Have you met humans?
Joking aside, the aliens who take part say it's because humans go everywhere and stick their ways into everything. The attitude is a reaction to the sudden and rapid human expansionism into the galaxy at large.
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Joking aside, the aliens who take part say it's because humans go everywhere and stick their ways into everything. The attitude is a reaction to the sudden and rapid human expansionism into the galaxy at large.
Wait, I'm missing something. What did the Dilgar war have to do with their extinction from a later plague?
The Dilgar fought a war with the League of Non-aligned Worlds. The Earth Alliance joined the side of the League fighting against the Dilgar and forced the Dilgar back to their homeworld. After the war ended, the Dilgar Sun went Nova. Only a few of the Dilgar not in their home system survived.
Because the episode was illustrating that there was bigotry on the part of both humans and aliens.
You seem to confuse Dilgar and Markab.
Yes, but that would've worked better if the tournament was Dilgar specific.
Ooops, my bad.
Why would the people being whacked by the Dilgar bother with having or maintaining a Dilgar sport? Even if they did, why would they exclude the folks who saved them from the Dilgar? Besides, there's nothing to even suggest the Dilgar had anything to do with the Mutai.
It's much simpler to take the aliens in the episode at their word, they find the humans too pushy and eager to get themselves into everyone's deal.
The issue makes a good counterpoint to Delenn's belief that the human's strength is in getting disparate races to form communities of multiple species. Most aliens just don't do that but not everyone is going to be happy with grand galactic cosmopolitanism which is what resistance to human involvement is about here.
It's much simpler to take the aliens in the episode at their word, they find the humans too pushy and eager to get themselves into everyone's deal.
The issue makes a good counterpoint to Delenn's belief that the human's strength is in getting disparate races to form communities of multiple species. Most aliens just don't do that but not everyone is going to be happy with grand galactic cosmopolitanism which is what resistance to human involvement is about here.
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True. And it's a mirror to the growing number of xenophobic human groups that we see that season and throughout the Clark Regime.
IP infringement. "'Muay thai'? Who do you humans think you're fooling?"
I'm not following? What would the Dilgar, a pretty much extinct race by the time of B5 have to do with the Mutai?
Any idea if a Blu-Ray version of the HD remaster is coming?
Cart before the horse.
Clark was probably told to attack Alien interests by the Shadows.
He owed them.
To explain that away, Morgan had to grab the hearts and minds of all the Xenophobes and put them to work.
But we saw hate groups at least a couple times earlier in season 1, long before Santiago was assassinated. Like in "THE WAR PRAYER".
Except he didn't. Under his regime Earth turned isolationist. That was probably at the behest at Morden and his associates.
Also worth bearing in mind is that the way Morden operated, he didn't seek to "make" people do anything. (At least not at this stage of the game. Keepers come later.) Generally he sought out those who's goals aligned with theirs' in some way and simply applied a little leverage. Clarke wanted power and was backed by those within EF and a certain Psi Corps faction who also wanted power. Best way for them to do that is play on the conservative human centric attitudes and anti-alien fears that was all too easy to manipulate post-Minbari War.
That Shadow Hybrid fleet wasn't just for show.
Once Clark secured the homefront, he was coming for everyone.
Destroying Humanity, would make everyone else stronger.
That's the Shadows plan.
Start fights, create strength.
Sheridan just bought the Clarke's agenda to a close before it started.
And it wasn't exactly provided by the Shadows either. The operation on Ganymede didn't exactly look like a co-operative effort did it, and they didn't let them keep the one on Mars either, did they? Plus they were still screwing around with this stuff long after the Shadows took off for the outer rim. Each party was using the other for it's own ends, nothing more.
Are you really suggesting that Luis Santiago was also in the Shadows pocket?
It also says that Clarke was VP for 7 years.
Jesus.
No, no. it's possible... Morden asked Vir "What do you want?" too.
Well, that's how it was for first first two presidents of the United States. Clearly the Earth Alliance liked that idea.
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