John Sheridan quotes from Babylon 5

John Sheridan

Concentrate all you want--there's nowhere you can go!

Brother Theo

I'd expect a comment like that from someone with no clearly defined pattern of faith!

Sheridan

I believe in a little bit of everything. I'm...eclectic. Open-minded.

Brother Theo

Rudderless! Directionless! Cast adrift without compass on an ocean of ecclesiastical possibilities! Tossed by the winds, this way, that way!

Sheridan

Aw, I'm hearing a lot of talk, and you still haven't made a move.

Brother Theo

Your Ambassador Delenn has a wonderful phrase: "Faith...manages!" [Moves a chess piece.] Check...and I do believe...mate?

Sheridan

You wanna tell me where you learned that little move?

Brother Theo

[smiling] Divine inspiration.

John Sheridan

It's our version of the homeless. In many ways, we have the same problem Earth does.

Mmm. Earth doesn't have homeless.

Sheridan

Excuse me?

We don't have the problem. Yes, there are some "displaced" people, here and there, but, uh... they've chosen to be in that position. They're either lazy, or they're criminal, or they're mentally unstable.

Sheridan

They can't get a job!

EarthGov has promised a job to anyone that wants one. So, if someone doesn't have a job, they must not want one.

Sheridan

And, uh w-when exactly did all this happen?

When we rewrote the dictionary.

Sheridan

You can't deal with the problems by pretending they don't exist.

Michael Garibaldi

You know, I've been stuck in this tin can for three years. I haven't taken a vacation--okay, okay, it's my fault, I had the leave coming, I just didn't take it. And the pay sucks, I knew that when I signed on! And nobody said I'd survive the job! Now, I give you all that. But where in my contract does it say that I have to eat the same food for breakfast every day for three years?

John Sheridan

[matter-of-fact] Paragraph 47, Subsection 19, Clause 9A. You can find it in the index under S.U.A.E.I.

Garibaldi

S.U...A.E.I.?

[in unison] Shut Up And Eat It.

Sheridan

Full power! Give me everything you've got!

Lennier

If I were holding anything back, I would tell you.

Captain. I'm sure you've been following the news.

John Sheridan

Yes, sir. If I may ask, what's your opinion?

My opinion has nothing to do with this, Captain, and neither does yours! Our job is to follow orders from the Commander in Chief and respect the chain of command! If you have different opinions, I suggest you file them in a deep dark place where nobody'll ever find them! Am I clear?

Son...I follow the news. Well, I did until ISN went black! I see what's going on. Your mother doesn't like to think about it. You know how she is. John, I can't imagine the kind of decisions that are going through your mind right now. I'm sure they're not easy. The important ones never are. But when push comes to shove, you've always done the right thing. What was the first lession I ever taught you?

John Sheridan

Never start a fight, but always finish it.

Sheridan

Damage report.

David Corwin

Damage to all sectors. They're still fighting in Brown Sector.

Sheridan

Get some more troops down there. Hull integrity?

Corwin

Not good. EVA teams en route. It's a good thing this stopped when it did. We couldn't take much more. [Jumpgate alarm goes off.] Oh, no!

This is Captain Drake to Babylon 5. You are ordered to surrender and prepare to be boarded, by order of President Clark.

Corwin

Captain...jump points forming right on top of us!

Sheridan

[deflated] How many?

Corwin

Four!

Delenn

This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw...or be destroyed!

Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship.

Delenn

Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else.

John Sheridan

In breaking away from Earth, we have begun a difficult and uncertain journey, and none of us can see its end. But our cause remains a just one. That truth honors and sanctifies our fallen comrades who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we might carry on the work that is ahead of us. We are gathered here today to honor their memory and their names.

Susan Ivanova

Hamilton. Rodriguez. Spinelli. Singh. Osterman. Massey. Cooper. Kim. Indari. Nagashima. Lietz. Mankowski. [as she reads the names, a line of torpedoes files out of the docking ring, watched over by a squadron of Starfuries]

Sheridan

From the stars we came. To the stars we return, from now until the end of time. We therefore commit these bodies to the deep.

