% "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, when 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 narrative, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "If it makes you feel any better, I can send them a fruit basket." -- Laurel Takeshima (to G'Kar), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5." -- Sinclair, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % Lyta Alexander: Why is it called Babylon 5? Jeffrey Sinclair: Babylons 1, 2, and 3 were sabotaged and destroyed. Number 4 vanished without a trace 24 hours after becoming operational. "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "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." -- Delenn (re: Japanese stone garden), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "On my world, there are books, thousands of pages, about the power of one mind to change the Universe. But none say it as clearly as this." -- Delenn (re: Japanese stone garden), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Do you not have files on the Vorlons?" 'Absolutely. Very large files. But nothing is in them, of course.' -- Delenn and Sinclair, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "If anyone asks, say it fell from the sky." -- Delenn to Sinclair (re: Vorlon files), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Commander, you know everything about your stone garden. But clearly, you have not spent nearly enough time looking at it." -- Delenn, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "You're a security chief. Shouldn't you be out securing something?" -- Londo (to Garibaldi), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Someday I'm going to find the guy that thought up the idea of renting telepaths to businessman and I'm going to kill him." 'Funny, I just knew you were going to say that.' -- Businessman and Lyta Alexander, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "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), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "We were talking the other day about how nobody's seen a Vorlon before and he said that according to legend, one human did see a Vorlon...he turned to stone." -- Laurel Takeshima, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Even for an alien, this one is pretty alien." -- Dr. Kyle (re: Vorlon Ambassador Kosh), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Can you imagine what we could achieve together?" 'I can, which is why it must never be allowed to happen.' -- G'Kar and Delenn, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "On Narn, we heard the decision to surrender came from your holy men. A secret group called the Gray Council. Weak, frightened old fools with no vision or the will to fight." -- G'Kar (to Delenn), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and shooting one another. You would have thought sooner or later it would go out of fashion." -- Londo, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "My god, man. We've become a tourist attraction. See the great Centauri Republic. Open 9 to 5, Earth time." -- Londo, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Nice shark...pretty shark..." -- Londo, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "I can't see him through this encounter suit." 'Trust me, its better this way.' -- Alexander and Kyle (re: Kosh), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "I don't trust telepaths. Never have, never will." -- Garibaldi, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Back home, our position, status, all that we have is based on family history. G'Kar offered me an exchange. My cooperation in return for evidence showing that during our rule of the Narn homeworld, certain atrocities were committed by my grandfather." -- Londo, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "The sky was full of stars and every star an exploding ship...one of ours." -- Sinclair (re: The Line), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "We didn't stop them, they stopped themselves and I wish to hell I knew why." -- Sinclair (re: the Minbari), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "There is a hole...in your mind." -- The Assassin (to Sinclair), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Commander, this little breach of security isn't going to affect my Christmas bonus, is it?" -- Garibaldi, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Beep. Beep." -- Garibaldi (to G'Kar), "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "Why Babylon 5? If the prior four stations were lost or destroyed, why build another?" 'Plain old human stubbornness I guess. When something we value is destroyed, we rebuild it. If its destroyed again, we rebuild it again...and again and again and...again. Until it stays. That as our poet Tennison once said is the goal: to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.' -- Delenn and Sinclair, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "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, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "This is Lieutenant Commander Laurel Takeshima. Our docking bays stand ready to receive you. Babylon 5 is open for business." -- Laurel Takeshima, "The Gathering" (Babylon 5) % "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 Jeffrey Sinclair's opening narrative, Season One (Babylon 5) % "Commander, there's a problem." -- Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "My brain will be five days dead before I ever trust a Centauri." -- Garibaldi (to Londo), "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "...then you'll excuse me, I'm in the middle of fifteen things - all of them annoying." -- Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "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, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "So, who are you going to vote for?" 'I think I'll vote for Marie Crane. I do not like Santiago. I've 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, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "We'll strike back and we'll strike back hard!" -- Londo, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "The wheel turns, does it not, Ambassador?" -- G'Kar (to Londo), "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "We should have wiped out your kind when we had the chance." 'What happened? Run out of small children to butcher?' -- Londo and G'Kar, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "Your time has come and gone. It's our turn now! One night you'll wake up and find our teeth at your throat." -- G'Kar (to Londo), "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "20 years from now, one of us will be older and wiser. Or one of us will be dead. Whose to say? Me...I need another drink." -- Londo, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "On the issue of galactic peace, I am long past innocence and fast approaching apathy. It's all a game - a paper fantasy of names and borders." -- Londo, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass." 'Who? The Narn or the Centauri?' "Yes." -- Kosh and Sinclair, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "Mr. Garibaldi, you're sitting at 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, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "The Council can go to hell. 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), "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "We are a race of lunatics and cowards." -- Londo, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "Well, unlike me, the Lieutenant Commander takes a while to warm up to people, especially when she's working." -- Garibaldi (re: Ivanova), "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "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 end well for you.' -- G'Kar and Sinclair, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "The sneak attack is the first resort of a coward." -- Sinclair, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "The Earth Alliance can't go around being the galaxy's policemen." -- Sinclair and The Senator, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "Blood calls out for blood." -- Londo, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "Mr. Garibaldi. Just now, would you really have killed *me*?" 'Yes. Yes, I would have, but I'm just as glad I didn't have to. The paperwork's a pain in the butt.' -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "When they discover what you are, they give you three choices. You can either join the Psi Corps or go to prison or agree to take certain drugs for the rest of your life. Drugs that inhibit your telepathic abilities." 'That's the law. Unregistered telepaths have to be controlled in order to ensure the privacy of others.' -- Ivanova and Talia Winters, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "I don't feel like a victim." 'No. And so far, I cannot tell if that is good...or bad.' -- Talia Winters and Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "Perhaps tomorrow we can start out on better terms." 'I very much doubt it.' -- Talia Winters and Ivanova, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "Had the silly thing in reverse." -- Duck Dodgers, "Midnight on the Firing Line" (Babylon 5) % "This is not a clear and present danger? I *must* read the rulebook again." -- Ivanova, "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "Even as children, every Minbari is told to be careful or the Soul Hunter will come in the might and steal their souls. They are immortal. Noone knows who they are or where they come from. But they can sense death. They are drawn to death like insects drawn to the light." -- Delenn (re: soul hunters), "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "Send it away, while you still can." -- Delenn (re: Soul Hunter), "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "We are not thieves. We are preservers." 'Thought that might get your attention.' "We act only for the greater good." -- Soul Hunter #1 and Sinclair, "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "Minbari: pale, bloodless. Look in their eyes and see nothing but mirrors, infinities of reflection." -- Soul Hunter #1, "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "We are drawn to the moment...the moment of surrender. The instant of loss. Between despair and ecstasy. When the flesh fails and all the remains behind. The soul we save. Not all. Only the special ones. Leaders. Thinkers. Poets. Dreamers. Blessed lunatics." -- Soul Hunter #1, "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "Minbari: jealous, selfish, private. We have saved only a few. Very rare. Rarest of all: their leader, Dukaht. 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, "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human life span is almost a hundred years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. 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.' -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "You're a pessimist." 'I am *Russian*, Doctor. We understand these things." -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "What is one of the great leaders of the Minbari doing here playing ambassador?" -- Soul Hunter #1 (to Delenn), "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "I really hate it when you get heroic. Cuts into my business. Man's gotta earn a living, you know?" -- Garibaldi (to Sinclair), "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "You would plan such a thing? You would *do* such a thing? Incredible." -- Soul Hunter #1 (to Delenn), "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "Why do you fight for her? Don't you understand? She is Satai! She is Satai! I have seen her soul. They're using you. They're using you!' -- Soul Hunter #1 (to Sinclair), "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "We were right about you." -- Delenn (to Sinclair), "Soul Hunter" (Babylon 5) % "Gentlemen, of all things in life, are females not the finest?" 'On that, Mollari, we can at least agree.' -- Londo and G'Kar, "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "You know, sometimes I almost feel sorry for G'Kar." -- Londo, "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "And after spending a day dealing with Ambassador G'Kar, I long to sink my teeth into something..." -- Londo, "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "Lousy Dodgers." -- Garibaldi, "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "I haven't sensed so many lies since I worked for the political bureau." -- Talia (re: G'Kar and Londo), "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "My brain feels like its been sucked out through my ear." -- Londo, "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "Don't give away the homeworld." -- Londo (to Vir), "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "Just don't give away the homeworld." -- G'Kar (to Ko'Dath), "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "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, "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "I'll even seal it with a kiss." 'That should make G'Kar's day.' -- Londo and Sinclair, "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "The gratitude of the Narn is well known throughout the galaxy." -- G'Kar, "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "I never knew you could be so devious, Commander." 'Coming from you, Ambassador, that's a real compliment.' -- G'Kar and Sinclair, "Born to the Purple" (Babylon 5) % "Savor the mystery, Stephen. We don't get nearly enough of them." -- Vance Hendricks (to Dr. Franklin), "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "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, "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "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, "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "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 starmap, you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and a Ouiji board." -- Sinclair, "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "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. -- Garibaldi (to Sinclair), "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "Stephen? Stephen, there's a Martian war machine parked outside. They'd like to have a word with you about the common cold." 'Tell them to make an appointment.' -- Vance Hendricks and Dr. Franklin, "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "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, "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "Don't. You're too young to experience that much pain." -- Susan Ivanova (to ISN reporter Mary Ann Cramer), "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "Win, lose or draw, this thing's going to know it was in a fight." -- Garibaldi, "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- Ivanova (quoting Santiana), "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "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 interviewing Sinclair, "Infection" (Babylon 5) % "I don't care if you're the Easter bunny. You're not bringing this [knife] on the station." -- Garibaldi to an alien pilgrim, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "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 fishes left in the sea. So many fishies, but noone for meeeee... I'm thinking of thinking of hooking a love soon after supper is done." -- G'Kar's song, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "Do you know what the last Xon said just before he died?" [Clutches heart] "AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" -- Londo, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "Oh, come on, Commander! Loosen up!" -- Londo, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "In a world where every day is a struggle for survival, you need all the gods you can get." -- Londo, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "Gods by the bushel! Gods by the pound! Gods for all occasions!" -- Londo, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "He has become one with his inner self!" 'He passed out.' "That too." -- Vir and Garibaldi (re: Londo), "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "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 business and I'll get back to mine." -- Catherine Sakai and Sinclair, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "What would you say if I told you that Councilor Du'Rog had 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, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "Ambassador, it is not my place to speculate on how *anything* gets into your bed." -- Na'Toth (to G'Kar), "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "I fight my own battles!" -- G'Kar, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "Earthers have a phrase: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. I think they stole it from us." -- G'Kar, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "I cannot have an aide who will not look up. You will be forever walking into things." -- Delenn (to Lennier), "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "Understanding is not required, only obedience." -- Lennier (to Delenn), "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "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, who will bring death couched in the 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, "Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "And just let me say, Ambassador, from the bottom of my heart: Hot pink is *definitely* your color." -- Garibaldi (to G'Kar), "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "Don't touch me unless you mean it!" -- Catherine Sakai (to Sinclair), "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "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 that 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, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "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 and Na'Toth (to Tu'Pari), "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "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, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "See you next Wednesday." -- Sinclair, "The Parliament of Dreams" (Babylon 5) % "Get out of my head." -- Sinclair (to Bester), "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "There are rules and there are *rules*, Commander." -- Psi Cop Kelsey (to Sinclair), "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "Since we bear a greater responsibility, we're afforded greater latitude, in the interests of efficiency." -- Psi Cop Bester, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "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, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "Let me pass on to you the one thing I've learned about this place: Noone here is exactly what he appears. Not Mollari, not Delenn, not *Sinclair*...and not me." -- G'Kar (to Sakai), "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "Anatomically impossible, Mr. Garibaldi, but you're welcome to try... anytime...anywhere." -- Psi Cop Bester, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "Think about it. You want to assassinate someone, so you bring in a telekinetic. He reaches into the person's throat and then gently, quietly with a thought, he pinches the carotid artery shut. The blood stops, the brain starves, the target dies. And then you just let go. Murder without a trace. No fingerprints. No poisons." -- Ironheart, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "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.' -- Bester and Sinclair, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "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!" -- Ivanova (to the Psi Cops), "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "You're not helping the situation." 