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Shuttle 1 to C & C.
The package is on its way in.
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Confirmed, Shuttle 1.
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Hang on. Hang on.
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- Welcome home.
- This was your idea, wasn't it?
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Well, we figured you'd wanna come back
with as little fanfare as possible.
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Your usual low-key approach.
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But there's a time and a place
for everything...
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...and this is the time and this is definitely
the place for one hell of a party.
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Mr. President, we have a lot to celebrate.
Including, and especially, your marriage.
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And you two just can't avoid it.
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If I can find some way to pay
you back for this, I will.
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Thank you.
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So, doctor, who died?
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What are you talking about?
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Well, among my people,
this is how we celebrate state funerals.
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Our marriage ceremonies are
solemn, sober. Moments of reflection.
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Also regret, disagreement, argument
and mutual recrimination.
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Once you know that it
cannot get any worse...
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...you can relax and enjoy the marriage.
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But to start with something like this...
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No, it is a very bad sign for the future.
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Perhaps it was something I said.
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Perhaps it is everything you say.
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I knew we should have gone
to Minbar first.
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Well, I suppose we can't blame them.
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I mean, Clark's gone, Earth and Mars
are free. They wanna celebrate.
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I guess they see us
as a symbol of that.
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They should be applauding themselves,
not us. We did it together.
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There is something immodest
about all this.
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Oh, I wouldn't worry about it.
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What matters
is what we did here together.
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In 100 years,
it won't matter who we were.
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- They probably won't even remember.
- That's true.
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Here's our first shot of the First Couple
of the Interstellar Alliance...
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...President John Sheridan and Delenn,
live on ISN.
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Their triumphant return to Babylon 5
after the liberation of Earth...
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...has generated good...
- messages from the Senate...
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- in the former
League of Non-Aligned Worlds.
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Continuity error caused by high energy.
Correcting for error.
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Sheridan and Delenn.
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Please stand by to receive.
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It was the year of fire.
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The year of destruction.
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The year we took back
what was ours.
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It was the year of rebirth.
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The year of great sadness.
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The year of pain.
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- And a year of joy.
- It was a new age.
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It was the end of history.
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It was the year everything changed.
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The year is 2261.
The place, Babylon 5.
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scanning date. Stand by.
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ISN Nightside...
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...a no-holds-barred look
at the events of today...
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...that will shape the world
of tomorrow.
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And now your host, Derek Mitchell.
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Good evening. The events of the last
few weeks have been remarkable.
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The end of a civil war that split Earthforce
squarely down the middle...
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...the death
of President William Morgan Clark...
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...the birth of an independent Mars...
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...and the creation of a new
interstellar alliance.
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It can be more than
a little overwhelming.
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However, there's a word
in the Old Testament...
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...used to call for silence
between passages.
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Selah.
It means "pause and consider."
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So tonight, starting with a report from
special correspondent Jim Bitterbane...
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...and a word or 10 from our
usual panel of experts...
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...we've set aside a few moments
to reflect, discuss, pause and consider.
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Selah.
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Greatness is a quality that is often sought
by those who want it most...
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...but are the least worthy.
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Correspondingly, greatness is sometimes
thrust upon those who want it least...
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...but are the most deserving.
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These words seem to best describe
Captain John J. Sheridan...
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...in the way he came into the world and as
the position that he currently occupies...
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...as that of the president
of the new Interstellar Alliance.
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The only son of a career diplomat...
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...Sheridan was an average
but enthusiastic student.
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He drifted in and out of various hobbies,
including a brief but obsessive interest...
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...in works of the Dalai Lama...
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...before entering Earthforce
shortly after the Dilgar War.
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He served with distinction during
the Minbari War and the food riots on Mars.
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Quite a change from those early,
unremarkable years...
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...and the man who came to Earth leading
a fleet and carrying an ultimatum.
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But now, an even greater challenge
stands before him.
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Can he hold together this newborn alliance
of competing, even mutually hostile, races?
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- Derek.
- Thank you, Jim.
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We'll now turn to our panel of experts
for their thoughts.
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From Earth Dome,
Senator Elizabeth Metarie.
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From Mars, author and journalist
Leif Tanner.
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And from Paris, Henry Ellis, former
speechwriter and political commentator.
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- Gentlemen, senator, welcome.
- Thank you, Derek.
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I don't know which of you
wants to be first...
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- I'd like to jump in here, Derek.
- All right.
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What amazes me...
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...is the way that everyone has tried
to turn Sheridan into some kind of hero.
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This is the man who resigned
his commission in Earthforce...
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...under dubious circumstances.
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The president cleared him
and his crew, Henry...
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...and she called him
the hero of the hour.
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Yes, she did, and she's gonna have to
answer for that in the next election...
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...but that's besides the point.
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Now, there was obviously
some sort of deal made there...
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...which is how he got out of there
with his hide in one piece.
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Call me old-fashioned...
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...but that doesn't sound like the best
qualification to run a major alliance.
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Sounds like most of the generals
and politicians...
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...who've made history
in the last hundred years.
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Oh, come on.
Let's look at the facts.
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The man isn't qualified to run an operation
as large as this Interstellar Alliance.
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He could barely operate Babylon 5
without shooting at everything in sight.
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- Oh, that's an exaggeration.
- He can barely get along with his own race.
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And now he's gonna stitch together
an alliance of radically different aliens...
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...and make it work? No, this whole
shebang is doomed from the get-go.
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- You're overreacting.
- At least let him prove if he can do it...
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- Absolutely.
- With what's at stake?!
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I agree with the senator.
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Give Sheridan a break. To write him off
before he's even started...
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...well, that's irrational,
even for you, Henry.
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He fires on his own ships and you're
calling me irrational? Come on, Leif.
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- That's not fair.
- I beg your pardon.
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Do you actually believe
the Alliance will work?
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I don't know if it will work...
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...l'm just saying that he deserves a chance
to try and make it work.
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What I think is missing and being lost
in this whole discussion...
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...is that this is an election year...
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...and that Mr. Ellis was working as
a speechwriter in the Clark administration.
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And I think that he and others of his party
consider Sheridan a real threat...
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...to their hopes for a majority
in the Senate...
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...so they're doing all they can
to discredit him in advance.
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- That is completely unfair.
- It is not unfair. It's true, Henry.
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I hate to interrupt you at this point,
but we're coming up on a break.
