Susan Ivanova quotes from Babylon 5

Susan Ivanova

Check these figures again, make sure they came through the translator okay? I don't want to get killed because of a typo. It'd be embarrassing.

Susan Ivanova

Good luck, Captain. I think you're about to go where...everyone has gone before. [N]

Ivanova

I'm going to kill him...after breakfast...if I can find him.

Ivanova

This is Commander Susan Ivanova of Babylon 5, and this is the first official broadcast of the new Voice of the Resistance. We're sending this signal out to every ship that wants to hear the truth, to our fallen comrades and freedom fighters on Mars and Proxima 3, and to Earth, which, despite what you may have heard, is still our home and still the one dream that we are as loyal to now as we ever have been. Over the last three years, ever since President Clark took over after arranging the assassination of President Santiago, you have been hearing nothing but misinformation, propaganda, and outright lies. Now we're going to tell you the truth, and we're going to keep telling it until they shut us down or until President Clark steps down and returns Earth to the hands of its people. You can kill us, you can bomb our colonies, destroy our ships, murder innocent civilians, but you cannot kill the truth. And the truth is back in business.

Susan Ivanova

First, one brief announcement. I just wanted to mention, for those who have asked, that absolutely nothing whatsoever happened today in sector 83-by-9-by-12. I repeat, nothing happened. Please remain calm.

Susan Ivanova

What's going on? You all look like a Pak'ma'ra just ate your cat.

Susan Ivanova

All love is unrequited, Stephen. All of it.

Stephen Franklin

It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. It wouldn't be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to get it right and then...it's over.

Ivanova

Doesn't matter. If we lived 200 years we'd still be human, we'd still make the same mistakes.

Franklin

You're a pessimist.

Ivanova

I'm Russian, doctor. We understand these things.

Is that you, Susan?

Susan Ivanova

Yes.

Oh dear God! I never thought I'd see your face again. It makes this easier. Susan, I know I haven't been the best of fathers to you. But when your mother passed on and your brother was killed in the war I was too wrapped up in my own grief to pay attention to your needs. And when you joined EarthForce against my wishes...

Ivanova

You don't have to say this, Father.

Yes, Yes I must. There's no more time. I want you to know how proud I am of you, Susan. I always have been. But a father should give his daughter love as well as respect, and in that I failed you. I'm sorry, I'm ashamed. Forgive me.

Thank you, dushenka moya.

Ivanova

"Little soul." You haven't called me that for...Papa!

Bester

It was a calculated risk!

Susan Ivanova

Good old Psi Corps. You guys never cease to amaze me. All the moral fiber of Jack the Ripper! What do you do in your spare time, juggle babies over a fire pit? Oops, there goes another calculated risk!

You're not helping the situation.

Ivanova

Lady, you are the situation!

Susan Ivanova

You're a vicious man.

Michael Garibaldi

I'm Head of Security. It's in the job description.

Susan Ivanova

Well, I've managed to get the ship captains engaged in a debate over who has the best claim to Jha'dur. The winner will be the first to attack.

Jeffrey Sinclair

Creative.

Jeffrey Sinclair

Lieutenant Commander Ivanova, escort Major Kemmer off the Observation Dome.

Susan Ivanova

With pleasure. [to Kemmer] You are going to resist, I hope.

I demand you open a channel to Earth at once!

Ivanova

I am a Lieutenant Commander in Earthforce, Major. I do not take demands. If you have a request, I'll consider it.

Very well, then. I request that you open a channel to Earthdome!

Ivanova

Request denied. Have a nice day.

Susan Ivanova

I've always had a hard time getting up when it's dark outside.

Jeffrey Sinclair

But in space, it's always dark.

Ivanova

[morosely] I know. I know.