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* NotIllegalJustification:
** Used by none other than TheCaptain in the episode "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E16InTheShadowOfZHaDum In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum]]". Captain Sheridan recognizes Morden, who is acting as a human MouthOfSauron for the HigherTechSpecies known as "The Shadows", as having been part of the crew on the same ship that his wife was on when it was mysteriously lost and everyone on it, including Sheridan's wife, was presumed dead. Sheridan orders Morden detained without any charges and pushes Morden for answers. As it goes on Sheridan goes further and further in violating the spirit of the law and ideals of human rights to continue detaining and questioning Morden, including snapping at one point that since Morden is legally dead, he has no rights to due process under the law. That move leads the station's Security Officer to ResignInProtest.
** As [[PresidentEvil President Clark]] and his minions seize more and more authoritarian power and control on Earth, they use this reasoning frequently to justify things like expanded spying, crackdowns on human colonies with independence movements, takeover of the biggest human news network, etc. Eventually the increasingly fascistic government becomes openly despotic enough that a portion of the military and some of the previously mentioned colonies rebel against the government.
** Used by none other than TheCaptain in the episode "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E16InTheShadowOfZHaDum In the Shadow of Z'Ha'Dum]]". Captain Sheridan recognizes Morden, who is acting as a human MouthOfSauron for the HigherTechSpecies known as "The Shadows", as having been part of the crew on the same ship that his wife was on when it was mysteriously lost and everyone on it, including Sheridan's wife, was presumed dead. Sheridan orders Morden detained without any charges and pushes Morden for answers. As it goes on Sheridan goes further and further in violating the spirit of the law and ideals of human rights to continue detaining and questioning Morden, including snapping at one point that since Morden is legally dead, he has no rights to due process under the law. That move leads the station's Security Officer to ResignInProtest.
** As [[PresidentEvil President Clark]] and his minions seize more and more authoritarian power and control on Earth, they use this reasoning frequently to justify things like expanded spying, crackdowns on human colonies with independence movements, takeover of the biggest human news network, etc. Eventually the increasingly fascistic government becomes openly despotic enough that a portion of the military and some of the previously mentioned colonies rebel against the government.
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* PerfectionIsStatic: The Vorlons are one of the First Ones, old races that predate most space-faring civilizations. Their rivals the Shadows cast them as "frozen perfection". The Vorlons live up to this by supporting races that blindly follow them and asking "Who Are You?". That diving question is meant to have their followers focus on themselves and the Vorlons' cause. As soon as anyone steps out of line, the Vorlons are quick to punish them. Later the Vorlons take to blowing up whole planets that have any trace of Shadow influence. When confronted by Captain Sherridan in a mental projection, the Vorlons appear as an angelic figure encased in ice.
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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfDistance:
** The series generally tried to avoid this, but creator J. Michael Straczynski acknowledged the problem of space's true scale when talking about showing space battles on TV, pointing out that TV viewers want and need to ''see'' the ships in the same screenshot pounding away at one another, but that any actual kind of space battle would likely take place at distances far too extreme for this (thousands of kilometers at minimum). The battle between the Shadows and the Narns in "The Long Twilight Struggle" attempted to acknowledge this on the screen; most of the fight consists of the ships simply accelerating towards one another, and only the last (catastrophic) few seconds includes any visual proximity. Indeed, the battle also featured quite a bit of {{Old School Dogfight}}ing, but the fighters were so small compared to the capital ships that you can only discern them as specks and flashes of light around the bigger ships. Nonetheless, most of the series' remaining battles gave in to the RuleOfCool anyway. It's also explained that space battles happen so close due to beam weapon dispersal.
** One example played completely straight is with Babylon 4, formerly located in Sector 14, which was quarantined after the station's mysterious disappearance, reappearance, and re-disappearance into a time distortion. Its former location is stated more than once to be only 3 hours flight time in normal space from Babylon 5. FTL travel doesn't exist in this series except through hyperspace, yet the trip is made by Starfuries and transports, ships not even capable of creating hyperspace jump-points. At sublight speeds, travel time that short would not only put it in the same solar system, it would very likely be no farther away than the Moon is to Earth. Babylon 5 wouldn't need to send ships out to investigate, they could just use a telescope and a radio.
** However, there's no justification for the scene in which Londo, representing the Centauri, and Morden, representing the Shadows, appear to be splitting '''the entire Milky Way''' into two spheres of influence on a map. Even Straczynski later referred to that sequence with embarrassment.
** The series generally tried to avoid this, but creator J. Michael Straczynski acknowledged the problem of space's true scale when talking about showing space battles on TV, pointing out that TV viewers want and need to ''see'' the ships in the same screenshot pounding away at one another, but that any actual kind of space battle would likely take place at distances far too extreme for this (thousands of kilometers at minimum). The battle between the Shadows and the Narns in "The Long Twilight Struggle" attempted to acknowledge this on the screen; most of the fight consists of the ships simply accelerating towards one another, and only the last (catastrophic) few seconds includes any visual proximity. Indeed, the battle also featured quite a bit of {{Old School Dogfight}}ing, but the fighters were so small compared to the capital ships that you can only discern them as specks and flashes of light around the bigger ships. Nonetheless, most of the series' remaining battles gave in to the RuleOfCool anyway. It's also explained that space battles happen so close due to beam weapon dispersal.
** One example played completely straight is with Babylon 4, formerly located in Sector 14, which was quarantined after the station's mysterious disappearance, reappearance, and re-disappearance into a time distortion. Its former location is stated more than once to be only 3 hours flight time in normal space from Babylon 5. FTL travel doesn't exist in this series except through hyperspace, yet the trip is made by Starfuries and transports, ships not even capable of creating hyperspace jump-points. At sublight speeds, travel time that short would not only put it in the same solar system, it would very likely be no farther away than the Moon is to Earth. Babylon 5 wouldn't need to send ships out to investigate, they could just use a telescope and a radio.
** However, there's no justification for the scene in which Londo, representing the Centauri, and Morden, representing the Shadows, appear to be splitting '''the entire Milky Way''' into two spheres of influence on a map. Even Straczynski later referred to that sequence with embarrassment.
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* MamaBear: Laura Rosen, already dying from Lake's Syndrome, donates her life force to patients who visit her clinic in Downbelow. When Karl Mueller threatens her daughter, Rosen kills him by ''sapping away'' his life, instead. Though cleared of all charges, Rosen is deeply shaken by the experience, having violating her oath as a doctor.
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* MamaBear: Laura Rosen, already dying from Lake's Syndrome, donates her life force to patients who visit her clinic in Downbelow. When Karl Mueller threatens her daughter, Rosen kills him by ''sapping away'' his life, instead. Though cleared of all charges, Rosen is deeply shaken by the experience, having violating violated her oath as a doctor.
