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Babylon 5: Season 1, Episode 12By Any Means Necessary (11 May 1994)The station's dock workers stage an illegal strike. G'Kar tries to take part in a Narn religious ceremony. Director:Jim Johnston |
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| Claudia Christian | ... | ||
| Jerry Doyle | ... | ||
| Mira Furlan | ... |
Delenn
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Richard Biggs | ... |
Dr. Stephen Franklin
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Talia Winters
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Vir
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Lennier
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Na'Toth
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| Katy Boyer | ... |
Neeoma Connally
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Orin Zento
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The station's dock workers stage an illegal strike. G'Kar tries to take part in a Narn religious ceremony.
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Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: Earthforce ship Omega, you may proceed to the jumpgate. Shuttle Copernicus, you're clear for dockingbay 4. Tal'Quith, please hold. Earthforce ship continue to hold. Minbari ship, hold.
Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: Babylon 5, this is the captain of the Tal'Quith. What is the delay?
Narn Captain: Tal'Quith, there's a priority shipment ahead of you. You'll be able to dock in 25 minutes.
Narn Captain: Unacceptable! We have a very perishable cargo for Ambassador G'Kar and must deliver it immediately!
Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: I'll do what I can. Please stand by.
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Jeffrey (Michael O'Hare) Sinclair's five o'clock shadow is real, not makeup. At the time of shooting, O'Hare had just returned from New York City where he'd been appearing in a Broadway play. Babylon 5 producer, J. Michael Straczynski, told O'Hare not to shave, as the whiskers added to his character's haggard look. See more »Goofs
When the strike leader lists historical examples of suppression of labor movements or strikes in the past, she mentions Matewan (as in the Matewan Massacre in Matewan, West Virginia in the 1920s where workers clashed with company goons), but pronounced it "mat-uh-wan" instead of "mate-wan" as this town is actually pronounced. Given that this is set 430 years after the Matewan massacre, and given that she, most likely, would have never heard it pronounced, but had read about it, the mispronunciation is entirely understandable. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: Earthforce ship Omega, you may proceed to the jumpgate. Shuttle Copernicus, you're clear for dockingbay 4. Tal'Quith, please hold. Earthforce ship continue to hold. Minbari ship, hold.
Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: Babylon 5, this is the captain of the Tal'Quith. What is the delay?
Narn Captain: Tal'Quith, there's a priority shipment ahead of you. You'll be able to dock in 25 minutes.
Narn Captain: Unacceptable! We have a very perishable cargo for Ambassador G'Kar and must deliver it immediately!
Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: I'll do what I can. Please stand by.
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For much of the first season of Babylon 5, the series still hadn't established any sort of over-arching plot to connect the episodes like it would have in seasons 2 through 5. In some ways, it was as if the genius behind the series, Michael Staczynski was still trying to feel for a sense of direction. Because of this, so many of the season one episodes are self-contained in that they don't connect well with previous or later episodes. This is pretty much the way of sci-fi shows like Star Trek, but for B-5, this makes these earlier episodes less satisfying.
This is a well-written episode and did hold my interest. However, once again like so many season 1 episodes, it didn't really do much to address the themes seen in later shows. In many ways, this episode seemed like it was addressing contemporary labor issues and placing it in the year 2258. In particular, the landing bay workers on B-5 are upset that the incoming traffic is far greater than what they'd been promised and as a result, working conditions were becoming dangerous and the workers were feeling burned out and angry. Earth Gov's response was, "you agreed to the contract so fulfill it or else!"--refusing to acknowledge in any way that the workers had some reason to feel used. And, overall, it was engaging and the final resolution of the problems with work hours, wages and conditions was pretty clever.