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* FantasticReligeousWierdness: A subplot involves G'kar trying to get a hallucinogenic flower for a ritual that has to take place *exactly* at a specific time-when the sun rises over a sacred mountain. The Narn's priests decreed that anyone not on Narn had to perform the ritual then. After he misses it (thanks to Londo being a dick), Sinclair points out that Babylon 5 is a little over 10 light years from Narn, so the sunlight from when the sun touched the mountain 10 years ago should arrive within 12 hours.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While some of the dockworkers aren't exactly nice about it, they do have legitimate concerns about their working conditions. Sinclair actually acknowledges this, which is why his proposed solution to the strike once the Rush Act gives him carte blanche to resolve the dispute however he sees fit is to agree to their major demands.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While some of the dockworkers aren't exactly nice about it, they do have legitimate concerns about their working conditions. Sinclair actually acknowledges this, which is why his proposed solution to the strike once the Rush Act gives him carte blanche to resolve the dispute however he sees fit is to agree to their major demands.
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* VeryPunchableMan: Courtesy of two people--Orin Zento and Senator Hidoshi. Zento for basically being a dick (and for that smug look on his face the very moment he steps into the station), Hidoshi for mostly issuing implacably difficult orders to Sinclair...followed by an insincere smile. To his credit, though, later in the episode Hidoshi does try to stick up for Sinclair by trying to fight Zento and the Senate from invoking the Rush act....but he's overruled.
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* VeryPunchableMan: Courtesy of two people--Orin Zento and Senator Hidoshi. Zento for basically being a dick (and for that smug look on his face the very moment he steps into the station), Hidoshi for mostly issuing implacably difficult orders to Sinclair...followed by an insincere smile. To his credit, though, later in the episode Hidoshi does try to stick up for Sinclair by trying to fight Zento and the Senate from invoking the Rush act....Act....but he's overruled. And once Sinclair manages to resolve the situation, Hidoshi expresses his own pleasure at how it turned out, and warns Sinclair that he might face repercussions later.
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* VeryPunchableMan: Courtesy of two people--Orin Zento and Senator Hidoshi. Zento for basically being a dick (and for that smug look on his face the very moment he steps into the station), Hidoshi for mostly issuing implacably difficult orders to Sinclair...followed by an insincere smile.
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* VeryPunchableMan: Courtesy of two people--Orin Zento and Senator Hidoshi. Zento for basically being a dick (and for that smug look on his face the very moment he steps into the station), Hidoshi for mostly issuing implacably difficult orders to Sinclair...followed by an insincere smile. To his credit, though, later in the episode Hidoshi does try to stick up for Sinclair by trying to fight Zento and the Senate from invoking the Rush act....but he's overruled.
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* SeriouslyScruffy: To say that Sinclair is stressed in this episode is an understatement. And if him constantly unbuttoning his uniform is insufficient indication, there's the bags under his eyes and his regularly clean-shaven face looking a little unkempt.
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* VeryPunchableMan: Courtesy of two people--Orin Zento and Senator Hidoshi. Zento for basically being a dick (and for that smug look on his face the very moment he steps into the station), Hidoshi for mostly for issuing implacably difficult orders to Sinclair...followed by an insincere smile.
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* VeryPunchableMan: Courtesy of two people--Orin Zento and Senator Hidoshi. Zento for basically being a dick (and for that smug look on his face the very moment he steps into the station), Hidoshi for mostly for issuing implacably difficult orders to Sinclair...followed by an insincere smile.
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** A seemingly minor one: the Book of G'Quan is first seen in this episode. When G'kar goes on a minor rampage following Londo's refusal to sell the G'Quan Eth plant to him, he breaks everything in sight...but stops himself when he was about to hit the Book of G'Quan. The Book is instrumental in future episodes concerning the Shadows, the history of Narn telepaths....and how one is NOT supposed to thump the Book of G'Quan (as Garibaldi does in a future episode).
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* VeryPunchableMan: Courtesy of two people--Orin Zento and Senator Hidoshi. Zento for basically being a dick, dick (and for that smug look on his face the very moment he steps into the station), Hidoshi for mostly for issuing implacably difficult orders to Sinclair...followed by an insincere smile.
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* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Cleverly inverted with Sinclair's solution to G'Kar's problem; as the station is just over ten Narn light-years away from the Narn homeworld (which has a longer year than Earth), G'Kar is able to use the sunlight from ''that'' event for the ritual.
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* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Cleverly inverted with Sinclair's solution to G'Kar's problem; as the station is just over ten Narn light-years away from the Narn homeworld (which has a longer year than Earth), G'Kar is able to use the sunlight from ''that'' event for the ritual.ritual.
* VeryPunchableMan: Courtesy of two people--Orin Zento and Senator Hidoshi. Zento for basically being a dick, Hidoshi for mostly for issuing implacably difficult orders to Sinclair...followed by an insincere smile.
* VeryPunchableMan: Courtesy of two people--Orin Zento and Senator Hidoshi. Zento for basically being a dick, Hidoshi for mostly for issuing implacably difficult orders to Sinclair...followed by an insincere smile.
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* BlatantLies: Following the accident on the docking area (and their general fatigue from being overworked from months on end), a lot of the dock workers started calling in sick. Garibaldi, Sinclair and Ivanova are acutely aware that they are NOT sick, they're just calling in sick. Later, when Garibaldi fetches Connoly (who's in the middle of pacifying the dock workers who want to go on Strike) so Sinclair can speak to her (and because she's been ignoring Sinclair's calls), Connoly says that she's a little busy since a lot of his workers are sick. Cue the dock workers coughing (while laughing).
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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Whenever he's onscreen, Delvientos speaks gratuitous amounts of Spanish.
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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: GratuitousSpanish: Whenever he's onscreen, Delvientos speaks gratuitous amounts of Spanish.
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* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Whenever he's onscreen, Delvientos speaks gratuitous amounts of Spanish.
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* BuildingIsWelding: Opening scenes at the busy dock show people welding even before the accident with the Narn Transport happens. Combined with the overall mayhem in the dock, it's made to invoke that the workers are up to their necks with work.
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* EvilIsPetty:
** Londo buys the plant G'Kar needs and gets high with it strictly to be a dick to G'Kar. It backfires on him when Sinclair points out that, unless he has a specific religious license (like G'Kar has), that specific narcotic is highly illegal.
** Zento does everything in his power to try to escalate the strike to a bloodbath, in complete contradiction of what his role as a negotiator is supposed to be, simply because there is a law that would ([[ExactWords technically]]) allow him to (and, again, just to be a dick).
** Londo buys the plant G'Kar needs and gets high with it strictly to be a dick to G'Kar. It backfires on him when Sinclair points out that, unless he has a specific religious license (like G'Kar has), that specific narcotic is highly illegal.
** Zento does everything in his power to try to escalate the strike to a bloodbath, in complete contradiction of what his role as a negotiator is supposed to be, simply because there is a law that would ([[ExactWords technically]]) allow him to (and, again, just to be a dick).
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** While not an ambassador, Zento certainly qualifies. From the moment he arrives, it is obvious he will not act in good faith with the workers and his negotiations are done merely to provoke them into striking so the Rush Act can be invoked.
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* ExactWords: The Rush Act gives Sinclair the authority to end the strike 'by any means necessary'. Sinclair does so by taking over the negotiations from Zento and agreeing to give the dockers concessions that Zento was unwilling to grant them.
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* ExactWords: The Rush Act gives Sinclair the authority to end the strike 'by any means necessary'. Sinclair does so by taking over the negotiations from Zento and agreeing to give the dockers concessions that Zento was unwilling to grant them. Sinclair even looks up the Exact Words of the Rush Act to make sure it'll allow him to do what he wants to do.
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* GunboatDiplomacy: What the Rush Act is ''supposed'' to be, and what Zento wants. Sinclair manages to get away with what he did because it didn't had any ExactWords aiming towards this specific use -- and even then, Earth Gov only allows it (and lets him keep his job) because not doing so would be a ''bigger'' PR disaster.
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* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Orin Zento. Also a WarHawk -- when he activates the Rush Act, he obviously wants Sinclair to order station security to stomp the strike out in a "kill them all and let God sort them out" fashion.
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** The story was inspired by Ronald Reagan off-handedly firing thousands of striking air traffic controllers, giving the incident a happy ending.
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** The story was inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968) Ronald Reagan off-handedly firing firing]] thousands of striking air traffic controllers, giving the incident a happy ending.
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* RabbleRouser: Delvientos is the most outspoken, the first to suggest a strike and the most antagonistic towards Zento, who admittedly isn't very sympathetic. He's more reasonable than most examples of this trope, and when an arrangement is reached that he's satisfied with, he calls the other dockers back to work.
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* RabbleRouser: Delvientos is the most outspoken, the first to suggest a strike and the most antagonistic towards Zento, who admittedly isn't very sympathetic. He's more reasonable than most examples of this trope, and when an arrangement is reached that he's satisfied with, he calls the other dockers back to work. It's impressive that he kept as cool as he did; the man who died at the beginning was his brother.
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* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Cleverly inverted with Sinclair's solution to G'Kar's problem; as the station is just over ten Narn light-years away from the Narn homeworld (which has a longer year than Earth), G'Kar is able to use the sunlight from ''that'' event for the ritual.
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* TwoOfYourEarthMinutes: Cleverly inverted with Sinclair's solution to G'Kar's problem; as the station is just over ten Narn light-years away from the Narn homeworld (which has a longer year than Earth), G'Kar is able to use the sunlight from ''that'' event for the ritual.
<<|Recap/BabylonFive|>>ritual.
<<|Recap/BabylonFive|>>
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* HugeGuyTinyGirl: Ms Connelly is visibly smaller in size than any of her male opponents (to a point where she is easily lifted out of harm´s way when the riots emerge). ''On the other hand'' - she is a skilled union leader who shows that she has a ''lot'' of popular support, and is truly a person you don´t want to mess with.
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** Would ''any'' government willingly reduce their military budget to secure workers rights? Certainly not the US government (being the possible target of this particular TakeThat).
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* NotTheIntendedUse: Sinclair reads the fine print of the Rush Act, and instead of using force to quell the strike (the "intended" use of the Act), he finds a way to use the Act to bring the situation to a satisfactory conclusion. The Senate isn't happy, but they let it stand because public opinion is on Sinclair's side.
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* LampshadeHanging: Senator Hidoshi points out that Sinclair's gambit clearly violated the spirit of the law, and only got away with it because the senate wasn't willing to go against something with such overwhelming popular support.
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** Connoly, who is genuinely working to ensure the rights and needs of the dockers while at the same time trying keep them from resorting to violent resistance.
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** Connoly, who is genuinely working to ensure the rights and needs of the dockers while at the same time trying keep them from resorting to violent resistance.
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* ExactWords: The Rush Act gives Sinclair the authority to end the strike 'by any means necessary'. Sinclair does so by taking over the negotiations from Zento and agreeing to give the dockers concessions that Zento was unwilling to grant them.
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* ImperfectRitual: Londo buys the last rare G'Quan Eth plant for sale on Babylon 5 before G'Kar can. G'Kar needs it for an important religious ceremony that must be held annually when the Narn sun falls directly behind a certain mountain on the Narn homeworld. Londo eventually lets G'Kar have the plant (after using it for recreational drug purposes), supposedly too late for the ceremony--but Sinclair convinces G'Kar that since his home sun's light continues to travel through space, and Babylon 5 lay almost exactly 10 Narn light-years from Narn, that the light that hit the mountain in the proper position 10 years ago would be the same light that would just now be hitting Babylon 5, so the ceremony could still theoretically go on at the station.
