Title Sequences

"It was the Dawn of the Third Age of Mankind, ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal .. all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5."
- Commander Jeffrey Sinclair: Season One Opening Monologue.

"The Babylon project was our last best hope for peace. A self-contained world five miles long, located in neutral territory. A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens. A shining beacon in space, all alone in the night. It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, the year the great war came upon us all. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2259, the name of the place is Babylon 5."
- Captain John Sheridan: Season Two Opening Monologue.

"It was the end of the year 2259 and the war was upon us. As anticipated, a few days after the Earth-Centauri treaty was announced, the Centauri widened their war to include many of the Non-Aligned Worlds. And there was another war brewing closer to home. A personal one, whose cost would be higher than any of us could imagine. We came to this place, because Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace. By the end of 2259, we knew that it had failed. But in so doing it became something greater. As the war expanded, it became our last, best hope for victory, because sometimes peace is another word for surrender, and because secrets have a way of getting out."
- Commander Susan Ivanova: Season Two Closing Monologue, "The Fall of Night".

"The Babylon project was our last, best hope for peace. ... It failed. ... But in the year of the Shadow war it became something greater: our last, best hope ... for victory. The year is 2260, the place: Babylon 5."
- Commander Susan Ivanova: Season Three Opening Monologue.

"It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. ... All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath, waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition or moments ... of revelation. This had the feeling of both." "G'Quan wrote: 'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."
- G'Kar: Season Three Closing Monologue, "Z'ha'Dum".

Lennier, "It was the year of fire..."
Zack, "the year of destruction..."
G'kar, "the year we took back what was ours."
Lyta, "It was the year of rebirth..."
Vir, "the year of great sadness..."
Marcus, "the year of pain..."
Delenn, "and the year of joy."
Londo, "It was a new age."
Franklin, "It was the end of history."
Ivanova, "It was the year everything changed."
Garibaldi, "The year is 2261. The place:"
Sheridan, "Babylon 5."
- The Main Cast: Season Four Opening Theme.

"It was the end of the Earth year 2261 and it was the dawn of a new age for all of us. It was the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. The next 20 years would see great changes, great joy and great sorrow. The telepath war. The Drakh war. The New Alliance would waver and crack, but in the end it will hold, because what is built endures, and what is loved endures. And Babylon 5, ... Babylon 5 endures."
- Delenn: Season 4 Epilogue, "Rising Star".

Kosh, "And so it begins ..." "Chrysalis"
Minbari Assassin, "There is a hole in your mind." "Pilot"
Sinclair, "What do you want ?" "And the Sky full of Stars"
G'Kar, "No one here is exactly what he appears." "Mind War"
Sinclair, Nothing's the same anymore. "Chrysalis"
General Hague, "Commander Sinclair ... is being reasigned." "Points of Departure"
Londo, "Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn home world?" "Revelations"
Elric, "I see a great hand reaching out of the stars." "Geometry of Shadows"
Sebastian, "Who are you?" "Comes the Inquisitor"
ISN Reporter, "President Clark has signed a decree today declaring martial law." "Messages from Earth"
Sheridan "These orders have forced us to declare independence." "Severed Dreams"
Bester, "Weapons supplies" "Ship of Tears"
Sheridan, "The sooner your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something." "Ship of Tears"
Zathras, "You are the one who was." "War without End II"
Kosh, "If you go to Z'ha'Dum you will die." "In the Shadow of Z'ha'Dum"
Lorien, "Why are you here?" "The Hour of the Wolf"
Lorien, "Do you have anything worth living for?" "The Hour of the Wolf"
Delenn, "I think of my beautiful city in flames." "Rumors, Bargains and Lies"
Sheridan, "Giants in the playground." "The Long Night"
Sheridan, "Now get the hell out of our galaxy!" "Into the Fire"
Sheridan, "We are here to place President Clark under arrest. "Endgame"
- Season Five Opening Theme.

"The Interstellar Alliance, based on the homeworld of the Minbari Federation was founded in the Earth year 2261, shortly after the end of the Shadow war, 20 years ago. Twenty years of history."
- Garibaldi: Opening Monologue for "Sleeping in Light".

"Babylon 5 was last of the Babylon stations. They would never be another. It changed the future and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one other, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely of places. Mostly, though I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings, even for people like us. As for Delenn, every morning for as long she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up."
- General Susan Ivanova: "Sleeping in Light" Epilogue.