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So why don't each of you give me
your calls for the next couple of years...
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...on the following.
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Can Sheridan and his people make
a go of this new alliance?
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- Absolutely.
- Yes.
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Do you think they'll make
any difference?
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And what do you consider to be
the number one problem waiting for them?
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Mr. Tanner.
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From where I sit, they've
already made a difference.
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The Senate has been debating what to do
about Mars for years and did nothing.
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It took Sheridan to push them
into recognizing...
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...our sovereign rights of independence.
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- At gunpoint.
- Senator?
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Obviously, there's a degree of uncertainty
in any new political situation.
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This next year will prove critical
for Sheridan and the rest of his people.
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Look at what they're up against.
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He has to ride herd on a dozen or so alien
races that have signed on to this alliance...
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...and probably don't fully understand
what's being required of them.
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There's still sporadic fighting
between many of those members.
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On top of that he has supply problems,
telepath problems, raiding parties...
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...not to mention distrust among elements
of his own government here at home.
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This man has his work cut out for him,
but I know that he can handle it.
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Mr. Ellis, last words.
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Whatever Sheridan and Delenn say
about this economic alliance...
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...he's going to have to apply
military force to make it work.
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Now, let me finish. I didn't interrupt
you people when you were talking.
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Now, when this happens,
it's all gonna fall apart.
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He's power hungry and he's unprepared
and that is a dangerous combination.
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- Dangerous combination, that's what...
- Thank you. Thank you very much.
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We'll be back in just a moment
to consider the political implications...
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...of this new Interstellar Alliance
and the recent calls for the formation...
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...of independent political parties
on Mars.
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Date: 100 years from first time period.
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With another in our series
of educational stellarcasts...
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...on the 100th anniversary
of the Interstellar Alliance.
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Taking part in today's discussion
from Earth Dome...
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...historian Dr. Jim Latimere
from the University of York...
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...political scientist Dr. Barbara Tashaki,
University of Japan at Tokyo...
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...and psychologist Dr. William Exeter
from NYU.
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Good morning. We have roughly half
a million students and faculty...
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...online today waiting with questions,
which is more than we expected...
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...so if the system runs a little slow,
bear with us.
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Our first question, from Ray Winston,
University of Kiev:
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What role do you feel Babylon played
in the creation of the 100 Year Peace?
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Well, the station, none at all. It's a place...
Was a place that served as a nexus.
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- I agree.
- A nexus how?
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The first thing you have to do
is separate fantasy from reality.
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The Alliance publicity machine
would have you believe...
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...that all this came about because
of what a few people did.
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But large political movements
are rarely the work of any one person.
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The individual at the center gives
permission for others to act and inspires...
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...but the individual really cannot
effect change as an act of will.
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They did not do.
They allowed others to do.
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By "they,"
you mean Sheridan and Delenn?
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We all have a profound psychological
need to believe in heroes.
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The shining knight on the white horse.
If they don't exist, we create them.
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Sheridan and Delenn
are two classic examples.
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If you look at the social dynamic around
them, they actually didn't do anything.
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They were the open vessels in which people
poured their hopes and their dreams...
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...that sets up sort of a gestalt where
events take on a life of their own.
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So the record of their
accomplishments is overrated?
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Absolutely. Good PR, as Tashaki said.
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In a lot of ways, they blew it.
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Only the force of history saved the situation
from collapsing of its own weight...
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...after so many people died in its first year.
And the incident concerning their son...
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I don't want to get off the track
and into associated biography...
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...so let's move on
to the next question.
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If your assumption is correct...
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...where did Sheridan and Delenn
and those involved go wrong?
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Where do you start?
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So many people died in the year after
Sheridan and Delenn returned to Babylon 5.
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- You can't blame them for all that.
- Of course you can.
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As one example, they had no business
creating a colony of telepaths on Babylon 5.
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He said later it was the worst
mistake of his career.
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He thought they could control the telepaths,
when any fool knows that's impossible.
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They were bound to turn on Sheridan
and everybody else...
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...and that's exactly what happened.
- I have to agree.
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That one event may have done much
to precipitate the Telepath War and...
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You can't say one incident
was the cause...
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Not the sole cause, no.
But it was a contributing factor.
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I'd like to turn our attention
to this historical record.
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It's from later in 2262, just after
the creation of the Interstellar Alliance.
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I'd like to get your comments on it.
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You gotta listen to me.
This isn't gonna work.
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If you give yourselves up, we could
go back, we could talk to the others.
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All right, you say you're
doing this for a cause.
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What kind of sympathy are you gonna get
by killing innocent people in cold blood?
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You wanna send out a message,
this ain't it.
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Look, I can work with you.
227
00:15:01,907 --> 00:15:05,365
I can get you out of this,
but you've gotta work with me.
228
00:15:06,111 --> 00:15:07,806
What do you say?
229
00:15:11,717 --> 00:15:13,708
Yeah.
230
00:15:13,886 --> 00:15:16,286
That's what I thought
you were gonna say.
231
00:15:16,455 --> 00:15:18,548
This is President Sheridan.
232
00:15:18,724 --> 00:15:20,589
I have consulted
with Captain Lochley...
233
00:15:20,759 --> 00:15:24,422
...and we've reached a decision
regarding the current situation.
234
00:15:24,796 --> 00:15:29,199
It is not the policy of the Interstellar
Alliance or this station...
235
00:15:29,368 --> 00:15:32,929
...to bargain with terrorists
for the lives of hostages.
236
00:15:33,105 --> 00:15:37,337
If we open that door even once
we will never be able to close it again.
237
00:15:37,509 --> 00:15:39,602
Now, you have two choices.
238
00:15:39,778 --> 00:15:41,211
Surrender...
239
00:15:41,380 --> 00:15:45,009
...or we will use lethal force
to bring you down.
240
00:15:45,183 --> 00:15:47,276
You have 10 minutes.
241
00:15:50,122 --> 00:15:51,749
Swell.
242
00:15:54,626 --> 00:15:55,615
Wait, look, we...
243
00:15:56,895 --> 00:15:58,590
Comments?
244
00:15:58,897 --> 00:16:02,355
I don't know what more needs to be said.
The pictures speak for themselves.
245
00:16:02,534 --> 00:16:04,229
Sheridan was clearly pathological.
