''s right. Embrace the moment. In the end, that''s all we have. + Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that''s tomorrow. + Give me today, and I *will* be happy." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"The royal bloodline isn''t what it used to be. Too much intermarrying I + suppose. I always say: ''When you reduce a family tree to a family bush, + you just can''t hide as much beneath it.''" + -- Minister to Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"A regent? Oh my heavens, who would take *that* job? It pays very well, I + hear, but it''s simply a ceremonial role." +"Actually, they''ve selected you." +"It hardly seems worth.. Me?" + -- Minister and Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"I''m thinking .. pastels!" + -- Centauri Regent to his court in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. + The one is never equal to the other." + -- G''Kar to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"No one can blame you for feeling a little stressed out. + Maybe a few days away.." +"I don''t want a few days away. I don''t want a vacation or a leave of + absence for a five-day pass to Disney planet. I just want out." + -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"Anything unusual gets flagged." +"And am I to fall into the category of unusual, Mr. Allan?" +"Well, I didn''t think we''d be seeing you again anytime soon, Ambassador." +"Yes, I gathered that from the look of unvarnished joy on your face when you + saw me. Perhaps you would like to sit before you are overcome by ecstasy." +"Thanks, I''m fine. So, what happened? They got tired of you back home?" +"Tired? Of course not, don''t be absurd. The Emperor himself said I would only + be allowed to leave over his dead body. I said: ''Well, how strange, Mr. Allan + said I would only be allowed *back* on to Babylon 5 over *his* dead body.'' + With my very busy schedule I can only accomodate so many requests. I know + it''s a burden, but you will *simply* *have* to wait your *turn*." + -- Zack and Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"The only reason that guy is still alive is that half the time I don''t know + what the hell he''s talking talking about. The other half, I wish I didn''t. + But that''s why it''s important to check in on customs on a regular basis. + You never know who''s gonna walk in that.." + -- Zack about Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"Just a guess, Mr. Allan, but I suggest the word you are looking for is + ''door''. Now, please notify the captain that I''m here, I need to meet with + him and the rest of the command staff ASAP. I assume my usual quarters + in the brig are available. I have grown so attached to the place." +"For you Mr. Bester, always." + -- Bester and Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"I''m sorry. I don''t know what else to say. I''m sorry." +"Welcome hooome, Mr. Gaaaribaaaldi." +"Thank you, G''Kar." +"What?" +"I can''t breathe." +"Sorry." + -- Garibaldi and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"All for nothing? Absolutely not! Yes, true, if I hadn''t gone after you, + the Centauri would never have captured me and yes, it cost me my eye, + but it put me into the right place to strike a deal with Mollari. Because + of that deal, my world is now free." + -- G''Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"I''m delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront [pat] the universe + with good [pat] [pat] intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and + reward [pat] your intent. Usually. It just doesn''t always do it in the way + you expect." + -- G''Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"Psi-Cops are trained to make everyone nervous, but Bester can make + even other Psi-Cops nervous." +"Hell, the man can make poison ivy nervous." + -- Lyta and Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"My world is now free. You longer exist in my universe. Pray that we never + notice one another again." + -- G''Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"I want you to know that I object to this, Captain. Ms. Alexander has no + business being here. She''s a blip. By all right I should arrest her and + take back with me." +"You could do that. And I could nail your head to the table, set fire to + it, and feed your charred remains to the Pak''ma''ra. But it''s an imperfect + world and we never get exactly what we want. So get used to it." +"Captain, this is pointless. She is a P5. If I were really going to try + something, she''s not powerful enough to block me anyway. You''re just + embarrassing yourself, and her. Haven''t we learned by now to trust each + other." +"No. Now, sit." + -- Bester and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"You know, the one thing in life that you can be sure about is that you + are going to make mistakes." + -- Garibaldi to Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"The way I figure it, we are all entitled to one really big, incredibly + stupid screw-up in our lives. Maybe this is one of those, we''ll see." + -- Garibaldi to Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"The war''s over, we won. We should get a few days off before the next big + crisis. It never seems to work out that way." +"No. And you wouldn''t have it any other way." +"I beg your pardon?" +"You are a problem solver. You are one of these people who''ll pick up a rope + that''s got all tangled up and spend entire day untangling it. Because it''s + a challenge, because it defies your sense of order in the universe, and + because you can. Sometimes I try to picture you sitting on a beach with + absolutely nothing to do." +"And?" +"And, the picture always ends with your head imploding." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"Dream! That''s all. Just a bad dream." + -- Centauri Regent in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" +',' +"Commander! Did you threaten to grab hold of this man by the collar and + throw him out an airlock?" +"Yes I did." +"I''m shocked. Shocked and dismayed. I''d remind you that we are short on + supplies here. We can''t afford to take perfectly good clothing and throw + it out into space. *Always* take the jacket off first, I''ve told you that + before. Sorry, she meant to say: ''Stripped naked and thrown out an airlock.'' + I apologize for any confusion this may have caused." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +',' +"You work for no one but us. You work for no one but us. + You *work* for no one but us. You work for no one but us. + Us. Us. Us! Us!" + -- A Voice to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +',' +"When I said my quarters were cold, I did not mean: ''Oh, I think it''s a + little chilly in here, perhaps I''ll throw a blanket on the bed.'' No, I said + it was *cold*! As in: ''Oh, look, my left arm has snapped off like an icicle + and shattered on the floor.'' This is highly inappropriate, Captain." +"You are right. There are several other parts of your body I much rather see + snapped off." + -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +',' +"With Clark, Anything that gets into the way, disappears." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +',' +"There is no force in this galaxy that can stop what we have done here + together. Nothing will be able to stop us." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +',' +"To celebrate this latest victory against the tyranny of a fanatical few + who have endangered the lives of our citizens, Clark proclaimed today a + planetary holiday. Curfew has been extended two full hours until 9 PM Earth + standard time, so go out and enjoy." + -- Alison Higgins in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +',' +"A struggle against Earth?" +"Of course. If they don''t understand, we will make them understand." +"Anything that gets into the way, disappears." +"There''s a lot of people back home who might be concerned about what you are + saying. It sounds as if you are putting the mingling of human and Minbari + above the safety of your own world." +"There is no force in this galaxy that can stop what we have done here + together. Nothing will be able to stop us." + -- Randall, ''Delenn'', ''Sheridan'' in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" +',' +"Ouch! She did that on purpose." +"Yes, I believe she did. I will deal with this. /Good Work. + Give me a moment with the human. And next time .. Use a bigger needle./" +"Yeah. And don''t you forget it!" + -- Zack and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"I think I got it." +"Just as long as it isn''t in backwards. + I''ve peered into my own soul more than enough lately." + -- Franklin and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"It''s not my proper color!" + -- G''Kar to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"Where did you say you were going?" +"I was.. I was just going to.. Nowhere that can''t wait for a little while." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"It also occurred to me, as I told you, it is tradition for Minbari + to spend three nights together. The female--" +"--watches and the male sleeps until his true face is revealed, I know. + Whatever you see in a face mashed against a pillow and drooling, I don''t + know, but I try not to be judgemental about alien cultures, when they are + dressed like *that*." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"Sheridans are survivors, always have been." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"What was your name, child?" +"Delenn." +"Delenn." +"Yes." +"Of the family of Mir." +"Yes, Master." +"You have a proud heritage, Delenn of Mir. Prouder than you know. There + is nothing to fear in the dreaming. Only that which we bring with us. + The dreaming takes us forward and the dreaming takes us back. Walk with + me in the dreaming, Delenn." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"For two days we have been debating an issue of some small importance. + We have from time to time heard of a race known as humans. The Centauri + have had dealings with them for some time. They are reportedly + primitive, passionate, .. dangerous. The question: do we establish + contact with these humans? They have each said no. All for different + reasons. Would you like to hear them?" +"Perhaps another would be better suited.." +"The correct answer is ''yes''." +"Yes." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"Valen said: ''The greatest enemy is the one you do not know. You can predict + the actions of those who are familiar to you. The one you can not predict + is the one who can harm you.''" +"And what do *you* say?" +"If we do not know these humans, then they are a mystery to us. The universe + puts a mystery in front of us as a gift. Politeness requires that we at + least *try* to solve it." +"A-haa! You are curious, you would like to know, to simply understand. + Simple curiosity." + -- Delenn and Dukhat in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"I could override their decision, but nothing would be served. + Authority should never be used as a club, Delenn." +"But, then why?" +"When one of us does a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish + thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the *truth* is where + it needs to be." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"Raise your eyes and look at me." +"It''s disrespectful." +"I can not have an aide who will not look up. + You will be forever walking into things." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"I am become Grey. I stand between the darkness and the light, .. + between the candle and the star." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"There is nothing to fear in the dreaming. + Only that which we bring with us. + Walk with me in the dreaming, Callenn." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"There was a purpose in my selection. Your heritage.. + You are a child of Valen." + -- Dukhat to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"The guards resisted at first. The Grey council is suspended, + but the security remains. I managed to *explain* matters to them. + They will recover.. in time." + -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" +',' +"Speaking of which, as of now I''m relieving you of command." +"Ivanova, your sense of humor has always been on the edge of good taste, + *but*--" +"I''m serious, John." +"On what grounds?" +"You haven''t taken any personal time in over nine months. And in that time + we have broken away from earth, fought a war, you have been declared dead + at least once, and you know how tiring that can be." + -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +',' +"There isn''t much chance of me winning this argument, is there?" +"None whatsoever. I never give up when I''m right. + Your only option is to surrender." +"Who taught you to negotiate like that?" +"You did." +"Oh. Well, then I assume this enforced vacation is to begin immediately." +"Started when I walked in that door." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +',' +"Me, I go for insta-heats." + -- Captain Jack to Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +',' +"Entertainment channel unavailable due to jamming. + Movie channel unavailable due to jamming. + Sports channel unavailable due to jamming. + Adult channel unavailable due to jamming. + ISN available." + -- Babylon 5 television selection in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +',' +"Lyta had a little Vorlon. Her skin was pale as snow. + And everywhere that Lyta went, her Vorlon was sure to go." + -- Captain Jack recites the passphrase in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +',' +"Just my luck. The first time in my life I am a war hero and nobody + knows about it. And worst of all, I''m married to you." + -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +',' +"Everyone''s entitled to a fresh start." +"You''re even willing to forget about the business--" +"Yes, even though it did make Mr. Garibaldi''s hair fall out. + You had no way of knowing what was in that bottle. That''s my + story and I''m sticking to it, just in case he asks." + -- Ivanova and a smuggler in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +',' +"If you could look any more unhappy, please do not tell me. + There are some things I would rather not know." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +',' +"He''s not what he appears to be! Give it up, will you." + -- Garibaldi about Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +',' +"Woo-hoo?" + -- Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" +',' +"With the Grey Council no more, the three castes are mainly + concerned with protecting their own interests." + -- Forell to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +',' +"Can''t you send out Lennier? It might be dangerous." +"John! It pleases me that you care for what I have become. + But never forget who I was, what I am, and what I can do." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +',' +"Our job, as always, is simply to state the facts and + let the truth attend to itself." + -- ISN Reporter in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +',' +"Look, if they want to play games, well fine. We can play games too, only we + can play them better, because we have the *truth* on our side. You can''t + kill the truth. .. Actually, you *can* kill the truth, but it always comes + back to haunt you later." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +',' +"You have a face people trust." +"I''d rather have a face people fear." +"That too, but.." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +',' +"Dukhat says: ''When there is good news we always ask if it''s true, + because it is so difficult to believe. But when there is bad news + we rarely inquire because it''s so easy to believe.''" + -- Forell to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +',' +"Touch passion when it comes your way, Stephen. It''s rare enough + as it is. Don''t walk away when it calls you by name." + -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +',' +"The Drakh want peaceful relations. They want only a place to have for + their own, because--" +"--because they have just lost their home." +"Yes. There was an evacuation. Some kind of natural disaster, they said." + -- Forell and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +',' +"Before the war Dukhat wanted to know more about your people, so I + began studying your history. I came to the conclusion that of all the + races we had encountered humans were the most dangerous. Because humans + form communities, and from that diversity comes a strength no single race + can withstand. That is your strength and it is *that* which makes you + dangerous." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +',' +"Fighting a war is easy. Destroying is easy. Building a new world out of + what''s left of the old, that is what''s hard. But that is your strength. + So much is falling apart out there. You must help to put it back together." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" +',' +"If you''re gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, + you have a long wait ahead of you." + -- Sheridan to Zack in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +',' +"If we''re gonna broadcast all the way back home, we''re going to need a + helluva lot more power than we''ve got now. And I don''t know where we''re + gonna get it. I mean, I''ve been working on this for days, I don''t have a + clue." +"What about Epsilon 3? During the war we evacuated a lot of the wounded + down there for safe-keeping. Now, I''ve spent a lot of time looking around, + there''s enough power down there to broadcast clear to the Rim." +"Or, -- just a crazy thought -- I could try Epsilon 3." +"Yeah, you could do that, yeah." +"I mean, it''s the logical choice. Anybody could see that in about two + seconds. I mean, only a complete fool would fail to see that." +"Well, I wouldn''t.." +"It''s absolutely obvious." +"Well, *I* wouldn''t have thought of it, that''s for sure." +"No, you are far too modest, Stephen." +"No, no, no. That''s why you get paid big bucks, after all." +"Yep, that''s my job." + -- Ivanova and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +',' +"Excuse me, I need to see Draal." +"Oh, Draal is very busy! Have had four ground quakes on other side of + planet. Damage to weather control system, to great machine." +"Zathras!" +"Yes?" +"What the hell are you doing here?" +"Zathras work here. Zathras were born here. You work up there, Zathras + work down here. You dress like that, Zathras dress like this." +"That''s not--" +"Just covering *all* possibilities. Zathras does not want you being + confoosed. Bye." +"Hey! Wait a minute! You are not supposed to be here. We left you + a thousand years in the past." +"No! We have never met before. But Zathras very pleased to be meeting you." +"No, we *have* met." +"No. Oh. No, noo. No no. You did not meet Zathras. You met *Zathras*." + -- Ivanova and Zathras in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +',' +"Let''s try this again." +"As you wish." +"Zathras came with us to Babylon 4." +"Yes." +"Zathras stayed in the past with Valen." +"Yes." +"*You* are Zathras." +"Yes." +"Therefore, *you* went into the past." +"No, that was not Zathras, that was *Zathras*. There are 10 of us, all of + family Zathras, each one named Zathras. Slight differences in how you + pronounce. Zathraas, Zathras, Zathras.. You are seeing now?" +"There are ten of you?" +"Yes! Well, nine *now*." +"And Zathras?" +"Zathras gone! Zathras *warned* Zathras, but Zathras never listened to + Zathras. Zathras was quiet one in family. *SO*! What can Zathras be doing + for you?" + -- Ivanova and Zathras in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +',' +"Everyone always coming to Zathras with problems. Great responsibilities. + But Zathras does not mind. Zathras trained in crisis management." +"That''s great, lets--" +"But only Zathras have no one to talk to. No one manages poor Zathras, + you see. So Zathras talks to dirt. Sometimes talks to walls, or talks to + ceilings. But dirt is closer. Dirt is used, through everyone walking on it. + Just like Zathras, but we''ve come to like it. It is our role. It is our + *destiny* in the universe. So, you see, sometimes dirt has insects in it. + And Zathras likes insects. Not so good for conversation, but much proteine + for diet. Ha! Zathras fix now, this way." + -- Zathras and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +',' +"It''s easy to come together for a common enemy. + Now our job is to come together for a common goal." + -- Sheridan to G''Kar & Londo in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" +',' +"Yeah, I know. Every time you try to get them do something for their + own good, they figure you''ve got some sort of a hidden agenda." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"I am tired of doing things the hard way. + There''s an easier way to convince them." +"And how do we do that?" +"By *not* convinving them. Ha-ha!" + -- Sheridan and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"When I was a child, my father used to carry me through the city on his + shoulders. I''ve never seen such beauty. The city was eternal, its beauty + eternal. We heard of the Grey Council, but the name was always spoken with + awe and reverence. They held our world together. They were the peace + promised by Valen; thousand years of peace among the three castes." + -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"I think of my beautiful city in flames, Lennier. The streets where I walked, + the temples, the great crystal spires .. that sighed music whenever the wind + touched them. I think of it, and I cry, Lennier. And I wonder: did I do this + when I broke the Grey Council?" +"Valen always said the Council will be broken in the Great Shadow War." +"Lennier, you know the truth as well as I do. Valen only knew what + Sinclair knew, could not see beyond that. Once he left us, the future + became fluid. I had assumed things would continue on, like some great + clockwork mechanism. As long as the war was won, we would be all right. + I was wrong." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"I need your help, Neroon." +"My help? I remind you that not very long ago I fought to keep you from + taking control of the Rangers. We have not exactly been friends." +"No, but your actions have always been motivated by one desire: to do what + is right for our people. The warrior caste can not be allowed to win this + war. The religious caste can not be allowed to win. You know as well as I + that if either side achieves dominance, the delicate balance of our + civilisation will be destroyed." +"You should have thought of that before you broke the Grey Council." +"What is done is done, Neroon. What matters now is the future." + -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"Yes, we''ve disagreed, even fought, but I would rather have someone who + opposed me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause than + someone who was always on my side because it was expected and required. + I''ve questioned your judgement and wisdom, your temperament, but never + your loyalty." +"Was that a compliment?" +"After a fashion." +"Then you trust me?" +"After a fashion." + -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"But we are two against a world gone mad. What can we do against that?" +"Nothing. Until we get their attention. For that I need your help." + -- Neroon and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"I don''t really think it''s my place to comment." +"Captain!" +"All I can say is we certainly wouldn''t be there if we weren''t wanted." +"Then they asked for the ships?" +"I can''t confirm that." +"But you''re not denying it either." +"But not denying it doesn''t make it true any more than not confirming + it makes it false. Are you with me so far?" +"I''m .. not sure." +"Ambassador, there are so many things in the universe that are and so many + things that aren''t. If I were to take the time to deny all the things that + aren''t, we''d be here for centuries, wouldn''t we?" + -- Sheridan and Drazi Amb. in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"Make a big deal out of it .. as much as you can, given nothing happened." + -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"First, one brief announcement. I just wanted to mention for those who have + asked that *absolutely* nothing whatsoever happened today in sector 83/9/12. + I repeat, nothing happened. Please remain calm." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"Incredible. Only the warrior caste could actually turn on one of their own. + They have always been erratic. And you, .. you are the steady rock beneath + my feet. Thank you." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"I have been training him, as Dukhat trained me. He has been .. a light for + my footsteps. Never asking, only giving. Without him, I would stumble and + fall and never get up again. Thank you for looking after him, Neroon." + -- Delenn about Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"I assumed your behavior was prompted by a sense of your own superiority, + your ego, .. the usual fanaticism we have come to expect from the religious + caste. In the last year, I''ve begun to realize that I was wrong. Dukhat + chose you above all to follow him. Slowly, dimly, I begin to understand why. + I do not know what lays ahead of us, Delenn, but I do know it is *right* + that we are here together." +"Is that a compliment, Neroon?" +"After a fashion." + -- Neroon and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"If I had told her the whole truth, it would''ve destroyed her belief in the + strength and the wisdom of our caste. Delenn does not walk in the same + world you and I walk in. She does not see the same world you and I see. + In her world we are better than we are, we care more than we care. We act + towards each other with compassion. I much prefer her world to that of my + own, and I will not allow anything to threaten that." + -- Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" +',' +"Perhaps in the future when you rejoin the Psi Corps, + we can discuss this again." + -- Businesswoman to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"Our people need leadership, not dogma, action, not meditation. We assumed + they were our equal in all things. They''ve now learned otherwise." + -- Shakiri to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"And.. Well, there''s just no delicate way to say this. I want your body." +"*What!* Are you out of your mind?" +"Heh, that''s a very funny question to ask a telepath, .. since we spend so + much of our time in other peoples'' minds. I don''t want it *now*, Lyta, + just when you are not .. using it anymore, after .. your passing." + -- Bester and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"What is your empathic range?" +"Well, officially, 20-25 meters." +"Unofficially?" +"Further .. *much*." + -- Garibaldi and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"I said we surrender. I did not say that we gave up our sovereign rights to + form a new government. Dukhat said that in every battle one side or the + other must surrender eventually. It''s the natural order of things, There''s + no dishonor in that, no shame. We recognize the superior forces of the + warrior caste. We have, after all, spent several centuries arming you, + helping you learn the art of combat. What threat are we against that?" +"Then you acknowledge we are stronger?" +"Stronger, yes. But wiser? For a thousand years we guided our people + through wisdom, not arms. Will we set that aside so quick?" + -- Delenn and Shakiri in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"Valen said: ''Will you follow me to fire?'' Will you?" + -- Delenn to Shakiri in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"You said that a warrior does not fear death, Shakiri. You said that death + is only one of the consequencies, neither valued nor feared above the other. + Death is merely a release from our obligations. Why then are you afraid, + Shakiri? Have you put your importance above our own people?" +"Don''t take their side!" +"I speak for my *people*. Who do you speak for? And what are you willing + to do? They are waiting for your answer." + -- Neroon to Shakiri in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"I was born .. warrior caste, but I see now .. the calling of my + heart .. is religious. War is over. Listen to her. Listen!" + -- Neroon in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"Today we rebuild what was broken. Today we restore the Grey Council. + I summon the nine as Valen called them together long ago." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"In the past it has been our tradition to seek balance. We have called + three from each caste: worker, warrior, religious. But now that changes." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"You had forgotten the worker caste, hadn''t you? When our two sides fight, + they''re the ones caught in the middle, forgotten that it''s their time to + serve to build, and to die. They built the temples we pray in, the ships + you fight in. They look to us to guide their hands. But prayers are + fleeting and wars forgotten. What is built endures. They do not wish to + conquer or convert, only to build the future. And now, they will have that + chance. The religious caste and the warrior caste will advise and councel. + We will serve, as is proper. Religion and war must act in the *service* of + the people, not the other way around. This place.. this place is reserved + in memory of Neroon, until the day it is taken by the One who is to come. + You are the heart, the hands, and the voice of our people. Judge wisely + and well." + -- Delenn to Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" +',' +"Captain''s personal log, September 2nd, 2261. Enough is enough." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"We''ll hit them in waves. Try to isolate the ships we need to destroy from + the ones who won''t fight unless they have to. Then we''ll give them a chance + to surrender or join up." +"And if they don''t?" +"We take them out. Hey, I don''t like the idea any more than you do, but + either we commit ourselves to this completely or we don''t do it. Once we + pull the first trigger we can''t hesitate to pull the next one, because they + sure won''t. Now, once we''re in, we''re in: no surrender, no retreat." + -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"I didn''t do it! I didn''t do it! Thank the Great Maker it was just a dream." + -- Vir in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"So from now on I guess the operational phrase is ''Trust no one.''" +"No. Trust Ivanova, trust yourself, anybody else: shoot them." + -- Corwin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"Hello, G''Kar. I don''t believe I have ever been in your quarters before. + Unless you count a cell on Centauri Prime." +"I apologize for the lack of chains. The cleaning service must have + removed them." +"It has much the same feeling as your world: dry, .. red, .. and + depressing." + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"How is the eye?" +"It sees." + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"I have no interest in your thanks." +"I did not think that you would, but it is there anyway. [sighs] + As I said, a hard year." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"When I saw you in that cell, beaten, chained .. As I said, we have never + been friends, we will never be friends. There is too much blood between + us, too much history. But I did feel for you, as much as I did not want + to. In the beginning, it was little more than sympathy one might feel for + any trapped animal. But in time .. I came to respect you. +"Your respect matters to me even less than your thanks." +"You are not going to give me even an inch, are you? + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"You may not believe this, G''Kar, but all I ever wanted is what is *right* + for my world. I''m a patriot, as you are. I have made some .. very poor + choices in the last two years. Because I did not *think*, those choices + almost destroyed my world, and yours. That is a humbling realization, G''Kar. + If with a single wrong word I can become the enemy, do I any longer really + understand who the enemy is?" + -- Londo to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"Because, while I do not know who the enemy is any longer, I do know who + my friends are, and that I have not done as well by them as I should. + I hope to change that. I hope to do better." + -- Londo to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"Before war broke out between our governments, you bought me a drink. + I wish to return the favor. For the first time in a hundred years, we + have something in common beyond hatred. I find that most extraordinary, + and so a drink to the humans, and to the bridge that they created between + us in the hope for a better future for both our worlds." + -- Londo to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"Earth''s Last Best Hope" + -- A Poster in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"It looks as if we won." +"No, we achieved the mission objective. It is not a victory. + Too many on both sides had to die for it." + -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" +',' +"Mars. I can''t believe I''m back on Mars. Three times before this place + almost killed me. I swore I''d never give it another chance to finish + the job. Humans have got no business being here. No business at all." + -- Garibaldi''s Log in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" +',' +"Everything is illusion, Mr. Garibaldi. Concepts [constructs] of language, + light, metaphor; nothing is real." + -- Wade to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" +',' +"Nobody takes power. They''re given power by the rest of us, + because we are stupid or afraid or both. " + -- William Edgars in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" +',' +"What you just told me, is that the whole truth?" +"It''s as close to the truth as you or anyone else will ever get, + Mr. Garibaldi." + -- Garibaldi and Edgars in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" +',' +"Mars. Three times before this place almost killed me. And now I have + finally finished the job. I can''t feel anything anymore. I don''t know + what I care about anymore, except Lise. I screwed up both our lives + pretty good. Now I get to make up for it. Assuming any of us can ever + make up for anything we have done in the past. Maybe we can''t, maybe + we just have to live with it and get on with it, and do what we have + to, never what we want to. It has to be done. I hope you can see that + one day." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" +',' +"Somewhere on Beta colony, there is .. an institution. And one room in + that institution .. there is a man, who spends his days and nights + screaming at .. things only he can see. Things we planted in his mind." + -- Lyta to Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +',' +"They taught me what a telepath was and what we can do. And all that + time I had never been afraid of who we were. Until that day .. when + we did what we had to do because no one else would fight." + -- Lyta to Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +',' +"Do you think the Captain is all right?" +"He knows what he''s doing, he''ll be fine. + Assuming Mr. Garibaldi can still be trusted." + -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +',' +"What''s going on? You all look like a Pak''ma''ra just ate your cat." + -- Ivanova to Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +',' +"We interrupt our regular programming for this important announcement. + The leader of the renegade fleet that has been trying to destabilize + Earth for months has *finally* been located and detained. Captain John + Sheridan, formerly of Earth Force, was captured earlier today by forces + loyal to president Clark and is now being held in a secure facility. + Unlike many of his victims, he is being given proper care and treatment + until a hearing can be convened." + -- ISN Broadcast in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +',' +"We''re engaged in a very dangerous game, Mr. Garibaldi. In this game you + have to pick your target very carefully, because you only have one shot. + And this is much, *much* bigger than you suspect." +"President Clark isn''t the real problem, he''s trivial. One way or another + he''ll be gone in a few years, but the telepaths he put in power, the Psi + Corp, those will be with us forever. That''s the real danger." + -- Wade and Edgars in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +',' +"I knew there were forces out there with plans for my telepaths, but this.. + I had no idea. The sheer scope of it. Well, we''ll stop it now, of course, + in our own way." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +',' +"By nature Mr. Garibaldi is rebellious, stubborn, and suspicious. + He has an innate distrust to the authority figures. And he is very + good at figuring out when conspiracies are taking place and tracking + it back to its source. We need that part of him, so I don''t wanna risk + tampering with him." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +',' +"The Captain once told me: ''The person is expendable, the job is not.'' + We keep going." + -- Ivanova to Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" +',' +"When I ask a question, you will respond at once. You will not hesitate, + you will not consider, you will not lie. Co-operation will be rewarded, + resistance .. will be punished." + -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +',' +"There is nothing to be gained by trying to harm me, I am not the enemy. + To be the enemy, I must have some personal stake in what happens to you. + I am not interested in that at all. I''m here to do a job, nothing more. + You are a name, a file, and a case number, that''s all." + -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +',' +"It does prove though how everything is a matter of perspective. You see + what you think is daylight, and you assume it''s morning. Take it away, + you think it''s night. Offer you a sandwich, if it''s convenient, you''ll + think it''s mid-day. The truth is fluid, the truth is subjective." + -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +',' +"The truth is sometimes what you believe it to be, and other times + what you *decide* it to be. My task is to make you decide to believe + differently." + -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +',' +"You have been interrogated before?" +"Yes." +"Anyone I know?" +"You''d be surprised." + -- Interrogator and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +',' +"No! *You* have no rights. There''s no courtroom here, Captain. No tribunals, + no attorneys, no justice, no mercy, no fairness, no hope, no last minute + escape. You will walk through that door when you confess and not one second + before." + -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" +',' +"It''s great to have you back, Captain." +"Thanks. It''s good to be back. I was starting to think I would never + get out of that place." + -- Franklin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"We don''t use names." +"Codes then?" +"Just.. numbers." + -- Sheridan and Interrogator in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"Besides, we don''t want co-operation. We want conversion. We want repentance." + -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"It was Bester. It was him all along. He altered me when I was missing, he + messed with my mind. He made me turn against everybody I knew because he was + trying to find out who was behind a conspiracy against the Psi Corps." +"Yeah, and the dog ate your homework." + -- Garibaldi and #1 in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"You''ve got any proof? Anything to back up this story of yours? Anything?" +"Yeah. I''ve got a receipt from the Psi Corps certifying that my brain was dry + cleaned, pressed and starched." + -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"Now, a headache I can get over. I''m not sure if I''m going to + get over being dead anytime soon." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"The truth speaks for itself. I''m just a messenger." + -- Lyta to #1 in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"Look, we have to make them understand that if they target innocent people, + they can''t run, they can''t hide. I mean, President Clark is issuing the + orders, but they are pulling the trigger." + -- Ivanova to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"During the Shadow War Sheridan risked his life and the lives of every human + on this station to help save our worlds. Would the Gaim have done that for + the Pak''ma''ra? Would the Drazi have done that for .. for the Narn? No. + That sacrifice must be rewarded." +"Since the war we have begun working together as never before. In the past we + had nothing in common, but now, the humans have become the *glue* that holds + us together." + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"If Sheridan''s forces are defeated, then Earth will turn in upon itself. + They will become isolated or they''ll turn against the rest of us." +"Politically it is very wise." +"Morally it is even wiser." +"Politics and morality on the same side! That doesn''t happen every day, + Delenn." + -- Vir, Londo, G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"We wanted to send a message, that the Council speaks as one for the right + reasons, not out of any personal agenda. Sheridan is not alone, and *you* + are not alone. The League stands with you. We *all* stand with you." + -- G''Kar to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"Why can''t we go anyplace nice?" + -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"All right, who gulped? Somebody gulped. Look, we have got a long + way to go. We''re supposed to sip, not gulp." +"I didn''t gulp." +"No?" +"I sipped." +"You I believe." +"Now, why do you believe her and not me?" +"Because when you lie, it''s all over your face. She''s a much better + liar than you are." +"Thank you. .. Wait a minute!" + -- Garibaldi, Franklin, Lyta in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"They are loyal to the new order. They won''t defect and they won''t give up." + -- David Eisensen in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"Rangers never bluff." + -- Marcus to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"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." + -- Guard to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"It''s the last time I''ll ever trust you." +"Also the first." + -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"Who am I? I''m Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sofie Ivanov. + I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry + ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I''m death incarnate and the last + living thing that you''re *ever* going to see. *God* sent me." + -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" +',' +"November 1st, 2261. Doctor''s personal log. We''re ready." + -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +',' +"No, they picked me because I''m from the old school: a soldier doesn''t take + arms against his own government, no matter how justified you feel doing it. + And because Sheridan was one of my students back in the Academy. I taught + him everything he knows. I know how he thinks, I know how he fights. To + tell you the truth, I''ve always admired him. And now I''m gonna have to kill + him, and his ship and everyone around him. It''s a terrible day, Charlie. + I wish the hell I''d never live to see it." + -- General Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +',' +"I assume that you worked out that whole longitude-latitude thing. + I know you get confused sometimes." +"You''re right, you''re right. I keep mixing them up. .. I got it right. + Well, I *think* I got it right. Okay, fine. Which goes vertically, + longitude or latitude?" + -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +',' +"But he wouldn''t want to go offensive unless .. + he has an ace in the hole. But what is it?" + -- General Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +',' +"What can one telepath do against an entire destroyer?" +"Well, these aren''t normal telepaths." + -- EF NCO and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +',' +"Engineering, this is General Lefcourt. In case you didn''t notice, the enemy + just pulled our shorts up over our head and tied them into a knot. You will + get the ship under control ASAP, or I will come down there and skin the hide + off every last one of you." + -- General Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +',' +"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*." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +',' +"From the office of William Morgan Clark" +"The a(S)cension of the ordinary man." +"The as(C)ension of the ordinary man." +"The ascension (O)f the ordinary man." +"The ascension of the o(R)dinary man." +"The as(C)ension of the ordinary man." +"The ascension of t(H)e ordinary man." +"The ascension of th(E) ordinary man." +"The ascension of the or(D)inary man." +"The ascension of the ordinary man." +"Th(E) ascension of the ordinary man." +"The (A)scension of the ordinary man." +"The ascension of the o(R)dinary man." +"The ascension of (T)he ordinary man." +"The ascension of t(H)e ordinary man." +"The ascension of the ordinary man." + -- Clark''s note in Babylon 5:"Endgame" +',' +"Only a sane and careful study of the facts will allow us to separate + those who were willing partners in President Clark''s reign of terror + from those who co-operated only in fear of their lives." + -- President Susanna Luchenko in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"You''re late!" +"No, no, no, *you''re* early." +"I''m never premature." +"Oh, well, *that* is a surprise, given what I''ve heard. I''m sure it''s a + matter of perspective, really. But for a Narn, two minutes must be a long + time, so if you go the duration, it''s an accomplishment. But for the + Centauri, *hours* can go by before you even get to the good parts." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"You''re going to be Emperor, Londo. Isn''t that *wonderful?*" +"Yes, Vir, wonderful news." + -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"I find it amazing that you think that threats still mean anything to me. + ''Do this or you''re a dead man.'' Death: been there, done that." + -- Sheridan to Bester in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"I know, I know what''s it like to lose someone, only to find her and + then lose her a second time. I wouldn''t wish that to anyone, not even + you, as much as I might want to." + -- Sheridan to Bester in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"I see nothing amusing in this situation, Londo." +"No, no. You are right, there isn''t. It''s just that..[giggle] I''m so rarely + in the presence of living history. It.. it thins the atmosphere, makes you + giddy. [giggle] You realize that you are quite mad for even considering + this?" +"Perhaps." + -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"As you were. Well, Captain, you caused quite a stir. Half of Earth Force + wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the medal of honor. The other half + wants you taken out and shot. As a politician you learn how to compromise. + Which by all right means I should give you the medal of honor then have you + shot. I confess the idea had a certain appeal when I mentioned it to the + Joint Chiefs two hours ago." + -- President Susanna Luchenko to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"So, morally I was right, but politically I''m inconvenient." +"Inconvenient doesn''t even begin to cover it. + Now we have to clean up the mess." + -- Sheridan and President Susanna Luchenko in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"The bitch of it is that you probably did the right thing. But you did it + in the wrong way. In the inconvenient way. Now you have to pay the penalty + for that. I know it stinks, but that''s the way it is." + -- President Susanna Luchenko to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned + that we all have choices, even when we don''t recognize them, and that + those choices have consequencies, not just for ourselves, but for others. + We must assume responsibility for those consequencies." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"For many years all of us here have priced our good relations with Earth. + You have shown through your example that strength comes from a multitude of + voices brought together for a common cause. Humans form communities. In that + spirit we have voted to dissolve the League of Non-Aligned worlds and create + a new alliance, based on mutual co-operation and respect. An alliance, born + in the diverse voices of many worlds, joined by their desire to build a + better future and their decision to voluntarily recognize a common + authority." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"Their [Rangers] goal is to create the peace, not enforce the peace." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"I fully understand, Madame President. No one in this room is more suspicious + of these things than I am, no race more prideful than the Centauri. But we + are tired of war and believe that this will help to create peace between us." +"Peace is a concept. If I''m going to sell this to my Generals and the public, + I''m going to need something a little more tangible." + -- Londo and President Luchenko in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"You!" +"Funny thing about retiring: you no sooner pick out the places you want + to go on vacation and someone comes at you with another job offer." + -- General Foote and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"Mister President?" +"It''s a--" +"--another long story." + -- David and John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"Don''t. Don''t do that, no, come on. The sun''s almost coming up. + I''ve got to get some sleep .. eventually." + -- Garibaldi to Lise in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"So, how does it feel to make history?" +"You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it." +"G''Kar, you are a depressing person." +"Thank you." +"And stop eating that. We don''t even know what it is." +"Something called ''rice''." +"Yes, and if it were any good, do you think they would be standing there + throwing it at people? As marriage ceremonies go, the humans are very + strange indeed. Still, they''re quite a couple, aren''t they?" +"Yes, they are." +"Almost makes you wish that you could peek in on them. See how''s it going. + G''Kar, the artificial eye that doctor Franklin gave you. Where is it?" + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"It was the end of the Earth year 2261 and it was the dawn of a new age for + all of us. It was the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. + The next 20 years would see great changes, great joy and great sorrow. + The telepath war. The Drakh war. The New Alliance would waver and crack, + but in the end it will hold, because what is built endures, and what is + loved endures. And Babylon 5, .. Babylon 5 endures." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" +',' +"Well, we figured you probably want to come back with as little fanfare as + possible, your usual low-key approach." +"But there''s a time and a place for everything and this is the time and + this is *definitely* the place for one hell of a party!" + -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"So, Doctor, who died?" +"What are you talking about?" +"Among my people this is how we celebrate state funerals. Our marriage + ceremonies are solemn, sober, moments of reflection, also regret, + disagreement, argument and mutual recrimination. Once you know it can''t + get any worse you can relax and enjoy the marriage. But to *start* with + something like this.. No, it is a very bad sign for the future." + -- Londo and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"What matters is what we did here, together. In a hundred years it won''t + matter who we were. They probably won''t even remember." +"That''s true." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"What amazes me is the way that everyone is trying to turn Sheridan into + some kind of hero. This is the man who resigned his commission in Earth + Force under dubious conditions." + -- Henry Ellis in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"He can barely get along with his own race, and now he''s gonna stitch + together an alliance of *radically* different aliens and make it work. + No, this whole shebang is doomed from the get-go." + -- Henry Ellis in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"Obviously there''s a degree of uncertainty in *any* new political situation. + This next year will prove critical for Sheridan and the rest of his people. + Look what they are up against: he has to ride herd on the dozen or so alien + races that have signed on to this alliance and probably don''t fully + understand what''s being required of them. There are still sporadic fighting + between many of those members. On top of that, he has supply problems, + telepath problems, raiding parties, not to mention distrust among elements + of his own government here at home. This man has his work cut out for him, + but I *know* that he can handle it." + -- Senator Elizabeth Metarie in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"The first thing you have to do is separate fantasy from reality. The + publicity machine of the Alliance would have you believe that somehow *all* + this came about because of what a few people did. But large political + movements are rarely the workup of any one person. The individual at the + center gives permission for others to act, can *inspire* others. But the + individual really can not affect changes on an act of will. *They* did not + do, they allowed others to do." + -- Dr. Barbara Tashaki in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"We all have a profound psychological need to believe in heroes, the shining + knight on the white horse. If they don''t exist, we create them. Sheridan + and Delenn are two classic examples. If you look at the social dynamic around + them, they actually didn''t do anything. They were the open vessels in which + people poured their hopes and their dreams. That sets up sort of a gestalt, + where events take on a life of their own." + -- William Exeter in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"John Sheridan was a good, kind, and decent man." +"Delenn, wait! You came all this way just to say *that?*" +"You came just this far to say less?" + -- Delenn and Dr. Jim Latimere in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"You do not wish to know .. anything. You wish only to speak. That which you + know, you ignore, because it is inconvenient. That which you do not know, + you invent. But none of that matters, except that he was a good man, a kind + man, who cared about the world, even when the world cared nothing for him." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"Not propaganda, goodfacts, as opposed to realfacts. + Facts the government has endorsed." + -- Daniel to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"Earth needs room to expand. The Rangers and the Alliance + prove a hindrance to our plans to expand." + -- Daniel in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"What we can not take by force, we will *win* by subversion. + And in the end we will bury you." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"There must be something we can do." +"We''re dead, we are not even here, just our memories, our thought patterns." +"That must be worth something. What we are is not a matter of flesh, it''s + a matter of will." + -- Delenn and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"You see, the thing is, me and Sheridan were close, but *I* was the one who + did most of the strategic planning during the war. Now, a resource like that + you may not want to wipe it out just yet. I could help you." + -- Garibaldi to Daniel in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"The funny thing about being a holographic record is that you don''t really + exist, except in patterns of light, shadow, information." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"Holograms do not lie, Danny-boy." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"The ways of Rome are like onto God. They are mysterious and sometimes they + transcend understanding. They confess to an inability to see the wisdom of + our mission: to keep alive the knowledge of the past. The knowledge that + would''ve been lost forever after the Great Burn 500 years ago. Science and + technology, yes, is that really their calling? But it *is* ours." + -- Brother Alwyn Macomber in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we can not + continue, that the whole of our whole lives is without meaning." + -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"Not useless, but it is also not enough. Faith and reason are the shoes on + your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one." + -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"That''s all that faith requires. That we surrender ourselves to + the possibility of hope. For that I''m content." + -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"We *will* rebuild the Earth, though it may take us another 2000 years. + This time we will build it better." + -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"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." + -- Man in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"And I was wondering if they will remember us hundred years from now, + or a thousand. Then I figured: probably not." +"But it doesn''t matter. We did what we did because it was right, not + to be remembered. History will attend to itself, it always does." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"Dedicated to all the people who predicted that the Babylon Project would + fail in its mission. Faith manages." + -- Dedication in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" +',' +"Just personalities, any .. internal conflicts I need to be made aware of. + Beyond that, I''ve thoroughly researched Babylon 5''s operational procedures, + personnel records .. I''m pretty much up to speed on all the reports." +"With all due respect, there''s a lot that doesn''t fit into a report." +"Then the report is incomplete." + -- Captain Lochley and Corwin in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"It''s nothing personal, but I need to send a message to Babylon 5. That''s + what you Rangers are for, right? Getting messages from one place to another. + So you''re the right person in the right place at the right time. + For me anyway." + -- John to a Ranger in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"And so it begins." +"There is a hole in your mind." +"What do you want?" +"No one here is exactly what he appears." +"Nothing''s the same anymore." +"Commander Sinclair .. is being reassigned." +"Why don''t you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you''re at it?" +"I see a great hand reaching out of the stars." +"Who are you?" +"President Clark has signed a decree today declaring martial law." +"These orders have forced us to declare independence." +"Weapons supplies." +"Unless your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something." +"You''re the one who was." +"If you go to Z''ha''dum, you will die." +"Why are you here?" +"Do you have anything worth living for?" +"I think of my beautiful city in flames." +"Like giants in a playground." +"Get the hell out of our galaxy!" +"We are here to place president Clark under arrest." + -- Season Opener in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"The newly elected president of the Interstellar Alliance, about to be + officially sworn in, washing his own socks? You''re a very strange man, + even for a human." +"Why, thank you." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"You''re good with diplomacy when possible, but you know how to fight when + you have to. And you speak your mind. Now, whoever''s running B5 for the + next year is going to be on the hot seat. I chose you strictly on your + background. You are the perfect choice." + -- Sheridan to Lochley in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"I want the authority to go with it. I won''t be interfered with or + second-guessed or micromanaged. .. Sir." + -- Lochley to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"I''m sorry, but I''m--" +"Working. Yes, I can see. Books, manuals, directives, regulations, the + geometries that circumscribe your awaken life, drawn narrower and + narrower until nothing fits inside them anymore. My name is Byron." + -- Lochley and Byron in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"Well, Mr. Garibaldi says it''s very well written." +"Well, I .. I''m sorry, there''s just the one copy for now, and well .. when + I loaned it to Mr. Garibaldi, it came back with coffee stains. I can''t--" + -- Sheridan and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"I will not sleep, eat, drink, nothing! The words and I will be locked in + mortal combat until one of us surrenders." + -- G''Kar to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"That''s a tall order." +"Perhaps. But where is it written that all our dreams must be small ones?" + -- Lochley and Byron in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"As strong as you think you are, the one thing you can''t stop is the lone + gunman determined to kill you, even if he gets killed in the process. + I''m that man, Sheridan." + -- John in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"On my world, we have learned that an inauguration is simply a signal to + assassins that a new target has been set up on the firing range." + -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"I''m glad you talked him out of it. I have no desire to be struck + blind by the sight of Londo naked." + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"Whoever speaks for the Alliance speaks with one voice for many. + Consequently, this contains the first page of every holy book of every race + that has joined the new Alliance. Whoever speaks for the Alliance does so + with the understanding that it is the inalienable right of every sentient + being to live free, to pursue their dreams, to address wrongs within their + own society without fear of retribution, to believe as their conscience + requires in matters of faith, but also to respect the rights of others to + believe differently, or not at all. Do you, John J. Sheridan--" + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"You want to be president?" +"Yes." +"Put your hand on the book and say, ''I do.''" +"I do." +"Fine. Done. Let''s eat." + -- G''Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" +',' +"Do you know what this is, hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that + vacant look in your eyes that says, ''Hold my head into your ear, and you''ll + hear the sea.'' This is bravari, very old bravari, very expensive bravari. + Do you understand bravari, hmm?" + -- Londo to Zack in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +',' +"I was going to tell you tonight, Delenn, after dinner." +".. Why?" +"Because .. bad news improves on a good meal. Valen said--" +"Lennier." + -- Lennier & Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +',' +"I don''t believe this. What is it with this place? I mean, last week someone + tries to assassinate Sheridan, and now someone tries to poison Londo. + My God! What is wrong with you people? Don''t you have anything else better + to do? Why don''t you get a hobby? Read a book or something?" + -- Vir in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +',' +"You couldn''t sleep either." +"No. I heard about your .. situation." +"I heard about yours. As Mr. Garibaldi would say, + it''s been one hell of a day." +"Yes, a hell of a day." +"And a hell of a year." +"A hell of a 5 years." +"A hell of a life." +".. You win." + -- Vir and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +',' +"The dream is prophecy." +"Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn''t, it''s a metaphor. You + could put a gun to your head tomorrow and pull the trigger, and then the + dream is *just* a dream, and the prophecy is *just* a metaphor, and so are + you. You''re out of time, Londo. Turn around." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +',' +"You''re wrong, Mollari. Whether it was me or my world, whether it was a total + stranger or your worst enemy, you were a *witness*! It doesn''t matter if + they stopped. It doesn''t matter if they''d listen. *You* had an obligation to + speak out!" + -- G''Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" +',' +"I would remind the Drazi ambassador that the Centauri Republic has + already signed the declaration. And if the Centauri can sign it, + anybody can sign it." +"That''s right. .. Wait a minute." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"G''Kar is taking it as a personal rejection since he wrote the damn thing." +"Oh, writers. They are a sensitive bunch." + -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"I''m not big on telepaths myself. I''m not big on guns either. But if everyone + else has them, I want to make sure I get my hands on the biggest one I can." + -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"You''ve misspelled this. There''s no ''Y'' in liberties." +"Oh, go away. Repress someone else." +"As you wish." + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"Afternoon. My name''s Michael Garibaldi--" +"Yes, it is. And the answer is no." +"Wait a second. You didn''t hear what I had to say." +"Yes, I did. I heard your proposition, I heard what you thought I would + probably say in response, and I heard the counter-arguments you planned + to use. I know you''re having some discomfort with those shoes and that + lunch is not sitting well with you just now." + -- Garibaldi and Byron in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"Do you know what a telepath has to do in order to avoid picking up stray + thoughts? We have to kick down our natural abilities, run rhymes and little + songs through our heads ''round and ''round. All that to keep from picking up + what you''re broadcasting loud enough to be heard halfway down the hall. + You''re one of those people who rehearses everything, Mr. Garibaldi. You + never enter a situation until you''ve gone over it and over it a hundred + times, worked out what you will say and what the other person will say, + how you''ll respond. It''s .. quite remarkable and extremely depressing. + That little personality quirk must have cost you more than a few + relationships. Mundanes want us to fill our heads with noise and babble + so we won''t hear what you''re shouting at the top of your minds." + -- Byron to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"Oh, I can just hear Londo now: + I imagine you are finding your principles most inconvenient now, yes?" + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"Send all of them. Or at least as many as we can afford. Dukhat once told me: + ''If you can create sufficient fear in your eemies, you may not have to fight + them. Always remember that terror is also a form of communication.''" +"Oh, he taught you well." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"The rumor around Psi Corps is that''s what happened to Mr. Bester. Did you + know that? They say he was always volunteering for deathbed scans. I guess + he wanted to know what was on the other side. They say he was there inside + someone''s mind when they died, and .. he went too deep. Saw more than anyone + should ever see. And when the door closed .. the rest of him .. maybe the + best of him .. never came back." + -- Lyta to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"Lyta, they believe in this new Alliance. They think they can make a + difference, help people. But they''re trying, Lyta. They''re trying so hard, + and they''re gonna need all the help they can get, whether they know it or + not. I came back because I figured they deserve a fighting chance to make + this work, and I''m gonna give it to them. You do this for me, and I swear, + I will never ask you for anything ever again. .. Till the next time." + -- Garibaldi to Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is + not narn or human or centauri or gaim 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 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. The small, still voice that 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 begin + to realize this singular truth and this singular rule that we must be kind + to one another. Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each + voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of + creation, the fire that will light our way to a better future. We are one." +"We are one." + -- Sheridan / G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"Tell me that it matters to you that I help your friend." +"It matters to me." +"We will find him two among us who are trained beyond reproach. They will + find for him all the things that are hidden, all the things that are dark, + and all the things that are secret." + -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"Do you know if they had a chance to send out a distress call?" +"Oh, no. They were shot right out of the sky with great efficiency." + -- Drazi Ambassador and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"Ah, Mr. President. Oh, good, good, good. I was looking for these." +"What are you doing?" +"Well, we need to get everyone to sign them again." +"What? We .. Do you understand what we went through to get them signed + even once?" +"I revised it again. It''s better." +"G''Kar!" +"But look." +"It''s better." + -- G''Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"We''ve got to watch this, Delenn. We''ve got to watch this very closely. + Because we are standing on the proverbial slippery slope, and if we''re + not careful, there''s a big fall out there that''s just waiting to happen." + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" +',' +"Apparently, wing of a hostile alien force that''s scouting out this sector + for likely worlds to invade. For ''likely'' read ''soft and vulnerable.'' Our + task is to make sure they either don''t leave here, or they leave convined + that we are neither soft nor vulnerable and way too much trouble to invade. + We win this battle, they go away, we save ourselves a great deal of trouble + in the future. We lose, this''ll get a hell of a lot worse." + -- Captain Lochley in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"You''ve seen him and Delenn together, right? Now that''s true love, + my friend. You don''t see that very often." +"Quite very true. He''s a good man." +"Yep. A good man." +"I heard he was dead once." +"Yeah, well, nobody''s perfect, Bo." + -- Mack and Bo in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"Hey, .. Can I ask you a question?" +"Shoot." +"What the hell are these things for?" +"What do you mean?" +"I mean, what do they do?" +"What do you mean what do they do? You run ''em along the floor, like this." +"Ok. So what does it do? It''s not any cleaner." +"Don''t know. Maybe it looks for cracks on the floor or it does something to + the metal .. makes it stronger. I don''t know." +"So you don''t know either?" +"No." +"Well .. I guess it''s time for lunch." +"Yep." + -- Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"What does it taste like?" +"Hard to say, Bo. Um, kind of, um .. spooish, I guess." +"No. You''re supposed to say chicken." +"Huh?" +"It''s a joke. Whenever you eat something strange and someone asks, ''What + does it taste like?'' you''re supposed to say chicken. It''s funny that way." +"It doesn''t *taste* like chicken." + -- Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"So, what happened to the doctor that helped your dad?" +"Shot and killed by his own men. Said he was a traitor." + -- Bo and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"You''re supposed to be the head of covert intelligence. Right now, I''m not + seeing a hell of a lot of intelligence. Covert, overt, or otherwise!" + -- Lochley to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"At the moment of death, there is a passing of energy. An explosion of + consciousness. It permeates everything in close proximity: your clothes, + jewelry, .. anything. We can still feel him, .. what he was, .. what he + did, .. his hopes, .. and fears, .. and expectations. It''s still there + for a few minutes. .. Then it will disappear. .. Joining him in silence." + -- Byron in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"Bringing us into a world that fears us and hates us, + nature did not leave us entirely without protection." + -- Byron in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"I was .. never a child. I had responsibilities. I''ve had responsibilities + for as long as I can remember. Duty. Honor. Family." +"Ah. That explains a great deal." +"Really? And what exactly does it explain, G''Kar?" +"I spent my years in one shelter after another. But sooner or later, I was + able to leave the shelter and walk out into the daylight. You do not have + that luxury. You carry your shelter with you, .. every day. You didn''t grow + up. You grew old." + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"Then, as you said to me once: ''I will see you in a little while, + in a place where no shadows fall.''" + -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"If I''m launched in a life pod and let''s say, shortly after the launch, + the equipment is accidentally smashed from the inside, what would happen + to the pod?" + -- Delenn to Mack & Bo in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"Now .. time being circular .. if we know that this will happen, then we + may as well assume that it has happened already and that the life pod is + not safe for me to enter." + -- Delenn to Mack & Bo in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"Suddenly, I think I understand Sheridan a lot better." +"How so?" +"Well, dead or alive I''d claw my way out of hell and straight through 10 + miles of solid rock to see that smile again." + -- Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" +',' +"You are a source of constant annoyance to me, Turval, but only because + you''re right more often than you''re wrong. And why should i keep this joy + to myself? I choose to share you with the universe. Valen help them all." + -- Sech Durhan to Sech Turval in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"It''s good to see you down here again. Didn''t know whether you''d still hang + around with us grunts now that you''ve been *promoted*." +"It''s still just little ol'' me, Zack. I don''t change. I don''t have the time." + -- Zack and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"Now, there have been a lot of rumors about you since you got on board this + station, captain. Maybe everybody else is afraid to ask. I don''t have that + problem. You see, I don''t work for you. I answer only to Sheridan. So I + want to know, just for me, which side were you on?" + -- Garibaldi to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"You just keep doing what you''re doing. Michael will come around, + eventually. He''s a good man." +"I know. I just .. I just never thought I''d meet a second man as + strong-willed, stubborn, and annoying as I am. My cup runneth over." + -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"We have no idea what to do with the Pak''ma''ra. They''re slow, greedy, + selfish, not very bright. They refuse to speak anything other than their + own language, so we have to use a translator. And they''re carrion-eaters. + If it''s not five days dead and decayed, they won''t touch it." + -- Sech Durhan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"Our training methods were created by Minbari to serve Minbari. But if there + is any lesson to be learned from the humans, it is that we are made stronger + by our differences, not weaker. If the Pak''ma''ra cannot learn to be what we + think they should be, then perhaps we should learn to use them for what they + are." + -- Delenn to Sech Durhan in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"This may not be a good idea." +"We should learn about all the dark places here, since that + is where we will do our work. .. In the dark." + -- Tannier and Rastenn in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"We create the meaning in our lives. It does not exist independently. Being + Anla-shok does not mean worrying about what others will think about us. + It does not mean deciding what to do based upon whether or not it serves + our sense of ego or destiny. It means living each moment as if it were your + last one. It means doing each right thing because it is the right thing. + The scale doesn''t matter. The where, the when, the how, or in what cause .. + none of those things matter. In my life, I''ve discovered very few truths. + Here is the greatest truth I know: Your death, Rastenn, will have a meaning + if it comes while you''re in fullest pursuit of your heart." + -- Sech Turval to Rastenn in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"As Anla-shok, we choose to do that which frightens us, knowing that there + are no guarantees. He may lose. We cannot help him." +"Then he will stand alone." +"At the end, Captain, .. we all stand alone." + -- Delenn and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"Attend, students, this is a classic archetype in action. The strong man or + ''bully'', as the humans call it, essentially a coward whose only skill is + convincing others to do what he''s afraid to do himself." +"Notice the lack of technique, no follow through. Another flaw in this + particular personality type. .. all muscle, no brain." + -- Sech Turval and Sech Durhan in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"You, uh, got the captain''s file there?" +"No. Go away." +"I could just peek--" +"You know, Michael, you and the Minbari have one thing in common: + You never know when to leave something *alone*." + -- Garibaldi and Zack in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" +',' +"That''s got to be a great feeling; Emperor Mollari the First." +"The Second." +"There was one before you?" +"Yes. Long ago. He, too, ended badly." +"Now, come on, you''ve got your whole life ahead of you. + Why would you say a thing like that?" +"Because I know. My people always know. I don''t know why, or how, + or where, but I can feel it to the very core of my being, Mr. Allan. + This is where it begins to go badly for all of us." + -- Zack and Londo in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"The willow is deceptively strong. It bends, but it does not break. + Its roots are deep and can withstand the worst storm. It promises + rest, and shade, and cool breezes to those who would find rest + beneath it. You have become my willow. and we have all found shelter + in your kindness." + -- Byron to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"I do not feel as if I am doing enough for the Alliance, Delenn." +"Be careful, G''Kar. When the universe hears you say something like that, + it tends to answer in the most surprising ways." + -- G''Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"How am I doing so far?" +"Annoyingly logical." +"Thank you." +"It wasn''t a compliment." + -- Lochley and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"I''m caught in a web of my own good intentions." +"Well, the road to hell is paved with them, sir." +"I know, but why does it have to go through this office?" + -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"Where are you going?" +"To pound someone, Mr. Allan. Wou win. I just + decided if you can''t join them, beat them." + -- Zack and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"Not bad. Tell me, is that really telekinesis, or are you just pushing the + nerve endings, making them feel as if they''ve been slapped? Either way, + it''s taken a lot out of you, Lyta. You''re sweating, flushed. How many times + can you do that, Lyta? Can you do just one at a time? Maybe two? How about + three? How about a half dozen of us?" +"I don''t know. Like you said, I''m new at this. I could even make a mistake. + Maybe even pop a blood vessel in someone''s head by accident by pushing too + hard. Feel like playing the odds, Mr. Bester?" + -- Bester and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"What the hell is your problem?" +"For starters, I don''t know you, therefore I don''t trust you." +"The world''s full of people you don''t know." +"I worry about that all the time." +"Tough. Get over it." + -- Lochley and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"Now, I don''t actually like him, and I sure as hell don''t trust him, + but so far he hasn''t done anything unpleasant to me. I''m sure he will, + because this place seems to bring that out in everyone, but until then, + I have an obligation to be courteous." +"And I have an obligation to shove his face through a bulkhead." +"Your hobbies are your concern, Mr. Garibaldi. Just do it where + I can''t see it, and do it quietly." + -- Lochley and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"We met fresh out of officer training school. We hit it off, + fell crazy in love, got married, realized we''d made a terrible + mistake, fell crazy out of love, and split up." + -- Lochley to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"I could hide you." +"I believe you could. I believe you would protect me until the stars + themselves went cold and dead, but my people need me, and i must go + to them." + -- Lyta and Byron in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"He should have a bodyguard assigned to him at all times while he is there. + Someone we can rely on, someone, uh .. someone we can trust. Someone strong + .. strong enough to.." + -- Delenn to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"The Alliance is about learning to overcome our distrust and form a new + community. Can you think of a better symbol?" +"No, and I''m trying, believe me." +"You would naturally have to accompany him on all state business and be + there to guard him. In the palace. In the Royal Court." +"A Narn in the Centauri Royal Court? Ha Ha Ha! It is a curiously + satisfying image, Delenn." + -- Delenn and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"''Earth Alliance medical routine, number 725-IT7.'' Dr. Franklin just hit + me with the paperwork a couple of hours ago. ''No interstellar traveler + who''s been in unknown space shall be allowed within the borders of + Earth-controlled space until after a 60-day quarantine period.''" + -- Lochley to Bester in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"Just keep an eye on them, Captain. Don''t trust them for a second, + because, sooner or later, they will turn on you. You know all about + that, don''t you, Byron?" + -- Bester to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"G''Kar? You''ve assigned G''Kar as my bodyguard?" +"Yes. I think your generosity in working with him will be an excellent + symbol of unity for all the other races who could join the alliance." +"A symbol." +"Yes." +"And you tried this line on G''Kar?" +"I did." +"And did it work?" +"Completely." +"Great Maker." + -- Londo and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"I want the aisle seat." +"Oh, no, no, no. You sit on the inside. I want the aisle." +"If you sit on the aisle, I cannot protect you." +"But .. I don''t like the inside. It''s too cramped. I become nauseous." +"I''ll make sure they have a supply of space sickness bags." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"You don''t have to solve every problem all at once. Problems are solved + in pieces. If you''re on the seventh floor of a burning building, you + can either die or jump out the window. Once you''re out the window, + you''re alive for another two seconds, during which time you figure + out the solution to the next problem and so on and so on." + -- Lochley to Corwin in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this" +"My love will guide you, my love will hold you" +"And my love will show you the way" +"There will come a tomorrow where we''re free from our sorrows" +"And our love will show us the way" +"We are strong in each other, we''re sister and brother" +"And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this" +"My love will guide you, my love will hold you" +"And my love will show you the way" +"There will come a tomorrow where we''re free from our sorrows" +"And our love will show us the way" + -- Telepaths Sing in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" +',' +"Pak''ma''ra are chosen of God, very special. We can eat of all the + creatures who walk, and fly, and crawl, but not of the fish in the sea." +"So you can handle mammals of all kinds, even reptiles, but no fish. + Interesting. Your system may be set up to destroy harmful bacteria on + a selective basis. I''d like to do an analysis of your upper intestinal + system. This .. is a barium compound, perfectly harmless. It''ll help me + track how your system handles outside material." +"Not on approved list." +"Well, everything you eat doesn''t have to be dead for 5 days. + This is a non-organic compound, and it does not fall in the same + category, so don''t worry, now. You''ll be fine. We do this all the time." + -- Pak''ma''ra and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +',' +"That''s why we''re all here: to better understand one another and treat + each other with sympathy and compassion, commodities which are all too + often in short supply." + -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +',' +"Yeah, yeah, yeah. It''s the right place, but this is getting out of hand. + How many more of you people are coming here?" +"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? That question baffled + religious thinkers for centuries, until someone finally hit upon the + answer: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? As many as + want to. How many of my brother and sister telepaths are coming? + As many as want to." + -- Zack and Byron in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +',' +"You don''t understand." +"No, I understand, Zack. I understand plenty. You and the others needed my + help during the shadow war, and I did that. I put my life on the line, + and what did I get? You were going to boot me into smaller quarters + because I couldn''t afford anything better? The only way I got out of that + was to rejoin the Psi-corps, and you don''t even want to know the deal + I had to make to pull that one off." +"Lyta--" +"I''m not finished. After all that, you had the nerve to ask me to risk my + life a second time during the civil war back home, and, stupid me, I did it. + And what did I get out of *that*? Nothing, nada, zip, zilch. I got no life, + no hope, no prospects. Now along comes Byron. And for the first time in a + long while, I feel like someone actually cares about what happens to me." +"I care what happens to you, Lyta." +"Yeah, well, maybe that''s true. But talk is cheap, Zack. Byron is putting + his life on the line to create something for his people. And I''m one of + them. He''s given us back a sense of dignity and community. I''m proud of + that, and I''m proud of him." + -- Zack and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +',' +"Was one the same as three? Was three the same as one and two?" +"Wh--?" +"Was there any difference between one, two, and three?" +"I..I--" +"And what would you expect to get out of four, five, and six that you did + not get out of one, two, and three? Your anger has nothing to do with me. + What will satisfy your anger will never come from me or anyone else here. + I''m afraid you must look for it elsewhere." + -- Byron and a bully in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +',' +"No tyranny has ever really lasted. No government based on violence has + endured. Sooner or later, they all fall. We''re here to build a new life + for ourselves, a home among the stars. Would you build a home on a + foundation you knew would not last?" + -- Byron to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +',' +"Do you know what you are?" +"What?" +"A B.C.F.M.O. A brightly colored fast moving object. You don''t just walk into + a room. You blaze in and blaze out again, like a comet. There''s much more to + you than meets the eye." +"If you only knew." + -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +',' +"Byron, the Vorlons changed me. More than you could possibly know. + I don''t know what it''ll do once you get past my barriers and I get + past yours. It could burn you." +"Then let it burn." + -- Lyta and Byron in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +',' +"It was the Vorlons." +"Yes." +"They created telepaths on a hundred worlds. Interfered with their genetic + development. Took people from their homeworlds and adjusted them over the + course of the centuries." +"Yes." +"Because they needed telepaths in their war against the Shadows. Needed us + as cannon fodder." +"Yes." +"We would be normal. We would have *lives*. We would be able to walk and live + and work among normals without fear of persecution if the Vorlons had not + interfered with our normal development. We were made for their benefit, + to save them. We were told that our abilities were our gift and our curse, + and that we were somehow responsible for it. But we''re not. We''re not." + -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" +',' +"All I know is that they hate comets. Even mentioning a comet to a Brakiri + is some kind of, like, awful taboo. Death. It''s the symbol of death." + -- Garibaldi to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"He''s hosting a cocktail party for, uh .. Rebo and Zooty. + Now, later tonight, we are having dinner with them." +"Rebo and Zooty are here? Zoot zoot? This is truly a day of wonders." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"Oh, this is a moment you can tell your children about, Captain." +"I''ll get on to having some right away." +"What?" +"I said I have an appointment with the Brakiri ambassador. + I''m on my way." + -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"G''Kar, as you can see, I''m rather busy, but I believe you know Ambassador + Kullenbrak. He''s here to--" +"I know! That is why I came. I strongly advise you against this transaction. + It is dangerous and foolish and unwise." +"Religious toleration is foolish?" +"This is not a matter of toleration. You do not know what you are doing." +"The declaration of principles of the alliance .. You *are* familiar + with it, I trust?" +"I wrote it!" +"It states that religious belief shall be sacrosanct." + -- Lochley and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"You see, Minbari humor is based not on physical danger or embarrassment + or rejection, like human humor, but rather on the failure to obtain, uh .. + emotional or spiritual enlightenment." + -- Rebo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"You know, I was really hoping to talk to Zooty, you know, without + the machine." +"Yeah. He never breaks character, not even around me. In 10 years, + I''ve only heard him say one word without the machine." +"Oh. Oh. What''s the word?" +"Why." +"Oh, just curious." +"No, no. that was the word: ''Why''. In 10 years I haven''t figured + it out myself." + -- Sheridan and Rebo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"So .. When you were emperor, it meant something. Subduer of the Xon and the + Shoggren. .. Now .. Ptttp! *Anyone* can be emperor. I can be emperor. *Vir* + can be emperor. If Vir can be emperor, a small earth cat can be emperor. .. + Come on. Talk to me. It''s the day of the dead." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"I thought you''d be pleased to see me." +"But I .. I thought you were dead." +"Ah. You know, the reports of my death, they weren''t even exaggerated + a little bit. Yeah, I''m .. I''m dead. But, you know, I missed you, + and how often do dead people get second chances?" + -- Garibaldi and Dodger in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"You don''t party? Jeez, Lizzie, what''d you grow up to be? We had such fun, + didn''t we? Didn''t we have such fun?" +"No. We were cold, sick, and we were hungry all the time. + We did things to survive. I''ve done my best to forget." + -- Zoe and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"There seems to be a slight problem, sir. It''s kind of hard to + explain. We seem to be missing a piece of the station. We can''t + reach it. We can''t communicate with it." +"That piece is almost a square mile across. You can''t just lose + something that big." +"I agree, but it''s still missing." + -- Corwin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"Any Emily Dickinson poem can be sung to the tune of + the Yellow Rose of Texas." + -- Dodger to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"You don''t come to the dead for wisdom, Lennier." + -- Morden to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"Why did you help me? I know what kind of a man you were." +"Give a dog a bad name, and you can hang him with it. You shouldn''t listen + to everything Sheridan tells you. Actually, I''m surprised he''s not here + tonight, since he died at Z''ha''dum. Is there any coffee here or not?" + -- Lennier and Morden in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"I''m prophetic, not infallible." +"I think you are neither, but at least you have shown me there is truly life + beyond death." +"Not necessarily, but you''ll find that out soon enough." + -- Morden and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"You know, making people laugh is .. is ok. I mean, I .. I enjoy getting a + laugh, but, uh, I don''t know. We wanna do something more important." +"But you two have a real gift. I mean, when things were bad under president + Clark, you two said things on your show that no one else would dare to say." + -- Rebo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"But no one takes comedians seriously." +"Isn''t that a contradiction?" + -- Rebo and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"No. We say serious things in a funny way, but when the joke comes, people + stop listening. The real comedy all happens in the senate. They do .. they + do one idiotic thing after another, but people listen because they say it + seriously. I don''t know whether we''re leaving comedy to go into clown + school, but all I do know is that, uh .. comedians don''t matter." +"Well, if you don''t matter, nothing matters. I mean, the only reason politics + exist is to ensure that people have the freedom to laugh." + -- Rebo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"So who is this Sheridan guy? .. It doesn''t matter. So did you get married?" +"Married. Um, actually, to that Sheridan guy. Didn''t work." + -- Zoe and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"I think we need a little mystery once in a while. Oh, and, uh, speaking of + mysteries, I have a message for you. It''s from someone named Kosh." +".. What''s the message?" +"''When the long night comes, return to the end of the beginning.''" +"Uh, thank you, Captain." + -- Lochley and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"You''re so funny. From now on, I will always watch you. Zoot zoot. + Very funny. I thought perhaps you could perform at my inauguration. + however, to make a Centauri laugh, I have to give you a piece of advice." + -- Londo to Rebo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"What did he say?" +"''Because it tells me to.''" + -- G''Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" +',' +"Each member race has been hit equally. And the attacks have been totally + random, so that rules out border skirmishes or political disagreements. + there''s no one obvious to blame." +"Which means they''ll blame each other, randomly. + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"He is my bodyguard." +"Well, it''s good to know that your excellency''s sense of humor is still + intact after such a long voyage. Well, now perhaps if we could show you + to your room." +"Minister Vitari, I wasn''t joking. His name is G''Kar, and he .. he *is* + my bodyguard. And I can find my room very well on my own, thank you." + -- Londo & Minister Vitari in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"While some telepaths on other worlds it evolved naturally, the majority + were created by the Vorlons through centuries of genetic manipulation. + They created us so that we can be used by the other worlds as weapons + in their war against the Shadows. That is all we are to them: things to + be used and thrown away. All that was bad enough. But to find that we + would not even be telepaths, would not be hunted down and caged and + controlled, if the Vorlons had not interfered with out genetic makeup, + made us into what we are." + -- Byron in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"Some of the staff have found him wandering the palace late at night. They + say he talks to himself, cries, wails, curses, and then falls silent when + somebody approaches. Sometimes he tells he has something important to tell + you and then a cloud seems to pass over his face and he walks away. Once, + before his aides could bring him back to his room he told a guard to kill + him, but he was not himself. Of course he was quite drunk at the time." + -- Lord Jano to Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"Once I would''ve thought *pastels* for the curtains, but I think we are + well beyond pastels now. No, no bright colors anymore, just darkness." + -- Regent to Lord Jano in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"I so wanted to see you again. .. You do understand, Jano, that if it were + my decision, I would never let anyone harm you, I would never let anyone + hurt you. If it were my decision. .. But it''s not my decision, you see. + .. Not my decision at all." + -- Regent to Lord Jano in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"Besides, everyone knows the true source of pain is neither the hand nor + the heart. It is the mouth. Is it not, Minister?" + -- G''Kar to Minister Vole in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"We now have all your secrets. .. Give us a homeworld of our own and you + will never hear of us again. Fail to do so and all your secrets will be + revealed." + -- Byron in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"Never, ever, *ever* trust a telepath. I swear to you that I''m + gonna have that tattooed inside my eyelids." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"If you were hated by your own race, forced to join the Psi-Corps .. or + forced to take drugs to inhibit your talents for the rest of you life, + if you had been hunted and enslaved by the others, would you not want + a place of your own? A place where others like you could gather safely + without fear of persecution." +"Okay, I grant you that on a strictly idealistic level it''s understandable. + But they did it the wrong way, the inconvenient way." +"I seem to recall the Earth president said the same thing to you after + your civil war." + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"It''s bad luck to die on empty stomach." + -- G''Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"Regent Verini!" +"Hello, Mollari. Beautiful night, isn''t it? As nights go, and they go + so quickly now." +"Are you all right?" +"Yes, yes. .. No. I, I''m glad we got there in time to save you, Mollari. + You know, you were the only one who treated me fairly when Cartagia + was here. But he''s still here, isn''t he? His legacy." +"It was you who saved me?" +"No. Not exactly. It was them. They like you, you know. That''s why they + saved you. They say you are just like them, they say-- They say you + have much in common." +"They? Who are they?" +"Shhh! Quietly Londo, quietly. Will follow me, you will be emperor soon." +"Yes." +"I''m sorry. I''m so .. so sorry." + -- Londo and Regent in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"What could they be doing with our ships, I wonder." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" +',' +"They have other ways to slow us down." + -- Zach to Lochley in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +',' +"Would you like some spoo? It''s fresh!" +"Pfah! Get that away from me. Spoo needs to age. It takes time to + cultivate its flavor. Fresh spoo would insult a Centauri." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +',' +"Why is that we always break up our history by the .. the wars, not the + years of peace? The hundred years war, war of 1812, the first three world + wars, the Dilgar war, the war of the shining star, the Minbari war, the + Shadow war. Why the war and not the peace? Because it''s exciting, and + because on some level people like to see something big fall apart and + explode from the inside out. And right now, John, we''re that something." + -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +',' +"And we have to do it without killing a guard, without raising any + alarms, and without anyone noticing that she is gone. My next trick: + I shall fly around the room under my own power." + -- Londo to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +',' +"Khrm." +"It''s .. animal magnetism, what can I say?" + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +',' +"How do we avoid being noticed?" +"We don''t. We do everything we can to *be* noticed. And thus become + invisible." +"I do not understand." +"The royal court has been trained not to see what is inappropriate." + -- Na''Toth and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +',' +"I''ll do whatever I can not to hurt them. You forget: we are more same + than different. We are all telepaths and we are all on this together." + -- Bester to Lochley in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +',' +"Every great fall begins with a single mistake." + -- Drazi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" +',' +"We should expect some losses on their side, but let''s try to keep it within + acceptable limits. The Corps is mother, the Corps is father -- in that way + these are our children that''ve gone astray. We have to at least *try* to + bring them in alive so that we can correct their thinking." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"Our job is to protect normals from rogue telepaths. Perhaps now you''ll + understand why we are necessary. Every race to develop telepaths has had + to find some way to control them: through laws, religion, drugs, or + extermination. We may not be pretty .. but we''re hell of a lot better + than your alternatives." + -- Bester to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"There''s only one thing more dangerous than Mr. Garibaldi when he''s loud. + .. It''s when he''s dead silent." + -- Sheridan to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"No." +"This isn''t a discussion, Bester." +"Yes, it is. You won''t shoot." + -- Bester and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"Let me ask you something, Mr. Garibaldi, purely philosophical question. + On a scale of 1 to 10, .. how stupid do you think I am anyway?" + -- Bester to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"I tried to teach them, to show them that there is another way than + violence. Did I fail that badly?" +"You can''t change human nature, Byron." +"Then there is not much point in living, is there? We can''t hope for + something better, something nobler, at least something kinder." + -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"I''m a strong P12." +"But all P12''s are automatically designated .. Psi-Cops. + You were a Psi-Cop?" +"Not just a Psi-Cop. Bester''s protegďż˝." + -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"What do you know about neural blocks?" + -- Garibaldi to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"You say you''re doing this for a cause. What kind of sympathy you''re + gonna get by killing innocent people in cold blood? If you want to + send a message, this ain''t it." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"Didn''t have to end like this." +"It still doesn''t." +"Yes it does. We can''t go back now. There''s too much blood. + We are no longer who we were. We are what we have become, + what you [Bester] made us!" + -- Byron and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this.." + -- Byron (sings) in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"You''re satisfied, Mr. Bester?" +"No, not at all. I don''t understand it. Despite of it all, I always thought + that at the end of the day we''re on the same side. They just needed someone + to explain it to them .. so they''ll understand who the real enemy was." +"Us, the mundanes." +"We weren''t supposed to fight each other, not like this. I don''t understand, + .. I truly .. don''t." + -- Sheridan and Bester in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"ISN has just learned that the main headquarters for the Psi-Corps was bombed + early this morning by unknown parties. The only clues found at the scene + were the words ''remember Byron'' painted on the side of the building." + -- ISN news in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" +',' +"G''Kar, this is a strange thing. In the past it was a great relief to + leave Babylon 5 and a great joy to return home. Now it is a relief to + leave Centauri Prime and be anywhere else. I don''t know what to call home + anymore." +"Have you considered the possibility that you are simply not meant to be + happy no matter where you are?" +"No, I haven''t. Not until you witched it. I thought you were supposed to be + protecting me, looking out for my best interests." +"I am. The warrior in me is watching out for your life, but the Narn in + me has decided that it''s your spririt that''s in the greatest need of + protection." +"Now, is it me, or are people looking at us?" +"At me, actually." +"Why?" +"I don''t know." + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"I''ve always said this about you: Nothing so improves your company like + the lack of it. The less they see of you, the more they like you." + -- Londo to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"Ta''Lon? Ta''Lon, is it you?" +"It''s me most days, except for those days when I don''t feel quite like + myself and I suppose that I am someone else, but for now: yes, it''s me." + -- G''Kar and Ta''Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"Where is my book? It is my only copy!" +"Yes, that is precisely the point. The Kha''Ri felt that if anything happened + to you, the book of G''Kar would never see the light of day, so they .. + liberated it." +"*Liberated* *it?*" +"We took it home. Those that read it were very moved by it and they made some + copies." +"*Copies?!*" +"Just a few, .. for their frieds. A few more, .. later few more copies." +"How many?!" +"That''s hard to say, exactly. There was some confusion when it went to + the printers." +"*Printers?!* I''ve only been gone for a month, Ta''Lon, there can''t be that + many copies floating around this quickly. How many?" +"Five or six .. hundred .. thousand." +"*What?*" +"I''ve been told that it will out-sell the book of G''Quan. .. Congratulations, + citizen G''Kar. You are now a religious icon." + -- G''Kar and Ta''Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"Michael. You know, if you''ve ever got a problem, anything at all + you want to talk about, you know where to find me, don''t you?" +"I hear you. See ya." + -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"Good morning, G''Kar. Well, this is a delight, I didn''t know you had + children." +"Neither did I." +"Yes, most unsettling when that happens, or then in your case most amusing." + -- Londo and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"So, what happened to your hair?" + -- Tafiq Azir to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"It''s not about teaching something, it''s about unlearning hatred and + unlearning fear. As a warrior, I can not teach them these things. + But you can." + -- Ta''Lon to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"All my life .. I have been responsible only for myself. When I risk, + I risked alone to avoid making others pay the price for my mistakes. + They want me to chose them another way. What if I show then the wrong + way? What if they come to me not because of the lesson but because of + the teacher? I worry, Ta''Lon, that my shadow may become greater than + the message." +"If that happens, I give you my word that I will personally kill you." +"This is supposed to put my mind at ease?" +"I''m a warrior. It''s what I have to give. You and I both have our burdens + to bear, G''Kar. I will carry mine, .. if you will carry yours." + -- G''Kar and Ta''Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"From here on out we tell Londo only what he needs to know and that''s all." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"Keep an eye on him, G''Kar. He may be our only chance to solve this + thing. But I''d rather not do it at the cost of his life." +"And eyes are all I have these days." + -- Sheridan and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"In the past we had little to do with other races. Evolution teaches us + that we must fight that which is different in order secure land, food, + and mates for ourselves, but we must reach a point when the nobility of + intellect asserts itself and says: No. We need not be afraid of those + we are different, we can embrace that difference and learn from it." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"Effective January one, 2263, I will be the new head of xenobiological + research at EarthDome." + -- Franklin to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" +',' +"Besides, we don''t often see a sense of humor in Psi-Cops." +"Reports of our depression are wastly exaggerated." + -- Lauren Ashley and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" + -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"Protect the Family" + -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"OBEY" + -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"BabCom" +"Stay in touch with family and businesses alike with state of the art + communications and delivery services. Let us be your new partner." +"Babylon 5 for the business of today and the hope in tomorrow." + -- Ad in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"TRUST THE CORPS" + -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"Do you get used to it?" +"When it''s one of ours, no. With mundanes it''s easier. They hate it when + you say that, but it''s true. They kill and slave and abuse each other with + efficiency and enthusiasm. Why should we value their lives when they don''t? + It''s a little harder with rogues and blibs. Being a telepath means you''re + special, and rare, and valuable." + -- Lauren Ashley and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"Jonathan Harris" +"Rating: P10" +"DOB: 4.15.2239 +"Height: 171.5cm" +"Weight: 70.45kg" +"Hair: Black" +"Eyes: Brown" +"POB: Tucson, Ar" +"PCI: Age 10" +"Training:" +" Basic Psionics" +" Op Research" +" Deep Scan 2" +" Interrogation" +" Block Dev 2" +" Field Tech" +"Education:" +" Calculus 4b" +" Psych 4" +" Languages," +" Gn, Ea" +" History" +" Ea" +" Ai" +" Wr" +" Economics" +" Ea" +" Uni" +" Politics," +" --gional" +" --obal" +" --iversal" +" ---l Interests:" +" --usical Music" +" ---try" +" ---ing" +" --nery" +" --ding" +" ---ing" +" --uncty" + -- ID File in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"Does the mothership ever leave hyperspace?" +"Only for repairs and we can do so it without being seen. No reason for the + rest of the world to know what our resources are. The rest of the time it + just sits here in hyperspace for months at a time carrying missions back + and forth and waiting until we need it, just like all the others." + -- Chen Hikaru and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"Don''t you ever go away? Haven''t you caused enough trouble for one lifetime?" +"It''s a pleasure to see you too, Mr. Allan. Where can I find captain Lochley? + I should check in with her." +"She''s busy, you can check in with me. Card. So what is it this time, Mr. + Bester? Hunting out freedom-fighters, pulling wings off flies, annexing + Sudetenland." + -- Zack and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"You''re disobeying instructions." +"I''m showing initiative." + -- Ashley and Hikaru in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"He was dead before we got here." +"Yeah, they told me, but I never let the facts get into + the way of a good grudge." + -- Bester and Zack in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"I''ve seen all kinds, kid. Seen an alien come through here last week with + eight compound eyes and a glass stomach. Two fingers of gin, he''s down, + completely unconscious for a two full hours, and he wants to do it again. + I''ve seen a naked Pak''ma''ra once. You know that hump on their back? It''s + not a hump at all, it''s a--" + -- Bartender in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"These papers, different styles of handwriting, different names, but not + different people. The same person, with multiple personalities. That''s why + we misidentified his rating. One personality *was* a P10, the other was a + P12. It''s rare, but it has happened before." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"Oh, come on, doctor, we have a history here. Tell the truth. + You don''t want me here a second more than I want to be here." +"Personally, no. But as a doctor I have to treat all my patients equally, + even the annoying self-righteous arrogant ones with self-important delusions + of godhood." +"Thank you, I feel far more at home now." + -- Bester and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"Game, set, match. Be seeing you, doctor." + -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" +',' +"I was beginning to wonder if you''re going to make it, Lennier." +"I said that I would never leave you, that I would be here when you needed + me the most. Tell me what you want done and I will make it happen, no matter + the cost." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"I said we had reason, not proof. We can''t go public with what we + suspect until we can *prove* their involvement." + -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"As a friend he would need to protect you. As my husband he would need + to protect me from anything that might happen to you." +"I think, in that respect, he does not know you as well as he should." +"He knows me, but he also loves me. And sometimes the one gets in the + way of the other." +"Yes, I .. imagine it could do that." + -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"Vir! You are not biologically equipped to handle fast food." +"I know, I know, but it .. it tastes so great going down. + Coming up again it''s not so terrific, but--" +"Well, you''ll have to change that. We can''t have someone in your + position eating at MacBari''s, now can we?" +"Yes, but-- What position?" + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"It''s politics, Vir. Never take it personally." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"No, the captain does not believe in indiscreet questions. + He believes the only way to get pertinent information is to + ask impertinent questions." + -- Findell to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"So, Ambassador, how is the wife? Not too tired, I hope." + -- Londo to Drazi Ambassador in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"He often leaves out important piece of information like that. + It is .. frustrating." +"It is, I think, the human way of doing things. They try to encourage + initiative so that we may better react to sudden changes. Our own + techniques tend to be .. rigid." + -- Findell and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"All our holy books are reproduced *exactly* as written. Line for + line, word for word, right down to the flaws in the paper." + -- G''Kar to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"It is not necessary to know. It is only necessary to try." + -- Lennier to Findell in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"Ah, yes, but what is truth and what is God?" +"[sigh] Truth is a .. river." +"And what is God?" +"God is .. the mouth of the river." + -- Narn Acolyte and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"To be Anla-Shok means understanding that there is nothing to fear in + death except the failure to complete our assigned mission. *Death* + is not the enemy, *death* simply *is*." + -- Captain Enrico Montoya in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"What happened to Vir?" +"Oh, I promoted him. .. + Now, *now* he''s ready to be the ambassador for Centauri." + -- Zack and Londoin Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"Sh--Show me the way to go home, I''m tired and I want to go to bed. + I had a little -- oh, that''s a big drink -- about an hour ago + and it went right to my head. .. What did I do .. with that link? + You Linky, Linky, Linky? Here, Linky? Ow, the missing link!" + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"Show me the way to go home, I''m tired and I want to go to bed. + I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" +',' +"You failed me [Sheridan]" +"Where were you? [Zack]" + -- Blood writings on the floor in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"Don''t fight it. No, you''re not gonna win. The more you fight it, + the stronger it gets." + -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"I''ve decided to stop hiding what the Vorlons did to me. I''m testing to + see what I can do, how far I can go. I had no idea. You shouldn''t have + woken up. This is just a dream. *This* .. *never* .. *happened*." + -- Lyta to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"We can get you all the telepaths you need." +"But not the ones I want. Look, I understand your desire to create a + homeworld for telepaths. I''m not unsymphatetic, but what you''re asking + is beyond the capabilities of my company, or any others. You need + someone with a lot more resources and no contractual obligations to the + Psi-Corps. Good luck trying to find him." + -- Lyta and a business man in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"You would think they don''t trust us." +"I don''t think anyone trusts anyone right now, Londo." +"You say it as if it were a bad thing. No one really trusts anyone, Vir. + It''s the natural order of things. But until now it has never interfered + with business. I find this very strange." + -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"I''m sorry." +"I don''t *want* you to be sorry. I don''t need your pity. I don''t need + anybody''s pity. All I know is that I''m tired of being controlled. + Controlled by others, by fear, by my past, by what everybody else + expects of me and it''s enough. *Enough.* .. And this. This is my own + private little active rebellion, yeah. I may not be able to control what + other people do to me, but I can at least be in control what I do to + myself." + -- Lise and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"Now, it is absolutely inappropriate of you to pull a stunt like that + without telling me. I can not have you making--" +"You are right." +".. I-- Ow, dammit, Delenn. I''ve been working up a god mad all day and + I am not about to let you undercut it by agreeing with me." +"It *was* inappropriate for me to assign Lennier to that part of space + without informing you. *Just* as it was inappropriate for you *not* to + assign him there. I admitted mine with perfect honesty. Now you can + admit yours." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"Further, he will not stop, will not slow down, will not give up + until he has proof that the Centauri are behind these attacks." + -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"I don''t know how long that offer was good for, but I just wanted + to tell you that I .. accept your proposition." +"Which part?" +"The part where I give you access to my .. genetic material." +"Ow." +"Assuming you''re still interested." + -- Lyta and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"I''ve been told each world''s internal affairs are considered + private. And this is as internal an affair I can think of." + -- Lyta to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"Oh, and you mentioned wondering what my pleasure threshold is. + I just recently found out. .. I don''t have one. Have a very, + very nice day, G''Kar." + -- Lyta to G''Kar in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" +',' +"I was not pretending. I went to Centauri Prime as your guest, your + protector and perhaps even as your conscience, but not as anyone''s + eyes and ears. So no, I will not be testifying before the council." + -- G''Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"As of right now the Centauri Republic stands alone." + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"If something like this were going on, I would know about it!" + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"In *war* these things happen. We are not at war. We do not strike first + and we do not blow up cargo transports like pirates or barbarians." + -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"He says it''s important." +"Tell me when it is ever *not* important. All right, please, just tell me + when it is ever *not* important. Go ahead, go ahead, take your time, + I can wait. Oh, no, that''s right, I can''t wait because it''s important." + -- Zack and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"You seem awfully cranky, Michael. You''ve been taking your vitamins?" + -- Zack to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"Michael, this may be our only chance to avoid a shooting war. So it is + why it is so important that you get the information to us as fast as you + can so that we have time to get the White Stars into position." +"You can rely on me, I''ll get it done." + -- Sheridan & Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"Prime Minister, welcome back. I was hoping you returned home, + got out of the line of fire." +"Thank you, but I rather there wasn''t a line of fire." +"Is that why you brought .. *it* along, to hear our terms?" +"No, he is still here as my bodyguard, that''s all. Where I go, he goes." + -- Minister and Londo in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"My condolences." +"Thank you. It''s a burden, but I''ve come to accept it." + -- Minister and G''Kar in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"He has diplomatic immunity." +"We are not diplomats." + -- Franklin and Brakiri in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"That''s enough. I said that''s enough! Now, we gave you a promise. And we + are bound by that promise. And damn you asking for it. And damn me for + agreeing to it. And damn all of us to hell, because that is exactly where + we are going. We talked about peace. You didn''t want peace. We talked about + co-operation. You didn''t want co-operation. You want war. Is that it? + You want a war? Well, you''ve got a war!" + -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"I told you before: Where I go, he goes. And where he goes, I go." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"What does the candle represent?" +"Life." +"Whose life?" +"All life, every life. We''re all born as molecules in the hearts of a billion + stars, molecules that do not understand politics, policies and differences. + In a billion years we, foolish molecules forget who we are and where we + came from. Desperate acts of ego. We give ourselves names, fight over lines + on maps. And pretend our light is better than everyone else''s. The flame + reminds us of the piece of those stars that live inside us. A spark that + tells us: you should know better. The flame also reminds us that life is + precious, as each flame is unique. When it goes out, it''s gone forever. + And there will never be another quite like it. So many candles will go out + tonight. I wonder some days if we can see anything at all." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" +',' +"Personal journal, Captain Elizabeth Lochley, addendum. The Centauri war + continues to spiral out of control. The thread of retaliation has already + reached Babylon 5. Over half dozen Centauri have been murdered in just the + last three days." + -- Captain Lochley in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"If this continues, we may have no choice but to quarantine the Centauri. + We''ll have to try and limit them to parts of the station where they won''t + run into anyone they are currently at war with. Unfortunately, that seems + to be just about everyone right now. So, my options seem to be somewhat + limited." + -- Captain Lochley in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"The Centauri have begun targeting enemy jumpgates." +"But-- It''s a violation of every rule of civilized warfare. Wars come and go, + but the jumpgates have to go on. Otherwise the entire hyperspace beacon + system falls apart. If that happens, it''ll hurt them as much as anyone else." + -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"Something''s bothering you. What is it?" +"I need to ask you to do something I don''t want to ask you to do." +"If it''s about me wearing those little-- I appreciate the gift and I didn''t + say I wouldn''t wear them, I just said that .. for me, from a Minbari + perspective, I thought that it looked silly." +"No, it''s not anything to do with that." +"[Sigh] Business then?" + -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"But don''t take any unnecessary risks." +"People always say that. They want to find lives in which risk is + unnecessary. There''s only one problem with that: It''s impossible." + -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"As you know, our ships have been in combat with .. well, just about + everyone, really. Our biggest losses have been on the Drazi space. They + are real good fighters. Not terrific conversationalists, and their table + manners can make you go blind in one eye, but .. really tough behind the + weapons consoles. But .. on the occasion that we''ve destroyed one of their + ships, we have always returned their bodies to them. They have not made the + same for us in return." + -- Vir to Lyta & Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"I''m willing to go along and help out Stephen, we''ve worked well together in + the past, but .. considering the risk involved I''m gonna have to ask for a + slightly higher fee than usual." +"Well, all right, I can--" +"500''000 credits." + -- Lyta to Vir in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"Has she changed or is it me?" +"Oh, she''s changed. Have you talked to Londo about this? Maybe he could .. + pull some strings." +"The prime minister is otherwise engaged just now." + -- Vir and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"I still think you should leave, Mollari." +"No. I said where you go, I go. It''s become a matter of principle." +"You picked a terrible moment in your social evolution to develop principles. + Perhaps you can start with something simpler, the moral equivalent of the + opposable thumb, for instance." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"Who .. who are you? What do they want from me?" +"Yes. He will be sufficient." + -- Londo and Drakh in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"You were having a nightmare." +"Yes, terrible." + -- G''Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"Who knew the could make such a .. stench .. Great Maker, I don''t even want + to thing about it. I couldn''t stay there a moment longer. And the smell''s + not the worst of it, it was the *burning* in my eyes. I think my *buttons* + are melting." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"Anyway, those are their tactics. What is the overall strategy? They can''t + just fight a war to fight a war and honk off your neighbors. There have + to be definite and to their minds achievable goals. Now what are they? + What does it look like they might be? Are they moving toward anything." +"Their strategy has not yet become clear." +"And this doesn''t seem strange to you?" + -- Sheridan and Kulomani in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"--the other way, maybe you could--" +"Yeah, you''re right." +"Why don''t you just *ask* somebody?" +"No, no. I''ve got a map. Don''t worry about that." +"What is it with you men?" +"Here we go." +"Are you sure you know where we''re going?" +"Yes, it''s the .. same hotel that .. Michael stayed at. + Said the room service is good and bed is cheap and staff is friendly." +"Meaning the food stinks, the rooms are small and the staff will knife + you in the back when you''re not looking." +"Exactly. All right, I think it''s .. it''s that way." + -- Lyta and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"We have no Centauri bodies here." + -- Dr. Varia in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"I know this. I know what this is." + -- Lyta in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"Hello, Mollari." +"Regent?" +"I told you we would speak again before the end. I always try to keep my + promises, especially to those who have been kind to me .. as you have been." +"It is no burden. Regent, I have been trying to see you for some time. + Our ships--" +"Yes. .. I know." +"Then you gave the order." +"After a fashion. I have always tried to do the right thing, *you* know, + when circumstances allowed." +"We all do, Regent." +"Yes. And now it is your time. Mine is almost over. I have to say, I''ll be + glad of it. I''m so tired of it all, Londo. I''m glad .. I won''t live to see + what follows." +"Why? What is going to follow?" + -- Regent and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"What do you mean there weren''t any crew aboard?" +"Garibaldi said that there were two seperate Centauri fleets engaged in the + war: one defensive, one offensive, that no one in the Centauri military + knew anything about the attacks, only that they were defending themselves + against us. Now we know why." + -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"This is leftover Shadow technology, Mr. President. Vorlons gave me + information on them in case I ever ran across one of them. And I understand + a few years ago one was found by the Psi Corps. It''s an organic device used + to control a ship from a long distance. You put two or three of these on + board a starship and .. you don''t even need a crew." + -- Lyta to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"It''s going to be a pretty night, the last one I will ever see." +"You shouldn''t talk that way, Regent. You still have many years + ahead of you. That''s why it''s important to recall the ships. We can still + make peace." +"Oh, there will be peace, for a while. It never lasts, really. They said so. + They said two things, actually. That there will be peace and that it won''t + last. They also said I would be dead by morning and that tomorrow .. you + will be emperor. They said many, many things. Things I didn''t want to hear. + Things I didn''t understand. And things I didn''t *want* to understand." +"They? Who are *they*, Regent?" +"Oh, you will find out for yourself soon enough, Londo. You shouldn''t rush + your last *free* hours. And there were something else they told me .. to do. + And I did it just a few moments before I came to see you. The last thing I + will ever have to do for them. And in a way .. I''m glad it''s over." +"What did they ask you to do?" +"To send away all the ships .. guarding Centauri Prime on a false emergency + and turn off the planetary defense network." +"No!" +"I think I''ll stay .. and watch from here. The sky should be lighting up any + time now. I imagine .. it will be .. quite beautiful." +"*No!*" + -- Regent and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" +',' +"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." + -- G''Kar in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"No, she''s always quiet. We think maybe there''s something wrong with her." +"Yes .. or something very right. The quiet ones are the ones that change the + universe, Luc Derardi. The loud ones only take the credit." + -- Luc Derardi and Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"My people can handle themselves. We took care of the Dilgar. + We can take care of the Minbari." +"Ahh, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you." + -- General Lefcourt and Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"Then let them appear, to give us something to believe in. If the Vorlons + do not see the danger, then perhaps the danger does not exist." + -- Coplann in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"Yes, they should, but if the legends surrounding the Vorlons are correct, + remember that they do not reveal themselves quickly and never all at once." +"What are you saying?" +"I''m not saying anything. I didn''t say anything then, and I''m not saying + anything now." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"Are you saying I''m being deceived?" +"I''m not saying anything. I did not say anything then, and I''m not saying + anything now. Unless you are saying you''ve seen a Vorlon." +"I''m saying even less than you, except for this. When the darkness comes, + if you ever have doubt about your actions, all you need do is look into + the face of a Vorlon. Once you see that, all doubt is erased forever." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"Why do you come here, Delenn?" +"I come to serve." +"Who do you serve?" +"I serve the truth." +"What is the truth?" +"That we are one people, one voice." +"Will you follow me into fire? Will you follow me into darkness? + Will you follow me into death?" +"I will." +"Then follow." + -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"I am become Grey. I stand between the darkness and the light, .. + between the candle and the star." + -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"Susan. What are you doing here? You''re supposed to be at the university." +"Well, you know me, never where I''m supposed to be." + -- Ganya and Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"The warrior caste loves to win and hates to lose. It is easier to fight + a weaker opponent and be guaranteed victory than to oppose a far more + dangerous enemy." + -- Lenonn to Morann in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"They say we''ll need allies. In particular, a race that is so far unknown to + us called humans. If we have not already done so by now, it is my hope that + you will work with the Vorlons to find these humans and bring them into the + battle on our side." + -- Dukhat recording to Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"Humans?" +"Yes. They are the key." + -- Delenn and Kosh in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"And if the only way out is for Earth to surrender?" +"Officially that''s up to the negotiators. Those are my orders. Unofficially.. + We''re losing this war, John. And if the only way the human race can survive + is to surrender.. then we will surrender." + -- Sheridan and Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. 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." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"The truth points to itself." +"What?" +"The truth points to itself." +"I do not understand." +"You will." + -- Kosh and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"We should bring one of them aboard for questioning. If our next step + is a final assault on their world, we must know their defenses." +"Very well, Delenn. Choose. But quickly. We are fast running out of + candidates." + -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +',' +"I need another bottle. I need *several* more bottles. And then .. + wait one hour and bring the prisoners here." + -- Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" +' +] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/Babylon5Test.java b/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/Babylon5Test.java new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d218b9a8d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/Babylon5Test.java @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +package com.github.javafaker; + +import static com.github.javafaker.matchers.IsStringWithContents.isStringWithContents; +import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat; + +import org.junit.Test; + +public class Babylon5Test extends AbstractFakerTest { + + @Test + public void character() { + assertThat(faker.babylon5().character(), isStringWithContents()); + } + + @Test + public void quote() { + assertThat(faker.babylon5().quote(), isStringWithContents()); + } + +} \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/integration/FakerIT.java b/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/integration/FakerIT.java index 6dfc6b8f2..3c2fa14e6 100644 --- a/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/integration/FakerIT.java +++ b/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/integration/FakerIT.java @@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ public void testAllFakerMethodsThatReturnStrings() throws Exception { testAllMethodsThatReturnStringsActuallyReturnStrings(faker.relationships()); testAllMethodsThatReturnStringsActuallyReturnStrings(faker.nation()); testAllMethodsThatReturnStringsActuallyReturnStrings(faker.dune()); + testAllMethodsThatReturnStringsActuallyReturnStrings(faker.babylon5()); } private void testAllMethodsThatReturnStringsActuallyReturnStrings(Object object) throws Exception { From 35f3295c06618580ff2453b41ffe1c3e7c684728 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SS007979 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:07:49 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 4/6] Adding babylon5.yml to EnFile list --- src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/files/EnFile.java | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/files/EnFile.java b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/files/EnFile.java index bb6483806..68235c1fd 100644 --- a/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/files/EnFile.java +++ b/src/main/java/com/github/javafaker/service/files/EnFile.java @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ public String getPath() { "aqua_teen_hunger_force.yml", "artist.yml", "aviation.yml", + "babylon5.yml", "back_to_the_future.yml", "bank.yml", "beer.yml", From d53a131a4303c1cfc13dcfc84d72846759146328 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SS007979 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:32:08 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 5/6] Fixed FakeValuesGroupingTest --- .../com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesGroupingTest.java | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesGroupingTest.java b/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesGroupingTest.java index 9c1379fea..d8d6fdcdd 100644 --- a/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesGroupingTest.java +++ b/src/test/java/com/github/javafaker/service/FakeValuesGroupingTest.java @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ package com.github.javafaker.service; -import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is; import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat; import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.equalTo; import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.notNullValue; +import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.is; import java.util.Locale; @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public void handlesMultipleFakeValues() { assertThat(Maps.difference(fakeValuesGrouping.get("address"), addressValues.get("address")).areEqual(), equalTo(true)); assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("address"), is(notNullValue())); - assertThat(Maps.difference(fakeValuesGrouping.get("creature"), addressValues.get("creature")).areEqual(), equalTo(true)); + assertThat(Maps.difference(fakeValuesGrouping.get("creature"), catValues.get("creature")).areEqual(), equalTo(true)); assertThat(fakeValuesGrouping.get("creature"), is(notNullValue())); } From dbb447f49dd6bb8a5b760dcad14e636003c3f422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: SS007979 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 07:32:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Removed original babylon5 quote file --- src/main/resources/en/babylon5 | 10964 ------------------------------- 1 file changed, 10964 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 src/main/resources/en/babylon5 diff --git a/src/main/resources/en/babylon5 b/src/main/resources/en/babylon5 deleted file mode 100644 index b8b7b5d9b..000000000 --- a/src/main/resources/en/babylon5 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,10964 +0,0 @@ -1743 -%% -"I was there, at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind. It began in the - Earth year 2257 with the founding of the last of the Babylon stations, - located deep in neutral space. - It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats - and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place, but - we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. - Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given - form, a dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds - could live side-by-side in mutual respect, a dream that was endangered as - never before by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction. - Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story." - -- Ambassador Londo Mollari's opening in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"NAME: VARNER, DEL" -"ORIGIN: EARTH" -"DES/ATMOS: HUMAN/O2" -"SEX: MALE" -"DOB: 6/27/18" -" PHYS CHR" -"MEDICAL: NO DISTG" -" TRANS REC" -" VISAS" - -- Varner Identicard in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"NAME: ALEXANDER, LYTA" -"ORIGIN: EARTH" -"DES/ATMOS: HUMAN/O2" -"SEX: FEMALE" -"DOB: 12/10/25" -" PHYS CHR" -"MEDICAL: NO DISTG" -" LICENSED PSI" -" VISAS" -" TRANS REC" -"CRIM HIST: NONE" - -- Lyta Identicard in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"TIKI.. MOJO 073 .. 0708 .. McAuliffe NCC .. tMU77 ELVIS STILL LOVES YOU.. - LILGUY 017017 .. NEILY " - -- Lyta Identicard (Left top) in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"ALEXANDER, LYTA" -"PSIONIC INFO" -"PSI LEVEL: P5" -"GENERATION: 8" -"REGISTERED PSI CORPS 10/18/52" -"LICENSE N617CC860" -"CURRENT ASSIGN: TIGRIS SEC BABYLON 5" - -- Lyta Identicard PSI MENU in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"The Narn Regime is dedicated to peace!" - -- G'Kar to LtCmdr. Laurel Takashima in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"If it makes you feel any better, I can send them a fruit basket." - -- LtCmdr. Laurel Takashima to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5." - -- Commander Sinclair to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Babylons one, two and three were sabotaged and destroyed. Number - four vanished without a trace 24 hours after becoming operational. - To this day no one knows what happened to it." - -- Sinclair to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Notice the waves, each moving in its own order, predictable, - unchanging. But drop in a single stone and see how the pattern - changes. Everything around it is altered." - -- Ambassador Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of - one mind to change the Universe, but none said it as clearly as this." - -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Do you not have files on the Vorlons?" -"Absolutely. Very large files. There's nothing in them, - of course. How much do *you* have?" -"More than you it would seem. Naturally it's all classified." -"Naturally." - -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Here is a copy of everything I have. It may be of use. - If anyone asks, say it fell from the sky." - -- Delenn to Sinclair about Vorlon files in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Commander, you know everything about your stone garden. But - clearly, you have not spent nearly enough time looking at it." - -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Damn. You see, it's your fault. You're bad luck. I've always said - that about him. Now, come on, come on. Look, you're a security chief. - Shouldn't you be out *securing* something?" - -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"We have no telepaths among my people. A genetic oversight I suppose. - One which you could help correct. I am empowered to compensate you - quite handsomely for your genetic background." - -- Ambassador G'Kar to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Would you prefer to be conscious or unconscious during the mating? I would - prefer conscious, but I don't know what your .. pleasure threshold is." - -- G'Kar to Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"We were talking the other day about how nobody has seen a Vorlon before. - And he said that according to legend, one human *did* see a Vorlon, - and turned to stone." -"Well, that's just a legend." -"Probably." -"Probably." - -- Takashima and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Even for an alien, this one is pretty alien." - -- Dr. Kyle to Sinclair about Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"We have unlimited manpower and the will to use it! - Can you imagine what we could achieve together?" -"I can, which is why it must never be allowed to happen." - -- G'Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and - shooting at one another. You would've thought sooner or later it - would go out of fashion." - -- Ambassador Londo Mollari to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"You make very good sharks, Mr. Garibaldi. We were pretty good sharks - ourselves once, but somehow, along the way, we forgot how to bite. - There was a time when this whole quadrant belonged to us. What are - we now? Twelve worlds and a thousand monuments to past glories. - Living off memories and stories, selling *trinkets*." - -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"My god, man. We've become a tourist attraction. 'See the great - Centauri Republic -- open 9 to 5, Earth time.'" - -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Nice shark, .. pretty shark." - -- Londo to his drink in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"I haven't broken the rules in a long time, - doctor, so I guess .. I'm about due." - -- Takashima to Dr. Kyle in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"That's not fair." -"No, it's not, but that's what we're stuck with." - -- Lyta Alexander and Dr. Kyle in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"I don't trust telepaths. Never have; never will." - -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Michael, I picked you because you are right for the job. You are not - politicking, you are not subtle, and sometimes you are a pain in the - ass. And I wouldn't have it any other way." - -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"We had to stop them, .. no matter what it cost. They came at us - out of nowhere. We never had a chance. The sky was full of stars - and every star an exploding ship -- one of ours." - -- Sinclair about the Line in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"No, we were beaten. We didn't stop them, they stopped themselves. - I wish the hell I knew why." - -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Tell them [Vorlons] to get stuffed." - -- Takashima in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"There is a hole .. in your mind." - -- The Assassin to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Commander, this little breach of security isn't going - to affect my Christmas bonus, is it?" - -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"There we were, a fleet so large it nearly eclipsed the sun. - Suddenly, we fell on them like a wave, foiling upon a shore--" - -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Delenn, just before he died, the Minbari assassin looked - at me and said: 'There's a hole in your mind.'" -"An old Minbari insult. Nothing you need worry about." - -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"I would never tell you anything that was not in your best interest." - -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'" - -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"A poem: a story in meter or rhyme." -"Ahh. 'There once was a man from Nantucket..'" -"You've been talking to Garibaldi again, haven't you?" - -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"This is Lieutenant Commander Laurel Takashima. Our docking bays - stand ready to receive you. Babylon 5 is open for business." - -- Takashima in Babylon 5:"The Gathering" -%% -"Commander, there's a problem." - -- LtCmdr. Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"All I'm asking is that you trust me." -"Trust you? Londo, my brain will be five days dead before I ever trust a - Centauri. The first time we met you people, the first time we met any other - civilization, you told us you practically ran the entire galaxy." - -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Appearances aside, we are two completely different species." -"A clerical error." - -- Garibaldi and Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Okay, we made a mistake. I'm sorry. Here, open my wrist." -"Centauri don't have major arteries in their wrist." -"Of course we don't. What do you think, I'm stupid?" - -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"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." - -- Commander Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Your diligence is commendable. Anything else?" -"No, I just--" -"Then, if you'll excuse me, but I'm in the middle of 15 things, - all of them annoying. Thank you for coming by." - -- Ivanova to Winters in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Not the Minbari, it's not their way. They are too honorable to pull - something like this." -"I'm surprised to hear you describe the Minbari that way. After all, - you fought them during the war." - -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"My father always told me: 'The best way to understand someone is to - fight him, make him angry. That's when you see the real person.'" - -- Sinclair to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"He taught me everything I know about flying, and combat. He said to ignore - the propaganda, focus on what you see. I've never seen the Minbari fight - dishonorably. They never pull a sneak attack." - -- Sinclair to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"So, who are you voting for?" -"I think I'll vote for Marie Crane. .. I do not like Santiago. I always - thought that a leader should have a strong chin. He has no chin and his - vice-president has several. This, to me, is not a good combination." - -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"You bastard! You won't get away with this. - We'll strike back and we'll strike back hard!" - -- Londo to G'kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?" - -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"We should've wiped out your kind when we had the chance." -"What happened? Run out of small children to butcher?" - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Listen to me, Ambassador. Your time has come and gone. It's our turn now! - One night you'll wake up and find our teeth at *your* throat. Sleep well, - Ambassador. Sleep lightly." - -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"I apologize for the .. the incident with G'Kar, Commander. It was a - mistake. *I* will not repeat it. I *will* kill him though. Sooner or - later. Somewhere." -"Ambassador." -"My people.. We have a way you see. We know how, and sometimes even when, - we are going to die. Comes in a dream. In my dream I am an old man, it's - 20 years from now, and I *am* dying. My hands wrapped around someone's - throat, and his around mine. We have squeezed the life out of each other. - The first time I saw G'Kar I recognized him as the one from the dream. - It *will* happen. 20 years from now, we'll die with hands around each - others' throats." - -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Commander, please. On the issue of galactic peace, I'm long past innocence - and fast approaching apathy. It's all a game -- a paper fantasy of names - and borders. Only one thing matters, Commander. Blood calls out for blood." - -- Londo to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"If Carn is dead, there will be war. Today, tomorrow, the day after, it - doesn't matter. If it's the last thing I do, if it's the last breath I - take, there will be war. This I swear to you, Commander. This I swear." - -- Londo to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"You eat like a starving man." -"Seeing death has the way of doing that to me." - -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"If you ask me, the universe is going to hell in a handbasket." - -- Garibaldi to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass." -"Who? The Narn or the Centauri?" -"Yes." - -- Kosh and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Mr. Garibaldi, you are sitting in *my* station, using *my* equipment. - Is there a reason for this, or to save time should I just go ahead and - snap your hands off at the wrist?" - -- Ivanova to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"The Council, the Council can go to hell. And the emergency session - can go to hell. And you, you can go to hell too. I wouldn't want you - to feel left out!" - -- Londo to Vir Cotto in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Londo, Londo, *why* are you doing this?" -"Because, we are a race of lunatics and cowards." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Well, unlike me, the Lieutenant Commander takes a while - to warm up to people, especially when she's working." - -- Garibaldi to Winters in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"I will confess that I look forward to the day when we have - cleansed the Universe of the Centauri and carved their bones - into little flutes for Narn children. It is a dream I have." -"Be careful, Ambassador. Not every dream I've heard lately - ends well for you." - -- G'Kar and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"We've had plenty of experience with sneak attacks. Pearl Harbor, the - terrorists' nuking of San Diego, the destruction of our first Mars colony. - It's a long and bloody history. Do you know what we learned from it? - That a sneak attack is the first resort of a coward." - -- Sinclair to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"What's wrong, Ambassador? Don't have the guts for a fair fight?" - -- Sinclair to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"The Earth Alliance can't go around being the galaxy's policemen." - -- The Senator to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"To start a war over blood spilled so long ago.. Where does it end? - You kill them and take their land. They kill you and take the land - back. On and on and on. The cycle of hatred." -"*Justice*, not hatred. We have no desire to start a war." - -- Delenn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Mr. Garibaldi! Just now, would you really have killed *me*?" -"Yes. Yes, I would've, but I'm just as glad I didn't have to. - The paperwork's a pain in the butt." - -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Perhaps tomorrow we can start over on better terms." -"I very much doubt it. Good night." - -- Talia and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Had the silly thing in reverse." - -- Duck Dodgers in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Commander, there's a problem. Commander?" - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -%% -"Always this busy around here?" -"Yes. We like it that way." - -- Dr. Franklin and LtCmdr. Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"If I can't make it, you'll have to blow up that ship before it hits." -"Why not destroy it now?" -"First contact protocol, Lieutenant Commander. Only when conditions - present a clear and present danger. If this is a new technology, - a new race, I want that ship intact." -"This *isn't* a clear and present danger? I must read the rulebook again." - -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"Send it away, while you still can." - -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"No. I have been to your world. Can you feel it?" -"Feel what?" -"Low. Quick. Muffled. Terrified. It comes. It comes. It comes." - -- Soul Hunter #1 and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"Quick flash. The deep blue of pain." -"Dull. Muffled. Slower now. Closer now. Over your shoulder. It comes. - The transition. A shadow. The long exhalation of the spirit. Can you - see it, healer? Can you see it?" -"Gone. Gone now. Gone. Gone. Gone. If you could only see. If you could - only see." - -- Soul Hunter #1 in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"We are not thieves. We are preservers." -"I thought that might get your attention." -"We act only for the greater good." - -- Soul Hunter #1 and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"Minbari: pale, bloodless. Look in their eyes and see nothing but mirrors, - infinities of reflection. Will not let us help them, no." - -- Soul Hunter #1 in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"Minbari: jealous, selfish, private. We have saved only a few. Very rare. - Rarest of all: their leader, Dukhat, dying. Your fault. Your war. The - pinnacle of Minbari evolution. We came. I, others. They made a wall of - bodies to stop us. He died .. and his dreams, his ideas .. all that he - was, all that he could ever be .. gone, wasted. Jealous. Gone. Gone." - -- Soul Hunter #1 to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred - years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. It wouldn't - be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start - to get it right and then .. it's over." -"Doesn't matter. If we lived two hundred years, we'd still be human. - We'd still make the same mistakes." -"You're a pessimist." -"I'm *Russian*, Doctor. We understand these things." - -- Dr. Franklin and LtCmdr. Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"And what will you do then?" -"Free them, release them." -"You mean kill them." -"They will join with the souls of all our people. Melt one into another - until they are born into the next generation of Minbari. Remove those - souls and the whole suffers. We are diminished. Each generation becomes - less than the one before." -"A great lie. A pretty fantasy. The soul ends with death, unless react to - preserve it. We *will* help you .. in spite of yourselves. I know you. - You were there at the death of your leader Dukhat." -"We stopped you from taking what you had no right to take." -"You stopped me from saving him. That is where it began to go wrong. - The lost souls. One after another after another. Voices still. I failed - because you stopped me." - -- Soul Hunter #1 and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"I remember. They called you Satai Delenn of the Grey Council. - Curious. Curious. What is one of the great leaders of the Minbari - doing here playing ambassador?" - -- Soul Hunter #1 to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"I hate it when you get heroic. It cuts into my business. - A man's gotta earn a living, you know?" - -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"You would plan such a thing? You would *do* such a thing? Incredible." - -- Soul Hunter #1 to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"Why do you fight for her? Don't you understand? She is Satai. She is Satai. - I've seen her soul. They're using you. They're *using* *you*!" - -- Soul Hunter #1 to Sinclair about Delenn in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"We were right .. about you." - -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"It can wait. There's always time" - -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"If I may ask, what happened to my brother's collection?" -"Life's full of mysteries. Consider this one of them." - -- Soul Hunter #2 and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Soul Hunter" -%% -"Gentlemen, of all things in life, are females not the finest?" -"On that, Mollari, we can at least agree." - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"I am Ko'Dath, the new head of your diplomatic staff." -"Yes. I wasn't expecting you for several yea.. days." - -- Ko'Dath and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"You know, sometimes I *almost* feel sorry for G'Kar." - -- Londo to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?" - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"And after spending a day dealing with Ambassador G'Kar, - I long to sink my teeth into something .." - -- Londo to Adira in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"What if we are seen together? What will people say?" -"They'll say.. they'll say Ambassador Mollari is a most fortunate man. - We Centauri live our lives for appearances, possessions, status, title. - These are the things by which we define ourselves. But when I look beneath - the mask I am forced to wear, I see only emptyness. And then I think of - you .. and I say: to hell with appearances." - -- Adira and Londo in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"And Vir!" -"Yes, sir?" -"Don't give away the homeworld." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"Just don't give away the homeworld." - -- G'Kar to Ko'Dath in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"Keep them talking. I'm going to find Londo and bring him here." -"What if he refuses?" -"Then I hurt him." - -- Sinclair and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"I'll even seal it with a kiss." -"That should make G'Kar's day." - -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"How are we gonna find this friend of Adira's?" -"I have a friend or two down here myself." -"I take it these are not them." - -- Sinclair and Londo in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"Gold channel opened." -"All right lieutenant gremlim. This time your butt is mine." - -- Computer and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"Oh, the gratitude of the Narn is well known throughout the galaxy." - -- G'Kar to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"I never knew you could be so devious, Commander." -"Coming from you, Ambassador, that's a real compliment." - -- G'Kar and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"My dear G'Kar. How can I ever thank you? *You* have saved my career, - and the honor of the entire Centauri Republic." -"*What*?" - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Born to the Purple" -%% -"You still haven't told me when the commander is due back?" -"Soon." -"How soon is soon?" -"Longer than a little while, faster than later." - -- Mary Ann Cramer and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"Commander's a hands-on kind of guy. He'll grab any chance to take - out a ship. He's like that." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"Savor the mystery, Stephen. We don't get nearly enough of them." - -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"Nothing in his personnel jacket to suggest a heart condition.." -"Yes, and exactly which medical school did you attend, Mr. Garibaldi?" - -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"This is a blueprint for living machines. The Vorlons have one. - Some people even say the Minbari have them. We haven't seen - enough of them up close to get any idea of how they work." - -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"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 transferred to an - outpost so far off the starmaps you couldn't find it with a hunting dog - and an ouiji board." -"Don't sweat it. Just be that charming, efflorescent 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." - -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"Stephen. It's been 15 hours. We are gonna grow old and die in here. - Stephen? Stephen, there's a Martian war machine parked outside. - They'd like to have a word with you about the common cold." - -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"In the last five years, I've seen things off-world you can't even imagine. - I've stood in the Abendi desert and watched all seven moons go into eclipse. - I've walked in vaults that have been sealed longer than there's been a - human race, breathing air that's five million years old. You call that a - shortcut, if you will, but I've lived. By God, Stephen, I have *lived*." - -- Vance Hendricks to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"Don't. You're too young to experience that much pain." - -- Ivanova to ISN reporter Mary Ann Cramer in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"Win, lose or draw, this thing's going to know it was in a fight." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"But people can be fooled. So to prevent them from being confused by any - misleading instructions from the enemy, they hardwired the machine half - of the weapons not to respond to anyone who wasn't pure Ikarran. There's - one problem, Commander. How do you define a pure Ikarran, or a pure human? - No one is pure. No one." - -- Franklin to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"I'm gonna try and make it mad." -"Make it mad? Are you nuts? Commander!" - -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"You forgot the first rule of a fanatic. When you become obsessed - with the enemy, you *become* the enemy." - -- Sinclair to 'Tular' in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"Interplanetary Expeditions, the corporation that financed the - dig on Ikarra 7 is a front. A front for a bio weapons supplier." - -- Vance Hendricks to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"I know a lot of guys who came out of the war changed. Some came out better, - some came out worse. A lot of them had this problem. The war gave them - definition, direction, purpose. Without it they don't know how to fit in - anymore, so they keep looking for ways to go out in a blaze of glory. - Some people call that being a hero, maybe so. I don't know, I've never - been one. Me, I think they're looking for something worth dying for - because it's easier than finding something worth living for." -"Finished?" -"Yeah. I guess that covers it." -"Michael. I don't have an answer for you. And .. I think maybe I should. - Thanks." - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"If you'll excuse me. If you need me, I'll be over there, - getting drunk with the rest of the aliens." - -- Susan Ivanova to Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"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?" -"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 Aristophenes .. - and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars." - -- Mary Ann Cramer interviews Cmdr. Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Infection" -%% -"I don't care if you're the Easter bunny. You're not bringing *this* - [knife] on the station." - -- Garibaldi to a pilgrim in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"I'm thinking of thinking of calling her right after my afternoon nap. - I'm thinking of thinking of sending her flowers right after Bonnie gets back. - So many fishies left in the sea. - So many fishies, but no one for meee.. - I'm thinking of thinking of hooking a love soon after supper is done." - -- G'Kar's song in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Are you Ambassador G'Kar?" -"This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters. This is Ambassador G'Kar's table. This - is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner. What part of this progression escapes you?" - -- Tu'Pari and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"It's a celebration of life. It comes from a time in our world history when - two dominant species were fighting for supremecy. Our people, and a species - we called Xon. At year's end we'd count how many of our people survived and - we celebrated our good fortune." - -- Vir in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Do you know what the last Xon said just before he died? [Clutches heart] - *AAAAAAAAAAAARGHHH!!!*" - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Can I kill him now?" -"Let me get back to you." -"Are you sure you don't want to see her?" -"Absolutely." - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Oh, come on, Commander! Loosen up! You are supposed to enjoy yourself!" -"I *am*! Words just can't express how much I'm enjoying this." - -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Ah, our household gods. In a world where every day is a struggle for - survival, you need all the gods you can get." - -- Londo to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Gods by the bushel! Gods by the pound! Gods for all occasions!" - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Did I ever tell you [Delenn] that you are very cute for a Minbari? Even - you [Garibaldi] are cute, in an annoying sort of way. Everybody's cute! - Everybody's cute! Even me. But in purple.. I'm stunning!" [collapses] - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Ah! He has become one with his inner self!" -"He's passed out." -"That too." - -- Vir and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"I don't mean to alarm you, but your pants are talking to you." -"I know. I was just, uh--" -"Yes, you're a very busy man. Well, I'll let you and your pants get back - to your business and I'll get back to mine. Take care, Jeff." - -- Catherine Sakai & Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"What would you say if I told you that councillor Du'Rog hired someone - to kill me? Someone close to me." -"Ambassador, with all due respect, if it were me, you wouldn't be here - for us to have this conversation." - -- G'Kar and Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Ambassador, it is not my place to speculate on how - anything gets into your bed." - -- Na'Toth to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"I fight my own battles! I survived our war of independance, five years - on the council and two prior assasination attempts. I can survive this." - -- G'Kar to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Earthers have a phrase: 'Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.' - I believe they stole it from us." - -- G'Kar to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"I can not have an aide who will not look up. - You will be forever walking into things." - -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"You will not use my title Satai. You will address me only as Delenn. - Do you understand?" -"No, but understanding is not required, only obedience." - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Is this a breach of protocol?" -"I'm off duty." -"I thought you are never off duty." -"Maybe you didn't know me as well as you think." - -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"The other half of the dance goes something like this: We meet, renew - acquaintances, talk about old times at the academy, you ask about my - aunt, I ask about your brother, we lie about not missing each other - and we end up in bed together. And then you leave." -"Or you leave. Last time it was you." -"No it wasn't." -"Yes it was." -"No. .. Was it? .. You're right, last time it *was* me. Oh god, who - can keep it all straight anymore." - -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"I usually think about you in summer." -"I think about you in the fall." -"We never could agree on anything." - -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Will you follow me into fire, into storm, into darkness, into death? - And the nine said: 'yes.' Then do this in testimony to the one who will - follow, will bring death couched into promise of new life, and renewal - disguised as defeat. .. - From birth, through death and renewal, you must put aside old things, - old fears, old lives. This is your death, the death of flesh, - the death of pain, the death of yesterday. Taste of it and be not afraid, - for I am with you to the end of time. .. Taste of it. .. And so it begins." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Where is he?! I was told a bodyguard would be at the ceremony. - I was all alone! Taste your own death indeed!" - -- G'Kar to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Just trying to get your story down, Ambassador." -"It's not my story, it's the truth!" - -- Garibaldi and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"And just let me say, Ambassador, from the bottom of my heart: - Hot pink is definitely your color." - -- Garibaldi to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Don't touch me unless you mean it!" - -- Catherine Sakai to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"My orders are quite specific. You are to know pain. You are to know fear. - And then you are to die at the required hour. I confess I'll be happy when - this assignment is finished. Delaying the target's suspicions can be so - time-consuming." - -- Tu'Pari to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"The pain must be overwhelming. Why hold it in? Cry out, - Ambassador. With luck, someone will hear you." -"I would die before giving you that satisfaction." - -- Tu'Pari and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"That hurt." -"Ambassador, it was the only way to disable the pain-givers. I had to hit - them as hard as possible, as often as possible and still make it appear - as though I were beating you into another incarnation." -"And you didn't enjoy it in the least." -"I didn't say that." - -- G'Kar and Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"With luck, they may never find you, but if they do, you will know pain.." -"..and you will know fear.." -"..and then you will die. Have a pleasant flight." - -- G'Kar & Na'Toth to Tu'Pari in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"Oh, it's a rebirth ceremony, all right. It also doubles as - a marriage ceremony. Depending on how seriously anyone took it, - somebody got married the other day." -"Maybe that's why G'Kar was smiling. Funny. I didn't think Londo was - his type." - -- Sakai and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"See you next Wednesday." - -- Cmdr. Sinclair to Sakai in Babylon 5:"The Parliament of Dreams" -%% -"There's a problem, Commander. You missed a button." - -- Sakai to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"Get out of my head. You wanna talk to me, *talk* to me." - -- Sinclair to Bester in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"There are rules and there are *Rules*, Commander." - -- Psi Cop Kelsey to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"Since we bear a greater responsibility, we are afforded greater - latitude, in the interest of efficiency." - -- Psi Cop Bester to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"And Psi Cops? What are you rated?" -"P12. Someone has to keep an eye on the rest." -"Yes, but who watches the watchmen?" - -- Ivanova and Psi Cop Kelsey in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"What kind of *covert* operation?" -"That information is on a need-to-know basis, Commander. - And you don't need to know." - -- Sinclair and Bester in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"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." - -- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"Because in this business, whoever has the strongest telepath, wins. The - military wants to scan the enemy. The enemy wants a telepath strong enough - to block the scan and we want someone who can cut through the block." - -- Ironheart to Talia in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"Only one in every thousand humans has telepathic abilities. Only one in - every ten thousand telepaths has telekinetic abilities. And half of them - are clinically insane." - -- Ironheart to Talia in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi, but you're welcome to try .. - anytime .. anywhere." - -- Psi Cop Bester in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"What the hell?" -"Mindquake." - -- Sinclair and Psi Cop Kelsey in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"We had our orders." -"Mister, I don't care if you had a personal message from God complete - with stone tablets. You lied to me. You held information and put this - station at risk." - -- Bester and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"Mr. Ironheart is no longer what you or I would consider entirely human." -"Then what is he?" -"We don't know." - -- Bester and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"Good ol' Psi Corps. You guys never cease to amaze me! All the moral - fiber of Jack the Ripper. What do you do in your spare time? Juggle - babies over a fire pit? Oops, there goes another calculated risk!" -"You're not helping the situation." -"Lady, *you* are the situation." - -- Ivanova to and Psi Cop Kelsey in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"The Psi Corps is dedicated to one thing, Commander: control. Control over - telepaths, the economy, the courts, over matter, over thought itself." - -- Jason Ironheart to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"That's a lie." -"Yes, it is. What's your point?" - -- Bester and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"Be seeing you, Commander." - -- Bester to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"Just one question. Why?" -"Why not?" -"It's not an answer." -"Oh, yes it is. It's simply not an answer you like or - the answer you expect. There's a difference." - -- Sakai and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"Narns, Humans, Centauri .. we all do what we do for the same reason: - because it seems like a good idea at the time." - -- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"I told you before you left: 'No one here is entirely what they appear.' - If I surprised you, all the better. Good day, Ms. Sakai." - -- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"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." - -- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"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 yet explained - everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957 and - they must walk there .. alone." - -- G'Kar to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Mind War" -%% -"There was a time, Mr. Garibaldi, when one could walk through Green Sector - without need of escort." -"I assure you, we're doing everything we can to correct that, Ambassador." -"Then you are required to do better, Commander. *Much* better." - -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"You're a vicious man." -"I'm Head of Security. It's in the job description." - -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"What am *I* supposed to do with them?" -"You're always saying the Centauri are an advanced race. - *You* figure it out." - -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"Ugly and old, yes? Then their families must be both rich and powerful." - -- Londo to Kiron and Aria in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"*Love*?! What does *love* have to do with marriage?" - -- Londo to Kiron and Aria in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"We take no interest in the affairs of others." - -- Ambassador Kosh to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"That's quite a viewer. I've never seen anything quite like it before. - What is it?" -"Efficient." - -- Sinclair and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"The Vorlons are very secretive. They don't want anyone to know what they - look like, what they breathe or how their biology works. I mean, who knows - how much that suit is really necessary and how much is just camouflage to - keep us from seeing what's inside." - -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"Love? Pah. Overrated. Here, look, these are *my* three wives: Pestilence, - Famine and Death. Do you think I married them for their personalities? - Their personalities could *shatter* entire planets! Arranged marriages, - every one, but they worked out. They inspired me. Knowing that they were - waiting at home for me is what keeps me here -- 75 lights years away." - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"So much for Babylon 5's highly vaunted justice." - -- G'Kar to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"I could strangle that damn G'Kar." - -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"I would expect such logic from a poet. What - can a Minbari know about Centauri feeling?" - -- Londo to Shaal Mayan in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance." - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"And we won. Not because we outfought them, not because we were - luckier than them or stronger than them or smarter than them. - We won because the damn Minbari *let* us win." - -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"We want to put Earth back at the center of the universe, *our* universe, - get rid of alien influences, get rid of aliens, put Earth first. We *must* - get back to our roots. Let humans *be* humans." - -- Malcolm Biggs to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"Human ways are often unfathomable, but in time, - one learns to live with them." -"If one has an exceedingly strong constitution." - -- Delenn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The War Prayer" -%% -"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." - -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"What about you, Ambassador? What did you do during the war?" -"A topic for another time. Good day, doctor." - -- Franklin and Delenn in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Stay in formation. Hold the Line. No one gets through, no matter what." - -- Sinclair on the Line in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Maybe you're asleep. Maybe you're insane. Maybe you're dead. - Maybe you're in Hell! Not that it matters much, Commander Sinclair, - because wherever you are, wherever you go, you're mine." - -- Knight Two in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Homeguard leader convicted. - Lester Found Guilty In Attack on Minbari Embassy." -"Narns Settle Raghesh 3 Controversy." -"President Promises Balanced Budget by 2260." -"Psi-Corps in Election Tangle. Did Psi-Corps violate its charter by - endorsing vice president?" -"Special Section: Pros & Cons in Inter-Species Mating." -"San Diego Still Considered Too Radioactive for Occupancy." -"Copyright Trial Continues in Bookzap Flap." - -- Universe Today front page in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Curious. We have the memories of your entire life to play around with, - but your thoughts are rooted here in this station. It means a lot to you, - doesn't it?" - -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"My ship was damaged. I blacked out." -"So you testified. Just one problem: I don't believe you .. - and I'm not the only one." - -- Sinclair and Knight Two in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Mr. Garibaldi, there're days I'm very glad I don't have to - think the way you do." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Your name is Jeffrey David Sinclair, rank commander, age 39, born on Mars - colony May 3rd 2218, 9:15 AM Earth standard time. Enlisted in Earth Force - Defense 2237, promoted to fighter pilot 2240, promoted again to squad leader - less than a year later. A career officer like you father and his father - and his father." - -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Smart money said you'd make admiral one day. So what happened, *Commander*? - Where did you fall off the merry-go-round?" - -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Well, well. Looks like the pain is real for both of us." - -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"The war was over! The Minbari had surrendered on the eve of their victory. - They gave up, just like that. And you expect us to believe that you slept - through the whole thing? Your ship was off the screens for 24 hours! - You didn't just black out. Your ship disappeared." - -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Nobody wants to die, especially not out there in the cold of space, - so you surrendered. They took you aboard their ship, fixed you some milk - and cookies and asked you to work for them, be their eyes, their ears, - their voice. You agreed. You and god knows how many other people. - And then they let you go." - -- Knight Two to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"When I looked at those ships, I didn't just see my death. - I saw the death of the whole damn human race." - -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Not like this. Not like this! If I'm going out, I'm taking you bastards - with me! Target main cruiser, set for full velocity ram, afterburners on - my mark. Mark." - -- Sinclair on the Line in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"What do you want? Why are you doing this? Who are you? - I know you. I know who you are. I know you." - -- Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"There's something in my head. It says .. maybe you're still inside. - Maybe we're both still inside." - -- Knight Two in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"He must never know what happened. If he should find out, - he must be killed. Do you understand, Delenn?" - -- Council #1 about Sinclair in Babylon 5:"And the Sky Full of Stars" -%% -"Ambassador Kosh. Is there something I can do for you?" -"I wish to engage your services." -"For what?" -"Business." -"What sort of business?" -"Important." -"Ambassador, I'd be happy to assist you, but there are certain details I - must know before taking any commission. Not to mention getting clearances - from the--" -"All arranged, as is paint. We will meet in red 3 at the hour of scampering." -"The hour of scampering?" - -- Talia Winters and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"Listen, sister. If she dies, you'll rotten in a cage until - your spots turn grey." - -- Garibaldi to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"Understanding is a three-edged sword." - -- Kosh to Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"He has no thoughts.. at all. It is as if his mind were empty." -"Excellent. We may now commence our business. Abbut." -"Crab .. Nebula." - -- Talia Winters, Kosh and Abbut in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"Commander Sinclair. All information in this matter is on a need-to-know - basis. And you do *not* need to know. Have a pleasant day." - -- Senator Hidoshi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"You know the way of command. Yes, the Windswords are right to fear you." -"What do you know about Windswords?" -"They've sheltered me for many years, in return for certain services. - They speak of you often, Sinclair. They say you have a hole in your mind." - -- Jha'dur [Deathwalker] and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"And these .. these phrases you keep speaking in. - They don't make any sense." -"Ah, you seek meaning?" -"Yes." -"Then listen to the music, *not* the song." - -- Kosh and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"Mr. Abbut, could you tell me what these negotiations are all about?" -"I could, .. but it's not good to reflect too much." - -- Talia Winters and Abbut in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"Delicious irony, don't you think? That those who cursed - us will have to thank us for the rest of time." - -- Jha'dur to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"That's when the Council first learned she was with them. Of course - we could not reveal it then. And like all secrets long kept, we can - not bear the shame of admitting it now." - -- Lennier to Sinclair about Jha'dur in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"Vakar Ashok, our gun arrays are now fixed on your ship and will fire the - instant you come into range. You will find their power quite impressive.. - for a few seconds." - -- Ivanova to a Drazi Sunhawk in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"A herring is just a herring, but a good cigar is a Cuban." -"A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles. - Do you understand, Miss Winters?" - -- Abbut and Kosh to Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"What is he? And what was on that data crystal he gave you?" -"Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future." - -- Talia Winters and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"You will fall upon one another like wolves. It'll 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. That's my - monument, Commander." - -- Jha'dur [Deathwalker] in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"Well, all's well that ends well?" - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"You are not ready for immortality." - -- Kosh to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"Ambassador Kosh has been a busy boy today." -"They say God works in mysterious ways." -"Maybe so, but He's a con-man compared to the Vorlon." - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Deathwalker" -%% -"You don't understand. Food animals are cut open. They don't have a soul, - so it's all right. But Chosen of God may not be punctured." - -- M'ola to Dr. Franklin about Shon in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"What?" -"Nothing. I certainly have plenty of things to occupy myself here. - Yes, sir. I think I'll just walk to and fro for a while. Maybe over - to my console. After that maybe I'll try pacing fro and to just for the - kick of it. Oh, then there is this view of course. Granted it's not quite - the same as if you are outside .. with someone who's got over 100 hours - of combat flying experience." - -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"One way or another, I'm gonna save that boy's life. Whatever it costs." - -- Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"Just how much justice can you afford?" - -- Londo to M'ola in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"The avalanche has already started. - It is too late for the pebbles to vote." - -- Kosh to M'ola in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"We are only trying to save our child." -"That is also what doctor Franklin believes he's doing. - Whose belief is correct? And how do we prove it?" - -- M'ola and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"'Sure' is for people with nothing on the line. - You and me, we just get on with it." - -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"A Globitt-egg?" -"Actually it's only a piece of .. industrial goo. But please don't - tell doctor Franklin I said so. He still believes it's an egg." - -- Sinclair and Shon in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"May God save us from false religion." -"What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then - maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how - you say your prayers, just as long as you say them." - -- Dr. Franklin and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"Come on. Come on. Yes! Good. Good. .. *Not* good." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"Who asked you to play God?" -"Every damn patient who comes through that door, that's who! People come to - doctors because they want us to be gods. They want us to make it better .. - or make it not so. They want to be healed and they come to me when their - prayers aren't enough. Well, if I have to take the responsibility, then I - claim the authority too. I did good. And we both know it. And no one is - going to take that away." - -- Sinclair and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"I'm waiting. For an apology." -"You better check the temperature in Hell first." - -- Doctor Franklin and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't change anything. - It can drive you crazy." -"It's all words. Just words." - -- Sinclair and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"What happened out there?" -"Nothing." -"*Nothing*? I just got back the repair-order on your fighter. It will be - in the shop for a week, minimum. And on top of that, I hear you broke regs - about leaving formation and engaging on combat without backup." -"It was an educated risk. .. Sometimes it works out." -"And sometimes it doesn't. It's a long story. Come on, I'll fill you in." - -- Garibaldi and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Believers" -%% -"Boy, I need a drink. Water, straight up." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" -%% -"Grip Rail At All Times." - -- A sign in a low-grav travel tube in Babylon 5:"Survivors" -%% -"You are going to resist, I hope." - -- Ivanova to Major Lianna Kemmer in Babylon 5:"Survivors" -%% -"I demand you open a channel to Earth at once." -"I'm a Lieutenant Commander on Earth Force, Major. I don't take demands. - If you will *request*, I will consider it." -"Very well, then. I *request* that you open a channel to Earthdome." -"Request denied. Have a nice day." - -- Major Kemmer and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Survivors" -%% -"Ilaros?" -"Goddess of luck, patron of gamblers. She and I have - had a long and rather dubious relationship." - -- Garibaldi and Londo in Babylon 5:"Survivors" -%% -"Well, you have been talking to Mollari. - It was inevitable he would send you to me." -"How?" -"Oh, my people watch him, his people watch me, - we *all* watch one another here, Mr. Garibaldi." - -- G'Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" -%% -"Oh, you could serve us in any number of ways. - Analyst, security expert, cryptographer.." - -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" -%% -"The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: - energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." - -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" -%% -"It's not justice you are after, Major, it's blood." - -- Sinclair to Lianna Kemmer in Babylon 5:"Survivors" -%% -"I'll see you the next time the president visits. - He's fond of Babylon 5, you know." -"Then make sure nothing happens to him. - We need all the friends we can get." -"I will." - -- Major Kemmer and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Survivors" -%% -"Ms. Connolly, we are not here to assign blame." -"Maybe you aren't, Commander, but my government will want to know who - is responsible for damaging our ship." - -- Sinclair and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"The accident was caused by equipment failure. Clustered effect, - the microchips blew out." -"How is that possible?" -"Looks like the contractor installed substandard chips throughout the - entire system. That would explain how they managed such a low bid - on the installation. We are checking it all now." - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"Oh, why does the universe hate me." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"Accidents happen." - -- Senator Hidoshi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"You left your door unlocked, Ambassador, how careless of you. I thought - it best to sit here and guard your room until you return." -"And did you find anything of interest in my humble quarters while - you were guarding it?" -"No." -"No." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"We all believe in something .. greater than ourselves, - even if it's just the blind forces of chance." -"Chance favors the warrior." - -- G'Kar and Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"We have a right to defend ourselves, Neeoma." -"But not with violence." -"I beg your pardon, Commander, but if someone pushed you, - wouldn't you push back?" - -- Eduardo Delvientos & Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"Are you telling me this is about a flower?" -"Not just a flower, Commander, the very symbol of my faith. All followers - of G'Quan must perform a ritual once a year when our sun rises precisely - behind the G'Quan mountain. Each year the celebrant must acquire a new - plant for the ceremony." - -- Sinclair and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"You should never hand someone a gun unless you are sure - where they will point, and no mistake." - -- Sinclair to Orin Zinto in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"Commander, you are a far more spiritual man than I gave you credit for." -"There are a couple Jesuit teachers I know who might disagree with you." - -- G'Kar and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"Today, you have made new enemies. If I were you, Commander, I would watch - things very carefully. You are not the most popular person in government - circles right now." - -- Senator Hidoshi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"The gift of time. - The gift of life. - The gift of wisdom. - The gift of light. - For these things we are thankful. - For these things we pray." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"By Any Means Necessary" -%% -"Good morning. The time is ou-four-thirty, Earth-standard, Wednesday, - August third, 2258. Personal log shows no outstanding appointments. - Shall I download station-logs for past six hours?" -"Sure, grab it, store it, shove it." -"Clarification?" -"Never mind. Why does my mouth always taste like old carpet in the morning?" -"Unknown. Checking medical logs." - -- Computer and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"Sleep well?" -"Sleeping is not the problem. Waking up.. that is a problem. - I've always had hard time getting up when it's dark outside." -"But in space it's always dark." -"I know, I know." - -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"I've been out of circulation. Spent the last few years doing - some exploration out on the rim." -"Find anything interesting?" -"Yes." - -- Morden and a customs guard in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"Not long ago something happened. I've been keeping it to myself, but the - truth is, I need some help. Mostly, I need a friend." -"You've got both. What's the deal?" -"I told you about the Battle of the Line, 24 hours of my life I couldn't - remember. Lately I've started to piece together a few things. Not all of - if, just enough to know that something .. happened to me back there. I've - gone as far as I can with my own investigation, but this is more your area - of expertise. I need your help. Try and find out what happened and why." - -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"This is not a piece of jewelry, this is not 'the merchandise'. - This is the Eye, the oldest symbol of Centauri nobility, - the property of the very first emperor." - -- Londo to Trader in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"But to me, it's just another commission. My job is to find things, - objects, people, you name it." - -- Trader to Londo in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"Take the famine as a blessing, Ambassador: a weeding - out of the excess population." -"One more comment like that, Mollari, and you will - become part the excess population." - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"What do I want? The Centauri stripped my world. I want justice." -"But *what* do you want?" -"To suck the marrow off their bones, and grind their skulls to powder." -"What do you want?" -"To tear down their cities, blacken their sky, sow their ground with salt. - To completely, utterly erase them." -"And then what?" -".. I don't know. As long as my home world's safety is guaranteed, - I don't know that it matters." -"I see. Well, thank you very much for your time, Ambassador. Good day." -"Nonsense." [to himself] - -- G'Kar and Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"Oh! This place. Great Makers, this place! No! See this: destruction, - fire. Babylon will fall, this place will be destroyed. Fire, death, - pain, fire, death, pain. No. No!" - -- Lady Ladira in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"Then you don't believe her vision?" -"She's been wrong before. On my first birthday she said that someday - I would be killed by .. the shadows." -"Shadows?" -"Doesn't exactly make sense, does it?" - -- Londo and Lord Kiro in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"They are here." - -- Delenn about Morden's visit in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"Ambassador, I was just on my way to see you. My name is--" -"I'm sorry, but I don't have time to chat right now. - I suggest you make an appointment." -"I did." -"Then make another one. Never a transport tube when you need it.." -"Ambassador, I was authorized to speak to you--" -"Yes, yes! Look, what do you want?" -"That's just what I was gonna ask you. What do you want?" -"You are a lunatic, go away. Pester someone else." - -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"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 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 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?" [leaves] -".. Yes. Yes it does." [to himself] - -- Londo to Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"Leave this place. They are not for you. Go. Leave. Now." - -- Ambassador Kosh to Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"The station took some minor damage, we've got maintenance bots working - on it. Few injuries here and there, nothing major. It seems Ambassador - Kosh's encounter suit was damaged, but he's not telling how, just asked - for some equipment to have it fixed." - -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"Let me buy you a drink! Let me buy you an entire *fleet* of drinks!" - -- Londo shouts after Morden in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"You probably know you weren't the first in line to run this place." -"I suspected as much. I was surprised when they called me. - How far down the list was I?" -"Pretty far. Despite the problems this is still a high-profile job, a real - plum. Admirals, generals, the whole brass was lined up hoping to get it, - but every name was rejected until they got to you." -"Rejected by whom?" -"The Minbari government. They were the first to sign on to support Babylon 5 - on the condition they had approval over who was assigned to run this place. - They wanted you." -"Why?" -"Unknown." - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"The future is always changing. We create the future: with our words, - our deeds and with our beliefs. This is a possible future, Commander, - and it is my hope that you may yet avoid it." - -- Lady Ladira to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Signs and Portents" -%% -"Liner White Star arriving from Earth is now docking in bay 5. - Passangers will disembark through customs area 7." - -- An Announcement in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"One of these days, Garibaldi, you are gonna learn to watch your back." - -- Walker Smith to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"So they told me it wasn't my time yet. They said they'd make it worth - my while to retire for a few years." -"So you told them to stuff it." -"And I wasn't that polite about it." - -- Walker Smith and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"What did you say this was again?" -"It's treel. It's .. sort of fish, Centauri-raisen." -"Treel? It's kosher?" -"That I can't say." -"Well, I don't recall treel being mentioned in Tora, so.. Ah, wonderful!" - -- Rabbi Yossel Koslov and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"So, how are things back home?" -"They change, they stay the same. Russia is Russia. Your father used to say: - 'If regret could be harvested, Russia would be the world's fruit-basket.'" - -- Ivanova and Rabbi Yossel Koslov in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"May I return to my post?" -"No, you may not. Have a chair." -"I prefer to stand." -"That's an order." - -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"You are the best officer I've ever served with, Ivanova. I couldn't run - this station without you. But I also consider you a friend. And as your - friend, I'm telling you it does no good to bottle up your feelings. Your - father is dead. You need to express your grief or it'll eat you up." -"I appreciate your concern, Commander, and your friendship, but .. my - feelings are my own, and how I display them, or not, is my choice. - Now, if I may return to my duty." -"Susan, before you make that choice, make sure you know what it is you - are really feeling." - -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"Then the tragedy is greater than I thought. Without forgiveness you - can not mourn, and without mourning you can never let go of the pain." - -- Rabbi Yossel Koslov to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"Earth-registered liner White Star is now in final boarding for departure - to Earth. All outbound passangers must proceed to docking bay 7." - -- An announcement in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"Does he've got a chance?" -"He will fight bravely." - -- Garibaldi and Caliban in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"In sports Babylon 5 is about to be the site of a history-making event - as ex-SportCorp boxing star Walker Smith appears to be the first human - to fight in the Mutai." -"What did I tell you, Mike -- history." -"Well, just hope you don't wind up history." - -- Sports Announcer, Walker Smith and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"That's what the game is all about. - To be the best you have to *face* the best." - -- Walker Smith to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"I'm ready to go back on duty, sir." -"Good, I've had my fill of double shifts." -"Perhaps we'll remember that the next time Ms. Sakai visits the station." - -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"Garibaldi, thanks. See you when I come back for the rematch." -"Oh, give me a break." -"Watch your back." - -- Garibaldi and Walker Smith in Babylon 5:"TKO" -%% -"They say food digests better if you chew it first." -"Don't talk, I've seen you eat. Does the term Doppler-effect ring a bell?" - -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"Why is it Ombuds Zimmerman never gets these cases? Only me." - -- Ombuds Wellington in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"On Earth the Grail is nothing but a myth. It's a nice story to tell your - kids. For someone who spends his entire life looking for it .. is .. - well, it's not often taken very seriously." -"How sad. He is a holy man, a true seeker. Among my people a true seeker - is treated with the outmost reverence and respect. It doesn't matter that - his Grail may or may not exist, what matters is that he strives for the - perfection of his soul and the salvation of his race and that he has never - wavered a lost faith." -"I wish him luck. He's probably the only true seeker we have." -"Then perhaps you don't know yourself .. as well as you think." - -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"Make me a happy man. Let me clean out down-below. If I put all my teams - out, I can wipe 9/10 of the crime rate in one sweep." -"Most of them are just people with nowhere else to go. They come here - looking for a new life, a new job, and when they don't find it, they can't - afford transport back. What are you gonna do, Mr. Garibaldi? Shove them - out an airlock?" -"Don't tempt me." - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"My brother's burdens are my own. What I want to know is *why* you - believe you can't leave the station." -"Because if I do, it'll blow up, or disappear, or something else - awful like that will happen. Come on, laugh. Everyone else does. - It's real, the Babylon curse." -"I'm not laughing, Thomas. I understand obsession very well. I've - spent the better part of my life searching for something that no one - else believes in. And I will continue searching until I die." - -- Aldous Gajic and Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"I'd say you have the wrong nickname. They should've called you Lucky." -"How do you figure?" -"To have escaped the worst each time, that's a blessing. You are a very - lucky man. Perhaps each time you were exactly where you were meant to be." -"I've never thought of it like that." -"We never do." - -- Aldous Gajic and Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"You need to find another witness." -"When the word gets out about Miriam, I've got as much chance - of doing that as seeing a Vorlon doing strip-tease." - -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"Hideous creatures, hideous. We came across them in our colonizing days. - We lost an *entire* colony before we threw up a quarantine. The only good - na'ka'leen is a dead na'ka'leen. .. This is of course a purely theoretical - question? A whim of yours that .. that you might ask? Yes?" -"Well, not really." -"They're not. They couldn't be, here? I'll have the files transferred to you - immediately. If you want me, I'll be in my quarters, under top security. - I strongly suggest you do the same." - -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"There are two castes of Minbari. The warrior caste and the religious caste. - The warrior caste would not understand. It is not their way." -"So we will not tell them, and spare them the confusion." - -- Lennier and Delenn to Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"These two sides of your culture, do they ever agree on anything?" -"Yes. And when they do, it is a terrible thing. A terrible power, as recent - events have shown us. Let us hope it never again happens in our lifetime." - -- Aldous Gajic and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"You think he's genuine." -"Aldous? Yes. Question is: a genuine what? One man's lunatic is - another's true seeker." -"You have been hanging around Delenn too much." - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"Vir! What are you doing?" -"Why, I'm being efficient, sir." -"A few more like you, Vir, and the entire Centauri Republic - will *efficient* itself to extinction." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"Fools to the left of me, *feeders* to the right. - I need to find a *real* job." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"And then I met a man. He said he was the last of his kind. - He told me that I was a man of infinite promise and goodness. - When he was dying, he gave me this staff. Now I am the last. - The numbers add up again, Thomas. The numbers *do* add up." - -- Aldous Gajic to Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"Hey, can I learn to do that?" -"You can learn whatever you want to learn, because - you are a man of infinite promise and goodness." - -- Jinxo and Aldous Gajic in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"See yourself for what you *are*, not what others try to make you." - -- Aldous Gajic to Jinxo in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"Why?" -"Deuce wanted the people to think that he had the Vorlons working - for him. Figured it would add to his image and intimidate people." -"Why?" -"Well, after all, no one knows exactly what you look like. - That makes some people .. a little nervous." -"Good." - -- Kosh and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"It's a hard thing to live your life searching for something - and never find it." -"Are you speaking of Aldous .. or someone else?" -".. Aldous." -"But there you are wrong. He *found* what he was looking for. - What we're all looking for: a reason." -"For what?" -"Everything, Commander. Everything." - -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"Are you sure it's dead?" -"I'm positive. It's dead as a rock. I saw it with my own eyes." -"How do you know it's not just resting? Feeders are sneaky, you know." -"Londo, trust me." -".. Hah. Well, there you are, Vir. I told you there is nothing to worry - about. He's young, sometimes he panics, you know how it is." - -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"The doc's dissecting it, wants to try to figure out how it can move - so fast. He's learning all kinds of things about it." -"Such as?" -"Well, when they are about to attack they get quiet, so the key is: - as long as you can hear them, as long as there is noise around, - you're safe. But if you ever hear nothing, .. worry." - -- Garibaldi and Vir with Londo in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"No boom?" -"No boom." -"No boom *today*. Boom tomorrow. There's *always* a boom tomorrow. - What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. - Boom, sooner or later. *BOOM*!" - -- Garibaldi, Sinclair, and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Grail" -%% -"Antique. Mint condition. The Kawasaki engine ZX-11, vintage 1992. And we - are talking liquid-cool dual-overhead-cam 16-valve 1052-cc inline-four, - twin-ram air induction, six-speed gear-box and 320-millimeter front disc - with four-piston calibers. It's the best-performance bike of its time. - Or it will be when I figure out how to put the damn thing together." -"Well, sounds most impressive. What exactly does it do?" -"What does it do? It's a motorcycle. You ride it. Wrooom!.." -"Ah, a vehicle." -"Oh, it's more than just a vehicle. This baby's a piece of Earth history." -"History? That is an interest of mine." - -- Garibaldi and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -"You're starting to irritate me, Mr. Franks, and I don't - like being irritated. It gives me gas." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -"I will not submit to a telephatic scan, Commander. - It's against my person and my principles. -"I don't like it any better than you do. Enough people - have played with my brain already this year." - -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -"Mr. Gray, I'm grateful the Psi Corps give you purpose in life, but when - that purpose includes scanning *my* mind to prove *my* loyalty, it's not - only an invasion of my privacy, but my honor. As for fear, if you enter - my mind for any reason I will twist your head off and use it for a chamber - pot. If you'll excuse me." - -- Ivanova to Mr. Gray in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -"Protests are as much useful with the Vorlons - as fairie-wings on a cement-truck." - -- Garibaldi to Colonel Ari Ben Zayn in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -"If I knew who God was, I would thank her." - -- Garibaldi to Ari Ben Zayn in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -"It looks like you and Ben Zayn have something in common." -"What?" -"You were both considered for command of Babylon 5. Now, he was - in the top ten, you were .. well, somewhere below that." - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -[Sinclair knocks out Colonel Ben Zayn.] -"I assume the investigation is concluded." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -"Behold. The Ninja ZX-11." -"What have you done?" -"You are not pleased?" -"I said you could work on it a little, not .. *finish* it." -"I do not understand." -"I wanted to build it myself. It was kind of a purpose in my life. - Now it's .. done." - -- Lennier and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -"Too bad we can't ride it." -"Oh, it's quite ridable." -"Don't tell me you came up with some gas too." -"Gasoline is harmful to both living beings and the atmosphere, - as your people discovered. I have installed a Minbari power - source instead. Clean, and efficient." -"Get out of here." -"Yes. Of course." - -- Garibaldi and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -"And Mr. Bester?" -"Mr. Bester is not the type to come too far out of the shadows - and there are bound to be some questions raised over this." - -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -[Garibaldi and Lennier driving a motorcycle in the Central Corridor.] -"It's good to have things back to normal." - -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Eyes" -%% -"Mitchell, stay in formation, it might be a .. Oh my God. - It's a trap. *Mitchell*!" -"I've got a clear shot. I can take him, I can take him." -"Break off!" -"I'm hit. Ejecting. *Aaargh*!" - -- Sinclair and Mitchell in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Commander, we've just finished a security scan. - The Minbari's coming with its gun ports open. - She's armed for a fight." - -- Corwin to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"We are on a peaceful mission, Commander." -"Then why are your gun ports open?" -"We have no interest in explaining our ways to you." - -- Alyt Neroon and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"You are not being reasonable." -"Fine. It's my call and I'm making it." - -- Talia Winters and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"You know, Jeff, I can't believe you are really going to attend the ceremony. - I mean this Branmer guy planned and led the attack on the Line." -"I know, he commanded one of the ships that splashed my team, but the war is - over. At least that's what I keep telling myself." - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Alyt Neroon. I welcome you on behalf of all Minbari on this station. - It is an unhappy journey on which you travel." -"For a warrior there is no other end to the journey." - -- Delenn and Alyt Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"You don't like it, do you?" -"My preferences are not under discussion, Commander." - -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Earth Central Data Center" -"Beldon, Alisa" -"Born: 12 July 2244" -"Place of Birth: Los Angeles Incorporated" -"Father: Eliot Beldon, Born: Earth, Assigned to B5 construction 2256, - terminated 2258. Work file closed. No further data." -"Mother: Esparanza Beldon, Maiden name: Pintro, Born: Earth, Deceased 2250, - Cause: Statford's plague" -"Education: Graduated Malcolm X Elementary Earth 2256, Registered B5 JH - April 2257, Last Attendance March 10 2258, Grade level 3." -"Religion: Obeah" -"Current status: Dependent Minor" -"No further data available." - -- EA Data Display in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"That will suffice for now. These are my *requirements*, Commander." -"This is my station. I don't take orders here." -"Impetuous. Is this how you reacted on the Line, Commander?" -"This isn't the Line." -"No. *We* were in control there." - -- Neroon and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"This was the greatest of us. Warrior, leader, the hero of the Line. He - fought with honor, bravery, and with vision. Now, he belongs to the ages." - -- Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"This is a grave offense, Commander. Unforgivable. Minbari warriors are - heedless of their own lives in battle, but the body of a warrior must be - treated with extreme reverence." - -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"No matter how great the loss, it is not our way to let a single clan - dictate Minbari policy." - -- Delenn to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"There is nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right." - -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Great general, yes. The last thing he wanted to be. Before he became - a warrior in the Star Riders clan, Branmer was a high priest of the - religious caste. The holy war against Earth forced him to became a war - leader. He was a brilliant tactician. He believed in the rightness - of the war. He fought as if it was a matter of conscience, never - ceased to be a priest in his heart." - -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"I'm afraid I don't have a choice. I'll have to make a deeper inquiry." - -- Garibaldi to a Pak'ma'ra in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Oh, by the way. Do you know what they say Narn taste like?" -"Yeah, chicken. Man, I *really* need a vacation." - -- Dr. Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Stop it. Stop it, both of you. You keep arguing over what you want. - You don't care about what I want. You don't even ask." -"All right, Alisa. What *do* you want?" - -- Alisa Beldon and Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"For the Minbari psi-ability is considered a gift and their use is - extended as a gift to those who have need for them." -"They are not paid?" -"Only with the high regard of our people. It is not a job, it is a - calling. It is enough for them to be of service." - -- Delenn and Alisa Beldon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Those who wish to help others, to serve others, - are greatly respected within our culture." - -- Delenn to Alisa Beldon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Is there something going on around here by a dead body?" -"Yes, why?" -"I saw something about the body. I know what happened to it." - -- Alisa Beldon and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"You see, a rift between the religious and warrior castes begun when - our warriors were ordered to surrender. If what happened to the body - were to become general knowledge, it would further that rift." - -- Delenn to Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"There is no shame in wanting to honor him, Alyt Neroon. I've fought on the - Line against Branmer. I saw his valor and leadership first hand. Because his - body .. disappeared and I .. feel some responsibility toward the Minbari - people. There is no higher testimony to a warrior's courage and skill than - praise from his enemy. I would like to send that message to your homeworld, - and a personal message; a testimony to the Shai Alyt." - -- Sinclair to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"We fought long enough. Maybe it's time we started talking with one another." - -- Sinclair to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Branmer's life was more significant than his battles. Let the warrior - caste praise his courage in the war, and let the rest praise him for - what he truly was: a man of peace." -"You talk like a Minbari, Commander. Perhaps there was some *small* wisdom - in letting your species survive." -"We'd like to think so." -"Until another day, then." - -- Sinclair and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Alisa could become an instrument of great communication between Humans - and Minbari. We suffer a lack there, as you know, Commander." -"The future in exchange for the past. I think that's very workable." - -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"There was one other thing. A word. 'Chrysalis'. I don't know what it means." -"It's a cocoon, I think." - -- Alisa Beldon to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Legacies" -%% -"Problem with the transfer tube?" -"No, not really. It seems like every time I get into the tube, Mr. Garibaldi - is there. It's like he knows." -"Talia, Mr. Garibaldi is many things, but he's not omniscient." -[Garibaldi appears] -"I think I'll take the stairs." -"I think I'll join you." - -- Sinclair and Winters in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"An interesting riddle, Commander. I thought the planet beneath us - was uninhabited." -"That's what we thought. None of our prior surveys found any sign of - life down there." - -- Londo and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"Perhaps not now, but in the past, someone or something might have - lived down there." -"If that's true. It would seem you may have awaken something." - -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"I would suggest that there is a difference between being unreasonable and - being angry. Ambassador G'Kar is *angry* most of the time, but even the - greatest anger fades with time." -"My dear ambassador Delenn, I'm sure that for you this is true, but for G'Kar - and his people; they will all that they can to destroy us, until the - universe itself decays and collapses. If the Narns all stood together in - one place and hated, all at the same time, that hatred could *fly* across - dozens of light-years and reduce Centauri Prime to a ball of ash. That's - how much they hate us." - -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"You don't have to respond unkind." -"Of course we do. There's a natural law. Physics tells us that for every - action there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate - them, they hate us back. And so, here we are: victims of mathematics." - -- Sinclair and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"He never listens." -"He will, sooner or later." -"How can you be sure?" -"Because the alternative is too terrible to consider. Without the hope - that things will get better, that our inheriters will know a world that - is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless, and evolution is - vastly overrated. Good day, Commander." - -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"Incorrect answer. The third principle of sentient life is the capacity - for self-sacrifice, the conscious ability to override evolution and - self-preservation for a cause, a friend, a loved one." - -- Draal to Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"It has been too long, Delenn. You have forgotten your training. - Soon you will have forgotten all about your old friend, Draal." -"Not if I live to be a thousand and one." - -- Draal and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"A curious answer from one who taught me that - a half truth is the worst kind of lie." - -- Delenn to Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"If you can't get through, how I'm--" -"The Psi Corps has an intelligence and training operation in Syria Planum." -"How did you know about the center? That's supposed to be classified." -"It is, but it has never stopped me before." - -- Talia and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"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. .. Civilians! [Looks up] I was just kidding about - the God part -- no offense." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"It's also a potential first-contact situation. I'd say we pretty much - have to go down there and check it out. Wouldn't you agree, Lt.Commander?" -"Absolutely." - -- Sinclair and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"Ah, Mr. Garibaldi, off duty I see. Ahm. Water, fascinating! - I *never* touch the stuff myself." - -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"Suddenly, I looked up and this beautiful dancer is leaning down over the - stage, and looking right into my eyes. And she said: 'Whatever it is, - it can't be that bad.' And then she kissed me, right here." - -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"Mr. Garibaldi. Whatever it is, it can't be that bad." -"You try to kiss me and I'll break your arm." -"We are not that close, Mr. Garibaldi." - -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. - It's a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it." - -- Londo to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -[Sinclair throws a rock to a laser defense system] -"Well, that'll cut down on tourism." - -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"Commander?" -"Yeah?" -"I think I've gotta go to the bathroom." -"Tell me about it." - -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"I rather enjoyed the song." -"Don't tell him." -"You're sure?" -"Trust me." - -- Draal and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"They're not happy about you knowing about the center either." -"Well, it's an imperfect universe." - -- Talia and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"Help me, or your people, *all* your people will die. - You must help me." - -- Varn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"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." - -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #1" -%% -"Like my granddad used to say: 'Nuke them until they glow and shoot - them in the dark.' That'll take care of them, just like magic." -"Magic? Want to see magic? I've got a little magic trick for you." - -- Mars Hater and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"But it didn't work, did it? Because you can't get near the planet's - surface without a properly encoded jamming device." -"What? Why wasn't I informed?" -"You didn't ask." -"Commander, I demand you turn over this jamming device at once." -"It's being repaired, but I'll see what I can do. Babylon Control out." - -- Sinclair and Pierce in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"Commander, we didn't use a jamming device. - We don't even *have* a jamming device." -"I know, but he doesn't know that." - -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"So, if we go down there, it blows. If we don't it blows anyway, - just a little later. It's a good thing I'm russian, we're used to - hopeless situations." - -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"You did find something down there, didn't you? Something valuable perhaps. - I wish to remind you that my government has contributed substantial amounts - of money to this station. We are entitled to an equal share of *anything* - you find down there." - -- Londo to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"Ambassador. Do you really want to know what's going on down there right now?" -"Yes, absolutely." -"Boom. Boom, boom, boom. Boom, boom. *BOOM*! Have a nice day." - -- Ivanova and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"No. You. Help. Planet below. Do not land. Do not approach. Will explode. - Destroy you .. all. Without the heart. Without another." - -- Varn to Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"Babylon 5 Public Archive: Earth English" -"Subject More Melancholy Uxorious" -"Hell Mutilate Suppose Erupt" -"Orak Forbin Nomad Skynet" -"Baby Elephant Zoom Chickpea" -"Humble Squeeze Impress Starchy" -"Human Metaphor Similar Larch" -"Sourdough Hardly Mcauliffe Light" -"Assert Chocolate Special Rumor" -"Hole Upbeat Buzzards South" -"Gasket Sack Ironic Epoch" -"Gelding Apathy Uniform Religion" -"Rubber Easy Stringy Love" -"Each Compress Slip Canonical" -"Eye Inability Clothes Middle" -"Am Uterous Hold Cartridge" -"Knot Nod Receptive Copyright" -"A Stringer Ligate Caught" -"Number Complete Scrim Whalebone" -"Aye Mutilate Canon Webbed" -"Ama Respite Floor Cuprous" -"Free Prime Frank Scrim" -"Man Plaintiff Suspicious Aloud" -"Scribble Dichotomy Atom Trigger" -"Cricket Modify Unreal Fauna" -"Mallet Oscillate Jowl Obsession" - -- B5 Public Archive in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -[about Captain Ellis Pierce] -"Worst case of testosterone poisoning I have ever seen." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"No. Outcast. Violent. My people cast them out centuries ago. Signal was - not meant for them. Was put here to hide from them. Given to me when the - rest of my people died. Sacred trust, legacy for the future. I am guardian, - protector. I live in the heart of the machine. We are one. 500 of your - years have I waited in the machine." - -- Varn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"Please, you must stop them. Do not let them take the machine. - It's not for them. It's not for this time." - -- Varn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"You know what Varn meant by 'another', don't you?" -"Yes. Varn could not ask it, could not say the words. But it was in his - eyes. He's probably forbidden to ask directly. But the answer is there - if you had ears to hear it." - -- Delenn and Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"Now, landing thrusters.. landing thrusters, hmm. Now if I were a - landing thruster, which one of these would I be?" - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"There is no other way. Please believe me. All my life I've searched for a - way to serve others. To me there is no higher calling, no greater destiny - than to live for another, and if necessary, to die for another. To somehow - make the world a better place. I've done all I could on my world. I came - looking for a reason, a way to live out my remaining years with direction - and purpose. Here I've found it. I will save lives." - -- Draal to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"I am sending this message to all three parties involved in the struggle for - the control of this planet. It belongs to none of you. It belongs only to - itself .. and to the future. Commander Sinclair, the secrets buried here - must remain secrets. They would give any race an advantage over all others, - thus it is in the interest of all races that *none* should gain exclusive - control of it. We entrust the safekeeping of this place to the Babylon 5 - Advisory Council. We will rely upon your guidance, Commander, and the - enlightened self-interest of the Council to make sure that this world is - left alone until the time is right." - -- Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"The third principle of sentient life is it's capacity for self-sacrifice. - For a cause, a loved one, for a friend." - -- Delenn to Draal in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"Why didn't you come to us, and let us handle it?" -"Because if I had, I know in my heart that Commander Sinclair would be - the one down there right now. He's looking for a purpose. But his destiny - lies elsewhere." - -- Garibaldi and Delenn in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"Franz? What the hell kind of a name is Franz?" - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Voice in the Wilderness #2" -%% -"God I hate mornings." -"We noticed. Personally I find it the best part of the day." - -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"We all have our cross to bear." -"The time I learned to really appreciate mornings was during the three years - I spent being taught by Jesuits. We used to get up at five o'clock every - morning for sunrise mass, then one hour of meditation before class. We'd - sit, quiet, in peace. Breathing in, breathing out. Breathing in, breathing - out. Breathing in, breathing out." - -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"I'll notify your next of kin." - -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Some things one must do alone." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Well, Commander, it's hard to explain. There's no damage to the body, - no shock, no trauma. Everything points to death by natural causes." -"So, why is that hard to explain?" -"Because in this case the natural cause was old age." - -- Garibaldi and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"B4 as in Babylon 4?" -"Well, I can't figure out why. B4 vanished without a trace over - four years ago. I don't get it." - -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Earth Alliance Vessel ID Archive" -"Babylon 4: 0010835-081677" - -- Babylon 4 Vessel ID in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"This is nuts. The station just doesn't disappear and reappear - four years later like some kind of a flying Dutchman." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"You're so serious all the time. Not every conversation has to be - the end of the world as we know it." - -- Garibaldi to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"[sigh] Fasten, then zip. You?" -"Fasten, zip!" - -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"How much longer?" -"One hour, fifty-seven minutes. .. Wanna talk socks?" -"No!" -"It's just a question." -"I'm not having this conversation." - -- Sinclair and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Summoned, I come. In Valen's name I take the place that has been prepared - for me. I'm Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. - We stand between the darkness .. and the light." - -- Delenn in Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"It has been ten cycles since Dukhat has left this world to take his place - with Valen and the nine who were. Ten cycles since our people have had a - leader. The time of mourning is complete. We must now choose another." - -- A Grey Council Member to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"My calling is to serve, not to lead." - -- Delenn to Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Prophecy will attend to itself." - -- Grey Council Spokesman to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Commander, they've broken through level seven and eight! - Can't stop them, they're everywhere." -"Garibaldi!" -"Look, I've rigged the fusion reactors but there's not much time. Get - going, I'll hold them as long as I can. Move it! Come on, this isn't a - conversation. Jeff, it's okay, I finally understand. This is the moment - I was born for. Now go. Go!" - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"I wish to reconvene the Council. I must speak to them." -"That has *never* been done! .. But, if it were to be done at all, - this is as good and as bad a time as any." - -- Delenn and A Grey Council Member in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Oh. Not the one, no." -"Not the one what?" -"Not the one. Won't talk. Can't talk. Not the one. They told me, they did. - Zathras listens, he does, yes. Zathras listens and does what he's told." - -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"The One is hurt. Must find. Zathras must find help." -"What are you doing here?" -"*Need* this place. Need this. Used to fight. They told Zathras, - biggest of all Babylon stations we need. Needing we take. There is - no more to telling." - -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Zathras tells, maybe we don't break Zathras' scrawny little neck." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Great War. Terrible War. There is much killings. Everyone fighting. - A great darkness. It is the end of everything. Zathras warned but, oh no, - no one listened to poor Zathras, no. Great War, but great hope of peace. - Need place. Place to gather, to fight, to organize." -"You need Babylon 4 as a base of operations in a war, is that it?" -"To help save galaxy, on the side of light. So they tell me. Must have. - Or it is the end of all. The One leads us. The One tells us to go, we go. - We live for the One. We would die for the One. We pull this place through - time to save us all." - -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Much apologizing. Mathematics not Zathras' skill." - -- Zathras to Major Krantz in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"They fight, they argue, they are ruled by passions and fears." -"Yes, and that is their strength. They do not seek conformity. They do not - surrender. Out of their differences comes symmetry, the unique capacity - to fight against impossible odds. Hurt them .. and they only come back - stronger. The passions we deplore have taken them to their place in the - stars and will propel them to a great destiny. Their only weakness is that - they do not recognize their own greatness. They forget that they have come - to this place through two million years of evolution, struggle and blood. - That they are better than they think, and nobler than they know. They carry - within them the capacity to walk among the stars, like giants. They are the - future. And we have much to learn from them." - -- Grey Council and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"What happens to you when it jumps?" -"Zathras die. But Zathras die for cause. Maybe stop great war. Maybe Zathras - great hero. Maybe build statue to Zathras. Others come, remember Zathras." - -- Krantz and Zathras in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, - Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras." - -- Zathras to Major Louis Krantz in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Zathras does not want to die. But if it is the only way, - then Zathras dies. It is life." - -- Zathras to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"I don't understand you Michael. We have got a good life here, we've got - history. You have met this Sinclair twice and now you are off to - Babylon 5, just like that. Doesn't what we have mean anything to you?" - -- Lise Hampton to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Go. You must. Listen to Zathras. You have a destiny. - Go. Please. Go for Zathras." - -- Zathras to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"I tried. I tried to warn them. But it all happened, - just the way I remembered." -"I know. It's time. We have to go. They are waiting for us." - -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"These are curious times, Delenn. I feel a great change in my bones. A new - beginning, an end, I can not say. We are surrounded by signs and portents. - And I feel a darkness pressing on our backs. If ever you have needed me, - I am here. Now, Valen go with you and light your way." - -- Delenn's friend to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"Great, and I missed it." -"Not necessarily, Lt.Commander. We don't know where Babylon 4 was going, - or when it was going. Who knows, it may show up again sometime." -"Well, if it does, this time *I'm* going and Garibaldi is staying here." - -- Ivanova and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Babylon Squared" -%% -"I hardly know anything about you." -"From birth I was raised in the temple and studied the ways of the - religious caste. Six months ago I came here. There is nothing else." - -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"Reading is no substitute for experience." - -- Londo to Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"I will show you the Babylon 5 that *I* know. You will find that a - revelation of the highest order." -"I don't know, Ambassador." -"Oh, my good *dear* friend. Trust me!" - -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"Next! We start by removing your clothes." -"Not without dinner and flowers." - -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"That's why I didn't tell you." -"I don't like having to hear about this in the grapevine, doctor. I'm in - charge of station operations. This is a station and *this* is certainly - for operations." - -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"Spacing is only invoked under conditions of mutiny or treason. For the - crime of murder, there are only three penalties legally open to us." - -- Ombuds Wellington in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"I don't want to do this again. I was inside a killer's mind before, - on the Mars colony. There's gotta be another way." - -- Talia to Ombuds Wellington in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"It works all right. It restores, renews, envigorates. It is good for - ailments of the flesh, the blood and the bone." - -- Laura Rosen to Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"Here, my friend, *here* you will *see* the heart and soul of Babylon 5. - Also, its spleen, its kidnies, a veritable parade of internal organs. - Sit. Sit." - -- Londo to Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"There's no alcohol in here, is there?" -"Alcohol? No, of course not. Here, drink up." -"Because my people do not react well at all to alcohol. Even a small - quantity causes psychotic impulses and violent, homicidal rages." - -- Lennier and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"All her life the only thing that mattered to my mother was being a doctor, - a healer. She worked days, nights, weekends, but she could never keep up - with it all so she .. started taking stims to stay up nights working. - Pretty soon she was taking them all the time. She was addicted. She - wouldn't admit it and she wouldn't listen to anyone. Until one day she - made a mistake. .. Someone died." -"I'm sorry." -"When they took away her license, they took away her reason for living." - -- Janice Rosen and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"So, you're going to walk around my head, eh? I'd think twice if I were - you. Something might just jump out of the shadows and bite you." - -- Karl Edward Mueller to Talia in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"How many? How many?" -"How many worlds are there? How many banquets? How many flowers waiting to - be harvested? How many new voices waiting to be recruited into my choir?" - -- Talia and Karl Mueller in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"Interesting. Do you know that the odds of this particular - combination are 5000 to 1 against?" -"Lennier!" -"Yes, Londo?" -"Stop that." -"Ah, does that mean I won again?" - -- Lennier and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"Hrm. Is it cold in here, or is it just me?" -"Actually, the temperature appears to be quite moderate." - -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"You heard Mr. Garibaldi. You did the right thing." -"Darling, I did the *necessary* thing. That is not - always the same as the right thing." - -- Janice and Laura Rosen in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"I'm still waiting for an explanation, gentlemen." -"Yes, and I'm prepared to give you one, Commander, as soon as the - room stops spinning." -"This station creates gravity by rotation. It never stops spinning." -"Well, you begin to see my problem." - -- Sinclair and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"Why?" -"In Minbari culture we are taught that it is an honor to help - another save face." -"But Delenn?" -"Will know better, but will not inquire out of respect. - Good day, Ambassador." - -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"Yes, it's true. Yes. Here, Li, Goddess of passion, a synthesis of - male and female Centauri. Did you think these were just decorations?" -"I'm going to take a vow of silence concerning this entire conversation. - Good day." - -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"They are a strange people, .. but they're okay." - -- Londo to Li about Minbari in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"The first thing is to *study* it to find out how and why it works. - And who knows, it might be able to preserve someone's life when nothing - else works. Volunteers, who donate a little life energy the way people - used to donate blood before synthetics were perfected." - -- Franklin to Laura Rosen in Babylon 5:"The Quality of Mercy" -%% -"Our patrols are necessary for Narn planetary security." -"Keep this up, G'Kar and soon you won't have a planet to protect." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"You've gotta stop them. They're gonna kill him. They're gonna kill him." - -- Petrov to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Must've been something *really* big to make him come all this way hurting - like that. The last thing he said was: 'They're going to kill him.'" -"Kill who?" -"I don't know. But I'm gonna find out." - -- Garibaldi and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"--after which the president and his escort left the Mars colony on a good - will tour of the outer planet colonies. Sources close to the president have - hinted that he'll give a major policy speech new year's day from the jump - point on Io. The speech is likely to concern human-alien relations over the - remainder of his five year term." - -- ISN in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"So, now with the new year coming I've been going over it in my head, - and-- Look, do you want to get married or don't you?" -"Yes." - -- Sinclair and Sakai in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Vir, how many gods are there in our pantheon? I've lost count - since the last emperor was elevated to godhood. -"48. No, no, 49, 50 if you count Zuug but, you know, I never thought - you should--" -"All right, let's say 50." -"50." -"Now out of that 50, how many gods do you think *I* must have offended to - have ended up with G'Kar's teeth buried so deeply in my throat that I - can barely breathe?" -"All of them?" -"Sounds right. And now I have to go back to the Council and explain to - them that in the interest of peace the Centauri government will agree - to *give* quadrant 37 to the Narns. I think I will stick my head in the - station's fusion reactor. It would be quicker. And I suspect, after a - while I might even come to enjoy it. But this .. this, this, this is - like being nibbled to death by .. what are those Earth creatures - called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet .. go 'quack'?" -"Cats." -"Cats. I'm being nibbled to death by *cats*." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Did you see ambassador Kosh?" -"I did." -"Did you relay my question precisely, word for word." -"I did." -"His reaction?" -"Just one word. He said: 'Yes.'" - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Mr. Morden. You never gave me a chance to thank you after you rescued - the Eye from those triple-damn raiders." -"Unnecessary, I'm here to be of service, Ambassador. My associates believe - that you are a person of great potential." - -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what - you see is all that you'll ever be. Then you accept it .. or you kill - yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors. No, nothing can be changed." - -- Londo to Morden in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"And you don't want credit for this grand endeavour?" -"No. We're simply here to help. Good day, Ambassador." - -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Yes. Thank you. Now I will keep the promise. - Goodbye. You will not see me again .. as I am now." - -- Delenn to Kosh in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Big mistake, hot-shot. You shouldn't poke around in things you - don't understand. This is too big for you." -"Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm shaking in my boots." - -- Devereaux and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Is there something wrong with your hearing?" -"No, just for a moment I thought I had entered an alternate universe - or such. Ambassador, are you sure you are *feeling* all right?" -"Vir. I'm quite sober." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"I'm afraid the Ambassador is resting. He is rather fatigued from his - *heavy* schedule. Perhaps if you came back-- .. I believe the Ambassador - can see you now." - -- Na'Toth to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"In order to be free you had to learn to fight. No one questions that. - But you've overcompensated. You are like abused children who have grown - big enough to do the same thing to someone else as if it would somehow - balance the scales. It won't. If you let the anger cloud your judgement, - it will destroy you." - -- Sinclair to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Just that I've had this feeling lately. That we are standing at a - crossroads, and I don't like where we're going. But there's still time - to choose another path. You can be part of that process, G'Kar. Choose - wisely. Not just for the Centauri but for the good of your own people - as well." -"We'll all do what we have to do." - -- Sinclair and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"So, what's the occasion?" -"Who says there has to be an occasion to invite you to join us for dinner?" -"I didn't get to be a head of security for my good looks." - -- Garibaldi and Sakai in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"What's the frequency on that transmitter?" -"Can't make it out." -"Here, let me see that. 1010105? That's the Gold channel frequency for - Earth Force One. Why would someone want to jam president's.. Oh my god!" - -- Garibaldi and Jack in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Come to my quarters and I'll tell you as much as I can. .. - But don't wait too long, Commander. Some things have been - set in motion. And I do not have much time." - -- Delenn to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Ten thousand of our best warriors dead. As if some great hand reached out - of space and .. just erased them." -"It wasn't the Humans. The Centauri don't have the will. And the Vorlons - don't care. The Minbari wouldn't do it. The other worlds aren't powerful - enough for a strike like this. .. There's someone else out there, Na'Toth." - -- Na'Toth and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Are you sure there's no other way?" -"What must happen will happen. Valen said this day would come. - Were we to stand in the way of prophecy?" -"But.. What if you are wrong?" -"Then speak well of me when I'm gone." - -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"All I'm getting is a recorded message from the tachion relay station - from Proxima." - -- Ivanova to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Ambassador. You wanted to see me." -"Yes. What have you done?" -"Only what you asked me to do. You had a problem with quadrant 37, - we took care of it for you." -"Yes, but you killed ten thousand Narns!" -"I didn't know you cared. Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, - what's the difference? They are Narns, Ambassador, your sworn enemy." - -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"And so it begins. You have forgotten something." - -- Kosh to Sinclair in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Lennier?" -"You are too late." -"What is it?" -"A chrysalis. She is .. changing." -"Into what?" -"I don't know." - -- Sinclair and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"And one more thing. Tell the commander .. he was right. We *were* at - a crossroads, and there is no going back. Expect me .. when you see me." - -- G'Kar [recording] to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Yes. I think he's ready. He's perfect for our needs. No. No. He suspects - *nothing*. And when the time is right, Ambassador Mollari will do exactly - as we wish. Destiny is on *our* side." - -- Morden to his associates in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"Nothing's the same anymore." - -- Sinclair to Sakai in Babylon 5:"Chrysalis" -%% -"I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"Lieutenant Commander. This may be breaking the chain of command, but I have - some news and I felt I should deliver that news myself. Your commanding - officer, commander Sinclair will not be returning to Babylon 5. He's being - reassigned, permanently." - -- General William Hague to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"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." - -- Captain John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"So, she's done it, hasn't she. She's in there. We told her to wait. - Prophesy will attend to itself, we told her. Now we are committed to - the path." - -- Hedronn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"What's our status?" -"Chief of security is in critical condition in medlab. He thinks there's - a conspiracy concerning the president's death. Ambassador G'Kar has - mysteriously vanished. After two years we still don't know what Ambassador - Kosh looks like inside his encounter suit. And Ambassador Delenn is in a - cocoon." -"A cocoon? As in a moth or a butterfly?" -"Yes, sir. About yea high." -"Interesting place you have here." - -- Captain Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"And this will be your quarters. I hope it's satisfactory." -"It's fine, fine. Certainly a lot bigger than what I'm used to. Does this - place come with a shower? I mean, a real live honest-to-god shower with - running water and everything?" -"Executive suites and command quarters all have showers with live - honest-to-god water. The rest get vibe showers. Our water reclamation - system can't handle much more than that." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"They tell us *Sinclair* is now on our world." -"He's an ambassador." -"So you say. But the Grey Council never tells anyone the whole truth, - does it." - -- Kalain and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"Well, the human body is an amazing thing. It can cure itself, or it - can simply decide one day that the world is too painful to deal with - and won't cooperate no matter how hard you try to heal it." - -- Franklin to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"If you are going to kill me, then do so. Otherwise, - I have considerable work to do." - -- Lennier to Kalain in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"Ambassador Delenn is indisposed at the moment. Perhaps you would - come back later, *much* later." - -- Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"They fight bravely. They can not harm our ships, but they continue to try." -"Whether they fight or not, they know they will die anyway. So, really, is - this bravery or simple desperation?" -"Perhaps they are the same thing." - -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"We should bring one of them aboard for questioning. If our next step - is a final assault on their world, we must know their defenses." -"Very well, Delenn. Choose. But quickly. We are fast running out - of candidates." -"That one." - -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"It is our belief that every generation of Minbari is reborn in each - following generation. Remove those souls and the whole suffers. We are - diminished. Over the last 2000 years there have been fewer Minbari born - into each generation. And those who are born.. do not seem equal to those - who came before. It is almost as if our greater souls have been .. - disappearing." - -- Lennier to Sheridan & Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"And I thought *I* was a pessimist!" - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"I spoke with the president. He is the only other human who knows why the - Minbari surrendered. He doesn't believe the stuff about our sharing of - Minbari souls, and I can't say that I do either. But they [Minbari] believe - it." - -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"I learned a while ago that there's enough guilt in the world to go around - without grabbing for more. Give yourself benefit of a doubt." - -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"I told them, Delenn, as I was ordered. I only wish I could've told them the - rest. About the great enemy that is returning. About the prophesy that the - two sides of our spirit must unite against the darkness or be destroyed. - They say it will take both of our races to stop the darkness." - -- Lennier in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"Five minutes to spare." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Points of Departure" -%% -"DANGER - Biohazard - DANGER" - -- A sign in a transport ship in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"Warning: Hazardous materials storage facility" - -- A sign in a transport ship in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"Caution: Magnetic surfaces" - -- A sign in a transport ship in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"Ambassador Delenn remains indisposed." -"'Indisposed'! She's in a cocoon!" -"Yes?" - -- Lennier and Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"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 about G'Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"The destruction of the Narn base in quadrant 37 is drawing quite - a lot of attention." -"Yes, that was the intent." -"And you are absolutely certain that it can not be traced back to me?" -"Oh, beyond a shadow of a doubt." - -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"Yes. But what happens if I may ask for another of these .. little - demonstrations?" -"Then we'll provide it. Simply choose your target. A colony, an outpost.." -"Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it?" -"One thing at a time, Ambassador. One thing at a time." - -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"It's better you are running it and someone else is at this end." -"He's my patient." -"When I took over B5, he became my responsibility. I don't think losing - my head of security two weeks into the job will look good in my resume." - -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"Weep for the future, Na'Toth. Weep for us all." -"Are you all right?" -"I have looked into the darkness, Na'Toth. You can not do that and never be - quite the same again. When you told me about the destruction of our base at - quadrant 37, I knew that only a major power could attempt an assault of that - magnitude. But none of the governments here could've done it. Which left - only two possibilites: a new race, or an old race. A very old race." - -- G'Kar to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"G'Quan spoke of a great war long ago, against an enemy so terrible it - nearly overwhelmed the stars themselves. G'Quan said that before the - enemy was thrown down, it dwelled in a system at the rim of known space. - I searched for days, going from one system to another. Then, on dark - deserted worlds, where there should be no life, where no living thing - has walked in over thousand years, something is moving, gathering its - forces, quietly, quietly, hoping to go unnoticed. We must warn the - others, Na'Toth. After a thousand years, the darkness has come again." - -- G'Kar to Na'Toth in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"Mollari, the grievances between my people and yours will never be - resolved except with Centauri blood. Accept that as a given." -"Well it's good to know we're appreciated." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"But there may be some dangers that threaten both our peoples, not to mention - the Minbari, the Earthers, the League and everyone else around here. Except - possibly the Vorlons, I don't know what could threaten them, really." - -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"Is she still alive?" -"*That* is a very good question." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"I am not ill, doctor. What I .. have become, what I suffer, - requires you .. alone." - -- Delenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"What .. am I? What *am* I?" - -- Delenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"I trusted you. I taught you everything I knew. I gave you every break. - I even treated you like my own brother. Why? My god." -"I got my instructions." -"From who?" -"There's a new order coming back home, Garibaldi. You can either be part - of it or you can be stepped on; a winner or a loser. I'm with the side - that's going to win." -"Homeguard?" -"Homeguard? They're a bunch of misfits. You really don't have a clue, - do you, Garibaldi?" -"Look, if I were you, I'd start talking straight, because right now - you're in a whole world of trouble." -"You don't even know what trouble is. But you're going to find out, - real soon." - -- Garibaldi and Jack in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"Hey, Garibaldi. Be seeing you." - -- Jack to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"Ambassador Sinclair has been allowed to live on my world as an act of - good faith to create a greater understanding between the Minbari and - humans. In return I have undergone this .. change with the blessings - of my government so that I may become a bridge between our worlds in - the hope that we will never know war between us again." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Revelations" -%% -"What the hell kind of a security chief am I supposed to be if I can't - see something like that?" -"You can't be expected to know everything." -"Yes I can. I could've known and I should've known. And now, I .. I just - don't know if I'm any damn use to anybody anymore. I keep asking myself - what qualifies me to take back my job and .. I haven't got an answer. - I wish the hell I did." - -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"What you are asking could be considered treason." -"Or the first step in restoring our people to their rightful place in the - galaxy. Depending on who writes the history books. I think it will be us." - -- Londo and Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"I've decided that it is time for you to start learning the fine art of - diplomacy. You can handle the low priority conflicts. It would help me - focus on the other problems. Besides, added responsibility comes with - any promotion. I know it's annoying and inconvenient, but--" -"Did you say 'promotion'?" -"Yes, would you like some juice? It's fresh from the hydroponic garden. - I told them to leave the pulp in. That's the best part. Don't you think, - *Commander*?" - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"Vir, do you believe in fate?" -"Well, actually, I believe there are currents in the Universe. Eddies and - tides that pull us one way or the other. Some we have to fight, some we - have to embrace. Unfortunately, the currents that we have to fight look - exactly like the currents we have to embrace. The currents that we *think* - are the one that's gonna make us stronger, they are the ones that are going - to destroy us. And the ones that we think are going to destroy us, they are - the ones that are going to make us stronger. Now, the other current--" -"*Vir*! Yes or no?" -"Yes! You know, somewhat, why?" - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"The Universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy." - -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"You don't frighten easily." -"I work for Ambassador Mollari. After a while nothing bothers you." - -- Elric and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"There's an old saying: 'Do not try the patience of wizards for they - are subtle and quick to anger.'" - -- Elric to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"You will have to wear a cast. And it's gonna hurt." -"Swell. Ouch." -"I can give you something for the pain." -"Oh, great, *now* you can give me something for the pain. Where were - you when I was going through puberty?" - -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"I have absolute trust in your abilities, Commander." -"Well, that's a hell of a thing to tell someone. Hah! - No pressure, fine. Fine." - -- Sheridan and Cmdr Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"Londo, they are going away. Money doesn't matter to them. - Power doesn't matter to them." -"Money and power always matter." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"Look, we bought a cake, al'right. It's been sitting there for two days now." -"Are you kidding me? You pass up a cake for two days? What's the deal? - What've you done with the real Lou Welch, huh? Hey, security! Security, - over here! We've got another guy with a changeling net." - -- Lou Welch and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"I do think there are some things we don't understand. If we'd be back in - time a thousand years, trying to explain this place to people, they could - only accept it in terms of magic." -"Then perhaps it *is* magic. The magic of the human heart, focused and - made manifest by technology. Every day you here create greater miracles - than a burning bush." - -- Captain Sheridan and Elric in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of - laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations - of equations. These are the tools we employ and we know many things." - -- Elric to Captain Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall - in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain, or to - say goodbye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor, how to be rich, how - to rediscover dream the world has stolen from you." - -- Elric to Captain Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"There is a storm coming up, black and terrible storm." - -- Elric to Captain Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"I'm here to sell you something to make your life easier, cleaner, and - all-around happier. Yes, sir, the ACME handy, dandy, micro helper, - right here in this box." - -- Garibaldi to a Drazi guard in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"I have to find a way to *stop* this." -"You could always .. apologize." -"Apologize? *Never*!" -"Congratulations. You are now the owner of 500'000 shares of - Fireflies Incorporated." -"On the other hand.." - -- Londo, Vir and Computer in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"Rules of combat older than contact with other races. Did not mention - aliens. Rules change caught up in committee. Not come through yet." - -- Former Green Leader in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"I don't trust anybody. When somebody tells me we've got a message from - Ivanova, I don't believe until I get it from her point blank." -"So, in other words you are perfect for the job. Because you are paranoid - and compulsive." -"Or compulsively paranoid." -"Who told you to say that?" - -- Garibaldi,Sheridan,Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"Now, if I may ask, does this torment end when you leave, or am I going to - have to spend the rest of my life paying for one little mistake?" -"Oh, I'm afraid you have to spend the rest of your life paying for your - mistakes. *Not* this one of course, it's trivial, I have withdrawn the - spell, but there will be others." -"What are you talking about?" -"You are touched by darkness, Ambassador. I see it as a blemish that will - grow with time. I could warn you of course, but you would not listen. - I could kill you, but someone would take your place. So I do the only - thing I can, I go." - -- Londo and Elric in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"Well take this for what little it will profit you. 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." -"My followers?" -"Your victims." - -- Elric and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows" -%% -"John, she's Minbari?" -"A-ha." -"She doesn't look like one. I mean, she does, but she doesn't. - I mean, what's the deal?" -"We're still trying to figure that one out. There's the story she - told us, but then, the Minbari never tell you the whole truth." - -- Captain Jack Maynard and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" -%% -"People don't eat right. Skipped meals, eat strange things at - odd hours. I mean, *someone* has to look after your health." -"Okay, fine. Diet." -"No no no no. Food plan." -"Got it." - -- Dr. Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" -%% -"Well, it wasn't in hyperspace though. But you know, things can get kind of - weird out on the Rim too. It's funny. You never know what you're gonna find - when you look over the edge of what's known and into what's not. - We were in sector 857, and I took my nav. officer, Lt. Patrick with me - for a lookaround in one of our scoutships." -"And?" -"Well, I noticed that we'd gotten out of sight of the Cortez and I was .. - I was just about ready to turn back when I saw something. Maybe a thousand - kilometers away, black against space. Now, the reason that I know it was - there is that it blotted out the stars behind it. I don't know the exact - shape of it, but .. it was *big*. I turned to Pat, asked if he could see - it, and when I looked back, it had vanished." - -- Captain Jack Maynard and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" -%% -"10 pounds?" -"Well, a 10-pound gain isn't too bad, but you could afford to lose it. - Here's a list of foods I want you to avoid. No meat, low fat. Lots of - vegetables." -"Rabbit food." -"Well, it's only for a little while, Captain. We'll get those 10 pounds - off in no time." -"Who's 'we'?" -"Well, a doctor and his patient are a team, Captain, don't you agree?" -"Sure. And since we're a team, why don't you do the diet part." - -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" -%% -"I am more 'one of us' at this moment than I have ever been. - More than you will ever know." - -- Delenn to Teronn in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" -%% -"If everything is satisfactory, Doctor, I'll be returning to my duties." -"Just one last thing, Commander. I worked out this food plan for you." -"Are you telling me to go on a diet? I'll have you know I don't have an - ounce of fat in my body. I exercise vigorously once a day despite my - injury, and--" -"When you do eat, you don't eat enough of the right things. You have - deficiencies in calsium, iron and several other minerals. And it's - hampering your recovery. Now, I recommend iron supplements, and an - increased diet.. food plan, to replenish you system." -"I'll gain weight!" -"Well, briefly, yes." -"Figures. All my life I've fought against imperialism. Now, suddenly - I *am* the expanding Russian frontier." -"But with very nice borders." - -- Ivanova and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" -%% -"An old friend of mine once quoted me an ancient Egyptian blessing: - 'God be between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.'" - -- Sheridan to Zeta Squadron in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" -%% -"Universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy places, - but they are right. Wherever we are, it's the right place .. and the right - time. Pain that sometimes comes is part of the process of constantly being - born." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" -%% -"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." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" -%% -"Ever had a long talk with ambassador Delenn, Commander?" -"Yes, from time to time. Why?" -"She and the universe .. seem to have a special relationship." -"Don't we all?" - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Distant Star" -%% -"Judgement Day is coming and it don't care what you look like and I - have seen it. An army of darkness, soldiers of the devil, or something - like that. We are all in great *danger*, that barks upon this station." - -- Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -"Now, unless you have a class C missionary license, it's time for little R&R." - -- Garibaldi to Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -"You were about to accuse the Centauri Ambassador of being in league - with the devil, which may not be far from the truth." - -- Garibaldi to Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -"What else have I missed?" -"Noh. The usual. The good times, and the bad times, the revelations, the - revolutions. Outbreaks of hysteria, the parade of scandals, promises, - constitutions, and the occasional war. The last big ones were against the - Dilgar, which we won, and against the Minbari, which.. Well, that's a - long story." - -- Mariah Cirrus and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -"And we still haven't outgrown violence?" -"No. It's gonna take a lot more than a hundred years - to evolve a better human." - -- Mariah Cirrus and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -"Take my advice and go back to the time you came from. - The future isn't what it used to be." - -- G'Kar to Mariah Cirrus in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -"You are all gonna die. A soldier of darkness has come on that ship from the - past. I have seen it. Don't close your eyes, don't sleep, it will find you." - -- Amis in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -"The forces of darkness do not move openly. They work *through* others, - *use* others. When the darkness was defeated long ago, they scattered, - hid themselves away in secret places and waited. Now, the dark hand is - reaching out and recalling them from their sleep." - -- Markab Ambassador in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -"You've got a plan?" -"Try not to get killed." -"Brilliant." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -"These PPG's don't do much more than sting it. Prowls around hurt for a while - and comes back stronger." -"Well, one bee sting may be an annoyance, but a hundred of them can kill you." - -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -"You said the ship was reprogrammed to a new destination. - So where was it going?" -"It was heading for the Rim. To the exact place where ambassador - G'Kar told us an ancient enemy was gathering its forces." -"Z'ha'dum." -"You think it's a coincidence?" -"A few weeks ago I probably would've said 'yes'. But now, 'no'. - Something is going on, Commander." -"I know. Between you and me, it's scaring the hell out of me." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Long Dark" -%% -[a problem in the ambassadorial section] -"I'll handle it." -"Help is on the way. Hah! It's good to be the Captain." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"These are volatile times, Captain. Practicalities are more - important than principles if lives are to be saved." - -- Sen. Elise Voudreau to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"Someone's been lying to you, Captain." -"Or to you." -"I'm a telepath." -"Telepaths are human beings." - -- Winters and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"I'll arrange for an escort." -"One escort, at your service." - -- Sheridan and Garibaldi to Winters in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"Command?" -"Code Alfa 66 Zeta 3." - -- Abel Horn in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"Control states Ms. Winters could jeopardize mission. - Eliminate her, then continue with phase 2." - -- Control? to Abel Horn in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"Well, you know how I feel about telepaths." -"Do I ever. You threw one out of a third story window on Io." -"There was an ample pool below the window." -"Alas, I assume you knew that." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"And you don't trust Psi Corps?" -"No. Do you?" -"Telepaths are gifted and cursed in ways I can never hope to understand. - They are still human beings, good, bad, or indifferent. No. I trust in - individuals, not organizations." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"Captain, I sure would like to know where you are going with this?" -"Someplace very dark. I hope to God I'm wrong." - -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"Earthforce Intelligence I/6538" -"Criminal Record Confirmed" -"Abel Horn is a suspect in over 75 such incidents. In 2252 he was sentenced - to Phobos maximum security outpost for involvement in the computer theft of - over 50 million conglomerate credits. Served 1 year. Then was transferred - to Lunis Planum prison base. He then served 3 months and escaped April 16, - 2253." -"Current Status: Deceased 2258" -"Cause: Died in Mars rebellion" -"Circumstances of Death: Destroyed in outer atmosphere combat skirmish Beta-5 - as a result of plasma burst from Earthforce Star Cruiser Pournelle." -"Death Recorded: by Phobos Outpost 20" - -- Earthforce Intelligence File in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"It's trickier than you thought." -"Thanks. Mr. Wizard." - -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"You hurt that lady, I'll see that it takes you ten days to die." -"I'm already dead, mister security-man." - -- Garibaldi and Abel Horn in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"Is there something?" -"There's a whole list, but let's start with how you knew about - the Lazarus project." -"Some people .. collect coins or art. I collect secrets: black projects, - conspiracies, secret organizations. They fascinate me." - -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"For the past six years there've been rumours about a rogue agency operating - deep inside EarthGov. A dirty-trick-squad, dealing in black projects, and - star-chamber justice. It took me three years just to get a name: Bureau 13. - And the man who gave me that name died soon after. I'm convinced they exist - and they are behind this incident." - -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"There's a spider in the web, Mr. Garibaldi. And I intend to find it - .. and kill it." - -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"13." -"Report from Babylon5 control. Mission only partly successful. Isogi - terminated but unit was destroyed before he could leave station for Mars." -"Is the Bureau at hazard?" -"Control does not believe so." -"Belief is not enough. He is to follow up until he is certain. 13 out." - -- 13 and Control in Babylon 5:"Spider in the Web" -%% -"It is a *pleasure* to *meet* you. It *is* a pleasure to meet you. - It is a pleasure to meet you." - -- Vir in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"So, what's the problem?" -"I don't know. *That's* the problem." - -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"What's he hiding, Vir? Tell me. I won't bite, Vir." -"With all due respect, Madam, that's not what I have heard." -"All right. That *one* time." -"Twice." - -- Timov and Vir in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Believe me, Vir, if you knew her as I do, you wouldn't miss her a bit." -"Oh, Timov, Timov. Why do you always try to draw me into your little - *verbal* fencing matches?" -"Because I don't have a real sword handy." - -- Timov and Daggair in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Commander, I want you to understand. I aqcuired human characteristics to - bring your people and mine closer together. To symbolise our mutuality. - It is supposed to be a dignified and inspiring position for both Humans - and Minbari. So, will you please explain to me why this.. *this* ..!" -"Hair." -"..refuses to co-operate!" - -- Delenn and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"I'm sorry. I guess I'm reading too much into it, but people seem to be - implying that .. I shouldn't get too comfortable." -"Oh nonsense. It's not as if anyone expects you to, oh, vanish overnight - under mysterious circumstances to a strange Minbari post. Why, that would - be unprecedented in the station's history." - -- Sheridan and G'kar in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"The secret of our marriage's success, Londo, is our lack of communication. - You've jeopardised that success and I would know why." - -- Timov in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Petulant, isn't she? Oh well, breeding will tell." -"A bitch like you would know about breeding." - -- Daggair and Timov in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"And you are?" -"Garibaldi, head of security." -"Oh, so if I'm feeling insecure, hugging you will make me feel better." - -- Matt Stoner and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Certification of my participation in an authorized archaeological dig. - List of contents are there. You'll find this little item among them. - It's all quite legitimate, officer. I can help you with the big words, - if you're having trouble." - -- Matt Stoner to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Would you like me to tell you all about her? Is that it? - Would you like to hear where she likes to be touched?" -"*Don't* push it." -"The little noises she makes. Does she cry out or sigh softly?" - -- Stoner and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"If Talia Winters so much as breaths a word that you've been harassing - her, you'll be spaced so fast you'll think you were born in a vacuum." - -- Garibaldi to Stoner in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"I'll be keeping an eye on you." -"Use both eyes. You'll need them." - -- Garibaldi and Stoner in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"You seriously expect me to become involved in your sexual olympics?" -"They are merely expressing their feelings for me." -"I can do that." [slaps Londo in the face] -"You haven't changed." -"You have. You've *devolved*." - -- Timov and Londo in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Ahh! A deck of cards! From my dear friend Lennier." -"And I marked them exactly as you requested.." -"Shhs!" - -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Hey, how about I call you an idiot in public and you can - convict me for revealing state secrets." - -- Stoner to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Are you okay? Londo, do you know where you are?" -"Either in Medlab, or in Hell. Either way, the decor needs work." - -- Dr. Franklin and Londo in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Stick it!" -"How odd. I didn't even know *we* were married." - -- Dr. Franklin and Londo in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"You know, the problem with mysteries is that in order to get - rid of the headaches I have to figure them out." - -- G'Kar to Mariel in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"I warn you, Mariel, do not be overconfident. If I were married to - Londo Mollari I'd be concerned." -"G'kar, if *you* were married to Londo Mollari, we'd all be concerned." - -- G'kar and Mariel in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Ladies, it's been a *pleasure* meeting you." - -- Vir to Londo's wifes in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"Commander. Susan. I wish to thank you again for your patience and - understanding." -"No, not a problem." -"Taking on human characteristics has been something of an education - for both of us." -"Well, if you've any other problems, any other questions at all, just ask." -"Well, now that you mention it. Do you have any idea why I suddenly started - getting these .. odd cramps?" - -- Delenn and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Soul Mates" -%% -"You were raised by the Corp, clothed by the Corp. - We are your father and your mother." - -- Bester in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"Are you sure you know what you are doing?" -"Absolutely. Those paper pushers back home probably figured that since I'm - new here, I'll go along with the whole rent idea, just to make everybody - happy. That's how it starts, believe me. They nibble a little bit here, - little bit there. Next thing you know you are not even in charge of your - own command anymore." -"No taxation without representation. Get me liberty or get me death!" -"Abso-fraggin-lutely. A bunch of .. butt-scratching, hand-wringing, - penny-pinching, lets-stick-it-to-the-new-guy pin-heads, all of them. - 30 credits a week! I say let them cut back on those expense-account - lunches, *then* come talk to me, right?" - -- Franklin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"We do not have cats on Minbar, we have gogs." -"Gogs?" -"Gogs. Such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure - that we never take ourselves too seriously." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"We believe that no race can be truly intelligent without laughter." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"Mary had a little lamb" -"her fleece was white as snow" -"and everywhere that Mary went" -"the lamb was sure to go." - -- Rogue Telepaths in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"I heard a good one today. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a - lightbulb?" -"I don't know, sir. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" -"None. They always surrender right before they finish the job and they - never tell you why." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"Knock, knock." -"Who's there?" -"Kosh." -"Kosh who?" -"Gesundheit." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"Then what *are* you saying?" -"I'm not saying what I'm saying. I'm not saying what I'm thinking. - As a matter of fact, I'm not thinking what I'm thinking. There's only - one thing in my mind right now." -"What's that?" -"I need a drink." - -- Dr.Franklin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"You are more than you think you are." -"Then what am I?" -"The future." - -- Lurker and Winters in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"Item two. You snore." -"No, I don't." -"Yes, you do." -"*No*, I don't." -"Captain, either you snore or last night we had a hell of a breach - in the hull." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"They gave in?" -"Ahem, no." -"You gave in?" -"Not exactly. I'm deducting 60 credits per week from the budget set aside - to maintaining combat readyness and applying it against the rent." -"On what grounds?" -"On the grounds that I'm not ready to fight anybody until I've had a decent - nights sleep in my own damn bed. You got a problem with that?" -"No, none whatsoever. I rather like the idea of Earth Central paying rent - to itself. There's a certain symmetry." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Race Through Dark Places" -%% -"You have always served me well, old friend. And sometimes I think - I do not thank you as much as I should. .. Goodbye." - -- Emperor to Prime Minister in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"So, you are going to allow this, even over my objections?" -"What? Did I somehow turn invisible or something? Yes, Ambassador. The - Emperor is allowed to come aboard. Now, if this bothers you, I suggest - you stay in your quarters, stick your fingers in your ears and hum real - loud until its over. Unless you'd like to try something as breathtakingly - rational as trying to open up a *dialogue*. G'Kar, you are in a position - to negotiate directly with the head of the Centauri Republic, and you are - wasting it on a .. tantrum." - -- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"We've taken the liberty of writing your speech for you. I've had experts - in psycholinguistics working on it for weeks. It's perfect; fiery, but - dignified; elegant, but strong." - -- Refa to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"Yes. It's a strange feeling, Kha'Mak, to know suddenly that all the - decisions in your life have brought you to this place. There is no - longer doubt or uncertainty. The future now consists of only three - probabilities. .. In the moment that I strike, the Emperor and I will - both die. Or he will die and I will spend my life in prison. Or I will - fail and be killed. For the first time in my life, the path is clear." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"It has occurred to me recently that *I* have never chosen anything. - I was born into a role that had been prepared for me. I did everything - I was asked to do, because it never *occurred* to me to choose otherwise. - And now, at the end of my life, I wonder what might've been." -"That's why my father taught me to live each second as though it would be - the last moment of my life. He said: 'If you love, love without reservation. - If you fight, fight without fear.' He called it the way of the warrior." -"No regrets then?" -"A few. But just a few. You?" -"Oh, enough to fill a lifetime. 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 inbetween. But there - is still time to seize that one last fragile moment. To choose something - better, to make a difference, as you say. And I intend to do just that." - -- Centauri Emperor and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"Londo, *don't* *do* *this*." -"I have no choice." -"Yes, you do. Londo, please, please, please, I *know* you don't listen to - me, but I'm asking you just this one time. *Don't* *do* *this*. There is - no turning back once you start down that road." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"I understand .. just fine. .. By this time tomorrow we will be at war - with the Narn. May the Great Maker forgive me." - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"I was ready. I had prepared myself. I had made my peace with the universe, - put all my affairs in order. I had the *dagger* in my *hand*! And he has - the indecency to start dying on his own. Never in my life have I seen a - worse case of timing." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"Maybe it's good news. With luck he's feeling better. All they have - to do is to prop him up for two minutes and-- I'll call you back." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"Hello, old friend. It's been a while. I'm entrusting this message to an - associate of mine who has sworn to bring it to you at any cost, including - his own life. My job on the Minbari homeworld is more than just representing - Earth. The president doesn't know about that part yet and .. I don't think - it would be wise of you to tell him. There's a great darkness coming, - Michael. Some of the Minbari have been waiting for it a long time." -"The bearer of this message is one of my Rangers. Some are Minbari, most - are humans. They've been drawn here to learn to work together and prepare - for the fight ahead." -"Their job for now is to patrol the frontier, to listen, to watch, and - return with reports too sensitive to entrust to regular channels. They - are my eyes and ears. Where you see them, you see me." -"In the name of our friendship I ask that you give them every courtesy and - co-operation. I wish I could tell you more. I wish I could warn you, but - the others don't think it's time yet. Stay close to the Vorlon and watch - out for the shadows. They move .. when you are not looking at them." - -- Sinclair to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"How will this end?" -"In fire." - -- Centauri Emperor and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"Sheridan's rule number 29: Always make your opponent think you know - more than you really know." - -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"Mollari. What did he say, really?" -"He said .. that we are both *damned*." -"Well. It's a small enough price to pay for immortality." - -- Refa and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"For a hundred years the Centauri occupied our world, devastating it. We - swore we would never let that happen again. This attack on our largest - civilian colony has inflicted terrible damage and loss of life. They've - crossed the line we can not allow them to cross. As a result two hours - ago my government officially declared war against the Centauri Republic. - Our hope for peace is over. We are now at war. .. We are now at war." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"No, I have no desire to become Emperor. No, I prefer to work behind the - scenes. The reward is nearly as great .. and the risk far, far less." - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"Hello, old friend." - -- Sinclair to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Coming of Shadows" -%% -"No traffic, no complaints, no noise. Traders, troublemakers, and - ambassadors, all tugged snuggly in their little beds. I love this - time of night." -"There is no night in deep space. And time is a meaningless concept - when you stop to think about it." - -- Ivanova and Corwin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" -%% -"I had an Alfredo Garibaldi under my command during - the Dilgar invasion. Excellent soldier." -"That's my dad." -"So much for genetics." - -- General Richard Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" -%% -"Few days, long enough for us to get our gifts in place." -"Gifts?" -"New weapon systems for your defense grid. The very latest of Earth Force - R&D. When they are on line, Babylon 5 will have enough firepower to take - on a warship." - -- General Richard Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" -%% -"The galaxy is changing and Babylon 5 must change with it." - -- General Franklin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" -%% -"I'm a doctor. My duty is to heal." -"Then heal humans. Stephen, I know you are fascinated by these alien - creatures, but they are a threat to humanity. And they always will be. - Help your own kind." -"Life is life. Whether it's wrapped in skins, scales, or feathers. Now, - if you *respected* these beings instead of constantly trying to murder - them, you would appreciate that." - -- Stephen Franklin and Gen. Richard Franklin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" -%% -"We are all slaves to our histories. If there is to be a .. - bright future, we must learn to break those chains." - -- Delenn to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" -%% -"If you'll excuse me, the natives are restless." - -- Garibaldi to Delenn in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" -%% -"A man who won't stand up for his own principles is not really a man at all." - -- General Richard Franklin in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" -%% -"For a security-slug you are a lousy liar." - -- Dodger to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"GROPOS" -%% -"Being asked to serve on the Council is a matter of soul, not of flesh. - The change that you have gone through.. it shouldn't matter." -"But it does, Lennier. I've made a decision and now I must face the - consequences." - -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"Lennier, for the first time .. I feel very much .. alone." -"No. Never alone, Delenn. Never alone." - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"This isn't a clear and present danger, Commander. Just a quick look around - to see what the problem is. I haven't felt space beneath me since I got - here in January and I miss it. Besides, if I don't put some flight time in - soon, I'll lose my flight pay." -"Very well, but you'll take a full escort." -"All right, all right. I'll be in and out in an hour. What could go wrong?" - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"I'm not worried about that." -"Of course not. You are young. And youth is both foolish and vulnerable." - -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"Your diagnosis, Doctor?" -"Well, the patient is confused, delusional. Unable to separate his natural - sense of loyalty for his home team from the reality that they *stink*, and - only got to the playoffs on a *technicality*." - -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"Helen Keller?" -"Heat of the moment." - -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"Until later, *Satai* Delenn." - -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"Summoned, I take the place that has been prepared for me. I am Grey. - I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between - the darkness and the light." -"They will not come, Delenn." -"But I was summoned." -"To receive judgement, yes. Not to appear as one of the Nine." -"I am entitled to a hearing. I'm allowed to defend myself." -"That was before you disobeyed us. You were told to wait before taking this - action. Before becoming .. alien to us. You've been away from us for too - long, Delenn. Your contact with the humans have changed more than your - appearance. If you are no longer one of us, how can you be one of the Nine?" -"My heart has not changed." -"We no longer know your heart, Delenn. The Council has voted to remove you - from our presence. From this day forth you are no longer a member of the - Grey Council, no longer Satai. I'm sorry, Delenn." - -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"Why are you doing this? Why are you torturing me? - You can at least tell me what you want." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"Twenty cycles I stood beside you as one of the Nine. I called many of - you friends. And now you call me outcast. You know me. You know I believe - in the task that is before us, the Great War that is coming. I have not - turned my back on you. In trying to help I have sacrificed all that I was, - and all that I am. We can no longer allow ourselves to be separated by - names and borders. Our two sides must unite .. or be destroyed. Do not make - my sacrifice a vain one. Allow me to finish what I started. In the name of - our friendship, for the future of our people, let me remain in Babylon 5." - -- Delenn to the Grey Council in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"When Valen called the Nine together he chose 3 from the worker caste, 3 from - the religious caste and 3 from the warrior caste. My replacement should've - been from the religious caste. Four from the warrior caste gives them - unprecedented power." - -- Delenn to the Grey Council in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"And your belief that you are satisfying prophesy is a presumption of the - highest order. And yet .. it is true that you are now the perfect liaison - between us and the Earthers. You have no home with either of us. So, please, - act out your fantasy, be our go-between. return to Babylon 5, and *stay* - there." - -- Neroon to Delenn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"The first obligation of a prisoner is to escape, right?" - -- Sheridan to a Narn in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"Shhh! Do you know who I am?" -"The man in-between is searching for you." -"You are the hand." - -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"Why are you here?" -"We were never away. For the first time your mind is quiet enough - to hear me." -"Why am I here?" -"You have *always* been here." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"It's not fair." -"No. It's not. Death never is." - -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"You have *always* been here." - -- Kosh to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"Santiago understood the importance of Babylon 5. He knew that if anything - happened to him, president Clark will appoint some hard-nosed jar-head - to run this place. Well, we both know you are not that. But, from your - record you look like that." - -- General Hague to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"A soldier's record tells a lot about a person. Not just what he's done, - but how he's done it and why. And you have an uncommon failing for someone - in your position, Captain. You are 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." - -- General Hague to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"But it's time we stopped reacting and started acting." - -- General Hague to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"All Alone in the Night" -%% -"G'Kar, everyone in this room knows too well that the first casualty of - war is always the truth." - -- Sheridan to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"Do whatever you have to. Just get them to sign on." -"Will do. Thank you, sir." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"The war is young, the Centauri are still in the process of committing their - forces. Some in their government are unsure about the entire affair. They - only need a reason not to fight. If the Minbari intervened, you could - provide that reason. You could save hundreds of thousands of lives." - -- G'Kar to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"You must know .. your actions in the recent past, the things you've said, - make it difficult for anyone to come to your aid now." -"I know. But what else could I do?" - -- Delenn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"I was there when our war against Earth begun, and our ship encountered an - Earth vessel for the first time. Afraid of us, the unknown, they fired. - I saw our leader die, I heard the cries for revenge, for blood, for death. - In return we nearly exterminated an entire species. Our people are tired - of war, G'Kar. You can not ask them to go through all that again." - -- Delenn to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"Transport 32A" - -- Docking Elevator Designation in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"Six months ago they were hardly aware of me. Now, *suddenly* everyone - is my friend, everyone wants something. I wanted respect. Instead I've - turned to a wishing-well with legs." - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"I do not understand. Why go through all this to save the lives of - potentially inferior species? Evolution is driven by blood. The weak - die, and the strong survive. By preserving the sick and wounded of other - races you pollute the genetic pool. It does not serve evolution." - -- Taq (for Correlilmurzon) in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"I don't believe that any form of sentient life is inferior to any other." -"Yes, we often hear that argument from inferior species and their - sympathizers." - -- Franklin and Taq (Correlilmurzon) in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"No, I don't want a receipt." -"Then what do you want?" -"I want you to stay! And have a little drink for me. I want you to be happy, - I want *me* to be happy. I want you to be happy for me and me to be happy - for you. Is that so much to ask around here? Why is everyone here walking - around like they are afraid of me?" -"Maybe we are." - -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"Most impressive." -"Excuse me?" -"We have isolated ourselves from inferior species but you.. you've shown the - will and the strength to isolate the genetically inferior parts of your own - species as an evolutionary protection." -"I don't think you understand. This wasn't intentional." -"You're too modest, you're too modest. It's a brilliant move, Commander." - -- Taq (Correlilmurzon) and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"Ambassador, I have 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?" - -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"I .. do not have the same resources I once had, Captain. But .. - what I have is at your disposal." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"Well, you could put a bag over his head and do it for Babylon 5. - .. Maybe not." -"I'm doomed." -"I could inject you with something, make you sick. After all, he doesn't know - a thing about anybody's biology but his own. He'd probably fall for it." -"That's it!" -"I'll get a needle." - -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"Next time: *My* way." - -- Note to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"It is good to have frieds, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi? Even if maybe .. - only for a little while." -"Even if only for a little while." - -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Acts of Sacrifice" -%% -"Bay 13? Nobody goes to bay 13." -"That's what the Commander tried to tell him." - -- Garibaldi and Corwin in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"Commander, I want all outgoing ships checked out before they leave. - Slow down jump clearances as much as you can. Tell them we are having - .. mechanical problems." -"That they'll believe." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"He is the best there is." -"Stephen. The last time you vouched for a doctor friend of yours we had - three dead bodies, half the station was trashed and an Ikarran war machine - was burning through decks and shooting at everything." - -- Doctor Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"I found myself near bay 13 earlier and had look on your ship. It's an - amazing piece of work. It made me realize just how much we still don't - know about you, your culture, your people. And I was thinking, maybe we - should spend some time together soon. Build some bridges, work toward - a greater understanding of one another." -"Why?" -"You tell me. You're the one who popped in my dream when I was in that alien - ship a few weeks ago. It felt like.. I don't know.. like you called me." -"I sought understanding. I listened to the song. Your thoughts became a song." -"Has this ever happened before?" -"Once." - -- Kosh and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"These guys are about as subtle as a brick through a glass window, - but they know their stuff. I'd hate to be on the wrong side with - this bunch against me." - -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"We need to accumulate as much evidence as we can so *when* we go - public with this we'll hit the target. Because in this game, Captain, - we only get one shot." - -- Aide to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"I don't believe anybody." -"What a wonderful world you live in." -"Yeah, well, the rent is cheap, the pay is decent and I get to make - my own hours." - -- Garibaldi and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"Won't you be recognized?" -"Are you kidding? First, I don't get into down-below a lot. Second, when I - do they don't see me, they see the badge. And third, I have an excellent - disguise. Lets go." -"Why is my life suddenly passing before my eyes?" - -- Doctor Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"Good. The sooner we get him out of here into a nice, comfortable - interrogation room, the happier I'll be about the whole thing. Yep. - You're right. He's gotta be in down-below." -"Well, sir, you don't know that for sure." -"Commander, where else could he be? I mean, come on, next thing you'll - say he's in down-town." -"I didn't see anything called 'down-town'." -"Well, it's sort of an unofficial name for this area right in here. It's - between the hull and the water reclamation system. It's pretty much the - most unpleasent part of the station, not counting the methane bathrooms. - It's full of heavy machinery, lead walls and pipe all over the place." -"Lead? That is just the kind of thing he'd use to block the scanners." -"You think so?" -"Cranston here. Take the search team out of down-below for now. Check levels - fifty and fifty-one between the blue and grey sectors. And post guards at - all the entrances and exits to down-below." - -- Sheridan, Ivanova and Agent Cranston in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"Maybe somebody should've labeled the future: some assembly required." - -- Garibaldi to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"You wanted to see me?" -"You wanted to see me." -"Oh, I guess everybody does. To see what you really are, - inside that encounter suit." -"They are not ready. They would not understand." -"Am I ready?" -"No. You do not even understand yourself." -"Could you help me to understand you?" -"Can you help me to understand *you*?" -"Well, I can try. Is that what you want? In exchange of information - I tell you something about me and you tell me something about you." -"No. You do not understand. Go." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"Dammit, what do you want? What do you want from me? You know, ever since - I got here I've had the feeling that .. that you've been watching me. The - record shows you hardly ever went to council meetings until I showed up. - When I was captured, it was you .. reached out and .. touched my mind. - And now you call me here. Why? Just to throw me out? Are we just toys to - you, huh? What do you want?" -"Never ask that question." -"At least I got a response out of you. So, what will it be, Ambassador?" -"I will teach you." -"About yourself?" -"About *you*. Until you are ready." -"For what?" -"To fight legends." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"You were his teacher, what did he get in first-aid class?" -"4.0" -"*3.7*!" - -- Garibaldi, Dr. Franklin and Dr. Jacobs in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"It's what we suspected all along, but could never prove. The Vorlons - use organic technology. It's a living ship. Conscious, aware." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"While I was asleep. The .. the ship, it .. it *sang* to me." - -- Dr. Jacobs in Babylon 5:"Hunter, Prey" -%% -"Merchandising? We'll be merchandised? You can't be serious, sir." -"I heard this was in the works a few weeks ago. I fought against it. - And lost." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"'Welcome to Babylon 5, the last best hope for a quick buck.'" -"Commander." -"But it's just demeaning. We're not just some .. deep space franchise. - This station is *about* something." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"Find that Minbari witness I mentioned in my report. - He will back me up, I am absolutely sure." -"Ah. Description?" -"Bald, with a bone on his head." -"We are gonna need a real big line-up room." - -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"I answer to other Minbari, not freaks." - -- Ashan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"Now, I want to talk with your witness, he is lying!" -"For your sake, I did not hear that. Nor did you Lennier." -"What are you talking about?" -"Minbari do not lie, Captain. It would be a stain upon honor and soul." - -- Sheridan, Delenn & Lennier in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"For someone of other species to make such an accusation, it would require - an *immediate* and *fatal* response from the accused." -"Then he is in .. *error* where the truth is involved and I want to speak - with him *now*." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"Are you expected?" -"No. Dreaded." - -- Zack Allan, Guinevere Corey in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"Whose side are you on?" -"We are on the side of the truth. Is there another?" - -- Ashan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"I don't appreciate being called ignorant in front of others." -"I'm sorry. Is naive better?" -"And I don't need a lawyer." -"Now we're back to ignorant." - -- Sheridan and Corey in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"I'll never forget what you once said to me: - 'Never fear answers, only fear running out of questions.'" -"Ivanova, I never said that." -"You didn't?" -"No." -"Oh, well, I'll let you know who did." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"Why? What's inside there?" -"One moment of perfect beauty." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"Oh, yes, I'm keeping your secrets. Londo, I feel like I'm falling in - a pit and there's no way of climbing out." -"Do you want to leave, is that it? I can arrange it. You can go back - home to--" -"To what? To my family? Do you think that if they wanted me around I - would even be here. They just wanted me anywhere, anywhere away. - They had me sent here two years ago because, frankly, there wasn't - much competition for the job. This was a joke to them. Before I left, - my uncle said to me you and I deserve each other." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"I had no idea. *No* idea at all." -"Yes." -"Thank you." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"Another lesson? What this time?" -".. Beauty. .. In the dark." -"Must be working. You begin to talk *just* like a Vorlon." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"It's a mockery. It doesn't even have any .. ahhem .. attributes." -"Attributes?" -"Do I have to spell it out for you?" - -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"I see. So, you feel like you've been symbolically cast.. in a bad light." -"Well put." - -- Ivanova & Sheridan to Londo in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"Who said the Minbari don't lie?" - -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"I never forget the feeling of helplessness. I never thought there - could be anything worse than being all alone in the night." -"But there is. Being all alone in a crowd." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"Their honor? 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." - -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"Babylon control to Theta One. Can you trace that unidentified object?" -"Negative, Babylon control. I don't see a .. [thud]" -"Theta one, have you encountered unidentified object? Can you describe it?" -"Negative, Babylon control. I don't think so. Not on a bet. Heading back to - the barn." - -- Babylon control and Keffer in Babylon 5:"There All the Honor Lies" -%% -"In the process of putting this report together, it didn't take us - long to learn the most important rule of survival aboard Babylon 5: - 'Expect the unexpected.'" - -- Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"36 Hours, sponsored by Interplanetary Expeditions -- - Exploring the past to create a better future." - -- Voiceover in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"We are already in far greater jeopardy than you can possibly imagine." - -- G'Kar to Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"Overall I've found this to be a good working environment and a valuable - experience. I've learned a lot while I've been here." -"And you have never felt that your safety was compromised?" -"No, Ma'm." -"So, this has been a positive experience for you. You enjoy working with - everyone?" -"Yes. It's a calm, pleasant environment. I don't think I have ever seen - anyone get upset here." - -- Lt. Corwin and Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"I guess it's the old joke. You don't have to be crazy to work here, - but it helps. I suppose there is a .. certain attraction to being out - here on the edge like this, a new frontier." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"Babylon 5 has been through some dramatic changes in administration since it - became operational. Would you attribute these changes to .. bad management? - Or to quote former Senator Hidoshi, 'Is this horse just too big for anybody - to ride?'" -"Changes are part of the military life. Everybody goes into this - knowing that tomorrow you could be someplace that you hadn't even - heard of 24 hours ago." - -- Cynthia Torqueman and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"He must have hit the wrong button because the air doors slammed shut, the - space doors opened, and he .. just flew out into space. And the one thing - they never tell you is that you don't die instantly in vacuum. He just hung - there against the black like a puppet with his strings all tangled up.. - or one of those old cartoons where you run off the edge of the cliff and - your legs keep going. You could see that he was trying to breathe, but there - was nothing. The one thing I remember when they pulled in his body.. his - eyes were frozen. A lot of people make jokes about spacing somebody, about - shoving somebody out an airlock. I don't think it's funny. Never will." - -- Franklin to Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"According to figures released by the newly formed Office of Public Morale, - President William Clark has risen to dramatic new levels of popularity - because of his administration's emphasis on addressing the needs of earth." - -- Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"Anytime you lose a war, you just .. you just wait a few years, and you'll - hear from everyone who thought that we could've won if they had done the - fighting." -"Except, of course, Captain, we didn't lose the war. - The Minbari *did* surrender." -"Of course." - -- Sheridan and Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"Every day I get up, and I hope nothing will happen. I'd love to be just - bored out of my skull for 24 hours, and .. I guess I keep hoping that - someday, somewhere I'll make a difference, that at the end of the day - everything we've gone through here for the past few years will mean - something." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"I volunteered for this change in the hope that it would lead to a better - understanding between our peoples." -"Over 1/4 of a million humans were killed in the war with your people. - How do you think the families of those victims will feel about your .. - change?" -"I, .. I don't know. I, . I would hope .." -"I think they would feel hurt .. betrayed .. that by assuming a human face, - you are taking a part of us you're not entitled to. What would you say to - them, to all the husbands and wives and children and brothers and sisters - of the people who were killed in the war with your people and *now* see a - Minbari with a *human* face?" - -- Delenn and Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"An inspection of the destroyed Centauri has found conclusive proof that - she was carrying fusion bombs and support equipment for ion cannons, - mass drivers, and heavy-energy weapons." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"Roughly 150 of your years ago, the Centauri came to our world. Narn was a - green and fertile place then. We greeted them in peace and spent the next - 100 years in chains, but we never gave up hope. We formed a resistance, - learned their secrets, turned their own machines against them, and finally - drove them from our world." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"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." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"Please. The Narn have rewritten history enough, don't you think? If they - wanted us gone, we were hardly going to force the issue, but ever since, - they have grown more and more irrational, have gone out of their way to - harm us, to seize Centauri territory. Finally, we had to take a stand. - They were the ones who declared war, remember. Not us. We want only peace." - -- Londo to Cynthia Torqueman in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"You're right, Johnny. You know, there are a lot of other kids who feel just - the same way you do. They're confused and afraid, but they don't have to be. - The problem isn't that other kids don't like you, it's that they don't - understand you, but we do. You're special. You're a latent telepath about - to come into full bloom." -"My Johnny, a telepath?" -"Probably, but to be sure, take him down to the Psi-Corps testing centre - first thing tomorrow." -"How do I find them?" -"We're everywhere, for your convenience." - -- Psi Corps Advertisement in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"If you know someone who might be a telepath, or think you might be one - yourself, help them get the help they need. Call the Corps." -"Call government information for more on a Psi-Corps center near you. This - message has been brought to you by the Ministry for Public Information - and your local Psi-Corps recruitment office." - -- Psi Corps Advertisement in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"The Psi Corps is your friend. Trust the Corps." - -- Psi Corps Advertisement in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"We learn. That's what humans do." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"Of course it is, for the simple reason that no one else would've ever built - a place like this. Humans share one unique quality. They build communities. - If the Narns or the Centauri or any other race built a station like this, - it would be used only by their own people, but everywhere humans go, they - create communities out of diverse and sometimes hostile populations. - It is a great gift and a terrible responsibility, one that cannot be - abandoned." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"The job of Babylon 5 is not to enforce the peace. It's to create the peace. - And this place was built on the assumption that we could work out our - problems and build a better future, and that, to me, is the key issue. - See, in the last few years .. we've stumbled. We stumbled at the death of - the president, the war, and on and on. And when you stumble a lot, you .. - you start looking at your feet. 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, 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. Only by making people understand that can we hope - to create a better world for ourselves and our posterity." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And Now For a Word" -%% -"What do *you* want?" -"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'd look up at your lifeless eyes and wave - like *this*. Can you and your associates arrange it for me, Mr. Morden?" - -- Morden and Vir in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"That's him, all right. I never forget a face. Morden. Same ID as on the - Icarus." -"He's supposed to be dead. Why didn't the security net catch him?" -"Captain, come on. We don't get every death certificate from every Earth - Alliance ship and colony." - -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"So, what can I do for you?" -"Well, actually it's more a question of what I can do for you, really, and - what we can together do for Earth. I'm regional director of the newly-formed - Ministry of Peace, or Minipax, as we like to call it around the office. - We're trying to round up support for a series of new programs we're - launching." -"What kind of programs?" -"Folks back home are awfully nervous about all the fighting going on out - here. They need reassurance, you see? They need an environment dedicated - to peace, not war. But we can never have peace with our neighbours until - we're at peace with ourselves, so we at the Ministry of Peace are trying - to find new ways to do just that, ways we can better help each other, - work with each other." - -- Winters and Pierce Macabee in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Nice shoes. I'll admit my knowledge of the law is somewhat limited, but .. I - believe it's tradition if you're going to hold someone, you should at least - .. charge him .. with something." - -- Morden to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"When a patient starts to slip away .. when he looks at you .. and his eyes - grab hold of you the way a drowning man grabs hold of anything to keep him - from sinking.. I mean, afraid .. so afraid .. and then, just at the last, - it's as if they look past you to 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. 