Humans are the plot device of the universe. That's why they're so special.
@Erin-Thor3 жыл бұрын
Nah, we are just the writers, and we exercise poetic justice.
@repealsection230forbigtech43 жыл бұрын
well said. the whole scene and theme of humans being so great and special is PATHETIC. It reflects the extreme insecurity, narcissism and massive closet inferiority complex of those that promote it and those that buy into it: it's really pathetic. From star Trek, to Stargate to Babylon 5, this one aspect was really lame. Most other aspects of Babylon 5 was really good, but not this.
@1978rharris3 жыл бұрын
@@repealsection230forbigtech4 Edgelord, stop being so angry. No one is going to watch a show that makes us the villains, are they? Think man, think!
@jammapcb3 жыл бұрын
@@repealsection230forbigtech4 fuck you we are the best!
@kazuya92883 жыл бұрын
@@repealsection230forbigtech4 You obviously didn't watch B5, I would hardly call the Humans great or good guys in the show. Most of Earth Gov was in league with the Shadows and then you have PsiCorp. Not exactly a line up of heroes.
@calliarcale4 жыл бұрын
The Minbari were very caught up in prophecy. Of course, eventually we learn that this particular prophecy was partially informed by time travel..... But i love this quote from Vir Cotto: "Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn't, it's a metaphor."
@FGBFGB-vt7tc Жыл бұрын
"Prophecy is a guess that comes true. When it doesn't, it's a metaphor.". A wise series. Great writers, great directors, great actors. People that strived to make their work both memorable and useful. And they did.
@foofoo3344 Жыл бұрын
To know the future is to be trapped by it
@quequotion68624 ай бұрын
Technically, that was Londo's subconscious mind in the visage of Vir.
@lordmarshall52395 жыл бұрын
This women is one of the most badass actresses/characters in all of sci-fi television history. As a Trek fan, this show was good and she was toward the top of the reasons why
@earthlingavian11324 жыл бұрын
Is this Mira Furlan , the Croatian actress?
@lordmarshall52394 жыл бұрын
I don’t know
@Xantaxia4 жыл бұрын
@@earthlingavian1132 It is Mira Furlan.
@Xantaxia4 жыл бұрын
@@lordmarshall5239 I also love the portrayals of G'Kar, Londo Mollari, their story and character development throughout the show's run
@tessierashpoolmg77763 жыл бұрын
Mira played a badass character in the Lost series as well. Pure human who took no BS and carried a rifle at all times!
@goodlight41133 жыл бұрын
I think what makes Human so special is that unlike many other species, the Vorlons AND the Shadows seemed to have had equal access to Humans over the centuries, where other species were either abandoned or wholly in one camp or the other. I believe humans had the kind of guidance that all species were supposed to have before Vorlon-Shadow relations broke down.
@viix38152 жыл бұрын
They represent Chaos and Order, Obedience and are Self Driven by personal desires. All wrapped up in a fleshy package.
@iona2225 Жыл бұрын
@@viix3815 However, it gave most of the human species a... *weird* trait; Kirk/Tiberius syndrome. Earth-Alliance had to make a bloody list for alien races they COULDN'T/SHOULDN'T SHAG, either by a xeno-anthropologist giving a look at cultural/romantic rituals or some poor schmuck or twenty found out the hard way.
@crazylarryjr Жыл бұрын
it's not that, that i see. i like to think it's like the Vulcan said at the Vulcan embassy, Humans are hard to classify, all the other races have an aspect we can see and understand, Humans on the other hand show all the aspects at different times and it make them not only hard to understand, but also to classify. This was not the exact quote, so i didn't use quotes. But that is how i see both our strength as well as our weakness. We as individuals have different experiences, emotions and thoughts, that can be both an asset as well as an issue at times
@goodlight4113 Жыл бұрын
@@crazylarryjr i agree, i just thought maybe, part of why that' may be the case is mixed influences. But then again, we don't have any examples of shadow inflences deep in the human past, only vorlon, which kinds kills my theory.