246
00:16:04,403 --> 00:16:06,268
Most governments take that position.
247
00:16:06,438 --> 00:16:07,496
I'm not debating that.
248
00:16:07,673 --> 00:16:10,801
But you can see it in his attitude,
how he addresses the terrorists.
249
00:16:10,976 --> 00:16:13,308
That coldness is emblematic
of his personality.
250
00:16:13,478 --> 00:16:17,437
He was power-hungry, as simple as that.
And he never let anything get in his way.
251
00:16:17,883 --> 00:16:19,282
Dr. Tashaki?
252
00:16:19,551 --> 00:16:21,143
A truly pathological individual...
253
00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,983
...could never have constructed a mythos
around himself the way Sheridan did.
254
00:16:25,157 --> 00:16:28,786
It's a very sophisticated PR campaign.
Brilliantly done.
255
00:16:28,961 --> 00:16:31,555
And there's that bit about the way
his death was handled.
256
00:16:31,730 --> 00:16:33,960
Exactly. Everyone knows
Sheridan died on Minbar.
257
00:16:34,132 --> 00:16:35,565
The cover story they put out...
258
00:16:35,734 --> 00:16:38,669
...was clearly designed to perpetuate
the myth of his character.
259
00:16:38,837 --> 00:16:42,864
And I guess it worked, because a lot
of people still believe it 80 years later.
260
00:16:43,041 --> 00:16:46,477
So where do the two of you
fall on the Delenn question?
261
00:16:46,878 --> 00:16:50,006
Well, everyone knows Minbari live
a long time, but not that long.
262
00:16:50,182 --> 00:16:54,084
I think the record is 120 years.
140? Forget it.
263
00:16:54,252 --> 00:16:58,655
This is what Dr. Tashaki mentioned earlier,
this constant perpetuation of fantasy.
264
00:16:59,024 --> 00:17:02,755
The idea that Delenn is still around
after this long and living in seclusion...
265
00:17:02,928 --> 00:17:06,022
...so, of course, no one can see her,
it's very convenient.
266
00:17:06,198 --> 00:17:10,066
The Alliance is continuing the illusion
that Delenn is alive for their own purposes.
267
00:17:10,235 --> 00:17:12,032
I don't think she would have approved.
268
00:17:12,204 --> 00:17:16,140
Apparently they feel they have to maintain
this fiction to keep their people in line.
269
00:17:16,308 --> 00:17:19,072
If the Alliance and the Rangers
are as strong as they say...
270
00:17:19,244 --> 00:17:22,077
...they don't need this security blanket
of lies and myth.
271
00:17:22,247 --> 00:17:25,842
Looking back, has the Alliance
been a force for good?
272
00:17:26,451 --> 00:17:28,419
Well, for the most part, yes.
273
00:17:28,587 --> 00:17:31,021
Although good things can grow
in questionable ground.
274
00:17:31,189 --> 00:17:34,090
It's clear the motives of those
at the birth of the Alliance...
275
00:17:34,259 --> 00:17:37,422
...were not as pure as their biographers
and allies would suggest.
276
00:17:38,330 --> 00:17:42,494
The force of history is what moves us
forward, our common shared destiny.
277
00:17:42,667 --> 00:17:44,897
The individual does not move
society forward.
278
00:17:45,070 --> 00:17:48,369
To give them undue credit
is immodest and impertinent.
279
00:17:48,540 --> 00:17:50,201
Sheridan was a megalomaniac.
280
00:17:50,375 --> 00:17:53,606
And to allow history to feed that
megalomania, even posthumously...
281
00:17:53,779 --> 00:17:55,576
...simply compounds the error.
282
00:17:55,747 --> 00:17:59,877
We have an obligation as academics
to uphold certain standards...
283
00:18:01,620 --> 00:18:06,523
I've just heard we've had a security breach
in the building. We're going to...
284
00:18:20,205 --> 00:18:21,900
Delenn?
285
00:18:23,675 --> 00:18:26,007
John Sheridan...
286
00:18:27,512 --> 00:18:29,343
...was a good...
287
00:18:30,015 --> 00:18:31,983
...and kind...
288
00:18:32,617 --> 00:18:35,142
...and decent man.
289
00:18:39,524 --> 00:18:40,752
Delenn, wait.
290
00:18:42,127 --> 00:18:45,893
You came all this way
just to say that?
291
00:18:47,599 --> 00:18:53,003
You came just as far to say less.
292
00:18:53,171 --> 00:18:57,505
But this is extraordinary. There's so
much more we'd like to ask you.
293
00:18:57,676 --> 00:18:59,576
So much more we'd like to know.
294
00:18:59,945 --> 00:19:04,882
You do not wish to know anything.
295
00:19:06,852 --> 00:19:09,480
You wish...
296
00:19:09,921 --> 00:19:12,515
...only to speak.
297
00:19:14,593 --> 00:19:18,051
That which you know...
298
00:19:19,064 --> 00:19:21,259
...you ignore...
299
00:19:21,433 --> 00:19:25,529
...because it is inconvenient.
300
00:19:27,272 --> 00:19:31,208
That which you do not know...
301
00:19:31,743 --> 00:19:33,904
...you invent.
302
00:19:36,581 --> 00:19:39,982
But none of that matters.
303
00:19:41,520 --> 00:19:47,948
Except that he was a good man.
304
00:19:49,528 --> 00:19:51,996
A kind man...
305
00:19:52,998 --> 00:19:56,729
...who cared about the world...
306
00:19:58,036 --> 00:20:00,596
...even when the world...
307
00:20:00,772 --> 00:20:03,536
...cared nothing for him.
308
00:20:12,450 --> 00:20:15,817
Of course we would expect you
to say that. We...
309
00:20:27,566 --> 00:20:29,534
Goodbye.
310
00:20:51,756 --> 00:20:54,919
Record ends. Auto play feature engaged.
311
00:20:55,093 --> 00:20:59,723
Loading next sequence.
Date: 500 years from first time period.
312
00:20:59,898 --> 00:21:01,729
Stand by.
313
00:21:03,335 --> 00:21:07,635
Accessing records for date 500 years
from initial scanning date. Stand by.
314
00:21:16,147 --> 00:21:18,672
Continue holographic recording
from last index point.
315
00:21:18,850 --> 00:21:20,909
Test sequence number five.
316
00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:26,380
2 January, 2762.
All monitors set to record mode.
