Babylon 5 (TV Series)

Falling Toward Apotheosis (1996)

Claudia Christian: Cmdr. Susan Ivanova

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• [first lines] 

  Cmdr. Susan Ivanova : We're preempting your normal BabCom service to bring you another update in the continuing crisis. Two more deep-range planetary colonies have been eliminated by Vorlon forces. This footage was taken as the Vorlon fleet closed in on Ventari 3. The ship eclipsing the local star is presumed to be their main weapon, a planetkiller...

• [Ivanova and Garibaldi survey the fleet gathered around B5] 

  Michael Garibaldi : That is a hell of a lot of ships.

  Cmdr. Susan Ivanova : And more on the way. The captain wants the biggest fleet in history if we're gonna end this war. The way things are shaping up out there it looks like he just might get it.

  Michael Garibaldi : And then what?

  Cmdr. Susan Ivanova : And then what what?

  Michael Garibaldi : Well if we lose, there is no "then what", and if we win, what next? We're still renegades. I don't think there's anybody left on this side of the galactic core we haven't already honked off. We can't go home. Sometimes I don't know which scares me more, winning or losing.

  Cmdr. Susan Ivanova : God, I thought I was depressing.