@tonoornottono Жыл бұрын
@@iona2225 is that not just a reasonable thing to do when interacting with other cultures with biological differences? or are you saying it’s weird to fuck an alien? who wouldn’t wanna fuck a sexy alien…
@diamondjim7560 Жыл бұрын
Having seen the entire series, I find these earlier episodes fascinating when they invoke “In Valen’s name.” Their whole later civilization is entirely based upon an Earthling named Commander Sinclair. That is the answer to their question why humans are special.
@Kaziklu Жыл бұрын
Well technically they stopped the war because they pulled a single human aboard... and that single human just happened to be the man who would become Valen... and so had a soul that the Mimbari would see as Mimbari. There is no real proof that any other human has "a Mimbari soul" Basically the human they randomly selected was taken, him being taken made him distrusted messed up his career which put in a position to be placed on B5 by Mimbari request. He then develops a close friendship with the Mimbari Ambassador who later takes the DNA of Sinclair from a 1000 years earlier to give her human characteristics. Sinclair becomes a Ranger, learns the Mimbari ways and Spirituality... uses the same device Dalenn Mimbari DNA to give himself Mimbari characteristics. So Delann uses a device a that was Valen's to combine her DNA with that of the Human DNA in it. That DNA is of course Sinclair's but he won't put it in to the device for another 2 years linearly but 4 years in the past as well... but seems to use the same Device Delann does as he uses Delann's DNA to make him look more mimbari... but where did the device come from? It just is.... no one seems to actually build it. Unless the Device was given to the Great Machine after Delann used it and the machine made a new one loaded with her DNA. Either way it all becomes a temporal mess that flows well. In the end though... It all seems to rely on one Mimbari selecting one human at Random but it can't be at Random because that Human becomes Valen and only becomes Valen because he is selected and is found to have a Mimbari soul because he is Valen which he only becomes because he is selected... It is a literal.. the Past cant exist with out the Present or future situation.
@diamondjim7560 Жыл бұрын
@@Kaziklu Pretty much agree with you. But one point, I forget the episode, it was the one where she had to appear before the Gray Council and justify her relationship with Sheridan. Anyway, it was discovered that Delann was linked ancestrally to Valen, aka, Sinclair. She was his great…etc great, granddaughter. That might have something to do with the connection she had to him and possibly why she chose that particular fighter to bring in and interrogate, some sort of mystical connection.
@raymondarsenault7663 Жыл бұрын
@@Kaziklu at some point in the series, Delen mentions that there are only 3 tr-iluminaries, as they are called. In later cannon, Cathereine Sakai gets stuck in the past, and she and Sinclair, now Valen, marry, leave Mimbar, and their decedents secretly returned, and with the help of the Rangers, return to Mimbar and rejoin society and spread their genome through the population.
@mattsnow92733 жыл бұрын
RIP Mira Furlan, Setai Delenn Of The Grey Council
@decam53293 жыл бұрын
Hopefully she is now somewhere where no shadows fall.
@AmySox3 жыл бұрын
She has gone forth to explore beyond the Rim. We live for the One, we die for the One. Entil'zha veni, in Valen's name.
@lukecarlson47103 жыл бұрын
In Valen’s name.
@johnkyp183 жыл бұрын
I did not know she died. Thank you for letting us know. :(
@jchea17642 жыл бұрын
@@johnkyp18 she's together with Valen now
@robwalsh98434 жыл бұрын
This scene makes me sad when I think of the later episode where elderly future Delenn shames the human journalists for their distortion of John's story. Her faith in humanity broken, although her own people aren't much better.
@ArgonTheAware4 жыл бұрын
But it wouldn't have been possible without Jeffrey Sinclair going back a 1,000 years to become Valen the great Mimbari hero and winning the first Shadow War and then stopping the Earth/Mibari War because they recognized Valen's soul in him
@robwalsh98434 жыл бұрын
@@ArgonTheAware True
@Zephyrbal3 жыл бұрын
Her faith in EARTH is broken. The whole point of that episode is that the humans of Earth are irrevocably damaged, unable to move forward in to the destiny she and Sheridan prepared for them, but that's no longer the sum total of humanity.
@Brownshoe245 жыл бұрын
Alien: You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other. - Contact (1997)
@mikekennedy58794 жыл бұрын
*Gag! Cough! Sputter!* Gawd, stop! I waited through that whole movie to see the aliens and it was her gawd-damned father!
