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A Day in the Strife

Episode Number: 47    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Thursday November 23, 1995    Prod Code: 303

Notes

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Bill Mumy (Lennier) does not appear in this episode. (edit)
Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan) does not appear in this episode. (edit)
Jason Carter (Marcus Cole) does not appear in this episode. (edit)
In this episode Vir is assigned to the Centauri embassy on Minbar. This move was made to give Stephen Furst some time away from the series to star in the sitcom Misery Loves Company. (edit)

Quotes

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Ivanova: Always finding the good in every situation, eh Captain?
Sheridan: Absolutely. If I didn't, I might end up like you.
Ivanova: Hey, what's that supposed to mean? Did anybody hear that? Did you hear that?
Corwin: No, Commander.
Ivanova: Good. I swear, if we live through this, somebody's going to find their shower preferences reprogrammed to ice water... (edit)
Ivanova: If I live through this job, without completely losing my mind, it will be a miracle of biblical proportions!
Corwin: Well there goes my faith in the Almighty. (edit)
Ta'Lon: To leave now that I have decided to stay with the others, would be rude (draws his sword) ... and uncomfortable.
G'Kar: That is a G'Thok. Once unsheathed it cannot rest until it draws blood. Again you would raise weapons against your own kind? Have I taught you nothing?!
Ta'Lon: I carry my sword in my hand. You carry yours in your heart and in your mind. As I see it, that gives you a two-to-one advantage in arms. Be fair, citizen G'kar. (edit)
G'Kar: If I stay here, your families are in jeopardy. Is anything more important than their safety?
Narn: Yes, their freedom. (edit)
Ivanova: Captain, are you all right?
Sheridan: Nuts.
Ivanova: What's wrong? I mean, we've survived.
Sheridan: Right, which means that I have to go to that stupid transport association meeting. Oh, well.
(Sheridan walks away)
Ivanova: If I live through this job, without completely losing my mind, it'll be a miracle of biblical proportions.
Corwin: Well, there goes my faith in the almighty. (edit)
Ivanova: 15 seconds. Captain, send or no send?
Sheridan: No send.
Ivanova: Oh boy. (edit)
Ivanova: I swear, if we'll live through this, someone is going to find their automatic shower-preferences reprogrammed for ice-water. (edit)
Ivanova: Always finding good in every situation, Captain?
Sheridan: Absolutely. If I didn't, I might end up like you.
Ivanova: Hey, what's that supposed to mean? Did anybody else hear that? (edit)
Ivanova: I don't want to get killed because of a typo, it would be embarrassing. (edit)
Vir: Londo, if I leave, you'll be alone.
Londo: Pah, I've always been alone. (edit)
Londo: I want to protect you.
Vir: I don't want to be protected!
Londo: Well, I'm afraid it's not your decision. It's already done. You've been promoted. You'll earn more money, receive more attention, women may even come to find you attractive .. in time. (edit)
Ivanova: Sort of like an inter-stellar gardener, plucking out all of the weeds so that the flowers can grow.
Sheridan: Basically, yes.
Ivanova: Well, let's just hope that high-IQ boys back home give us all the right answers to this test. Otherwise we're gonna get hit with a 500000-megaton weedwhacker. (edit)
Vir: So is that what it's about, pride? It's not enough that we have beaten them, we have to break them?
Londo: Yes, I'm sorry, I thought you understood that. I don't want our people to go through this again in another hundred years. There's a way things are done, Vir, nothing personal. (edit)
Garibaldi: Hey, did I ever tell you I looked through the Captain's personnel file?
Ivanova: You what?!
Garibaldi: Shhh!
Ivanova: Michael, that information is strictly off limits.
Garibaldi: I did it when he first came aboard. I like to know who I'm dealing with. And who knew he turn out to be okay, huh? Right now, according to his file, Sheridan is a good tactical thinker. He can take an inferior defensive force and turn it into an offensive force capable of taking on a better-equipped enemy. Now, he did it with the Black Star, he did it during the Mars riots. Now, you ask me, he is the one chance we've got to make it through this thing alive.
Ivanova: Maybe. .. Did you look through my files when I came onboard?
Garibaldi: Commander, that information is strictly off limits. (edit)
Sheridan: Energy-cap. I palmed it when I shoved the gun in his pocket.
Ivanova: You are going to give me an ulcer.
Sheridan: Okay, okay, next time I'll give him a live gun. You really do want that promotion, don't you?
Ivanova: Next time you gonna--?! (edit)
Sheridan: You have the gun. All I've got is .. what I've got.
Troublemaker: No way. I drop you and your guards will kill me.
Sheridan: Maybe. Maybe not, hell, anything happens to me, everyone gets an instant promotion. You've got the gun, go ahead, go for it. I'll wait for you. (edit)

Trivia

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Continuity: Sheridan order a Securebot to examine the probe. When the bot is shown, however, it is labeled "Maintbot 12." (edit)
Continuity: Near the end of the episode Sheridan asks how many security bots are near the probe. He is told that there is one. When the security bot is shown, however, there are clearly two identical-looking bots present. (edit)

Allusions

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Sheridan: ... a berserker...
The probe is refered to as a beserker. This is reference to the "Berserker" novels by science fiction writer Fred Saberhagen. These novels feature powerful automated war machines that seek out and destroy biological sentients. (edit)
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Episode: A Day in the Strife
Season Number: 3
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