'Lady, you *are* the situation.' -- Psi Cop Kelsey and Ivanova, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "We all thought Psi Corps was controlled by the government, but that's changing. The Corps is starting to pull the strings behind the scenes. They're more powerful than you can begin to imagine. Telepaths make the ultimate blackmailers." -- Ironheart, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "Do you know what its like when telepaths make love, Commander? You drop every defense and its all mirrors reflecting each other's feelings. Deeper and deeper until somewhere along the line, your souls mix and its a feeling so profound it makes you hurt. It's the only moment in a telepath's life you no longer hear the voices." -- Talia Winters, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "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), "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "You cannot harm me. You cannot harm one who has dreamed a dream like mine." -- Ironheart, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "That's a lie." 'Yes, it is. What's your point?' -- Bester and Sinclair, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "Be seeing you, Commander." -- Bester, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "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), "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "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, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "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." -- G'Kar, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957 and they must walk there alone." -- G'Kar, "Mind War" (Babylon 5) % "There was a time, Mr. Garibaldi, when one could walk through Green Sector without need of escort." -- Delenn, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "I assure you, we're doing everything we can to correct that, Ambassador." 'Then you are required to do better, Commander. *Much* better.' -- Sinclair and Delenn, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "You're a vicious man." 'I'm Head of Security. It's in the job description.' -- Ivanova and Garibaldi, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "Love? What does love have to do with marriage?!?" -- Londo (to Kiron and Aria), "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "We take no interest in the affairs of others." -- Kosh, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "That's quite a viewer. I've never seen anything quite like it before. What is it?" 'Efficient.' -- Sinclair and Kosh, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "The Vorlons are very secretive. And 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 of that suit is really necessary and how much is just camouflage to keep us from seeing what's really inside." -- Ivanova, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "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), "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "So much for Babylon 5's highly vaunted justice." -- G'Kar, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "I could strangle that damn G'Kar." -- Sinclair, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "I would expect such logic from a poet." -- Londo (to Shaal Mayan), "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "What can a Minbari know about Centauri feeling?" 'Ambassador, I have traveled far and seen much. And what I have seen tells me that all sentient beings are best defined by their capacity and need for love.' "And she will learn to live without it!" 'As you did?' -- Londo and Shaal Mayan, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "My shoes are too tight and I have forgotten how to dance." -- Londo, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "We won because the damn Minbari *let* us win." -- Sinclair, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "Human ways are often unfathomable, but in time, one learns to live with them." 'If one has an exceedingly strong constitution.' -- Delenn (to Mayan) and G'Kar, "The War Prayer" (Babylon 5) % "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, "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "Stay in formation. Hold the Line. Noone gets through - no matter what." -- Sinclair (on the Line), "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "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, "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "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), "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "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, "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "Mister Garibaldi, there're days I'm very glad I don't have to think like you do." -- Ivanova, "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "Smart money said you'd make admiral one day. So what happened, *Commander*? Where did you fall off the merry-go-round?" -- Knight Two, "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "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 screen for twenty-four hours! You didn't just black out. Your ship disappeared." -- Knight Two, "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "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." -- Knight Two, "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "When I looked at those ships, I...I didn't just see my death. I saw the death of the whole damn human race." -- Sinclair, "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "Not like this. Not like this! If I'm going out, I'm taking you bastards with me!" -- Sinclair (on the Line), "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "There's something in my head. It says maybe you're still inside. Maybe we're both still inside." -- Knight Two, "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "He must never know what happened. If he should find out, he must be killed. Do you understand, Delenn?" -- Grey Council #1 (re: Sinclair), "And the Sky Full of Stars" (Babylon 5) % "Understanding is a three-edged sword." -- Kosh, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "I will take it from her when I eat her flesh!" -- Na'Toth (re: Jha'dur), "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "Commander! Commander, is it true?" 'Is what true?' "They say you have Deathwalker in custody." 'You should know better than to listen to rumors, Ambassador.' -- Londo and Sinclair, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "You know the way of command. Yes, the Wind Swords are right to fear you." -- Jha'dur (to Sinclair), "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "They speak of you often, Sinclair. They say you have a hole in your mind." -- Jha'dur (re: the Wind Swords), "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "Then the willows must scuttle carefully." 'Does Saturn have rings? -- Kosh and Abbut, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "Ah. You seek meaning." 'Yes.' "Then listen to the music, not the song." -- Kosh and Talia, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "Ah. Rest is good...and so is a nice lean pastrami with just a little mustard and an Antarean pickle!" -- Abbut, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "We are not through with the Centauri yet." -- G'Kar (to Jha'dur), "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "Justice or immortality. An intriguing choice." -- Ivanova, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "Maybe she's got a conscience." 'Unlikely. Tyrants seldom show remorse for their brutalities.' -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "What the hell are you doing, Jeff?" 'Following orders.' -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "The Wind Swords said you were sentimental...a fatal flaw in a warrior." -- Jha'dur (to Sinclair), "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "What is need compared to the path." -- Kosh (to Talia Winters), "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "Like all secrets long kept, we cannot bear the shame of admitting it now." -- Lennier (re: hiding Deathwalker), "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "Well, I've managed to get the ship captains engaged in a debate over who has the best claim to Jha'dur. The winner will be the first to attack." -- Ivanova, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles." -- Kosh, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "What is he? And what was on that data crystal he gave you?" 'Reflection, surprise, terror...for the future.' -- Talia (re: Abbut) and Kosh, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "Well. All's well that end's well, huh?" -- Londo Mollari, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "You are not ready for immortality." -- Ambassador Kosh, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "You think it'll always be like this, Michael? Little powers at the mercy of bigger powers, politics before morality, expediency before justice?" 'Seems to work for everybody...except you. Maybe that's why I like you.' -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "I think I may be having a problem with Ambassador Kosh." -- Talia Winters' understatement, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "They say God works in mysterious ways." 'Maybe so, but he's a con man compared to the Vorlon.' -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Deathwalker" (Babylon 5) % "Noone knows what is written in the stream until the water surrounds him." -- M'ola, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "Is Garibaldi available?" 'I suppose...' "What?" 'Nothing. I certainly have plenty of things to occupy myself here. Yes, sir. I think I'll just walk to and fro for awhile. Maybe over to my console. After that, maybe I'll try pacing fro and to, just for the kick of it. Oh, then there's the view, of course. Granted, it's not quite the same as if you're outside...for someone that's got over a hundred hours of combat flying experience." "If you'd rather..." 'No no no, that's okay. That's fine. Don't worry about me. I'm just going to sit here and knit something. Maybe a nice sweater...some socks... Does the term "stir crazy" ring a bell, Commander?' "I have an idea, Lieutenant Commander. Why don't *you* take out the fighter wing and escort the ASIMOV back to base?" 'Well, if you insist, sir.' -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "What kind of a God do you worship?" -- Dr. Hernandez, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "We are the Children of Time. We can not break our covenant any more than you could cease to be the descendant of egg-sucking mammaloids." -- Tharg (to Dr. Franklin), "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "Sometimes you have to heal the family before you can heal the patient." -- Dr. Franklin, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "In my opinion, the presence of pfingle eggs aboard this installation might present a serious hazard." 'Thanks, I owe you.' "Import another steak." 'I don't owe you *that* much.' -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "There are more important things in life than the next breath." -- Tharg, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "What were you thinking when you petitioned us?" 'We thought your dislike of the Earthers would be enough.' "Enough for us. Not for you. We do not casually entangle ourselves in the affairs of other species." -- G'Kar and Tharg, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "Unfortunately, we *are* on a budget here." -- Londo, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "Just how much justice can you afford?" -- Londo, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." -- Kosh, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "We Minbari have our own relationship with the larger domains of the Universe. Matters of the soul are very private, very personal to us. We have suffered the interference of others in this area and are thus ourselves forbidden to intervene in matters such as this." -- Delenn, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "Operating on Kosh was the camel's nose in the tent. Operating on Shon will be the rest of the camel." -- Sinclair, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "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.' -- Sinclair and Dr. Franklin, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "I'm waiting...for an apology." 'You'd better check the temperature in Hell first.' -- Dr. Franklin and Sinclair, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't change anything." -- Sinclair, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "I'm trying to tell you that what makes us human is that we care and because we care, we never stop trying." 'No, what makes us human is that we have so many different ways to hurt.' -- Sinclair and Franklin, "Believers" (Babylon 5) % "What, does something about this surprise you, Mr. Garibaldi?" '*Nothing* the government does surprises me.' "That's a very Russian attitude. I commend you." -- Ivanova and Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Then you're ruling out sabotage." 'I *never* rule out sabotage.' -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Commander Sinclair, have you seen the proposed seating chart for your President's banquet?" 'Not now, Ambassador.' "But the entire Narn delegation has been seated next to the Vrii! An intolerable situation. Have you ever seen them eat? Oh! That's horror for you." -- G'Kar and Sinclair, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Are you nuts?" -- Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Oh, give me a break, will you?" -- Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Don't do this, Jeff." -- Garibaldi (re: the suspension), "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Lieutenant Commander Ivanova, escort Major Kemmer off the Observation Dome." 'With pleasure.' (takes Kemmer's arm) 'You are going to resist, I hope.' -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Station One, commence Level 6 maintenance check on all off-station communications channels." 'Lieutenant Commander, that will tie up communications for hours.' "Yes, I believe it will." -- Ivanova and Tech #1, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "You're out of uniform. Very dapper." -- Londo (to Garibaldi), "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Mr. Garibaldi, do you really think I would do such a thing to you, my good and dear friend?" 'In a minute.' "You're right, but I didn't..." -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "I'm a Lieutenant Commander in Earth Force, Major. I do not take demands. If you have a request, I'll consider it." 'Very well then, I *request* that you open a channel to Earth Dome.' "Request denied. Have a nice day." -- Ivanova and Kemmer, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Who would have thought it? *You* borrowing money from *me*. Luckily, Elaros has smiled on me recently." 'Elaros?' "Goddess of luck, patron of gamblers. She and I have had a long and rather dubious relationship." -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "You're all right, Londo." -- Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Oh, my people watch him, his people watch me. We *all* watch one another here, Mr. Garibaldi." -- G'Kar (re: Londo), "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "I didn't know you cared." 'Personally, I don't.' -- Garibaldi and G'Kar, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "What would you say if I told you that a ship stands ready to spirit you off to Narn space?" 'I'd say...why?' -- Garibaldi and G'Kar, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest." -- G'Kar, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "You are police." 'Not any more. I'm a fugitive. Don't tell me you haven't heard?' "Have heard. You are *still* police." -- N'Grath and Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Michael, you can't do it alone." 'If I have to, I'll die trying.' -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "...and then she said to me, 'If I could do that, I wouldn't need an encounter suit.'" -- Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Drunk again, Uncle Mike?" -- Lianna Kemmer, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "Welcome to Babylon 5, Mr. President. You're cleared for immediate docking." -- Sinclair, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "How you feeling?" 'Like I just made love to a meteor shower.' -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "You're more trouble than a toilet full of snakes, but I couldn't run this station without you." 'Commander, I sense a huge pay raise coming my way.' [laughs] "Dream on." -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Survivors" (Babylon 5) % "This is going to play havoc with our schedule." -- Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "If there is anything I can do to be of assistance, you will let me know, yes?" 