Londo Mollari comments on the Earth-Minbari War

In the Babylon 5 telemovie "Babylon 5: In The Beginning", Londo Mollari talks about human perseverance and willpower during the Earth-Minbari War.

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[Uridien]

I'm not familiar with this show (Think I watched season 1 back in the day) but Londo looks older in this clip, so is this him in the future? And is he describing the extinction of Humanity?

[Kettenring]

@Uridien He's describing a war between Humanity and the Minbari that took place before the series. This scene is from a TV movie that was a prequel to the series.

[smcneal057]

This brings tears to my eyes. This is what it means to be human. We never give up even in the face of our own deaths. We never give up...

[Hibbs4Prez]

A couple of years ago I went to Amazon and bought the CD for this episode JUST to get this piece of music heard in this clip. It still gives me chills just as it did back in the late 90s when I saw this TNT movie for the first time.

So-called sci fi fans can have their Firefly and Battlestar Galactica and hype those programs from now to eterniety. Give me the 90s with B5, DS9 and Space:Above and Beyond.

[Dukoth]

@oldfrend whats worth dieing for is up to the dieing to define, it's not wether you think it's worth dieing for, it's if that person does, so many people see a person die for a cause they don't believe in and think "what a waste of life", but it wasn't your life to give, it was their's, and they thought it was worth their life

[oldfrend]

@Dukoth you misunderstand me, but maybe everybody does. there is almost nothing worth dying for, even less worth killing for, and that's always been the case. we throw away the lives of our loved ones far too easily when probably the most important cause of all is life itself.

all the myriad little conflicts we have are ultimately meaningless in the long run, but everybody is so busy standing up for... whatever... that they sight of what's truly important.

[Dukoth]

wether a wisper or a bang, well face our ultimate destiny together

[Dukoth]

this has got to be the BEST monolaugh I have evar heard in scifi, or anything, with more meaning about what it is to be who and what you are than the most historical, patriotic, or what ever movie or story, before or after, and the story, hopeless unlike so many other scifi where humans come out victorius for one reasone or another, yet not disparative like others (war of the worlds) not so much saying we're out mached, but rather what we would be like in those moments

[Dukoth]

@oldfrend it's because we no longer have anything worth dieing for

all we have, all we've had for a long time, is each other

once upon a time someone called this planet eden, and hey, mabey it was at the time, but for us now this so called paradise has become a prison, for a child thats grown to big for the cradle, and is desperate to learn to walk

[Bobsagetisshaft]

@Hibbs4Prez and seaquest dsv. and viper and the sentinel. What happened to cable.

[Wolfen443]

@Hibbs4Prez, those three shows were probably better written & with more depth all around than Star Wars or BG (impressive show but limited in scope.) I also like Firefly too since it reduces the scale of B5 to smaller but good show.

[oldfrend]

::sigh:: would that human nobility lived up to the high aspirations this show had for us. i don't deny we are a strong, courageous race, but hopelessly misguided. so many people willing to die for... what? nothing.

[samysasy419]

Can anyone tell me the name of the musicplaying in the backgorund?

[dammitspock]

There is also a great trilogy of novels by Peter David that covers Londo's years as Emperor. They are an excellent read. I could hear Peter Jurasik voice as a read Londo's dialogue. Vir also plays a large part of the story