Silly B5 Quote Conversation

[Jan]

Originally Posted by AstroBoy

"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."

"That's one of those things I was trying to tell you. Around here, we don't have to look for trouble. On B5, trouble comes looking for us."

[Kraig]

Originally Posted by Jan

"That's one of those things I was trying to tell you. Around here, we don't have to look for trouble. On B5, trouble comes looking for us."

God, I thought I was depressing.

[phazedout]

Originally Posted by Kraig

God, I thought I was depressing.

Do you know what a telepath has to do in order to avoid picking up stray thoughts? We have to kick down our natural abilities, run rhymes and little songs through our heads 'round and 'round. All that to keep from picking up what you're broadcasting loud enough to be heard halfway down the hall. You're one of those people who rehearses everything, Mr. Garibaldi. You never enter a situation until you've gone over it and over it a hundred times, worked out what you will say and what the other person will say, how you'll respond. It's .. quite remarkable and extremely depressing. That little personality quirk must have cost you more than a few relationships. Mundanes want us to fill our heads with noise and babble so we won't hear what you're shouting at the top of your minds.

[alpha128]

Originally Posted by phazedout

Do you know what a telepath has to do in order to avoid picking up stray thoughts? We have to kick down our natural abilities, run rhymes and little songs through our heads 'round and 'round. All that to keep from picking up what you're broadcasting loud enough to be heard halfway down the hall. You're one of those people who rehearses everything, Mr. Garibaldi. You never enter a situation until you've gone over it and over it a hundred times, worked out what you will say and what the other person will say, how you'll respond. It's .. quite remarkable and extremely depressing. That little personality quirk must have cost you more than a few relationships. Mundanes want us to fill our heads with noise and babble so we won't hear what you're shouting at the top of your minds.

"Never, ever, ever trust a telepath. I swear to you, I'm gonna have that tattooed inside my eyelids."

[Kraig]

Originally Posted by alpha128

"Never, ever, ever trust a telepath. I swear to you, I'm gonna have that tattooed inside my eyelids."

You know, when I first came to Babylon 5, I studied your record. Terrible pity about your mother. But she took her own life. It wasn't the Corps that did it. I was just noticing, you have her eyes. You know, it's come to my attention lately that we have a common enemy. There's an old saying: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend. " President Clark isn't calling the shots back home. Others are whispering in his ear. I don't know who they are or where they're from. But I do know they're not human. I've only heard one name for them: Shadows. My guess is you know more about them than I do, but you're probably not interested in sharing that information, are you? You know the real reason you don't like me, Commander? It's the jealousy of evolution. Normals like you are obsolete. The future belongs to telepaths. And I intend to make sure that future happens one way or the other.

[AstroBoy]

Originally Posted by Kraig

You know, when I first came to Babylon 5, I studied your record. Terrible pity about your mother. But she took her own life. It wasn't the Corps that did it. I was just noticing, you have her eyes. You know, it's come to my attention lately that we have a common enemy. There's an old saying: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend. " President Clark isn't calling the shots back home. Others are whispering in his ear. I don't know who they are or where they're from. But I do know they're not human. I've only heard one name for them: Shadows. My guess is you know more about them than I do, but you're probably not interested in sharing that information, are you? You know the real reason you don't like me, Commander? It's the jealousy of evolution. Normals like you are obsolete. The future belongs to telepaths. And I intend to make sure that future happens one way or the other.

"We're engaged in a very dangerous game, Mr. Garibaldi. In this game you have to pick a target very carefully, because you only have one shot. And this is much, much bigger than you suspect."
"President Clark isn't the real problem, he's trivial. One way or another he'll be gone in a few years, but the telepaths he put in power, the Psi Corps, those will be with us forever. That's the real danger. If information is power, then telepaths represent the greatest threat to freedom we've ever seen. We have to deal with that, or face the very real possibility of our own extinction."