'No.' -- Londo and G'Kar, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "Why does the Universe hate me?" -- G'Kar, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "Political realities sometimes take precedence over good intentions." -- Senator Hidoshi, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "Commander, we've got a problem." 'Surprise, surprise.' -- Ivanova and Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "Things are changing on Earth and not all for the best." -- Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "50,000 commercial credits, in cash, in advance." 'That's an outrage!' "Of course, it's an outrage. The question is, how important is your religious ceremony to you?" -- Londo and G'Kar, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "You're not a follower of G'Quan, are you, Na'Toth?" 'My father was a disciple of G'Lon. My mother didn't believe in much of anything.' "And what do you believe in?" 'Myself, Ambassador.' -- G'Kar and Na'Toth, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "Chance favors the warrior." -- Na'Toth, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "One thing hasn't changed: workers always get shafted." -- Eduardo Delvientos, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "We have a right to defend ourselves, Neeoma." 'But not with violence.' "Begging your pardon, Commander, but if someone pushed you, wouldn't you push back?" -- Eduardo Delvientos and Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "The Narns. Bleah. They're a barbaric people. They're all pagans, still worshipping their sun." -- Londo, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "Would you at least consider it?" 'No.' -- Sinclair and Londo, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "So, what did I miss?" -- Garibaldi, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "What you're asking can only end in violence." 'I know that and I feel that's exactly what some people are hoping for.' -- Sinclair and Senator Hidoshi, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "You should never hand someone a gun unless you're sure where they'll point it. Your mistake." -- Sinclair (to Orin Zento), "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "Gentlemen, I've been up almost two days straight with no sleep. This makes me a very cranky man." 'Yes, we've noticed. Have you considered meditation?' -- Sinclair and Londo, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "Commander, you are a far more spiritual man than I gave you credit for." 'There are a couple of Jesuit teachers I know who might disagree with you.' -- G'Kar and Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "I'm glad they see it my way." 'They do not, but public opinion is on your side.' "I see." -- Sinclair and Senator Hidoshi, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "Orin Zento has powerful friends. By embarrassing him, you embarrassed them. 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." 'So what else is new?' -- Senator Hidoshi and Sinclair, "By Any Means Necessary" (Babylon 5) % "Why does my mouth always taste like old carpet in the morning?" 'Unknown. Checking medical logs.' -- Ivanova and her wake-up computer, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "Sleeping is not the problem. Waking up - that is a problem." -- Ivanova, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "I've always had a hard time getting up when it's dark outside." 'But in space, it's always dark.' "I know. I know." -- Ivanova and Sinclair, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "I've been out of circulation. Spent the last few years doing some exploration out on the Rim." 'Find anything interesting?' "Yes." -- Morden and Customs Guard, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "I would very much like to know how you got your hands on this." 'No, you wouldn't.' -- Londo and Reno, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "Now look what you've made me do!" -- Londo and G'Kar (to each other), "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "What do you want?" -- Morden (to various ambassadors), "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "The Centauri stripped my world. I want justice." 'But *what* do you want?' "To suck the marrow from 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?' "Well...I don't know. As long as my homeworld's safety is guaranteed, I don't know that it matters." -- G'Kar and Morden, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "I see death, destruction, fire. Babylon will fall - this place will be destroyed." -- Lady Ladira, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "They're here." -- Delenn (re: the Shadows), "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "We must all make our sacrifices." -- Londo, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "Never a transport tube when you need one." -- Londo, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "You are a lunatic. Go away. Pester someone else." -- Londo (to Morden), "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "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...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!" -- What Londo wants, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "The Shadows have come for Lord Kiro. The Shadows have come for us all!" -- Lady Ladira, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "Leave this place. They are not for you. Go. Leave. *NOW*" -- Kosh (to Morden), "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "Nuts." -- Ivanova, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "A gift, from friends you don't know you have." -- Morden (presenting the Eye to Londo), "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "How can I ever find you to thank you?" 'We will find you, Ambassador. We will find you.' -- Londo and Morden (disembodied voice), "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "Look, Jeff. You probably know you weren't 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." -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "The future is always changing. We create the future with our words, our deeds, and with our beliefs." -- Lady Ladira, "Signs and Portents" (Babylon 5) % "One of these days, Garibaldi, you'll learn to watch your back." -- Walker Smith (to Garibaldi), "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "I heard some stuff about you too, Garibaldi." 'You believe it?' "Hell, yeah!" -- Walker Smith and Garibaldi, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "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 Koslov, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "He said humanity had no business in space until we could learn to live in peace on Earth." -- Ivanova (re: Andrei Ivanova), "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "You should *not* have done that." 'I'm a rabbi. When I see a Jew denying one of our most basic traditions, I meddle.' -- Susan Ivanova and Rabbi Koslov, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "You know, you're demented." -- Garibaldi, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "Relax, E.T. I'm looking for the Muta-Do." -- Walker Smith, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "Who the hell are you?" -- Walker Smith, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "You intrude upon our worlds, make mockery of our customs, meddle in matters you do not understand, but humans have no place in the Mutari. It is ours and we will not let you dishonor it. Not now. Not ever." -- Migo, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "And now that he has left for good, you cannot forgive him?" 'No, I can't.' "Then the tragedy is greater than I thought. Without forgiveness you cannot mourn and without mourning you can never let go of the pain." -- Rabbi Koslov and Susan Ivanova, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "You can not run away from your own heart, Susan, not even in space." -- Rabbi Koslov, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "Got any ideas on how I should fight this guy?" 'From inside a main battle tank would be good.' -- Walker Smith and Garibaldi, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % WS: "Glass jaw, but he kicks like a mule." C: "What is a mule?" MG: "You're training one." -- Walker Smith, Caliban and Garibaldi, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "You have always been thick, Garibaldi." -- Walker Smith, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "I've had my fill of double shifts." 'Perhaps you'll remember that next time Ms. Sakai visits the station.' -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "Watch your back." -- Walker Smith (to Garibaldi), "TKO" (Babylon 5) % "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, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "Why is it that Ombuds Zimmerman never gets these cases? Only me..." -- Ombuds Wellington, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "The *Holy* Grail...as in King Arthur? The Last Supper?" 'It has many names, but only one promise: the regeneration and salvation of humankind. My order has been searching for the Grail for millennia. Since there's nowhere on Earth left to search, I've taken the search outward to other worlds.' -- Sinclair and Aldous Gajic, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "He is a holy man, a true seeker. Among my people, a true seeker is treated with the utmost 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 or lost faith." -- Delenn (re: Aldous Gajic), "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "He's probably the only true seeker we have." 'Then perhaps you do not know yourself as well as you think.' -- Sinclair and Delenn, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "Just got the word - another Lurker got his brain mulched." -- Garibaldi, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "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 going to do, Mr. Garibaldi, shove them out an airlock?" 'Don't tempt me.' -- Sinclair & Garibaldi, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "What I want to know is why you believe you can't leave this station." 'Cause if I do, it'll blow up or disappear or something else awful like that'll happen.' -- Aldous Gajic and Thomas "Jinxo" Jordan, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "...but as I was leaving on the shuttle, I looked back and the station just sort of wrinkled, twisted like putty and just, just disappeared. *The minute I left*..." -- Thomas "Jinxo" Jordan (re: Babylon 4), "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "When the word gets out about Miriam, I've got about as much chance of doing that as seeing a Vorlon do a strip-tease." -- Garibaldi [that = obtaining more evidence], "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "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, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "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. Let us hope it never again happens in our lifetime.' -- Aldous Gajic and Delenn, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "Did you know that Aldous character agreed to rehabilitate Jinxo? You think he's genuine?" 'Aldous? Yes. The question is, a genuine what? One person's lunatic is another's true seeker.' "You've been hanging out with Delenn too much." -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "Vir! What are you doing?!?" 'I'm being efficient, sir.' "A few more like you, Vir, and the entire Centauri Republic will efficient itself to extinction!" -- Londo and Vir, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "Fools to the left of me; feeders to the right. I need to find a real job." -- Londo, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "If I hadn't gotten to know you, I'd swear you were a few G's short of floating off." -- Thomas "Jinxo" Jordan, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "How can you find something if you don't even know what it looks like?" 'Sometimes it's the search that counts, not the finding.' -- Jinxo and Aldous Gajic, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "See yourself for what you are, not what others try to make you." -- Aldous Gajic (to Jinxo), "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "Ah, Ambassador..." 'No! Get away from him! Get away! We've got to get out of here. He'll eat your mind." "Thomas?" 'I saw him. I saw him do it. He'll suck your brain dry.' "Thomas! Excuse me, Ambassador. Perhaps later?" -- Aldous Gajic and Thomas "Jinxo" Jordan (visiting Kosh), "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "There is nothing in the dark. No fear. No pain. Only the light. Show yourself. Show yourself." -- Aldous Gajic (to the Na'Ka'Leen feeder), "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "Noone knows exactly what you look like. That makes some people... a little nervous." 'Good.' -- Sinclair and Kosh, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "It's a hard thing to live your life...searching for something and never find it." 'Are you speaking of Aldous or someone else?' -- Sinclair and Delenn, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "He found what he was looking for, what we're all looking for. A reason." 'For what?' "Everything, Commander. Everything." -- Delenn and Sinclair, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "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 and Garibaldi, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "As long as you can hear them. As long as there's noise around. You're safe. But if you ever hear nothing. Worry." 'That's interesting. That's very interesting. It's awfully quiet out here, isn't it Ambassador? Ambassador? Londo? Open the door Londo! Ambassador, it's not funny. Open the door Londo. -- Garibaldi and Vir, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % G: "No boom?" S: "No boom." I: "No boom *today*. Boom tomorrow. There's *always* a boom tomorrow." -- Garibaldi, Sinclair and Ivanova, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here!" -- Ivanova, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "BOOM! Sooner or later. *BOOM*!" -- Ivanova, "Grail" (Babylon 5) % "When do we begin?" 'As always, Mr. Gray, when the time is right...' -- Harriman Gray and Col. Ari Ben Zayn, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "So, how long have you been stationed here, Officer Welch?" 'Since B5 went on-line.' "Do you like it?" 'It beats a kick in the teeth.' "How about Commander Sinclair? Does *he* beat a kick in the teeth?" 'Do I know you?' "Aaron Franks, Quartermaster Corporation. We're hoping to supply the station and I'm trying to find out everything I can." 'Well, I'm trying to eat my lunch. *Quietly*.' "Sorry to bother you." -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn and Officer Lou Welch, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Sexual prowess and rebellion..." -- Lennier, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Mr. Garibaldi. Very good." 'You know me?' "Intimately. Fix you a drink?" 'I don't drink.' "Really? Good. It's a vile habit when abused. Makes a soldier weak. Gets him in a *lot* of trouble." -- Col. Ben Zayn & Garibaldi, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "You're starting to irritate me, Mr. Franks, and I don't like being irritated. It gives me gas." -- Garibaldi, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Enough people have played with my brain already this year." -- Sinclair, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Do I have the Colonel's permission to speak freely?" 'Getting the truth is my job. I expect to hear it whenever you talk to me.' "Well, in that case, I think this is the biggest pile of horse-hockey I ever saw. Who the hell's running Earth Force? Abbott & Costello?" -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn and Garibaldi, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Peekaboo." -- Garibaldi's password, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Lieutenant Commander, I'm aware of your hostility towards Psi Corps and the reason for it...and I sympathize." 'You do? How nice! I shall send you a card on your birthday.' -- Mr. Gray and Ivanova, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "It's not easy to have your dreams snatched away just because you're different!" -- Harriman Gray, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Part of a dream is better than none." -- Harriman Gray, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Mr. Gray, I'm grateful the Psi Corps's given you a 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 chamberpot!" -- Ivanova, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "These Vorlons have been trouble ever since they arrived." 'Well, they're like that. Real fun guys.' -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn & Garibaldi, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Protests are as much use with the Vorlons as fairy wings on a cement truck." -- Garibaldi, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "If I knew who God was, I'd thank her." -- Garibaldi, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Look, I know you're a by-the-book guy, Jeff, but let's face it - we've rewritten the book a few times to make B5 work...and made a few enemies along the way." -- Garibaldi (to Sinclair), "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Earth Alliance may have problems, but they can't be solved by trampling on human dignity." -- Sinclair, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "I was just about to embark on the mysteries of the fuel injection system. Would you care to join me?" 'Do me a favor. Embark on a journey to your quarters so I can get some sleep.' -- Lennier and Garibaldi, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "If I kill him, it would start a war..." -- Garibaldi (re: Lennier), "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % S: "Will it make the voices go away?" C: "No, but it will make them sing like birds, Sofie." T: "A shame you refuse to cooperate." -- Sofie Ivanov, Comedy and Tragedy, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Only one way out. Only one way." -- Sofie Ivanova / Susan Ivanova, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "May I borrow your PPG to shoot myself squarely in the head?" 