Babylon 5: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars

"Rest easy, friends. Rest easy."

- Michael Garibaldi

"The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" is the twenty-second episode of season four of the American science fiction television series Babylon 5 and the eighty-eighth episode of the series overall. It was directed by Stephen Furst and written by series creator J. Michael Straczynski. It first aired on the TNT network on October 27th, 1997.

Notes & Trivia

 * This episode is included on the Babylon 5: The Complete Universe DVD boxset collection and disc six of the Babylon 5: The Complete Fourth Season DVD collections by Warner Home Video.


 * This episode is production code number: 422/501.


 * This episode is the season four finale of Babylon 5. It is also the final episode of the series broadcast on TNT. Season five begins airing in January, 1998 in syndication.


 * This is the second episode of Babylon 5 directed by actor Stephen Furst (who does not appear as Vir Cotto in this episode). He previously directed the season four episode, "The Illusion of Truth". His next episode is season five's, "The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father".


 * Actor Kenneth Taylor is credited as Ken Taylor in this episode.

Quotes

 * Michael Garibaldi: And I happen to have a knack for breaking system codes. So while you were downloading your new world order into me, I was watching your system work. I know where it comes in and I know where it goes out, and I just sent out our entire conversation - Broadcast the whole damn thing.

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 * John Sheridan: And I was wondering if they will remember us hundred years from now, or a thousand. Then I figured: probably not.
 * Delenn: But it doesn't matter. We did what we did because it was right, not to be remembered. History will attend to itself, it always does.

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 * Michael Garibaldi: Holograms do not lie, Danny-boy.

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 * Michael Garibaldi: You see, the thing is, me and Sheridan were close, but I was the one who did most of the strategic planning during the war. Now, a resource like that you may not want to wipe it out just yet. I could help you.

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 * Delenn: You do not wish to know .. anything. You wish only to speak. That which you know, you ignore, because it is inconvenient. That which you do not know, you invent. But none of that matters, except that he was a good man, a kind man, who cared about the world, even when the world cared nothing for him.