Babylon 5

Sinclair: You forgot the first rule of a fanatic. When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.

Sinclair: (About the transformed scientist) I'm gonna try and make it mad. Garibaldi: Make it mad? Are you nuts? Commander!

Franklin: (To Sinclair) But people can be fooled. So to prevent them from being confused by any misleading instructions from the enemy, they hardwired the machine half of the weapons not to respond to anyone who wasn't pure Ikarran. There's one problem, Commander. How do you define a pure Ikarran, or a pure human? No one is pure. No one.

Dr. Hendricks: 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.

Dr. Hendricks: 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.

Mary Ann Cramer: You still haven't told me when the Commander is due back? Garibaldi: Soon. Mary Ann Cramer: How soon is soon? Garibaldi: Longer than little while, faster than later.

Ivanova [to pesky reporter] : Don't. You're too young to experience that much pain.

Garibaldi: Win, lose, or draw; this thing's going to know it was in a fight.

Mary Ann Cramer: After all that you've just gone through, I have to ask you the same question a lot of people back home are asking about space these days. 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? Sinclair: No. We have to stay here, and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers. But there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold, and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us, it'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes, and all of this. All of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars.

Sinclair: When you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy.

Garibaldi: The commander's a hands-on kind of guy. He'll grab any chance he can get to take out a ship - he's like that.

Garibaldi [to a reporter]: ... and after walking 50 miles, we finally made it out of the desert. Later when he was put in charge of Babylon 5, Commander Sinclair asked if I'd come work security. I said yes , it's been a great time...

Sinclair: The last time I gave an interview they told me just to relax and say what I really felt. Ten minutes after the broadcast I got transferred to an outpost so far off the star maps you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and a Ouiji board. Garibaldi: Don't sweat it. Just be that charming, effervescent commander we've all come to know and love. What's the worst that could happen? They fire you, ship you off to the Rim and I get promoted to Commander. I don't see a problem here.

Garibaldi: Jeff, you're my friend. You've been my friend a lot longer than my commanding officer so I think I'm entitled to say this. We were both in Earthforce during the war. I wasn't on the line but I did my share. I know a lot of guys who came out of the war changed. Some came out better some came out worse. A lot of them have this problem, the war gave them definition, direction, purpose without they don't know how to fit in any more. So they keep looking for ways to go out in a blaze of glory. Some people call that being a hero, maybe so, I don't know I've never been one. Me...I think they're looking for something worth dying for because it's easier than finding something worth living for. Sinclair [long pause]: Finished? Garibaldi: Yeah I think that about covers it. [starts to leave] Sinclair: Michael...I don't have an answer for you. And...I think maybe I should.

Sinclair: The last time I gave an interview, they told me to just relax, and say what I really felt. 10 minutes after the broadcast I got transferred to an outpost so far of the star maps, you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and a Ouija board.

Garabaldi: Have you ever tried one of these? [He holds up a root-like organic substance] Miss Cramer: What is it? Garabaldi: I'm not sure. According to the translator, it's either an aphrodisiac or a floor wax. I can't decide if it's worth the risk or not.