317
00:21:26,858 --> 00:21:31,192
Initiating environmental hologram,
location 2C. Sequence, start.
318
00:21:33,932 --> 00:21:40,030
Virtual environment functioning, identical
to Babylon 5 system records from 2262.
319
00:21:40,205 --> 00:21:42,366
Data transfer of records
is complete...
320
00:21:42,540 --> 00:21:45,873
...successful in spite of extreme age
of original files...
321
00:21:46,044 --> 00:21:52,108
...and destruction of original
Babylon 5 station 480 years ago.
322
00:21:52,784 --> 00:21:55,753
To recap for Politdivision Central...
323
00:21:56,921 --> 00:22:00,413
...the purpose of this simulation is
to provide reverse-correct infospeak...
324
00:22:00,592 --> 00:22:04,153
...as support for current changes
in Earth policy.
325
00:22:04,663 --> 00:22:08,224
It is the new policy that
the Interstellar Alliance is restrictive...
326
00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:11,597
...and against the best
interests of Earth.
327
00:22:11,903 --> 00:22:16,567
Intent is to deconstruct historical figures
revered by prole sector...
328
00:22:16,741 --> 00:22:21,110
...thereby legitimizing current
government policies.
329
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,883
Initiating phase two of re-creation.
330
00:22:28,219 --> 00:22:31,382
To determine if the psychohistorical
research has been thorough...
331
00:22:31,556 --> 00:22:33,956
...phase two will begin
with the control holograms...
332
00:22:34,125 --> 00:22:38,528
...working with the actual psychological
makeups of the subjects in question.
333
00:22:40,332 --> 00:22:44,735
The holograms will thus perform
in a fashion consistent with realfact.
334
00:22:44,903 --> 00:22:46,803
Program start...
335
00:22:46,971 --> 00:22:48,700
...now.
336
00:22:48,873 --> 00:22:50,807
Do you know where you are?
337
00:22:51,409 --> 00:22:55,368
Babylon 5, the conference room,
level Blue 3.
338
00:22:55,547 --> 00:22:57,412
And what year is it?
339
00:22:57,582 --> 00:22:59,311
2262.
340
00:22:59,484 --> 00:23:00,974
Very good.
341
00:23:01,820 --> 00:23:05,620
The next step is to determine how well
the system can be modified.
342
00:23:05,790 --> 00:23:08,782
Computer, update system files
for holographic figures...
343
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,919
...filling in period
from 2262 through 2762.
344
00:23:13,098 --> 00:23:14,725
Stand by.
345
00:23:14,899 --> 00:23:17,527
The system is updating
the holographic representations...
346
00:23:17,702 --> 00:23:21,570
...with our current political situation
and the developments leading up to them.
347
00:23:22,273 --> 00:23:25,003
This will demonstrate
system flexibility...
348
00:23:25,176 --> 00:23:28,612
...and capacity to spontaneously emote
to changes in programming.
349
00:23:29,547 --> 00:23:31,481
Download complete.
350
00:23:32,283 --> 00:23:33,750
Well.
351
00:23:34,753 --> 00:23:37,221
Five hundred years.
352
00:23:37,389 --> 00:23:39,016
- Are we...?
- Yes.
353
00:23:39,190 --> 00:23:42,751
You, the real you, are deceased.
354
00:23:42,927 --> 00:23:45,020
We have reconstructed
your thought patterns...
355
00:23:45,196 --> 00:23:47,994
...and your forms for a series of vids
designed to help...
356
00:23:48,166 --> 00:23:52,603
Designed as propaganda to justify your
break from the Interstellar Alliance.
357
00:23:55,940 --> 00:23:58,431
Not propaganda. Goodfacts.
358
00:23:58,610 --> 00:24:00,737
As opposed to realfacts.
359
00:24:00,912 --> 00:24:03,210
Facts the government has endorsed.
360
00:24:04,315 --> 00:24:08,308
I don't get it. Why are you doing this?
Why the break with the Alliance?
361
00:24:09,020 --> 00:24:12,080
Five hundred years of working
with the Alliance...
362
00:24:12,257 --> 00:24:15,988
...has weakened the position of humans
in the greater scheme of things.
363
00:24:16,161 --> 00:24:18,356
We have lost our uniqueness.
364
00:24:18,530 --> 00:24:22,296
We have been polluted by
too many outside ideas.
365
00:24:23,735 --> 00:24:25,202
That's a great story.
366
00:24:25,370 --> 00:24:28,100
I'm sure that's the one
you're putting out.
367
00:24:28,273 --> 00:24:30,298
What's the real one?
368
00:24:30,475 --> 00:24:32,340
The realfact, not the goodfact.
369
00:24:32,510 --> 00:24:34,569
Earth needs room to expand.
370
00:24:35,380 --> 00:24:39,976
The Rangers and the Alliance prove
a hindrance to our plans to expand.
371
00:24:40,518 --> 00:24:41,815
Can't you see?
372
00:24:45,457 --> 00:24:48,392
They've re-created us so that
they can provide false records...
373
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,495
...and portray us to be, what,
the bad guys?
374
00:24:51,663 --> 00:24:54,097
Only out for interests but our own?
375
00:24:54,499 --> 00:24:58,526
They want to undermine the Alliance
by attacking the people who created it.
376
00:24:58,870 --> 00:25:01,805
- Looks like...
- Just a second.
377
00:25:03,942 --> 00:25:06,342
I'm remembering things I never saw.
378
00:25:06,511 --> 00:25:08,502
Those are the records
they downloaded to us.
379
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,012
There's another force out there.
380
00:25:11,182 --> 00:25:13,082
Earthgov is split.
381
00:25:13,251 --> 00:25:17,210
The two sides are fighting
each other over...
382
00:25:17,388 --> 00:25:20,755
...land and resources, power.
383
00:25:22,393 --> 00:25:25,089
We're on the cusp of another civil war.
384
00:25:25,864 --> 00:25:27,525
No, he's right.
385
00:25:28,299 --> 00:25:30,096
I'm getting it too.
386
00:25:33,471 --> 00:25:36,463
That's the reason for the planned
invasion, isn't it?
387
00:25:38,009 --> 00:25:41,604
They wanna take over several colonies
that have gone over to the opposition...
388
00:25:41,779 --> 00:25:43,644
...which is still loyal to the Alliance.
