Who knew that the presidency was 50% panic and 50% paperwork?
“The Ragged Edge” · Season 5
In this episode: G'Kar (3), John Sheridan (2), Ta'Lon (2), Londo Mollari (1), Michael Garibaldi (1), Delenn (1)
Can you stall [the Alliance council] a bit?
Not a problem. I'll tell them we're declaring war on Earth. That'll give them something positive to think about.
[distracted] Good. Good. Give me the paperwork and I'll sign it.
He [a Narn] seems very glad to see you.
Yes, but we weren't gone that long. Less than a month.
Well, there you have the key to your popularity: your absence. Go away for a month and they bow. Go away for six months and they'll tear the place apart when you come back. Perhaps you should go away and never come back again. Then your popularity will be so overwhelming it would blacken the stars.
Mollari–
I have always said this about you: nothing so improves your company like the lack of it. ... Perhaps you can make some money from this: ten credits for you not to be there for an hour, a hundred credits for you not to be there for the day. And for you not to be there for the rest of your life, well, they could never afford it.
Where is my book? It is my only copy!
Yes, that is precisely the point. The Kha'Ri felt that if anything happened to you [on Centauri Prime] the book of G'Kar would never see the light of day, so we "liberated" it [from G'Kar's quarters].
Liberated it?
We took it home. Those that read it were very moved by it and they made some copies.
[aghast] Copies?!
Just a few...for their friends. A few more...later a few more copies.
How many?!
That's hard to say, exactly. There was some confusion when it went to the printers.
Printers?! I've only been gone for a month, Ta'Lon, there can't be that many copies floating around this quickly. How many?
Five or six...hundred...thousand.
What?!
I've been told that it will out-sell the book of G'Quan. [G'Kar stares at him in shock] Congratulations, citizen G'Kar. You are now a religious icon.
[Garibaldi and Tafiq are discussing Drazi cities]
What's with the streets? They're so narrow, you can hardly get by.
TTafiq
Tradition. Goes back centuries. To prevent invaders from taking their city, they built their streets too narrow for armies or engines of war. When you have to go by two or three at a time, you are most vulnerable.
See, now you can fly over and drop these things called "bombs".
All my life, I have been responsible only for myself. When I risk, I risked alone to avoid making others pay the price for my mistakes. They want me to show them another way. What if I show them the wrong way? What if they come to me not because of the lesson, but because of the teacher? I worry, Ta'Lon, that my shadow may become greater than the message.
If that happens, I give you my word that I will personally kill you.
And this is supposed to put my mind at ease?
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