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* SpaceIsNoisy
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* SpaceIsNoisySpaceIsNoisy: Played straight. JMS said that when he had to choose between no sound in space and ''surround sound'' in space (which was a new technology at the time), [[RuleOfCool he chose the latter without hesitation]].
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* SpaceFriction: Averted. When we see spacecraft maneuvering, inertia is generally taken into account, and the ships' thrusters do not fire all the time.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale:
** 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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* SpaceIsAnOcean: Magnificiently averted. Sort of lampshaded/subverted with the Minbari Sharlin cruiser, which looks like a fish (However, one could argue that [[FromACertainPointOfView Hyperspace is an ocean]]). The Minbari also practice what they call "going to the sea", in which an elder spends their last days journeying into space, searching for a place where they can be of use.
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* SpaceIsAnOcean: Magnificiently averted. Sort of lampshaded/subverted with the Minbari Sharlin cruiser, which looks like a fish (However, one could argue that [[FromACertainPointOfView [[MetaphoricallyTrue Hyperspace is an ocean]]). The Minbari also practice what they call "going to the sea", in which an elder spends their last days journeying into space, searching for a place where they can be of use.
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* SultryBellyDancer: Shown generously throughout the Dark Star club in "The Quality of Mercy".
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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The pak'ma'ra spell the name of their species in all lower case letters. Both fans and the production crew have often unwittingly capitalized it to match the way that every other species spells their name.
--> "In all of my scripts, I always spelled pak’ma’ra in all lower case letters. Our script coordinator kept changing it to Pak’ma’ra. Finally, I had to tell her to stop changing it. She wanted to know why. I said, “Because that’s how they spell it.” It’s great being able to win arguments by citing non-existent rules of punctuation created by equally non-existent species."-- JMS
--> "In all of my scripts, I always spelled pak’ma’ra in all lower case letters. Our script coordinator kept changing it to Pak’ma’ra. Finally, I had to tell her to stop changing it. She wanted to know why. I said, “Because that’s how they spell it.” It’s great being able to win arguments by citing non-existent rules of punctuation created by equally non-existent species."-- JMS
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* WarIsHell: One of the key themes in the series. The horrors of war, the civilian deaths, the irrational hatred it breeds on both sides, and the governments' willingness to start new wars for the pettiest of reasons are always depicted in detail.
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* WarIsHell: One of the key themes in the series. The horrors of war, the civilian deaths, the oppression of the occupied populations, the irrational hatred it breeds on both sides, and the governments' willingness to start new wars for the pettiest of reasons are always depicted in detail.
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* WarIsHell: One of the key themes in the series. The horrors of war, the civilian deaths, the irrational hatred it breeds on both sides, and the governments' willingness to start new wars for the pettiest of reasons are always depicted in detail.
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* WokenUpAtAnUngodlyHour:
** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E11LinesOfCommunication Lines of Communication]]", Sheridan who has been watching President Clark's PropagandaMachine ISN all night and gotten fed up with the stories they've been spinning about them, suddenly gets an idea and goes to Ivanova's quarters. She is lying in bed and when the door chime goes off, she moans, "Leave me alone," before grudgingly dragging herself out of bed. After Sheridan drags her off to tell her about his idea too for their own broadcast, and manipulates her into accepting being the host, he tells her to get some sleep and they'll discuss it more in the morning. Annoyed, she mutters, "If he wasn't my commanding officer I swear I'd shoot him dead."
** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E01TheHourOfTheWolf The Hour of the Wolf]]", Londo actually apologizes to Vir for video-calling him and waking him up out of a sound sleep. He forgot the time difference between Centauri Prime and Babylon 5.
** "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E05VoicesOfAuthority Voices of Authority]]" ends with G'Kar coming to Garibaldi's quarters late at night to give him the Book of G'Quan. When Garibaldi protests that he doesn't read Narn, G'Kar just tells him, "Learn." Garibaldi goes back to bed muttering, "He hates me. They all hate me. That's why they do this, to drive me ''crazy''."
** Garibaldi returns the favor in "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E18Walkabout Walkabout]]" when he comes to G'Kar's quarters at a similarly late hour to return the book to him, or rather shove it at him and give him a WhatTheHellHero for not having the Narn cruiser at Babylon 5 out in the fight before storming out.
** In season 4, Mr. Garibaldi finds himself in the employ of William Edgars, one of the richest men in the Earth Alliance, who has a tendency to call at odd hours in the morning. Garibaldi is quite irritated, but Mr. Edgars tells him he expects all his retainers to be on call 24/7.
** "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS05E16AndAllMyDreamsTornAsunder And All My Dreams Torn Asunder]]": After tensions between the Interstellar Alliance and Centauri Republic turn into a shooting war, Zack comes to wake Sheridan and Delenn and inform them of the latest turn of events. Downplayed in that, while it is implied to be vary early morning (alluding to the 3AM phone call so often mentioned with regards to national leaders), neither of them seemed to be able to sleep with the current situation.
** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E11LinesOfCommunication Lines of Communication]]", Sheridan who has been watching President Clark's PropagandaMachine ISN all night and gotten fed up with the stories they've been spinning about them, suddenly gets an idea and goes to Ivanova's quarters. She is lying in bed and when the door chime goes off, she moans, "Leave me alone," before grudgingly dragging herself out of bed. After Sheridan drags her off to tell her about his idea too for their own broadcast, and manipulates her into accepting being the host, he tells her to get some sleep and they'll discuss it more in the morning. Annoyed, she mutters, "If he wasn't my commanding officer I swear I'd shoot him dead."
** In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E01TheHourOfTheWolf The Hour of the Wolf]]", Londo actually apologizes to Vir for video-calling him and waking him up out of a sound sleep. He forgot the time difference between Centauri Prime and Babylon 5.
** "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E05VoicesOfAuthority Voices of Authority]]" ends with G'Kar coming to Garibaldi's quarters late at night to give him the Book of G'Quan. When Garibaldi protests that he doesn't read Narn, G'Kar just tells him, "Learn." Garibaldi goes back to bed muttering, "He hates me. They all hate me. That's why they do this, to drive me ''crazy''."
** Garibaldi returns the favor in "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS03E18Walkabout Walkabout]]" when he comes to G'Kar's quarters at a similarly late hour to return the book to him, or rather shove it at him and give him a WhatTheHellHero for not having the Narn cruiser at Babylon 5 out in the fight before storming out.
** In season 4, Mr. Garibaldi finds himself in the employ of William Edgars, one of the richest men in the Earth Alliance, who has a tendency to call at odd hours in the morning. Garibaldi is quite irritated, but Mr. Edgars tells him he expects all his retainers to be on call 24/7.
** "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS05E16AndAllMyDreamsTornAsunder And All My Dreams Torn Asunder]]": After tensions between the Interstellar Alliance and Centauri Republic turn into a shooting war, Zack comes to wake Sheridan and Delenn and inform them of the latest turn of events. Downplayed in that, while it is implied to be vary early morning (alluding to the 3AM phone call so often mentioned with regards to national leaders), neither of them seemed to be able to sleep with the current situation.
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* SpecialOccasionsAreMagic: In "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS05E08DayOfTheDead Day of the Dead]]", the Brakiri are given permission to mark off part of the station as a boundary line for their eponymous holiday, when the spirits of the dead are said to come back to the world of the living. This turns out to literally be the case.