Sheridan

This is Captain John J. Sheridan. Serial number XO7Y39-Alpha. Security code: obsidian.

Ivanova

This is Commander Susan Ivanova. Serial number Z48M27-Epsilon. Security code: griffin.

Michael Garibaldi

This is Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi. Serial number V17L98. Security code: peekaboo.

Ivanova

Peekaboo?

Garibaldi

Would you have guessed it?

Sheridan

When you were hurt, when you were in my arms, I was ready to kill that guy with my bare hands. I realized I have never told you how much I cared about you, how much you mean to me. I think it's time you knew that. I can no longer imagine my world without you in it. I don't know exactly when or how it happened. But I'm glad it did.

Garibaldi

No one knows, but…I'm afraid all the time…what I might do if I let go.

Ivanova

I think I…loved…Talia.

Dr. Stephen Franklin

I…think I have a problem.

John Sheridan

You know, every time that I have seen you lately, we've been in the middle of a crisis! A revolution! I mean, this is the first time in months that it's been this quiet! It won't last. It never does. But as long as it's here...I'd like to see you tonight.

Delenn

Are you not seeing me now? I would assume that you see me every time we meet. Unless I have become translucent, or insubstantial, and no one has thought to inform me until now.

Sheridan

Then let me say I'd like to see you in a different light. Candlelight, for instance. Over dinner?

Delenn

Tonight?

Sheridan

Tomorrow we may be involved in another crisis, another battle! This may be the last chance we'll get for a while. You know, back home we have a saying. "Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!"

Delenn

Humans can be a very depressing people.

Sheridan

Only if we get turned down for dinner.

Delenn

Well, we cannot have that, now can we?

John Sheridan

Mr. Bester, we no longer have any ties to Earth or to the Psi Corps. So we don't have to put up with you or your games. Now, I am sitting on four brand-new unidirectional pulse cannons. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't blow you out of the sky!

Alfred Bester

Because you're curious? Kill me, and you'll never know what brought me all the way out here. I think if you weigh that against the brief satisfaction of "blowing me out of the sky", you'll do the right thing.

Bester

Captain?

Sheridan

I'm thinking it over!

Bester

[not exactly reassured] Ah!...Good!

Sheridan

So, how did you find out about all this?

Bester

I'm a telepath. Work it out.

Sheridan

Try not to drool on the controls.

Bester

You said something, Captain?

Sheridan

Mm. Not a word. Just burped.

Sheridan

Mr. Bester.

Bester

Captain Sheridan.

Sheridan

Get the hell out of my chair.

John Sheridan

For three years now you've been pulling everyone's strings, getting us to do all the work, and you haven't done a damn thing but stand there and look cryptic! Well, it's about time you start pulling your own weight around here. [...] I hear you've got a saying: "Understanding is a three-edged sword"? Well, we've got a saying, too: "Put your money where your mouth is"!

Impudent.

Sheridan

Yeah? Well, maybe that's the only way to get through to you. You said you wanted to teach me to fight legends. Well, you're a legend too, and I am not going away until you agree!

Incorrect. Leave. Now.

Sheridan

No.

Disobedient!

Sheridan

Up yours!

Sheridan

So, the real Kosh shows his colors at last, huh? You angry now? Angry enough to kill me? Because that's the only way I'm leaving. Unless your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something, I've got nothing to lose! God, my own government wants to kill me, and if we lose this war, I'm just as dead! Our only chance is to get the other races on board for this fight and right now you're the key to doing that.

It is not yet time.

Sheridan

And who decides that time? You? You put me in this position. You asked me to fight this damn war! Well, it's about time you let me fight it my way! How many people have already died fighting this war of yours, huh? How many more will die before you come down off that mountain and get involved? Ships, colonies, whole worlds are being destroyed out there, and you do nothing! How many more? How many more, Kosh? How many more dead before you're satisfied? Huh?

I will do as you ask. But there is a price to pay. I will not be there to help you when you go to Z'ha'dum.

Sheridan

You already said if I go to Z'ha'dum, I'll die.

Yes, now.

Sheridan

All right. If that's the trade-off. If you want to withhold your help when the time comes, that's fine. I'll go it alone.

You do not understand. But you will.