The ship Sheridan uses to get to the rim appears to be a new class of white star. The ship seems fully automated and can function with one pilot simply giving voice commands.
Sheridan: Good night, my love, the brightest star in my sky. Delenn: Good night, you, my sky, and my sun, and my moon.
Sheridan: I just want to sit here, and watch the sun come up. It occured to me, that in all my time here, I have never done that. I want to know what it looks like when it comes up over the horizion, so I can carry a picture of it in my head.
Sheridan: When I was a kid, every Sunday dad would take us out for a drive. We never knew where we were going, that was half the fun. We'd just go. He'd say, pick a direction and one of us would point, off we'd go.
Delenn: I decided to go out in search of the same air molecules you were looking for. In the theory that if they were good enough to lure you out of our bed, I should invesigate my competition! Sheridan: You've never had competition.
Voiceover: And now, for those of you that have been archiving this ISN Special Documentary, the people responsible. Funding for this program was made possible by grants from the Anla-shok Memorial Fund.
Ivanova: An expedition to Coriana space found Sheridan's ship a few days later, but they never found him. All the airlocks were sealed, but there was no trace of him inside. Some of the Minbari believe he'll come back someday, but I never saw him again in my lifetime.
Lorien: Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here? Where are you going? Sheridan: Lorien? Lorien: Did you think we had forgotten you? We have been waiting... for you. Sheridan: Beyond the rim? Lorien: Yes Sheridan: There is ... so much I still don't understand. Lorien: As it should be. Sheridan: Can I come back? Lorien: No. This journey has ended. Another begins. Time ... to rest now.
Zack: There were times ... I thought none of us would get out alive. Some of us didn't. But, we did everything we said we were gonna do and nobody can take that away from us, or this place.
Zack: Quarter million people, coming and going every day for twenty five years. Every part of this station has somebody's fingerprints on it. Layers, and layers, people's lives.
Sheridan: I want to feel space beneath me, one last time. It's where I belong, where I have always belonged. Besides, everything we've built here, with the Alliance, has ... become ... half reality, half mythology. And if it all ends here like it ends anywhere else ... but if it ends out there ... they'll remember it.
Sheridan: Toast. To absent friends ... in memory still bright.
Sheridan: Singing? They can sing? Franklin: There's nothing about that in the literature. Vir: Apparently it's something they only do certain times of the year as part of their religious ceremonies. You may not believe this, but ... it was the most beautiful sound I've ever heard. I couldn't make out the words, but I knew it was full of sadness and ... hope and wonder and ... terrible ... sense of loss. I looked at Londo and ... this is the amazing part ... there was a ... tear running down his face. I said, "Londo, we should leave." And "This is upsetting you." He just stood there and ... listened. And when it was over he turned to me and he said, "There are forty nine gods in our pantheon, Vir. To tell you the truth I never believed in any of them. But if only one of them exist, then god sings with that voice." It's funny. After everything we've been through, all he did ... I miss him.
Vir: You know, Londo never liked the Pak'ma'ra. I mean, they're stubborn, lazy, obnoxious, greedy ... Garibaldi: They kinda look like an octopus that got run over by a truck. Vir: That too, but ... one day Londo and I were walking past their quarters ... and we heard them ... singing.
Sheridan: She's Minbari. You know, sometimes, I look at her and I know exactly what she's thinking. Sometimes, ... she's a mystery to me.
Sheridan [to Delenn]: The sun's coming up.
Ivanova: Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future, and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future, or others will do it for us. It showed us we have to care for one another, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings even for people like us. As for Delenn, every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn, and watched the sun come up.
Garibaldi: The Interstellar Alliance based on the homeworld of the Minbari Federation was founded in the Earth year 2261 shortly after the end of the Shadow War, twenty years ago. Twenty years of history. Those of us who survived have seen it all. And those of us who understand having been waiting and dreading the arrival of this day.
This episode was nominated for the 1999 Hugo Award for "Best Dramatic Presentation".
Originally, it was planned to reveal at the end of this, the final episode that the whole Babylon 5 series was a dramatization of the actual events of 2257 - 2281 made in the year 2295.
Shooting for this episode ended on May 5, 1997, but it aired in the U.S. over a year later on November 25, 1998. This occurred because Babylon 5's fifth season was in doubt so J. Michael Straczynski filmed the last episode just in case. It was originally shot during the fourth-season and given a production number 422. When Babylon 5 got a fifth season on another network, TNT, this episode was given production number 523.
At the very end credits, when Marcus is displayed, the screen on the right hand side reads: SUBJECT: Marcus Cole DESIGNATION: Ranger STATUS: Deceased COMMENTS: Indefinite Hold in the Event of New Resuscitation Technology REQUESTED BY: Cmdr. S. Ivanova
Several Babylon staff had cameo appearances in this episode. They include producer John Copeland, co-producer George Johnsen, and series creator J. Michael Straczynski who makes a cameo appearance as the maintenance worker who shuts down the station.
Because of the uncertainty of whether Babylon 5 would be renewed for a fifth season, this episode shot at the end of the fourth season so the series would have some closure. But when the series was renewed, Deconstruction of Falling Stars was shot and replaced it as the final episode of season four.
When Sheridan leans in to check his reflection in the mirror, the reflection gives the appearance of a cross over his shoulder, an allusion to the New Testament.
S 5 : Ep 22
Aired 11/25/98 (44:12)
S 5 : Ep 21
Aired 11/18/98 (42:28)
S 5 : Ep 20
Aired 11/11/98 (42:24)
S 5 : Ep 19
Aired 11/4/98 (42:28)
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