@stephenbyrne21703 жыл бұрын
I really liked how Delen and the aliens from that movie don't look down their noses at our race.
@LordGodsServant11 жыл бұрын
Perhaps Humans were meant to be the middle ground between the philosophies of the Shadows and the Vorlons. We weren't Narn or the Centauri, who both were violent, decadent and completely ruled by their past sins, grudges, and tragedies. Nor were we the Minbari, who structured themselves into a nearly completely static (and very powerful because of that) society. We acknowledged the differences of people, and strove to use every difference to unite into a stronger and more complete whole.
@Ruosteinenknight5 жыл бұрын
Ironically enough, humans managed to both adhere and subvert Vorlons and Shadows beliefs. They united with other races to fight against common enemy, making great strides in both social structures (Minbari federation's grey council was completly re-organized after centuries of strife between religous and warrior caste, Narns finally started to break their cycle of bitter vengeance thanks to G'kar spiritual example and Earth alliance learned dangers of their own short comins) and technology. However they also learned respect, cooperation and trust by working together willing to lay their lives down for each other and learn from each other. Instellar Alliance then carried on this work, eventually even managed to integrate Centauri, who were very on their way to destruction (though we only see this trough novels). Yet after the war was over, they didn't (mostly) start to fight amongs each other as Shadows would've wanted to do, or become blindly obedient to hierachy as Vorlons expected them do. Maybe Shadows and Vorlons weren't complete failures as teachers after all, they just succeeded in ways they didn't think was possible.
@wyominghomesteader50634 жыл бұрын
Humans in the B5 universe are the only race we know of that were directly influenced by both the Vorlons and Shadows. They were the only race to build communities of different species and beliefs. They sought the peace of organized society and the chaos of freedom. The Humans were the embodiment of dichotomy.
@jasonx95914 жыл бұрын
@@wyominghomesteader5063 100% Correct
@robwalsh98434 жыл бұрын
Humans managed to "defeat" the more powerful Minbari. Basically humans in B5 fulfill the same role they do in Star Trek. The adaptable and flexible race that can prevail against great odds.
@ArgonTheAware4 жыл бұрын
@@robwalsh9843 The reason the Mimbari stopped the war against Earth was because Jeffrey Sinclair made the sacrifice to go back 1,000 and became Valen a great Mimbari hero, so it was more luck than simple "defeat" that he wasn't killed before the Mimbari could find out he had Valen's soul and that also showed "flexibility" on the part of the Mimbari that they actual withdraw because of that connection between the species
@TheGoodLuc8 жыл бұрын
Good speech, Delenn.
@quequotion68624 ай бұрын
One thing I love about Minbari is that "because I say so" is never dismissed out of hand, they evaluate who you are right down to your soul before they determine if listening to what you say is required of who you are. If you are genuine, determined, confident, and capable, they will follow.
@neilsanghvi52297 жыл бұрын
Jeez, why don't you just go ahead and marry these humans if you like them so much?
@cripplious7 жыл бұрын
Neil Sanghvi and Delenn did
@taumpytears69996 жыл бұрын
she also regularly signs their damned yearbooks too !!!
@FjordBuilderSBF6 жыл бұрын
"Hold my Sha'chai..."
@nicholasmaude69065 жыл бұрын
Delen married Sheridan in the end.
@gohantanaka4 жыл бұрын
Plot Twist!
@blanckieification5 жыл бұрын
2:43 their only weakness is that they do not recognize their own greatness.(they want to be accepted by the herd, they want to be "normal" and so they give away their greatness)
@mrsheen726 жыл бұрын
i learned a lot from this series thank you. do know what be don know.
@nosoupforyou425 Жыл бұрын
Pray that B5 is never remade into the woke trash of today - 🙏 leave this beauty for what it is, for the love Mr K.
@jonahjones2510 жыл бұрын
Humans are both great and tragic, we have the ability to turn a hand to such great wonders like music, art, buildings and on the other hand we can create weapons that can destroy a hole city and its people in a blink of an eye. We are able to wage war and kill each other by the million in the most brutal and barbaric way yet risk our life's to save a drowning kitten. It is in mankind's own hands to become better than what we are, all we have to do is choose to do so.
