Babylon 5, Season 1: Signs and Portents

Babylon 5 (1993-1998), created by J. Michael Straczynski, is a science fiction television epic about Babylon 5, an Earth-governed space station built to promote harmony between interstellar civilizations. It is unusual in its focus on a story arc wh… more »

Stephen Franklin:
It's all so brief, isn't it? Typical human lifespan is almost a hundred years, but it's barely a second compared to what's out there. It wouldn't be so bad if life didn't take so long to figure out. Seems you just start to get it right and then…it's over.

Ivanova:
Doesn't matter. If we lived 200 years we'd still be human, we'd still make the same mistakes.

Franklin:
You're a pessimist.

Ivanova:
I'm Russian, doctor. We understand these things.

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