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The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.
— Babylon 5 · 1994
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is the show's mission statement and its obituary in one sentence: a station built so that nobody would have to fight another war, narrated by someone who already knows how the story goes. The past tense gives it a weight no brisk space-opera intro has, and fans quote it as shorthand for hopes that were noble and did not survive contact with the galaxy.
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In context
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Every episode of Babylon 5 opens with a spoken introduction, and it changes with the story. In season two (1994-95), after Commander Sinclair has been reassigned to Minbar, Captain John Sheridan takes over the station and delivers the opening voiceover. It calls the Babylon Project humanity's last, best hope for peace, a self-contained world five miles long where a quarter of a million humans and aliens trade and talk. Season one's version, narrated by Sinclair, was worded differently. By season three the voiceover passes to Ivanova, and it admits the Project failed.
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- Wikiquote: Babylon 5Seasons 1, 2 and 3 opening credits voiceoversReference checked
- Wikipedia: Babylon 5Premise section and Season 2 episode summaryReference checked
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