'That won't be necessary...this time. -- Ivanova and Sinclair, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "You can't imagine what it's like, to share your own mother's love for you, to feel it in your thoughts. Noone's ever been that close to me, Commander, and noone must ever intrude upon that memory, especially Psi Corps." -- Ivanova, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "I've seen plenty like you - hot shots promoted up through the ranks without any real leadership ability. You think just because you fought on the Line, normal military standards don't apply to you. Well, think again, hero." -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn (to Sinclair), "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "I've always been proud to be a member of Earth Force, but right now, I'd sooner serve the Minbari. At least they have a sense of honor." -- Lt. Cdr. Susan Ivanova, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Are you going to arrest me, Garibaldi?" 'No way. *I* want to live to see the future. I just want to talk with you, to reason with you, recite a few choice passages from my favorite reading...for as long as it takes.' "You don't play fair. Okay, I surrender." -- Ivanova and Garibaldi, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "You're insane." 'Maybe I am. Maybe it's crazy to think that Earth Force still respects honor, freedom and human dignity when a maggot like you can spit on some of the best officers I've ever served with, all for the sake of your own ambition.' -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn & Cdr. Jeffrey Sinclair, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "Yes, I know all about you and the Minbari." -- Col. Ari Ben Zayn (to Sinclair), "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "It's good to have things back to normal." -- Ivanova, "Eyes" (Babylon 5) % "A war cruiser. Never thought I'd see one of *those* again." 'They're still big and ugly.' -- Sinclair and Garibaldi reminisce, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "Attention Zocalo shoppers. You can now find all your culinary needs at Wong's Kitchen on Level 6. Fresh chak'ri are on special while they last. Please bring your own holding tank." -- Zocalo announcer, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "We have no interest in explaining our ways to you." -- Alyt Neroon, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "You know, Jeff, I can't believe you're really going to attend this 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, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "It is an unhappy journey on which you travel." 'For the warrior, there is no other end to the journey.' -- Delenn and Alyt Neroon, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "You don't like it, do you?" 'My preferences are not under discussion, Commander.' -- Sinclair and Delenn, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "Impetuous. Is this how you reacted on the Line, Commander?" 'This isn't the Line.' "No. *We* were in control there." -- Neroon and Sinclair, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "It's been my experience that discussions of old battles only interest historians. What do *you* think, Commander?" 'I think...I have a station to run.' -- Delenn and Sinclair, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "Diplomacy, Commander?" -- Garibaldi, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "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." -- Alyt Neroon (in Branmer's ceremony), "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % N: "Branmer's death was a great sorrow to us. To lose the vessel of his soul will bring his clan's fury upon you." S: "Are you threatening to make war over this?" N: "That is how the last one started, with the murder of Dukaht." G: "*That* was a tragic accident." -- Neroon, Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "Garibaldi was right. He said this was going to be trouble." 'There's nothing more annoying than Mr. Garibaldi when he's right.' -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "The Corps takes care of its own." -- Talia Winters (re: Psi Corps), "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "You'd probably be the only human there." 'Ah, but we are prepared to pay so well for the privilege of entertaining her.' -- Dr. Franklin and Na'Toth (re: living on Narn), "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "I hope that isn't the sign of some frailty in her." 'Why don't you check her *teeth* while you're at it?' "Think that's a good idea?" -- Na'Toth and Ivanova (re: Alisa Beldon), "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "Oh, by the way, you know what they say Narn taste like?" 'Yeah. Like chicken.' -- Dr. Franklin and Garibaldi, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "Man, I really need a vacation." -- Garibaldi, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "I don't take kindly to threats, Alyt." 'I do not *make* threats, Commander.' -- Sinclair and Neroon, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "All right, Alisa. What *do* you want?" -- Talia Winters, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "Apparently, non-human minds can cause a problem for someone who isn't trained." 'Yes, I *have* heard this. We do not all think the same way.' -- Ivanova and Delenn, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "You had no right to touch the Shai Alyt's body! He was warrior caste by right of his father." 'And religious caste by right of his mother. You know which takes precedence.' -- Neroon and Delenn, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "It stops here or the Star Riders will be destroyed, dishonored by your actions!" 'Do you speak for yourself?' "I speak for the entire Grey Council." -- Delenn and Neroon, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "That is a direct order from the Grey Council. You will obey it, as you did our order to end the war. Do you understand?"" 'Yes. I understand, Satai Delenn.' -- Delenn and a very subordinate Neroon, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "There's no price high enough to compensate for being surrounded by Narns." -- Talia Winters, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "You talk like a Minbari, Commander. Perhaps there was some small wisdom in letting your species survive." 'We like to think so.' -- Neroon and Sinclair, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "Alisa could become an instrument of great communication between humans and Minbari. We suffer a lack there, *as you know*, Commander." -- Ambassador Delenn, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "When you looked into Delenn's mind, did you see anything else? Anything unusual?" 'There was one other thing. A word: chrysalis. I don't know what it means.' "It's a cocoon, I think." 'A cocoon? That's weird. She shut down real fast when I touched that. Why would she want to hide that?' "I don't know..." -- Sinclair and Alisa Beldon, "Legacies" (Babylon 5) % "It seems like every time I get into the tube, Mr. Garibaldi's there. It's like he *knows*." 'Talia, Mr. Garibaldi is many things, but he's not omniscient.' [Tube opens and Garibaldi is there.] "I think I'll take the stairs." 'I think I'll join you.' -- Talia Winters and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "This doesn't worry you in the slightest?" 'On the contrary - it scares the hell out of me, but what better way to go out than in the cause of advancing scientific knowledge?' "Is this a multiple choice question? 'Cause I have some ideas..." -- Ivanova and Dr. Tasaki, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Your government stands to profit substantially from access to that sector. The jump gate fees are pocket change by comparison." 'Obviously, what I consider a tent, you consider a pocket.' -- Sinclair and Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "What a pleasure it is to deal with someone reasonable. Negotiations are so much more enjoyable when certain individuals are not here to interfere." -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "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*." 'You don't have to respond in kind.' "Of course we do. It is 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." -- Londo and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "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 inheritors will know a world that is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless and evolution is vastly overrated.' -- Sinclair and Delenn (re: Londo), "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "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, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Soon you will have forgotten all about your old friend Draal." 'Not if I live to be a thousand and one.' -- Draal and Delenn, A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "The guerrillas, whose ancestors migrated to Mars from Earth over the past hundred years, have demanded independence for the Mars Colony or, and I quote, 'The sand will run red with Earther blood.'" -- Derek Mobotabwe, ISN News, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Terrible to see places I grew up going up in flames." -- Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "A curious answer from one who told me that a half-truth is the worst kind of lie." -- Delenn (to Draal), "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Our world is changing, Delenn. I'm not sure when it began to change: perhaps the war, perhaps the death of Dukaht, perhaps the darkness was there all along and we refused to see it." 'If you're referring to the growing division between the religious and military castes...' "That and more than that. There is a sense that we are lost, adrift. In the streets, in the temples, you can hear it in their voices, their manner: an anger just beneath the surface, a growing dissatisfaction, a self-involvement above the needs of others. It is not the same world in which I was born, Delenn. Not the same at all." -- Draal and Delenn, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Let me get this straight: I'm an Earth Force security officer, clearance level Ultra-Violet Alpha and *I'm* not considered authorized personnel?" -- Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Commander, what will you do if you find anything of value down there?" 'Hmm, the odds of that are pretty small. It's probably just an automated homing beacon left over from hundreds of years ago.' "Yes, but if it isn't, will you tell me?" 'No!' "Just making sure we know where we stand." -- Londo and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "How did you know about the Center? That's supposed to be classified." 'It is, but that's never stopped me before.' -- Talia Winters and Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "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!" -- Ivanova (re: Babylon 5 mantra), "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Civilians." -- Ivanova, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Just kidding about that God part. No offense." -- Ivanova (after looking up), "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Well, we don't know what other long range weapons might be down there so until we know more, I definitely consider it a threat to station security." 'Same here. 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 Lieutenant Commander.' "Absolutely." -- Ivanova and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Water. Fascinating. I never touch the stuff myself." -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Mr. Garibaldi, whatever it is, it can't be that bad!" 'You try and kiss me and I'll break your arm.' "We're not that close, Mr. Garibaldi." -- Londo and Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "The next day, I woke up. I saw her in the light of day, sleeping against my arm and I decided I would rather chew off my arm than wake her up." 'Ohhh, that's sweet.' "Nooo, nooo. She had a voice that could curdle fresh milk. 'Londooo!' 'Yes, dear?' 'Londo!' 'Coming, my darling. I'll be right there, my love bug.'" -- Londo and Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Now, I go to spread happiness through the rest of the station. It is a terrible responsibility, but I have learned to live with it." -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "The Free Mars movement has been growing for nearly a decade, but noone suspected they were this organized or this well armed." -- Psi Corps Rep (to Talia), "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Well, that'll cut down on tourism." -- Ivanova, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Commander..." 'Yeah?' "I think I've got to go to the bathroom." 'Tell me about it!' -- Ivanova and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "Six thousand years of recorded history, a history that includes remarkable composers, astonishing symphonies, but what is the one song that half of them sing to their children generation after generation? You put your right hand in; you put your right hand out. You put your whole self in and you turn yourself about. You do the hokey-pokey; you give a little shout. That's...what it's all about. It doesn't mean anything. I have been studying it for seven days. I had the computer analyze it. I swear to you: it does not mean A THING!" -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "I rather enjoyed the song." '*Don't* tell him.' "You're sure?" '*Trust* me.' -- Draal and Delenn, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "They're not happy about you knowing about the Center either." 'Yeah, well it's an imperfect Universe.' -- Talia (about Psi Corps) and Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something stupid, we like to catalog the full extent of out stupidity. For future reference." -- Ivanova, "A Voice in the Wilderness I" (Babylon 5) % "I don't know if you appreciate how messy this situation can get." -- Captain Ellis Pierce, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "This isn't a backwater outpost or Bronze tech world where you can come in, bare your teeth and expect everyone to fall in line. This is a diplomatic station and your kind of heavy-handedness is just going to make our job harder. This kind of help we don't need." -- Sinclair (to Captain Pierce), "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "I'll need complete silence or I'll have to ask for another volunteer from the audience. Now, let's see. What was that magic word again? Shazam? No, that's not it. I'll tell you what. I'll go home and look in my books, then I'll come back. If you're still talking trash about killing Marsies, we'll try it again and again until we get it right, huh?" -- Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Ever since the war, Earthforce Command has been obsessed with getting their hands on new technology." -- Senator Hidoshi, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "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, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "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." 'Fah. You can never get a straight answer from anyone around here.' -- Ivanova and Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "One last thing: a favor. If we have to evacuate, you know we'll never get everyone off the station. Ambassadors, women and children, civilians go first. Some of the command staff will have to stay on board, until... I'd appreciate it if you could make sure Ivanova gets on the last ship out. She'll want to stay, but she's got her whole career ahead of her." 'Understood. She'll be on it if I have to drug her and toss her in before the doors close.' -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Commander, it's not your decision. We're going. What are you going to do, shoot us down?" 'If that's what's required to protect this station, yes.' "Excuse me?" -- Captain Pierce and Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Commander, if you order your ships to fire on my fighters, you can kiss your career good-bye." -- Captain Ellis Pierce, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Worst case of testosterone poisoning I've ever seen." -- Ivanova, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Please. Do not let them take the machine. It's not for them. It's not for this time." -- Varn, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Of everyone on this station, I never thought *you* would hold out on me." -- Londo (to Delenn), "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Commander, we have a situation here. Where the hell have you been?" 'Trying to solve it!' -- Capt. Pierce and Cdr. Sinclair, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Strange. I wonder why he appeared just to you [Londo], Draal and the Commander." 'Perhaps because we are most familiar with the third principle of sentient life." -- Delenn and Draal, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "You can be of great service, Ambassador, if you are willing to dare greatly." 'You are talking to the Centauri that led the raid on Fralus XII. Granted, it was a long time ago, but perhaps it is time to return to old habits.' -- Draal and Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "As a young and foolish Centauri, I swore that I would die on my feet, doing something noble and brave and futile. Perhaps it was not so wild a dream as I thought...or as foolish. It is better than waiting for the inevitable." -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "My God. Whoever's piloting that shuttle's a madman!" -- Ivanova (about Londo), "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Who said the good old days are gone, eh?" -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Now, uh, landing thrusters. Landing thrusters. If I were a landing thruster, which one of these would I be?" -- Londo, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "All my life, I have 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 had 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 have found it! I will save lives. The wonders of this place will take centuries to explore. Let my life have meaning. Help me to do what we both know must be done." -- Draal, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "I am sending this message to all three parties involved in the struggle for 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* secret. 