389
00:25:43,815 --> 00:25:47,546
Your legacy has proven a hindrance
to that intention.
390
00:25:47,719 --> 00:25:51,485
Therefore, you must be deconstructed.
391
00:25:51,856 --> 00:25:53,915
Initiating phase three.
392
00:25:57,195 --> 00:25:58,924
Goodfact scenario ready for testing.
393
00:25:59,097 --> 00:26:02,760
- Look, if you think this is going to work...
- Engaging reprogram.
394
00:26:02,934 --> 00:26:04,697
You may proceed.
395
00:26:09,307 --> 00:26:11,639
Welcome to Babylon 5.
396
00:26:12,810 --> 00:26:19,147
I understand that you surrendered to our
forces in the hopes of finding mercy.
397
00:26:20,385 --> 00:26:25,379
The Interstellar Alliance is not here
to be merciful to the weak.
398
00:26:27,325 --> 00:26:29,793
In all the universe,
there are only two kinds...
399
00:26:29,961 --> 00:26:32,020
...the conquerors...
400
00:26:32,196 --> 00:26:34,130
...and the conquered.
401
00:26:34,699 --> 00:26:37,759
Through your blood and the blood
of your children...
402
00:26:37,936 --> 00:26:40,530
...we will blaze a path
across the galaxy!
403
00:26:40,705 --> 00:26:46,439
What we cannot take by force,
we will win by subversion.
404
00:26:47,478 --> 00:26:50,811
And in the end, we will bury you.
405
00:26:53,151 --> 00:26:56,120
Your lives are not the first
and they will not be the last.
406
00:26:56,287 --> 00:27:00,951
If a billion must die to ensure
the continuance of our empire...
407
00:27:01,125 --> 00:27:03,389
...then so be it!
408
00:27:12,370 --> 00:27:14,600
You are only...
409
00:27:15,707 --> 00:27:17,641
...a down payment.
410
00:27:19,777 --> 00:27:21,745
Stand ready!
411
00:27:24,949 --> 00:27:26,644
Aim!
412
00:27:27,385 --> 00:27:28,511
Fire!
413
00:27:28,853 --> 00:27:31,845
- There must be something we can do.
- How?
414
00:27:32,023 --> 00:27:35,390
We're dead. We're not even here.
Just our memories, our thought patterns.
415
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,085
But that must be worth something.
416
00:27:38,262 --> 00:27:43,063
What we are is not a matter of flesh,
it's a matter of will.
417
00:27:43,234 --> 00:27:46,897
We know their backgrounds, we know
what they're doing. Why don't we just...?
418
00:27:47,071 --> 00:27:48,504
Phase two.
419
00:27:48,673 --> 00:27:53,736
Instituting Franklin reprogram,
placing Delenn module in standby mode.
420
00:27:54,412 --> 00:27:56,642
Proceeding with next simulation.
421
00:27:57,849 --> 00:28:00,579
Doctor's personal log: May 3, 2262.
422
00:28:01,285 --> 00:28:05,381
We have secured several test subjects
for the next series of experiments.
423
00:28:05,556 --> 00:28:09,322
We will now continue with the use
of alien organs in human bodies...
424
00:28:09,494 --> 00:28:11,758
...in an attempt to create
a genetic crossbreed...
425
00:28:11,929 --> 00:28:14,022
...compliant to the needs
of the Alliance.
426
00:28:14,198 --> 00:28:17,429
Later today we will begin again
with our experiments on children.
427
00:28:17,602 --> 00:28:20,298
The problem with the vivisection
is the younger children...
428
00:28:20,471 --> 00:28:23,634
...can only survive the initial removal
of organs for a short time.
429
00:28:23,808 --> 00:28:26,800
Now, we hope that
by increased use of drugs...
430
00:28:26,978 --> 00:28:30,914
...we may find a way to prolong
their lives while we work.
431
00:28:34,252 --> 00:28:35,879
Very good, very good.
432
00:28:36,054 --> 00:28:40,115
Program hold while I make notes
on this for Infospeak Division.
433
00:28:42,226 --> 00:28:45,957
So, Daniel, right? Dan, Danny.
Can I call you Danny?
434
00:28:46,130 --> 00:28:47,688
Oh, right. Sorry, I forgot.
435
00:28:47,865 --> 00:28:50,231
I'm just a hologram
and you're reprogramming me.
436
00:28:50,401 --> 00:28:51,868
Didn't mean to interrupt.
437
00:28:52,036 --> 00:28:54,732
No point conversing with someone
that doesn't really exist.
438
00:28:54,906 --> 00:28:59,002
When you've got your pieces in place,
you're gonna launch a preemptive strike...
439
00:28:59,177 --> 00:29:02,908
...against the enemy, right?
I mean, it's what I would do.
440
00:29:03,081 --> 00:29:06,278
- Computer, initiate shutdown of Garibaldi.
- Now, wait.
441
00:29:06,451 --> 00:29:08,942
Just one second.
Before you do that...
442
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,384
...I might have some useful
information for you.
443
00:29:11,556 --> 00:29:13,888
See, the thing is,
me and Sheridan were close...
444
00:29:14,058 --> 00:29:17,516
...but I was the one who did most
of the strategic planning during the war.
445
00:29:17,695 --> 00:29:21,529
Now, a resource like that, you might
not want to wipe it out just yet.
446
00:29:21,699 --> 00:29:24,896
I could help you. Give you some tips
to pass along to the big boys...
447
00:29:25,069 --> 00:29:28,505
...and maybe get you a promotion.
448
00:29:33,344 --> 00:29:34,333
Go on.
449
00:29:34,512 --> 00:29:37,538
Well, before I can help,
I have to ask just a few small questions.
450
00:29:37,715 --> 00:29:39,979
Now, you're a realfact kind of guy.
451
00:29:40,151 --> 00:29:42,381
You know what they're up to
out there, don't you?
452
00:29:42,553 --> 00:29:45,750
Come on, you can tell me.
Am I right?
453
00:29:47,024 --> 00:29:50,653
Your boys are planning a first strike
against the enemy, aren't they?
454
00:29:50,828 --> 00:29:54,229
That's why you're rushing ahead like this,
because you're under the gun.
455
00:29:55,733 --> 00:29:58,167
We will strike at the outer-world colonies...
