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This movie contains examples of:

• Call Back: Dureena's planet was destroyed by a Planet Killer during the Shadow War.
• Cool Starship: The Excalibur and her sister ship Victory.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: The result of using a Shadow Planet Killer is shown.
• Fixed Forward Facing Weapon: The Excalibur and Victory's Wave Motion Guns.
• The End of the World as We Know It
• Heroic Sacrifice: Captain Anderson and the crew of the Victory.
• The Mole: Drake.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Inverted: The project lead (Drake) is dragging his heels with the excuse of trying to get all of the ships' systems running perfectly, while Garibaldi, the administrative head of the project, is pestering him to just get everything "good enough" and let the ships' crews iron out the wrinkles later.
• Poorly Disguised Pilot: For the spinoff series Crusade.
  • Not really poorly disguised, as it was deliberately made and promoted as a lead-in to Crusade.
• Pyrrhic Victory: The Planet Killer is destroyed but the Drakh release a plague into Earth's atmosphere which will kill the entire population within five years.
• Self-Deprecation: A bit of Meta Humor: Garibaldi tells Sheridan that if he wanted to watch a screen full of nonsense, Garibaldi could show him some 20th century television.
• Slipped the Ropes: Never taunt an escape artist about being restrained, especially if she has training in unarmed combat.
• Tattooed Crook: Dureena has one that marks her as one of the Thieves' Guild.