@WatcherOfShadows10 жыл бұрын
The problem is, altruism is often more personally expensive than doing selfishness.
@Akm7210 жыл бұрын
In our defense, the vast majority of humans spend the vast majority of their time on building rather than destruction.
@WatcherOfShadows8 жыл бұрын
***** Semantically, perhaps.
@pariah27498 жыл бұрын
God knows us more then our self, the illusion of free will, the question why we're the only one with the ability to rationally think?why the animal doesn't have it?. We bound by this material plane by our material body..its a catch, a twist..so that we only think that we only consist of flesh and bone without anything else but the other side we do know un-quantifiable concept such as love, hate, sadness..ermmm...its a long story.. i don;t know if my choosing of word can express my understanding of those thing..
@thecraziestofalldave7 жыл бұрын
We literally clawed our way out of being prey animals to being the domiant species of the planet, where there is difficulty we adapt, where there is a challenge we assimilate it. We are special because we got here and can internet.
@nicholasdickens28012 жыл бұрын
Loved how this is how she described the First Ones also.
@normvw405311 ай бұрын
We humans are unpredictable, and dangerously so. We are also adaptable.
@dirdib69 Жыл бұрын
"They carry within them the capacity to walk among the stars like giants." Interesting word choice, looking back. That is one of the references to the first ones, and we know that eventually humans (along with Minbari) will evolve into pure energy beings not unlike the Vorlons. The Narns and Centauri survive, they continue, but they do not evolve past their physical forms. Was Delenn effectively predicting the Humans becoming like the First Ones here?
@blanckieification5 жыл бұрын
Feelings are the core of the human experience - Pitman(in the tv series 3rd rock from the sun,season 1,episode 1)
@frwt.04324 жыл бұрын
„They do not surrender“ France:😐
@thisisme24762 ай бұрын
Nicely dove tails with Londo Mollari's speech about humans.
@eekns5 жыл бұрын
That we know better but that doesn't deter us from f*cking it all up.
@bravobr97255 жыл бұрын
Yes, we do know better, but not everyone want's to "fuck it all up", you only have to look at those who think they are more then everyone else, delusions of grandeur, their thought of I am a God, when they are nothing of the sort. Dictatorship does not make someone better than anyone else, it makes them weak and insecure, they just hide behind it and get everyone else to do the work they will not ! The biggest problem is that you are always going to get those few that think they know better than everyone else, when they don't, they won't listen to reason and relevant arguments that contradict their ideals. Unless every single person on this planet makes the choice to act as one, we will never have a life of true meaning and peace.
@Taospark7 ай бұрын
Delenn's characterization of the human ability to thrive via chaos is almost...Shadow-like in its analysis and explains why the species became so split between all sides of the argument including finding a separate path beyond the two "protector" races that the Minbari would never see or understand alone.
@johnbanks47616 жыл бұрын
considering it was delenn's vote that started the war, took her long enough to realise whatever it is in humans that made them continue to fight was something beyond primitive.
@repealsection230forbigtech43 жыл бұрын
oh yeah so genocide was ok because of one incident. man Straczynski, sure did a sloppy backplot with gimmicks to explain the cause of the war. you really think an intelligent species that has had experience with hundreds of other intelligent species, would think it's a good idea to open their gunports when making 1st contact and assume that other cultures understand that it's a great honor in minbari culture? Really? The whole back story about how the war started was dum. Plus, jow is it possible that the minbari, with technologies thousands of years ahead of earth would not see that their sensor beam would paralyze the earth ships propulsion. extremely dum writing by Straczynski on this part. this scene sukked.
@Ionsniper3 жыл бұрын
Minbari tradition said it was a sign of respect to have their gun ports open. The commander of the human vessel panicked and open fire. Delenn made the choice as the deciding vote under massive duress and grief and as she held the body of her mentor. She even admits later that she made the decision in error and let emotion overcome her judgement. She also says her mentor never would have wanted the war either.
