Babylon 5 · Season 3
[Marcus and Ivanova see the Shadow fleet.]
That's a lot of ships.
That's a bloody awful lot of ships.
Jump engines back on line yet?
No. If I signal the fleet, this lot might pick it up. If they do and we can't get away...
Well...who wants to live forever?
I do, actually! But what the hell...
[Marcus teaches Ivanova a little of the Minbari language.]
Nu'zen fel'ani in-a lis'e medran. [translation: You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen.]
And what does that mean?
It's...just a greeting. It means..."My words are inadequate to the burden of my heart."
Well, that's an unusual greeting.
Well...they're an unusual people.
I can't go back, but I can appreciate what I have right now, and I can define myself by what I am, instead of what I'm not.
And what are you?
Alive. Everything else is negotiable.
[A surprise visitor makes her way to Sheridan's quarters.]
Hello. You must be Delenn. I'm Anna Sheridan. John's wife.
Sometimes people walk away because they want to be alone, and sometimes they walk away because they want to see if you care enough to follow them into hell. I think I went the wrong way.
Humans have a phrase: "What is past, is prologue." [...] Minbari also have a phrase: "What is past, is also sometimes the future."
[G'Kar is showing Ivanova the shipment of high-yield thermonuclear bombs]
So the next time we find out where the Shadows plan to strike, we can mine the area. And as soon as they come out of hyperspace--
Then, as you so concisely say, "Boom!"
I trusted you, Delenn. I cared for you. I let myself start to love you. Do you know what that means? Do you know how hard that was for me? All along a little part of me was still in love with Anna, even though she was gone. I had to fight that part off every time I...I thought about you, about holding you, about building a life with the two of us.
[last lines of the season]
It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath...waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments...of revelation. This had the feeling of both. [...] G'Quan wrote, "There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender." The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born...in pain.
Season 4: No Surrender, No Retreat
[Opening credits voiceover.]
It was the year of fire...
...the year of destruction...
...the year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth...
...the year of great sadness...
...the year of pain...
...and a year of joy.
It was...a new age.
It was the end of history.
It was the year everything changed.
The year is 2261.
The place, Babylon 5.
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