The Gathering (Pilot Movie)

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Ambassador Londo Mollari: "I was there, at the dawn of the Third Age of Mankind. It began in the Earth year 2257 with the founding of the last of the Babylon stations, located deep in neutral space. It was a port of call for refugees, smugglers, businessmen, diplomats and travelers from a hundred worlds. It could be a dangerous place, but we accepted the risk because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. Under the leadership of its final commander, Babylon 5 was a dream given form, a dream of a galaxy without war, where species from different worlds could live side-by-side in mutual respect, a dream that was endangered as never before by the arrival of one man on a mission of destruction. Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. This is its story."

Ambassador Delenn (re: ripples in water): "Notice the waves, each moving in its own order, predictable, unchanging. But drop in a single stone and see how the pattern changes. Everything around it is altered."

Delenn (to Sinclair re: Vorlon files): "Here is a copy of everything I have. It may be of use. If anyone asks, say it fell from the sky."

Delenn: "Commander, you know everything about your stone garden. But clearly, you have not spent nearly enough time looking at it."

Ambassador G'Kar: "The Narn Regime is dedicated to peace!"

G'Kar (to Lyta Alexander): "We have no telepaths among my people. A genetic oversight I suppose. One which you could help correct. I am empowered to compensate you quite handsomely for your genetic background."

G'Kar (to Lyta Alexander): "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."

G'Kar: "We have unlimited manpower and the will to use it! Can you imagine what we could achieve together?"  
Delenn: "I can, which is why it must never be allowed to happen."

Security Chief Michael Garibaldi: "No Human's ever seen one. -- Three expeditions have been sent into Vorlon space to establish formal relations.  None of them came back."

Garibaldi: "I don't trust telepaths. Never have; never will."

Garibaldi (to Sinclair): "Commander, this little breach of security isn't going to affect my Christmas bonus, is it?"

Dr. Ben Kyle (to Sinclair re: Kosh): "Even for an alien, this one is pretty alien."

Dr. Kyle: "[The Vorlon High Command insists] that the ambassador's encounter suit cannot be removed ... for security reasons."

Londo Mollari (to Garibaldi): "... you're a security chief. Shouldn't you be out securing something?"

Londo: "I suppose there'll be a war now, hmm? All that running around and shooting at one another. You would've thought sooner or later it would go out of fashion."

Londo: "You make very good sharks, Mr. Garibaldi. We were pretty good sharks ourselves once, but somehow, along the way, we forgot how to bite. 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."

Londo: "My god, man. We've become a tourist attraction. 'See the great Centauri Republic -- open 9 to 5, Earth time.'"

Commander Sinclair: "Sooner or later, everyone comes to Babylon 5."

Sinclair: "Babylons one, two and three were sabotaged and destroyed. Number four vanished without a trace 24 hours after becoming operational. To this day no one knows what happened to it."

Sinclair (to Garibladi): "... I picked you because you are right for the job. You are not politicking, you are not subtle, and sometimes you are a pain in the ass. And I wouldn't have it any other way."

Sinclair: "We had to stop them, ... no matter what it cost. They came at us out of nowhere. We never had a chance. The sky was full of stars and every star an exploding ship -- one of ours."

Sinclair: "... we were beaten. We didn't stop them, they stopped themselves. I wish the hell I knew why."

Sinclair: "Delenn, just before he died, the Minbari assassin looked at me and said: 'There's a hole in your mind.'"  
Delenn: "An old Minbari insult. Nothing you need worry about."

Sinclair (to Delenn): "I would never tell you anything that was not in your best interest."

Sinclair: "'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'"

Lieutenant Commander Laurel Takashima (to G'Kar): "If it makes you feel any better, I can send them a fruit basket."

Takashima: "We were talking the other day about how nobody has seen a Vorlon before. And he said that according to legend, one human did see a Vorlon, and turned to stone." 
Sinclair: "Well, that's just a legend." 
Takashima: "Probably." 
Sinclair: "Probably."

Takashima (to Dr. Kyle): "I haven't broken the rules in a long time, doctor, so I guess ... I'm about due."

Takashima: "This is Lieutenant Commander Laurel Takashima. Our docking bays stand ready to receive you. Babylon 5 is open for business."