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ANNOUCEMENT #1
Babylon5Quotes.com
Shortly after the first volume of B5 scripts appeared, a number of posts appeared on the moderated Babylon 5 newsgroup inquiring about the possibility of producing Cool Stuff featuring quotations from Babylon 5, especially with Christmas lurking just around the corner with a bag of candy and a sock filled with quarters suitable for whacking the heck out of unwary consumers. (Yes, we all have our own ideas about Yuletide traditions, but isn't that what the season is all about?)
In response to those inquiries, the Babylon 5 Scripts team sat down with jms to come up with the most popular quotations from Babylon 5. When we learned that there was an entire book awaiting publication filled with such quotes, we took the aforementioned sock full of quarters and whacked the bejeezus out of him until he agreed to narrow down the field to 10 quotes.
We were able to get it down to thirteen. What can we say, the man just over-writes everything.
With that, the Babylon 5 Scripts team -- now masquerading as the Babylon 5 Quotes team, complete with trenchcoat and false mustache -- set to work like elves in Santa's workshop, laboring day and night, until finally, bleary-eyed but happy, they looked up at their finished work.
And lo, it was cool.
Really Nifty Stuff featuring Babylon 5 quotes are now available via www.babylon5quotes.com
We're talking here steins and mugs with Ivanova's mantra...t-shirts and caps announcing that in purple you are stunning, and warning that when you become obsessed with the enemy, you become the enemy...greeting cards declaring that Faith Manages and reaffirming that hope is all we have...baseball caps that tell everyone within visual range that you are in the midst of fifteen things, all of them annoying, and are therefore paying off karma at a vastly accelerated rate...and reminding them that you can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word.
Those are just some of the items that are now available, in addition to one very important item, the quote most often referred to by viewers and used on a breathtaking number of websites for churches and wiccan groups, marriage vows, teachers and just general fans... the Declaration of Principles by Citizen G'Kar. We've made only a few items available with the Declaration of Principles (because to be honest we couldn't imagine putting it on an apron, and a bib was just philosophically wrong), because this one speech more than almost anything else encompasses everything that is central to the Babylon 5 storyline.
So while you're checking out volume 2, you may want to swing by the quotes section and have a look around. We think you'll be pleased.
ANNOUCEMENT #2
Volume 2 Now Available and at a Special Discount
• A brand new 57 page, 15,000 word introduction and commentary written exclusively for this volume! (That’s two thousand words longer than volume one.)
• 37 pages of memos describing for the first time the design of B5's guns, links, and the alien sector...the creation of new regular characters later omitted from the series (The Boss and The Mysterious Mr. Jones).
In a special feature, the memos also include story development notes and recently-rediscovered premises for such lost season one Babylon 5 episodes as The World Below, The Resurrectionist, The Commander’s Hour, In Their Image, Debt of Honor, Target Unknown and many, many more!
• 8 pages of B&W photos of cast and crew taken by Straczynski, drawn from his personal archives, seen here for the first time.
PLUS these scripts:
• And the Sky, Full of Stars
• Signs and Portents
• A Voice in the Wilderness (Part One)
• A Voice in the Wilderness (Part Two)
• Babylon Squared
• The Quality of Mercy
And the famous first-season finale...
• Chrysalis
In this extensive analysis, you will also --
DISCOVER what dumpster diving, living in a cult’s religious commune, and sixties coffeehouses had to do with the creation of both the Joe Straczynski Memorial Mandala and the Babylon 5 five-year arc, a bit of personal history jms has never shared before.
HEAR for yourself the consequences that followed when Claudia Christian was left strapped into a Starfury during an earthquake.
UNRAVEL the truth behind Londo’s hair once and for all...who is REALLY to blame for this, why, and where it all started to go completely out of control.
WITNESS the process that led to Morden’s famous “What do you want?” questions.
LEARN the secrets of production that kept Babylon on- course and on-budget for five years, and turned the B5 cast and crew into one of the tightest families in television.
FIND OUT what Warner Bros. said when it came time to reveal Londo Mollari’s...attributes...on camera, and even more horrifying, what happened when the prop department had to actually build the darned things.
UNDERSTAND how the Babylon 5 sets and costumes were designed, and what made them different from nearly every other TV series.
LAUGH with hysterical dementia as you discover what happened the night the network LOST the next episode of Babylon 5 and decided to put it together themselves.
SEE with your own eyes the Amazing Snackie Bowl Incident that saved the day while filming “And the Sky, Full of Stars”
SLOG THROUGH jms’s over-wrought and breathtakingly inaccurate observations on culture, history, Gandhi, warfare, sacrifice blahdee-blahdee-blah he’s SO into this stuff, but it helped shape the future history of Babylon 5 so we had no choice but to include it. We apologize profusely.
UNCOVER why and how the “fasten/zip” scene came to be written, and the horrors that followed thereafter.
PREPARE TO BE SHOCKED when you learn who Zathras was modeled after (you’ll never guess this one!)
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
Hidden plot details, revealed! Secrets of production, exposed! Untold stories of the cast, unearthed! Centauri hairlines, apologized for! High-priced writing advice, freely given! The June Lockhart Rainbow Break, explained! And what the HECK is “The Hokey Pokey” doing in Babylon 5?
Volume 2 is $39.99 But for exactly 7 days — from Saturday, November 26th through Friday December 2nd — we are putting it on sale at a very special price: $29.99 That’s 25% off. But you must order by the deadline.
Wow! How cool is that?! 