@Ionsniper3 жыл бұрын
Also Delenns mentor ordered the guns closed when he found out. It was literally all bad circumstances that lead to the war. That's the whole point. It was an extremely weak reason to initiate a purge of a species for mistakes made on both sides. Hence the building of Babylon 5. It's the perfect reason to start the series. It's not about the war. It's about what came after.
@repealsection230forbigtech43 жыл бұрын
@@Ionsniper and you fell for that weak tea back story?
@Hammerhead1373 ай бұрын
@@repealsection230forbigtech4 It was also about cultural differences and misunderstandings. Sometimes it can end badly.
@Brooke-rw8rc4 жыл бұрын
Grey Council member: Yes, but... what is Truth? And what is God?
@keyzulu3 жыл бұрын
puuuuuuuh... *exhale* Truth is a river, and god is the mouth of the river.
@kineticdeath3 жыл бұрын
put your face in the book
@thesilvershining4 жыл бұрын
Just imagine their shock when Delenn marries & has a baby with a human :3
@lylelaney82704 жыл бұрын
Just imagine their shock if they ever knew Valen was a human.
@lylelaney82704 жыл бұрын
Just imagine their shock if they ever knew Valen was a human.
@demarcusfaulkner74115 жыл бұрын
good speech delenn
@valrod782 жыл бұрын
If you think there were types of humans during this time, the White who sided with good, the Black who sided with the Shadows, and the Grey, wanders who joined the Anla'Shok, the Rangers.
@jeptoungrit9000 Жыл бұрын
The primary conceit of Sci-fi. The idea that humans are so very special.
@mr.d.rektorstudios2 жыл бұрын
I like how Babylon 5 handles humans. Every other sci-fi portrays us as weak and pathetic generalists whose best trait is that they come in second for everything instead of first for one thing
@pirobot668beta4 жыл бұрын
This is a tired trope, but there is a wrinkle about the cultures depicted that makes it work: the relative age of species. Humanity is a young race; without (obvious) uplift we came a long way, very fast. Another culture may have taken million of years between inventing writing and space-flight, we did it much faster. How much more can we do, given billions of years?
@markdavidson10495 жыл бұрын
Aw shucks. She made me feel special.
@ihavegymnastics9 ай бұрын
The Grey Council is such a wonderful story unit......
@paulfoss53853 жыл бұрын
Every civilization in our universe has self aggrandizing speeches in their science fiction that they put in the mouths of aliens that look nearly identical to them. But of all the civilizations, we alone were correct in those speeches, and that makes us special.
@crazylarryjr Жыл бұрын
When watching these earlier scenes (especially the grey council), these these people were so ignorant to their own lineage That one human intermixed with them and every Mimbari for nearly a thousand years is actually part human themselves
@explorer47422 Жыл бұрын
1:26 someone on the left was a little too eager to bow
@Rimasta18 ай бұрын
Humans are special because the script was written on Earth.
@freelancenerd4804 Жыл бұрын
This was a pretty good show for it’s time. Anyone know if u can still find it in circulation?
@Reoh0z Жыл бұрын
right under the video on the recommendations... the first option is to buy it here on youtube.
@dannybowers4133 Жыл бұрын
Two months late but if you're still looking this entire show is on HBO max
@johnwang99142 жыл бұрын
I suppose a conference room where everyone must stand would encourage shorter meetings and the lack of a table would require people prepare and memorize their presentations.
@JustynneDeathWho Жыл бұрын
Tell him he's not a 9 legged spider in scuba gear he's got 7 legs in arrival hahaha 😆
@TheDa67815 жыл бұрын
second from the left started to bow prematurely
@TheTops983 жыл бұрын
Yes, we are special.
@spaceangel6945Ай бұрын
Where is the clip where Delenn declares war on the humans?
@Juidodin3 жыл бұрын
1:18 - and yet you are all standing IN the light...
@adamlewellen50812 жыл бұрын
Sinclair is valin. Blew my mind back then.
@dirdib694 жыл бұрын
Humans form communities.
@davidjones69567 жыл бұрын
A great show.