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 this world is left alone *until the time is right*. If enlightened self-interest should prove insufficient to the cause, understand this: the defensive systems on this world are now fully operational. Do not attempt to come here again. Any approach will be met with resistance. Any ship attempting to land will be destroyed. When the time is right, we will be here waiting for you, but not until then. Good-bye." -- Draal, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Tell me it's a wonder, so that I may sleep when all I can see in the night is this place." 'It *is* a wonder. The machine will extend his life as it did for me. He will see all the tomorrows, hear all the songs, touch the edge of the Universe with this thoughts." -- Delenn and Varn, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "It's quiet. I like quiet." -- Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "When you figured out that someone was going to have to take Varn's place down there, 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, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "And Londo? How'd you get him to go along with this?" 'An exchange of promises. I now owe him a great favor. He will come to collect, sooner or later, but I think he enjoyed it. He discovered something inside him that he had thought was buried long, long ago.' "Yeah, well, one thing I've discovered is that some things are better *left* buried." -- Garibaldi and Delenn, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Franz? What in the hell kind of a name is Franz?" -- Garibaldi, "A Voice in the Wilderness II" (Babylon 5) % "Nothing personal, but you look like hell." -- Garibaldi (to Ivanova), "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % I: "God, I hate mornings." S: "We've noticed. Personally, I find it the best part of the day." G: "Oh, me too." I: "We all have our cross to bear." -- Ivanova, Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Garibaldi, you're a dead man!" -- Susan Ivanova, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Are you sure you don't require a pilot, Ambassador?" 'Quite sure. Some things one must do alone.' -- Babylon Control and Delenn, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Oh, God. It's starting again. It's starting again!" -- Major Louis Krantz, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Okay. It's morning. You're getting ready to go to work. You pull on your pants. Do you fasten and then zip or zip and then fasten?" 'What kind of question is that?' -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % 'Why do you want to know?' "Why do I want to know? Because I think of these things sometimes. I was getting dressed this morning, for a second, I couldn't remember which I did first. I started thinking about it: does everybody do it the same way? Is it a left-handed, right-handed thing?" 'You think about this stuff a lot?' "Yeah. Look, okay, I'm sorry I asked. You're always so serious all the time. Not every conversation has to be the end of the world as we know it." -- Sinclair and Garibaldi (re: fasten-zip), "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Fasten, then zip. You?" 'Fasten-zip.' -- Sinclair and Garibaldi, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Want to talk socks?" 'No.' "Just a question." 'I'm not having this conversation.' -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Summoned, I come. In Valen's name, 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." -- Satai Delenn, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % D: "Why have I been called?" #1: "It has been ten cycles since Dukaht has left this world to take his place with Valen and the Nine who were, ten cycles since our people had a leader. The time of mourning is complete. We must now choose another." #2: "In your absence, we have discussed, debated, prayed for guidance. We must choose wisely and well." D: "Why was I not told of these deliberations?" #1: "We thought it best in light of our decision." #2: "You have been chosen to lead us. Of all the Council, you have seen most, traveled most, know much of the other species, their world and governments. There could be no other choice." -- Delenn and Grey Council #1 & 2, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "They burned through level 7 and 8. Can't stop 'em! They're everywhere!" 'Garibaldi!' "Look, I've rigged the fusion reactors, but there's not much time. Get going. I'll hold 'em as long as I can. Look! 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! Go! Go!" 'Wait! Wait!' "They're coming through. Take that! Take it! You want some? How 'bout you? How 'bout you? Take some! Take some! Take some!" -- Garibaldi and Sinclair (in the future), "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "If I enter the Great Hall, I'll never leave it again. I will live out my days and my nights in that place." 'Yes. It is a great honor.' "I cannot do it. I cannot accept the calling." 'In over a thousand years, noone has refused.' "Perhaps it is time. I hear their calling. I know their reasons for it and a part of me yearns to accept, but I must listen to the greater calling of my heart." 'And what does your heart tell you?' "That I must stay where I am, that I must remain with Babylon 5, that I have a part to play in the change that is coming." -- Delenn and Grey Council #1, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Do you know what you're doing? Are you fully aware of the consequences?" 'Yes, I am.' -- Grey Council #1 and Delenn, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % S: "Why do you need Babylon 5?" Z: "Zathras tell, you let Zathras go? Finish what Zathras came for?" G: "Zathras tells maybe we don't break Zathras scrawny little neck." -- Sinclair, Zathras, and Garibaldi, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Great war, terrible war. There is much killings. Everyone fighting...a great darkness. It is the end of everything! Zathras warn, but no no noone listen 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 pulled this place through time to save us all." -- Zathras and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Much apologizing. Mathematics not Zathras skill." -- Zathras, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "It is the One." 'He's in pain.' "Yes. Much pain. Warned him, Zathras did, but willing to sacrifice himself for others. We stopped the time taking to let these escape station." 'You're saying he deliberately stopped Babylon 4 to let the crew get off?' -- Zathras and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "This Council stopped the war against the humans because of prophecy, because Valen said that the humans, or some among them, had a destiny which we could not interfere with. It was my place to study them, to determine if the prophecy was correct. I have not yet finished that task." -- Satai Delenn, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % #1: "What is it that makes the humans so special? What is it that draws you to them?" #2: "They fight. They argue. They are ruled by passions and fears." D: "Yes, and that is their strength. They do not seek conformity. They do not surrender. Out of their differences comes symmetry, their 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 their 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 and they are better than they think and nobler than they know. They carry within them the capacity to walk amongst the stars like giants. They are the future and we have much to learn from them." -- Grey Council #1 & #2 and Delenn, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Think hard, Delenn. This Council has never before been divided. We may best avoid division by removing you from our company. You could become outcast." 'I understand, but I must do what I believe is right.' -- Grey Council #1 and Delenn, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Zathras die, but Zathras die for cause. Maybe stop great war. Maybe Zathras great hero. Maybe build statue to Zathras and others come, remember Zathras." 'What if we take you with us, put you on trial?' "Zathras not of this time. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras." -- Zathras and Major Louis Krantz, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Zathras does not want to die, but if it is the only way, then Zathras dies. It is *life*." -- Zathras, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "I don't understand you, Michael. We've got a good life here; we've got history. You've met this Sinclair character twice and now you're off to Babylon 5, just like that. Doesn't what we have mean anything to you?" -- Lise Hampton (to Garibaldi in the past), "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "I think you've got something to prove, that somehow maybe taking this job, will mean the last five years didn't happen, but I'm part of those years, Michael, and I will not go to Babylon 5 with you. It's got to be one or the other." -- Lise Hampton (to Garibaldi in the past), "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Go. Leave me!" 'I can't!" "Go. You must listen to Zathras. You have a destiny. Go. Please. Go for Zathras." -- Zathras and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "Zathras knew you would not leave him. Zathras trusts The One." -- Zathras, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "I tried. I tried to warn them, but it all happened just the way I remember it." 'I know. It's time. We have to go. They're waiting for us.' -- Sinclair and Delenn (in the future), "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "You think that bit was true about a great war and Babylon 4 being the base for someone to try to bring peace to the galaxy?" 'I don't know, but if it is true, I wish them luck. The station was built to create peace. Maybe now it'll do so in a way nobody ever expected, but it's still on the same mission.' -- Garibaldi and Sinclair, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "These are curious times, Delenn. I feel a great change in my bones. A new beginning, an end, I cannot say. We are surrounded by signs and portents and I feel a darkness pressing at our backs." -- Grey Council #1, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "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's staying here.' -- Sinclair and Ivanova, "Babylon Squared" (Babylon 5) % "You can start by removing your clothes." 'Not without dinner and flowers.' -- Dr. Franklin and Ivanova, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "Look, I don't mind if you bend the rules a little, Doctor. I mean I bend a few myself. But I do like to be informed. If I'm going to share in the blame, I'd at least like to share in some of the fun." -- Ivanova, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "I say we space the creep. A couple of hours at hard vacuum would do him and the gene pool a world of good." -- Garibaldi (re: Karl Mueller), "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "Spacing is only invoked under conditions of mutiny or treason." -- Ombuds Wellington, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "Anything a telepath sees while inside a defendant's mind is inadmissible evidence." -- Ombuds Wellington, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "It's not right." 'And this is right?' "It's the law." 'That's not what I asked.' -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "Here you will see the heart and soul of Babylon 5...also its spleen, its kidneys, a veritable parade of internal organs." -- Londo (to Lennier), "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "Seems I've left my credit chip in my quarters. I don't suppose you brought yours, hmm?" 'Well, yes, I...I did, but my allowance is...is very small.' "Oh, now don't apologize. We'll make do." -- Londo and Lennier, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "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." 'Eh-eh-eh. Alcohol. My mistake. Mertana? Just water for him, thank you.' -- Lennier and Londo, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "Kill me!" -- Londo, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "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 included into my choir? I have to keep adding voices until the choir is big enough to sing me into Heaven when I die. It's necessary, don't you see? The overture is just beginning, Ms. Winters. Just beginning.' -- Talia Winters and Karl Mueller, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "No, stay. Stay for the symphony. We'll save a place for you." -- Karl Mueller (to Talia), "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "Interesting. Do you know that the odds of this particular combination are five thousand to one against?" 'Lennier.' "Yes Londo?" 'Stop that.' "Does that mean I've won again?" -- Lennier and Londo, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "Pay no attention to him. He's from out of town." -- Londo (re: Lennier), "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "I'll raise a red." 'Red. I have those!' "Yes, you do." -- Londo and Lennier, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "Brrr. Is it cold in here or is it just me?" -- Londo, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "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 Dr. Laura Rosen, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "I'm still waiting for an explanation, gentlemen." 'Yes, and I am prepared to give you one, Commander...as soon as the room stops spinning.' "This station creates gravity by rotation. It never stops spinning." 'You begin to see my problem, hmm?' -- Sinclair and Londo, "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "I'm going to take a vow of silence concerning this entire conversation." -- Lennier (to Londo), "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "They are a strange people, but they are okay." -- Londo (re: the Minbari), "The Quality of Mercy" (Babylon 5) % "Keep this up, G'Kar, and soon you won't have a planet to protect." -- Londo, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "You've got to stop them. They're going to kill him... they're going to kill him." -- Petrov, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "Look. Do you want to get married or don't you?" 'Yes' "Well, good. How's April by you?" 'July is better.' -- Sinclair and Catherine Sakai, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "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." -- Londo and Vir, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "I think I'll 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." -- Londo, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "This is like being nibbled to death by...um...pah... What are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet, go `quack`." 'Cats.' -- Londo and Vir, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "This is like being nibbled to death by cats." -- Londo, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "The last time I saw Petrov was just before he went looking for you. Whatever he saw, whatever he knew, scared him half to death." -- Lurker #2, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "I'm here to be of service, Ambassador! My associates believe that you're a person of great potential, trapped in a position where your skills are unseen and unappreciated. They'd like to change that." -- Morden (to Londo), "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "There comes a time when you look into the mirror...and you realize that what you see is all you will ever be and you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors." -- Londo, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "What is the price for this...help?" 'No price, Ambassador. But at some point in the future, if we deliver on our promises, we may come to you and ask you for a favor. That's all." -- Londo and Morden, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "You will not see me again as I am now." -- Delenn (to Kosh), "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "Is there something wrong with your hearing?" 'No, it's just for a moment I thought I thought I had entered an alternate universe or something.' -- Londo and Vir, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "I'm afraid the Ambassador is resting. He is rather fatigued from his *heavy* schedule. Perhaps if you come back." [3 women walk out from G'Kar's room] "I believe the Ambassador can see you now." -- Na'Toth to Sinclair, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "I've had this feeling lately that we're 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.' -- Sinclair (to G'Kar), "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "Come to my quarters, and I'll tell you as much as I can. But don't wait too long, Commander. Certain things have been set in motion, and I do not have much time." -- Delenn (to Sinclair), "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "It wasn't the humans. The Centauri don't have the will. The Vorlon's 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." -- G'Kar, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "Who are we to stand in the way of prophecy?" -- Delenn, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "But what if you're wrong?" 'Then speak well of me when I'm gone. -- Lennier and Delenn, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "They're going to...going to kill the president. At the transfer point on Io. Warn him! Warn him..." -- Garibaldi, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % 'But you killed ten thousand Narns.' "I didn't know you cared. Ten thousand, a hundred thousand, a million, what's the difference? They're Narns, Ambassador. Your sworn enemy." -- Londo and Morden, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "Ambassador, your name is being spoken at the highest levels of the Centauri government. They don't know how you did it. They don't care. They credit you with saving them from another embarrassment without creating a war in the process. They've noticed you, Ambassador, which was the point of the exercise. I hear they have great plans for you." -- Morden (to Londo), "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "Yes, but ten thousand in cold blood." 