# Captain Sheridan's best moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2003, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507 "2003-03-19T10:26:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Liam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ryan_liam/32/3965_2.png) [@Ryan\_Liam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ryan_Liam)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/21 "2003-03-20T17:14:11Z")
My favourite one is: Sinclair: ‘Nothings the same anymore’ and G’kar ’ No one here is exactly as they appear’ ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/22 "2003-03-20T17:41:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baker \* > \*\*Not sure of the spelling of this name but I’ll call her Da’gher, one of Londo’s wives. Vir is supposed to escort her to her quarters, and she’s been bitchy > > D: Oh don’t look so worried Vir, I don’t bite! > > V: With all due respect madame, that’s _not_ what I’ve heard > > D:(peevishly) Well there was just that one time! \*\* Her name is spelt Daggeir. Nice try, though apostrophes in names are a Narn thing. Nobody seems to have done a Stephen Franklin moment yet: “Don’t you die on me yet. I’m not through with you…” Incidentally, if anybody needs a quote reminded to them, [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Quotes/B5-quotes.html](http://www.cs.tut.fi/~albert/Quotes/B5-quotes.html) has a very comprehensive selection sorted by episode. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/23 "2003-03-20T17:52:14Z")
Psi Cop: Go ahead. All the good Sheridan moments have already been accounted for, so I’ll hijack more onto Londo. **The Gathering** The way he humbled himself in front of Garibaldi, explaining that the Centauri were now like the remorah, riding on the backs of sharks. “You know why I am here? I’m here to grovel before your wonderful Earth Alliance, in hopes of attaching ourselves to your destiny. […] There was a time, when this whole quadrant belonged to us! What are we now? Twelve worlds and a thousand monuments to past glories, living off memories and stories, selling trinkets.” **Soul Mates** Londo has all of his wives with him, Daggair, Timov and Mariel. They argue and fight, and Londo interjects, saying “Ladies, please! Continue!” Back to Sheridan, when he’s doing an imitation of Londo goading him in (I think) **The Paragon of Animals** : “You are finding the Declaration of Principles to be most inconvenient, yes?” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/24 "2003-03-20T18:50:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by elf6c \* > \*\*Here are some of mine then: > > Mr. Morden: What do YOU want? > Vir Cotto: I’d like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this. > [waves] > Vir Cotto: Can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden? \*\* One of the best parts about this exchange is that the wave did actually happen. Morden’s head _was_ cut off, and Vir, after glancing around to see if anyone was watching, gave a little wave. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/25 "2003-03-20T19:20:35Z")
G’kar: “Take my advice, and go back to the time you came from. The Future isn’t what is used to be.” Don’t remember the episode name, it was the one where the people were in suspended animation in an exploration ship sent out shortly before jumpgate technology was developed. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/26 "2003-03-20T19:21:29Z")
I always loved the speech that Sheridan gives the SHadows and Vorlons at their final conflict, ending with him being really pissed off, and saying “…now get the HELL out of our galaxy!” And, a little before that, when Lyta is communicating with the Vorlons or Shadows (I can’t recall which…) her eyes go all black, and Sheridan asks what they’re thinking, and Lyta says, very calmy, “Captain, they’re pissed,” ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/27 "2003-03-20T19:23:21Z")
But with an uncapitalized “future”, of course. Although now that I think of it, it’s not entirely non-applicable. It’s just not what I meant. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/28 "2003-03-20T19:25:30Z")
But with an uncapitalized “future”, of course. Although now that I think of it, it’s not entirely non-applicable. It’s just not what I meant. And speaking of Vir, there was the time he went nuts on a merchant’s stand with a sword ( **Sic Transit Vir** , perhaps?). ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/29 "2003-03-20T19:53:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bouv \* > And, a little before that, when Lyta is communicating with the Vorlons or Shadows (I can’t recall which…) her eyes go all black, and Sheridan asks what they’re thinking, and Lyta says, very calmy, > “Captain, they’re pissed,” This is the scene I quote when I want to highlight the difference between B5 and Star Trek. ST:TNG: Troi says, “I sense hostility.” B5: Lyta says, “Captain, they’re pissed.” I’ve always liked Lyta. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Daniel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/30 "2003-03-20T23:34:39Z")
Hey, if we’re bringing in other characters, let me nominate Delenn’s moment of triumph when she led the White Star fleet in their first encounter with the Drakh: “End this.” still sends chills down my spine. ---
**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/31 "2003-03-20T23:39:40Z")
“That’s enough. I said that’s enough! Now, we gave you a promise. And we are bound by that promise. And damn you asking for it. And damn me for agreeing to it. And damn all of us to hell, because that is exactly where we are going. We talked about peace. You didn’t want peace. We talked about co-operation. You didn’t want co-operation. You want war. Is that it? You want a war? Well, you’ve got a war!” – Sheridan in Babylon 5:“And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder” ---
**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/32 "2003-03-20T23:42:12Z")
“This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, … or be destroyed.” [in the White Star!] “Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship.” “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.” – Delenn and Captain Drake in Babylon 5:“Severed Dreams” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/33 "2003-03-20T23:50:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by emarkp \* > \*\*“This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, … or be destroyed.” [in the White Star!] > “Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship.” > “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.” > – Delenn and Captain Drake in Babylon 5:“Severed Dreams” \*\* Which makes me wish someone in B5 had said “Read the f\*\*king thread before posting”, as this has now been quoted in full three times. Sheesh. “You get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than you do with just a kind word” - Marcus Cole ---
**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/34 "2003-03-20T23:56:09Z")
Funny, I skimmed the thread and didn’t see it, even though it was in two other places. Sigh. My initial thought was just the Sheridan quote. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/35 "2003-03-21T00:23:26Z")
This was G’Kar, speaking to Michael York/“King Arthur” in the tavern, after they had battled some thieves and recovered a precious picture for a poor old lady \*By G’kwan, I can’t recall the last time I was in a fight like that! No moral ambiguity, no hopeless battle against ancient and overwhelming forces, they were the bad guys as you say, we were the good guys. And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor. \* ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/36 "2003-03-21T02:56:25Z")
Kosh: “If you go to Z’Ha’Dum you will die.” Sheridan: “I died- but I got better.” Ivanova: “I am Death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me.” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/37 "2003-03-21T03:57:32Z")
Not even a spoken line, but the look that crossed Sheridan’s face at the end of the episode whose title had the word “Gethsemane” in it (sorry, I can’t recall it in full)… when he had to greet the fellow who had brutally killed Brad Dourif’s character and then was being rehabilitated–just as Dourif had been after committing murder and attempting to redeem himself by allowing others to take bloody revenge on him. Sheridan’s expression has stuck in my mind ever since. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/38 "2003-03-21T03:58:56Z")
“Passing Through Gethsemane.” I think. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/39 "2003-03-21T10:45:32Z")
“Passing Through Gethsemane” was my single favorite episode of B5, if forced to choose. ---
**Author:** ![Riboflavin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Riboflavin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riboflavin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507/40 "2003-03-21T21:34:09Z")
While I always liked Bester’s Pinata line, I still think his best one was: Sheridan:“So how did you find out all of this?” Bester:“I’m a [slow]telepath[/slow]. Work it out.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/captain-sheridans-best-moments/162507.md?page=3)