@75216garrison5 жыл бұрын
This seemed a little too forced as an explanation as to why humans were special. The Best characteristics of humanity was mentioned later in the series. It talked about humans building communities. Which could be very unique to our species. We try and build alliances with alien races and unite our power which could be very threatening to others. Even in the series the fact that the only organization is the league of non aligned worlds before the interstellar alliance . and Even then the league was barely effective
@ptonpc4 жыл бұрын
It can be explained in universe as, this is what she thinks at this time. Then as things change, so does her thinking.
@stephengonzalez29976 жыл бұрын
We are a rather peculiar lot.
@RichardStrong862 жыл бұрын
Because a human is writing the story.
@Relayer526-mi4wt9 ай бұрын
God i miss Mira 😢
@russell50780845 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the poem IF.
@ranulfoamorim71582 жыл бұрын
Não tem versões dubladas em portugues?
@taliawtf6944 Жыл бұрын
If the Minbari met the Imperium of Man in warhammer 40k they may change their minds. xD
@Afanickton3 жыл бұрын
2:09 for the moment
@evag63705 жыл бұрын
If we ever needed help, it is coming. :(
@pantarei83823 жыл бұрын
If humans really met a different species (aliens not women) they would view us as savages or monsters.. just the way we treat cows and chickens and pigs would be grounds for a monster title
@kitcarpo47457 күн бұрын
More like Road Warrior we are.
@Arklay_987 жыл бұрын
Humans wrote this show hence the special treatment HAHA
@iminformedbecauseisawabunc94026 жыл бұрын
exactly.
@Milovan-c9x3 ай бұрын
Simple answer, the script writers are human(?)😆😆
@TraciPeteyforlife3 жыл бұрын
Well we are a strange an complicated race. That is likely better off never making contact with another one.
@Noone-qw2xs3 жыл бұрын
What we're calling a human. Human means nothing human IS a WORD used for an excuse for an animal that THINK it's disgraceful behavior towards the creator
@onkcuf Жыл бұрын
NOTHING. what? The ability to move our atoms willingly around? To think of speach?
@lennykoss87773 жыл бұрын
💗🌈💗🌈💗🌈💗
@Scyllax4 жыл бұрын
NOT A FUCKING THING! WE SUCK SHIT.
@robertjackson35523 жыл бұрын
in Sinclair's name
@charlesbaker386210 жыл бұрын
Maybe all those expense-account do-nothings at the UN in Manhattan should watch this. It would give them something to chat about over their hip small plates. :(
@ShrekWallBee6 жыл бұрын
1:01 Thats what she said lol
@ScooterFXRS3 жыл бұрын
If only this where true.
@OpticHanAlone6 жыл бұрын
The humans created video games
@MizzouGump9 жыл бұрын
is this from a movie?
@thcollegestudent8 жыл бұрын
+Colby M US TV series, Babylon 5, perhaps one of the best Sci-Fi shows ever produced.
@Efreeti8 жыл бұрын
+Colby M From the science fiction series Babylon 5. A very rich dramatic and philosophical "space opera" series.
@zenstefaniotis73795 жыл бұрын
And less fiction than any realize
@jonant83174 жыл бұрын
yeah I'm pretty sure shes giving us far too credit
@joeybruer38854 жыл бұрын
Perhaps you are correct. Perhaps you are merely proving her point. Only time will tell.
@CUBETechie6 жыл бұрын
What is the origin?
@ptonpc4 жыл бұрын
Babylon 5
@Setebos5 жыл бұрын
Mistress Delenn . . . more to say have you?
@JustynneDeathWho Жыл бұрын
Shannon miller twins lights flames 🔥 part of each other you and I ishare with you freely
@angelwings29956 жыл бұрын
Me
@ssgsecurity22742 жыл бұрын
9/1/22😀🚬🚬🚬🚬
@jasonthorpe43133 жыл бұрын
These FUCKING ADDS!!!
@willerwin32014 жыл бұрын
The special effects aged badly, the set designs and fight choreography are hokey, the music rarely rises above cheesy synthesized filler, but damn if the writing and acting aren't some of the best that's ever been done in the genre. This is the show that heralded the advent of the Golden Age of TV.