'Ambassador, you're a hero. Enjoy it! I'll be around.' -- Morden and Londo, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "It is important that we move on to create the world that Louis Santiago would have wanted for his children, my children, and for posterity yet to come. We will begin by focusing more on the needs of our own people, to sustain them through this difficult time, and to prepare them for the tasks ahead." -- President Clark, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "And so it begins." -- Kosh (to Sinclair), "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "You have forgotten something." -- Kosh (to Sinclair), "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "What is it?" 'A chrysalis. She is changing.' "Into what?" 'I don't know.' -- Sinclair and Lennier, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "Na'Toth, by the time you get this message, I will be gone. I have certain suspicions about the attack on quadrant 37. I'm taking the first transport back to homeworld. You will not be able to contact me. I will contact you. And, uh, 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, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "He is an annoying man, but I would miss him if he..." -- Londo, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "Yes, I think he's ready. Perfect for our needs. No, no, he suspects nothing. When the time is right, Ambassador Mollari will do exactly as we wish. Destiny is on our side." -- Morden, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "Nothing's the same any more." -- Sinclair, "Chrysalis" (Babylon 5) % "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." -- Commander John Sheridan's opening narrative, Season Two (Babylon 5) % "The last time I make personal contact with a Minbari warship I sent it straight to Hell." -- Sheridan, "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "As far as I'm concerned, the transports can wait until the sun explodes. And if you're not happy with the seating arrangements, I will personally order your seats moved outside, down the hall, across the station, and into the fusion reactor. Am I absolutely, perfectly clear on this?" -- Ivanova, "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "I can only conclude that I'm paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate." -- Ivanova, "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "It's amazing what two years on the rim can do to you." -- Sheridan, "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % Ivanova: Ambassador Delenn is in a cocoon. Sheridan: A cocoon? As in a moth or a butterfly? Ivanova: Yes, sir. About yea high. "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % Ivanova: I'll say a prayer for him tonight. Franklin: He's agnostic. Ivanova: Then I'll say half a prayer. -- Ivanova and Dr. Franklin (re: Garibaldi), "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "The day that a man such as yourself is given a position of this importance is a dark day indeed. We lost many of our best warriors because of you. And we do not soon forget such things. If there is a doom on this station, it is because you brought it here." -- Hedronn (to Sheridan), "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % Ivanova: They're a prideful people and the BLACKSTAR was their flagship. Sheridan: That's why it make a good target. -- (re: the Minbari), "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "It was the only real victory we had in the whole damn war, and I am not about to apologize for it!" -- Sheridan (re: the BLACKSTAR), "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "If you are going to kill me, then do so. Otherwise I have considerable work to do." -- Lennier (to Kalain), "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % Kalain: Everyone knows Minbari do not kill Minbari. Sheridan: Then why are you here? Kalain: Perhaps everyone is wrong. "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % Delenn: They fight bravely. They cannot harm our ships, but they continue to try. Hedronn: Whether they fight or not, they know they will die anyway. So really, is this bravery or simple desperation? Delenn: Perhaps they are the same thing. "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "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 two thousand 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 almost as if our greater souls have been disappearing. At the Battle of the Line, we discovered where our souls were going. They were going to you. Minbari souls are being reborn, in part or in full, in human bodies." -- Lennier, "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % Ivanova: So you stopped the war in order to avoid harming your own souls? Lennier: Yes, but the Council knew that our people, and yours, were not ready for this information. It could unravel our entire society. So we could not tell our generals the reason for the surrender. We had all memory of the examination erased from Sinclair's mind, and we let him go. It has been our secret. Now it is yours. It must be kept. "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % Ivanova: Then why break the silence now? Why tell us?" Lennier: Because changes are coming. Commander Sinclair was the first. There will be more. "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "The war has already begun, Captain. All that remains now is honor and death." -- Deeron, "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "And I thought I was a pessimist." -- Ivanova, "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "I told them, Delenn, as I was ordered. I only wish I could have told them the rest - about the great enemy that is returning and the prophecy 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. I am told that the Earthers will discover all this, soon enough, on their own. I hope they are right. Because if we are wrong, no one will survive our mistake." -- Lennier, "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % "It was an early earth president, Abraham Lincoln, who best described our situation. 'The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, or last best hope for Earth.'" -- Sheridan, "Points of Departure" (Babylon 5) % Lennier: Ambassador Delenn remains indisposed. Londo: Indisposed? She's in a cocoon. Lennier: Yes. "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "The Narns will never be able to prove it was done at your instigation. and, based on your promise to take care of it, your government accepts your responsibility without question or hesitation. Perfect symmetry. I believe that this little demonstration will bring you some very interesting propositions." -- Morden (to Londo), "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % Londo: Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while you're at it? Morden: One thing at a time, Ambassador. One thing at a time. "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "Weep for the future, Na'Toth, Weep for us all." -- G'Kar, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "I have looked into the darkness, Na'Toth. You cannot do that and ever be quite the same again. When you told me about the destruction of our base in Quadrant 37, I knew that only a major power could attempt an assault of that magnitude, but none of the governments here could have done it, which left only two possibilities: a new race, or an old race - a very old race. -- G'Kar, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "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 that enemy was thrown down, it dwelled in a system at the rim of known space." -- G'Kar, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "On dark deserted worlds, where there should be no life, where no living thing has walked in over a 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, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "What's up, Doc?" -- Garibaldi, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % G'Kar: Mollari, the grievances between my people and yours will never be resolved except with Centauri blood. Accept that as a given. Londo: Well, its good to know we're appreciated. "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "I am not ill, doctor. What I have become, what I suffer, requires you alone." -- Delenn (to Dr. Franklin), "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "...which leads me to believe that the ancient race described in our holy books may have returned. If true, this holds grave danger for all of us." -- G'Kar, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % Sheridan: And if someone is living there? G'Kar: Then all our races stand on the end of extinction. -- (re: Z'ha'dum), "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "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 gonna find out... real soon.' -- Garibaldi and Jack, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "They put you in an airlock, seal it, and then open the space door. You spend the next five minutes chewing vacuum until your lungs turn inside-out, your eyeballs freeze, and your heart explodes. It's the worst kind of death you can imagine. And when that day comes, I'll be there to push the button." -- Garibaldi (re: spacing), "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "Be seeing you." -- Garibaldi's aide/Jack, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "When a warship jumps to normal space, it's briefly out of contact because of the energy drain. It might have been attacked during that period. But that couldn't happen unless...unless they knew the ship was coming and were waiting for it. But no one knew, except..." -- G'Kar, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "Ambassador Sinclair has been allowed to live on my world as an act of good faith, to create a greater understanding between 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, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "I trust her as much as I trust any telepath, but she's still Psi Corps." -- Garibaldi (re: Talia Winters), "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "Now Jack didn't admit anything, but he did say that the Homeguard wasn't behind President Santiago's assassination. But what if it was the Psi Corps? What if they wanted someone in office who was sympathetic to the Corps? Right before Earth Force 1 exploded, the Vice-President got off at Mars, saying he had the flu. Pretty convenient, isn't it?" -- Garibaldi, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "Things have changed, Na'Toth, and they will never be the same. But we are Narns. We have learned to cope with change - to triumph in the face of adversity. We will overcome this as well. We have no other choice." -- G'Kar, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere, The ceremony of innocence is drowned. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?" -- G'Kar, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "Gets cold up here sometimes, doesn't it, Lieutenant Commander?" 'Yes sir. It does indeed.' -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "Revelations" (Babylon 5) % "We used to have them back home long ago. They use science to achieve the effect of magic. I haven't seen one in years. They almost never travel. They don't like to leave their places of power. To see even one of them is a rare thing. To see more than one at a time is considered a very bad omen." [3 mages walk by] "Three...this is definitely not good." -- Londo (re: technomages), "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "The universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy." -- Sheridan to Garibaldi, "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "You can start by helping me understand the precise nature of conflict between the two sides that you've set up." 'Green.' `Purple.` "No, I understand that there are two factions, but what is your point of contention? Where do you disagree with each other?" `Purple.` 'Green.' -- Ivanova, Purple Drazi, and Green Drazi "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % Elric: You don't frighten easily. Vir: I work for Ambassador Mollari. After a while nothing bothers you. -- "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "Do not try the patience of wizards, for they are suttle and quick to anger." -- Elric to Vir, "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "If it gets too bad I'll just gnaw it off at the ankle." -- Ivanova, "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "Every day you here create greater miracles than the burning bush." 'Maybe. But God was there first and He didn't need solar batteries and a fusion reactor to do it.' "Perhaps, perhaps not." -- Elric and Sheridan, "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "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." 'Such as?' "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, how to say good-bye to a friend who is dying, how to be poor, how to be rich, how to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them from you. -- Elric and Sheridan, "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "There is a storm coming, a black and terrible storm. We would not have our knowledge lost, or used to ill purpose. From this place, we will launch ourselves into the stars. With luck, you will never see our kind again in your lifetime. I know you have your orders, Captain. Detain us if you wish, but I cannot tell you where we're going. I can only ask you to trust us." -- Elric, "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "Wait a minute. You're saying just because I'm holding this right now, I'm green leader? But I'm human." 'Rules of combat older than contact with other races. Did not mention aliens. Rules change caught up in committee. Not come through yet.' -- Ivanova and Green Drazi, "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "I know this place and everyone on it intimately." 'I beg your pardon.' -- Garibaldi and Ivanova, "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % Sheridan: "So in other words, you're perfect for the job because you're paranoid and compulsive." Franklin: "Or compulsively paranoid." Garibaldi: "Who told you to say that?" -- "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "I'm afraid you're going to have to spend the rest of your life paying for your mistakes." -- Elric (to Londo), "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "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." -- Elric (to Londo), "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "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, "The Geometry of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "There's the story she told us, but then the Minbari never tell you the whole truth." -- Sheridan, "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % "Things can get kind of weird out on the rim, too. It's funny. You never know what you're going to find when you look over the edge of what's known and into what's not." -- Maynard, "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % "I am more 'one of us' at this moment, than I have ever been. More than you will ever know." -- Delenn (to Teronn), "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % "Understanding is not required. Only obedience." -- Delenn (to Teronn), "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % "Figures. All my life, I've fought against imperialism. Now, suddenly, I *am* the expanding Russian frontier." 'But with very nice borders.' -- Ivanova and Dr. Franklin, "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % "The adventure is out there, Jack. Man has to go meet it." 'Well, sometimes it comes to you. Wait for it Johnny.' -- Sheridan and Maynard, "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % "If the primates that we came from had known that someday politicians would come out of the...the gene pool, they'd a stayed up in the trees and written evolution off as a bad idea. Hell, I always thought the opposable thumb was overrated." -- Sheridan, "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % "An old friend of mine once quoted me a ancient Egyptian blessing: 'God be between you and harm, and all the empty places where you must walk.'" -- Sheridan, "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % "The universe puts us in places where we can learn. They are never easy places, But they are right. Wherever we are is the right place at the right time. The pain that sometimes comes. It is part of the process of constantly being born." 'You sound like you've been doing some thinking about this on your own.' "Perhaps. We are both, I suppose, going through transitions. But the universe knows what it's doing." -- Delenn and Sheridan, "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % "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), "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % Keffer: As for what it was, I don't know. There was just this feeling that something dark and dangerous had gone by. You know that feeling like somebody just walked on your grave? That's the only way I can describe it. Maynard: This feeling that something's out there, you just never forget it. Keffer: I want to know what it is. Ivanova: I'm sure we'll find out one of these days. -- "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % Garibaldi: You think that's good, wait until dessert. Franklin: Well now, wait a minute. I didn't authorize dessert. Garibaldi: No? Then you can't have any. Franklin: What is it? Garibaldi: Doesn't matter, you're not getting any. -- "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % Sheridan: Ever had a long talk with Ambassador Delenn, Commander? Ivanova: From time to time. Why? Sheridan: She and the universe seem to have a special relationship. Ivanova: Don't we all? -- "A Distant Star" (Babylon 5) % "Where are you? There you are! There you are! I see you..." -- Amis (while looking out a port), "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "Hear me O Lord and the rest of you miserable sinners and you non-humanoid types. Judgment 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, something like that. We're all in great danger. A pox upon this station." -- Amis, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "I have walked in the valley of -" 'Good! Keep on walking.' -- Amis and G'Kar, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "You, with the hair." 