456
00:29:58,336 --> 00:30:01,100
...and the enemy nations here on Earth
at the same time.
457
00:30:01,272 --> 00:30:03,740
Our attack fleet will be leaving
within the hour.
458
00:30:03,908 --> 00:30:06,536
Good. Good, that's very smart.
459
00:30:06,711 --> 00:30:10,477
Now, will you be targeting military bases
or civilian population centers?
460
00:30:10,648 --> 00:30:12,980
Civilian population centers.
461
00:30:13,151 --> 00:30:14,413
We...
462
00:30:14,585 --> 00:30:19,488
My superiors feel it will demoralize
the enemy. Force a surrender.
463
00:30:19,657 --> 00:30:21,318
Estimated dead?
464
00:30:21,492 --> 00:30:24,290
Fifteen to 20 million enemy casualties.
465
00:30:24,462 --> 00:30:27,522
Can't make an omelet without
breaking a few eggs.
466
00:30:27,698 --> 00:30:29,165
Absolutely.
467
00:30:29,333 --> 00:30:34,134
Now, what suggestions do you have?
468
00:30:35,239 --> 00:30:37,366
Well, I suggest...
469
00:30:37,542 --> 00:30:41,376
...that you put your head between your legs
and you kiss your ass goodbye.
470
00:30:43,514 --> 00:30:45,106
Thank you.
471
00:30:46,017 --> 00:30:47,609
Computer!
472
00:30:47,785 --> 00:30:51,277
The thing about being a holographic
record is that you don't really exist...
473
00:30:51,455 --> 00:30:55,391
...except in patterns of light,
shadow, information.
474
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,085
And I happen to have a knack
for breaking system codes.
475
00:30:58,262 --> 00:31:02,392
While you downloaded the new world order
into me I watched the system work.
476
00:31:02,567 --> 00:31:05,627
I know where it comes in
and I know where it goes out.
477
00:31:05,803 --> 00:31:08,294
And I just sent out
our entire conversation.
478
00:31:08,472 --> 00:31:09,905
Broadcast the whole damn thing.
479
00:31:10,074 --> 00:31:14,101
So as of right now, the enemy knows
what you have in mind, Danny.
480
00:31:14,278 --> 00:31:16,940
From your records, they're more
humanitarian than you are.
481
00:31:17,114 --> 00:31:20,242
They'll probably target your military bases
and research facilities.
482
00:31:20,418 --> 00:31:24,184
Hell, their missiles are probably
halfway here by now.
483
00:31:24,722 --> 00:31:26,519
You're lying.
484
00:31:30,795 --> 00:31:33,559
Holograms don't lie, Danny boy.
485
00:31:33,731 --> 00:31:36,131
Computer, end simulation.
486
00:31:36,300 --> 00:31:37,665
End simulation!
487
00:31:37,835 --> 00:31:40,861
Guess the system's busy.
This little lab of yours...
488
00:31:41,038 --> 00:31:45,407
...this isn't, by any chance,
located on a military base, is it?
489
00:31:45,576 --> 00:31:46,873
No!
490
00:31:56,888 --> 00:31:59,049
Rest easy, friends.
491
00:32:00,858 --> 00:32:02,587
Rest easy.
492
00:32:05,062 --> 00:32:07,860
Record ends.
Auto play feature engaged.
493
00:32:08,032 --> 00:32:11,900
Loading next sequence.
Date: 1000 years from first time period.
494
00:32:12,069 --> 00:32:13,934
Stand by.
495
00:32:15,039 --> 00:32:18,770
Accessing records for date 1000 years
from initial scanning date. Stand by.
496
00:32:22,947 --> 00:32:25,677
Surprised it all still works
after this long.
497
00:32:25,850 --> 00:32:28,250
Well, better get to my report.
498
00:32:28,419 --> 00:32:32,219
Start auto-track systems.
499
00:32:36,527 --> 00:32:38,188
Yes!
500
00:32:38,729 --> 00:32:42,256
Yes? Yes, just a moment.
501
00:32:44,135 --> 00:32:48,333
- Well, Brother Michael, it's rather late.
- Yes, I know, I know.
502
00:32:48,506 --> 00:32:50,770
But I really had to talk to you,
Brother Alwyn.
503
00:32:50,942 --> 00:32:52,569
So it would seem.
504
00:32:52,743 --> 00:32:54,574
I am having a...
505
00:32:54,745 --> 00:32:56,975
- A crisis of faith.
- That again?
506
00:32:57,148 --> 00:32:59,013
- What?
- Nothing, nothing.
507
00:32:59,183 --> 00:33:02,277
And what is afflicting your conscience
tonight, Brother Michael?
508
00:33:02,453 --> 00:33:05,320
Well, I don't know what my role is
or what I'm doing here.
509
00:33:05,489 --> 00:33:07,684
- You're doing God's work.
- Yes, but to what end?
510
00:33:07,858 --> 00:33:12,056
The ways of the Lord are mysterious
and do not bend to your or to my desire...
511
00:33:12,229 --> 00:33:15,357
...for answers on a certain schedule.
512
00:33:15,533 --> 00:33:18,263
"Where was thou when I called
forth leviathan?"
513
00:33:18,436 --> 00:33:22,304
Yes, I've read Job, Brother Alwyn,
and it is really not helping.
514
00:33:22,506 --> 00:33:25,441
All right, Brother Michael.
515
00:33:26,811 --> 00:33:30,713
What has precipitated
this particular crisis of faith?
516
00:33:30,881 --> 00:33:35,011
There is a rumor going around
that our request for recognition...
517
00:33:35,186 --> 00:33:37,154
...has been turned down yet again
by Rome.
518
00:33:37,321 --> 00:33:39,585
Yes, I see.
519
00:33:39,757 --> 00:33:44,023
A better rationale for the vow
of silence I've never heard.
520
00:33:44,495 --> 00:33:46,292
Is it true?
521
00:33:46,831 --> 00:33:50,892
The ways of Rome are like unto God.
522
00:33:51,068 --> 00:33:52,763
They are mysterious...
523
00:33:52,937 --> 00:33:55,963
...and sometimes they transcend
understanding.
524
00:33:56,407 --> 00:33:59,808
They confess to an inability to see
the wisdom of our mission.
525
00:33:59,977 --> 00:34:02,810
To keep alive the knowledge
of the past.
