Babylon 5: In the Beginning

476 00:33:07,352 --> 00:33:09,684 - Jump engines not responding. - What? 477 00:33:09,787 --> 00:33:12,813 Alien scanner arrays interfering with our electrical systems. 478 00:33:12,890 --> 00:33:14,482 Tremendous EMP output. 479 00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:15,992 Trying to reroute. 480 00:33:16,194 --> 00:33:18,321 They drew us in deliberately. 481 00:33:18,396 --> 00:33:21,388 Wanted us in range of their scanners, so they could shut us down. 482 00:33:21,466 --> 00:33:25,266 You said you wanted to get as much information on their ships as possible. 483 00:33:25,336 --> 00:33:29,102 What if they want to capture our ships for the exact same reason? 484 00:33:29,173 --> 00:33:32,267 Then we want to make sure that does not happen, Commander. 485 00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:33,935 Go to red alert. 486 00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:37,539 Try to open up a channel. Tell them we mean no harm. 487 00:33:41,352 --> 00:33:42,376 What is it? 488 00:33:42,453 --> 00:33:45,422 We detected these alien ships approaching our space. 489 00:33:45,490 --> 00:33:47,890 I've never seen those markings before. Who are they? 490 00:33:47,959 --> 00:33:49,324 I believe they are the Humans. 491 00:33:49,394 --> 00:33:52,659 They've tried to contact us, but we do not understand their language. 492 00:33:52,730 --> 00:33:55,255 As is our custom, we're approaching with gun ports open. 493 00:33:55,333 --> 00:33:56,391 By whose order? 494 00:33:57,168 --> 00:33:59,796 Sir! Alien ships have opened gun ports. 495 00:33:59,871 --> 00:34:02,396 - Are they prepared to fire? - I don't know. I can't tell. 496 00:34:02,473 --> 00:34:04,031 Talk to me. Are they locked on us? 497 00:34:04,108 --> 00:34:06,099 Scanners are too powerful. 498 00:34:06,177 --> 00:34:08,304 I couldn't tell even if they were. 499 00:34:09,013 --> 00:34:11,379 They have opened all gun ports. 500 00:34:12,116 --> 00:34:14,846 Master, that is the tradition of the Warrior Caste... 501 00:34:14,919 --> 00:34:16,819 a gesture of strength and respect. 502 00:34:16,888 --> 00:34:19,550 They see our weapons, and we approach them open-handed. 503 00:34:20,024 --> 00:34:23,824 Enemy presumed to be hostile. Weapons hot! 504 00:34:25,196 --> 00:34:27,528 All batteries, all forward guns... 505 00:34:27,598 --> 00:34:29,589 fire at will. I repeat. Fire! 506 00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:31,292 Fire! 507 00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:50,721 Somebody, help me! Help me! 508 00:35:01,199 --> 00:35:03,997 We have hit their scanner arrays! We can jump now. 509 00:35:04,068 --> 00:35:06,002 All right, get us the hell out of here! 510 00:35:14,178 --> 00:35:17,545 Delenn, we need to strike back, but the Council is divided. 511 00:35:17,715 --> 00:35:20,240 Do we follow them back to their base and take revenge... 512 00:35:20,318 --> 00:35:22,878 or do we wait, try to find out what happened? 513 00:35:23,521 --> 00:35:25,887 Yours is the deciding vote, Delenn. 514 00:35:25,957 --> 00:35:27,891 He was the best of us. 515 00:35:28,759 --> 00:35:32,126 They struck without provocation. There was no reason. 516 00:35:32,597 --> 00:35:35,464 Animals! Brutal! 517 00:35:36,934 --> 00:35:40,267 They deserve no mercy! Strike them down! 518 00:35:40,338 --> 00:35:43,068 Follow them to their base and kill them! 519 00:35:43,141 --> 00:35:46,042 All of them! All of them! 520 00:35:47,211 --> 00:35:48,906 No mercy! 521 00:35:51,315 --> 00:35:55,411 With the death of their leader, Dukhat, the Minbari went mad. 522 00:35:55,486 --> 00:35:58,455 They swore revenge and began a holy war... 523 00:35:58,523 --> 00:36:02,857 that could only end in the complete extermination of mankind. 524 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,407 The incident you have just seen has been repeated at half a dozen bases... 525 00:36:26,484 --> 00:36:28,213 in just the last few days. 526 00:36:28,419 --> 00:36:31,547 Where the Minbari strike, nothing is left alive. 527 00:36:32,490 --> 00:36:36,620 Even ships no longer capable of fighting are targeted and destroyed. 528 00:36:36,861 --> 00:36:39,489 So, surrender on any scale is not an option. 529 00:36:39,564 --> 00:36:41,964 Every attempt we've made to communicate with them... 530 00:36:42,033 --> 00:36:43,625 has been rebuffed. 531 00:36:43,701 --> 00:36:46,829 They are moving methodically through the outer colonies... 532 00:36:46,904 --> 00:36:50,305 wiping out our defense structures and leaving the colonies vulnerable. 533 00:36:50,374 --> 00:36:52,968 Civilian structures are being left alone for now. 534 00:36:53,044 --> 00:36:55,911 Now we know the Minbari use a caste system... 535 00:36:56,147 --> 00:36:58,240 including a warrior caste. 536 00:36:58,316 --> 00:37:02,218 And we think they're fighting in a way consistent with that structure... 537 00:37:02,286 --> 00:37:05,778 taking out our warriors f...