'Oh, jeez.' -- Amis and Londo, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "Were you in the war?" 'No, I missed it.' "He didn't." 'How do you know?' "I've had that same dream." -- Garibaldi and Guard, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "You were about to accuse the Centauri Ambassador of being in league with the devil. Which might not be far from the truth." -- Garibaldi (to Amis), "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "You were standing in the middle of the plaza yelling that the day of judgment was coming." 'Did it?' "Not that I know, but I may have missed a staff meeting." -- Garibaldi and Amis, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % Garibaldi: Lousy way to die, huh? Sheridan: Last I checked there weren't too many good ways. -- "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "It's gonna take a lot more than a hundred years to evole a better human." -- Dr. Franklin, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "Take my advice and go back to the time you came from. The future isn't what it used to be." -- G'Kar, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "You're all going to 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'll find you." -- Amis, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "She has brought something evil from the past...a soldier of darkness." -- Markab Ambassador, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "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, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "Evil sometimes wears a pleasant face." -- Markab Ambassador, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "We set up camp in old ruins of some kind. As far as we knew, it was a dead world. It came in the night, during a storm. We heard nothing, saw nothing. It came right through the walls, like a hot wind. The first man died, just meters from me - never even screamed. We ran... we ran. For a second, I thought I lost it, and then I saw it. Standing in the middle of a ball of lightning. It looked like it had come straight from hell." -- Amis, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "How did you survive?" 'I didn't! It kept me alive. As a snack.' -- Garibaldi and Amis, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "You got a plan?" 'Let's try not to get killed.' "Brilliant." -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "Don't make promises life won't let you keep." -- Mariah, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "You said the ship was reprogrammed to a new destination. So where was it going?" 'It was heading for the rim. Toward the exact place where Ambassador G'Kar told us an ancient enemy was gathering its forces.' -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "Something's going on, Commander." 'I know. And between you and me. It's scaring the hell out of me.' -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "The Long Dark" (Babylon 5) % "With all due respect Senator. My duties as commander of B5 don't include spying on civilians." 'These are volatile times, Captain. Practicality is more important than principles, if lives are to be saved. I'll expect to hear from you soon.' -- Sheridan and Senator Elise Voudreau "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % "We finally broke the language barrier and introduced ourselves. And I was invited aboard their ship. It was incredible. I'd never seen so much space on a starship and the T'Kar themselves. So unlike any other species we'd encountered. Spent two days with them and what I learned in that time made me realize just how wondrous this galaxy of ours really is." -- Sheridan, "A Spider in the Web." (Babylon 5) % "Taro Isogi spent his life improving the lives of others. He built a business based on that principle, and he never broke a rule or harmed another to do it. Mars was his dream, Captain, now he's been murdered for it, and you're trying to cast the blame on him." -- Talia Winters, "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % Talia: I'm also tired and I hurt. May I go back to my quarters now? Sheridan: Yes, I'll arrange for an escort. [before Sheridan can call] Garibaldi: One escort at your service. -- "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % "You know how I feel about telepaths." 'Do I ever. You threw one out of a third story window in Io.' "There was an ample pool below the window." 'I'll assume you knew that.' -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % "Telepaths are gifted and cursed in ways I can never hope to understand. But they're still human beings - good, bad, or indifferent. No...I trust in individuals, not organizations." 'Then you may trust Miss Winters.' -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % "Tea just happens to be my third favorite thing in the universe." -- Garibaldi, "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % "The theory was to 'hard-wire' the subject's brain with a computer intelligence that kept the brain functional while the body was repaired. Then, using telepathic deep scan, the subject was fixated on the moment of his death, shutting down all conscious thought. The computer takes complete control, while the subject is dying over and over again in his subconscious." -- Sheridan (re: Project Lazarus), "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % "Ours now. All ours." -- Thirteen/Psi Cop, "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % "Mars will never be free until the sands run red with Earther blood." -- Abel Horn, "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % "For the past six years, there have been rumors about a...rogue agency operating deep inside Earth Gov. A dirty tricks squad dealing in black projects and Star Chamber justice. It took me over three years just to get the name: Bureau 13. And the man who gave me that name died soon after. I am convinced they exist and that they are behind this incident." -- Sheridan, "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % "There is a spider in the web, Mr. Garibaldi, and I intend to find it... and kill it." -- Sheridan, "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % "Thirteen." 'Report from Babylon 5 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. Thirteen out." -- Thirteen/Psi Cop and Computer Voice "A Spider in the Web" (Babylon 5) % Vir: I'm here to pick up some women. Garibaldi: You'll have better luck at bars. -- "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % Garibaldi: You know him? Talia: Only in the most unpleasant sense. I was married to him. -- (re: Matthew Stoner), "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % Timov: I won't bite, Vir. Vir: With all due respect, madam. That's not what I've heard. Timov: Alright, that *one* time. Vir: It was...it was twice. -- "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Daggair! My, what a surprise." 'A pleasant one?' "I wouldn't go that far." -- Timov and Daggair, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "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.' -- Daggair and Timov, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "How long were you married?" 'Just long enough to realize it was a mistake.' -- Sheridan and Talia Winters, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % Sheridan: People seem to be implying that I shouldn't get too comfortable. G'Kar: 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 this station's history. -- "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Ah, my good Captain Sheridan, all settled in?" 'All settled, Ambassador.' -- Londo and Sheridan, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "And my dear G'Kar, how are you this glorious day?" 'We're in a space station, Ambassador. One day is much like another.' -- Londo and G'Kar, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Who does Londo think he is to keep us sitting about?" 'He probably thinks he's our husband and that we as dutiful wives will wait with breathless anticipation for his arrival.' -- Timov and Daggair, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Your problem Timov, is that you've never known your place." 'My place? You once threatened to break a vase over his head.' "Well now, that was the impetuousness of youth." 'That was last month.' -- Daggair and Timov, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Where have you been?" 'Affairs of State, my dear.' "State of inebriation I'd wager." -- Timov and Londo, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "The secret of our marriage's success, Londo, is our lack of communication." -- Timov, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Now, the Emperor is a busy fellow, of course, no time to shop. Unlike my beloved wives who always find the time to run up my credit accounts. In any event, he wished to give me a gift in honor of my service to our people and the gift he gave me was...any one wish within his power to grant." 'And what was your wish, my sweet?' "A *divorce*! An easement from the arranged marriages to my three wives." -- Londo and Daggair, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "So if I'm feeling insecure, hugging you will make me feel better?" -- Matthew Stoner (to Garibaldi), "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "I can help you with the big words if you're having trouble." -- Matthew Stoner (to Garibaldi), "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % Stoner: Would you like me to tell you all about her? What she likes to hear. Where she likes to be touched. Garibaldi: Don't push it. Stoner: The little noises she makes. Does she cry out or sigh softly. -- (re: Talia Winters), "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "I'll be keeping an eye on you." 'Use both eyes, you'll need them.' -- Garibaldi and Matthew Stoner, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Mariel is drawn to men of power in that same way. But trust me, she burns them." -- Londo (to Sheridan), "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Londo, I'm not like the others, you know that. I've always been forgiving, passionate. Goodness knows I've been passionate. Noone can compare to you." 'And how many opportunities have you taken for comparison?' -- Mariel and Londo, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "They're merely expressing their feelings for me." 'I can do that." [Timov slaps Londo] -- Londo and Timov, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "You haven't changed." 'You have. You've devolved.' -- Londo and Timov, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "I'm tired of...of learning things about people I don't want to know. I'm tired of having them shrink away from me because of what I might find out. And I'm tired of being a part of an organization that scares the hell out of me." -- Talia Winters, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "A deck of cards from my dear friend Lennier." 'And I marked them exactly as you requested.' -- Londo and Lennier, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Hey, how about I call you an idiot in public and you can convict me for revealing state secrets." -- Matthew Stoner (to Garibaldi), "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "It may interest you to know that Londo and I do have one thing in common. The same blood type." 'Well, why didn't you tell me this before.' "I was deciding what to do about it." -- Timov and Dr. Franklin, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "You may have your transfusion, Doctor, on one condition: He must never know I did this. I don't think either of us could stand the awkwardness of false gratitude." -- Timov (to Dr. Franklin), "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Londo, do you know where you are?" 'Either in Medlab or in hell. Either way the decor needs work.' -- Dr. Franklin and Londo, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Stick it." 'How odd. And I didn't even know we were married.' -- Dr. Franklin and Londo, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "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, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Londo, you're making a big mistakes." 'A huge mistake.' `Well, it won't be my first. Actually, it will be my fourth.` -- Daggair, Mariel, and Londo, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Alright Londo, why did you choose to keep me as your wife and not them? I've made no pretense of affection for you. I find your recent actions contemptible. I'll never love you. At best I'll tolerate you. And I'll never be what you want me to be. Why me?" 'Because with you I will always know where I stand.' -- Timov and Londo, "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "Do you have any idea why I've suddenly started getting these odd cramps?" -- Delenn (to Ivanova), "Soul Mates" (Babylon 5) % "You were raised by the Corps, clothed by the Corps. We are your father and your mother." -- Bester, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "It's damn ironic, isn't it? The Corps got started because we were afraid of telepaths and now they're victims of our own fears. We took away every right they had and shoved them into a big, black box called Psi-Corps. Now, look at them. Black uniforms, jack boots, giving orders. Some days they scare the hell out of me." 'Yeah, if you ask me, we created our own monster. Maybe we deserve it.' -- Garibaldi and Sheridan, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "You're so cute when you're worried about investigating someone close to you." -- Ivanova (to Garibaldi), "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "I think such creatures are an attempt by the universe to make sure that we never take ourselves too seriously." -- Delenn (re: cats), "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "We believe that no race can be truly intelligent without laughter." -- Delenn, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "He's been in my mind twice today. Why isn't he seeing this? Was that the other part of the gift?" -- Talia Winters, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "How many Minbari does it take to screw in a light bulb?" 'I don't know, sir. How many Minbari does it take to screw in a light bulb?' "None. They always surrender right before they finish the job and they never tell you why." -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "Knock, knock." 'Who's there?' "Kosh." 'Kosh who?' "Gesundheit." -- Sheridan and Ivanova, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "Were you like this when you were married?" 'Huh? Yeah.' "The woman was a saint." -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "The Corps is here to protect you." 'I don't believe that and neither do you.' "That's not true." 'It will be. Very soon. You're almost there.' "Almost where? What do you want from me?" 'I want you...to understand.' -- Talia Winters and Lurker, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "Smooth. You're getting good at this. Keep working on it. One of these days I might even be convinced that you're human." -- Garibaldi (to Bester), "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "Being in the Corps served a function long ago. Now its something else. I know it, you know it." -- Lurker (to Talia Winters), "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "Back on Earth I heard things. The kind of things you're not supposed to hear about. Genetic manipulation, breeding telepaths against their will, so called relocation camps for rogue telepaths that aren't much better than concentration camps." -- Dr. Franklin, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "I trust my staff, but the Psi-Corps has a knack for intimidation." -- Dr. Franklin, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "You want to keep us frightened and isolated. Not just from normals, but from each other. That's the real reason we wear gloves, isn't it? To keep us apart. But what happens when the gloves come off?" -- Talia Winters (to Bester), "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "If Bester scans you he'll... Can you keep him out?" 'I think so. Jason's little gift.' "He gave you more than you know. What we did back there...shouldn't have worked. Not with that Psi-Cop. You tipped the balance. I felt it when we were joined. You're more than you think you are." 'Then what am I?' "The future." -- Lurker and Talia Winters, "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "Captain, either you snore or last night we had a HELL of a breach in the hull." -- Ivanova (to Sheridan), "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "I hope you'll give some thought to what I asked the other day. I was informed that Sheridan would be supportive of the Corps. I'm...I'm disappointed by his attitude. You won't have a problem keeping an eye on him, will you?" -- Bester (to Talia Winters), "A Race Through Dark Places" (Babylon 5) % "When you get as old as I, the trappings of status are not as important as they used to be. Sometimes I think our women are right when they shave their heads and rise above these things. -- Centauri Emperor, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "This conversation, it makes you uncomfortable?" 'Yes, yes it does.' "Then for once we have something in common." -- Londo and Vir, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "I've never seen a Vorlon before. In or out of its shell. But over the centuries we've sent many expeditions into Vorlon space. None of them returned. Ah...I've head many strange stories about them." -- Centauri Emperor, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us, and our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in between." -- Centauri Emperor, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "No, no. I'll go and I'll bring him back. And some day I'm going to remind you of this conversation. And maybe then...then you'll understand." 