As Sheridan prepares to meet in private with the propaganda official from the fascist Earth government, Ivanova asks if he needs anything:
“A glass of whiskey, a gun, and two bullets.”
Everything the elevator says to Garibaldi when it’s in Jewish mother mode.
Ivanova, having received a reply of sorts from an First One:
“Zog? What do you mean Zog? Zog what? Zog yes? Zog no?”
More Ivanova:
“Excuse me but I’m in the middle of 15 things, all of them annoying.”
“You’re sitting at my station, using my equipment. Is there a reason for this, or to save time should I just go ahead and snap your hands off at the wrists?”
“You see, we have six… Well, you know… Well, we have six.” Londo, to Ivanova.
Lyta is snuggling up to a guard, making eyes at him, and then whispers “Pain”, in the evillest-sounding voice you’ve ever heard. He collapses.
G’kar in Garibaldi’s quarters, looking at the Daffy Duck poster: “I have been contemplating this image. Is it one of his household gods?”
Marcus: “There’s a saying among the Rangers, that when Ranger One says something, the way to understand it is to hang upside down for three hours meditating in a mirror.”
Ivanova (I think): “Does it work?”
Marcus: “Oh, yes. Or you pass out and have a vision, which amounts to the same thing.”
Marcus, looking for answers to a question, has just won a bar brawl. “Oh, great, now I have to wait for one of them to wake up.”
Delenn: “You must never, ever, refer to me as Satai. Do you understand?”
Lenier: “No. But understanding is not required, only obedience.”
Reminds me of the ep where Sheridan (inspired by Rebo and Zooty) is trying reverse-psychology to persuade the Interstellar Alliance delegates to allow patrols in their space. He has Ivanova (reluctantly) leak a (perfectly true) story that no suspicious activity in a certain sector – which immediately allows the delegates’ suspicion. One of them goes to ask Mollari if the Centauri have spotted any such activity.
MOLLARI: No . . . But I would not be surprised if you had missed it, with those tiny eyes of yours . . . The Maker has not been kind to you!
DELEGATE: Then you would have spotted it?
MOLLARI: Yes, of course! The Maker has blessed us with great big eyes! And great big scanners! And great big . . . Well, that is no concern of yours!
The first one was Vir and Ivanova - which is what makes the scene so funny.
The second, I believe, was Sheridan and Marcus.
A few of my favorites:
Season 1
“Did I ever tell you [Delenn] that you are very cute for a Minbari? Even you [Garibaldi] are cute, in an annoying sort of way. Everybody’s cute! Everybody’s cute! Even me. But in purple… I’m stunning!” Londo
“And just let me say, Ambassador, from the bottom of my heart: Hot pink is definitely your color.” Garibaldi to G’Kar
“Love? Pah. Overrated. Here, look, these are my three wives: Pestilence, Famine and Death. Do you think I married them for their personalities? Their personalities could shatter entire planets! Arranged marriages, every one, but they worked out. They inspired me. Knowing that they were waiting at home for me is what keeps me here – 75 lights years away.” Londo
“Mr. Garibaldi. Whatever it is, it can’t be that bad.”
“You try to kiss me and I’ll break your arm.”
“We are not that close, Mr. Garibaldi.” Londo and Garibaldi
Season 2
“What’s our status?”
“Chief of security is in critical condition in Med Lab. He thinks there’s a conspiracy concerning the president’s death. Ambassador G’Kar has mysteriously vanished. After two years we still don’t know what Ambassador Kosh looks like inside his encounter suit. And Ambassador Delenn is in a cocoon.”
“A cocoon? As in a moth or a butterfly?”
“Yes, sir. About yea high.”
“Interesting place you have here.” Sheridan and Ivanova
“There you see: one deserts his post without any explanation, the other one picks the most breathtakingly inconvenient moment possible to explore new career options, like becoming a butterfly!” Londo
“I’ll gain weight!”
“Well, briefly, yes.”
“Figures. All my life I’ve fought against imperialism. Now, suddenly I am the expanding Russian frontier.”
“But with very nice borders.” Franklin and Ivanova
“The secret of our marriage’s success, Londo, is our lack of communication. You’ve jeopardized that success and I would know why.” Timov (along with every other conversation between Londo and Timov)
According to JMS, he needed the most irritating, annoying, infuriating voice he could find for the station’s AI in that episode… so he had Harlan Ellison play the computer’s voice
Heh, Lyta Alexander and Willow Rosenberg, two of my favorite cute superpowered super-dangerous redheads.
Technomage: “We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers.”
Londo: "Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you! " - from In the Begining. A line I’ve been waiting to use at work
Franklin: “Marcus, this is the kind of conversation that can only end in a gunshot.”
G’Kars’ monologue at the end of the third season was one of the standout moments of the series:
*“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.”*
I can’t believe I forgot to post the two that I’m mostly likely to use in an email signature!
“I can only conclude that I am using up karma at a vastly accelerated rate.” - Ivanova
“If you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn’t always do it in the way you expect.” - G’Kar
Yes, but what annoyed me during that sequence is the background music. Instead of being appropriately solemn, it did this weird high-pitched tinkly thing. Very irritating.
