Babylon 5 - Battle of the Line Speech

The speech given by the president of the Earth Alliance on the eve of the Battle of the Line. This is from the B5 movie 'In the Beginning.'

"One last battle to hold the line against the night"

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[WolfgrowlofTacoClan]

Point me to the nearest ship. I'll fight in this battle.

[sirAthrus]

One stupid mistake that lead to the death of one important Mimbari, nearly spelt the death of the human race.

The speech here was simple saying:

"If you stay, you WILL die.......but your death may give others enough time to escape and live on."

The tone in her voice had no pride or arrogance in it, she knew the human race was doomed......No one could fight the Mimbari and win, and earth found out the hard way.

[ocerg1111]

@bgdrewsif incorrect sir! Deise crosby was Tasha Yar, but pat tallman, who played lyta alxander, was a red haired security oficer (and a stunt woman) in several episodes, in addition to playing one of the thieves in Starship mine, stealing the enterprise, and got to hold Capt Picard at gunpoint. She had tragically few lines, an din some episodes none at all! But when JMS stole her away, she sure got plenty!

[bgdrewsif]

@ocerg1111 Umm, I believe you are confusing Pat Tallman with Denise Crosby... The actress playing Lyta Alexander was never a cast member on Star Trek...

[bannedbyMusloons]

Liberal Obamabots think Babylon 5 is the worst show ever...

[sirAthrus]

@weldonwin In my own opinion I'd say you're half right, the Mimbari who fought were the Warrior caste.

The Warrior caste were always at odds with the other castes, especially the Religious caste from who Delen came from and despite her telling the warriors to kill the humans (spoken out of grief and anger) she and the others of her caste preached peace, it was her caste who managed to call the cease fire and end the war.

The warriors wanted blood cause they knew they'd win the war.

[weldonwin]

@sirAthrus What I take away from this, is that the Mimbari were not nearly as civilised as they liked to believe, seeing as even though Dukat was an extremely important individual to them, he was one man and for his death they thought it was justified to enact genocide on an entire species who had no hope of fighting them

[ocerg1111]

@pazios2002 JMS stole a lot of star trek people. Lyta Alexander (Pat Tallman) was heavily underused on star trek, barely even getting a line here and there -and got taken into B5 and used to her fullest.

[pazios2002]

@ocerg1111 holy crap I didnt put that together. Well she went back to what appeared to be certain death on Enterprise C, now she just wants the same from the next generatiion of soldiers. I would be funny if she said during the speech, Hey comeon I sucked it up. I am a girl and I showed some balls, now you do it. Thats funny considering the constant bickering between B5 and Star Trek fans. I am both. I knew about G'Kar and the Romulan Tomalok.

[ocerg1111]

And just think, if she hadn't taken the Enterprise C back in time, she'd never have been the president of Earth!

[decimated550]

@SkyIshtar (it's only a TV show, relax) LOL

[AnteyPL]

@laxguy22655

No no no. Movie already destroyed original book Starship Troopers look&feel.