Atonement
From The Great Machine
- Episode Title: Atonement
- Episode Number: S4E09
- Original Air Date: February 24, 1997
- DVD Release Date: January 6, 2004
- Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
- Director: Tony Dow
- Guest Stars: Brian Carpenter, Reiner Schone, Robin Atkin Downes
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Concerned over her relationship with Sheridan, the leaders of Delenn's clan call her back to Minbar.
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A Minbari ship arrives at B5, while Zack needles Minbari tailors about adjusting Garibaldi's uniform for him (and receives a needling in kind).
Callenn, a new Minbari arrival, has come to take Delenn back to her home world to undergo The Dreaming, a ceremony which reveals a pivotal moment of a person's past, a glimpse at their soul. Delenn is reluctant to reveal to Sheridan that the results of The Dreaming may require her to stay on Minbar forever.
Sheridan sends Franklin and Marcus to Mars to establish contact with the Mars Resistance, in an effort to gain more support to return the Earth Alliance to order.
On Minbar, Delenn, with Lennier as her guide, enters The Dreaming, reliving her first meeting with the Grey Council and Dukhat, her induction into the Council after Dukhat's tutelage, and her mentor's death during the first contact between Minbari and humans.
But Delenn also remembers the horrible truth - that her anguished cry for vengeance upon Dukhat's death was the deciding vote that led her people into a war with the humans. With her clan looking for anything to discredit her, how can Delenn's reputation stand the blood of millions on her hands? (Attrib: B5 LogBook [1])
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- Delenn is called upon to explain to her why she should be allowed to marry John Sheridan.
- Delenn is called a Child of Valen by Dukhat.
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Trivia: This one has a different sound track for the ending credits.
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