# Favorite Babylon 5 lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 2, 2006, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918 "2006-07-02T05:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/21 "2006-07-02T16:09:05Z")
“Tell the comander his ride’s here” as the Vorlon war fleet jumps in… ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/22 "2006-07-02T17:12:29Z")
“Oh, Mr. Morden, I have not even started with you yet.” —Londo Mollari “I think I have a problem.” --Dr. Franklin, admitting he’s addicted to stims “Well, it must be lunchtime somewhere.” --Sheridan, to his interrogator “I think I loved…Talia.” —Ivanova to Delenn “Zooty zoot zoot!”–Sheridan, upon the arrival of Penn and Teller–I mean, Reebo and Zooty ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/23 "2006-07-02T17:57:30Z")
BESTER: That is a lie! SHERIDAN. True. [pause] What is your point? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/24 "2006-07-02T18:04:37Z")
MARCUS: I am the very model of a modern major-general I’ve information vegetable, animal and mineral, About binomial theorem I’m teeming with lot o’ news And many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse . . . DR. FRANKLIN: **AAAAAHHHHRRRGGGGHHH!** ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/25 "2006-07-02T18:06:02Z")
Brother Theo, to Brother Edward-Passing Through Gethsemane “If you ask God to forgive your sins, he knows what they are, even if you have forgotten. _Leave it in his hands!_” ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/26 "2006-07-02T18:13:01Z")
“I see they trained you well back home.” “Yeah, they always said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger.” “And?” “I’m not repressed anymore.” – Lennier and Marcus in Babylon 5:“Ceremonies of Light and Dark” ---
**Author:** ![seenidog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@seenidog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seenidog)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/27 "2006-07-02T19:14:59Z")
Marcus…from recollection… “Like I have always said, you can accomplish more with a kind word and a 2x4 than a kind word alone…” ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/28 "2006-07-02T20:08:28Z")
Morden: What are you going to do? Blow up the island? Londo: Actually, now that you mention it… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/29 "2006-07-02T20:14:55Z")
“Alright, I’ll go find a bucket.” -Marcus, offering to help communicate with the First Ones. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/30 "2006-07-02T20:20:50Z")
“Nothing changes: Decadence, immorality, chaos.” (from _Comes the Inquisitor_) ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/31 "2006-07-02T20:22:35Z")
“…I will have to get that painted over…” --Londo Molari ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/32 "2006-07-02T22:18:45Z")
A nice pair of quotes, 5 season apart: “Would you prefer to be conscious or unconscious during the mating? I would prefer conscious, but I don’t know what your … pleasure threshold is.” –Ambassador G’Kar to Lyta Alexander, \*The Gathering \* “Oh, and you mentioned wondering what my pleasure threshold is. I just recently found out. … I don’t have one. Have a very, very nice day, G’Kar.” –Lyta to G’Kar, _Darkness Ascending_ ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/33 "2006-07-02T22:22:52Z")
“Physics tells us, that for every action, there must be an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back. And so, here we are, victims of mathematics.” —Londo ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/34 "2006-07-02T23:27:13Z")
One of my favorite exchanges was a deleted scene from _The War Prayer_; Ivanova and Garibaldi are chatting in the garden. Kosh walks in, looks around, and says “Beautiful. I will miss this place, when it is gone.” and walks away. Ivanova turns to Garibaldi and says “I hate it when he does that.”. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/35 "2006-07-03T00:31:30Z")
Many of my favourite lines have already been put down here. But can I submit a favourite scene? There’s no lines, just a background action that made me nearly piss my pants with laughter the first time I saw it… G’kar has been warned he’s about to be assassinated. However he needs to keep up his ambassadorial activities, and goes out to see a Minbari ceremony. The whole scene is focussed on Delenn and the other Minbari doing their thing. As part of the ceremony, they hand each spectator a small red seed/fruit. In the background, while everybody else is wrapt in the intricacies of the ceremony G’kar looks at his seed, picks it up and swaps it with the one of the person next to him. I always loved that part. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/36 "2006-07-03T08:53:00Z")
There was always something satisfying about hearing Londo (Peter Jurasik) saying “Ah, Mr. Garabaldi.” I only watched the series through once so I can’t remember too many lines, but I did like the scene where Kosh reveals his true form when rescuing Sheridan. To all the races on Babylon he looks like some sort of angel (or whatever equivalent there was in their race) except for Londo. Rather bitterly, amid the jubilation, he simply says that he saw nothing. I liked the delivery of that line 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/37 "2006-07-03T13:25:46Z")
TECHNOMAGE: You are a very brave man! VIR: I’ve been working for Ambassador Mollari for two years. After a while, nothing bothers you. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/38 "2006-07-03T13:27:55Z")
> [@Sierra Indigo](#): > > Many of my favourite lines have already been put down here. > > But can I submit a favourite scene? > > There’s no lines, just a background action that made me nearly piss my pants with laughter the first time I saw it… > > G’kar has been warned he’s about to be assassinated. However he needs to keep up his ambassadorial activities, and goes out to see a Minbari ceremony. The whole scene is focussed on Delenn and the other Minbari doing their thing. As part of the ceremony, they hand each spectator a small red seed/fruit. In the background, while everybody else is wrapt in the intricacies of the ceremony G’kar looks at his seed, picks it up and swaps it with the one of the person next to him. > > I always loved that part. Reminds me of the scene where the Centauri prophetess predicts both Mollari and Vir will become emperor. “One of you will become emperor after the other one is dead.” And after she leaves they’re sitting around giving each other these . . . looks . . . ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/39 "2006-07-03T13:45:16Z")
“…The Emperor himself said I would only be allowed to leave over his dead body. I said: Well, how strange, Mr. Allen said I would only be allowed back on to Babylon 5 over his dead body. With my very busy schedule I can only accommodate so many requests. I know it’s a burden, but you will simply have to wait your turn.” \*Londo to Zack Allen, Epiphanies \* ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918/40 "2006-07-03T13:49:28Z")
Damn, Londo really did have the best lines 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-babylon-5-lines/362918.md?page=3)