'I understand...just fine. By this time tomorrow, we will be at war with the Narn. May the Great Maker forgive me.' -- Vir and Londo, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "Mollari! YOU! I'm going to get you...a drink." -- G'Kar, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "It's not every day I have a revelation, you know." -- G'Kar (to Londo), "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "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." -- Sinclair, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "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." -- Sinclair, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "Their job, for now, is to patrol the frontier, to listen, to watch, and return with reports too sensitive to trust to regular channels. They are my eyes and ears. Where you see them, you see me." -- Sinclair, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "Stay close to the Vorlon and watch out for the Shadows. They move when you're not looking at them." -- Sinclair, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "How will this end?" 'In fire.' -- Centauri Emperor and Kosh, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "He said: 'Continue. Take my people back...to the stars'" -- Londo (re: Centauri Emperor's last words), "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "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, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "I'm surprised. You could have asked to be named to the royal court. It would have put you in a position to become emperor yourself some day. That's what you want, isn't it?" 'No. I have no desire to be emperor. No, I prefer to work...behind the scenes. The reward is nearly as great and the risk far, far less.' -- Vir and Londo, "The Coming of Shadows" (Babylon 5) % "Leave it to the infantry to ruin a guy's morning." -- Garibaldi, "GROPOS" (Babylon 5) % "I had an Alfredo Garibaldi under my command during the Dilgar invasion. Excellent soldier." 'That was my dad.' "So much for genetics." -- General Franklin and Garibaldi, "GROPOS" (Babylon 5) % "Life is life, whether it's wrapped in skin, scales, or feathers. Now if you respected these beings instead of constantly trying to murder them, you'd appreciate that!" -- Dr. Franklin (to his father), "GROPOS" (Babylon 5) % "We are all slaves to our histories. If there is to be a...bright future, we must learn to break those chains." 'The only thing you can count on the Narn and Centauri to do is break each other's heads.' -- Delenn and Garibaldi, "GROPOS" (Babylon 5) % "There's only one truth about war: people die. Killing is part of a soldier's job. We can't deny it. We can only live with it and hope the reasons for doing it are justified." -- Sheridan, "GROPOS" (Babylon 5) % "Lennier, for the first time I feel very much...alone." 'No, never alone, Delenn. Never alone.' -- Delenn and Lennier, "All Alone in the Night" (Babylon 5) % "Lennier, listen to me. The council holds me in disfavor right now. I do not want that to spill over onto you." 'I'm not worried about that.' -- Delenn and Lennier, "All Alone in the Night" (Babylon 5) % "Youth is both foolish and vulnerable. This is not a wise thing for you to do." 'Probably not. -- Delenn and Lennier, "All Alone in the Night" (Babylon 5) % 'If you continue in this behavior you'll just make the other pilots feel inadequate.' -- Ivanova (to Sheridan), "All Alone in the Night" (Babylon 5) % "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." -- Delenn, "All Alone in the Night" (Babylon 5) % "Where you walk, I will walk. I have sworn myself to your side." 'You do not know, you can not know what you're saying.' "Yes, I do. Come what may Delenn, I will not leave your side while I am still alive." -- Lennier and Delenn, "All Alone in the Night" (Babylon 5) % "Very soon now I will be going into darkness and fire. I do not know if I am fated to walk out again. If it is your choice to come with me, then I could not wish for a better, or braver, companion." -- Delenn (to Lennier), "All Alone in the Night" (Babylon 5) % "Shh...Do you know who I am?" 'The man in between is searching for you.' "You are the hand." -- Ivanova and Garibaldi (to Sheridan in his dream), "All Alone in the Night" (Babylon 5) % "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 Sheridan's dream), "All Alone in the Night" (Babylon 5) % "You have always been here." -- Kosh (to Sheridan), "All Alone in the Night" (Babylon 5) % "But what else could I do? When you have been crushed beneath the wheel for as long as we have, revenge occupies your every waking thought. When everything had been taken away from us, hate kept us alive." -- G'Kar, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "Are you incapable of speech?" 'Heh, no, of course not. But it would represent a loss of face for me to communicate with an inferior race. Before I can speak with you directly, I must determine if your species is worthy. Yes. If so, we may even allow others of my kind to honor you with their presence.' "Well, isn't that wonderful." -- Ivanova and Taq/Correlilmurzon, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "I wanted respect, instead I have turned into a wishing well with legs." -- Londo, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "Strange notions. Yeah, I got your strange notions right here." -- Dr. Franklin, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "Mr. Garibaldi, a moment of joy in a lifetime of sorrow. Take it while you can." -- Londo, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "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?" -- Londo (to Garibaldi), "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "Why is everyone here walking around like they're afraid of me?" 'Cause maybe we are.' -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "In my time here, very few people on this station have listened to me or taken me seriously...until recently. Now I have friends I never knew were there. But you, you always listened to me. You were always kind to me, even when you had nothing to gain. And now that things are changing and I look around for someone to share my good fortune with, there is noone. Except you, my good, close friend Garibaldi." -- Londo, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "We call them Lurkers and yes, humans mostly. They came to Babylon 5 in search of new lives, new opportunities. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, quite often they don't have enough money for a return ticket. So then end up getting small jobs here and there. When those go dry, then end up moving into the undeveloped parts of the station. Downbelow. -- Ivanova, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "Ambassador, I've learned the hard way that governments deal in matters of convention, 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), "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "Tradition is important to my culture. Our important agreements are symbolic with coming together in perfect union." 'Well, this certainly qualifies. The Captain felt very strongly about making this deal happen.' "Then we will conclude this deal in our traditional manner, we will have sex." 'Sex?!' "It is necessary to finalize the agreement." -- Correlilmurzon and Ivanova, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "This couldn't possibly be any worse. 'Do whatever you have to' he tells me. But nobody told me this involved having sex with an alien." -- Ivanova, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "Well, you could put a bag over his head and do it for Babylon 5." -- Dr. Franklin (to Ivanova), "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "Boom! Shubba-lubba-lubba. Boom! Shubba-lubba-lubba. Hey there, hey there, three bags full. You come here often? Yes, I do! Dinner! Shubba-lubba-lubba. Drinks! Shubba-lubba-lubba. Kiss. Kiss. Kiss. Kiss. Kiss. Grab. How do you like it so far?" 'Well, I...' "I slept with you the other night. You didn't call, you didn't write. I think you did it just for spite! Oh... yes... Oh, yes! Oh, yes! OH! YES!! Tell me about your portfolio! Oh! Yes! Yes! Yes!! YES!! Lie to me about your family! Oh, yes! Oh, Yes! Oh, YES! Yes!! Yes!! YES!! YEAAA!!! OH!!! Oh...! Oh... God you're good." 'What do I do now?' "Old style? You roll over and go to bed. New style? You go out for pizza and I never see you again." -- Ivanova and Correlilmurzon (sex, human style) "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "Next time, my way." -- a note from Correlilmurzon to Ivanova "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "The Narns are falling before us. Soon, they will have all the trouble they could wish for. What else does one need? And if it makes your life a little easier in this difficult time, it is a happy coincidence. It is good to have friends, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi? Even if, maybe, only for a little while?" 'Even if only for a little while.' -- Londo and Garibaldi, "Acts of Sacrifice" (Babylon 5) % "You can see why we've had to quarantine this whole area. The last maintenance crew we had in here wouldn't come back. They kept having dreams about this thing. They said it talked to them in their sleep." -- Ivanova (re: Kosh's ship), "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "I sure as hell don't want to talk in front of this thing." -- Garibaldi (re: Kosh's ship), "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "Stephen, the last time you vouched for a doctor friend of yours, we had three dead bodies, half the station was trashed, an Icaran war machine was burning through decks and shooting at everything." 'Alright, fine. You don't want my advice, don't ask for it. But I'm telling you there's been some kind of mistake. The Dr. Jacobs I knew would never sell our Earth.' -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "Maybe we should spend some time together soon. Build some bridges, work toward a greater understanding on one another." 'Why?' "You tell me. You're the one who popped into my dream when I was in that alien ship a few weeks ago. It felt like...I don't know. Like you called to me." 'I sought understanding. I listened to the song. Your thoughts became the song.' "Has this ever happened before?" 'Once." -- Sheridan and Kosh, "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "I don't believe anybody." 'What a wonderful world you live in.' "Yeah, well. The rent is cheap, the pay is decent, and I got to make my own hours." -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "I have an excellent disguise. Let's go." 'Why is my life suddenly passing in front of my eyes?' -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "You wanted to see me?" 'You wanted to see me.' "Well, 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.' -- Sheridan and Kosh, "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "What do you want?" 'Never ask that question.' -- Sheridan and Kosh, "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "I will teach you." 'About yourself?' "About you. Until you are ready." 'For what?' "To fight legends." -- Kosh and Sheridan, "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "How does it know?" 'The same reason our scanner indicated one alien life form when Kosh wasn't around. It's what's we've suspected all along, but could never prove. The Vorlons use organic technology. It's a living ship. Conscious. Aware. -- Garibaldi and Sheridan, "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "While I was asleep, the uh...the ship...it sang to me." -- Dr. Jacobs (re: Kosh's ship), "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "There's always a next time, isn't there?" 'You'd better pray it stays that way, Captain. Because as long as there is a next time, at least there's a chance we'll win. Because in this war, Captain, we need all the chances we can get.' -- Sheridan and Sarah, "Hunter, Prey" (Babylon 5) % "Welcome to Babylon 5, the last, best hope for a quick buck." -- Ivanova, "There All The Honor Lies" (Babylon 5) % "We're not some...some deep space franchise. This station is about something." -- Ivanova, "There All The Honor Lies" (Babylon 5) % "May I ask what you are discussing here?" 'The only thing that matters, the truth.' "Ah yes, the favorite song of the legally ignorant." -- Guinevere Corey and Sheridan "There All The Honor Lies" (Babylon 5) % "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 Guinevere Corey, "There All The Honor Lies" (Babylon 5) % "One moment of perfect beauty." -- Kosh (to Sheridan), "There All The Honor Lies" (Babylon 5) % "Another lesson? What this time?" 'Beauty...in the dark.' "Ah, must be working. You're beginning to stalk just like a Vorlon." -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "There All The Honor Lies" (Babylon 5) % "You feel like you're being symbolically cas...t in a bad light." -- Ivanova (to Londo re: Londo doll) "There All The Honor Lies" (Babylon 5) % "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, "There All The Honor Lies" (Babylon 5) % "If I am forced to leave this place with all its marvelous opportunities, I will have to kill you. What are friends for?" -- Londo (to Vir), "There All The Honor Lies" (Babylon 5) % "Now, Commander, I'm sure there's more to your story than that." 'Yes.' -- Cynthia Torqueman and Ivanova, "And Now For A Word" (Babylon 5) % "Why does any advanced civilization seek to destroy a less-advanced one? Because the land is strategically valuable, because there are resources that can be cultivated and exploited, but most of all, simply because they can. You have experienced much the same on your own world. There are humans for whom the words 'never again' carry special meaning, as they do for us." -- G'Kar, "And Now For A Word" (Babylon 5) % THE PSI CORPS IS YOUR FRIEND. TRUST THE CORPS. -- "And Now For A Word" (Babylon 5) % "Of course it is. For the simple reason that no one else will ever build 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 (re: is it worth it), "And Now For A Word" (Babylon 5) % "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 some with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?" -- Vir (re: What do you want?), "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (Babylon 5) % "Diplomatic immunity only applies when the subject is charged with a crime. So far Mr. Morden hasn't been charged. We're holding him in...umm...protective custody." 'Protecting him from what?' "I haven't decided yet." -- Sheridan and Vir, "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (Babylon 5) % "Be warned, once you know his secret, once you know what we have known for the last 3 years, you'll never sleep well again. Come Captain. The greatest nightmare of our time is waiting for you." -- Delenn (to Sheridan re: Morden) "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (Babylon 5) % "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 and timeless. They 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 the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (Babylon 5) % "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 ten thousand years ago. It was the last time the Ancients walked openly among us. The Shadows were only defeated, not destroyed. A thousand 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 had not yet passed beyond the Veil." -- Delenn, "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (Babylon 5) % Delenn: When they had finished, the First Ones went away...all but one. Sheridan: There's still one of them left. Where? Delenn: That is why Kosh cannot leave his encounter suit. He would be recognized. Sheridan: Recognized? By who? Kosh: Everyone. -- "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (Babylon 5) % "If yes was the answer, what was the question?" 'Have the Shadows returned to Z'ha'dum?' -- Sheridan and Delenn, "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (Babylon 5) % "Because right now, they do not know how much we know. The last time, the Shadows lost because they moved too quickly. Now, they are being careful, gathering their forces slowly. If you push Morden, sooner or later, he will tell you what happened. Then he will be killed. And you will be killed. The Shadows will move now, before we're ready for them." -- Delenn (to Sheridan), "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (Babylon 5) % "Aside from the Vorlons, we do not have the First Ones to help us this time. We are on our own! We will have only one chance to stop them, and if we fail, billions will die." -- Delenn (to Sheridan), "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (Babylon 5) % "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 will teach me?" 'Yes.' -- Sheridan and Kosh, "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum" (Babylon 5) % "Oh, that's cute. A zombie with a gas attack." -- Garibaldi, "Knives" (Babylon 5) % "Why make history if you fail to learn from it?" 'You know Vir, you have what the Earthers call a negative personality.' "No I don't." 'There, you see?' -- Vir and Londo, "Knives" (Babylon 5) % "Knowledge is a basic tool of politics." -- Urza to Londo, "Knives" (Babylon 5) % "I have a destiny to fulfill. One which will take out people back to a golden age. We are Centauri, Urza. We are meant to conquer, to rule, to build empires." -- Londo, "Knives" (Babylon 5) % "You cannot build an empire based on slaughter and deceit." -- Urza to Londo, "Knives" (Babylon 5) % "Disgrace is preferable to death." 'There was a time when I would agree with you. The time has past.' "Londo, this is insane." 'Insanity is part of the times. You must learn to embrace the madness. Let it fire you.' -- Vir and Londo, "Knives" (Babylon 5) % "I prefer to be only slightly insane." 'Don't we all.' -- Sheridan and Garibaldi, "Knives" (Babylon 5) % "One does not sleep during the cooking. It could lead to error." -- Delenn, "Confessions and Lamentations" (Babylon 5) % "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 the place where no shadows fall." -- Delenn (to Sheridan), "Confessions and Lamentations" (Babylon 5) % "That does seem to be the rule, doesn't it? Analyze the problem, choose whichever strategy makes lease sense, and do it." -- Dr. Lazarenn, "Confessions and Lamentations" (Babylon 5) % "Faith manages." -- Delenn, "Confessions and Lamentations" (Babylon 5) % "Sometimes the test is not to find the answer, its to see how you react when you realize there is no answer." -- Dr. Lazarenn, "Confessions and Lamentations" (Babylon 5) % "What happens is that we honor the memory of those who are no longer with us by using what we have learned to save others. To exercise faith, patience, charity. To reach out to those who are afraid. If we can do that, then their passing will have had meaning and we will grow from it." -- Delenn, "Confessions and Lamentations" (Babylon 5) %