Babylon 5

Sheridan: The Babylon project was our last best hope for peace. A self contained world of five miles long located in neutral territory. A place for 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.

Ivanova: I learned a while ago that there's enough guilt in the world to go around without grabbing for more. Give yourself the benefit of a doubt.

Ivanova: And I thought I was a pessimist!

Delenn: They fight bravely. They can not 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.

Lennier: Ambassador Delenn is indisposed at the moment. Perhaps you would come back later, ... much later.

Lennier: If you are going to kill me, then do so. Otherwise, I have considerable work to do.

Franklin: Well, the human body is an amazing thing. It can cure itself, or it can simply decide one day that the world is too painful to deal with and won't cooperate no matter how hard you try to heal it.

Kalain: They tell us Sinclair is now on our world. Hedronn: He's an ambassador. Kalain: So you say. But the Grey Council never tells anyone the whole truth, does it.

Ivanova: And this will be your quarters. I hope it's satisfactory. Sheridan: It's fine, fine. Certainly a lot bigger than what I'm used to. Does this place come with a shower? I mean, a real live honest-to-god shower with running water and everything? Ivanova: Executive suites and command quarters all have showers with live honest-to-god water. The rest get vibe showers. Our water reclamation system can't handle much more than that.

Sheridan: What's our status? Ivanova: Chief of security is in critical condition in medlab. He thinks there's a conspiracy concerning the president's death. Ambassador G'Kar has mysteriously vanished. After two years we still don't know what Ambassador Kosh looks like inside his encounter suit. And Ambassador Delenn is in a cocoon. Sheridan: A cocoon? As in a moth or a butterfly? Ivanova: Yes, sir. About yea high. Sheridan: Interesting place you have here.

Lennier: It is our belief that every generation of Minbari is reborn in each following generation. Remove those souls and the whole suffers. We are diminished. Over the last 2000 years there have been fewer Minbari born into each generation. And those who are born.. do not seem equal to those who came before. It is almost as if our greater souls have been .. disappearing.

Lennier: I told them, Delenn, as I was ordered. I only wish I could've told them the rest. About the great enemy that is returning. About the prophesy that the two sides of our spirit must unite against the darkness or be destroyed. They say it will take both of our races to stop the darkness.

Ivanova: I can only conclude that I'm paying off Karma at a vastly accelerated rate!