@laraaji2 жыл бұрын
I totally agree about the script (JMS is a genius!) and the great work of the actors! but CGI were a breakthrough at that time, and even now also perceived as very realistic (not all scenes, of course). Chris Franke's music for this series is also very competitive right now (by the way, he worked not only with synthesizers, but also with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra). most of the decorations have a very elegant style, although were made of painted plywood.
@georgeblair3894 Жыл бұрын
Arthur C, Clarke was not so optimistic. (From 'Rescue Party'): "I wonder what they'll be like?" he mused. "Will they be nothing but wonderful engineers, with no art or philosophy? They're going to have such a surprise when Orostron reaches them�I expect it will be rather a blow to their pride. It's funny how all isolated races think they're the only people in the Universe. But they should be grateful to us; we're going to save them a good many hundred years of travel." Alveron glanced at the Milky Way, lying like a veil of silver mist across the vision screen. He waved toward it with a sweep of a tentacle that embraced the whole circle of the galaxy, from the Central Planets to the lonely suns of the Rim. "You know," he said to Rugon, "I feel rather afraid of these people. Suppose they don't like our little Federation?" He waved once more toward the star-clouds that lay massed across the screen, glowing with the light of their countless suns. "Something tells me they'll be very determined people," he added. "We had better be polite to them. After all, we only outnumber them about a thousand million to one." Rugon laughed at his captain's little joke. Twenty years afterward, the remark didn't seem funny
@rizon726 жыл бұрын
I always thought in the B5 universe humanity's greatest asset, wasn't strength, or power. But our ability to go forth and form communities while encompassing other races.
@Devyne1876 жыл бұрын
rizon72 that's true but one thing is we would never forget that the Minbari were gonna wipe us out completely. one thing I hated was how they just let it go nah bro.
@Thatslifebro_5 жыл бұрын
Humans greatest strength in the B5 universe was perseverence and curage. In the Earth Minbari war Humans were outmatched so badly in space and on the ground it was ridiculus. They literally only destroyed one enemy ship in proper combat. Still they made the Minbari fight as Londo himself said "for every inch of space". Fighting against certain doom literally to the last man just out of principle. Thats why Humans became one of the most powerful younger races in a relatively short time.
@popkhorne53724 жыл бұрын
So pretty much the same as in star trek.
@calliarcale4 жыл бұрын
There's a wonderful bit in another episode where Delenn makes that very argument.
@daniels79073 жыл бұрын
Which is really hilarious when you consider the fractious politics that we have in the real world. We are actually *not at all* good at forming mixed communities or dealing with differences. Just the opposite, our entire society runs on Us vs. Them.
@dirdib693 жыл бұрын
Humans form communities.
@dirdib695 жыл бұрын
"They can be a great people, Kal-El, they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. For this reason about all, their capacity for good, I have sent them you, my only son". The greatest amongst the Minbari were already partly human.
@Xardion554 жыл бұрын
_"You will give the people of Earth an ideal to aspire to. They'll race behind you. They'll stumble. They'll fall. But in time, they'll join the light with you, Kal. In time, you will help them...accomplish wonders."_
@lour72993 жыл бұрын
Wtf?
@looseycanon2 жыл бұрын
@@lour7299 Simple, Delen is cmdr. Sinclair's descendent... as is every member of the grey council.
@lour72992 жыл бұрын
@@looseycanon but if they are all Sinclair descendant, how come they are surprised when the triluminary glow when it scan Delenn?
@MachineCode0 Жыл бұрын
@@lour7299 The triluminary is, to the Minbari, an ancient religious artifact, given to them by the mysterious Valen, who was unknown to them but seemingly of them, who saved their species and the galaxy from annihilation by the shadows in the last war a thousand years ago. They have no idea that it is a device designed and built by the Vorlons, who with their technology understood and worked with the time loop of the figure Valen to their own ends, but who even they ultimately barely understood.
@hankscorpiouk8 жыл бұрын
3 Drakh disliked.
@Plons0Nard3 жыл бұрын
Mira, my dear , you were a wonderfull human being and a great actress ❤
@GiantRogueWave3 жыл бұрын
Humans fight, struggle, and keep rising up to fight impossible odds. They do not seek conformity, but rather find strength in their differences and passions. Because of that they become stronger and better over their fraught evolution. We have much to learn from them.. Wait….wait just a minute…isn’t that the same philosophy employed by the Shadows?