[Melanie]

Originally Posted by AstroBoy

"We're engaged in a very dangerous game, Mr. Garibaldi. In this game you have to pick a target very carefully, because you only have one shot. And this is much, much bigger than you suspect."
"President Clark isn't the real problem, he's trivial. One way or another he'll be gone in a few years, but the telepaths he put in power, the Psi Corps, those will be with us forever. That's the real danger. If information is power, then telepaths represent the greatest threat to freedom we've ever seen. We have to deal with that, or face the very real possibility of our own extinction."

"Na, I can't believe we would be that foolish. Santayana, Those who don't remember past are condemned to repeated it. It would seem no one reads Santayana anymore."

[alpha128]

Originally Posted by Melanie

"Na, I can't believe we would be that foolish. Santayana, Those who don't remember past are condemned to repeated it. It would seem no one reads Santayana anymore."

"It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past."

[Melanie]

Originally Posted by alpha128

"It is said that the future is always born in pain. The history of war is the history of pain. If we are wise, what is born of that pain matures into the promise of a better world, because we learn that we can no longer afford the mistakes of the past."

"The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is not narn or human or centauri or gaim or minbari. It speaks in the language of hope."
"It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul. But always it is the same voice. It is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us and the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born. The small, still voice that says: 'We are one. No matter the blood, no matter the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star. .. We are one. No matter the pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter the fear. .. We are one.' Here, gathered together in common cause, we begin to realize this singular truth and this singular rule that we must be kind to one another. Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light our way to a better future. We are one."
"We are one."

[Jan]

Originally Posted by Melanie

"The universe speaks in many languages, but only one voice. The language is not narn or human or centauri or gaim or minbari. It speaks in the language of hope."
"It speaks in the language of trust. It speaks in the language of strength and the language of compassion. It is the language of the heart and the language of the soul. But always it is the same voice. It is the voice of our ancestors speaking through us and the voice of our inheritors waiting to be born. The small, still voice that says: 'We are one. No matter the blood, no matter the skin, no matter the world, no matter the star. .. We are one. No matter the pain, no matter the darkness, no matter the loss, no matter the fear. .. We are one.' Here, gathered together in common cause, we begin to realize this singular truth and this singular rule that we must be kind to one another. Because each voice enriches us and ennobles us and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light our way to a better future. We are one."
"We are one."

"Their only weakness is that they do not recognize their own greatness. They forget that they have come to this place through two million years of evolution, struggle, and blood, that they are better than they think, and nobler than they know. They carry within them the capacity to walk among the stars like giants. They are the future, and we have much to learn from them."

[Kraig]

Originally Posted by Jan

"Their only weakness is that they do not recognize their own greatness. They forget that they have come to this place through two million years of evolution, struggle, and blood, that they are better than they think, and nobler than they know. They carry within them the capacity to walk among the stars like giants. They are the future, and we have much to learn from them."

This is how the world ends. Swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would've wished for us. And now we leave the cradle for the last time.

[AstroBoy]

Originally Posted by Kraig

This is how the world ends. Swallowed in fire, but not in darkness. You will live on. The voice of all our ancestors the voice of our fathers and our mothers to the last generation. We created the world we think you would've wished for us. And now we leave the cradle for the last time.

"We've spent too much time reacting when we should have been acting. Let's take the offensive for a change. Fire up the shuttle, Commander, we've got work to do."

[alpha128]

Originally Posted by AstroBoy

"We've spent too much time reacting when we should have been acting. Let's take the offensive for a change. Fire up the shuttle, Commander, we've got work to do."

"Overall I've found this to be a good working environment and a valuable experience. I've learned a lot while I've been here."

[Kraig]

Originally Posted by alpha128

"Overall I've found this to be a good working environment and a valuable experience. I've learned a lot while I've been here."

We learn. That's what humans do.

[alpha128]

Originally Posted by Kraig

We learn. That's what humans do.

"A human? Imprisons one of us? Intolerable!"