This was the funniest political episode they had, but also one of the most... grim.
There were 2 plot lines, one is of the Minbari Delenn travelling back to her Homeworld Minbar to try to reunite the Religious, Worker and Warrior castes without having to give dominance to any one caste else it would tip the delicate balance of her culture and society.
The second is of Captain Sheridan (ever notice that alot of Civil Generals mack it to sci-fi? Sheridan, Kirk, and others) trying to get the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to agree to allow the White Star Fleet (this series version of the Defiant) to patrol their borders to intercept raiders (having just come out of the great Shadow War the majority of their worlds are exhausted from the fighting.
In the first plot line Delenn brings Nerroon (a warrior caste leader) onboard her ship and negetiate with him to rally support for the cause of ending the war and maintaining the balance but religious caste member serving her fearing that she'll surrender to the warrior caste attempt to poison the ships atmosphere to ensure that the ship never returns to Minbar only to hear horrfied that they were wrong, luckily Linear Delenn's aid had overheard them and prevented the poison from leaking and suffered from the poison but survived. He lied about it so that Delenn's trust in the religious caste would not be shattered, and in her world the religious caste is better then they are.
The Sheridan plot line is politically the more interesting one and far funnier. In order to get the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to agree to do anything they always have to be threatened first BUT usually its almsot too late by the time they act on that threat. So, Sheridan managed to get the Centauri and the Narns former enemies to agree to have their borders patroled (dispite the fact that they are major empires with substantial reosurces (except for Narn which suffered greatly in the previous war with the Centauri) but were asked to deny it, this is where it gets funny because the League ambassadors get nervous knowing that the Centauri are a proud people and wouldn't ask for help unless there was a threat to everyone and start asking the Narn Ambassador G'Kar and Londo Millari of the Centauri for statements both deny there being and patrols of White Star ships on their borders and with Sheridan neither confirming or denying it they get even more nervous.
So Sheridan has 3 White stars go to some out of the way sector and destory some asteroids and then has Ivanova purposely say on the news say "There is nothing going in Sector X I repeat there is nothing going on in Sector X" causing the ambassadors to become even MORE afraid and then start thinking that this new threat is invisible and that the White Syats being based on Vorlon tech are the only ships able to see it so they demand that Sheridan has the White Stars patrol their border and agree that the Rangers (the people piloting them) have the authority to make the necassary descisions to keep the peace.
Bloody Brilliant my favorite episode. And Babylon 5 since episode 1 keeps getting better.
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some kind of political grab by the Russians in 2013 jsut for storage I've been having a running conversation with a friend of mine about the Russians in babylon5 and he thinks there was a war nobody talks about just keeping this for future use.
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Not that I would dream of criticising, but that's not a review, it's a summary. And it's not spellchecked, either.
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