“Infection” quotes from Babylon 5

Jeffrey Sinclair

The last time I gave an interview, they told me to just 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 Ouija board.

Michael Garibaldi

[smiling] 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.

Sinclair

How sharper than a serpent's tooth.

Stephen, there's a Martian war machine parked outside. They'd like a word with you about the common cold.

Stephen Franklin

Tell them to make an appointment.

Susan Ivanova

Don't. You're too young to experience that much pain.

Sinclair

You forgot the first rule of the fanatic: when you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy!

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-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes...[and] all of this...all of this...was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars.