1x14 Signs and Portents - Babylon 5 Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x14

Episode: 01x14
Title: Signs and Portents
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 116
First Aired: May. 18, 1994

Season 1 » Episode #14 - Signs and Portents

Summary: Raiders are drawing closer to the space station in escalated attacks. A plan is drawn up in order to try and help travellers. Sinclair is trying to find out what happened during those 24 hours in the war that was erased from his memory, and Garibaldi promises to help him out. A new visitor, Mr Morden, makes his rounds among the ambassadors, asking for an answer to a very strange question. Meanwhile, Londo is excited, a shady deal-maker has gotten over one of the most priced symbols of Centauri, and it is for sale.

Who appeared in this episode?

Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova	played by Claudia Christian
Na'Toth	played by Julie Caitlin Brown
Walker Smith	played by Gregory McKinney
The Muta-Do	played by Soon-Tek Oh
Caliban	played by Don Stroud
Rabbi Koslov	played by Theodore Bikel
Gyor	played by James Jude Courtney
Andrei Ivanov	played by Robert Phalen
ISN Reporter	played by Lenore Kasdorf

	Season 1 / Episode 14: - Signs and Portents Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova: So how are things back home? Rabbi Koslov: They change, they stay the same. Russia is Russia. Your father used to say: "If regret could be harvested, Russia would be the world's fruit basket."
	Season 1 / Episode 14: - Signs and Portents Rabbi Koslov: Then the tragedy is greater than i thought. Without forgiveness, you cannot mourn. And without mourning, you can never let go of the pain. [... ] You cannot run away from your own heart, Susan. Not even in space.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CHAR: At the end of the Season 1 episode "TKO", Ivanova says that the Mourner's Kaddish prayer is usually said in Hebrew. Unlike other traditional Jewish prayers, the Kaddish is actually in Aramaic, not Hebrew.

TRIVIA

Garibaldi meets his old friend Walker Smith, a professional boxer. Walker Smith was the actual name of pro boxer Sugar Ray Robinson.
The Zima sign in the Dugout bar was not a commercial plug. Producer J. Michael Straczynski just thought it would be amusing to see the sign on a space station.
From season one, Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova is seen reading Harlan Ellison's book "Working Without a Net." Harlan Ellison is credited as the conceptual consultant for Babylon 5. "Working Without a Net" is the title of Ellison's planned autobiography, but does not exist as of today (2004). According to J. Michael Straczynski, Ellison borrowed the prop and carried it around for a short while to make people think they had missed it when it came out.
When Walker Smith is saying goodbye to Rabbi Koslov, a sign is visible behind Smith's head which reads, "Airlocks are no joke!"
When Walker Smith is recounting his boxing history, he tells Garibaldi that he fought at Lagrange Station. A Lagrange (named for Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange) is a point in space where an object can remain in a fixed position, rather than having to orbit a larger body. A space station at a Lagrange point would therefore be an extremely popular hub for space travelers, as the station would remain in the same place rather than orbiting a planet.

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