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." - -- Franklin to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"As the name implies, you must also be watchful. Peace can be made or broken - with a gun, a word, an idea, even a thought. Now, those who work *against* - peace sow the seeds of discontent. They plant false stories, they undermine - the public good. It's not because they are necessarily evil. It's because - they don't know any better. They're rejected, they're unhappy, and they lash - out in the only way they can. So, If we could be made aware of these - problems as they occur, then we can find these people, we can talk to these - people, we can embrace them again in the arms of society, while, at the same - time, protecting society from misinformation and harmful ideas. We're less - interested in actions than we are in attitudes. We must help protect society - against its own worst instincts. And by taking these bold steps, we *will* - help to ensure a better future for everyone. I'm proud to be a part of it, - and I hope you'll all join me in becoming part of the Night Watch." - -- Pierce Macabee in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Psi-Corps rules prohibit unauthorized scans in civil or criminal - investigations." -"How can it be unauthorized? According to Earth Central records, - *he* is supposed to be dead. Can a dead man object?" -"Captain, you're trying to use the letter of the law to defeat - the spirit of the law." - -- Winters and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"It was terrible, like falling into a bottomless well. And cold, so cold. - And just for a second I thought I saw this .." -"What? What did you see?" -".. A shape. I don't know. It was probably nothing." - -- Winters and Franklin in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"This is the only way. And we will tell you those answers. But be warned. - Once you know his secret, once you know what we have known the last three - years, you'll never sleep well again. Come, Captain, the greatest nightmare - of our time is waiting for you." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than either of - our races. Once, long ago, they walked among the stars like giants, vast, - timeless. Taught the younger races, explored beyond the rim, created great - empires, but to all things, there is an end. Slowly, over a million years, - the First Ones went away. Some passed beyond the stars never to return. - Some simply disappeared." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Not all of the First Ones have gone away. A few stayed behind, hidden, - or asleep, waiting for the day when they may be needed. When the Shadows - come again." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Shadows?" -"We have no other name for them. The Shadows were old when even the Ancients - were young. They battled one another over and over, across a million years. - The last great war against the Shadows was 10000 years ago. It was the last - time the Ancients walked openly among us. But the Shadows were only defeated - .. not destroyed. 1000 years ago, the Shadows returned to their places of - power, rebuilt them, and began to stretch forth their hand. Before they - could strike, they were defeated by an alliance of worlds, including the - Minbari .. and the few remaining First Ones who have not yet passed beyond - the veil. When they had finished, the First Ones went away .. all .. - but one." -"There's still one of them left. Where?" - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Recognized? By whom?" -"Everyone." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"'Yes' was the answer. What was the question?" -"Have the Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?" - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Once awakened, the Shadows could not allow them to leave, in case - they might warn others. Those who would not serve were killed." -"But were they all killed? Delenn, maybe .. maybe some of them were - kept alive as prisoners. Anna might still be alive! Morden--" -"Must be released." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"What? What did you see?" -"Nothing. Shadows." - -- Zack and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"You've been trying to help me so we can understand each other. It's not - what I want anymore. I want you to teach me .. how to fight them, how to - beat them. Because sooner or later I'm going to Z'ha'dum. And I'm going - to stop them." -"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die." -"Then I die. But I will not go down easily, and I will not go down alone. - You'll teach me?" -"Yes." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum" -%% -"At least you don't have to spend your day in the Triangle." -"Triangle?" -"Grey sector. Ever since B5 went online, there've been all kind of stories - about the place. Strange lights, weird noises, people vanishing. Maintenance - nicknamed it the B5 Triangle. Now they swear that something's making their - scanners go haywire." -"Anything to the stories?" -"Nah, every station has its phantoms." - -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"I have been attacked by aliens before, but never by dead ones." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"Every generation of Centauri mourns for the golden days when their power - was like unto the gods. It's counterproductive. I mean, why make history - if you fail to learn by it?" -"You know, Vir, you have what the earthers call a negative personality." -"No, I don't." -"There. You see?" - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"Centauri have bowed to the whims of other races for too long. Now we will - show the galaxy our true spirit, beginning with those .. those thrice-damned - Narn." -"Emperor Turhan, may the gods comfort him, never wanted another war with the - Narn." -"The emperor was a good man, but he was wrong about the Narn. War with them - was inevitable. They have given us little choice in the matter." -"The Narn did not start this conflict. They were forced into it by a faction - within our own midst, the same faction who murdered Prime Minister Malachi - and put that infantile puppet Cartagia on the throne!" - -- Londo and Urza in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"Commander, everything in order?" -"Remarkably so. It is beginning to worry me." -"Do you always worry when things are going well?" -"I don't have time to worry about them when they are not." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"I thought you said the .. records were all confiscated." -"I made a copy. You never know when I might want to write my memoirs." - -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"Knowledge is a basic tool of politics. Mine is considerable." - -- Urza Jaddo to Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"You cannot build an empire based on slaughter .. and deceit." - -- Urza Jaddo to Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"Disgrace is preferable to death." -"There was a time when I would've agreed with you. That time has passed." -"Londo, this is insane." -"Insanity is part of the times! You must learn to embrace the madness, - let it fire you." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"Londo.. You had no choice. He would've killed you." -"He could've killed me any time. He was right, you know. I never could best - him with a kutari. But my death would not have saved his family." -"I don't understand." -"By the laws of the morago, the victor must accept the loser's family as - part of his own. They're House Mollari now. They cannot be harmed by the - resolution passed against Urza. He sacrificed himself. I have made many - choices lately, Vir. And today, for the first time.. I'm not sure those - choices were right." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"It's not too late to make some new choices." -"No. The blood is already on my hands. Right or wrong, .. - I must follow the path .. to its end." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Knives" -%% -"I thought Zeta squadron was on break." -"It is, but some time ago, Keffer saw or thought he saw something in - hyperspace, a ship of some kind, unknown configuration. He's been spending - some of his free time looking for it." -"Tell Lieutenant Keffer to return to base. I want all freelance expeditions - curbed from now on. His fighter's to be recharged and ready to go within - the hour." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"Something here doesn't add up. And unlike Mr. Garibaldi, - I don't like mysteries." - -- Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"For a meal with such an honored guest, there are rituals and traditions. - The food must be sanctified during each of the fifteen stages of cooking. - For instance, the spices must be blessed and a specific prayer spoken when - they are used, each spice can only be used once, of course, and in the - correct order. If an error is made, entire meal must be abandoned and you - must begin again from scratch." -"So, when do you sleep?" -"One does not sleep during the cooking. It could lead to error. So, for two - days Lennier has not slept. In order to remain pure, he has taken only water - and bread." - -- Lennier,Sheridan,Delenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"As there are rituals to follow in preparing the meal of this nature, there - are other rituals that must be observed when eating the meal. Otherwise the - food is no longer sanctified and .. Lennier must begin all over again." -"Heh. Well, we certainly wouldn't want that, would we?" - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"It is then tradition for the guest to set aside one piece of flarn in - the memory of Valen in the place that is set aside for his return." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"We must now wait for a few moments before eating again. - In between, we meditate upon food." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"In the memory of the nine and the one." - -- Sheridan waking up in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"No, no, I was not. I .. I was meditating." -"The sound you were making is part of human meditation?" -"I don't snore." - -- Sheridan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"Now, I want to know how terminal and how contagious." -"It is one hundred percent terminal. And one hundred percent .. contagious." - -- Franklin & Dr. Lazarenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"The disease only appeared once before, centuries ago on a small island on - our world noted for certain excesses. When it was struck down, the rest - of my people believed it was a punishment by the gods for their lack of - morality. They even named the disease after the island devastated by it: - Drafa." - -- Lazarenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"We are the pure. If we believe, then the dark angel of Drafa - will pass over us. Hurry. Inside now, everyone inside." - -- Ambassador F'shara in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"They're in pain, frightened, dying. Minbari are taught that at such a - time, the afflicted should be ministered to, comforted." -"They're not your own people, Delenn." -"I didn't know that similarity was required for the exercise of compassion. - They are afraid. We wish to do what little we can." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"Don't look away, Captain. All life is transitory, a dream. We all come - together in the same place, at the end of time. If I don't see you again - here, I will see you, in a little while, in a place where no shadows fall." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"You should get some sleep." -"Can't. Too much to do." -"That's your third stim tonight. Too much isn't good for you." -"If we don't figure this out, it's really not going to matter, now, is it?" - -- Lazarenn and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"Faith manages." - -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"Faith .. manages." - -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"You were very funny. Everything to you was a problem to be solved, a test - to be passed. But you know, Stephen, sometimes the test is not to find the - answer. It's to see how you react when you realize there is no answer." - -- Lazarenn to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"When I was a child, I once visited the city with my family and became - separated from my parents. The more I looked for them, the more lost I - became. The streets became smaller, narrower, darker. I was so afraid. - Then .. I found myself in an old temple. And .. I thought .. I will wait - here. I will be safe here .. and they will come, they will come for me." -"Did they?" -"Not at first. Hours passed. The temple was cold and deserted. I fell asleep. - When I woke up, there was someone standing over me. He looked down and - smiled, and .. my fear went away. He stood there, bright against the - darkness, and said that I was going to be all right, that if I .. believed - .. then my parents will come for me. He said, 'I will not allow harm to come - to my little ones here, in my great house.' Just then .. the door opened, - and my parents came running in." - -- Delenn and Sh'naal in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"Faith manages." - -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"Lennier, is there anyone? Anyone at all?" -".. No. No one." - -- Dr.Franklin and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"What do you call two billion dead Markabs? - Planetary redecorating." - -- Bartender in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -%% -"I didn't know you read Universe Today." -"Aah. After my last encounter with your reporters, I felt that - I should be more prepared in the future. I find this notion - of the press .. a fascinating, sometimes troubling concept." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Back home, if there is something you need to know, you are told - just what you require and no more. It's tradition." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"You know, ah, while this incessant curiosity may seem necessary to you, - Minbari respect the privacy of others by not prying into their affairs. - To express *undue* *curiosity*--" -"Unable to insert 'Eye on Minbari' section. Do you wish to accept edition - anyway?" -"Uh. Yes, yes I do." -"'Eye on Minbari'?" -"It is good to know what your people are thinking and saying about my people. - .. And, uh, I often learn things about my own world before I'm told what - 'I need to know and no more'." - -- Delenn, Computer and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Pakmara use only. Do not enter." - -- Toilet sign in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"I have been nothing but compassionate and understanding. I mean, all - you had to do was to admit you were wrong and I was right and everything - would've been fine." - -- Ivanova to Winters in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Lyta Alexander. She was the first commercial telepath assigned to - Babylon 5 little over two years ago. She arrived January 3, 2257. - She left about six weeks later." - -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Tell him that someone here, one of you, is a traitor. And I can prove it." - -- Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"What I'm about to tell you cost two good men their lives. It nearly - cost mine. This place is important to a lot of people. More important - than you could possibly know. So, I had to come back, to warn you." - -- Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Seven days ago .. One of our best people was murdered on his way back - from an intelligence-gathering operation in Syria Planum." -"That's interesting. Psi-corps has a research center there." -"Our agent found out about a secret Psi-corps program, a sleeper program." - -- Lyta Alexander and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Our guess is that it's someone on the command staff, or close to it, - since the mole would be looking for vital information. All we have - is a code name: *Control*." - -- Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Why is it, every time you finally get things calmed down and everything - is going great, life decides to .. kick you in the butt." -"But what?" -"What?" -"You said that life decides to kick you, *but*?" -"No, no. It's a .. it's a part of the body. It's a .. Oh, you have the - damnest gaps in your vocabulary." -"Preparing to come here, I was not taught the more .. *colorful* aspects - of your language. It was considered inappropriate for one of the religious - caste." -"You're missing out on a lot." -"So I gather. Butt. *Butt*. I butt, you butt, he or she butts." -"No. No, it's--" -"Butt butt. Butt butt?" -"You sound like a motor boat." -"Motor-butt? I don't think I like the sound of that." -"Well, I don't blame you. I'm against the whole idea." -"Then we are in agreement." -"Abso-fraggin'-lutely." -"Well, there you see." -"What?" -"Something's gone your way today. It's the way the universe works. - Wait just a little while, and the wheel turns." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"That's one cabinet that will never threaten us again." -"I'm sorry, I just-- it's been one of those days." - -- Talia and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"You said you both interned with the corps. Which department - did she intern with?" -"Psi-cops. When she found out she didn't like it, she changed departments - and became a commercial teep like me. Oh, 'teep'. It's sort of an in-joke - around the corps. Teeps for telepaths, teeks for telekinetics." - -- Ivanova and Talia in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"I told you that my mother was a telepath, and ever since I was born she - could slip into my thoughts in a way that I could never even describe to - you. What I didn't tell you .. is that I learned how to keep her out when - I wanted to and that every once in a while .. I was the one who touched - her mind. .. I'm a latent telepath." - -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Garibaldi believes her." -"Garibaldi doesn't believe anyone." -"Exactly." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"That's enough! Now, look at us. This is exactly what Psi-corps wants. - They want us paranoid and afraid of each other. 'Divide and conquer.' - It's the oldest rule in the book, you know that." -"I guess this wouldn't be a good time for me to suggest we all join - hands and sing Kumbaya?" - -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"The corps is mother! The corps is father! You're dead, Lyta Alexander! - We'll find you! The corps will find you!" - -- Talia Winters in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"And what was on that data crystal he gave you?" -"Reflection. Surprise. Terror. For the future." - -- Talia Winters and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Always the romantic. The program is complete. The Talia you knew no longer - exists. There's just me. .. You don't know what it's like living only in - the shadows of her mind, watching, laughing at all of you out here: foolish, - petty, *stupid*. There I was, trapped inside, able to come out only at night - when she was asleep. Her invisible sister. And you believed *everything* - she said to you, all the things you wanted to hear, all the words I - whispered in her thoughts while she lay sleeping, the words that would get - her closer to you .. and to what you knew. You should see the look on your - face .. my *good* .. and *dear* friend Susan." - -- Talia Winters to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Only at night .. alone .. would I open that small door in my mind where I - kept the memory of you and listen to your voice, listen to you sing me to - sleep. I hope I can come back again .. but I don't know. Until then .. Kosh - .. I want to see you again .. just one more time before I go." - -- Lyta Alexander to Kosh in Babylon 5:"Divided Loyalties" -%% -"Oh, and you can bring one other. You know who." - -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"Mass drivers! They have been outlawed by every civilized planet!" -"These are uncivilized times." -"We have treaties." -"Ink on a page." - -- Londo and Refa in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"Sure you know where you are going?" -"Of course. I have an excellent memory." -"Positive?" -"Abso-fragging-lutely-dammit. Since our last discussion I have - been studying your use of language. Do you approve?" -"Well, we'll talk about that later. Left or right?" -"Left. .. I believe." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"You have changed. .. I like it." - -- Draal to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"I know Delenn has told you about the coming darkness. And, lately, I've - learned about your role in shall we say .. a conspiracy of light aimed - at your own government." - -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"I said a year ago that this place was to be left alone until the time was - right. That time has arrived. Now that I know the full capabilities of this - place, I am prepared to place them at your disposal." - -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"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." - -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"I'm never alone. My thoughts are always among the stars. And I've learned - that there are a few others living here who maintain the great machine. - I speak with them from time to time. They are quite .. interesting. There - is one particular who.." - -- Draal in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"So much to do, so little time. We must get to work! Zathras! - *Zathras*! Grrr, never around when he is needed!" - -- Draal in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"You are the only one of the Kha'Ri who is still safe." - -- A Narn to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the 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 can not - stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. - Though it take a thousand years, we will be *free*." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"Tell them, that from this place we will deliver notice to the parliaments - of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness. And we will - hold that line, .. no matter the cost." - -- Sheridan to Rangers in Babylon 5:"The Long, Twilight Struggle" -%% -"Lennier said you were calling for me." -"Yes." -"Is there something wrong?" -"You, perhaps. We have sent for you an inquisitor." -"An inquisitor? Why?" -"To be sure, about you. You will submit to his authority." -"How will I know who it is?" -"You will know, *if* you survive." - -- Delenn and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"Kosh must be certain that my choice was correct and made for the right - reasons." -"If you do the right thing for the wrong reasons, the work becomes corrupted, - impure, and ultimately self-destructive. Ambassador Kosh wishes confirmation - that the right people are in the right place at the right time." - -- Delenn and Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"Nothing changes. Corruption, immorality, chaos." - -- Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"The truth? You are not ready for the truth. The facts? If that's the only - way to get to my work. Yes, the Vorlons have been to Earth. The Vorlons - have been everywhere. The Vorlons are." - -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"I was found by the Vorlons, taken, transported, and brought into their - service. They told me everything about everything and the scales fell off - my eyes and they were opened to universe of majesty and terror that you - could never imagine. They call upon me when I'm needed, and preserve me - when I'm not. And they have called upon me now for this interrogation." - -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"Mr. Garibaldi. I have been on this station long enough to know that you - don't ask leading questions unless you already know the answers. So, why - don't we just pretend I've lied about it, you've caught me in your web of - ineluctable logic and cut to the point." - -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"We are already, as you so quaintly put it, going straight to hell. - We can not escape what's coming." -"Maybe not, but there's nothing wrong with taking a good ahead start." - -- G'Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"I meant, why are you doing this?" -"Because you didn't lie to me." -"But you must have known that ahead of time." -"Like you said, I never start a conversation unless I know where it's going, - but I always leave a little room for someone to disappoint me. Thanks for - not doing it." - -- G'Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"Unacceptable! What a sad thing you are. Unable to answer even such a simple - question without falling back on references, and genialities and what *other* - people call you. Have you *nothing* of your own? Nothing to stand on that is - not provided, defined, delineated, stamped, sanctioned, numbered, and - approved by others? How can you expected to fight for someone else when you - haven't the fairest idea who you are?" - -- Sebastian to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"We all have a destiny." -"Do we? How magnanimous of you." -"Sometimes we do not see it, because we have been taught to believe that - we are not important." - -- Delenn and Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"Why are you here, now, in this place, in this life?" -"I was meant to be here." -"Meant?" -"Yes." -"By whom?" -"I do not know." -"Then how can you be sure?" -"I don't know." -"No, you don't?" -"Does it matter? -"What do you mean?" -"If I believe I'm here now for a reason--" -"And if the world says otherwise?" -"Then the world is wrong!" -"And Delenn is right? Perhaps the world is right and *Delenn* is - wrong? Have you ever considered that? Have you?" -"Yes. Sometimes." -"Then there may yet be hope for you." - -- Sebastian and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"Do you know what your problem is, Delenn? You are a piece of the machine - that thinks it is the whole of the machine. The flute that believes itself - a symphony. You have malfunctioned. Admit it, and you'll feel better. Your - only destiny is to be a nail that is hammered down. Bang, bang, bang." - -- Sebastian to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"No. Be a nice Minbari, conform, be quiet, admit that you are inadequate." -"No!" -"Bang!" - -- Sebastian and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"You are linked at the hip. Just as bad as she is. But you are not just a - dreamer, you are a soldier. How far are you prepared to go? How much - are you prepared to risk? How many people are you prepared to sacrifice - for victory? Are you willing to die friendless, alone, deserted by - everyone? Because that's what may be required of you in the war that is - to come." - -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"What about the people you work with, the people you call friends? Are you - willing to sacrifice them? What about your *family*, what about your God, - what about truth, what about blood, what about right, what about wrong, - what about your future, what about faith, what about sin, what about hell, - what about death, what about life?" - -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"*Stop*! Your quarrel is with *me*. You were sent to investigate *me*. - Let him go. If you want to take someone, take me." -"Well, well. A mutual admiration and sacrificial society." - -- Delenn and Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"This body is only a shell. You can not touch me. You can not harm me. - I'm not afraid." - -- Delenn to Sebastian in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"At last, my job is finished. *Yours* is just beginning. When the - darkness comes, know this: you *are* the right people, in the right - place at the right time." - -- Sebastian to Delenn & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"The city was drowning in decay, .. chaos, immorality. A message needed to be - sent, etched in blood, for all the world to see: a warning. In the pursuit - of my .. holy cause, I .. did things, terrible things, unspeakable things. - The world condemned me, but it didn't matter, because I believed I was right - and the world was wrong. I believed I was the divine messenger. I believed - I was--" -"Chosen?" -".. I was .. *found* by the Vorlons. They showed me the terrible depth of my - mistake, .. my crimes, my .. *presumption*. I have done 400 years of penance - in their service. A job, for which they said I was ideally suited. Now, - perhaps, they will finally let me die." -"I think that *might* be wise." -"Good luck to you in *your* holy cause, Captain Sheridan. May *your* choices - have better results than mine. Remembered, *not* as a messenger, remembered - not as a reformer, not as a prophet, not as a hero, not even as Sebastian. - Remembered only .. as *Jack*." - -- Sebastian to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Comes the Inquisitor" -%% -"Sometimes, I get so close and .. it seems I am shut off the important - things." -"The useless feeling. The ambassador is definitely going through some - changes, he even looks different." -"Indeed. And now with the military starting a stampede over everyone and - everything .." -".. people coming and going, and secret meetings .." -".. you never know what it's all about, until later, when its too late." -"And they never listen to us." -"Makes me nervous." [together] -"Same time tomorrow?" -"Sure." - -- Lennier and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"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 in our time." - -- Frederick Lantz in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"I remember the first time I put on this uniform. I felt ten feet tall. - Like I could take on the *whole* galaxy before breakfast. Now I look at - it, and it's just cloth. I don't know what it means anymore, what it - stands for." -"You know, it's going to be newyear in little over a week. Maybe 2260 is - the year that we redefine it, make it mean something again." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"Everyone said it was impossible to take out a Minbari warcruiser, but you - did it. The way things are going, I figured out that it might be nice to - have a remainder that impossible is possible." - -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"This isn't a request, Captain. It's a direct order from the joint - chiefs *and* the president. And you have two choices. Apologize, or - disobey a direct order from your superiors. As this would be an act of - insubordination, you will be removed from your position and someone more - .. reasonable will be installed to replace you." - -- Mr. Welles to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"I apologize. I'm .. sorry. 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. .. As with everything else, it's the thought that counts." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"Automatic door. Keep clear." - -- Sign on a shuttle in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"The whole station is talking about what happened. Every race that was in the - garden saw something different, yet .. the same. Being of light." -"Yes, each according to his or her type." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"Millions of years the Vorlons have visited other worlds. Guided them and.." -"Manipulated us? Programmed us, so that when we saw them we would react - the right way?" -"It is, as you say, a matter of perspective. What matters is that he has - revealed himself to those who understand. You, me, and those who have been - watching. The Shadows will know what Kosh has done, they will worry, afraid, - that he will not reveal himself unless the Vorlons were prepared to stand - against them." -"Are they?" -"I do not think so. But as long as the Shadows believe that the rest of us - are unaware of their existence, we have time to prepare." -"Then I just hope no one finds about them until .." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"Nothing. I saw .. nothing." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"It was the end of the year 2259 and the war was upon us. As anticipated, a - few days after the Earth-Centauri treaty was announced, the Centauri widened - their war to include many of the Non-Aligned Worlds. And there was another - war brewing closer to home. A personal one, whose cost would be higher than - any of us could imagine." -"We came to this place, because Babylon 5 was out last, best hope for peace. - By the end of 2259, we knew that it had failed. But in so doing it became - something greater. As the war expanded, it became our last, best hope for - victory, because sometimes peace is another word for surrender, and because - secrets have a way of getting out." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"Strategic analysts in Earthdome have indicated they don't know - who this new race might be, but promise to find out." - -- ISN in Babylon 5:"The Fall of Night" -%% -"Ambassador. I've been looking for you. Last week, after you saved my life, - I didn't really get a chance to thank you properly. I've tried to reach you - since then, but .. you haven't answered my calls. Is everything all right?" -"Being seen by so many at once was a great strain. I returned to my ship to - rest. You have a question?" -"Nobody knows it was you. Everyone saw something .. different, something from - the legends of their own world. But it was still a terrible risk. After - taking such .. such care to hide what you really are, why take that chance?" -"It was necessary." -"Well, as answers go, short to the point, utterly useless and totally - consistent, what I've come to expect from a Vorlon." -"Good." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"You know, I just had a thought. You've been back and forth to your homeworld - so many times since you got here, how do I know you are the same Vorlon? - Inside that encounter-suit you could be anyone." -"I have *always* been here." -"Oh yeah, you said that about me too." -"Yes." -"I really hate it when you do that." -"Good." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"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." - -- Commander Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"You know, I'm getting little tired of these unannounced visits by VIPs who - will not tell us why they are coming or what they are going to do when - they get here." -"I'll leave it to you to try take all the fun out of life. I mean, come on, - where's your sense of mystery, adventure?" -"Are you trying to cheer me up?" -"No, sir. Wouldn't dream of it." -"Good. I hate being cheered up. It's depressing." -"Well, in that case, we all are going to die horrible, painful, bleeding - deaths." -"Thank you, I feel so much better now." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"We have danced our last little dance, Mr. Morden. - Now it is time for *you* to *go* *away*." - -- Londo to Morden in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"It's hard to gauge size in hyperspace, but it's big and it's powerful, and - it's totally unknown to us. It attacked and killed one of our pilots. It's - clearly from a highly-advanced civilization. We are down-playing this at - home, trying to convince the public we know what it is, where it's from - and that we are not worried. We don't have a clue." - -- David Endawi in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"These ships, once they target you, they never stop, never slow down, never - give up, until they have destroyed you. They are nearly invincible." -"I don't believe that. Every ship has a weakness." -"Believe what you will, then experience changes your mind. Take a good look, - John, and remember it well. That is the face of our enemy." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"Can you tell me if you have seen this before?" -"Yes. In a dream." -"In a dream?" -"I'm standing .. somewhere, on Centauri Prime, I think. And I am .. looking - up. And there are ships, just like this, passing .. overhead. First a few, - and then more, a thousand, two thousand, so many that they blot out the sun. - Terrible sight, terrible." -"That's all?" -"It is enough. .. No, that's all I know." - -- David Endawi and Londo in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"I haven't had chance to fill you in on everything until now. And I apologize - for that. But from what I've just heard we don't have a lot of time. This is - Marcus, he's a--" -"A Ranger. They've been trained to fight the Shadows and keep an eye on what - is happening outside Babylon 5. The Rangers in this area are in the direct - control of you, Ambassador Delenn, and Garibaldi is functioning as your - liaison. Did I leave anything out?" -"When did you..? How did you..?" -"Captain, the day something happens around here and I *don't* know about it, - worry." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"I thought the Rangers will be trained on Minbar." -"Many of them are, yes. But there is a wisdom in, as you say, - not putting all of your eggs in one basket." - -- Garibaldi and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"We've spent too much time reacting when we should have been acting. - Let's take the offensive for a change. Fire up the shuttle, Commander, - we've got work to do." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"What guarantee do we have that your forces do not decide to turn around - and attack us?" -"None. Ambassador, we both know what promises and treaties mean. All I can - say is that we have what we want. The rest is no concern to us." - -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"I'm not authorized for that kind of information." -"But you are the head of security." -"Then 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 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 have tried most of the other - ambassadors, why don't you speak to G'Kar, maybe he knows something about - this ship." -"Under the terms of our recent treaty, I am not authorized to have any - official conversation with the Narn without Centauri approval." -"So you'll ask unofficially. And I can give you reasonable assurances that - the head of security will not report you for doing so." -"Because you won't tell yourself about it?" -"That's right. I never get involved with my own life. It's too much trouble." -"This is a very strange place you have here, Mr. Garibaldi." -"Thank you." - -- Garibaldi and David Endawi in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"They came to our world over a thousand of your years ago, long before - we went to the stars ourselves. They set up a base in one of our southern - continents. They took little interest in us. G'Quan believed they were - engaged in a war far outside our own world." -"G'Quan?" -"One of our greatest spiritual leaders. The book of G'Quan is copied by hand - from the original with every note and line precisely drawn. This ship and - your ship are the same. I tried to warn the others that the ancient enemy - was returning, but no one listened. Perhaps now they will." -"But if this is correct, why would they just disappear for a thousand years?" -"To all things there is a time, Mr. Endawi. Perhaps this is theirs." - -- G'Kar and David Endawi in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"They missed!? They never miss!" - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"Not that I can see. The ship is a complete mystery to all of them." -"Good. My associates will be very happy to hear that. There's no need to - *rush* things. Your government can dismiss this as an isolated incident." -"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." - -- a Senator, Morden and a Psi Cop in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"Well, then, I have a question. Been granted, I am stuck at medlab most of - the time, and granted, I'm usually the last one to know anything around - here, and granted, we've all been pretty busy lately, but would someone - *please* tell me what the hell these Shadows are?" - -- Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"There are beings in the universe billions of years older than any of - our races. They walked among the stars like giants, vast, timeless. - They created great empires, taught the new races, explored beyond the rim. - The oldest of the ancients are the Shadows. We have no other name for them." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Matters of Honor" -%% -"God goes by many names, perhaps some alien sounding, different faces, and - history, but all describing the same Creator. We've come here to learn *all* - those names, in hopes of better understanding the One who's behind them." - -- Brother Theo to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"I heard a joke today. I probably shouldn't repeat it, but .. who are you - going to tell? How many Centauri does it take to .. ahem screw in a - lightbulb? .. Just one, *but* in the great old days of Republic hundreds - of servants would change a thousand lightbulbs at our slightest whim." - -- Londo to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"This is insane! We *must* work together!" -"No. As the humans say: Up yours, guy!" - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"*We're* *in* *here*! *Can* *anyone* *hear* *us*?" -"I hear you." [giggle, laugh] -"*In* *here*!" -"We are here." [giggle, laugh] - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"Not many fishes left in the sea. Not many fishes, just Londo and me. - *Not* many fishes left in the sea. Not many fishes, just Londo and me." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"Now look, we play this one by the book." [Lights go out.] -"Somebody just rewrote to book." - -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"As long as the trigger keeps transmitting, no *boom*." - -- Robert J. Carlson to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"These are *chaotic* *times*, Captain. I'm simply an instrument of my time. - People need to understand fear. Do you understand fear? Do you?" - -- Robert J. Carlson to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"It's nothing personal, Captain. It's just the times." - -- Robert J. Carlson to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"No. It didn't. It's not fair. It's not fair!" -"What can I say? Life's tough sometimes." - -- Robert J. Carlson and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"How do you feel?" -"As though great many heavy objects had fallen on me. - But I suspect I will live." - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"I did what I did because all life is sacred. But when the object of your - actions does not share that belief.. I fear I have served the present by - sacrificing the future." - -- Lennier about Londo in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"There, you see! I'm going to live." -"So it would seem. Well, it's an imperfect universe." -"Bastard." -"Monster." -"Fanatic." -"Murderer." -"You are *insane*!" -"And that is why we'll win." -"Go be the ambassador to Babylon 5 they say. Will be an *easy* assignment. - Ah, I *hate* my life." -"So do I." -"*Shut* *up*!" - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Convictions" -%% -"You have the gun. All I've got is .. what I've got." -"No way. I drop you and your guards will kill me." -"Maybe. Maybe not, hell, anything happens to me, everyone gets an *instant* - promotion. You've got the gun, go ahead, go for it. I'll wait for you." - -- Sheridan and Troublemaker in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"Energy-cap. I palmed it when I shoved the gun in his pocket." -"You are going to give *me* an ulcer." -"Okay, okay, next time I'll give him a live gun. You really do want that - promotion, don't you?" -"Next time you gonna ..?!" - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"Hey, did I ever tell you I looked through the Captain's personnel file?" -"You *what*?!" -"Shhh!" -"Michael, that information is strictly off limits." -"I did it when he first came aboard. I like to know who I'm dealing with. - And who knew he turn out to be okay, huh? Right now, according to his file, - Sheridan is a good tactical thinker. He can take an inferior defensive force - and turn it into an offensive force capable of taking on a better-equipped - enemy. Now, he did it with the Black Star, he did it during the Mars riots. - Now, you ask me, he is the one chance we've got to make it through this - thing alive." -"Maybe. .. Did you look through *my* files when I came onboard?" -"Commander, that information is strictly off limits." - -- Garibaldi and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"So is that what it's about, pride? It's not enough that we have beaten them, - we have to break them?" -"Yes, I'm sorry, I thought you understood that. I don't want our people to go - through this again in another hundred years. There's a way things are done, - Vir, nothing personal." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"Sort of like an inter-stellar gardener, plucking out all of the - weeds so that the flowers can grow." -"Basically, yes." -"Well, let's just hope that High-IQ boys back home give us all the - right answers to this test. Otherwise we're gonna get hit with - a 500000-megaton weedwhacker." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"I want to *protect* you." -"I don't want to be protected!" -"Well, I'm afraid it's not your decision. It's already done. You've been - promoted. You'll earn more money, receive more attention, women may even - come to find you attractive .. in time." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"Londo, if I leave, you'll be alone." -"Pah, I've always been alone." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"I don't want to get killed because of a typo, it would be embarrassing." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"Always finding good in every situation, Captain?" -"Absolutely. If I didn't, I might end up like you." -"*Hey*, what's that supposed to mean? Did anybody else hear that?" - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"I swear, if we'll live through this, someone is going to find their - automatic shower-preferences reprogrammed for ice-water." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"15 seconds. Captain, send or no send?" -"No send." -"Oh boy." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"Captain, are you all right?" -"Nuts." -"What's wrong? I mean, we've survived." -"Right, which means that I have to go to that stupid transport association - meeting. Oh, well." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"If I'll live through this job .. without completely losing my mind, - it will be a miracle of biblical proportions." -"Well, there goes my faith in the Almighty." - -- Ivanova and Lt. Corwin in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"If I stay here, your families are in jeopardy. - Is anything more important than their safety?" -"Yes, their freedom." - -- G'Kar and a Narn in Babylon 5:"A Day in the Strife" -%% -"Your Ambassador Delenn has a wonderful phrase: 'Faith *manages*.'" - -- Brother Theo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"Ambassador, you wanted to see me?" -"Yes. Formality. Ritual. You should be informed." -"Informed of what?" -"Returning." - -- Ivanova and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"The next thing I remember I was on the Vorlon Homeworld." -"Well, come on. Tell us about it." -"I can't. I wish I could, but I'm not allowed to talk about most of what I - saw. The rest, .. you wouldn't believe anyway." - -- Lyta Alexander & Franklin in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"It said: 'Death walks among you.' I know what I saw." - -- Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"I was just surprised to see you, that's all. Do you know, that I was - thinking about you *just* the other day. My *extremely* overpaid sources - told me that you have been seen arriving here in a *Vorlon* transport. Now, - they are profoundly unreliable pool of information on the best of days, so - I said: 'No, it can not be her. The Vorlons do not pick up hitch-hikers. Not - even one as attractive as you. Besides, if it were you, *surely* you would - come by and say hello to your old friend, Londo.'" - -- Londo to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"*Fine*! And keep your threats to yourself! Nightmares. - The way my life has been going lately, who'd notice?" - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"Among my people it is considered an honor to aid - any true seeker in his quest." - -- Delenn to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"It is a.. it is very hard to explain. We do not believe in any individual - god or gods. But rather, we believe that the soul is a -- what is a good - term -- a non-localized phenomenon." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"Well, if I project a beam of light at the wall, you see the light on - the wall, but the wall is not the source of the light. It comes in from - somewhere else. The soul is also a projection. It does not exist inside - us any more than the light exists inside the wall. But this .. shell is - the only way we can perceive it." - -- Lennier to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"We believe that the universe itself is conscious in a way we can never truly - understand. It is engaged in a search for meaning. So it .. breaks itself - apart, investing its own consciousness in every form of life." - -- Delenn to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"*We* are the universe, trying to understand itself." - -- Delenn to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"Valen was the greatest of us. A thousand years ago he came from nowhere, - formed the Grey Council, and brought peace to our people. They say he was - a Minbari, not born of Minbari." - -- Lennier to Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"Why would an uneasy conscience show up in a lab report?" - -- Brother Edward in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"Where does revenge end, and justice begin?" - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Passing Through Gethsemane" -%% -"Wars are won or lost before they are fought. The preparation, attitude, - strategy, and the selection of proper allies. In the growing war against - the Shadows, maybe there are some allies we have not approached yet. Many - times over the last million years the Shadows were fought to a stand-still - by the First Ones, races immeasurable older than our own. After the last - war, a thousand years ago, we believed the first ones went away forever, - passing beyond the galactic rim, where no human or minbari has ever - ventured. But the vorlons remained, it is possible that some of the others - may still be around." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"According to legend, some went to sleep in secret places, deep beneath their - ancient cities, where no one can bother them. The rest walk among the stars, - on errands we never hope to understand, barely aware of our existance." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"Delenn tells me that you are going to try contacting the First Ones. It is - a *magnificent* idea. A *daring*, and *splendid* idea. In doing so you will - see things no human has seen before. It will be *fun*. Assuming you are not - vaporised, dissected, or otherwise killed in an assortment of supremely - horrible and painful ways. *Exciting*, isn't it?" - -- Draal to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"I asked for Captain Sheridan." -"He's busy." -"I don't like surprises." -"Really? I love them myself. I mean, to me everything is a surprise. You're - a surprise, this place is a surprise. You see this? Paper-cut, hurts like - hell. Anybody else would be upset, but to me it's just one more wonderful - surprise. I mean, I even surprise myself sometimes. Now, I guess there's - nothing wrong me surprising you? Right?" -"Hahhahaha. I *like* you. You're trouble." -"Well, thank you. It's the nicest thing anybody has said about me in days." - -- Draal and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"Earth doesn't have homeless. We don't have the problem. Well, yes, there - are *some* displaced people, here and there, but they've chosen to be in - their position. They're either lazy or they're criminal or they're mentally - unstable." -"They can't get a job." -"Earth-gov has promised a job to everyone that wants one. So, if someone - doesn't have a job, they must not want one." - -- Julie Musante and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"Poverty?" -"It's the same." -"Crime?" -"Yes, there is some, but it's all caused by the mentally unstable. And we've - *just* instituted correctional centers to filter them out at an early age." -"Prejudice?" -"No, we are just one happy planet." - -- Julie Musante and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"I'm here to protect you." - -- Julie Musante to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"Well, here we are. If you just plug yourself in to the matrix, we'll take - it from there." -"Ahm, it's .. ahm .. occupied." -"Oh, yes, of course, my mistake. I spend so much time out of my body, - I sometimes forget where it is. If you'll excuse me." - -- Draal and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"All life forms are connected. Look for the path. Look for the path." - -- Draal to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"I can't leave without an explanation. She'll be all over me." -"Looks to me she's already all over you." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"Good luck, Captain. I think you are about to go where everyone has - gone before." - -- Ivanova to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"With our basic freedom in stake, no response can be too extreme. There - maybe some minor and *temporary* abridgments in the traditionally protected - areas, such as speech and association, but only until this crisis is over." - -- Julie Musante in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"I think you just hit a nerve. Vorlons must owe them money or something." -"This also tells they understand our language. They are just not willing - to speak to us using that." -"Who knew they were French?" - -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"The Minbari taught me: - 'Claim victory in your heart and the Universe will follow.'" -"Fine, great. Claim victory in your heart and up your--" - -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"I told you I could help. The book of G'Quan. Read it. We'll talk afterwards." -"I don't read Narn." -"Learn." - -- G'Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Voices of Authority" -%% -"I will not support murder. We can *not* kill him." -"Can we wound him? Just a little?" - -- Franklin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"Far be it from me to try and talk you out of your paranoia, Captain. - You choose not to trust me. Well, that's sad, and unfortunate. But - unlike the rest of you, I have no intention of letting it get into the - way of my work. Doctor. Trust, Captain. You should try it sometime." - -- Bester to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"I'm here to save your butts. Next time, show a little gratitude." - -- Bester in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"A darkness carried in the heart can not be cured by moving - the body from one place to another." - -- Lennier to Vir in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"My blood is the same color as yours. And what I do, I do to protect Earth, - same as you. You don't like how I do it, that's your prerogative. But there - are things going on out there that you know nothing about. Threats to the - human race that no one never hears about, because we stopped them. There - are dangers all around us. And whether you like us or not, we may be all - that stands between you and the abyss." - -- Bester to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"I thought the sleepers keep you from scanning anyone." -"That's right." -"So, how did you know he was lying?" -"Well, the odds were good that he was lying about *something*. Liars are - always afraid that somebody is going to see through them. So, I just - provided him with a vehicle for his paranoia. Your captain's opinions - non-withstanding, the badge and a uniform do have certain.. advantages." -"Like intimidation?" -"Absolutely. Just like.. *your* badge and .. *your* uniform." - -- Garibaldi and Bester in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"Londo, the Minbari are very lovely people, interested in culture, and art.." -"Decorative, and soft. Probably out to impose their views on everyone else." -"But their cities are thousands of years old." -"The lack of new construction is a sure sign of a faltering economy. - This could make them very aggressive." -"They are deeply spiritual people, Londo." -"*That* you can leave in. It always scares people." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"If I had my talent working, I could've warned you when he was coming." -"And if I had a baseball bat, we could hang you from the ceiling and play - pinjata. I still think I should've gone straight to G'Kar." -"We have no evidence that he made the sale yet. Why annoy the Narn without - cause if we are wrong? Shut off the problem at the source and the rest - attends to itself. A pinjata, huh? So, you think of me as something bright - and cheerful full of toys and candy for young children. Thank you! - That makes me feel.. much better about our relationship." - -- Bester and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"Who would believe it? The great and powerful Londo Mollari got - his job because no one else was stupid enough to take it." - -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"Who are you?" -"I am .. who I have always been." - -- G'Kar and 'his father' in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"We are a dying people, G'Kar. So are the Centauri. Obsessed with each - other's death until death is all we can see, and death is all we deserve." - -- Narn Image to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"What is there left for Narn if all of creation falls around us? There's - *nothing*. No hope, no dream, no future, no life. Unless we turn from the - cycle of death toward something greater. If we *are* a dying people, then - let us die with honor, by helping the others as no one else can." -"I don't understand." -"Because you have let them distract you. Blind you with hate. You cannot see - the battle for what it is. We are fighting to save one another, we must - realize we are not alone. We rise and fall together. And some of us must be - sacrificed if all are to be saved. Because, if we fail in this, then none of - us will be saved. And the Narn will be only a memory." - -- Narn Image and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"Why now? Why not earlier? All this time, where have you been?" -"I have always been here." - -- G'Kar and Narn Image in Babylon 5:"Dust to Dust" -%% -"Shadow vessels. They were sighted in sector 800 two days ago. Seems they're - gathering, creating a border on the edge of the Centauri space." - -- A ranger to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" -%% -"Listen, now that you have been promoted, I was thinking. We spend a lot of - time up here together, but we never really get a chance to talk. So I was - thinking maybe we could get together and talk about what you see yourself - doing down the road, just .. you know, get to know each other a bit better." -"Well. Ah. Sure. We could, .. I don't know, meet in the mess hall for - breakfast?" -"No, you can't have a private conversation up there. The dishes cluttering, - people talking.. So, why don't you come by my quarters later in the day and - we can have a cup of coffee. Real coffee. Just don't ask me where I got it." - -- Ivanova and Lt. Corwin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" -%% -"Hi! Something I can help you with?" -"I don't know, I was thinking .. flowers." -"Thinking flowers is good, giving flowers is better. What's the occasion?" -"I'm not sure, but I think I have a date." -"She asked you out?" -"She asked me *in*, her place." -"Works fast. Is she agressive?" -"You could say that." -"Hah. Lucky guy." -"It's not like that. Well, it's not like that *yet*. .. I think." - -- Flower salesman and David Corwin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" -%% -"There are three of them with guns against two of us with *nothing*. - They'll gun us down before we get half across the room." -"All we need is one of them to leave the room. Then there will be - only one man with the gun." -"Excuse me, where I come from, one man from three leaves two." -"Where I come from is a far more interesting place." - -- Franklin and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" -%% -"I sense in her a key, as yet unturned." -"And what exactly does that mean?" -"I don't know. But I should think it would be *fascinating* to find out." - -- Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" -%% -"You see that tube on the corner of the table there? That's a medical - scanner, the Copeland J5000, very advanced. I was bringing it to him. - You need to get it to him immediately. I know, I know, why should you - believe me, it could be a weapon or something. Check it out yourself. - Just look at the open end, yeah, then shake, shake it twice firmly to - activate the scanner." - -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" -%% -"It says we were created half a million years ago. Bred to be living records - of all those we have seen and touched. For all that time we have travelled - through the galaxy in our host bodies. We have seen double sunset on worlds - so far away you have no name for them. We remember music that was played - before your kind learned to speak. Within us is the living memory, deeds and - stories, civilizations and passions, wars and struggle, great beauty. But in - time even we die, unless we find shelter within other living beings. So, we - seek out those who have nothing to look forward to, those whose lives are at - an end, those who know they will be never more than they are now, those who - will never know beauty, or peace, or purpose and we give them that. Through - us they are born to a new life." - -- Vindrizi to Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Exogenesis" -%% -"I've taken the opportunity provided by my incarceration to meditate, - to think. Sometimes, I even sing." -"I know, we got a petition." -"For or against?" -"Based on the sound, they think we are torturing you in here." - -- G'Kar and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" -%% -"In here, Mr Garibaldi, you can not hide from yourself. Everything out there - has only one purpose. To distract us from ourselves, what is truly important. - There are no distractions in here. We can learn much from silence." - -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" -%% -"Seven years ago I was stationed on Mars. We were always getting false leads - on artifacts supposedly buried beneath the Martian soil for thousands of - years. Nothing ever came of it. And then one day our sonic probes picked up - something three hundred feet below the surface of Syria Planum. We didn't - know what it was. Except that it wasn't a natural formation. And given it's - depth, it had been there at least a thousand years. It was in the middle of - Martian winter, so it took weeks to dig half of it from the ground. But that - much was enough to give me nightmares for the rest of my life. It's the same - ship we have seen on the news lately. That one looks like it came straight - from hell." - -- Dr. Mary Kirkish in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" -%% -"But back home they are saying they have never seen ships like this before." -"They are lying. I was there." - -- Sheridan and Dr. Mary Kirkish in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" -%% -"How can you sleep in these things?" -"It's quite simple with proper meditation. Because we consider sleeping - in horizontal to be tempting death." -"Yeah, if I'm sleeping in this, I'm tempting fate .. all night." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" -%% -"And according to one of our units on the border of Centauri space, they've - continued massing their fleet. We don't know why. Maybe they expect a counter - attack, it's hard to say. And they have much to be concerned about. There's - always the threat of an attack by say, a giant space dragon, the kind that - leaves the sun every thirty days. It's a nuisance, but what would you expect - from reptiles. Did I mention that my nose was on fire? That I have fifteen - wild badgers living in my trousers? I'm sorry, would you prefer ferrets?" - -- Marcus to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" -%% -"The shadow vessels use living creatures as their central core. Whoever - steps inside merges with it, becomes one with the ship. After that it's - fully functional. They must be sending one in right now." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" -%% -"In Valen's name. It's awake." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Messages from Earth" -%% -"No. No, this report is totally inappropriate. You have to do it again." -"But Londo, why? I've spent weeks working on this report. I didn't even - sleep on the flight back from Minbar so I could go over it again. I've - checked *every* *single* *detail* myself. It's absolutely accurate." -"Yes, Vir, I'm sure it is. And that is the problem. Here, you say: - 'The Minbari have carefully preserved their cities over the course - of centuries'." -"That's right, absolutely." -"No, what you should say instead is: 'Their cities are very old indicating - a decaying culture.'" -"*What*?" -"And here: 'The Minbari put great emphasis on art, literature and music.' - Say instead: 'They are decadent people, interested only in the pursuit of - .. of dubious pleasures.' Dubious-part is very important. It doesn't *mean* - anything, but it *scares* people every time. All right?" - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"I thought the purpose of filing these reports was to provide accurate - intelligence." -"Vir, intelligence has nothing to do with politics." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"Here, 'They are tolerant of differences among other cultures.'" -"Yes." -"No, make that: 'They have no well-defined sense of morality.' - They'll *love* that back home." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"'Everything's gone to hell, John. God help us all. You're on your own.'" - -- Gen. Hague's message to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"Emergency evac pod access way." - -- Sign outside C&C in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"Captain, how did this happen? What did we do wrong?" -"I don't know, Lieutenant. I don't know." - -- Lt. Corwin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"I might have something for you in a little while, Mr. Garibaldi. - When the time is right." - -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"I need to know if the grand destiny I see before me is what is, or what - might be." -"So you want her to tell you it's all going to happen the way you see it?" -"No, I want her to tell me it won't." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"I believe that I have been touched. That I am meant for something greater. - A greater darkness or a greater good, I can no longer say. All I have ever - wanted is to serve our people. I need to see what is before me. If I should - escape it, or embrace it. If there is any longer a choice." -"There is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves - with the decision we have already made. If you understand that, there's - hope. If not .." - -- Londo and Lady Morella in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"You must understand, Ta'Lon, I have had a revelation." -"What kind of revelation?" -"Most profound and substantial one, Ta'Lon. The kind of revelation that - transforms your mind, .. your soul, .. your heart, .. even your flesh. - So that you are a new creature. We born in the instant of understanding." - -- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"What do you understand now that you did not understand before?" -"It's all here, in these pages. I have tried to write down what I have seen. - It may take the rest of my life to explain what I *saw* in that one singular - instant. To save our people, we must sacrifice our people, sacrifice - ourselves, pride our vengeance, be willing to die by the thousands, by the - millions. For one another. The more we fight for ourselves, the more we will - lose ourselves. We are linked, Ta'Lon. Our fate is like an image caught in - a mirror. If we deny the other, we deny *ourselves*. And we will cease to - exist." -"And who or what is this 'other'?" -"The universe itself, Ta'Lon. But the Humans, they are the key. And together, - you and I, and the rest, we will turn that key. Because on the other side, - there's salvation for all of us." - -- Ta'Lon and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"G'Kar, what are you doing here?" -"[whispering] Saving all of us. I've had .. an idea." - -- Ivanova and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"Always plant a lie inside a truth, makes it easier to swallow." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"You have a chance few others will ever have, Mollari. You still have three - opportunities to avoid the fire that waits for you at the end of your - journey. You've already wasted two others. You must save the eye that does - not see. You must not kill the one who is already dead. And at the last, - you must surrender yourself to your greatest fear, knowing that it will - destroy you. Now, if you fail all the others, that is your final chance for - redemption." -"I .. don't understand." -"The future reveals itself only reluctantly, Ambassador. Take the sign for - what it is. Look for it when it appears." -"I will, thank you." - -- Lady Morella and Londo in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"One more thing. You *will* be Emperor. That part of your destiny can not - be avoided." -"I see." -"[to Vir] You will also be Emperor." - -- Lady Morella and Londo in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"Lady Morella, please. We can not *both* be Emperor." -"Correct. One of you will become Emperor .. after the other is dead. - That is all we see and all we wish to see." - -- Londo and Lady Morella in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"I have time. All the time in the world. Do you?" - -- G'Kar to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Point of No Return" -%% -"He has a wife back home, three small children, an abessinian cat named Max. - That's what makes this war different from anything we have ever gone - through before. This time we *know* everyone we kill." - -- Major Ed Ryan in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" -%% -"Delenn, please be careful. The Grey Council is not what it was. They may not - receive you well, if they will see you at all." -"They *will* see me whether they like it or not. It's time someone made them - face reality." - -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" -%% -"Three years. For three years I warned you this day was coming. But you - would not listen. *Pride*, you said, *presumption*. And now the Shadows are - on the move. The Centauri and the younger worlds are at war, the Narns have - fallen. Even the Humans are fighting one another. The *pride* was yours, - the presumption was yours. For a thousand years we have been awaiting for - fulfilment of prophecy, and when it finally happens, you scorn it, you - reject it. Because you no longer believe it yourselves. 'We stand between - the candle and the star, between the darkness and the light.' You say the - words, but your hearts are empty, your ears closed to the truth. You stand - for nothing but your own petty interests. 'Problems of others are not our - concern.' I do not blame you for standing silent in your shame. You, who - knew what was coming, but refused to take up the burden of this war. If the - warrior caste will not fight, then the rest of us will. If the Council has - lost its way, if it will not lead, if we have abandoned our covenant with - Valen, the Council should be broken, as was prophecied. We must stand with - the others *now*, before it's too late. Between the worker caste and the - religious caste we control two thirds of our forces. Do you, I say, listen - to the voice of your conscience? Break the Council, and come with we. Our - time of isolation is over. We move *now*, together, or not at all." - -- Delenn to Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" -%% -"What was the first lesson I ever taught you?" -"Never start a fight, but always finish it." - -- David Sheridan to John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" -%% -"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. - Withdraw, .. or be destroyed." [in the White Star!] -"Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship." -"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with Minbari - fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, - be somewhere else." - -- Delenn and Captain Drake in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" -%% -"Traitors can't hide." - -- Nightwatch banner in Babylon 5:"Severed Dreams" -%% -"So once we open up all the comm channels, they can send a message out to - override the system, erase our passwords and lock us out. Cute. They can - shut down the defense grid, life support.." -"No problem. I have got the access codes locked away. Shouldn't be too much - trouble to go and change the passwords." - -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"We have to reassure everyone that we are in control of the situation. - We can't do that hiding in our offices." -"I still think you should have an armed escort." -"Kind of defeats the purpose, Mr. Garibaldi. I can take care of myself." - -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Opinion doesn't enter into it. What is, is. Prophecy said one day we would - unite with the other half of our soul in a war with the ancient enemy. - This we have done." -"Prophecies are poor guide to the future. You only understand it when the - events are already upon you. And .. not all of the prophecies are good - ones. There's darkness and fire still ahead of us. There are no guarantees - that any of us will survive it." - -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"I told you to wait!" -"I had a clear shot." -"You had *nothing*! You take him down, he's a martyr. 500 men will stand - up where he fell. Now, we do this by the numbers, or not at all. Don't - worry, before this is over, we'll have our pound of flesh." - -- Boggs and Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"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." -"We can handle it. Our resources are greater than you think." - -- Londo and Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"I have gotten into the habit of recording important meetings. One never - know when an inconvenient truth would fall between the cracks and vanish." - -- Londo to Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Mr. Morden and his associates worry me. After the Narns were defeated, I - took steps to put some distance between us. Refa, I have the feeling that - he and his associates are carving a great, dark hole in the middle of the - universe. And when they go down, anyone nearby will go with them." -"That will not happen. You don't appreciate their strength." -"I appreciate their strength all right. And that is why this unfocused - aggression worries me. By drawing our forces into dozen smaller wars you - have effectively weakened our main line of defense, should they turn an - eye to Centauri Prime." -"They will not do that." -"No, they will not, because you are going to take steps to prevent it. - And you start by breaking off your relationship with Mr. Morden." - -- Londo to Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Oh, Londo, you are a *fool*. You walk away from the greatest power I have - even seen, and now you expect *me* to do the same. They are the *key* to my - eventual rise to the throne. Why would I abandon them?" -"Because I have asked you. And because your loyalty to our people should be - greater than your ambition. And because I have poisoned your drink." - -- Lord Refa and Londo in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Yes, and it is *very* interesting poison. It comes in two parts. Both are - harmless on their own, but when combined, quite lethal. The first settles - into the blood stream and the intestinal wounds. It stays there for years, - silent, dormant, waiting. When the other half of the poison enters the - body, the two meet, have a little party in your cardiovascular system. - And suddenly, you .. are .. quite .. dead." - -- Londo to Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Your drink contained the first half of the poison." -"Why? Why did you do this?" -"To guarantee your co-operation. And because, sooner or later you would - do it to me. Yes, we are returning to the old ways, Refa. And poison was - always the instrument of choice in the old Republic. Being something of - an sentimentalist, I got here *first*." -"What do you want me to do?" -"You have encouraged that fool Cartagia to attack worlds that have no value - to us. You will now encourage him otherwise. You will bolster our lines of - defense around Centauri Prime. And you have nothing more to do with Mr. - Morden. If you do not comply, one of my agents in the royal palace will - introduce you to the second half of the poison. To your health, Lord Refa." - -- Londo and Lord Refa in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"We have gone through so much pain, John. If we do not put it behind us, - if we are not sworn into new possibilities, it will surely destroy us." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Toebone's connected to the footbone, - footbone's connected to the anklebone, - the anklebone's connected to the legbone, - legbone's connected to the hipbone, - now hear the word of the Lord." - -- Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"You've been nervous about this ever since I mentioned it. What are you - afraid of?" -"Nothing. Well, spiders." -"Marcus, the rebirth ceremony was part of your training on Minbar." -"I missed it, overslept." -"It lasts all day." -"Oh, that's right, I was ill. Wanted to go, .. couldn't. Same as now. - Loved to, can't really, next time. Ah, someone I have been waiting for." - -- Delenn and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Could you tell me a little more about what is involved in this rebirth - ceremony?" -"Reflection, meditation upon what has gone before, what is now, and what - is to come." - -- Londo and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Ah, for a moment I was thinking women, drinking and debauchery. I forgot I - was speaking to a Minbari. This, by you, is a good time, is it? What else?" -"You must tell someone a secret that you have never told anyone else before. - And you must give away something that is of great value to you." -"Ah, how positively festive!" - -- Londo and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"It is time for us to come together, to restore that which has been torn - apart, and to heal the wounds we have suffered." -"With everything that has been going on, I'm surprised you invited me." -"In the matter of confessions, meditation and the closing of past wounds, - Ambassador, you were at the top of my list." -"I'm already attending to my past, my present and what remains of my future. - I do not require your assistance. Or your *approval*. Enjoy your ceremony, - Delenn. I intend to have other plans." - -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"I'll try and stop by for the closing ceremonies." -"What matters is everything leading up to that point. - Leaving behind the old, preparing to be reborn." -"I have already been born once, and quite sufficiently, I think." - -- G'Kar and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Well, it was a good idea while it lasted." -"It *still* *is* a good idea. We will hold the ceremony. If some choose - not to attend, the loss is theirs." - -- Marcus and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Everything I was, everything I had, all of it died that night. - I don't have anything left to give." -"And that is exactly what you must give up. Yes, you have lost much, endured - much, sacrificed greatly, but you cling to the memory of your sacrifices, - of all the things you have lost or left behind. They *drag* behind you, - like chains of your own making. They can have a terrible power over you, - Marcus. The power of grief, and loss, and regret. Yes, you have let go of - the people, the places, the things, but you have not let go of the pain. - You have not forgiven yourself." -"For what?" -"Being alive." - -- Marcus and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Hello. I'll deal myself in." -"I thought we had an understanding. We don't bother you, you don't bother us." -"That was before a close friend of mine was abducted by some very bad people. - Being rather bad people yourselves, it occurs to me one of you might know - where she is." -"We don't talk to security, why should we talk to you?" -"Because if you don't, then in five minutes I'll be the only person of this - table still standing. Five minutes after that, I'll be the only person in - this room still standing. So, who's in?" - -- Marcus and a 'bad boy' in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Among Minbari, one individual leads, but we move as one. We are at our best - when we move together, and we are at our worst when we move together. When - our leader was killed by your people, we went mad together. We stayed mad - for a very long time, a maddness that almost consumed your world, until - finally, before it was too late, we woke up together. But you, you are - alone, you have no one to awaken you from your madness. For this, and - nothing else, I feel pity for you." - -- Delenn to Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Oh bugger, now I have to wait for someone to wake up." - -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"I see they trained you well back home." -"Yeah, they always said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger." -"And?" -"I'm not repressed anymore." - -- Lennier and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"I know that Delenn is fated for another, and I have accepted that, - in my heart. But I have vowed to stay at her side through all things - for as long as I live." - -- Lennier to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"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." - -- Marcus to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Always bet on stupidity." - -- Sniper in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"No more! No more of you! No more Nightwatch, no more hostages, no more - lies. Not on my station, not on my watch. *No* *more*! No more." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"Hello Delenn. Now, I was thinking, you couldn't come to the ceremony, the - ceremony should come to you. I've given up something that really mattered - to me, the uniform and everything that goes with it. I've never told anyone - before now.. When you were hurt, when you were in my arms, I was ready to - kill that guy with my bare hands. I realized I have never told you how much - I cared about you, how much you mean to me. I think it's time you knew that. - I can no longer imagine my world .. without you in it. I don't .. know - exactly when or how it happened, .. but I'm glad it did." - -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"No one knows, but .. I'm afraid all the time .. what I might do - if I ever let go." - -- Garibaldi to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"I think I loved Talia." - -- Ivanova to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"I .. think I have a problem." - -- Franklin to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"What's the matter? Haven't you ever seen someone who's been reborn before? - The crisis, for now, is over. Tell the ships .. we are open for business." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ceremonies of Light and Dark" -%% -"What do you mean, 100 credits?" -"I mean, more than 99, less than 101. What, do you have a hearing problem, - or a math problem? Look, I can't get into conceptual arguments with you, - I've got people waiting." -"That's three times the delivery charge for package this size." -"That was before we had a revolution around here. Now, in my little corner - of Earth Force the mail still gets delivered. If I've got to use trapdoors, - alien transports and back channels to get the mail in and out of here, - that's what I do, because that's my job. Neither rain, nor snow, nor - meteors, nor alien invasion nor.." -"Look, this is extortion." -"It's business. You see, when my costs go up, I have to pass it down along - to the consumer. That's *you*, in case that's another one of those concepts - you've got a problem with." - -- Garibaldi and the mailman in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" -%% -"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." - -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" -%% -"Two figures on either side, one Human, the other Minbari. They blend - together in the middle to signify the two halves of our souls uniting - against the common enemy." - -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" -%% -"By G'Quan, I can't recall the last time I was in a fight like that. No moral - ambiguity, no .. hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces. - *They* were the bad guys, as you say, we were the good guys. And they made - a very satisfying *thump* when they hit the floor." -"It's wrong for the strong to prey on the weak. That idea was the very heart - of the Round Table. To correct injustice, to promote a society of laws, not - arms." -"*Well* *said*!" -"*That* is the purpose which God and the Crown have set before me. I can not - achieve that locked away in some room." -"*No*, of course not! What room?" -"I sense in you a warrior born." - -- G'Kar and Arthur in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" -%% -"But this is the *post* *office*. This could get us in *real* trouble." - -- A Sec.Guard to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" -%% -"I will vouch for his character! I saw the *entire* thing .. because I was - there. I was in it. I was .. And they made a very agreeable thump. Or did - I mention that?" - -- G'Kar to Marcus in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" -%% -"I'll miss him." -"Even if he wasn't Arthur?" -"Now, now. Next thing you'll be saying he's [Kosh] not Merlin. - Merlin was a great teacher, you know." -"I'm not hearing this." -"They say he aged backwards. That was how he was able to foretell the - future by remembering it. Which means he came *from* the future. Maybe - he had Arthur form the round table by remembering us." - -- Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A Late Delivery from Avalon" -%% -"The Emperor has just finished reviewing your reports from Minbar. He asked - me to convey his *compliments* on your hard work, even if some parts of it - do read as if they were written by Ambassador Mollari." -"He advised me on a few things." -"I thought as much. Londo belongs to the old school. He thinks we must be - protected from the truth. But these are perilous times. We must have accurate - information about what other worlds are doing. You would do well to follow - your *own* judgement in the future." - -- Centauri Minister and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"Oh, I heard a new joke. Hehahaahhh. What is more dangerous than a - locked room full of angry Narns?" -"Heh, I don't know. What is more dangerous than a locked room full of - angry Narns?" -"One angry Narn with a key." - -- Centauri Minister and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"Same thing night after night, one bad dream after another. You know, I - get the one where your teeth are breaking off or falling out and you wake - up going aaah!" -"Oh yeah, I know that one." -"Or you are lost in a maze somewhere, or you're someplace I have never been - before. This morning I dreamt that I walked into C&C totally .. unprepared - for my work." -"Oh. Interested in little time-honored psychoanalysis?" -"No, I'll just bury my soul in the breakfast and ask you to give me some - silver-ware." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"I have already dealt with all that." -"Consciously, but from what you are saying, subconsciously you are still - trying to work it all through. You don't know where you fit anymore, how - to define yourself, you are feeling vulnerable, lost, and exposed. It's - all perfectly obvious and completely understandable." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"It'll pass. Your subconscious just needs to work it all through. Hey, it - could be worse, you could be having dreams where you are showing up to work - naked. You would be in real trouble." - -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"Yes, you can help me. Two hours ago. *Two* hours ago I called you. I told - you that there is .. a bug, an insect in my quarters." -"Well, we've been a little busy." -"Now, listen to me. I do not like insects. I do not like little *brown* - *things* with eight legs. I do not like *anything* with eight legs. Well, - except for the Vinzini, but only because they are terrible at cards. - Something to do with compound eyes, I think. I want this thing *dead*! - -- Londo and B5 Maintenance in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"I would like to see you tonight." -"Are you not seeing me now? I would think that you see me every time we meet, - unless I have become translucent or .. insubstantial and nobody has stopped - to inform me until now." -"Let me say I would like to see you in a *different* light, candlelight for - instance. Over dinner." -"Tonight?" - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"Humans can be a very depressing people." -"Only if we get turned down for dinner." -"Well, we can't have that, now can we?" - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"And how are things at the royal court?" -"You know, collusion, politicking, scheming, innuendo, gossip. - The same old thing." -"Good. Good. And your reports? I assume they went over well." -"Yes, sir. Very well." -"Did you tell them I helped with our reports?" -"No, there was no need to, they noticed it right off." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"When I marry, I want it to be for love." -"Ah, a radical?" - -- Vir and Lyndisty in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"Wow. It's quite a view, isn't it?" -"I know, I can never get enough of it." -"Standing here in front of the stars like this, looking out, down, up, - all at once, kind of makes you feel naked in front of the universe." - -- Zack and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"Mr. Cotto, you're late." -"I'm sorry. I was otherwise engaged. Engaged and married, as it is. - Not that I knew about it or anything.." -"You are not making sense." -"I imagine I'm not, but that's the kind of day I'm having." - -- Ivanova and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"Is she all right?" -"Yes, Lyndisty, my wife. Well, soon to be. You know, it's .. it's done, but - it's not *really* done .. but it's .. phew .. a long, long story. But, you - know, at first, you know, I didn't think, but now .. oh, she's .. well. Oh, - can I ask you a question as long as you are here?" - -- Ivanova and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"There were other women, but I never got past one." -"You mean first base." -"No, no, I mean one. You see, we have six a .. we have *six*, you see, and - each one is a different level of intimacy and pleasure. So, you know, first - you have one, and that's naa-naa. Then there's two .. and by you get to - five it's a heehaa-heehaa." - -- Vir and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"All I can say is that enthusiasm, sincerity, genuine compassion, and - humor can carry you through any .. lack of .. prior experience with .. - high numerical value." -"Wow, I'm gonna remember that. Thank you, *thank* you." - -- Ivanova and Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"*Six*! Huh!" - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"Back home nobody cares about dead Narns, only living ones." - -- Vir in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"And to tell you the truth.. I hate to say this, but .. - I think I really enjoy being a sneak." -"Then I hereby appoint you the official Babylon 5 sneak in residence." -"Oh, thank you." -"Now get the hell out of my chair." -"Yes, sir." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Sic Transit Vir" -%% -"ISN, the galaxy's most important network." - -- ISN announcer in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"I can only wait so long." -"I thought your patience was infinite." -"Since space and time are curved, the infinite sooner or later bends - back upon itself and ends up where it begun. And so have I." - -- G'Kar and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"You know, if this keeps up, I'm gonna start thinking that people around - here .. just don't like me." - -- Bester to a welcome party in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"I was expecting the captain." -"He sent me." -"Did he? He has a better sense of humor than I thought." - -- Bester and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"You know, it's come to my attention lately that we have a common enemy. - There's an old saying: 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend.' President - Clark isn't calling the shots back home, there're others whispering in - his ear. I don't know who they are or where they are from, but do I know - they are not human. I have only heard one name for them: Shadows. My guess - is you know more about them than I do, but you are probably not interested - in sharing that information. Are you?" - -- Bester to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"You know the real reason you don't like me, Commander? It's the jealousy - of evolution. Normals like you are obsolete. The future belongs to telepaths - .. and I intend to make sure that future happens. One way or another." - -- Bester to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"But we can't be on top if the aliens get there first and some of them have. - Through Clark they infiltrated the Psi Corps. And apparently they have their - own plans for my telepaths. Whoever these aliens are, they are interfering - with *my* plans for the future. I won't have it! And so, I need someone who - feels the same way I do. .. Which brings me to you. You'd like to hurt them, - Commander? Because I think I know how. If you are up for it. - -- Bester to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"So, how did you find about all of this?" -"I'm .. a telepath. .. Work it out." - -- Sheridan and Bester in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"We knew that the Shadows, the ancient enemies, as you call them, had - returned. We knew they were rebuilding their forces preparing to strike. We - knew that they were seeking allies and that the Centauri were the first to - enlist. When you came back from the area near Z'ha'dum, and warned us about - the enemies' return, we could've spoken out. We could've confirmed your - story. We chose to remain silent." -"Who is 'we'?" -"The Grey Council. I was still a part of them at that time. Once the decision - was made, I could not disobey." -"So you stayed silent. And with the help of these .. Shadows, the Centauri - destroyed my world. Enslaved or killed millions of my people." -"G'Kar, if we *had* spoken out, if we *had* come public with what we knew, - most of the other worlds would never have believed us. It would have changed - *nothing*. Your world would still have fallen. With one critical difference. - There are billions of Narns still surviving on your world. If we had exposed - the Shadows, they could have struck openly before we had time to prepare, - and *none* of your people would have survived. G'Kar, under the Centauri - there is at least the hope of survival. With the Shadows, there is no hope - at all. We had to choose between the death of millions and the death of - *billions*, whole planets." - -- Delenn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"'Some must be sacrificed for all to be saved.' First I took that as a - revelation for the future. Now I see that it is as much about how we got - here as about where we are going. I think that one sentence is the greatest - burden I have ever known." - -- G'Kar to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"You are right, nothing would've been changed. Except that my people would now - be a dead race." -"You have come a long way, G'Kar. Further than I would've guessed. Sheridan's - promise binds me as well it does him. We will take you into the Council, - G'Kar. And someday, when all this is over, perhaps you will find it in your - heart to forgive me." -"Perhaps, but not today." - -- G'Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"Can we intercept?" -"The White Star is powered by a magnetic and gravitational system like all - Minbari cruisers. You can use a magnetic discharge to capture the escaped - vessel." -"A simple 'yes' would've sufficed, Mr. Lennier. Grab it." - -- Sheridan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"The machine says: 'kill, to protect.' The sign hurts us. We can not hear - the machine." -"What machine?" -"*Live*. In my mind. I am the machine. We join, we flight. It is dark. - Terrible. Help me, please, make it stop talking in my mind." - -- Carolyn and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"What did you see inside her mind before she passed out?" -"Those things. Those *Shadow* vessels. How much do you know about them?" -"Delenn said they are some kind of organic technology and they use living - beings as .. as their central operating system." - -- Sheridan, Bester and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"Your war .. is now my war." - -- Bester to Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"'The enemy of my enemy is my friend.'" -"You sound dubious?" -"He's still a Psi-Cop. I don't trust him, never will. He has invested - interest in helping us for now, but once this is all over, he'll turn - on us. You do know that?" - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"Hello, hello, hello, and .. hello." -"Michael, you look like the proverbial cat that ate the equally proverbial - canary." - -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"I've got it. I've got it. I've got it. It's right here. It's right here." -"Do not thump the book of G'Quan. It is disrespectful." - -- Garibaldi and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"We have a weapon. My God, people, we have a weapon." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"The Shadows have just started attacking Brakiri space, openly, - they are not hiding anymore. They are finally on the move." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Ship of Tears" -%% -"August third, 2260. Personal diary. 10 days ago, for the first time, - the Shadows began attacking openly." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"Nobody has seen Kosh in almost a week. When the Vorlon goes to ground, - I worry. What's going through his .. its .. mind? I can't even guess." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"It's not about value. It's .. I don't know what it is. I don't know what - the Shadows want exactly, but they are not on anybody's side but their own." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"I thought we had a deal. We carved up the galaxy, you and I." -"Yes, we did. And what you do in your half is your business. - What I do in mine is mine." -"We need your government to continue its campaign." -"Yes. And why is that, huh? I don't think you have any interest in restoring - the glory of the Centauri Republic. No. I think you are *using* us as .. - shall we say, agents of chaos. Convenient distraction making it easier for - your associates to do whatever they wish to do. Yes?" - -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"Yes, I *have* ideas, some possibilities, but at this moment the stone cold - fact is that none of us can stand up to those ships. If we could just score - *one* victory against the Shadows, it'd be enough to make some of the others - come around." -"Perhaps we should give them a victory." -"Oh, just like that?" -"Just like that." -"And how do you suggest we do that?" -"I'm sure you'll think of something." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"You can never go wrong with garters. .. Hmm, *you* might." - -- Vendor to Vir in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"Anything I can do to help?" -"Hmm. Short of dying, no, can't think of a thing." - -- Morden and Vir in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"Nobody wants to fight a war unless they know there is at least a chance - of winning. You can give them that hope. As one of the older races your - technology has to be at last as good as the Shadows'. If you can convince - your government to send out an expedition to engage one or two of their - ships.." -"*No*." -"I know you can't take the entire Shadow fleet by yourselves. But if you - could beat them in just one fight, it could be the break we need to get - everyone organized. Then we would have a real chance. You could do it, - couldn't you? -"Perhaps. But there are still few of us. It is not our time. It is yours. - We are not prepared yet." -"Don't turn your back on me. Don't you ever try to walk away from me! Just - who the hell do you think you are? Wait, I know what you think you are, - what you want us to believe. But I don't buy it. For three years now you've - been pulling everyones strings, getting us to do all the work, and you - haven't done a damn thing but stand there and look cryptic. It's about time - you started pulling your own weight around here." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"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.'" -"Impudent." -"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." -"Incorrect. Leave now." -"No." -"Disobedient." -"Up yours!" - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"So, the real Kosh shows his colors at last, huh? You angry now? Angry - enough to kill me, because that's the only way I'm leaving, unless your - people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something. I've got - nothing to lose. My own government wants to kill me, and if we lose this - war I'm just as dead. Our only chance is to get the other races on board - for this fight and right now you are the key to doing that." -"It is not yet time." -"And who decides that time? You? You put me in this position, you asked me - to fight this damn war. Well, it's about time you let me fight it my way." - -- Sheridan and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"I will do as you ask. .. But there is a price to pay. I will not be there - to help you when you go to Z'ha'dum." -"You already said if I go to Z'ha'dum, I'll die." -"Yes. Now." -"Right. If that's the tradeoff, if you want to withhold your help when the - time comes, that's fine. I'll go there alone." -"You do not understand. But you will." - -- Kosh and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"My grandfather had a saying: - 'Good news can wait. Bad news will refuse to leave.'" - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"I don't have much time, son. I want you to know you were right. I didn't - want to admit that. Just .. pride, I guess. Yet, my age, you get kind of - set in your ways. That *had* to be done, don't blame yourself .. for what - happened later." -"Dad? Are you .. all right?" -"It's too late for me. I'm sorry for what I did before. I knew what was - ahead. I guess .. I guess I was afraid. When you have lived as long as I - have, you kind of get used to it. I wish I could've done more for you. There - is so much I should've said, and .. now it's too late. You're right, it's - time you begin fighting this war your way. .. Aah, I gotta go now, John." - -- his 'father' to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"No, no. Don't leave." -"It's all right, son. See, as long as you're here, I'll always be here." - -- Sheridan to his 'father' in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"Everybody around me dies, Mr. Morden, except the ones that most deserve it. - That is about to *change*. You said that you would go away for as long as - *I* wanted. I no longer want that. All I want now is revenge. They took from - me .. the one thing that I have .. have ever *truly* loved. And you will - help me, Mr. Morden, to strike them down. Give me this, and the safety of - my people, and let the rest of the galaxy *burn*. I don't care anymore. - Will you help me, Mr. Morden?" -"Of course, Ambassador. As ever I'm always in your service." - -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"I've got a lot to figure out, it's time I got started." - -- Franklin to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Interludes and Examinations" -%% -"Tell the others to continue their work in my absence, - nothing must interfere with that." - -- Sinclair to Rathenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Well, with your help we created something bigger than we are. It has a - life of its own. Come what may, the rangers will finish the work ahead." - -- Sinclair to Rathenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"I have the strangest feeling I will never see him again." -"He is the closed circle. He is returning to the beginning." -"The beginning of what?" - -- Rathenn and a Vorlon in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"They're coming through! Repeat, they're coming through! This is Earth - Alliance station Babylon 5. They're all over the place. .. They're - killing us. Can anyone hear me? They're killing us." - -- Future Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Well, it's a fake. I have never sent out a distress-call like that." -"Or, you just haven't sent it yet." - -- Ivanova and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Will you be staying long?" -"*That* is a far more interesting question than you might suspect." - -- Zack and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"He's here, isn't he?" -"Yes." -"Then it's time. We are Grey, we stand between the candle and the star. - .. He's my friend, Lennier." -"I know. But it *must* be done, or the dream will die, and countless - others will die with it." -"I wish I had more time, but now, *time* is all we have." - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"We haven't had a Shadow attack in nearly eight days. My guess is they - are reconsidering their strategy after the Vorlons got involved." -"They're worried. That means they'll hit us twice as hard when they come - back." -"Assuming a worst-case scenario." -"The way things have been going lately, I've decided to take Ivanova-lessons." - -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Just as Zathras said. Not good. Definitely not good." -"We must tell Draal." -"No! It's taking all of Draal's concentration to control Great Machine. - If we distract, very bad. He'd drop the time field. *Everyone* dies. - Draal told Zathras what to do. So Zathras will do. Or much, much dying." - -- Zathras and Caretaker #2 in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"There are no coincidencies, Captain." - -- Sinclair to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Captain. If I were you, I would quit while I was ahead. Back on Minbar, - there was a saying among the other rangers. Only way to get a straight - answer from Ranger One was to look every reply in a mirror while hanging - upside-down from the ceiling." -"Did it work?" -"Oddly enough, yes. Or, after a while you passed out and had a vision. - Either one, the result was pretty much the same." - -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Can anyone help us? This is commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5. To any - ships in grid epsilon. We are under attack. I repeat, we are under attack. - The captain is dead, defense grid is down, they are boarding us, they are - coming in all over the place. We've tried to evacuate as many as we can, - and Garibaldi has rigged the fusion reactor, but.. my god, here they come. - Switch to external cameras. They've got weapons lock. Here comes. Here - comes. Aahg." - -- Future Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"So, you are saying the Minbari .. that *you* stole Babylon 4?" -"Not quite." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Delenn, are you saying we stole Babylon 4?" - -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Delenn, the question of who stole Babylon 4 is the biggest mystery of the - last decade. Now you are telling me that it was .. *me*? Is me, is going - to be me? You can't be serious." -"John, with Babylon 4 we will be able to save my people and yours. It is - history, it's already been done. All we have to do now is make sure that - we do it then." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"I believe it." -"If Entil'Zha believes it, I believe it." -"I'll be in the car." - -- Sinclair, Marcus & Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Sorry, sorry, sorry, much apologizings. Zathras has great responsibilities, - was thinking great thoughts, did not see you. Was looking for the One. Was - thinking great thoughts, very sorry. Very sorry." - -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"There you are. Being very honored to meet you. I'm being called.." -"Zathras. We've met before on Babylon 4." -"No. .. Zathras does not.." -"It was my past, your future. Zathras, this is very important. When you - meet me again, it will be me, but it won't be me now. So, you are not say - anything that may change the past. Do you understand?" -"Zathras understand. .. No. Zathras not understand, but Zathras do. Zathras - good at doings, not understandings. Zathras honored to meet you for *many* - reasons." - -- Zathras and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Zathras also honored to meet *you* .. for other reasons." -"Oh, such as?" -"Oh, no, Draal give Zathras list of things not to say. This was one. No, not - good. Not supposed to mention one, or the One or .. You never heard that." -"What else is on this list of things you are not supposed to mention?" -"Zathras does not remember. But if Zathras remember later, Zathras tells you." - -- Zathras and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Stop. Display message from Sinclair." -"Unable to comply. Password required for access." -"Password? What password?" -"Unable to comply." - -- Garibaldi and Computer in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"The White Star is based on Vorlon organic technology, it learns from - experience, changes, evolves. The skin of the ship now uses the Vorlon - defense system. Most of the energy is reflected away, leaving only the - physical impact." -"Well, as my great grandfather used to say: 'Cool.'" - -- Lennier and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Time stabilizer damaged. He's unstuck in time. Zathras warned, - but no one listen to Zathras, no." -"What do you mean unstuck in time? Where is he? In the past? - In the future?" -"Cannot say. Saying I would know. Do not know, so can not say. - *Very* damaged. Zathras can never have anything nice." - -- Zathras and Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Welcome back from the abyss, Sheridan. Your timing, as always is quite - exceptional. Just in time to die." - -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"This was not part of the plan. I did not expect this. We can not even know - where in time Sheridan has gone." -"He'll be all right. /I know what's coming. Are you alright?/" -"/No. I'm sorry./" -"/Don't be./ All my life, I've had doubts about who I am, where I belonged. - Now, I'm like the arrow that springs from the bow. No hesitations, no - doubts. The path is clear." - -- Delenn and Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"What I am doing is what someone should've done a long time ago. Putting - *you* out of *my* misery. Fitting punishment for your *crimes*." -"What crimes? I'm not.." -"The crime of neglect, the crime of convenience. During your little war, you - drove away the Shadows, oh yes, but you did not think to clean up your mess. - The few of their dominions, their dock servants, came to Centauri Prime, - well, where is the harm in that, yes? You want to see the harm? *Do* *you*? - There is the legacy of your war!" - -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Yes, yes, Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's - needs. Very sad life. Probably have very sad death, but at least there - is symmetry. Go, go, Zathras take care." - -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"Ready?" -"Why do your people always ask if someone is ready right before you are - going to do something massively unwise?" -"Tradition." - -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #1" -%% -"There's the legacy of your war. The price *we* paid, when you abandoned - us to the enemies you escaped from." -"But this couldn't happen, not in this amount of time. What year is this?" -"This is the *last* year, and the last day, and the last hour of *your* life. - *Seventeen* *years* since you began your great crusade. *Seventeen*!" - -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"Sheridan. Make your peace with whatever gods you worship. You will meet - them next time I send for you. I can't recall my world from what it has - become, but I can thank you, *properly*, for your role in it." - -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"We need to find an access panel. Usually they're sealed up once the station - goes operational, but this place just went online, so with any luck, there - should be a couple still open." -"Sorry, don't believe in luck." -"Well, luck is about the only thing we've got on our side right now. Sure as - hell we don't have much of anything else." - -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"Great move, how did you know they were coming?" -"Didn't. But right now would be the worst time to be discovered, so it - was logical it happened now. Like I said, I don't believe in luck. .. - Well, on the other hand.." - -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"Carry this, Zathras. Fix this, Zathras. Poor Zathras, no one listen .. - to Zathras, but no one.." - -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"What is it?" -"I'm not sure, it was the strangest feeling. I think the way you describe - it is .. as if someone had just walked over my grave." - -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"From what Londo said, I get the impression that we won the war. But not - completely." -"The war is never completely won. There are always new battles to be fought - against the darkness. Only the names change. But we, we achieved everything - we set out to achieve. We created something that will endure for a thousand - years. But the *price*, John, the terrible, terrible price." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"No, this future can only be changed by surrendering to the Shadows. - And that price is too high to pay." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"You will excuse me if I do not stand. I have had considerable to drink. - It is .. the only way that we can be alone. We do not wish to wake it." -"Wake what?" -"Didn't you two not know? You can not see it while it is awake. We all - have our keepers, you see. I gave a very good performance. Yes, it was - satisfied. Doesn't care why I do what I do, as long as I do it, as long - as you are dead." - -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"My life is almost over. My world, all I hoped for, gone. You two are my - last chance, for this place, for my people, for my own redemption. There - is a ship, hidden behind the palace, my guard will take you there. In - exchange for your lives, all I ask is that you and your allies help to - free my people. I can do nothing more for them." - -- Londo to Sheridan & Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"We have unfinished business between us, G'Kar. Let us make an end of it, - quickly, before it stops me. I am as tired of my life as you are." - -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"He's quite mad, you know. He actually thinks that Sheridan is going to - materialize in there." -"Marcus, we are stealing a station to fight in a war that was almost a - thousand years ago. We are all mad." - -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"No one *ever* listens to Zathras. Quite mad, they say. It is good that - Zathras does not mind. He's even grown to like it. Oh yes." - -- Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"What happened?" -"Time-device activated prematurely. Not good. Malfunction." - -- Delenn and Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"Danger though. Time system is not stable. Very delicate. Must adjust before - we try again. Or we come *forever* lost in time. *Very* dangerous." -"Great, doesn't anything come under warranty anymore?" - -- Zathras and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"No. No. No. No-no. Not good. No, no." -"Come on, find what you need and lets get away from here. We are running - out of time." -"Can not run out of time, there is infinite time. *You* are finite, *Zathras* - is finite. This is wrong tool. No. No. Not good. No. No. Never use this." - -- Zathras and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"Observation Dome: - Unauthorized persons in the OBS DOME will - be forcibly removed from this sector." - -- Sign outside Babylon 4 C&C in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"This isn't my stabilizer. There's no sign of damage. Someone must have put - this on me, switch places." -"But if you are here, then who's running around out there in the blue suit?" - -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"Go now, leave me." -"I can't." -"Go. You must. Listen to Zathras. You have a destiny. Go, please. - Go for Zathras." - -- Zathras and past Sinclair in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"Babylon 4 to Garibaldi. Babylon 4 to shuttle one. Garibaldi, do you - read me? Watch your back, Michael, watch your back." -"Target is outside of communication range. Unable to make contact." - -- Sinclair and Computer in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"I tried. I tried to warn them. But it all happened, - just the way I remembered." -"I know. It's time. We have to go. They are waiting for us." - -- Sinclair and Delenn in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"Zathras, something I don't understand. You said you follow the one, but - the one you pointed to was .." -"Was Delenn. Hehe, yes, Zathras knew. Zathras is oldest living caretaker of - great machine, 110 years old. Zathras has studied the great machine, knows - things even *Draal* does not know yet. And I know you [Sinclair]. And I know - *you* [Delenn]. And I know *you* [Sheridan]. All Minbari belief is around - three. Three castes, worker, warrior, religious. Three languages, Light, - Dark, Grey. The Nine of the Grey Council, three times three. All is three. - As you are three. As you are one. As you are *the* *One*. You are the one - who was [Sinclair]. You are the one who is [Delenn]. You are the one who - will be [Sheridan]. You are the beginning of the story, and the middle of - the story, and the end of the story. That creates the next great story. Ah, - in your heart, you know what Zathras says is true. Go now, Zathras' place - is with the one who was. We have a destiny." - -- Sinclair and Zathras in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"Yes. That door is closed forever. And it is not the only one. Lennier told - you that a thousand years ago, human and Minbari souls begun to merge. - Minbari souls were being born in human bodies. Something happened that - opened that door between us. My change was in part to even the scales and - restore balance between our races, using the device my people discovered a - thousand years ago. You see, if my people had found Babylon 4 with a human - aboard, they would never have accepted it." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"Dear God, a Minbari not born of Minbari." - -- Marcus in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"I welcome you and present this place to you as a gift. I am called Valen, - and we have much work ahead of us." - -- Valen to two Minbari in Babylon 5:"War Without End #2" -%% -"What guarantees will you give me that the crews will not open fire on a - Centauri vessel as it approaches Babylon 5?" -"It's the same guarantee I gave when I said that none of the other Narns - would break into your quarters in the middle of the night and slit your - throat." -"Mr. Garibaldi, you have never given me that promise." -"You're right. Sleep tight." - -- Londo and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"With everything that has been going around here lately he just needed to - get out a little, stretch his legs a bit, so he took a walk. Outside. On - the forward cargo stabilizers." - -- Garibaldi to Ivanova about Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -".. MAG-STRIP AT ALL TIMES UNLESS ANCHORED" - -- Text in the forward cargo stabilizers in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Breen. You've managed to import breen from homeworld. How?" -"It .. isn't actually breen." -"But the smell, the taste.." -"It's an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It's a strange thing, - but *every* sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs. - I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never - get explained or which will drive you mad if you ever learned the truth." - -- Na'kal and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Your government neglected to tell me your name. How should I refer - to you when we are alone?" -"Kosh." -"Oh, yes, I understand that's how we are to refer to you publically, - but .. privately?" -"Kosh." - -- Sheridan and Kosh #2 in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"We are all Kosh." - -- Kosh #2 in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Well, he's a Vorlon all right." -"Yep!" - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Why is everything around here always a long story? Why isn't anything ever - a short story? A paragraph? Look, just give me the short version, okay?" -"All right. Walkabout." -"That's it?" -"That or the long version, so, you make your pick." - -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"The theory is: if you are separated from yourself, you start walking and - you keep walking until you meet yourself. Then you sit down and have a long - talk. You talk about everything that you've learned, everything that you .. - felt. And you talk until you run out of words. Now, that's vital, because - the real important things can't be said. And then, if you are lucky, you - look up and there's just you, and you can go home." - -- Dr. Franklin to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Where?" -"I'm sorry. I wasn't here. I was doing what he told me to do. - He wasn't with me when he left. Not even a piece of him. I swear." -"Failed. Gone." -"No, I'm sorry. It's my fault." -"There was no other?" -"No. Not that I knew of. I'm sorry. He's gone." -"Follow." - -- Kosh #2 and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Despite their strength the Vorlons are delicate people. They do not react - well to change, and they are not very forgiving of mistakes. It's been a - long time since one of them died, they are taking it pretty hard." - -- Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Is there a problem?" - -- Kosh in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"As you know, Mr. Garibaldi recently uncovered information which seems to - indicate the Shadows have a weakness. Their ships are based on organic - technology which may be vulnerable to telepathic interference. In theory a - telepath might be able to jam their central operating system leaving them - vulnerable to an attack." -"I noticed a number of conditional phrases in that: 'seems to indicate a - weakness', 'maybe vulnerable', 'in theory'." -"Exactly. Maybe we are right, maybe we ain't. Unfortunately war doesn't - tolerate ambiguities. We have to find out if we are right." - -- Sheridan and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Of course he doesn't! It's easy to fight when you've got a lot of ships to - work with. The real crunch comes when you are down to almost nothing. Then - you either play it safe and you probably lose it all or you take a chance. - After everything we've been through with your people, Sheridan was crazy to - send our pilots out to fight for your ship. They didn't want to go, they - didn't want to get blown out of the sky and leave B5 defenseless, and they - sure as hell didn't want to die. But they did it because Sheridan *told* - them to do it, and because it was *right*." -"This time it is possible he could be wrong." -"Yeah, it's possible. But you don't follow an order because you know for sure - it's gonna work out. You do what you are told, because your CO has the moral - authority that says you *may* *not* *come* *back*. But the cause is just, - and fair, and necessary. That's why Sheridan is out there, and dammit, - that's where the cruiser should be too! It's not Na'kal's decision, G'Kar, - he doesn't see the big picture. You do, so in my book, and *your* book, that - makes it your responsibility. Deal with it!" - -- Garibaldi and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"They killed him. They tore him apart!" - -- Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Can you tell me what you felt?" -"I could feel it shifting around in my mind trying to slip away. - I almost lost it *twice*." -"It's all right now, we found out what we came to find out." -"No, it's not all right. I tried to stop it, but I think it got off a - distress call before we killed it." - -- Sheridan and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"They ran?" -"Yes they did, Mr. Lennier. They did indeed." - -- Lennier and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"And so it begins." - -- Kosh to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Before, I told you I don't have a piece of Kosh. But it's possible, - I don't know for sure, but it may be, someone else does." - -- Lyta to Kosh #2 in Babylon 5:"Walkabout" -%% -"Name?" -"Harry, Harry Sanders." -"Are you a telepath?" -"Sure, what does the job pay?" -"Well, it's not a job, it's more like an adventure. Chance to help fight - the bad guys." -"Good. Look, are we talking about hourly or weekly salary, because I've - got expenses to cover." -"Well, one thing at a time. If you are a telepath, are you Psi Corps?" -"No, they missed me." -"No, Psi Corps doesn't miss anybody." -"Well, some things just fall through the cracks." -"Psi Corps doesn't have any cracks." -"I escaped, okay? Now, where do I sign?" -"What am I thinking?" -"I don't work for free." -"*What* *am* *I* *thinking*?" -"Right. .. Got it. And I think you are real cute too. Look, I *really* - need this job." -"But you are not a telepath." -"I can learn. I'm a quick study." -"Out." -"I'll be an intern. I work cheap." -"*Out*!" -"Great, see, it's not what you can do, it's who you know. *Typical*!" - -- Zack and a 'telepath' in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"The Rangers were here because he was here. Where you are, the Rangers - will be. We are coming into a critical time, Delenn, they will need you. - Please, say 'yes'." - -- Rathenn to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"Did they fix it?" -"Yeah." -"You are right, it *is* unusual." - -- Garibaldi and Zack in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"Thin air? Why is it always thin air? Never fat air, chubby air, - mostly-fit-could-stand-lose-a-few-pounds air?" - -- Garibaldi to a Supervisor in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"You chose not to act. Someone had to." -"Perhaps. That is why we let you have them in the beginning. Even allowed - Sinclair to train them. Even though it meant diluting their purity by - allowing humans to join alongside our own people. We were quite tolerant - of your activities. But now that their training is complete they require - new leadership. By right of tradition, the warrior caste should be given - command of the Rangers. That was the law, as set down by Valen. Three - castes: worker, religious, warrior. They build, you pray, we fight." - -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"Out of respect I give you this opportunity to walk away from the path you - have taken. Refuse the position of Ranger One, and turn control of the - Rangers to the warrior caste, where it belongs." -"Or?" -"I'm sworn to stop you, Delenn. By any and all means necessary." - -- Neroon and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"We knew the Warrior caste was unhappy with our activities." -"Unhappy? Delenn, he's planning to kill you." -"That is .. one interpretation." -"He said he would use any and all means necessary. I respectfully suggest - that he intends to go far beyond harsh language." - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"You shouldn't be here. You're in trouble." - -- A Dummy to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"I'm trying to avoid breaking a promise by .. breaking a promise. I promised - Delenn that I would not speak of this to the Captain or let him know. She - did not mention you by name, but that was implicit. If I tell the others in - the chain of command, then Sheridan will find out and I will have broken the - promise. But if I break my promise by telling you, since you are not in the - chain of command, he may not find out about this and I will have not broken - the promise." -"I'm in awe, Lennier. The way you can take a straightforward, logical - preposition and turned it inside-out so that in the end it says .. what you - want it to say instead of what it actually means. Does this come naturally - or did you .. attend some special martial arts class for the philosophically - inclined?" - -- Lennier and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"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." - -- Marcus to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"There is now blood between us, and there is blood between the warrior caste - and the humans. I do not think they would die for me. But they would die .. - for you. .. *Entil'Zha*." - -- Neroon to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"This should never have been allowed to happen, not for my sake." -"If not for yours, then who elses?" -"You could've got him killed." -"Delenn, all we know is that we will die. It's only a matter of how, when - and whether or not it is with honor. He did what any of us would've done. - Respectfully, Delenn, I think this is the one thing about your position - you do not yet understand. You cherish life, life is your goal. But for - the greater part to live, some must die, or be harmed in its defense, and - yours. There is no other way." - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"He will not hear you." -"Then I will speak briefly." - -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"Denn Shar, you said. To the death. And death there was. The death was mine. - To see a human invoke the name of Valen, be willing to die for one of my - kind when I was intent upon killing one of my own, the rightness of my - cause disappeared. Strange, that a human in his last moments should be more - of a Minbari than I. Perhaps it is true what Delenn said. That we are not of - the same blood, but we are of the same heart." - -- Neroon to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"The next time .. the next time .. you want a revelation .. could you - possibly find a way .. that isn't .. quite so .. uncomfortable?" - -- Marcus to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"Okay. Well, first, there was this missing maintenance man. Only he wasn't - missing, he was killed by a Zarg. But I'm getting ahead of myself. That - was after I found out that the entire 17th floor grey sector had completely - disappeared. Well, not disappeared exactly, this weird cult had taken over - the place, see, and there was this dummy that shot tranqs out of his eyes. - Very strange, but it was also supposed to be perfect. Now *that* was the - thing about it, but there wasn't a way out, but there was, except it was - spiritual. You had to die a perfect death, that's where the Zarg came in - and either it was going to kill me or I was to kill it and.. Am I going too - fast for you?" - -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing" -%% -"Londo, has it occurred to you that half the other races are at war? - We have to figure out what to do about them. About us. And you are - worried about G'Kar. We have a lot bigger concerns here." -"Big concerns grow from small concerns. You plant them, water them with - tears, fertilize them with unconcern. If you ignore them, they grow. - I have ignored this problem long enough." - -- Vir & Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"Temporary? Nice word, isn't it?" - -- Theo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"Ivanova sent me to find you. She said you haven't been sleeping, that you've - barely been eating. She said that you have been, in her words, carrying on - 'cranky'. I looked up the word cranky, it said 'grouchy'. I looked up - grouchy, it said 'crotchety'. No wonder you have such an eccentric culture. - None of your words have their own meanings, you have to look up one word to - understand another. It never ends." -"Something here doesn't make sense." -"That's what I thought when I came across 'crotchety'. This can not be a real - word, I said." -"The Shadows keep attacking random targets, *very* illogical. On the other - hand, once engaged, their tactics are *very* successful, *very* logical. - It's a contradiction." -"Unless the random attacks *are* logical in some way we haven't yet - determined." -"Exactly." -"So, you have been sitting here trying to think illogically about logical - possibilities or logically about illogical possibilities." -"Huh? Yes, yes." -"No wonder you are cranky. Grouchy. .. Never mind. Your face just broke the - language barrier." -"I'm tired, I haven't had a good nights sleep since Kosh died. Having the - kind of nightmares that make your hair stand on end." -"Well, that would explain the Centauri. You need food and rest. The humans, - who you've been waiting for have arrived and would like to have dinner with - us." -"No, no, I don't have time. If they want to come here.." -"So, I told them 'yes'." -"Delenn!" -"Since Minbari do not lie, except to save another, my reputation is now at - stake. If you say 'no', I will be publically dishonored." -"You don't fight fair." -"True. Dinner is in two standard hours. I will see you there." -"Pain in the butt." -"Grouch." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"You are young, Vir. You don't understand. But you will." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"I didn't think so, but if I was wrong, I was wrong. I'd rather do something, - and make a mistake than be frightened and be doing nothing. That's the - problem back home. Folks have been conned to thinking they can't change the - world, have to accept what is. I'll tell you something my friends. The world - is changing every day, the only question is who's doing it." - -- Rev. Dexter in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"Legs get funny when you get older. You are sitting, they want to stand. - You stand, they want to lay down. You lay down, they want to go for a walk." - -- Rev. Dexter in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"Now, I didn't say work. I said responsibility. I've seen people since I came - aboard. They all come to you with questions, problems, concerns, so, who do - you go to? Who do you talk to?" -"There isn't anybody. It's my responsibility, I can't put it on anyone else." -"I didn't say you should *put* it on anyone else, either. Just talking about - it, sharing the burden as much as you can." - -- Rev. Will Dexter and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"Every day, here and at home, we are warned about the enemy. But who is the - enemy? Is it the alien? Well, we are all alien to one another. Is it the - one who believes differently than we do? No, not at all, my frieds. The - enemy is fear. The enemy is ignorance. The enemy is the one who tells you - that you must hate that which is different. Because, in the end, that hate - will turn on you. And that same hate will destroy you." - -- Rev. Dexter in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"Hello, Refa. If you are seeing this message, it is because in a very few - minutes you will be dead. I have made sure that the guards assigned to you - are loyal to house Mollari. They will not obey you from this moment forward. - You've taken from me, that which I loved, Refa. You also took the life of - prime minister Malakai, a good and dear friend. You have inconvenienced me, - and threatened my position in the Royal Court, and weakened our defenses by - your constant warfare. None of which matters to G'Kar or his associates. - But I think they do care about what you have done to them, Refa. Yes, I - think they care about that a great deal." -"I have given G'Kar documents which prove that *you* are the one who - orchestrated the bombing of Narn homeworld against my advice. That you - personally were involved in the creation of death camps and genetic - cleansing programs. That you are personally responsible of the death of - five or six million Narns. And I think that they would like to thank you, - personally, for your efforts." -"On the off chance that G'Kar might not believe me, I have arranged for - two thousand Narns now in custody to be freed. Half in advance, half - pending his co-operation. In all a sufficient inducement, I think. You see, - it's not enough for me to .. *simply* *kill* *you*, Refa. I could do that at - home, or here. But through your death on Narn, I will discredit your house - and all opposition in the Royal Court. Goodbye, Refa." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"Make sure this is found on his body. Leave his face and head intact. - They will be needed later for identification. The rest is yours." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"Londo, they could've killed me." -"Nonsense, you are not important enough to kill." -"But I'm important enough for you to lie to. At least I thought I knew you, - but I never knew you at all, did I." - -- Vir & Londo in Babylon 5:"And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" -%% -"The others have gone to speak with their governments. They have authorized - me to speak in their place. .. You will have all the ships we can spare, - Delenn. I only hope that you are right, because it will cost us greatly, - if you are wrong." - -- Drazi council member to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"We've got commander Ivanova on channel 4." -"Put her through." - -- Lt. Corwin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"We are ready to go, Captain. Any last minute instructions?" -"Beside from an old Egyptian blessing, I can't think of a thing." -"Then we'll see you .. when we see you." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"An old Egyptian blessing?" -"'May gods stand between you and harm in all the empty places - where you must walk.'" - -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"You know, I have just been thinking. He shouldn't be doing this. He - shouldn't have to be doing this. I feel like *I* screwed up." -"Hey, come on Chief, it's not your fault. I heard what happened. You - offered to help, he walked away." -"Yeah, I know, but the thing is: sometimes people walk away because they - *want* to be alone, and sometimes they walk away because they want to see - if you care enough to follow them into hell. I think I went the wrong way." -"Look, he's gotta get his head screwed on straight. You can't do that for - him." -"Yeah, you are right. It's just.. I've had my own problems. I've been where - he is. I've walked away from lot of things in my life. I just hope he can - find his way back again." - -- Garibaldi and Zack in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"Marcus. Marcus! *Marcus*!" -"What? I'm awake." -"It's your watch." -"Right. I knew that, I was just resting my eyes." - -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"You seem to be pretty fluent in Minbari." -"You can't finish your training until you can speak and think in their - language." -"I'm surprised. When they were training the Rangers I figured they would - emphasize infiltration and combat techniques, not language skills." -"For them it's all the same thing." - -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"I'll wake you in four hours." -"Thanks. That's assuming I can get any sleep in these. The Captain warned me - about these things, but I had *no* idea.." -"They are wery restful, good for the back." -"Well, someday I want to be stationed in somewhere with *big* four-poster bed, - canopy, and maybe a window with a view of a garden." -"I like gardens, .. and big four-poster beds. .. - Right. See you in four hours." - -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"John, we've been over this. I should be there, with you, and with the fleet. - We are in this together. And .. afterward, when we are finished with this, - we will spend the night together." -"?!" -"Not like that. You see, when Minbari become close, as we have become close, - it is tradition that they spend three nights together. The male sleeps and - the female watches." -"Watches what?" -"During the day, we all put on the face we think will do us the most good. - But at certain point in your sleep, as you relax, your true face is revealed. - If the female approves of his true face, she will stay two more nights and - continue to observe." -"Hmm, what if she doesn't like what she sees?" -"Then they go their seperate ways. If he insists, she'll stay one more night. - She can leave when he falls asleep, file a complaint with the elders, even - cut off his .. his access to her family." -"Oh. What if she *does* like what she sees?" -"Later. History awaits." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"Very stupid." -"Yeah. It was that, wasn't it. Always trying to be the hero. Never stopping - to think first. Now, look where it got you." -"I must be going in shock." -"You said you had to keep walking until you met yourself. Well, here I am. - So, if we are gonna talk, let's talk, because I don't think you have a lot - of time." - -- Franklin and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"That's a *lot* of ships." -"That's a bloody awful lot of ships." -"Jump engines back on line yet?" -"No. If I signal the fleet, they just might pick it up. If they do, we - can't get away, .." -"Well, who wants to live forever?" -"I do, actually. But what the hell. Signal away." - -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"You know what your problem is? All your life you've run away from - everything. Home didn't work out, wouldn't talk to your father, so you just - .. walked away. You didn't have the patience for a long internship back - home, so you just ran out and started hitch-hiking on starships. You didn't - want to turn over your *precious* notes on Minbari biology during the war, - so you just burned them instead and walked away again. You used work to run - away from your personal life and stims to run away from your work. And right - now, you are running away from everything. Don't you die on me yet. I'm not - through with you. You finally had it all, didn't you? You had a good job, - people who cared about you and you messed it up! 'I have to leave before - they fire me. I have to go find myself.' What a bunch of mealy-mouthed - self-indulgent foundationist crap! Take responsibility for your actions, for - crying out loud. You go in there and you *fight* for what matters to you, - don't just walk away because it's easier. What did you say? Oh, I'm sorry, - I forgot. You are too busy *dying*, aren't you? I guess that's a bit more - important to you right now. Well, fine, you do what you want, because you - and I, we parted ways a long time ago. So just go ahead and die, because - I really don't care anymore." - -- Franklin to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"Blood-pressure is dropping faaast. You should be getting real cold right - about now. That's shock and trauma, and the rest will follow soon. You know, - so we can get this over with. I mean, you weren't that happy with your life - at the first place, were you? I mean, this one has hardly been used." -"I .. I want.." -"You want what? I mean, what do you want? What could you possibly want?" -"I wanna.. I wanna.. do it all again." -"Why, you would just mess it up again. Where do you think you're going?" -"I wanna do it again. I wanna do it again." -"Is that right? Then get up off the damn floor. I don't care how much it - hurts. Don't you go passing out on me, because that's just another kind of - running away. Now, you take the reponsibility. Show me that you want it. - Get up off the damn floor. That's it. Come on. Come on. Get up on your own - two feet and stand up, you stand up." -"I wanna do it all over again." - -- Franklin and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"I say there's a big question. Now that we have shown that we can hurt them, - how long until they come knocking on our front door?" -"That's what worries me." - -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"You know, with all this, I just hope you found what you were looking for - out there." -"I don't know. I guess I found what I .. what I needed, not what I wanted." -"Which was?" -"Short sharp kick to the head." -"Oh hell, I could've done that for you, all you had to do was ask." -"Well, you would've enjoyed it too much." -"So, you didn't .. meet yourself?" -"Yeah, I did. Found out I didn't like myself either." -"Well, as revelation go, I guess I have heard worse." - -- Garibaldi and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"Signs, portents, dreams, next thing we'll be reading tea leafs and chicken - entrails. All we do know is that we are vulnerable now. I want squadrons on - fly-by at all times. We should expect something to be coming our way sooner - or later. The way our luck works, it will probably be sooner." - -- Sheridan to Ivanova and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"The job is waiting for you, if you want it." -"Are you sure you want to do this?" -"If you are sure you want to take it." -"I want it. I think now I can do better. I mean, that was the problem, the - stims they .. they let me do more, but what I needed was to do better." -"I wish you'd come to talk to me before you made your decision to resign." -"I was running away. Same as I have always done. I didn't want to face how - I'd feel if you fired me, so I just quit." - -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"You had to find your own way?" -"I *ran* away. I realized that I always defined myself in terms what I - wasn't. I wasn't a good soldier like my father, I wasn't .. the job.. I - wasn't a good prospect for marriage or kids. Always what I wasn't, never - what I was. But when you do that, you miss the moments. And the moments - are all we've got. When I thought I was going to die, even after everything - that's happened, I realized I didn't want to let go. I was willing to do - it all over again and this time I could appreciate the moments. I can't go - back, but I can appreciate what I have right now, and I can define myself - by what I am, instead of what I'm not." -"And what are you?" -"Alive. Everything else is negotiable." - -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"Hello. You must be Delenn. I'm Anna Sheridan, John's wife." - -- Anna Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Shadow Dancing" -%% -"Humans have a phrase: 'What is past, is prologue.'" - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Minbari also have a phrase: 'What is past, is also sometimes the future.'" - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"I know there's a lot that you don't know. I know there's a lot that you - don't understand. I'm here to fix that. Don't you want to know what's it - all about? What's it *really* all about? I can do that. All you have to - do is come with me." -"Where?" -"Where else, to Z'ha'dum." - -- Anna to John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"So the next time we find out where the Shadows plan to strike, - we can mine the area, and as soon as they come out of hyperspace .." -"Then, as you so concisely say, *boom*." - -- Ivanova and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"John, I *do* love you. If you believe nothing else I ever say, - please, please believe that." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Another drink!" -"Londo, you have been like this ever since the diplomatic pouch arrived - this morning. At least you can do is tell me what's wrong." -"Oh, Vir. I have been promoted. I've been offered a position in the Royal - Court as an advisor to Emperor Cartagia in matters of planetary security, - very important position." -"This is great news, why would you be upset?" -"*Because*, it should've come to me twenty years ago when I could've - appreciated it. Because it wasn't given to me because I *earned* it. - They are, I think, afraid of me. Through our friend, Mr. Morden, I - have gained influence, money, power and they think I will move against - Cartagia." -"Then why would they reward you?" -"It's not a reward, it's a leash. I would need to divide my time between - here and the homeworld. They really mean: they watch me very carefully, - and if I do anything suspicious, they'll find me in the morning with my - throat slit, ear to ear." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"While you are at it, I need a few things taken care of. It's all here. - You will of course keep this confidential." -"These days, what around here isn't confidential. I'll take care of .. - son of a bitch." -"It's against regulations to address a senior officer in those terms, - Mr. Garibaldi." - -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die." - -- Kosh to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"I wish we could've taken a different ship. This one is based partially on - Vorlon technology. The aliens believe they'll die if anything remotely - vorlon touches Z'ha'dum." -"Then we won't risk it. When we get there, we'll take the shuttle down - to the surface." - -- Anna and John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Who are you?" -"Now, that's really not important." -"Who are you?" -"Who decides that the workday is from 9 to 5, instead of 11 to 4? Who - decides that the hemlines will be below the knee this year and short - again next year? Who draws up the borders, controls the currency, - handles *all* of the decisions that happen transparently around us?" -"I don't know." -"Ah! I'm with them. Same group, different department. Think of me as a - sort of middleman, and the name is Justin. Come in, sit, sit. The tea - is getting cold." - -- Sheridan and Justin in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"You see, John, back a million years ago, there were forces prowling around - the galaxy beyond *anything* that we could understand. *And*, like anything - else, most of them outgrew this little quadrant of the universe and headed - off toward greener pastures. Now, two of them stayed behind. Shepherds, you - might call them. They wanted to look after the younger races, bring them - around, help them *evolve* into something better." -"One of these was the Vorlons. The other .. was, what you call, the Shadows." - -- Justin and Morden in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"The Vorlons are like your parents, I suppose. They want you to play nice, - clean your room, do it by the rules. I guess you could call them Lords of - Order." -"The others, the ones who live here, believe that strength only comes from - conflict. They want to release our potential, not bottle it up." - -- Justin and Anna in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"It's really simple. You bring two sides together. They fight. A lot of them - die, but those who survive are stronger, smarter and better." -"It's like knocking over an ant-hill. Every new generation gets stronger, - the ant-hill gets redesigned, made better." - -- Justin and Morden in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Commander, I'm picking up a disturbance." -"Location?" -"All around us." - -- Lt. Corwin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"It was supposed to be an equal balance between our side and the Vorlons, - but the Vorlons decided that their way was the right way. They enlisted - the support of other worlds, like the Minbari. They even started interfering - with the development of younger races." -"When you look at a Vorlon, you see what they want you to see. They've - manipulated us so we would respond favourably to them. They've even - interfered at a genetic level by taking humans and then .. adjusting - them. Why do you think certifiable telepaths came out of nowhere a - hundred years ago?" - -- Anna and Morden in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"John, there's nowhere to run. Come back inside, we can work this out. I - know this isn't the Anna you knew. What I am is what was made in her, a new - personality. She can never come back. But I can love you as well as she did." - -- Anna to John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"Jump. Jump, now!" - -- Kosh to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"What the hell!" - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and - unexpectedly. .. All around us, 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.'" - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Z'ha'dum" -%% -"The Shadows have paused in their pursuit of war and everywhere there is a - sense of imminent change. Whether it is a change for good or ill, no one - can tell. As no one has yet answered two very important questions: where - is Mr. Garibaldi and what happened to Captain Sheridan at Z'ha'dum." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"It was the year of fire, the year of destruction, the year we took back what - was ours. It was the year of rebirth, the year of great sadness, the year of - pain, and the year of joy. It was a new age. It was the end of history. It - was the year everything changed. The year is 2261; the place: Babylon 5." - -- The Main Cast in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"You can not *win* this war, Commander. You can only *survive* it. - And we intend to survive it." - -- Drazi Council Member to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"He did not come, again." -"Yes, and I intend to find out why." - -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Minister, I have met Cartagia three times before, twice when he was an - infant. He *drooled* most of the time, I wonder if he's continued the habit, - and again when he was 15 trying to peek up the dresses of some young women. - I promise you, I will be *just* as impressed by him now as I was then. Yes?" - -- Londo and Minister in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Ah, Mollari. It's wonderful to see you again." -"And you, Majesty. I could swear you have not changed since the last - few times I saw you." -"Oh, you are of course too generous. What do you think, Mollari?" -"It is .. ahem .. short, Majesty. Shorter than is traditional for someone - of your position." - -- Emperor Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"I suppose there are those that might object, but they remain silent, - because the emperor is always .. right. Is he not, Mollari?" -"That is our tradition." - -- Emperor Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Hello Mollari." -"Mr. Morden?" -"In the flesh. What's left of it. Sit. We have much to discuss." -"Mr. Morden, you are.." -"Unwell. My associates tell me I will be better soon. I wasn't as near - the *incident* as others." -"And Sheridan?" -"Which one? You know what they say: 'What goes up, must come down.' - 'Seen one Sheridan, seen them all.' 'Ashes, ashes, and they all fall down.'" - -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Flesh is transitory, flesh is a prison, flesh is .. an instrument. - Flesh can be replaced. And flesh does as it's told. Or they will - become *most* annoyed." - -- Morden to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"He meant you?" -"What's left of me. I'm just a .. *shadow* of my former self." - -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"I don't care. I won't do it!" -"Of course you will, Mollari. Because you're drawn to power, because you - are my friend. Because you are afraid of what someone else might do in - your place." - -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"The stories we've heard about what happened at Z'ha'dum. Are they true?" -"Yes." -"What do you intend to do about them?" -"Nothing." -"But if Sheridan is still alive, if there's even a chance." -"Irrelevant." -"Irrelevant? How can you say that? You know how much depends on him." -"He has opened an unexpected door. We do now what must be *done* now. - *His* purpose has been fullfilled." -"You have the power to send a force to investigate. If he's alive, he - can be rescued." -"No one returns from Z'ha'dum." -"That's what we thought about Anna Sheridan. You were wrong then, you - could be wrong now. Are you afraid to admit that you are capable of - another mistake? He pledged for you, worked for you, for me, for - everyone here. If you turn away now, if you abandon him to die on - Z'ha'dum, I will have no more respect left for you. Do you understand me?" -"Respect is irrelevant." - -- Delenn and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Our thoughts form the universe, they always matter." - -- G'Kar to Zack in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"It takes a rare kind of wisdom to accept change and redemption in another. - Many would refuse, seeing only what was, not what is. Mr. Garibaldi gave - me that chance. I must repay him." - -- G'Kar to Zack in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Read the old books, Mollari. They speak of the ancient gods, - they speak about *them*. Power, power beyond description." -"If their power is so great, why do they need to hide behind us? - They are using us as shields. When the war comes here, our people - will die first!" -"Some are always sacrificed for the greater good." -"What greater good?" -"Ah! Mine of course!" - -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"What are a few million lives compared to the glory of becoming a living god?" - -- Cartagia in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Is there anywhere else you need me to carry you?" -"No. Go." -"Doesn't feel the same as when I carried Kosh with me, it's darker somehow. - Is everything all right?" -"Yes." -"You're planning something, aren't you? Something that you aren't telling me." -"You are free for a time. Do not interfere." - -- Lyta and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Londo?" -"Vir, I woke you. I'm sorry, I forgot the time difference there." -"It's all right, I was just about to get up .. in about six hours." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Is there something wrong?" -"Something: no. Everything: yes. Conspiracies require more than one person. - And there's no one here I trust. Come quickly, Vir, we have much to do." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"They heard us. They know we are here. The eye .. is looking for us." -"I've felt this before. I've been here before." - -- Lyta and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Lennier, get us the hell out of here." -"Initiating 'getting the hell out of here' maneuver." - -- Ivanova and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Of course the others know, but they are afraid to move against him. - Whoever does so will almost certainly be killed." -"That would be a drawback." -"These creatures must be driven away before it's too late. - We must stop Cartagia no matter the cost." -"The cost? That would be the dying thing, right?" - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Vir, there is a terrible truth: As one accumulates power, one loses - friends. One only has those who wish to use you, and those you wish - to use. And yet, in all of this, *you* have somehow managed to walk - through the corridors of power and not be touched. I can only assume - you have not been paying attention. And still, the hideous truth is, - *you* are the closest thing I have to a friend. I'm as shocked and - dismayed by this as you are, but there it is. I need a friend, Vir, - and I need a patriot, and you are both. Will you help me, please?" - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Commander's personal log. I wish it didn't have to be like this, but I - can't keep on denying it. The Captain's dead, and I have to accept that. - What matters now is finishing the work that he begun. I have some ideas - how to do that, but I'm gonna need some help. I think I know where to go - .. to find it. I have to let him go, and just get on with the work. - I think .. I *hope* it's what he would've wanted." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Who are you?" -"Who are *you*?" -"How did I get here?" -"You were born." -"Why am I alive?" -"Well, that *is* the question, isn't it?" - -- Sheridan and Lorien in Babylon 5:"The Hour of the Wolf" -%% -"Medlab's quiet these days. The League of non-aligned worlds has broken up - and everyone's going back to their homeworlds to prepare for the next stage - of war. We know the enemy is gonna strike back. Rumour has it that this - time's gonna be the last time. This time they're gonna end it. All we can - do now is wait for the other shoe to drop or try to find something useful - to do before the end. Right now, short of hand holding, or sympathetic ear, - I can't think of a one damn thing." - -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"Who are you? What do you want? Who are you? What do you want? - Who are you? *Who* are *you*?" - -- Sheridan's dream in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"You are thinking about escape again, aren't you? Don't. There is no way off - Z'ha'dum. You might as well give up, reconcile yourself as I did." -"The first obligation of a prisoner is to escape." - -- Lorien & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"Words have meaning and names have power. The universe begun with a word, - you know. But which came first: the word or the thought behind the word?" - -- Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"What question?" -"Who are you?" -"How did you know about it?" -"It's a dangerous question, isn't it? There's *never* a good answer to it. - I suppose, that's the point." - -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"There are only two possibilities. If you hit bottom, then you are dead. - If you did not hit bottom, you are still falling and all of this is a dream. - Unless .. you are in-between." -"Between what?" -"Between moments." - -- Lorien & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Always running out of time. Yours is almost used up. - You're between seconds, lost in the infinite possibilities between a tick - and tock. Tick, you're alive. Tock.. Well, it was a good life, but a short - one. Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick--" - -- Lorien to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"You're closer now, aren't you. Yes, I see you are. But closer to tick or - closer to tock? I don't know. Only *time* will tell. And here, between - the moments, we have all the time in the world." - -- Lorien to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"The man says he doesn't want to talk to you. Leave him alone." -"We're having a private conversation. It is no concern of yours." -"It's my bar, I'm making it my concern. Now get out." -"I've come a long way. I intend to finish my conversation." - -- Bartender & G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"I've sometimes heard the humans say: 'Minbari never tell anyone the whole - truth.' But I'm no longer a whole Minbari and should've changed my heart - more than I did. But I loved him and I wanted to protect him. I should've - loved him less and trusted him more." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"Doesn't make sense." -"You're right, that's the bit that worries me." -"If you are going to be worried every time the universe doesn't make sense, - you are going to be worried every moment of every day for the rest of your - natural life." - -- G'Kar and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"I was doing fine until you showed up with that .. *thing* in hand." -"It's a Minbari fighting pike, several hundred years old. You are just - jealous because you don't have one. Bad case of pikal envy, if you ask me." - -- G'Kar and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"They seem rather eager to find you. Eagerness like that--" -"--worries you. Hell, I suppose I should appreciate your concern. - Compassion is a rare commodity these days." -"So, why are you doing this?" -"He's my friend. I've never had a friend before who wasn't a Narn. And you?" -"I never had a friend before who *was* a Narn, .. and damn few of any other - kind. Most of them are dead." - -- G'Kar and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"The job now is to turn this around and make it into something positive. - My dad always told me that's the only way you deal with pain; you don't - surrender, you don't fight it, you turn it into something positive. He - used to say: 'If you are falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. - You've got nothing to lose.'" - -- Sheridan's log in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"As a dear friend said to me: 'If you are falling off a mountain, you may as - well try to fly.' Here, the end, I offer you one final chance to fly." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"And you. Have you anything to say?" -"Do you by any chance happen to know where Mr. Garibaldi might be?" - -- Cartagia & G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"There is a monster on the throne, G'Kar, a well-protected monster. - He must be removed, and *you* may be the means I have been waiting for." - -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"You didn't ask the price .. for my co-operation." -"You are not exactly in a position to bargain, G'Kar." -"Neither are you. You want my help .. for the sake of your people. I will - give it .. for the sake of my own. If I remove the monster from your throne, - you will remove the monster .. from my world. Leave Narn, set my world free. - Promise me this, and I will do as you ask." -"You have my word." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"This is the fire I set when I woke up down here. I've come full circle." -"Don't we all?" - -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"Yes, of course I care. It's a terrible thing when your children fight. - I warned the others, but they didn't listen. They *never* listen." - -- Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"That was you?" -"Perhaps. We all have secrets and surprises. Did you know - you have a Vorlon inside you? Well, a piece of one." - -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"Kosh." -"Is that its name? I think I met it once long ago." - -- Sheridan & Lorien in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"You must let go. Surrender yourself to death. The death of flesh, - the death of fear. Step into the abyss, and let go." - -- Lorien to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"It's easy to find something worth dying for. - Do you have anything worth living for?" -"I can't see you anymore." -"As it should be." -"What if I fall off.. How will I know you'll catch me?" -"I caught you before." -"What if I die?" -"I can not create life, but I can breathe on the remaining embers.. - It may not work." -"But I can hope." -"*Hope* is all we have." - -- Lorien & Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"Do you have anything worth living for?" -"Sleep now. I will watch and catch you if you should fall." -"Delenn!" - -- Lorien, Delenn, Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?" -%% -"Flak'sha [Engines at full..] - Shin'drabi [high power] - Hat'rashu [hatrack ratcatcher.] - and dolo [to port weapons..] - ishi'den [brickbat lingerie.]" - -- Ivanova to Marcus and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"Tell the crew: 'Anyone who laughs will answer to me personally.'" - -- Delenn to Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"What's next on the list?" -"Sector 87/20/42. At least a dozen ships have reported seeing something - rather godlike in the area, and since neither you nor I were there, it - must be one of the First Ones." -"You are having delusions of grandeur again." -"Well, if you're gonna have delusions, you may as well go for the really - *satisfying* ones." - -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"I can't believe it. Did you see him?" -"I was right there, Vir. I saw him." -"How can you see G'Kar like that and feel *nothing*?" -"I feel, Vir. I wish that I didn't, it would make this all much easier. - We must play along until the time is right." -"I don't know if G'Kar can survive that long." -"He will survive. He must. For my sake as well as his own." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"Damned! Damned! Damned silence. He refuses to bow, he refuses to drink." -"Majesty!" -"Did you know we assigned one of our *best* pain technicians -- pain - technicians, they used to be called torturers, ever since they got - organized it's 'pain technicians' -- Why are you here? One of our very - best torturers, I felt certain he would break him. Two hours he worked, - not a sound. I said: 'Give me a cry, rin-tintsy(?). Give me a shout, - a whimper, a scream.' Silence! So, I got to it myself. You can't leave - these things to others, they never get it right! And well, you can see - for yourself. If I didn't know better, I would say he was a mute. Silence! - I'm beginning to understand what you're going through with this G'Kar. - How you put up with this at all, I have no idea." -"He was a small burden." - -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"Silence! Silence! Where's the joy in that, really? He's so insubordinate, - I can't have him challenging my authority that way." - -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"He can't force you to live like this, can he?" -"Yes, he can." - -- Delenn and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"I thought he would welcome the chance to strike at the Shadows." -"I think the Vorlons have plans of their own. There's .. there's something - going on.. Something they haven't told us yet." -"Do you have any idea?" -"No, and frankly, I'm afraid to ask. I don't think that they care about what - happens to us anymore, Delenn. I think their game just got bigger than that." - -- Delenn and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"While I was carrying you, you felt cold, hard. What are you hiding from me?" -"Your work for now is done here. Go. Sleep." -"I have a right to know. I've done everything you asked. I let your people - modify me, enhance my telepathic abilities so I'd be more suited to carry - a Vorlon around in my head, because I believed. Kosh, the real Kosh wasn't - like this. I think in some level he cared about us, about me. With you it's - as if I'm being used and then thrown away when I'm not needed anymore. - Dammit! I have earned some respect! And I have earned some answers!" -"Respect? From whom?" - -- Lyta and Kosh in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"Would you know my thoughts? Would you?" - -- Kosh to Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"I'm picking something up." -"A unicorn? .. Sorry." - -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"Captain, we're sorry. We thought you were dead." -"I was. I'm better now." - -- Drazi spokesman and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"We can end this. Not just for now, - not just for the next thousand years, but forever." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"When most of the First Ones left, two of them, the Shadows and Vorlons, - stayed behind. Their job was to keep an eye on the younger races, help - them along, but .. they couldn't decide or agree on what had to be done. - The Vorlons believed that strength comes through order and discipline, - the Shadows believe in promoting evolution through conflict, starting - wars." -"Those are diametrically opposite positions." -"Exactly. Now, at first there was a balance between the two sides. - They abided by rules of engagement, respected each others positions, - but that changed over time." - -- Sheridan and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"Why the wars? Why the fighting? If each side agreed to respect the other.." -"I don't know who started it first, Delenn, but somewhere along the line they - both decided that their way was the right way, the only way, and we've been - caught in the middle ever since." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"This latest incident, everything that's happened lately, it's convinced the - Vorlons that their only alternative is to destroy the Shadows and anyone - touched by them. Like an infection, you have to .. cut it out." -"And any healthy tissue that's cut out along the way.. well, that's okay, - because it's all for a good cause." - -- Lyta and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"Since the Shadows are ready to strike back at any time now, - we are caught in the middle again." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"We could barely stop the Shadows, how do we stop them *and* the Vorlons?" -"I don't know. All I know is that unless you do stop them, it won't matter - who wins and who loses, because none of us, not a single world in 70 light - years in any direction, will live to see it." - -- Garibaldi and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Summoning" -%% -"Once again, please remain calm. Right now our greatest enemy is fear." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"You heard?" -"I heard. -"They need to believe." -"Not in me." -"You can't save them all." -"I'll try." -"You'll fail." -"We'll see." - -- Lorien and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"[I see] The stars, Majesty. Nothing more." -"Then you are not looking hard enough. Vorlons are out there, Londo. - They've gone mad, attacking any world, any base, any colony where my - associates have influence." - -- Londo and Morden in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"After the last war my associates hid many of their ships on distant - worlds. The Vorlons want to make sure it doesn't happen again." -"There are over 100 of those ships here. I assume they will be leaving now." -"I'm afraid not." -"The Vorlons.." -"Will never attack Centauri Prime. Small colonies, deep range planets, sure. - But to destroy a world as big as this, no. They don't have the will." - -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"I call them my shadow cabinet. I think you can appreciate the irony. - They certainly can." - -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"Minister Dugari. You remember him, don't you? Always coughing, - most distressing, but we finally cured it." - -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"Don't send the ships. Let it burn, Mollari. Let it all end in fire." - -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"Cough. Take a deep breath, and .. exhale. Quack like a duck. - Sorry, little med-school humor." - -- Franklin to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"What do you want me to do?" -"I want the Vorlon gone." -"Fine. I'll just go up to him and ask him to leave, that'll work." - -- Garibaldi and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"Is it my imagination, or is Mr. Garibaldi crankier than usual?" - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"I heard what happened. I came to warn you. Sheridan and the others are - going to move against you." -"It is done. They are irrelevant." -"I know, I know they can't harm you, but I was thinking it can't hurt to have - all the information you can about what's going on. To protect yourself and - the cause." -"How?" -"I told you I wasn't here when Ambassador Kosh died. I didn't have any of his - essence with me, I thought he was gone. But for a while I suspected that - someone else here had a piece of him. I think I know who it is, but I can't - draw Kosh out of him, he won't let me." -"A human?" -"Yes." -"Imprisons one of us?" -"Yes." -"Intolerable." -"If there is still a piece of him there, you can draw it out of him. - Use what it knows and take it back to Vorlon when this is all over. - I cared about Kosh. I'd like to know he finally made it home." -"Show me." -"But the guards.." -"They will not bother us again. Show me." - -- Lyta and Kosh in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"Your thoughts are troubled." -"I'm worried about Kosh, that's all. After everything we've been through, - I'd hate to lose the last of him now and.." -"What are you hiding?" -"Nothing." -"Open your thoughts to me." -"We don't have time for this." -"*Open*!" - -- Kosh and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"It's Kosh. Kosh was inside him." -"Yes. The last of Kosh, and some of him, and some of me." - -- Delenn and Lorien in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"He was gravely wounded at Z'ha'dum. He was dying. He was dead. I did all I - could to help him, but I can not create life, only the universe can do that. - I can extend, enhance, there is no magic, nothing spiritual about it, only - the application of energies, healing and rebuilding cells." - -- Lorien to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"I wanted you to have this. I got it down at the Zocalo. It's not what I - had exactly in mind, but .. It's temporary until I can get you a real - engagement ring." - -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"I was just thinking. I don't like the way he's looking at me. - I'm trying to decide what to do about it. Would you care to make - a suggestion?" -"Oh, no, I'm sure whatever your Majesty decides will be appropriate. - I shall go and pack." - -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"No, I don't care at all for the way he looks. Pluck out his eye." -"Which one?" -"I don't know. Doesn't matter. .. *That* one." - -- Cartagia and a guard in Babylon 5:"Falling Toward Apotheosis" -%% -"There is no choice. By the end of this day, either - Cartagia is dead or Centauri Prime will be destroyed." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"I've decided to take you with me." -"Majesty?" -"A god must have a high priest, must he not? And when the Shadows rise - from the ashes of Centauri Prime and reward my loyalty with godhood, - I want *you* to be the *first* one in my temple. I haven't decided - where to build it yet, but I.." -"Then you will not be on Centauri Prime when the Vorlons come?" -"Of course not. You and I will watch from a distance." - -- Cartagia and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"G'Kar. Great Maker! Your eye? Cartagia?" -"My eye.. offended him. Doesn't matter. I can see things now.. that were - invisible to me before. An empty eye sees through to an empty heart." - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"Humor is such a subjective thing, don't you think, Mollari." - -- Cartagia to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"How fast does the poison work?" -"Very quickly, he said almost instantaneously." -"'Almost'? How fast is almost? Time enough for him to stagger back into - the main room and cry out: 'Londo killed me'? Or maybe just enough time - for him to say: 'Londo kill..aargh'?" -"And then he won't even get that out, I mean, maybe he just go: - 'Lon.. arrgh'. Or maybe he's totally delirious and then say everything - backwards and say: 'Kill Londo! Arrgh'. .. I was just making a play on.." -"Well, it's time." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"The Emperor believed in heeding the wisdom of the gods. Well, twice - the Emperor of the Centauri Republic has died while acting in relation - to Narn. Emperor Turhan were trying to make peace, and now Cartagia. - I believe Cartagia would say that this is a sign from the gods. - A sign to leave this place forever." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"We do not have time for games, Vir. The ship is waiting." -"I was toasting Emperor Cartagia. And since he was not here, I drank for - him. And then I couldn't be rude, so I had to drink with him. And so, - first it was me drinking for him. And then him drinking for me. And then - I kind of got into this kind of cycle." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"I can not tell you that your pain will ever go away. I can not tell you - that you'll ever forget his face. I can only tell you that it *was* - necessary. You may have helped to save our people. You did a hard thing. - But you still have your heart, and your heart is a good one. You would not - be in such great pain otherwise. That means there is still hope for you. - And for that.. I find that I *still* envy you." - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"Then, G'Kar, you will lead us against our oppressors. You will be the - instrument of our vengeance. With you directing us, we will finally - destroy the Centauri." -"You have just tossed someone off that throne. Would you put another in - his place so quickly? The Kha'Ri spoke with many equal voices, not the - one voice of a single leader." -"We need strength to lead us, *fire* to forge us. We saw that in the - Centauri, learned that from them." -"Then you have learned the wrong lessons. I will not take the throne. - If the Kha'Ri is restored, I will take my place among them, but that's - all. I did not fight to remove one dictator just to become another myself." -"But the Centauri--" -"--*are* *a* *lost* *people*! They ought to be pitied. They are already - on a course for self-destruction. They do not need help from us. We need - to redress our wounds, help our people, rebuild our cities." - -- G'Lorn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"We must strike back!" -"No." -"I never thought you were a *coward*, G'Kar. We suffered and died during - their occupation. Where were you? What have you endured?" -"What have I endured? Hahahahaha.." - -- G'Lorn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"Tho' we are not now that strength which in old days" -"Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are" -"One equal temper of heroic hearts," -"Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will" -"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Long Night" -%% -"There is time for one more. This is the last. It's important - to have them all. Keep sending the signal." - -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"He's making a crucible, which he hopes will force out the truth. - Quite brave, possibly futile, but .. *very* human." - -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"Vorlon observation post destroyed." - -- Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"Win or lose, we'll go down fighting. Pour it on, Mr. Lennier. - Take us into the fire." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"I was told you were ready to leave." -"Almost. You are awfully impatient for someone who's supposed to be immortal." -"Not immortal as you mean it. My race can die .. through illness or injury." -"Where are the rest of them?" -"They fell ill and died, were injured and died. The rest went away. - I am the last .. and I was the first." -"I have to admit I'm a little bit sceptical about that." -"Scepticism is the language of the mind. What does your .. heart tell you?" -"My heart and I don't speak anymore." -"Yes, I have noticed that." - -- Lorien and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"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." - -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"You misunderstand me, Prime Minister. I was merely being specific. - In my experience, if you can not say what you mean, you can never - mean what you say. The details are everything." - -- Drano to Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"Your patience is also a weapon, when used properly. We will arrive when - we arrive and we will have the weapons we have. You can not win this war - through force, you must .. understand your way out of this. Sheridan knows. - What remains to be seen is whether he *knows* that he knows." - -- Lorien to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"There are three billion people here. The Vorlons would never attack a - civilian population that big. The ships stay." -"You are afraid, aren't you? *They're* afraid. And speaking of your - associates, we must make sure that we can talk privately. Do not move." - -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"You are insane." -"On any other day, Mr. Morden, you would be wrong. Today, today is a very - different day. One last time: remove your ships." -"No. You don't frighten me, Mollari. If you try to attack our forces, - you'll lose." -"Yes, your ships are very impressive in the air, or in space. But at this - moment they are on the ground." -"Fine. They're on the ground, but they can sense an approaching ship miles - away. So what are you going to do, Mollari? Blow up the island?" -"Actually, .. now that you mention it." -"Noooo!" - -- Morden and Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"You just made a mistake, Londo. Even if my associates lose this war - they have allies. They'll make sure Centauri Prime pays the price for - what you've done here today." - -- Morden to Londo in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"Good morning, gentlemen. This is your wakeup call." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"There is nothing to tell. - You thought we could not touch you. You were wrong." - -- 'Vorlon Lyta' to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"And you they have left .. for us." - -- 'Shadow Lyta' to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"Oh, but I *do* understand. But that's what's got you worried, isn't it? - A Vorlon said understanding is a three-edged sword: your side, their side - .. and the truth. The truth is we don't need you anymore." - -- Sheridan to 'Vorlons' in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"You don't want to kill the messenger, you just want to kill the message." - -- Sheridan to 'Vorlons' in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"After all, if you destroyed the Vorlons, they'll never know you won. - They'll never see that you were right and they were wrong. It's about - ideology." - -- Delenn to 'Shadows' in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"Will you come with us?" -"I have been here since the beginning. I will not leave you now. I will go - with you beyond the rim. And we will see again all those who went ahead of - us, all those who we have missed for so long." - -- Shadows and Lorien in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"Then we will not be alone?" -"No, never alone." - -- Vorlons and Lorien in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -[First Ones leaving] -"Did we just win?" -"Don't jinx it." - -- Marcus and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"We are all alone now, just the younger races. We can't blame anyone else - from now on. It's a new age, Delenn, a third age." -"Why third?" -"We begun in chaos, too primitive to make our own decisions. Then we were - manipulated from outside by forces that thought *they* knew what was best - for us. And now .. now we are finally standing on our own. Lorien was right, - it's a great responsibility. This is ours now." -"Strange. The galaxy seems somehow smaller now that the First Ones are gone - forever." -"It feels like the magic's gone now." -"No, not gone. Now we make our own magic. Now we create our own legends. - Now we build the future. Now we stop--" -"--being afraid of shadows." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Into the Fire" -%% -"Maybe the doc's right. Embrace the moment. In the end, that's all we have. - Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. - Give me today, and I *will* be happy." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"The royal bloodline isn't what it used to be. Too much intermarrying I - suppose. I always say: 'When you reduce a family tree to a family bush, - you just can't hide as much beneath it.'" - -- Minister to Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"A regent? Oh my heavens, who would take *that* job? It pays very well, I - hear, but it's simply a ceremonial role." -"Actually, they've selected you." -"It hardly seems worth.. Me?" - -- Minister and Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"I'm thinking .. pastels!" - -- Centauri Regent to his court in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"I have seen what power does, and I have seen what power costs. - The one is never equal to the other." - -- G'Kar to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"No one can blame you for feeling a little stressed out. - Maybe a few days away.." -"I don't want a few days away. I don't want a vacation or a leave of - absence for a five-day pass to Disney planet. I just want out." - -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"Anything unusual gets flagged." -"And am I to fall into the category of unusual, Mr. Allan?" -"Well, I didn't think we'd be seeing you again anytime soon, Ambassador." -"Yes, I gathered that from the look of unvarnished joy on your face when you - saw me. Perhaps you would like to sit before you are overcome by ecstasy." -"Thanks, I'm fine. So, what happened? They got tired of you back home?" -"Tired? Of course not, don't be absurd. The Emperor himself said I would only - be allowed to leave over his dead body. I said: 'Well, how strange, Mr. Allan - said I would only be allowed *back* on to Babylon 5 over *his* dead body.' - With my very busy schedule I can only accomodate so many requests. I know - it's a burden, but you will *simply* *have* to wait your *turn*." - -- Zack and Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"The only reason that guy is still alive is that half the time I don't know - what the hell he's talking talking about. The other half, I wish I didn't. - But that's why it's important to check in on customs on a regular basis. - You never know who's gonna walk in that.." - -- Zack about Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"Just a guess, Mr. Allan, but I suggest the word you are looking for is - 'door'. Now, please notify the captain that I'm here, I need to meet with - him and the rest of the command staff ASAP. I assume my usual quarters - in the brig are available. I have grown so attached to the place." -"For you Mr. Bester, always." - -- Bester and Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"I'm sorry. I don't know what else to say. I'm sorry." -"Welcome hooome, Mr. Gaaaribaaaldi." -"Thank you, G'Kar." -"What?" -"I can't breathe." -"Sorry." - -- Garibaldi and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"All for nothing? Absolutely not! Yes, true, if I hadn't gone after you, - the Centauri would never have captured me and yes, it cost me my eye, - but it put me into the right place to strike a deal with Mollari. Because - of that deal, my world is now free." - -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront [pat] the universe - with good [pat] [pat] intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and - reward [pat] your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way - you expect." - -- G'Kar to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"Psi-Cops are trained to make everyone nervous, but Bester can make - even other Psi-Cops nervous." -"Hell, the man can make poison ivy nervous." - -- Lyta and Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"My world is now free. You longer exist in my universe. Pray that we never - notice one another again." - -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"I want you to know that I object to this, Captain. Ms. Alexander has no - business being here. She's a blip. By all right I should arrest her and - take back with me." -"You could do that. And I could nail your head to the table, set fire to - it, and feed your charred remains to the Pak'ma'ra. But it's an imperfect - world and we never get exactly what we want. So get used to it." -"Captain, this is pointless. She is a P5. If I were really going to try - something, she's not powerful enough to block me anyway. You're just - embarrassing yourself, and her. Haven't we learned by now to trust each - other." -"No. Now, sit." - -- Bester and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"You know, the one thing in life that you can be sure about is that you - are going to make mistakes." - -- Garibaldi to Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"The way I figure it, we are all entitled to one really big, incredibly - stupid screw-up in our lives. Maybe this is one of those, we'll see." - -- Garibaldi to Zack in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"The war's over, we won. We should get a few days off before the next big - crisis. It never seems to work out that way." -"No. And you wouldn't have it any other way." -"I beg your pardon?" -"You are a problem solver. You are one of these people who'll pick up a rope - that's got all tangled up and spend entire day untangling it. Because it's - a challenge, because it defies your sense of order in the universe, and - because you can. Sometimes I try to picture you sitting on a beach with - absolutely nothing to do." -"And?" -"And, the picture always ends with your head imploding." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"Dream! That's all. Just a bad dream." - -- Centauri Regent in Babylon 5:"Epiphanies" -%% -"Commander! Did you threaten to grab hold of this man by the collar and - throw him out an airlock?" -"Yes I did." -"I'm shocked. Shocked and dismayed. I'd remind you that we are short on - supplies here. We can't afford to take perfectly good clothing and throw - it out into space. *Always* take the jacket off first, I've told you that - before. Sorry, she meant to say: 'Stripped naked and thrown out an airlock.' - I apologize for any confusion this may have caused." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" -%% -"You work for no one but us. You work for no one but us. - You *work* for no one but us. You work for no one but us. - Us. Us. Us! Us!" - -- A Voice to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" -%% -"When I said my quarters were cold, I did not mean: 'Oh, I think it's a - little chilly in here, perhaps I'll throw a blanket on the bed.' No, I said - it was *cold*! As in: 'Oh, look, my left arm has snapped off like an icicle - and shattered on the floor.' This is highly inappropriate, Captain." -"You are right. There are several other parts of your body I much rather see - snapped off." - -- Londo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" -%% -"With Clark, Anything that gets into the way, disappears." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" -%% -"There is no force in this galaxy that can stop what we have done here - together. Nothing will be able to stop us." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" -%% -"To celebrate this latest victory against the tyranny of a fanatical few - who have endangered the lives of our citizens, Clark proclaimed today a - planetary holiday. Curfew has been extended two full hours until 9 PM Earth - standard time, so go out and enjoy." - -- Alison Higgins in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" -%% -"A struggle against Earth?" -"Of course. If they don't understand, we will make them understand." -"Anything that gets into the way, disappears." -"There's a lot of people back home who might be concerned about what you are - saying. It sounds as if you are putting the mingling of human and Minbari - above the safety of your own world." -"There is no force in this galaxy that can stop what we have done here - together. Nothing will be able to stop us." - -- Randall, 'Delenn', 'Sheridan' in Babylon 5:"The Illusion of Truth" -%% -"Ouch! She did that on purpose." -"Yes, I believe she did. I will deal with this. /Good Work. - Give me a moment with the human. And next time .. Use a bigger needle./" -"Yeah. And don't you forget it!" - -- Zack and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"I think I got it." -"Just as long as it isn't in backwards. - I've peered into my own soul more than enough lately." - -- Franklin and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"It's not my proper color!" - -- G'Kar to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"Where did you say you were going?" -"I was.. I was just going to.. Nowhere that can't wait for a little while." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"It also occurred to me, as I told you, it is tradition for Minbari - to spend three nights together. The female--" -"--watches and the male sleeps until his true face is revealed, I know. - Whatever you see in a face mashed against a pillow and drooling, I don't - know, but I try not to be judgemental about alien cultures, when they are - dressed like *that*." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"Sheridans are survivors, always have been." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"What was your name, child?" -"Delenn." -"Delenn." -"Yes." -"Of the family of Mir." -"Yes, Master." -"You have a proud heritage, Delenn of Mir. Prouder than you know. There - is nothing to fear in the dreaming. Only that which we bring with us. - The dreaming takes us forward and the dreaming takes us back. Walk with - me in the dreaming, Delenn." - -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"For two days we have been debating an issue of some small importance. - We have from time to time heard of a race known as humans. The Centauri - have had dealings with them for some time. They are reportedly - primitive, passionate, .. dangerous. The question: do we establish - contact with these humans? They have each said no. All for different - reasons. Would you like to hear them?" -"Perhaps another would be better suited.." -"The correct answer is 'yes'." -"Yes." - -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"Valen said: 'The greatest enemy is the one you do not know. You can predict - the actions of those who are familiar to you. The one you can not predict - is the one who can harm you.'" -"And what do *you* say?" -"If we do not know these humans, then they are a mystery to us. The universe - puts a mystery in front of us as a gift. Politeness requires that we at - least *try* to solve it." -"A-haa! You are curious, you would like to know, to simply understand. - Simple curiosity." - -- Delenn and Dukhat in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"I could override their decision, but nothing would be served. - Authority should never be used as a club, Delenn." -"But, then why?" -"When one of us does a foolish thing, you should tell them it is a foolish - thing. They can still continue to do it, but at least the *truth* is where - it needs to be." - -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"Raise your eyes and look at me." -"It's disrespectful." -"I can not have an aide who will not look up. - You will be forever walking into things." - -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"I am become Grey. I stand between the darkness and the light, .. - between the candle and the star." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"There is nothing to fear in the dreaming. - Only that which we bring with us. - Walk with me in the dreaming, Callenn." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"There was a purpose in my selection. Your heritage.. - You are a child of Valen." - -- Dukhat to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"The guards resisted at first. The Grey council is suspended, - but the security remains. I managed to *explain* matters to them. - They will recover.. in time." - -- Lennier to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Atonement" -%% -"Speaking of which, as of now I'm relieving you of command." -"Ivanova, your sense of humor has always been on the edge of good taste, - *but*--" -"I'm serious, John." -"On what grounds?" -"You haven't taken any personal time in over nine months. And in that time - we have broken away from earth, fought a war, you have been declared dead - at least once, and you know how tiring that can be." - -- Ivanova and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" -%% -"There isn't much chance of me winning this argument, is there?" -"None whatsoever. I never give up when I'm right. - Your only option is to surrender." -"Who taught you to negotiate like that?" -"You did." -"Oh. Well, then I assume this enforced vacation is to begin immediately." -"Started when I walked in that door." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" -%% -"Me, I go for insta-heats." - -- Captain Jack to Marcus and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" -%% -"Entertainment channel unavailable due to jamming. - Movie channel unavailable due to jamming. - Sports channel unavailable due to jamming. - Adult channel unavailable due to jamming. - ISN available." - -- Babylon 5 television selection in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" -%% -"Lyta had a little Vorlon. Her skin was pale as snow. - And everywhere that Lyta went, her Vorlon was sure to go." - -- Captain Jack recites the passphrase in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" -%% -"Just my luck. The first time in my life I am a war hero and nobody - knows about it. And worst of all, I'm married to you." - -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" -%% -"Everyone's entitled to a fresh start." -"You're even willing to forget about the business--" -"Yes, even though it did make Mr. Garibaldi's hair fall out. - You had no way of knowing what was in that bottle. That's my - story and I'm sticking to it, just in case he asks." - -- Ivanova and a smuggler in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" -%% -"If you could look any more unhappy, please do not tell me. - There are some things I would rather not know." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" -%% -"He's not what he appears to be! Give it up, will you." - -- Garibaldi about Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" -%% -"Woo-hoo?" - -- Lennier to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Racing Mars" -%% -"With the Grey Council no more, the three castes are mainly - concerned with protecting their own interests." - -- Forell to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" -%% -"Can't you send out Lennier? It might be dangerous." -"John! It pleases me that you care for what I have become. - But never forget who I was, what I am, and what I can do." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" -%% -"Our job, as always, is simply to state the facts and - let the truth attend to itself." - -- ISN Reporter in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" -%% -"Look, if they want to play games, well fine. We can play games too, only we - can play them better, because we have the *truth* on our side. You can't - kill the truth. .. Actually, you *can* kill the truth, but it always comes - back to haunt you later." - -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" -%% -"You have a face people trust." -"I'd rather have a face people fear." -"That too, but.." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" -%% -"Dukhat says: 'When there is good news we always ask if it's true, - because it is so difficult to believe. But when there is bad news - we rarely inquire because it's so easy to believe.'" - -- Forell to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" -%% -"Touch passion when it comes your way, Stephen. It's rare enough - as it is. Don't walk away when it calls you by name." - -- Marcus to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" -%% -"The Drakh want peaceful relations. They want only a place to have for - their own, because--" -"--because they have just lost their home." -"Yes. There was an evacuation. Some kind of natural disaster, they said." - -- Forell and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" -%% -"Before the war Dukhat wanted to know more about your people, so I - began studying your history. I came to the conclusion that of all the - races we had encountered humans were the most dangerous. Because humans - form communities, and from that diversity comes a strength no single race - can withstand. That is your strength and it is *that* which makes you - dangerous." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" -%% -"Fighting a war is easy. Destroying is easy. Building a new world out of - what's left of the old, that is what's hard. But that is your strength. - So much is falling apart out there. You must help to put it back together." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Lines of Communication" -%% -"If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, - you have a long wait ahead of you." - -- Sheridan to Zack in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" -%% -"If we're gonna broadcast all the way back home, we're going to need a - helluva lot more power than we've got now. And I don't know where we're - gonna get it. I mean, I've been working on this for days, I don't have a - clue." -"What about Epsilon 3? During the war we evacuated a lot of the wounded - down there for safe-keeping. Now, I've spent a lot of time looking around, - there's enough power down there to broadcast clear to the Rim." -"Or, -- just a crazy thought -- I could try Epsilon 3." -"Yeah, you could do that, yeah." -"I mean, it's the logical choice. Anybody could see that in about two - seconds. I mean, only a complete fool would fail to see that." -"Well, I wouldn't.." -"It's absolutely obvious." -"Well, *I* wouldn't have thought of it, that's for sure." -"No, you are far too modest, Stephen." -"No, no, no. That's why you get paid big bucks, after all." -"Yep, that's my job." - -- Ivanova and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" -%% -"Excuse me, I need to see Draal." -"Oh, Draal is very busy! Have had four ground quakes on other side of - planet. Damage to weather control system, to great machine." -"Zathras!" -"Yes?" -"What the hell are you doing here?" -"Zathras work here. Zathras were born here. You work up there, Zathras - work down here. You dress like that, Zathras dress like this." -"That's not--" -"Just covering *all* possibilities. Zathras does not want you being - confoosed. Bye." -"Hey! Wait a minute! You are not supposed to be here. We left you - a thousand years in the past." -"No! We have never met before. But Zathras very pleased to be meeting you." -"No, we *have* met." -"No. Oh. No, noo. No no. You did not meet Zathras. You met *Zathras*." - -- Ivanova and Zathras in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" -%% -"Let's try this again." -"As you wish." -"Zathras came with us to Babylon 4." -"Yes." -"Zathras stayed in the past with Valen." -"Yes." -"*You* are Zathras." -"Yes." -"Therefore, *you* went into the past." -"No, that was not Zathras, that was *Zathras*. There are 10 of us, all of - family Zathras, each one named Zathras. Slight differences in how you - pronounce. Zathraas, Zathras, Zathras.. You are seeing now?" -"There are ten of you?" -"Yes! Well, nine *now*." -"And Zathras?" -"Zathras gone! Zathras *warned* Zathras, but Zathras never listened to - Zathras. Zathras was quiet one in family. *SO*! What can Zathras be doing - for you?" - -- Ivanova and Zathras in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" -%% -"Everyone always coming to Zathras with problems. Great responsibilities. - But Zathras does not mind. Zathras trained in crisis management." -"That's great, lets--" -"But only Zathras have no one to talk to. No one manages poor Zathras, - you see. So Zathras talks to dirt. Sometimes talks to walls, or talks to - ceilings. But dirt is closer. Dirt is used, through everyone walking on it. - Just like Zathras, but we've come to like it. It is our role. It is our - *destiny* in the universe. So, you see, sometimes dirt has insects in it. - And Zathras likes insects. Not so good for conversation, but much proteine - for diet. Ha! Zathras fix now, this way." - -- Zathras and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" -%% -"It's easy to come together for a common enemy. - Now our job is to come together for a common goal." - -- Sheridan to G'Kar & Londo in Babylon 5:"Conflicts of Interest" -%% -"Yeah, I know. Every time you try to get them do something for their - own good, they figure you've got some sort of a hidden agenda." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"I am tired of doing things the hard way. - There's an easier way to convince them." -"And how do we do that?" -"By *not* convinving them. Ha-ha!" - -- Sheridan and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"When I was a child, my father used to carry me through the city on his - shoulders. I've never seen such beauty. The city was eternal, its beauty - eternal. We heard of the Grey Council, but the name was always spoken with - awe and reverence. They held our world together. They were the peace - promised by Valen; thousand years of peace among the three castes." - -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"I think of my beautiful city in flames, Lennier. The streets where I walked, - the temples, the great crystal spires .. that sighed music whenever the wind - touched them. I think of it, and I cry, Lennier. And I wonder: did I do this - when I broke the Grey Council?" -"Valen always said the Council will be broken in the Great Shadow War." -"Lennier, you know the truth as well as I do. Valen only knew what - Sinclair knew, could not see beyond that. Once he left us, the future - became fluid. I had assumed things would continue on, like some great - clockwork mechanism. As long as the war was won, we would be all right. - I was wrong." - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"I need your help, Neroon." -"My help? I remind you that not very long ago I fought to keep you from - taking control of the Rangers. We have not exactly been friends." -"No, but your actions have always been motivated by one desire: to do what - is right for our people. The warrior caste can not be allowed to win this - war. The religious caste can not be allowed to win. You know as well as I - that if either side achieves dominance, the delicate balance of our - civilisation will be destroyed." -"You should have thought of that before you broke the Grey Council." -"What is done is done, Neroon. What matters now is the future." - -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"Yes, we've disagreed, even fought, but I would rather have someone who - opposed me out of an honest belief in the rightness of his cause than - someone who was always on my side because it was expected and required. - I've questioned your judgement and wisdom, your temperament, but never - your loyalty." -"Was that a compliment?" -"After a fashion." -"Then you trust me?" -"After a fashion." - -- Delenn and Neroon in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"But we are two against a world gone mad. What can we do against that?" -"Nothing. Until we get their attention. For that I need your help." - -- Neroon and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"I don't really think it's my place to comment." -"Captain!" -"All I can say is we certainly wouldn't be there if we weren't wanted." -"Then they asked for the ships?" -"I can't confirm that." -"But you're not denying it either." -"But not denying it doesn't make it true any more than not confirming - it makes it false. Are you with me so far?" -"I'm .. not sure." -"Ambassador, there are so many things in the universe that are and so many - things that aren't. If I were to take the time to deny all the things that - aren't, we'd be here for centuries, wouldn't we?" - -- Sheridan and Drazi Amb. in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"Make a big deal out of it .. as much as you can, given nothing happened." - -- Sheridan to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"First, one brief announcement. I just wanted to mention for those who have - asked that *absolutely* nothing whatsoever happened today in sector 83/9/12. - I repeat, nothing happened. Please remain calm." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"Incredible. Only the warrior caste could actually turn on one of their own. - They have always been erratic. And you, .. you are the steady rock beneath - my feet. Thank you." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"I have been training him, as Dukhat trained me. He has been .. a light for - my footsteps. Never asking, only giving. Without him, I would stumble and - fall and never get up again. Thank you for looking after him, Neroon." - -- Delenn about Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"I assumed your behavior was prompted by a sense of your own superiority, - your ego, .. the usual fanaticism we have come to expect from the religious - caste. In the last year, I've begun to realize that I was wrong. Dukhat - chose you above all to follow him. Slowly, dimly, I begin to understand why. - I do not know what lays ahead of us, Delenn, but I do know it is *right* - that we are here together." -"Is that a compliment, Neroon?" -"After a fashion." - -- Neroon and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"If I had told her the whole truth, it would've destroyed her belief in the - strength and the wisdom of our caste. Delenn does not walk in the same - world you and I walk in. She does not see the same world you and I see. - In her world we are better than we are, we care more than we care. We act - towards each other with compassion. I much prefer her world to that of my - own, and I will not allow anything to threaten that." - -- Lennier in Babylon 5:"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" -%% -"Perhaps in the future when you rejoin the Psi Corps, - we can discuss this again." - -- Businesswoman to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"Our people need leadership, not dogma, action, not meditation. We assumed - they were our equal in all things. They've now learned otherwise." - -- Shakiri to Neroon in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"And.. Well, there's just no delicate way to say this. I want your body." -"*What!* Are you out of your mind?" -"Heh, that's a very funny question to ask a telepath, .. since we spend so - much of our time in other peoples' minds. I don't want it *now*, Lyta, - just when you are not .. using it anymore, after .. your passing." - -- Bester and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"What is your empathic range?" -"Well, officially, 20-25 meters." -"Unofficially?" -"Further .. *much*." - -- Garibaldi and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"I said we surrender. I did not say that we gave up our sovereign rights to - form a new government. Dukhat said that in every battle one side or the - other must surrender eventually. It's the natural order of things, There's - no dishonor in that, no shame. We recognize the superior forces of the - warrior caste. We have, after all, spent several centuries arming you, - helping you learn the art of combat. What threat are we against that?" -"Then you acknowledge we are stronger?" -"Stronger, yes. But wiser? For a thousand years we guided our people - through wisdom, not arms. Will we set that aside so quick?" - -- Delenn and Shakiri in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"Valen said: 'Will you follow me to fire?' Will you?" - -- Delenn to Shakiri in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"You said that a warrior does not fear death, Shakiri. You said that death - is only one of the consequencies, neither valued nor feared above the other. - Death is merely a release from our obligations. Why then are you afraid, - Shakiri? Have you put your importance above our own people?" -"Don't take their side!" -"I speak for my *people*. Who do you speak for? And what are you willing - to do? They are waiting for your answer." - -- Neroon to Shakiri in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"I was born .. warrior caste, but I see now .. the calling of my - heart .. is religious. War is over. Listen to her. Listen!" - -- Neroon in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"Today we rebuild what was broken. Today we restore the Grey Council. - I summon the nine as Valen called them together long ago." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"In the past it has been our tradition to seek balance. We have called - three from each caste: worker, warrior, religious. But now that changes." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"You had forgotten the worker caste, hadn't you? When our two sides fight, - they're the ones caught in the middle, forgotten that it's their time to - serve to build, and to die. They built the temples we pray in, the ships - you fight in. They look to us to guide their hands. But prayers are - fleeting and wars forgotten. What is built endures. They do not wish to - conquer or convert, only to build the future. And now, they will have that - chance. The religious caste and the warrior caste will advise and councel. - We will serve, as is proper. Religion and war must act in the *service* of - the people, not the other way around. This place.. this place is reserved - in memory of Neroon, until the day it is taken by the One who is to come. - You are the heart, the hands, and the voice of our people. Judge wisely - and well." - -- Delenn to Grey Council in Babylon 5:"Moments of Transition" -%% -"Captain's personal log, September 2nd, 2261. Enough is enough." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"We'll hit them in waves. Try to isolate the ships we need to destroy from - the ones who won't fight unless they have to. Then we'll give them a chance - to surrender or join up." -"And if they don't?" -"We take them out. Hey, I don't like the idea any more than you do, but - either we commit ourselves to this completely or we don't do it. Once we - pull the first trigger we can't hesitate to pull the next one, because they - sure won't. Now, once we're in, we're in: no surrender, no retreat." - -- Sheridan and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"I didn't do it! I didn't do it! Thank the Great Maker it was just a dream." - -- Vir in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"So from now on I guess the operational phrase is 'Trust no one.'" -"No. Trust Ivanova, trust yourself, anybody else: shoot them." - -- Corwin and Ivanova in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"Hello, G'Kar. I don't believe I have ever been in your quarters before. - Unless you count a cell on Centauri Prime." -"I apologize for the lack of chains. The cleaning service must have - removed them." -"It has much the same feeling as your world: dry, .. red, .. and - depressing." - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"How is the eye?" -"It sees." - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"I have no interest in your thanks." -"I did not think that you would, but it is there anyway. [sighs] - As I said, a hard year." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"When I saw you in that cell, beaten, chained .. As I said, we have never - been friends, we will never be friends. There is too much blood between - us, too much history. But I did feel for you, as much as I did not want - to. In the beginning, it was little more than sympathy one might feel for - any trapped animal. But in time .. I came to respect you. -"Your respect matters to me even less than your thanks." -"You are not going to give me even an inch, are you? - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"You may not believe this, G'Kar, but all I ever wanted is what is *right* - for my world. I'm a patriot, as you are. I have made some .. very poor - choices in the last two years. Because I did not *think*, those choices - almost destroyed my world, and yours. That is a humbling realization, G'Kar. - If with a single wrong word I can become the enemy, do I any longer really - understand who the enemy is?" - -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"Because, while I do not know who the enemy is any longer, I do know who - my friends are, and that I have not done as well by them as I should. - I hope to change that. I hope to do better." - -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"Before war broke out between our governments, you bought me a drink. - I wish to return the favor. For the first time in a hundred years, we - have something in common beyond hatred. I find that most extraordinary, - and so a drink to the humans, and to the bridge that they created between - us in the hope for a better future for both our worlds." - -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"Earth's Last Best Hope" - -- A Poster in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"It looks as if we won." -"No, we achieved the mission objective. It is not a victory. - Too many on both sides had to die for it." - -- Marcus and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Surrender, No Retreat" -%% -"Mars. I can't believe I'm back on Mars. Three times before this place - almost killed me. I swore I'd never give it another chance to finish - the job. Humans have got no business being here. No business at all." - -- Garibaldi's Log in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" -%% -"Everything is illusion, Mr. Garibaldi. Concepts [constructs] of language, - light, metaphor; nothing is real." - -- Wade to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" -%% -"Nobody takes power. They're given power by the rest of us, - because we are stupid or afraid or both. " - -- William Edgars in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" -%% -"What you just told me, is that the whole truth?" -"It's as close to the truth as you or anyone else will ever get, - Mr. Garibaldi." - -- Garibaldi and Edgars in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" -%% -"Mars. Three times before this place almost killed me. And now I have - finally finished the job. I can't feel anything anymore. I don't know - what I care about anymore, except Lise. I screwed up both our lives - pretty good. Now I get to make up for it. Assuming any of us can ever - make up for anything we have done in the past. Maybe we can't, maybe - we just have to live with it and get on with it, and do what we have - to, never what we want to. It has to be done. I hope you can see that - one day." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Exercise of Vital Powers" -%% -"Somewhere on Beta colony, there is .. an institution. And one room in - that institution .. there is a man, who spends his days and nights - screaming at .. things only he can see. Things we planted in his mind." - -- Lyta to Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" -%% -"They taught me what a telepath was and what we can do. And all that - time I had never been afraid of who we were. Until that day .. when - we did what we had to do because no one else would fight." - -- Lyta to Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" -%% -"Do you think the Captain is all right?" -"He knows what he's doing, he'll be fine. - Assuming Mr. Garibaldi can still be trusted." - -- Lennier and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" -%% -"What's going on? You all look like a Pak'ma'ra just ate your cat." - -- Ivanova to Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" -%% -"We interrupt our regular programming for this important announcement. - The leader of the renegade fleet that has been trying to destabilize - Earth for months has *finally* been located and detained. Captain John - Sheridan, formerly of Earth Force, was captured earlier today by forces - loyal to president Clark and is now being held in a secure facility. - Unlike many of his victims, he is being given proper care and treatment - until a hearing can be convened." - -- ISN Broadcast in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" -%% -"We're engaged in a very dangerous game, Mr. Garibaldi. In this game you - have to pick your target very carefully, because you only have one shot. - And this is much, *much* bigger than you suspect." -"President Clark isn't the real problem, he's trivial. One way or another - he'll be gone in a few years, but the telepaths he put in power, the Psi - Corp, those will be with us forever. That's the real danger." - -- Wade and Edgars in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" -%% -"I knew there were forces out there with plans for my telepaths, but this.. - I had no idea. The sheer scope of it. Well, we'll stop it now, of course, - in our own way." - -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" -%% -"By nature Mr. Garibaldi is rebellious, stubborn, and suspicious. - He has an innate distrust to the authority figures. And he is very - good at figuring out when conspiracies are taking place and tracking - it back to its source. We need that part of him, so I don't wanna risk - tampering with him." - -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" -%% -"The Captain once told me: 'The person is expendable, the job is not.' - We keep going." - -- Ivanova to Marcus in Babylon 5:"The Face of the Enemy" -%% -"When I ask a question, you will respond at once. You will not hesitate, - you will not consider, you will not lie. Co-operation will be rewarded, - resistance .. will be punished." - -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" -%% -"There is nothing to be gained by trying to harm me, I am not the enemy. - To be the enemy, I must have some personal stake in what happens to you. - I am not interested in that at all. I'm here to do a job, nothing more. - You are a name, a file, and a case number, that's all." - -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" -%% -"It does prove though how everything is a matter of perspective. You see - what you think is daylight, and you assume it's morning. Take it away, - you think it's night. Offer you a sandwich, if it's convenient, you'll - think it's mid-day. The truth is fluid, the truth is subjective." - -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" -%% -"The truth is sometimes what you believe it to be, and other times - what you *decide* it to be. My task is to make you decide to believe - differently." - -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" -%% -"You have been interrogated before?" -"Yes." -"Anyone I know?" -"You'd be surprised." - -- Interrogator and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" -%% -"No! *You* have no rights. There's no courtroom here, Captain. No tribunals, - no attorneys, no justice, no mercy, no fairness, no hope, no last minute - escape. You will walk through that door when you confess and not one second - before." - -- Interrogator to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Intersections in Real Time" -%% -"It's great to have you back, Captain." -"Thanks. It's good to be back. I was starting to think I would never - get out of that place." - -- Franklin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"We don't use names." -"Codes then?" -"Just.. numbers." - -- Sheridan and Interrogator in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"Besides, we don't want co-operation. We want conversion. We want repentance." - -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"It was Bester. It was him all along. He altered me when I was missing, he - messed with my mind. He made me turn against everybody I knew because he was - trying to find out who was behind a conspiracy against the Psi Corps." -"Yeah, and the dog ate your homework." - -- Garibaldi and #1 in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"You've got any proof? Anything to back up this story of yours? Anything?" -"Yeah. I've got a receipt from the Psi Corps certifying that my brain was dry - cleaned, pressed and starched." - -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"Now, a headache I can get over. I'm not sure if I'm going to - get over being dead anytime soon." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"The truth speaks for itself. I'm just a messenger." - -- Lyta to #1 in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"Look, we have to make them understand that if they target innocent people, - they can't run, they can't hide. I mean, President Clark is issuing the - orders, but they are pulling the trigger." - -- Ivanova to Marcus in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"During the Shadow War Sheridan risked his life and the lives of every human - on this station to help save our worlds. Would the Gaim have done that for - the Pak'ma'ra? Would the Drazi have done that for .. for the Narn? No. - That sacrifice must be rewarded." -"Since the war we have begun working together as never before. In the past we - had nothing in common, but now, the humans have become the *glue* that holds - us together." - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"If Sheridan's forces are defeated, then Earth will turn in upon itself. - They will become isolated or they'll turn against the rest of us." -"Politically it is very wise." -"Morally it is even wiser." -"Politics and morality on the same side! That doesn't happen every day, - Delenn." - -- Vir, Londo, G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"We wanted to send a message, that the Council speaks as one for the right - reasons, not out of any personal agenda. Sheridan is not alone, and *you* - are not alone. The League stands with you. We *all* stand with you." - -- G'Kar to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"Why can't we go anyplace nice?" - -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"All right, who gulped? Somebody gulped. Look, we have got a long - way to go. We're supposed to sip, not gulp." -"I didn't gulp." -"No?" -"I sipped." -"You I believe." -"Now, why do you believe her and not me?" -"Because when you lie, it's all over your face. She's a much better - liar than you are." -"Thank you. .. Wait a minute!" - -- Garibaldi, Franklin, Lyta in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"They are loyal to the new order. They won't defect and they won't give up." - -- David Eisensen in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"Rangers never bluff." - -- Marcus to Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"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." - -- Guard to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"It's the last time I'll ever trust you." -"Also the first." - -- Ivanova and Marcus in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"Who am I? I'm Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sofie Ivanov. - I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry - ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last - living thing that you're *ever* going to see. *God* sent me." - -- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light" -%% -"November 1st, 2261. Doctor's personal log. We're ready." - -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Endgame" -%% -"No, they picked me because I'm from the old school: a soldier doesn't take - arms against his own government, no matter how justified you feel doing it. - And because Sheridan was one of my students back in the Academy. I taught - him everything he knows. I know how he thinks, I know how he fights. To - tell you the truth, I've always admired him. And now I'm gonna have to kill - him, and his ship and everyone around him. It's a terrible day, Charlie. - I wish the hell I'd never live to see it." - -- General Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"Endgame" -%% -"I assume that you worked out that whole longitude-latitude thing. - I know you get confused sometimes." -"You're right, you're right. I keep mixing them up. .. I got it right. - Well, I *think* I got it right. Okay, fine. Which goes vertically, - longitude or latitude?" - -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Endgame" -%% -"But he wouldn't want to go offensive unless .. - he has an ace in the hole. But what is it?" - -- General Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"Endgame" -%% -"What can one telepath do against an entire destroyer?" -"Well, these aren't normal telepaths." - -- EF NCO and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Endgame" -%% -"Engineering, this is General Lefcourt. In case you didn't notice, the enemy - just pulled our shorts up over our head and tied them into a knot. You will - get the ship under control ASAP, or I will come down there and skin the hide - off every last one of you." - -- General Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"Endgame" -%% -"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*." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Endgame" -%% -"From the office of William Morgan Clark" -"The a(S)cension of the ordinary man." -"The as(C)ension of the ordinary man." -"The ascension (O)f the ordinary man." -"The ascension of the o(R)dinary man." -"The as(C)ension of the ordinary man." -"The ascension of t(H)e ordinary man." -"The ascension of th(E) ordinary man." -"The ascension of the or(D)inary man." -"The ascension of the ordinary man." -"Th(E) ascension of the ordinary man." -"The (A)scension of the ordinary man." -"The ascension of the o(R)dinary man." -"The ascension of (T)he ordinary man." -"The ascension of t(H)e ordinary man." -"The ascension of the ordinary man." - -- Clark's note in Babylon 5:"Endgame" -%% -"Only a sane and careful study of the facts will allow us to separate - those who were willing partners in President Clark's reign of terror - from those who co-operated only in fear of their lives." - -- President Susanna Luchenko in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"You're late!" -"No, no, no, *you're* early." -"I'm never premature." -"Oh, well, *that* is a surprise, given what I've heard. I'm sure it's a - matter of perspective, really. But for a Narn, two minutes must be a long - time, so if you go the duration, it's an accomplishment. But for the - Centauri, *hours* can go by before you even get to the good parts." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"You're going to be Emperor, Londo. Isn't that *wonderful?*" -"Yes, Vir, wonderful news." - -- Vir and Londo in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"I find it amazing that you think that threats still mean anything to me. - 'Do this or you're a dead man.' Death: been there, done that." - -- Sheridan to Bester in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"I know, I know what's it like to lose someone, only to find her and - then lose her a second time. I wouldn't wish that to anyone, not even - you, as much as I might want to." - -- Sheridan to Bester in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"I see nothing amusing in this situation, Londo." -"No, no. You are right, there isn't. It's just that..[giggle] I'm so rarely - in the presence of living history. It.. it thins the atmosphere, makes you - giddy. [giggle] You realize that you are quite mad for even considering - this?" -"Perhaps." - -- Delenn and Londo in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"As you were. Well, Captain, you caused quite a stir. Half of Earth Force - wants to give you a kiss on the cheek and the medal of honor. The other half - wants you taken out and shot. As a politician you learn how to compromise. - Which by all right means I should give you the medal of honor then have you - shot. I confess the idea had a certain appeal when I mentioned it to the - Joint Chiefs two hours ago." - -- President Susanna Luchenko to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"So, morally I was right, but politically I'm inconvenient." -"Inconvenient doesn't even begin to cover it. - Now we have to clean up the mess." - -- Sheridan and President Susanna Luchenko in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"The bitch of it is that you probably did the right thing. But you did it - in the wrong way. In the inconvenient way. Now you have to pay the penalty - for that. I know it stinks, but that's the way it is." - -- President Susanna Luchenko to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"I learned about choices and consequences and responsibility. I learned - that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and that - those choices have consequencies, not just for ourselves, but for others. - We must assume responsibility for those consequencies." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"For many years all of us here have priced our good relations with Earth. - You have shown through your example that strength comes from a multitude of - voices brought together for a common cause. Humans form communities. In that - spirit we have voted to dissolve the League of Non-Aligned worlds and create - a new alliance, based on mutual co-operation and respect. An alliance, born - in the diverse voices of many worlds, joined by their desire to build a - better future and their decision to voluntarily recognize a common - authority." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"Their [Rangers] goal is to create the peace, not enforce the peace." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"I fully understand, Madame President. No one in this room is more suspicious - of these things than I am, no race more prideful than the Centauri. But we - are tired of war and believe that this will help to create peace between us." -"Peace is a concept. If I'm going to sell this to my Generals and the public, - I'm going to need something a little more tangible." - -- Londo and President Luchenko in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"You!" -"Funny thing about retiring: you no sooner pick out the places you want - to go on vacation and someone comes at you with another job offer." - -- General Foote and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"Mister President?" -"It's a--" -"--another long story." - -- David and John Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"Don't. Don't do that, no, come on. The sun's almost coming up. - I've got to get some sleep .. eventually." - -- Garibaldi to Lise in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"So, how does it feel to make history?" -"You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it." -"G'Kar, you are a depressing person." -"Thank you." -"And stop eating that. We don't even know what it is." -"Something called 'rice'." -"Yes, and if it were any good, do you think they would be standing there - throwing it at people? As marriage ceremonies go, the humans are very - strange indeed. Still, they're quite a couple, aren't they?" -"Yes, they are." -"Almost makes you wish that you could peek in on them. See how's it going. - G'Kar, the artificial eye that doctor Franklin gave you. Where is it?" - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"It was the end of the Earth year 2261 and it was the dawn of a new age for - all of us. It was the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. - The next 20 years would see great changes, great joy and great sorrow. - The telepath war. The Drakh war. The New Alliance would waver and crack, - but in the end it will hold, because what is built endures, and what is - loved endures. And Babylon 5, .. Babylon 5 endures." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"Rising Star" -%% -"Well, we figured you probably want to come back with as little fanfare as - possible, your usual low-key approach." -"But there's a time and a place for everything and this is the time and - this is *definitely* the place for one hell of a party!" - -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"So, Doctor, who died?" -"What are you talking about?" -"Among my people this is how we celebrate state funerals. Our marriage - ceremonies are solemn, sober, moments of reflection, also regret, - disagreement, argument and mutual recrimination. Once you know it can't - get any worse you can relax and enjoy the marriage. But to *start* with - something like this.. No, it is a very bad sign for the future." - -- Londo and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"What matters is what we did here, together. In a hundred years it won't - matter who we were. They probably won't even remember." -"That's true." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"What amazes me is the way that everyone is trying to turn Sheridan into - some kind of hero. This is the man who resigned his commission in Earth - Force under dubious conditions." - -- Henry Ellis in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"He can barely get along with his own race, and now he's gonna stitch - together an alliance of *radically* different aliens and make it work. - No, this whole shebang is doomed from the get-go." - -- Henry Ellis in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"Obviously there's a degree of uncertainty in *any* new political situation. - This next year will prove critical for Sheridan and the rest of his people. - Look what they are up against: he has to ride herd on the dozen or so alien - races that have signed on to this alliance and probably don't fully - understand what's being required of them. There are still sporadic fighting - between many of those members. On top of that, he has supply problems, - telepath problems, raiding parties, not to mention distrust among elements - of his own government here at home. This man has his work cut out for him, - but I *know* that he can handle it." - -- Senator Elizabeth Metarie in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"The first thing you have to do is separate fantasy from reality. The - publicity machine of the Alliance would have you believe that somehow *all* - this came about because of what a few people did. But large political - movements are rarely the workup of any one person. The individual at the - center gives permission for others to act, can *inspire* others. But the - individual really can not affect changes on an act of will. *They* did not - do, they allowed others to do." - -- Dr. Barbara Tashaki in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"We all have a profound psychological need to believe in heroes, the shining - knight on the white horse. If they don't exist, we create them. Sheridan - and Delenn are two classic examples. If you look at the social dynamic around - them, they actually didn't do anything. They were the open vessels in which - people poured their hopes and their dreams. That sets up sort of a gestalt, - where events take on a life of their own." - -- William Exeter in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"John Sheridan was a good, kind, and decent man." -"Delenn, wait! You came all this way just to say *that?*" -"You came just this far to say less?" - -- Delenn and Dr. Jim Latimere in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"You do not wish to know .. anything. You wish only to speak. That which you - know, you ignore, because it is inconvenient. That which you do not know, - you invent. But none of that matters, except that he was a good man, a kind - man, who cared about the world, even when the world cared nothing for him." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"Not propaganda, goodfacts, as opposed to realfacts. - Facts the government has endorsed." - -- Daniel to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"Earth needs room to expand. The Rangers and the Alliance - prove a hindrance to our plans to expand." - -- Daniel in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"What we can not take by force, we will *win* by subversion. - And in the end we will bury you." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"There must be something we can do." -"We're dead, we are not even here, just our memories, our thought patterns." -"That must be worth something. What we are is not a matter of flesh, it's - a matter of will." - -- Delenn and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"You see, the thing is, me and Sheridan were close, but *I* was the one who - did most of the strategic planning during the war. Now, a resource like that - you may not want to wipe it out just yet. I could help you." - -- Garibaldi to Daniel in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"The funny thing about being a holographic record is that you don't really - exist, except in patterns of light, shadow, information." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"Holograms do not lie, Danny-boy." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"The ways of Rome are like onto God. They are mysterious and sometimes they - transcend understanding. They confess to an inability to see the wisdom of - our mission: to keep alive the knowledge of the past. The knowledge that - would've been lost forever after the Great Burn 500 years ago. Science and - technology, yes, is that really their calling? But it *is* ours." - -- Brother Alwyn Macomber in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we can not - continue, that the whole of our whole lives is without meaning." - -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"Not useless, but it is also not enough. Faith and reason are the shoes on - your feet. You can travel further with both than you can with just one." - -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"That's all that faith requires. That we surrender ourselves to - the possibility of hope. For that I'm content." - -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"We *will* rebuild the Earth, though it may take us another 2000 years. - This time we will build it better." - -- Brother Alwyn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"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." - -- Man in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"And I was wondering if they will remember us hundred years from now, - or a thousand. Then I figured: probably not." -"But it doesn't matter. We did what we did because it was right, not - to be remembered. History will attend to itself, it always does." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"Dedicated to all the people who predicted that the Babylon Project would - fail in its mission. Faith manages." - -- Dedication in Babylon 5:"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" -%% -"Just personalities, any .. internal conflicts I need to be made aware of. - Beyond that, I've thoroughly researched Babylon 5's operational procedures, - personnel records .. I'm pretty much up to speed on all the reports." -"With all due respect, there's a lot that doesn't fit into a report." -"Then the report is incomplete." - -- Captain Lochley and Corwin in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"It's nothing personal, but I need to send a message to Babylon 5. That's - what you Rangers are for, right? Getting messages from one place to another. - So you're the right person in the right place at the right time. - For me anyway." - -- John to a Ranger in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"And so it begins." -"There is a hole in your mind." -"What do you want?" -"No one here is exactly what he appears." -"Nothing's the same anymore." -"Commander Sinclair .. is being reassigned." -"Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it?" -"I see a great hand reaching out of the stars." -"Who are you?" -"President Clark has signed a decree today declaring martial law." -"These orders have forced us to declare independence." -"Weapons supplies." -"Unless your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something." -"You're the one who was." -"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die." -"Why are you here?" -"Do you have anything worth living for?" -"I think of my beautiful city in flames." -"Like giants in a playground." -"Get the hell out of our galaxy!" -"We are here to place president Clark under arrest." - -- Season Opener in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"The newly elected president of the Interstellar Alliance, about to be - officially sworn in, washing his own socks? You're a very strange man, - even for a human." -"Why, thank you." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"You're good with diplomacy when possible, but you know how to fight when - you have to. And you speak your mind. Now, whoever's running B5 for the - next year is going to be on the hot seat. I chose you strictly on your - background. You are the perfect choice." - -- Sheridan to Lochley in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"I want the authority to go with it. I won't be interfered with or - second-guessed or micromanaged. .. Sir." - -- Lochley to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"I'm sorry, but I'm--" -"Working. Yes, I can see. Books, manuals, directives, regulations, the - geometries that circumscribe your awaken life, drawn narrower and - narrower until nothing fits inside them anymore. My name is Byron." - -- Lochley and Byron in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"Well, Mr. Garibaldi says it's very well written." -"Well, I .. I'm sorry, there's just the one copy for now, and well .. when - I loaned it to Mr. Garibaldi, it came back with coffee stains. I can't--" - -- Sheridan and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"I will not sleep, eat, drink, nothing! The words and I will be locked in - mortal combat until one of us surrenders." - -- G'Kar to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"That's a tall order." -"Perhaps. But where is it written that all our dreams must be small ones?" - -- Lochley and Byron in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"As strong as you think you are, the one thing you can't stop is the lone - gunman determined to kill you, even if he gets killed in the process. - I'm that man, Sheridan." - -- John in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"On my world, we have learned that an inauguration is simply a signal to - assassins that a new target has been set up on the firing range." - -- Londo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"I'm glad you talked him out of it. I have no desire to be struck - blind by the sight of Londo naked." - -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"Whoever speaks for the Alliance speaks with one voice for many. - Consequently, this contains the first page of every holy book of every race - that has joined the new Alliance. Whoever speaks for the Alliance does so - with the understanding that it is the inalienable right of every sentient - being to live free, to pursue their dreams, to address wrongs within their - own society without fear of retribution, to believe as their conscience - requires in matters of faith, but also to respect the rights of others to - believe differently, or not at all. Do you, John J. Sheridan--" - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"You want to be president?" -"Yes." -"Put your hand on the book and say, 'I do.'" -"I do." -"Fine. Done. Let's eat." - -- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"No Compromises" -%% -"Do you know what this is, hmm? No, I can see you do not. You have that - vacant look in your eyes that says, 'Hold my head into your ear, and you'll - hear the sea.' This is bravari, very old bravari, very expensive bravari. - Do you understand bravari, hmm?" - -- Londo to Zack in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" -%% -"I was going to tell you tonight, Delenn, after dinner." -".. Why?" -"Because .. bad news improves on a good meal. Valen said--" -"Lennier." - -- Lennier & Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" -%% -"I don't believe this. What is it with this place? I mean, last week someone - tries to assassinate Sheridan, and now someone tries to poison Londo. - My God! What is wrong with you people? Don't you have anything else better - to do? Why don't you get a hobby? Read a book or something?" - -- Vir in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" -%% -"You couldn't sleep either." -"No. I heard about your .. situation." -"I heard about yours. As Mr. Garibaldi would say, - it's been one hell of a day." -"Yes, a hell of a day." -"And a hell of a year." -"A hell of a 5 years." -"A hell of a life." -".. You win." - -- Vir and Lennier in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" -%% -"The dream is prophecy." -"Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn't, it's a metaphor. You - could put a gun to your head tomorrow and pull the trigger, and then the - dream is *just* a dream, and the prophecy is *just* a metaphor, and so are - you. You're out of time, Londo. Turn around." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" -%% -"You're wrong, Mollari. Whether it was me or my world, whether it was a total - stranger or your worst enemy, you were a *witness*! It doesn't matter if - they stopped. It doesn't matter if they'd listen. *You* had an obligation to - speak out!" - -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" -%% -"I would remind the Drazi ambassador that the Centauri Republic has - already signed the declaration. And if the Centauri can sign it, - anybody can sign it." -"That's right. .. Wait a minute." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"G'Kar is taking it as a personal rejection since he wrote the damn thing." -"Oh, writers. They are a sensitive bunch." - -- Sheridan and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"I'm not big on telepaths myself. I'm not big on guns either. But if everyone - else has them, I want to make sure I get my hands on the biggest one I can." - -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"You've misspelled this. There's no 'Y' in liberties." -"Oh, go away. Repress someone else." -"As you wish." - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"Afternoon. My name's Michael Garibaldi--" -"Yes, it is. And the answer is no." -"Wait a second. You didn't hear what I had to say." -"Yes, I did. I heard your proposition, I heard what you thought I would - probably say in response, and I heard the counter-arguments you planned - to use. I know you're having some discomfort with those shoes and that - lunch is not sitting well with you just now." - -- Garibaldi and Byron in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"Do you know what a telepath has to do in order to avoid picking up stray - thoughts? We have to kick down our natural abilities, run rhymes and little - songs through our heads 'round and 'round. All that to keep from picking up - what you're broadcasting loud enough to be heard halfway down the hall. - You're one of those people who rehearses everything, Mr. Garibaldi. You - never enter a situation until you've gone over it and over it a hundred - times, worked out what you will say and what the other person will say, - how you'll respond. It's .. quite remarkable and extremely depressing. - That little personality quirk must have cost you more than a few - relationships. Mundanes want us to fill our heads with noise and babble - so we won't hear what you're shouting at the top of your minds." - -- Byron to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"Oh, I can just hear Londo now: - I imagine you are finding your principles most inconvenient now, yes?" - -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"Send all of them. Or at least as many as we can afford. Dukhat once told me: - 'If you can create sufficient fear in your eemies, you may not have to fight - them. Always remember that terror is also a form of communication.'" -"Oh, he taught you well." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"The rumor around Psi Corps is that's what happened to Mr. Bester. Did you - know that? They say he was always volunteering for deathbed scans. I guess - he wanted to know what was on the other side. They say he was there inside - someone's mind when they died, and .. he went too deep. Saw more than anyone - should ever see. And when the door closed .. the rest of him .. maybe the - best of him .. never came back." - -- Lyta to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"Lyta, they believe in this new Alliance. They think they can make a - difference, help people. But they're trying, Lyta. They're trying so hard, - and they're gonna need all the help they can get, whether they know it or - not. I came back because I figured they deserve a fighting chance to make - this work, and I'm gonna give it to them. You do this for me, and I swear, - I will never ask you for anything ever again. .. Till the next time." - -- Garibaldi to Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is - not narn or human or centauri or gaim 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 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. The small, still voice that 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 begin - to realize this singular truth and this singular rule that we must be kind - to one another. Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each - voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of - creation, the fire that will light our way to a better future. We are one." -"We are one." - -- Sheridan / G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"Tell me that it matters to you that I help your friend." -"It matters to me." -"We will find him two among us who are trained beyond reproach. They will - find for him all the things that are hidden, all the things that are dark, - and all the things that are secret." - -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"Do you know if they had a chance to send out a distress call?" -"Oh, no. They were shot right out of the sky with great efficiency." - -- Drazi Ambassador and Londo in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"Ah, Mr. President. Oh, good, good, good. I was looking for these." -"What are you doing?" -"Well, we need to get everyone to sign them again." -"What? We .. Do you understand what we went through to get them signed - even once?" -"I revised it again. It's better." -"G'Kar!" -"But look." -"It's better." - -- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"We've got to watch this, Delenn. We've got to watch this very closely. - Because we are standing on the proverbial slippery slope, and if we're - not careful, there's a big fall out there that's just waiting to happen." - -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"The Paragon of Animals" -%% -"Apparently, wing of a hostile alien force that's scouting out this sector - for likely worlds to invade. For 'likely' read 'soft and vulnerable.' Our - task is to make sure they either don't leave here, or they leave convined - that we are neither soft nor vulnerable and way too much trouble to invade. - We win this battle, they go away, we save ourselves a great deal of trouble - in the future. We lose, this'll get a hell of a lot worse." - -- Captain Lochley in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"You've seen him and Delenn together, right? Now that's true love, - my friend. You don't see that very often." -"Quite very true. He's a good man." -"Yep. A good man." -"I heard he was dead once." -"Yeah, well, nobody's perfect, Bo." - -- Mack and Bo in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"Hey, .. Can I ask you a question?" -"Shoot." -"What the hell are these things for?" -"What do you mean?" -"I mean, what do they do?" -"What do you mean what do they do? You run 'em along the floor, like this." -"Ok. So what does it do? It's not any cleaner." -"Don't know. Maybe it looks for cracks on the floor or it does something to - the metal .. makes it stronger. I don't know." -"So you don't know either?" -"No." -"Well .. I guess it's time for lunch." -"Yep." - -- Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"What does it taste like?" -"Hard to say, Bo. Um, kind of, um .. spooish, I guess." -"No. You're supposed to say chicken." -"Huh?" -"It's a joke. Whenever you eat something strange and someone asks, 'What - does it taste like?' you're supposed to say chicken. It's funny that way." -"It doesn't *taste* like chicken." - -- Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"So, what happened to the doctor that helped your dad?" -"Shot and killed by his own men. Said he was a traitor." - -- Bo and Franklin in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"You're supposed to be the head of covert intelligence. Right now, I'm not - seeing a hell of a lot of intelligence. Covert, overt, or otherwise!" - -- Lochley to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"At the moment of death, there is a passing of energy. An explosion of - consciousness. It permeates everything in close proximity: your clothes, - jewelry, .. anything. We can still feel him, .. what he was, .. what he - did, .. his hopes, .. and fears, .. and expectations. It's still there - for a few minutes. .. Then it will disappear. .. Joining him in silence." - -- Byron in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"Bringing us into a world that fears us and hates us, - nature did not leave us entirely without protection." - -- Byron in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"I was .. never a child. I had responsibilities. I've had responsibilities - for as long as I can remember. Duty. Honor. Family." -"Ah. That explains a great deal." -"Really? And what exactly does it explain, G'Kar?" -"I spent my years in one shelter after another. But sooner or later, I was - able to leave the shelter and walk out into the daylight. You do not have - that luxury. You carry your shelter with you, .. every day. You didn't grow - up. You grew old." - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"Then, as you said to me once: 'I will see you in a little while, - in a place where no shadows fall.'" - -- Sheridan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"If I'm launched in a life pod and let's say, shortly after the launch, - the equipment is accidentally smashed from the inside, what would happen - to the pod?" - -- Delenn to Mack & Bo in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"Now .. time being circular .. if we know that this will happen, then we - may as well assume that it has happened already and that the life pod is - not safe for me to enter." - -- Delenn to Mack & Bo in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"Suddenly, I think I understand Sheridan a lot better." -"How so?" -"Well, dead or alive I'd claw my way out of hell and straight through 10 - miles of solid rock to see that smile again." - -- Bo and Mack in Babylon 5:"A View from the Gallery" -%% -"You are a source of constant annoyance to me, Turval, but only because - you're right more often than you're wrong. And why should i keep this joy - to myself? I choose to share you with the universe. Valen help them all." - -- Sech Durhan to Sech Turval in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"It's good to see you down here again. Didn't know whether you'd still hang - around with us grunts now that you've been *promoted*." -"It's still just little ol' me, Zack. I don't change. I don't have the time." - -- Zack and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"Now, there have been a lot of rumors about you since you got on board this - station, captain. Maybe everybody else is afraid to ask. I don't have that - problem. You see, I don't work for you. I answer only to Sheridan. So I - want to know, just for me, which side were you on?" - -- Garibaldi to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"You just keep doing what you're doing. Michael will come around, - eventually. He's a good man." -"I know. I just .. I just never thought I'd meet a second man as - strong-willed, stubborn, and annoying as I am. My cup runneth over." - -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"We have no idea what to do with the Pak'ma'ra. They're slow, greedy, - selfish, not very bright. They refuse to speak anything other than their - own language, so we have to use a translator. And they're carrion-eaters. - If it's not five days dead and decayed, they won't touch it." - -- Sech Durhan to Delenn in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"Our training methods were created by Minbari to serve Minbari. But if there - is any lesson to be learned from the humans, it is that we are made stronger - by our differences, not weaker. If the Pak'ma'ra cannot learn to be what we - think they should be, then perhaps we should learn to use them for what they - are." - -- Delenn to Sech Durhan in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"This may not be a good idea." -"We should learn about all the dark places here, since that - is where we will do our work. .. In the dark." - -- Tannier and Rastenn in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"We create the meaning in our lives. It does not exist independently. Being - Anla-shok does not mean worrying about what others will think about us. - It does not mean deciding what to do based upon whether or not it serves - our sense of ego or destiny. It means living each moment as if it were your - last one. It means doing each right thing because it is the right thing. - The scale doesn't matter. The where, the when, the how, or in what cause .. - none of those things matter. In my life, I've discovered very few truths. - Here is the greatest truth I know: Your death, Rastenn, will have a meaning - if it comes while you're in fullest pursuit of your heart." - -- Sech Turval to Rastenn in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"As Anla-shok, we choose to do that which frightens us, knowing that there - are no guarantees. He may lose. We cannot help him." -"Then he will stand alone." -"At the end, Captain, .. we all stand alone." - -- Delenn and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"Attend, students, this is a classic archetype in action. The strong man or - 'bully', as the humans call it, essentially a coward whose only skill is - convincing others to do what he's afraid to do himself." -"Notice the lack of technique, no follow through. Another flaw in this - particular personality type. .. all muscle, no brain." - -- Sech Turval and Sech Durhan in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"You, uh, got the captain's file there?" -"No. Go away." -"I could just peek--" -"You know, Michael, you and the Minbari have one thing in common: - You never know when to leave something *alone*." - -- Garibaldi and Zack in Babylon 5:"Learning Curve" -%% -"That's got to be a great feeling; Emperor Mollari the First." -"The Second." -"There was one before you?" -"Yes. Long ago. He, too, ended badly." -"Now, come on, you've got your whole life ahead of you. - Why would you say a thing like that?" -"Because I know. My people always know. I don't know why, or how, - or where, but I can feel it to the very core of my being, Mr. Allan. - This is where it begins to go badly for all of us." - -- Zack and Londo in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"The willow is deceptively strong. It bends, but it does not break. - Its roots are deep and can withstand the worst storm. It promises - rest, and shade, and cool breezes to those who would find rest - beneath it. You have become my willow. and we have all found shelter - in your kindness." - -- Byron to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"I do not feel as if I am doing enough for the Alliance, Delenn." -"Be careful, G'Kar. When the universe hears you say something like that, - it tends to answer in the most surprising ways." - -- G'Kar and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"How am I doing so far?" -"Annoyingly logical." -"Thank you." -"It wasn't a compliment." - -- Lochley and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"I'm caught in a web of my own good intentions." -"Well, the road to hell is paved with them, sir." -"I know, but why does it have to go through this office?" - -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"Where are you going?" -"To pound someone, Mr. Allan. Wou win. I just - decided if you can't join them, beat them." - -- Zack and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"Not bad. Tell me, is that really telekinesis, or are you just pushing the - nerve endings, making them feel as if they've been slapped? Either way, - it's taken a lot out of you, Lyta. You're sweating, flushed. How many times - can you do that, Lyta? Can you do just one at a time? Maybe two? How about - three? How about a half dozen of us?" -"I don't know. Like you said, I'm new at this. I could even make a mistake. - Maybe even pop a blood vessel in someone's head by accident by pushing too - hard. Feel like playing the odds, Mr. Bester?" - -- Bester and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"What the hell is your problem?" -"For starters, I don't know you, therefore I don't trust you." -"The world's full of people you don't know." -"I worry about that all the time." -"Tough. Get over it." - -- Lochley and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"Now, I don't actually like him, and I sure as hell don't trust him, - but so far he hasn't done anything unpleasant to me. I'm sure he will, - because this place seems to bring that out in everyone, but until then, - I have an obligation to be courteous." -"And I have an obligation to shove his face through a bulkhead." -"Your hobbies are your concern, Mr. Garibaldi. Just do it where - I can't see it, and do it quietly." - -- Lochley and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"We met fresh out of officer training school. We hit it off, - fell crazy in love, got married, realized we'd made a terrible - mistake, fell crazy out of love, and split up." - -- Lochley to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"I could hide you." -"I believe you could. I believe you would protect me until the stars - themselves went cold and dead, but my people need me, and i must go - to them." - -- Lyta and Byron in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"He should have a bodyguard assigned to him at all times while he is there. - Someone we can rely on, someone, uh .. someone we can trust. Someone strong - .. strong enough to.." - -- Delenn to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"The Alliance is about learning to overcome our distrust and form a new - community. Can you think of a better symbol?" -"No, and I'm trying, believe me." -"You would naturally have to accompany him on all state business and be - there to guard him. In the palace. In the Royal Court." -"A Narn in the Centauri Royal Court? Ha Ha Ha! It is a curiously - satisfying image, Delenn." - -- Delenn and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"'Earth Alliance medical routine, number 725-IT7.' Dr. Franklin just hit - me with the paperwork a couple of hours ago. 'No interstellar traveler - who's been in unknown space shall be allowed within the borders of - Earth-controlled space until after a 60-day quarantine period.'" - -- Lochley to Bester in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"Just keep an eye on them, Captain. Don't trust them for a second, - because, sooner or later, they will turn on you. You know all about - that, don't you, Byron?" - -- Bester to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"G'Kar? You've assigned G'Kar as my bodyguard?" -"Yes. I think your generosity in working with him will be an excellent - symbol of unity for all the other races who could join the alliance." -"A symbol." -"Yes." -"And you tried this line on G'Kar?" -"I did." -"And did it work?" -"Completely." -"Great Maker." - -- Londo and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"I want the aisle seat." -"Oh, no, no, no. You sit on the inside. I want the aisle." -"If you sit on the aisle, I cannot protect you." -"But .. I don't like the inside. It's too cramped. I become nauseous." -"I'll make sure they have a supply of space sickness bags." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"You don't have to solve every problem all at once. Problems are solved - in pieces. If you're on the seventh floor of a burning building, you - can either die or jump out the window. Once you're out the window, - you're alive for another two seconds, during which time you figure - out the solution to the next problem and so on and so on." - -- Lochley to Corwin in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this" -"My love will guide you, my love will hold you" -"And my love will show you the way" -"There will come a tomorrow where we're free from our sorrows" -"And our love will show us the way" -"We are strong in each other, we're sister and brother" -"And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this" -"My love will guide you, my love will hold you" -"And my love will show you the way" -"There will come a tomorrow where we're free from our sorrows" -"And our love will show us the way" - -- Telepaths Sing in Babylon 5:"Strange Relations" -%% -"Pak'ma'ra are chosen of God, very special. We can eat of all the - creatures who walk, and fly, and crawl, but not of the fish in the sea." -"So you can handle mammals of all kinds, even reptiles, but no fish. - Interesting. Your system may be set up to destroy harmful bacteria on - a selective basis. I'd like to do an analysis of your upper intestinal - system. This .. is a barium compound, perfectly harmless. It'll help me - track how your system handles outside material." -"Not on approved list." -"Well, everything you eat doesn't have to be dead for 5 days. - This is a non-organic compound, and it does not fall in the same - category, so don't worry, now. You'll be fine. We do this all the time." - -- Pak'ma'ra and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" -%% -"That's why we're all here: to better understand one another and treat - each other with sympathy and compassion, commodities which are all too - often in short supply." - -- Franklin in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" -%% -"Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the right place, but this is getting out of hand. - How many more of you people are coming here?" -"How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? That question baffled - religious thinkers for centuries, until someone finally hit upon the - answer: How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? As many as - want to. How many of my brother and sister telepaths are coming? - As many as want to." - -- Zack and Byron in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" -%% -"You don't understand." -"No, I understand, Zack. I understand plenty. You and the others needed my - help during the shadow war, and I did that. I put my life on the line, - and what did I get? You were going to boot me into smaller quarters - because I couldn't afford anything better? The only way I got out of that - was to rejoin the Psi-corps, and you don't even want to know the deal - I had to make to pull that one off." -"Lyta--" -"I'm not finished. After all that, you had the nerve to ask me to risk my - life a second time during the civil war back home, and, stupid me, I did it. - And what did I get out of *that*? Nothing, nada, zip, zilch. I got no life, - no hope, no prospects. Now along comes Byron. And for the first time in a - long while, I feel like someone actually cares about what happens to me." -"I care what happens to you, Lyta." -"Yeah, well, maybe that's true. But talk is cheap, Zack. Byron is putting - his life on the line to create something for his people. And I'm one of - them. He's given us back a sense of dignity and community. I'm proud of - that, and I'm proud of him." - -- Zack and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" -%% -"Was one the same as three? Was three the same as one and two?" -"Wh--?" -"Was there any difference between one, two, and three?" -"I..I--" -"And what would you expect to get out of four, five, and six that you did - not get out of one, two, and three? Your anger has nothing to do with me. - What will satisfy your anger will never come from me or anyone else here. - I'm afraid you must look for it elsewhere." - -- Byron and a bully in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" -%% -"No tyranny has ever really lasted. No government based on violence has - endured. Sooner or later, they all fall. We're here to build a new life - for ourselves, a home among the stars. Would you build a home on a - foundation you knew would not last?" - -- Byron to Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" -%% -"Do you know what you are?" -"What?" -"A B.C.F.M.O. A brightly colored fast moving object. You don't just walk into - a room. You blaze in and blaze out again, like a comet. There's much more to - you than meets the eye." -"If you only knew." - -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" -%% -"Byron, the Vorlons changed me. More than you could possibly know. - I don't know what it'll do once you get past my barriers and I get - past yours. It could burn you." -"Then let it burn." - -- Lyta and Byron in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" -%% -"It was the Vorlons." -"Yes." -"They created telepaths on a hundred worlds. Interfered with their genetic - development. Took people from their homeworlds and adjusted them over the - course of the centuries." -"Yes." -"Because they needed telepaths in their war against the Shadows. Needed us - as cannon fodder." -"Yes." -"We would be normal. We would have *lives*. We would be able to walk and live - and work among normals without fear of persecution if the Vorlons had not - interfered with our normal development. We were made for their benefit, - to save them. We were told that our abilities were our gift and our curse, - and that we were somehow responsible for it. But we're not. We're not." - -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Secrets of the Soul" -%% -"All I know is that they hate comets. Even mentioning a comet to a Brakiri - is some kind of, like, awful taboo. Death. It's the symbol of death." - -- Garibaldi to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"He's hosting a cocktail party for, uh .. Rebo and Zooty. - Now, later tonight, we are having dinner with them." -"Rebo and Zooty are here? Zoot zoot? This is truly a day of wonders." - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"Oh, this is a moment you can tell your children about, Captain." -"I'll get on to having some right away." -"What?" -"I said I have an appointment with the Brakiri ambassador. - I'm on my way." - -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"G'Kar, as you can see, I'm rather busy, but I believe you know Ambassador - Kullenbrak. He's here to--" -"I know! That is why I came. I strongly advise you against this transaction. - It is dangerous and foolish and unwise." -"Religious toleration is foolish?" -"This is not a matter of toleration. You do not know what you are doing." -"The declaration of principles of the alliance .. You *are* familiar - with it, I trust?" -"I wrote it!" -"It states that religious belief shall be sacrosanct." - -- Lochley and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"You see, Minbari humor is based not on physical danger or embarrassment - or rejection, like human humor, but rather on the failure to obtain, uh .. - emotional or spiritual enlightenment." - -- Rebo to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"You know, I was really hoping to talk to Zooty, you know, without - the machine." -"Yeah. He never breaks character, not even around me. In 10 years, - I've only heard him say one word without the machine." -"Oh. Oh. What's the word?" -"Why." -"Oh, just curious." -"No, no. that was the word: 'Why'. In 10 years I haven't figured - it out myself." - -- Sheridan and Rebo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"So .. When you were emperor, it meant something. Subduer of the Xon and the - Shoggren. .. Now .. Ptttp! *Anyone* can be emperor. I can be emperor. *Vir* - can be emperor. If Vir can be emperor, a small earth cat can be emperor. .. - Come on. Talk to me. It's the day of the dead." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"I thought you'd be pleased to see me." -"But I .. I thought you were dead." -"Ah. You know, the reports of my death, they weren't even exaggerated - a little bit. Yeah, I'm .. I'm dead. But, you know, I missed you, - and how often do dead people get second chances?" - -- Garibaldi and Dodger in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"You don't party? Jeez, Lizzie, what'd you grow up to be? We had such fun, - didn't we? Didn't we have such fun?" -"No. We were cold, sick, and we were hungry all the time. - We did things to survive. I've done my best to forget." - -- Zoe and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"There seems to be a slight problem, sir. It's kind of hard to - explain. We seem to be missing a piece of the station. We can't - reach it. We can't communicate with it." -"That piece is almost a square mile across. You can't just lose - something that big." -"I agree, but it's still missing." - -- Corwin and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"Any Emily Dickinson poem can be sung to the tune of - the Yellow Rose of Texas." - -- Dodger to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"You don't come to the dead for wisdom, Lennier." - -- Morden to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"Why did you help me? I know what kind of a man you were." -"Give a dog a bad name, and you can hang him with it. You shouldn't listen - to everything Sheridan tells you. Actually, I'm surprised he's not here - tonight, since he died at Z'ha'dum. Is there any coffee here or not?" - -- Lennier and Morden in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"I'm prophetic, not infallible." -"I think you are neither, but at least you have shown me there is truly life - beyond death." -"Not necessarily, but you'll find that out soon enough." - -- Morden and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"You know, making people laugh is .. is ok. I mean, I .. I enjoy getting a - laugh, but, uh, I don't know. We wanna do something more important." -"But you two have a real gift. I mean, when things were bad under president - Clark, you two said things on your show that no one else would dare to say." - -- Rebo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"But no one takes comedians seriously." -"Isn't that a contradiction?" - -- Rebo and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"No. We say serious things in a funny way, but when the joke comes, people - stop listening. The real comedy all happens in the senate. They do .. they - do one idiotic thing after another, but people listen because they say it - seriously. I don't know whether we're leaving comedy to go into clown - school, but all I do know is that, uh .. comedians don't matter." -"Well, if you don't matter, nothing matters. I mean, the only reason politics - exist is to ensure that people have the freedom to laugh." - -- Rebo and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"So who is this Sheridan guy? .. It doesn't matter. So did you get married?" -"Married. Um, actually, to that Sheridan guy. Didn't work." - -- Zoe and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"I think we need a little mystery once in a while. Oh, and, uh, speaking of - mysteries, I have a message for you. It's from someone named Kosh." -".. What's the message?" -"'When the long night comes, return to the end of the beginning.'" -"Uh, thank you, Captain." - -- Lochley and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"You're so funny. From now on, I will always watch you. Zoot zoot. - Very funny. I thought perhaps you could perform at my inauguration. - however, to make a Centauri laugh, I have to give you a piece of advice." - -- Londo to Rebo in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"What did he say?" -"'Because it tells me to.'" - -- G'Kar and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Day of the Dead" -%% -"Each member race has been hit equally. And the attacks have been totally - random, so that rules out border skirmishes or political disagreements. - there's no one obvious to blame." -"Which means they'll blame each other, randomly. - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"He is my bodyguard." -"Well, it's good to know that your excellency's sense of humor is still - intact after such a long voyage. Well, now perhaps if we could show you - to your room." -"Minister Vitari, I wasn't joking. His name is G'Kar, and he .. he *is* - my bodyguard. And I can find my room very well on my own, thank you." - -- Londo & Minister Vitari in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"While some telepaths on other worlds it evolved naturally, the majority - were created by the Vorlons through centuries of genetic manipulation. - They created us so that we can be used by the other worlds as weapons - in their war against the Shadows. That is all we are to them: things to - be used and thrown away. All that was bad enough. But to find that we - would not even be telepaths, would not be hunted down and caged and - controlled, if the Vorlons had not interfered with out genetic makeup, - made us into what we are." - -- Byron in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"Some of the staff have found him wandering the palace late at night. They - say he talks to himself, cries, wails, curses, and then falls silent when - somebody approaches. Sometimes he tells he has something important to tell - you and then a cloud seems to pass over his face and he walks away. Once, - before his aides could bring him back to his room he told a guard to kill - him, but he was not himself. Of course he was quite drunk at the time." - -- Lord Jano to Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"Once I would've thought *pastels* for the curtains, but I think we are - well beyond pastels now. No, no bright colors anymore, just darkness." - -- Regent to Lord Jano in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"I so wanted to see you again. .. You do understand, Jano, that if it were - my decision, I would never let anyone harm you, I would never let anyone - hurt you. If it were my decision. .. But it's not my decision, you see. - .. Not my decision at all." - -- Regent to Lord Jano in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"Besides, everyone knows the true source of pain is neither the hand nor - the heart. It is the mouth. Is it not, Minister?" - -- G'Kar to Minister Vole in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"We now have all your secrets. .. Give us a homeworld of our own and you - will never hear of us again. Fail to do so and all your secrets will be - revealed." - -- Byron in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"Never, ever, *ever* trust a telepath. I swear to you that I'm - gonna have that tattooed inside my eyelids." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"If you were hated by your own race, forced to join the Psi-Corps .. or - forced to take drugs to inhibit your talents for the rest of you life, - if you had been hunted and enslaved by the others, would you not want - a place of your own? A place where others like you could gather safely - without fear of persecution." -"Okay, I grant you that on a strictly idealistic level it's understandable. - But they did it the wrong way, the inconvenient way." -"I seem to recall the Earth president said the same thing to you after - your civil war." - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"It's bad luck to die on empty stomach." - -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"Regent Verini!" -"Hello, Mollari. Beautiful night, isn't it? As nights go, and they go - so quickly now." -"Are you all right?" -"Yes, yes. .. No. I, I'm glad we got there in time to save you, Mollari. - You know, you were the only one who treated me fairly when Cartagia - was here. But he's still here, isn't he? His legacy." -"It was you who saved me?" -"No. Not exactly. It was them. They like you, you know. That's why they - saved you. They say you are just like them, they say-- They say you - have much in common." -"They? Who are they?" -"Shhh! Quietly Londo, quietly. Will follow me, you will be emperor soon." -"Yes." -"I'm sorry. I'm so .. so sorry." - -- Londo and Regent in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"What could they be doing with our ships, I wonder." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Kingdom of the Blind" -%% -"They have other ways to slow us down." - -- Zach to Lochley in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" -%% -"Would you like some spoo? It's fresh!" -"Pfah! Get that away from me. Spoo needs to age. It takes time to - cultivate its flavor. Fresh spoo would insult a Centauri." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" -%% -"Why is that we always break up our history by the .. the wars, not the - years of peace? The hundred years war, war of 1812, the first three world - wars, the Dilgar war, the war of the shining star, the Minbari war, the - Shadow war. Why the war and not the peace? Because it's exciting, and - because on some level people like to see something big fall apart and - explode from the inside out. And right now, John, we're that something." - -- Garibaldi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" -%% -"And we have to do it without killing a guard, without raising any - alarms, and without anyone noticing that she is gone. My next trick: - I shall fly around the room under my own power." - -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" -%% -"Khrm." -"It's .. animal magnetism, what can I say?" - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" -%% -"How do we avoid being noticed?" -"We don't. We do everything we can to *be* noticed. And thus become - invisible." -"I do not understand." -"The royal court has been trained not to see what is inappropriate." - -- Na'Toth and Londo in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" -%% -"I'll do whatever I can not to hurt them. You forget: we are more same - than different. We are all telepaths and we are all on this together." - -- Bester to Lochley in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" -%% -"Every great fall begins with a single mistake." - -- Drazi to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"A Tragedy of Telepaths" -%% -"We should expect some losses on their side, but let's try to keep it within - acceptable limits. The Corps is mother, the Corps is father -- in that way - these are our children that've gone astray. We have to at least *try* to - bring them in alive so that we can correct their thinking." - -- Bester in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"Our job is to protect normals from rogue telepaths. Perhaps now you'll - understand why we are necessary. Every race to develop telepaths has had - to find some way to control them: through laws, religion, drugs, or - extermination. We may not be pretty .. but we're hell of a lot better - than your alternatives." - -- Bester to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"There's only one thing more dangerous than Mr. Garibaldi when he's loud. - .. It's when he's dead silent." - -- Sheridan to Lochley in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"No." -"This isn't a discussion, Bester." -"Yes, it is. You won't shoot." - -- Bester and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"Let me ask you something, Mr. Garibaldi, purely philosophical question. - On a scale of 1 to 10, .. how stupid do you think I am anyway?" - -- Bester to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"I tried to teach them, to show them that there is another way than - violence. Did I fail that badly?" -"You can't change human nature, Byron." -"Then there is not much point in living, is there? We can't hope for - something better, something nobler, at least something kinder." - -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"I'm a strong P12." -"But all P12's are automatically designated .. Psi-Cops. - You were a Psi-Cop?" -"Not just a Psi-Cop. Bester's protegé." - -- Byron and Lyta in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"What do you know about neural blocks?" - -- Garibaldi to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"You say you're doing this for a cause. What kind of sympathy you're - gonna get by killing innocent people in cold blood? If you want to - send a message, this ain't it." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"Didn't have to end like this." -"It still doesn't." -"Yes it does. We can't go back now. There's too much blood. - We are no longer who we were. We are what we have become, - what you [Bester] made us!" - -- Byron and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"And we will all come together in a better place, a better place than this.." - -- Byron (sings) in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"You're satisfied, Mr. Bester?" -"No, not at all. I don't understand it. Despite of it all, I always thought - that at the end of the day we're on the same side. They just needed someone - to explain it to them .. so they'll understand who the real enemy was." -"Us, the mundanes." -"We weren't supposed to fight each other, not like this. I don't understand, - .. I truly .. don't." - -- Sheridan and Bester in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"ISN has just learned that the main headquarters for the Psi-Corps was bombed - early this morning by unknown parties. The only clues found at the scene - were the words 'remember Byron' painted on the side of the building." - -- ISN news in Babylon 5:"Phoenix Rising" -%% -"G'Kar, this is a strange thing. In the past it was a great relief to - leave Babylon 5 and a great joy to return home. Now it is a relief to - leave Centauri Prime and be anywhere else. I don't know what to call home - anymore." -"Have you considered the possibility that you are simply not meant to be - happy no matter where you are?" -"No, I haven't. Not until you witched it. I thought you were supposed to be - protecting me, looking out for my best interests." -"I am. The warrior in me is watching out for your life, but the Narn in - me has decided that it's your spririt that's in the greatest need of - protection." -"Now, is it me, or are people looking at us?" -"At me, actually." -"Why?" -"I don't know." - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"I've always said this about you: Nothing so improves your company like - the lack of it. The less they see of you, the more they like you." - -- Londo to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"Ta'Lon? Ta'Lon, is it you?" -"It's me most days, except for those days when I don't feel quite like - myself and I suppose that I am someone else, but for now: yes, it's me." - -- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"Where is my book? It is my only copy!" -"Yes, that is precisely the point. The Kha'Ri felt that if anything happened - to you, the book of G'Kar would never see the light of day, so they .. - liberated it." -"*Liberated* *it?*" -"We took it home. Those that read it were very moved by it and they made some - copies." -"*Copies?!*" -"Just a few, .. for their frieds. A few more, .. later few more copies." -"How many?!" -"That's hard to say, exactly. There was some confusion when it went to - the printers." -"*Printers?!* I've only been gone for a month, Ta'Lon, there can't be that - many copies floating around this quickly. How many?" -"Five or six .. hundred .. thousand." -"*What?*" -"I've been told that it will out-sell the book of G'Quan. .. Congratulations, - citizen G'Kar. You are now a religious icon." - -- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"Michael. You know, if you've ever got a problem, anything at all - you want to talk about, you know where to find me, don't you?" -"I hear you. See ya." - -- Franklin and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"Good morning, G'Kar. Well, this is a delight, I didn't know you had - children." -"Neither did I." -"Yes, most unsettling when that happens, or then in your case most amusing." - -- Londo and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"So, what happened to your hair?" - -- Tafiq Azir to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"It's not about teaching something, it's about unlearning hatred and - unlearning fear. As a warrior, I can not teach them these things. - But you can." - -- Ta'Lon to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"All my life .. I have been responsible only for myself. When I risk, - I risked alone to avoid making others pay the price for my mistakes. - They want me to chose them another way. What if I show then the wrong - way? What if they come to me not because of the lesson but because of - the teacher? I worry, Ta'Lon, that my shadow may become greater than - the message." -"If that happens, I give you my word that I will personally kill you." -"This is supposed to put my mind at ease?" -"I'm a warrior. It's what I have to give. You and I both have our burdens - to bear, G'Kar. I will carry mine, .. if you will carry yours." - -- G'Kar and Ta'Lon in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"From here on out we tell Londo only what he needs to know and that's all." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"Keep an eye on him, G'Kar. He may be our only chance to solve this - thing. But I'd rather not do it at the cost of his life." -"And eyes are all I have these days." - -- Sheridan and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"In the past we had little to do with other races. Evolution teaches us - that we must fight that which is different in order secure land, food, - and mates for ourselves, but we must reach a point when the nobility of - intellect asserts itself and says: No. We need not be afraid of those - we are different, we can embrace that difference and learn from it." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"Effective January one, 2263, I will be the new head of xenobiological - research at EarthDome." - -- Franklin to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"The Ragged Edge" -%% -"Besides, we don't often see a sense of humor in Psi-Cops." -"Reports of our depression are wastly exaggerated." - -- Lauren Ashley and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" - -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"Protect the Family" - -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"OBEY" - -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"BabCom" -"Stay in touch with family and businesses alike with state of the art - communications and delivery services. Let us be your new partner." -"Babylon 5 for the business of today and the hope in tomorrow." - -- Ad in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"TRUST THE CORPS" - -- A sign in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"Do you get used to it?" -"When it's one of ours, no. With mundanes it's easier. They hate it when - you say that, but it's true. They kill and slave and abuse each other with - efficiency and enthusiasm. Why should we value their lives when they don't? - It's a little harder with rogues and blibs. Being a telepath means you're - special, and rare, and valuable." - -- Lauren Ashley and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"Jonathan Harris" -"Rating: P10" -"DOB: 4.15.2239 -"Height: 171.5cm" -"Weight: 70.45kg" -"Hair: Black" -"Eyes: Brown" -"POB: Tucson, Ar" -"PCI: Age 10" -"Training:" -" Basic Psionics" -" Op Research" -" Deep Scan 2" -" Interrogation" -" Block Dev 2" -" Field Tech" -"Education:" -" Calculus 4b" -" Psych 4" -" Languages," -" Gn, Ea" -" History" -" Ea" -" Ai" -" Wr" -" Economics" -" Ea" -" Uni" -" Politics," -" --gional" -" --obal" -" --iversal" -" ---l Interests:" -" --usical Music" -" ---try" -" ---ing" -" --nery" -" --ding" -" ---ing" -" --uncty" - -- ID File in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"Does the mothership ever leave hyperspace?" -"Only for repairs and we can do so it without being seen. No reason for the - rest of the world to know what our resources are. The rest of the time it - just sits here in hyperspace for months at a time carrying missions back - and forth and waiting until we need it, just like all the others." - -- Chen Hikaru and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"Don't you ever go away? Haven't you caused enough trouble for one lifetime?" -"It's a pleasure to see you too, Mr. Allan. Where can I find captain Lochley? - I should check in with her." -"She's busy, you can check in with me. Card. So what is it this time, Mr. - Bester? Hunting out freedom-fighters, pulling wings off flies, annexing - Sudetenland." - -- Zack and Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"You're disobeying instructions." -"I'm showing initiative." - -- Ashley and Hikaru in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"He was dead before we got here." -"Yeah, they told me, but I never let the facts get into - the way of a good grudge." - -- Bester and Zack in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"I've seen all kinds, kid. Seen an alien come through here last week with - eight compound eyes and a glass stomach. Two fingers of gin, he's down, - completely unconscious for a two full hours, and he wants to do it again. - I've seen a naked Pak'ma'ra once. You know that hump on their back? It's - not a hump at all, it's a--" - -- Bartender in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"These papers, different styles of handwriting, different names, but not - different people. The same person, with multiple personalities. That's why - we misidentified his rating. One personality *was* a P10, the other was a - P12. It's rare, but it has happened before." - -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"Oh, come on, doctor, we have a history here. Tell the truth. - You don't want me here a second more than I want to be here." -"Personally, no. But as a doctor I have to treat all my patients equally, - even the annoying self-righteous arrogant ones with self-important delusions - of godhood." -"Thank you, I feel far more at home now." - -- Bester and Franklin in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"Game, set, match. Be seeing you, doctor." - -- Bester in Babylon 5:"The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father" -%% -"I was beginning to wonder if you're going to make it, Lennier." -"I said that I would never leave you, that I would be here when you needed - me the most. Tell me what you want done and I will make it happen, no matter - the cost." - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"I said we had reason, not proof. We can't go public with what we - suspect until we can *prove* their involvement." - -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"As a friend he would need to protect you. As my husband he would need - to protect me from anything that might happen to you." -"I think, in that respect, he does not know you as well as he should." -"He knows me, but he also loves me. And sometimes the one gets in the - way of the other." -"Yes, I .. imagine it could do that." - -- Delenn and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"Vir! You are not biologically equipped to handle fast food." -"I know, I know, but it .. it tastes so great going down. - Coming up again it's not so terrific, but--" -"Well, you'll have to change that. We can't have someone in your - position eating at MacBari's, now can we?" -"Yes, but-- What position?" - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"It's politics, Vir. Never take it personally." - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"No, the captain does not believe in indiscreet questions. - He believes the only way to get pertinent information is to - ask impertinent questions." - -- Findell to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"So, Ambassador, how is the wife? Not too tired, I hope." - -- Londo to Drazi Ambassador in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"He often leaves out important piece of information like that. - It is .. frustrating." -"It is, I think, the human way of doing things. They try to encourage - initiative so that we may better react to sudden changes. Our own - techniques tend to be .. rigid." - -- Findell and Lennier in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"All our holy books are reproduced *exactly* as written. Line for - line, word for word, right down to the flaws in the paper." - -- G'Kar to Franklin in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"It is not necessary to know. It is only necessary to try." - -- Lennier to Findell in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"Ah, yes, but what is truth and what is God?" -"[sigh] Truth is a .. river." -"And what is God?" -"God is .. the mouth of the river." - -- Narn Acolyte and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"To be Anla-Shok means understanding that there is nothing to fear in - death except the failure to complete our assigned mission. *Death* - is not the enemy, *death* simply *is*." - -- Captain Enrico Montoya in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"What happened to Vir?" -"Oh, I promoted him. .. - Now, *now* he's ready to be the ambassador for Centauri." - -- Zack and Londoin Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"Sh--Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed. - I had a little -- oh, that's a big drink -- about an hour ago - and it went right to my head. .. What did I do .. with that link? - You Linky, Linky, Linky? Here, Linky? Ow, the missing link!" - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to go to bed. - I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Meditations on the Abyss" -%% -"You failed me [Sheridan]" -"Where were you? [Zack]" - -- Blood writings on the floor in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"Don't fight it. No, you're not gonna win. The more you fight it, - the stronger it gets." - -- Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"I've decided to stop hiding what the Vorlons did to me. I'm testing to - see what I can do, how far I can go. I had no idea. You shouldn't have - woken up. This is just a dream. *This* .. *never* .. *happened*." - -- Lyta to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"We can get you all the telepaths you need." -"But not the ones I want. Look, I understand your desire to create a - homeworld for telepaths. I'm not unsymphatetic, but what you're asking - is beyond the capabilities of my company, or any others. You need - someone with a lot more resources and no contractual obligations to the - Psi-Corps. Good luck trying to find him." - -- Lyta and a business man in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"You would think they don't trust us." -"I don't think anyone trusts anyone right now, Londo." -"You say it as if it were a bad thing. No one really trusts anyone, Vir. - It's the natural order of things. But until now it has never interfered - with business. I find this very strange." - -- Londo and Vir in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"I'm sorry." -"I don't *want* you to be sorry. I don't need your pity. I don't need - anybody's pity. All I know is that I'm tired of being controlled. - Controlled by others, by fear, by my past, by what everybody else - expects of me and it's enough. *Enough.* .. And this. This is my own - private little active rebellion, yeah. I may not be able to control what - other people do to me, but I can at least be in control what I do to - myself." - -- Lise and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"Now, it is absolutely inappropriate of you to pull a stunt like that - without telling me. I can not have you making--" -"You are right." -".. I-- Ow, dammit, Delenn. I've been working up a god mad all day and - I am not about to let you undercut it by agreeing with me." -"It *was* inappropriate for me to assign Lennier to that part of space - without informing you. *Just* as it was inappropriate for you *not* to - assign him there. I admitted mine with perfect honesty. Now you can - admit yours." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"Further, he will not stop, will not slow down, will not give up - until he has proof that the Centauri are behind these attacks." - -- Delenn to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"I don't know how long that offer was good for, but I just wanted - to tell you that I .. accept your proposition." -"Which part?" -"The part where I give you access to my .. genetic material." -"Ow." -"Assuming you're still interested." - -- Lyta and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"I've been told each world's internal affairs are considered - private. And this is as internal an affair I can think of." - -- Lyta to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"Oh, and you mentioned wondering what my pleasure threshold is. - I just recently found out. .. I don't have one. Have a very, - very nice day, G'Kar." - -- Lyta to G'Kar in Babylon 5:"Darkness Ascending" -%% -"I was not pretending. I went to Centauri Prime as your guest, your - protector and perhaps even as your conscience, but not as anyone's - eyes and ears. So no, I will not be testifying before the council." - -- G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"As of right now the Centauri Republic stands alone." - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"If something like this were going on, I would know about it!" - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"In *war* these things happen. We are not at war. We do not strike first - and we do not blow up cargo transports like pirates or barbarians." - -- Londo to Vir in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"He says it's important." -"Tell me when it is ever *not* important. All right, please, just tell me - when it is ever *not* important. Go ahead, go ahead, take your time, - I can wait. Oh, no, that's right, I can't wait because it's important." - -- Zack and Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"You seem awfully cranky, Michael. You've been taking your vitamins?" - -- Zack to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"Michael, this may be our only chance to avoid a shooting war. So it is - why it is so important that you get the information to us as fast as you - can so that we have time to get the White Stars into position." -"You can rely on me, I'll get it done." - -- Sheridan & Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"Prime Minister, welcome back. I was hoping you returned home, - got out of the line of fire." -"Thank you, but I rather there wasn't a line of fire." -"Is that why you brought .. *it* along, to hear our terms?" -"No, he is still here as my bodyguard, that's all. Where I go, he goes." - -- Minister and Londo in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"My condolences." -"Thank you. It's a burden, but I've come to accept it." - -- Minister and G'Kar in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"He has diplomatic immunity." -"We are not diplomats." - -- Franklin and Brakiri in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"That's enough. I said that's enough! Now, we gave you a promise. And we - are bound by that promise. And damn you asking for it. And damn me for - agreeing to it. And damn all of us to hell, because that is exactly where - we are going. We talked about peace. You didn't want peace. We talked about - co-operation. You didn't want co-operation. You want war. Is that it? - You want a war? Well, you've got a war!" - -- Sheridan in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"I told you before: Where I go, he goes. And where he goes, I go." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"What does the candle represent?" -"Life." -"Whose life?" -"All life, every life. We're all born as molecules in the hearts of a billion - stars, molecules that do not understand politics, policies and differences. - In a billion years we, foolish molecules forget who we are and where we - came from. Desperate acts of ego. We give ourselves names, fight over lines - on maps. And pretend our light is better than everyone else's. The flame - reminds us of the piece of those stars that live inside us. A spark that - tells us: you should know better. The flame also reminds us that life is - precious, as each flame is unique. When it goes out, it's gone forever. - And there will never be another quite like it. So many candles will go out - tonight. I wonder some days if we can see anything at all." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder" -%% -"Personal journal, Captain Elizabeth Lochley, addendum. The Centauri war - continues to spiral out of control. The thread of retaliation has already - reached Babylon 5. Over half dozen Centauri have been murdered in just the - last three days." - -- Captain Lochley in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"If this continues, we may have no choice but to quarantine the Centauri. - We'll have to try and limit them to parts of the station where they won't - run into anyone they are currently at war with. Unfortunately, that seems - to be just about everyone right now. So, my options seem to be somewhat - limited." - -- Captain Lochley in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"The Centauri have begun targeting enemy jumpgates." -"But-- It's a violation of every rule of civilized warfare. Wars come and go, - but the jumpgates have to go on. Otherwise the entire hyperspace beacon - system falls apart. If that happens, it'll hurt them as much as anyone else." - -- Sheridan and Lochley in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"Something's bothering you. What is it?" -"I need to ask you to do something I don't want to ask you to do." -"If it's about me wearing those little-- I appreciate the gift and I didn't - say I wouldn't wear them, I just said that .. for me, from a Minbari - perspective, I thought that it looked silly." -"No, it's not anything to do with that." -"[Sigh] Business then?" - -- Delenn and Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"But don't take any unnecessary risks." -"People always say that. They want to find lives in which risk is - unnecessary. There's only one problem with that: It's impossible." - -- Sheridan and Delenn in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"As you know, our ships have been in combat with .. well, just about - everyone, really. Our biggest losses have been on the Drazi space. They - are real good fighters. Not terrific conversationalists, and their table - manners can make you go blind in one eye, but .. really tough behind the - weapons consoles. But .. on the occasion that we've destroyed one of their - ships, we have always returned their bodies to them. They have not made the - same for us in return." - -- Vir to Lyta & Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"I'm willing to go along and help out Stephen, we've worked well together in - the past, but .. considering the risk involved I'm gonna have to ask for a - slightly higher fee than usual." -"Well, all right, I can--" -"500'000 credits." - -- Lyta to Vir in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"Has she changed or is it me?" -"Oh, she's changed. Have you talked to Londo about this? Maybe he could .. - pull some strings." -"The prime minister is otherwise engaged just now." - -- Vir and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"I still think you should leave, Mollari." -"No. I said where you go, I go. It's become a matter of principle." -"You picked a terrible moment in your social evolution to develop principles. - Perhaps you can start with something simpler, the moral equivalent of the - opposable thumb, for instance." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"Who .. who are you? What do they want from me?" -"Yes. He will be sufficient." - -- Londo and Drakh in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"You were having a nightmare." -"Yes, terrible." - -- G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"Who knew the could make such a .. stench .. Great Maker, I don't even want - to thing about it. I couldn't stay there a moment longer. And the smell's - not the worst of it, it was the *burning* in my eyes. I think my *buttons* - are melting." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"Anyway, those are their tactics. What is the overall strategy? They can't - just fight a war to fight a war and honk off your neighbors. There have - to be definite and to their minds achievable goals. Now what are they? - What does it look like they might be? Are they moving toward anything." -"Their strategy has not yet become clear." -"And this doesn't seem strange to you?" - -- Sheridan and Kulomani in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"--the other way, maybe you could--" -"Yeah, you're right." -"Why don't you just *ask* somebody?" -"No, no. I've got a map. Don't worry about that." -"What is it with you men?" -"Here we go." -"Are you sure you know where we're going?" -"Yes, it's the .. same hotel that .. Michael stayed at. - Said the room service is good and bed is cheap and staff is friendly." -"Meaning the food stinks, the rooms are small and the staff will knife - you in the back when you're not looking." -"Exactly. All right, I think it's .. it's that way." - -- Lyta and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"We have no Centauri bodies here." - -- Dr. Varia in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"I know this. I know what this is." - -- Lyta in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"Hello, Mollari." -"Regent?" -"I told you we would speak again before the end. I always try to keep my - promises, especially to those who have been kind to me .. as you have been." -"It is no burden. Regent, I have been trying to see you for some time. - Our ships--" -"Yes. .. I know." -"Then you gave the order." -"After a fashion. I have always tried to do the right thing, *you* know, - when circumstances allowed." -"We all do, Regent." -"Yes. And now it is your time. Mine is almost over. I have to say, I'll be - glad of it. I'm so tired of it all, Londo. I'm glad .. I won't live to see - what follows." -"Why? What is going to follow?" - -- Regent and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"What do you mean there weren't any crew aboard?" -"Garibaldi said that there were two seperate Centauri fleets engaged in the - war: one defensive, one offensive, that no one in the Centauri military - knew anything about the attacks, only that they were defending themselves - against us. Now we know why." - -- Sheridan and Franklin in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"This is leftover Shadow technology, Mr. President. Vorlons gave me - information on them in case I ever ran across one of them. And I understand - a few years ago one was found by the Psi Corps. It's an organic device used - to control a ship from a long distance. You put two or three of these on - board a starship and .. you don't even need a crew." - -- Lyta to Sheridan in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"It's going to be a pretty night, the last one I will ever see." -"You shouldn't talk that way, Regent. You still have many years - ahead of you. That's why it's important to recall the ships. We can still - make peace." -"Oh, there will be peace, for a while. It never lasts, really. They said so. - They said two things, actually. That there will be peace and that it won't - last. They also said I would be dead by morning and that tomorrow .. you - will be emperor. They said many, many things. Things I didn't want to hear. - Things I didn't understand. And things I didn't *want* to understand." -"They? Who are *they*, Regent?" -"Oh, you will find out for yourself soon enough, Londo. You shouldn't rush - your last *free* hours. And there were something else they told me .. to do. - And I did it just a few moments before I came to see you. The last thing I - will ever have to do for them. And in a way .. I'm glad it's over." -"What did they ask you to do?" -"To send away all the ships .. guarding Centauri Prime on a false emergency - and turn off the planetary defense network." -"No!" -"I think I'll stay .. and watch from here. The sky should be lighting up any - time now. I imagine .. it will be .. quite beautiful." -"*No!*" - -- Regent and Londo in Babylon 5:"Movements of Fire and Shadow" -%% -"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." - -- G'Kar in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"No, she's always quiet. We think maybe there's something wrong with her." -"Yes .. or something very right. The quiet ones are the ones that change the - universe, Luc Derardi. The loud ones only take the credit." - -- Luc Derardi and Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"My people can handle themselves. We took care of the Dilgar. - We can take care of the Minbari." -"Ahh, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you." - -- General Lefcourt and Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"Then let them appear, to give us something to believe in. If the Vorlons - do not see the danger, then perhaps the danger does not exist." - -- Coplann in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"Yes, they should, but if the legends surrounding the Vorlons are correct, - remember that they do not reveal themselves quickly and never all at once." -"What are you saying?" -"I'm not saying anything. I didn't say anything then, and I'm not saying - anything now." - -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"Are you saying I'm being deceived?" -"I'm not saying anything. I did not say anything then, and I'm not saying - anything now. Unless you are saying you've seen a Vorlon." -"I'm saying even less than you, except for this. When the darkness comes, - if you ever have doubt about your actions, all you need do is look into - the face of a Vorlon. Once you see that, all doubt is erased forever." - -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"Why do you come here, Delenn?" -"I come to serve." -"Who do you serve?" -"I serve the truth." -"What is the truth?" -"That we are one people, one voice." -"Will you follow me into fire? Will you follow me into darkness? - Will you follow me into death?" -"I will." -"Then follow." - -- Dukhat and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"I am become Grey. I stand between the darkness and the light, .. - between the candle and the star." - -- Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"Susan. What are you doing here? You're supposed to be at the university." -"Well, you know me, never where I'm supposed to be." - -- Ganya and Susan Ivanova in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"The warrior caste loves to win and hates to lose. It is easier to fight - a weaker opponent and be guaranteed victory than to oppose a far more - dangerous enemy." - -- Lenonn to Morann in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"They say we'll need allies. In particular, a race that is so far unknown to - us called humans. If we have not already done so by now, it is my hope that - you will work with the Vorlons to find these humans and bring them into the - battle on our side." - -- Dukhat recording to Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"Humans?" -"Yes. They are the key." - -- Delenn and Kosh in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"And if the only way out is for Earth to surrender?" -"Officially that's up to the negotiators. Those are my orders. Unofficially.. - We're losing this war, John. And if the only way the human race can survive - is to surrender.. then we will surrender." - -- Sheridan and Lefcourt in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"The humans, I think, knew they were doomed. 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." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"The truth points to itself." -"What?" -"The truth points to itself." -"I do not understand." -"You will." - -- Kosh and Delenn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"We should bring one of them aboard for questioning. If our next step - is a final assault on their world, we must know their defenses." -"Very well, Delenn. Choose. But quickly. We are fast running out of - candidates." - -- Delenn and Hedronn in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%% -"I need another bottle. I need *several* more bottles. And then .. - wait one hour and bring the prisoners here." - -- Londo in Babylon 5:"In the Beginning" -%%