@jufrirayyan25847 жыл бұрын
i am so hoping the script writer gets a big budget Gig. brilliance is so rare.
@wingedfish11753 жыл бұрын
I've heard straczynski has put in a bid to be the new dr who showrunner so I guess that's important
@AmericanPoliceState10 жыл бұрын
+exmuslim20 There is more to humanity than just Survival of the fittest. It doesn't explain why total strangers would go out of someone's way to save anothers life, or give strangers food, nor does it explain why humans would go out of their way to save the lives of animals. Its a basic question. "Are we better than what our instincts allow us to be." I would say yes.
@robinchwan6 жыл бұрын
3 years late but here goes... we humans have so much baggage right now that it seem we don't care at all and seem savage... if we could get rid of most of the baggage dragging us down you would see more humans helping animals and even build WITH nature instead of against it..it's very much like the survival of the fittest just in a more advanced and refined form...
@ProMinecrafter19676 жыл бұрын
To be sapient is to rise above simple instincts, they say
@victorjohnson75126 жыл бұрын
We have opposable thumbs...
@russell50780849 жыл бұрын
like Mr spock said. infinite strength through infinite diversity.
@russell50780848 жыл бұрын
+MrNotadream their problem is like ours. instead of control immagration, giving the new people time to blend into the society, the doors have been left open.
@TheHalcyonTwilight8 жыл бұрын
As a UK citizen, I'm not seeing how diversity is a detriment. That aside, in terms of biology, diversity is key to the survival of life. A species that hones itself towards a narrow line of evolution may be better suited to its place, but it will be brittle. Too drastic a change and it will break. The greater the diversity present, the more chance there is of a person bearing antibodies for a disease, or someone having the genetic inclination to be able to digest a new food source. It's like metallurgy. Pure iron is a terrible material because it forms perfect atomic lattices that make it tough, but very brittle. To make it into modern steel, we dope it with a variety of trace elements to improve its characteristics, supplement its strength. By disrupting that perfect, orderly lattice, we make it stronger than it ever could be when pure.
@russell50780848 жыл бұрын
Avensis Astari it's not a detriment. But it should be done slowly to give the new arrivals time to assimilate.
@TheHalcyonTwilight8 жыл бұрын
The UK has a pretty controlled immigration as it is, though. We can funnel them across a handful of borders that all have stringent checks. Adding any more measures will only slow down the trade routes we rely on for commerce.
@russell50780848 жыл бұрын
Avensis Astari there's a big difference between slowing down immagration and the flow of material commerce.
@Zoloft777 жыл бұрын
Not to mention.... (we) build communities. That trait alone made the Minbari realized we are the most dangerous species they've had encountered with the exception of the Older Races.
@InternetGravedigger4 жыл бұрын
Danger! Human! Do Not Touch!
@jamesanderson52684 жыл бұрын
What makes humans so special? One of the few species in the universe that destroyed their planet.
@kdrapertrucker4 жыл бұрын
You do not know that, for all you know we might get out there and find that we were the only species not to destroy themselves when they discovered atomic theory.
@Jason-de9mq2 жыл бұрын
Humans are special because of what we do and have done. To this date, so far as we know, we are the only intelligent life in the universe. Are there other smart creatures even on our own planet, yes. Again so far as we know, we are the only beings to build cities and invent complex tools. We are the only beings to have venture into space and come home again. I would say that makes us pretty damn special.
@cathalhughes59966 жыл бұрын
When i look at sci fis like this it makes me wounder what will humanity give back to the galaxy when we reach beyond are star? What would make us speical?
@kdrapertrucker4 жыл бұрын
Won't know till we get out there.
@robluck213 жыл бұрын
Amazing thoughts and Ideas , To uplift people instead putting people down, To appreciate greatness and not be envious
@harrisonfnord58713 жыл бұрын
Ahh, the neoliberal envy myth... 🤡🤡🤡
@Vermontist12 жыл бұрын
And then, a Shadow appears...
@farmerned62 жыл бұрын
Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes
@johnmorgan16294 жыл бұрын
A later, yet earlier letter from Valen would help confirm this calling.