I found the discs! So I'm ready and I already noticed advantages of not having this season memorized like the later ones - I can be surprised again by some great moments and quotes!
I love how only three minutes into episode we have first of so many hilarious Londo lines, in his talk with Garibaldi about Earth's first contact with Centauri (example of nice background info for history as well as insight in Centauri way of thinking):
"All I'm asking is that you trust me." "Trust you? Londo, my brain will be five days dead before I ever trust a Centauri. The first time we met you people, the first time we met any other civilization, you told us you practically ran the entire galaxy."
And then:
"Okay, we made a mistake. I'm sorry. Here, open my wrist." "Centauri don't have major arteries in their wrist." "Of course we don't. What do you think, I'm stupid?"
There's so many threads in this episodes that we'll be seeing for years - of course Narn/Centauri storyline, Ivanova's history with telepaths, Ivanova and Talia, Santiago election (Ivanova already doesn't like him), Londo's vision...
About Star Trek's utopian vision - you know, I read someone's opinion that you can actually watch B5 as a birth of Star Trek's Federation because obviously it's not like all those alien races just decided to get along perfectly :) It could be a process as we see here... but that's for the future and spoilers ;)
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I love how only three minutes into episode we have first of so many hilarious Londo lines, in his talk with Garibaldi about Earth's first contact with Centauri (example of nice background info for history as well as insight in Centauri way of thinking):
"All I'm asking is that you trust me."
"Trust you? Londo, my brain will be five days dead before I ever trust a Centauri. The first time we met you people, the first time we met any other civilization, you told us you practically ran the entire galaxy."
And then:
"Okay, we made a mistake. I'm sorry. Here, open my wrist."
"Centauri don't have major arteries in their wrist."
"Of course we don't. What do you think, I'm stupid?"
There's so many threads in this episodes that we'll be seeing for years - of course Narn/Centauri storyline, Ivanova's history with telepaths, Ivanova and Talia, Santiago election (Ivanova already doesn't like him), Londo's vision...
About Star Trek's utopian vision - you know, I read someone's opinion that you can actually watch B5 as a birth of Star Trek's Federation because obviously it's not like all those alien races just decided to get along perfectly :) It could be a process as we see here... but that's for the future and spoilers ;)