Falling Toward Apotheosis
From The Great Machine
- Episode Title: Falling Toward Apotheosis
- Episode Number: S4E04
- Original Air Date: November 25, 1996
- DVD Release Date: January 6, 2004
- Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
- Director: David Eagle
- Guest Stars: Ed Wasser, Wortham Krimmer, Wayne Alexander
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Sheridan seeks to rid Babylon 5 of the Vorlon Ambassador, while Londo plots against the Emperor.
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Worlds continue to fall to the Vorlon fleet, while on the station, Garibaldi grows increasingly frustrated. Sheridan's return has generated an almost messianic fervor, yet Garibaldi's return has been met with concern and barely-veiled suspicion.
On Centauri Prime, Morden approaches Londo and asks for a Centauri fleet to protect the Shadow presence on the homeworld. Londo disapproves, and Emperor Cartagia agrees -- on the incredible premise that Centauri Prime will serve as his inaugural pyre when the Shadows elevate him from the throne to godhood.
Sheridan decides that measures must be taken to secure Babylon 5 from Vorlon attack - so their ambassador must leave the station, by force if necessary. The Vorlon repels a relatively courteous call from Garibaldi and his troops, attempting to remove it from its quarters.
Londo contacts Sheridan, hoping that the captain has formulated some plan to repel the Vorlon fleet from Centauri Prime, but Sheridan can offer no guarantees.
At Sheridan's request, Lyta lures the Vorlon into open ground, where a combination of electrocution and massive fire-power destroys its encounter suit and sets it loose inside the station. Sheridan, who has been carrying a piece of the original Kosh inside him since its death, frees it to help expel the Vorlon ambassador, and after shooting through the station into space, both Vorlons perish in the struggle.
Londo convinces Cartagia to visit Narn, and to conduct G'Kar's trial and execution there.
And finally, after the battle with the Vorlon ambassador has ended, Lorien and Sheridan reveal to Delenn the terrible price of his trip to Z'ha'dum. (Attrib: B5 LogBook [1])
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- The Vorlons step up their battle against the Shadows.
- Londo uncovers a new wrinkle in his plan to unseat Emperor Cartagia.
- Sheridan asks Garibaldi to remove the new Kosh from the station.
- Delenn gets a surprise from Sheridan.
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- Trivia: Snicks, Shadow Cabinet, The Eye that does not see
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