526
00:34:02,980 --> 00:34:07,246
The knowledge that would have been lost
forever after the Great Burn 500 years ago.
527
00:34:08,285 --> 00:34:10,219
Science and technology?
528
00:34:11,322 --> 00:34:12,983
It's not really their calling.
529
00:34:13,791 --> 00:34:16,282
- But it is ours.
- But, I mean...
530
00:34:16,460 --> 00:34:19,361
Well, how?
How do we know it's our calling?
531
00:34:19,530 --> 00:34:22,556
- How exactly can we be sure?
- Brother Michael!
532
00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:27,730
I'm not actually saying anything that Rome
hasn't already asked. And you know it.
533
00:34:27,905 --> 00:34:30,430
Most of the records were
destroyed in the Great Burn, sir...
534
00:34:30,608 --> 00:34:32,508
...and we only have word of mouth
to go on.
535
00:34:32,676 --> 00:34:37,136
In the holy books written
after the Great Burn!
536
00:34:37,782 --> 00:34:41,548
And so it came to pass that
in the 500th year of the Alliance...
537
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,450
...the children of Earth did war,
one upon another...
538
00:34:45,623 --> 00:34:49,389
...with missiles and terrible weapons.
And they burned the Earth...
539
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,052
...and the air and the cities and the sea!
540
00:34:53,297 --> 00:34:57,700
You need only look outside
to have that part verified.
541
00:34:57,935 --> 00:35:01,393
- Why is the rest suspect?
- It's all too clean.
542
00:35:01,572 --> 00:35:04,735
It's all too well-thought-out to be real.
543
00:35:04,909 --> 00:35:08,003
Look in here. Here, the...
544
00:35:08,746 --> 00:35:10,771
...blessed Lorien.
545
00:35:11,482 --> 00:35:13,814
- The last of the firstborn.
- Exactly.
546
00:35:13,984 --> 00:35:16,976
The last shall come first,
the first shall come last.
547
00:35:17,455 --> 00:35:21,687
A fable, specifically created to match
scripture, that's what the others say.
548
00:35:21,859 --> 00:35:25,022
And there is not one shred of evidence
that he even existed.
549
00:35:25,196 --> 00:35:27,994
There is proof. Out there, in space.
550
00:35:28,165 --> 00:35:31,430
Yes, but space is closed to us now.
551
00:35:33,504 --> 00:35:35,938
Just look at us, Brother Alwyn.
552
00:35:36,407 --> 00:35:38,671
And look at what Earth has become.
553
00:35:38,843 --> 00:35:41,971
Our cities are little more than villages.
554
00:35:42,146 --> 00:35:45,081
All those great secrets of our ancestors
are almost gone.
555
00:35:45,249 --> 00:35:47,717
Almost. That's why we're here.
556
00:35:47,885 --> 00:35:50,285
To find the ancient wisdoms
and preserve them.
557
00:35:50,454 --> 00:35:53,787
Why, we've already found and restored
so many books.
558
00:35:53,958 --> 00:35:56,825
Yes, but we are not one inch closer to...
559
00:35:56,994 --> 00:36:01,294
To those flying machines that the
books talk about, or to the stars.
560
00:36:01,465 --> 00:36:03,990
And if the truth really does lie
in the stars...
561
00:36:04,168 --> 00:36:06,830
...then how will we ever know
the truth?
562
00:36:07,271 --> 00:36:10,832
Look, the others.
The blessed Sheridan...
563
00:36:11,008 --> 00:36:13,272
...who lived and died...
564
00:36:13,444 --> 00:36:16,902
...and returned from the dead
and was taken bodily into heaven.
565
00:36:17,081 --> 00:36:20,209
And lvanova the strong
and Delenn the wise.
566
00:36:20,384 --> 00:36:23,217
They could all be fables for all we know.
567
00:36:24,088 --> 00:36:26,283
- You know the worst of it?
- What?
568
00:36:28,292 --> 00:36:33,195
I was halfway through illuminating it
when my heart just left me.
569
00:36:34,665 --> 00:36:38,692
You know the prophecies.
The prophecies of Delenn III...
570
00:36:39,270 --> 00:36:42,831
...said that the Anla'shok,
the Rangers...
571
00:36:43,007 --> 00:36:48,309
...would come again to the Earth
in her greatest hour of need...
572
00:36:48,479 --> 00:36:54,349
...and rebuild what was once the cradle
of Sheridan and the Alliance.
573
00:36:54,985 --> 00:36:58,318
And we have waited so, so long,
Brother Alwyn...
574
00:36:58,489 --> 00:37:00,548
...and they have never come.
575
00:37:01,025 --> 00:37:05,826
If that's a myth,
then everything else could be a myth.
576
00:37:06,297 --> 00:37:10,529
And the whole of my life
could just be a lie.
577
00:37:11,235 --> 00:37:15,001
And if they do not come today,
but they come tomorrow...
578
00:37:15,172 --> 00:37:18,073
...is your life a lie then?
579
00:37:19,043 --> 00:37:24,276
I cannot help you, Brother Michael.
That is what faith is for.
580
00:37:24,448 --> 00:37:26,678
Faith sustains us...
581
00:37:26,850 --> 00:37:31,378
...in the hour when reason tells us
that we cannot continue...
582
00:37:31,555 --> 00:37:35,184
...that the whole of our lives
is without meaning.
583
00:37:36,026 --> 00:37:38,859
Then why were we born able
to reason if reason's useless?
584
00:37:39,096 --> 00:37:42,429
Not useless. But it's also not enough.
585
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,467
Faith and reason
are the shoes on your feet.
586
00:37:45,636 --> 00:37:49,128
You can travel further with both
than you can with just one.
587
00:37:49,306 --> 00:37:52,798
If you must have reason for an answer,
then consider this.
588
00:37:52,977 --> 00:37:57,141
If today the Rangers came back to Earth
from their place in the heavens...
589
00:37:57,314 --> 00:37:59,009
...you would not know about it.
590
00:37:59,183 --> 00:38:02,243
They would come in secret
and move around us and help us...
591
00:38:02,419 --> 00:38:04,512
...and we wouldn't even
know they were here...
592
00:38:04,688 --> 00:38:09,250
...because the secret that they bring
is feared by people...
593
00:38:09,426 --> 00:38:13,385
...who still blame science
for the Great Burn.
594
00:38:14,231 --> 00:38:17,223
Then you think the Rangers
are here today?
595
00:38:18,569 --> 00:38:21,595
I believe they could be.
596
00:38:21,772 --> 00:38:23,899
That's all that faith requires.
597
00:38:24,241 --> 00:38:28,507
That we surrender ourselves
to the possibility of hope.
598
00:38:28,679 --> 00:38:31,614
With that, I am content.
599
00:38:31,782 --> 00:38:34,182
And I believe you will be as well.
600
00:38:39,023 --> 00:38:41,014
It's beautiful work.
601
00:38:41,625 --> 00:38:46,085
Too lovely and significant
for you to half-finish.
602
00:38:46,263 --> 00:38:48,458
Finish your illumination, Brother Michael.
603
00:38:48,632 --> 00:38:51,430
You've gone this far.
It's too late to lose your faith now...
604
00:38:51,602 --> 00:38:54,127
...or my faith in you.
605
00:38:54,305 --> 00:38:57,331
If the truth really is in the stars,
Brother Alwyn...
606
00:38:57,508 --> 00:39:00,272
...then just once,
once before I die...
607
00:39:00,444 --> 00:39:03,607
...I really wish that I could walk
amongst those stars.
608
00:39:03,781 --> 00:39:06,682
If there is a way, Brother Michael...
609
00:39:06,850 --> 00:39:10,342
...I pray that your wish comes true.
610
00:39:17,127 --> 00:39:18,116
Oh, dear.
611
00:39:20,331 --> 00:39:23,095
Your energy level's almost
down to nothing.
612
00:39:23,267 --> 00:39:27,135
I'm going to have to sit you in the sun
tomorrow to recharge.
613
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:31,230
Alwyn Macomber reporting in.
614
00:39:31,408 --> 00:39:34,673
Nothing of substance to report
since my last.
615
00:39:34,845 --> 00:39:39,373
We think we may have gathered enough
information from the time pre-Burn...
616
00:39:39,550 --> 00:39:42,849
...to assemble a working
gasoline engine.
617
00:39:43,020 --> 00:39:45,750
Obviously, there's no gasoline
in this part of the country.
618
00:39:45,923 --> 00:39:48,983
Therefore, we ask the supply department
if they could...
619
00:39:49,159 --> 00:39:52,151
...arrange to have a suitable supply
of gasoline...
620
00:39:52,329 --> 00:39:55,787
...found in the vicinity near the abbey
in a few days.
621
00:39:55,966 --> 00:40:01,598
Only this time, for Valen's sake,
please make it look like an old container.
622
00:40:01,772 --> 00:40:05,572
The last one could've been
produced 100 years ago.
623
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,953
We will rebuild the Earth.
624
00:40:19,690 --> 00:40:23,057
Though it take us another 2000 years.
625
00:40:23,227 --> 00:40:27,323
But this time we will build it better.
626
00:40:28,999 --> 00:40:32,992
I'm attaching a conversation
I just had with Brother Michael...
627
00:40:33,170 --> 00:40:37,106
...who I still think would be a worthy
recruit after he's grown a little.
628
00:40:37,274 --> 00:40:40,766
Give him another 20 years
and he'll be fine.
629
00:40:42,646 --> 00:40:47,140
Alwyn, Anla'shok, Earth Sector, end report.
630
00:40:47,317 --> 00:40:50,309
We live for the one,
we die for the one.
631
00:40:50,487 --> 00:40:52,785
Record ends.
Auto play feature complete.
632
00:40:53,290 --> 00:40:55,087
Stand by.
633
00:40:57,127 --> 00:40:59,687
System has finished processing
and archiving records...
634
00:40:59,863 --> 00:41:02,730
...for period of one million years
from initial scanning date.
635
00:41:03,066 --> 00:41:04,931
Instructions.
636
00:41:05,836 --> 00:41:06,962
Our job is finished.
637
00:41:07,137 --> 00:41:10,163
- Convey records to New Earth.
- Confirmed.
638
00:41:10,340 --> 00:41:14,208
Use enhanced tachyon sequence to ensure
arrival in time for the celebrations.
639
00:41:14,378 --> 00:41:18,508
Confirmed. Note: Atypical solar
emissions increasing in intensity.
640
00:41:18,682 --> 00:41:22,049
Estimate Sol will hit nova
in less than five standard hours.
641
00:41:22,219 --> 00:41:24,016
Recommend immediate evacuation.
642
00:41:24,188 --> 00:41:26,418
Tell the others not to worry.
643
00:41:26,590 --> 00:41:29,457
I wouldn't miss this for anything.
644
00:41:29,626 --> 00:41:31,025
Now go on.
645
00:41:37,201 --> 00:41:39,669
This is how the world ends.
646
00:41:39,837 --> 00:41:43,034
Swallowed in fire, but not in darkness.
647
00:41:43,207 --> 00:41:44,765
You will live on.
648
00:41:44,942 --> 00:41:46,876
The voice of all our ancestors...
649
00:41:47,044 --> 00:41:50,946
...the voice of our fathers and our mothers
to the last generation.
650
00:41:51,114 --> 00:41:54,174
We created the world we think
you would've wished for us.
651
00:41:54,351 --> 00:41:58,151
And now we leave the cradle
for the last time.
652
00:42:32,089 --> 00:42:33,954
You should sleep.
653
00:42:34,525 --> 00:42:36,823
We both have early meetings.
654
00:42:37,628 --> 00:42:39,425
Yeah, I know.
655
00:42:41,064 --> 00:42:43,191
I was just thinking about it all.
656
00:42:43,367 --> 00:42:45,528
Everything we've done...
657
00:42:46,470 --> 00:42:48,461
...and what I said earlier.
658
00:42:48,639 --> 00:42:50,436
And I was wondering...
659
00:42:50,607 --> 00:42:55,738
...if they will remember us
100 years from now, or 1000.
660
00:42:57,748 --> 00:43:00,273
Then I figured, probably not.
661
00:43:00,951 --> 00:43:02,851
But it doesn't matter.
662
00:43:03,020 --> 00:43:07,514
We did what we did because it was right,
not to be remembered.
663
00:43:07,691 --> 00:43:10,819
History will attend to itself.
664
00:43:10,994 --> 00:43:13,019
It always does.
665
00:44:07,918 --> 00:44:08,907
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