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Jeffrey Sinclair
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"Nothing's the same anymore"
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"Hello, old friend. It's been a while."
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"Goodbye, old friend"
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"Enough people have played with my brain already this year"
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"Cancel that alert"
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"Are you out of your mind? Stop this at once."
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"What do you want?"
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"Why are you doing this?"
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"Who are you?"
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"I know who you are"
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"The computer malfunction might have been caused by operator error"
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"Computer"
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"Alright, that's all we need to know"
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"I gave you a direct order! You disobeyed it!"
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"Life's full of mysteries. Consider this one of them."
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"I'm commander Sinclair. Welcome to Babylon 5."
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Small accident
Sinclair:
“In about an hour we’ll have a small accident in data storage
that will erase the file you just saw”
John Sheridan
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"Thanks, Mr. Wizard"
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"We're in the process of building the future"
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"O great, then I'm just plain nuts"
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"That's a very interesting date"
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"No send"
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"Standby"
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"Transmit"
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"Feel like I need a shower"
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"What?"
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"I can no longer imagine my world… without you in it"
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"Oh my God, it's almost enough to make you believe in miracles, isn't it?"
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"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't blow you out of the sky"
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"We have a problem"
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"What year is this?"
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"Well it's about time you started pulling your own weight around here"
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"Well, as my great-grandfather used to say, 'Cool'"
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"Try not to drool on the controls"
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"You don't fight fair"
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"You will, of course, keep this confidential"
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"Who are you?"
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"Take us into the fire"
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"Win or loose… we'll go down fighting"
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"I'm shocked. Shocked and dismayed."
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"We've achieved the mission objective"
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"You've just made my whole day"
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"It is not a victory"
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"We've received the information we've been waiting for"
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"I apologize"
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"Sorry"
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Sorry we had to defend ourselves
Sheridan:
“I apologize.
Sorry.
I’m sorry we had to defend ourselves against an unwarranted attack.
I’m sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire on a station full of
a quarter million civilians including your own people…
and I’m sorry I waited so long before I blew them all straight to hell.”
Susan Ivanova
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"You're having far too much fun at my expense."
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"I'm doomed."
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"You're beginning to talk just like a Vorlon"
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"So you feel like you're being symbolically cast… in a bad light"
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"I let myself in"
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"You should change your lock code more often"
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"I'm so sorry"
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"May I borrow your PPG to shoot myself squarely in the head?"
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"That was grade-A stupid"
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"My usual timing. Sorry."
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"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?"
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"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
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"Activate forward defense grid"
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"Computer"
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"There's always too many of them… and not enough of us"
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"OK, this is it! Standby."
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"We have to move on"
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"Excuse me… hello?"
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"I have to do what's right"
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"We can no longer tolerate this kind of behavior"
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"Request denied. Have a nice day."
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"Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here"
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"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow."
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"Boom. Sooner or later… BOOM"
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"Nobody told me this would involve sex with an alien."
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Sex with an alien
Ivanova:
“Boom shuba-lubaluba, Boom shuba-lubaluba. Hey there, hey there, three bags full.
You come here often? Yes, I do.
Dinner shuba-lubaluba, Drinks shuba-lubaluba, Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss Kiss.
How do you like it so far?”
Alien:
“Well, I, Uh”
Ivanova:
“I slept with you the other night.
You didn’t call, you didn’t write.
I think you did it just for spite.
Yes! Oh yes! Oh yes! Oh yes! Tell me about your portfolio. Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes!
Lie to me about your family.
Oh, Yes. Oh yes! Oh yes! Yes, Yes, Yes, Yeeeeeessss!
God, you’re good!”
Alien:
“What do I do now?”
Ivanova:
“Old style? You roll over and go to bed.
New style? You go out for pizza and I never see you again.”
Alien:
“Perhaps… I’ll call you.”
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Anything you need?
Ivanova:
“Anything else you need?”
Sheridan:
“A glass of whiskey, a gun, and two bullets.”
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If I live through this job
Ivanova:
“If I live through this job without completely loosing my mind,
it will be a miracle of Biblical proportions.”
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Who wants to live forever?
Ivanova:
“Well… who wants to live forever.”
Marcus:
“I do, actually.”
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This isn't good
Ivanova:
“This isn’t good.”
Marcus:
“Definitely.”
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I am Susan Ivonova
Ivanova:
“I am Susan Ivonova, Commander. Daughter of Andre and Sophie Ivanov.
I am the right hand of vengence,
and the boot that’s going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart!
I am death incarnate,
and the last living thing that you are ever going to see.
God sent me.”
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Babylon 5 Mantra
Ivanova:
“I’d like you to take the time to learn the Babylon 5 mantra:
Ivanova is always right.
I will listen to Ivanova.
I will not ignore Ivanova’s recommendations.
Ivanova is God.
And if this ever happens again,
Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out!
Babylon control out! <bleep>
(Just kidding about that God part. No offense.)”
Michael Garibaldi
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"Maybe next time you'll listen to me when I tell you not to do something"
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"May I be the first to say that this is the nuttiest idea you've ever had"
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"Is anybody else as creeped-out about this as I am?"
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"Oh, well hell, I could have done that for you. All you had to do was ask."
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"Just don't ever do this to me again"
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"Swell. I love it."
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"OK"
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"This is definitely the place for one hell of a party!"
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"OK… I've accessed the command codes"
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"There. I've finished inputting the command codes."
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"Computer"
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"Computer. Security override."
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"Now we just reset the computer system…"
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Restart
Garabaldi:
“Computer. Initiate complete shutdown. Restart in 10 seconds.”
Computer:
“Confirmed”
Dr. Stephen Franklin
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"Yeah, I got your 'strange notions' right here."
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"No no no no, I don't want to hear it. Now you get on that web."
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"Get on that web."
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"You're nuts. You know that?"
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"You know, you'd think I'd learn one of these days that I can't fix everything, but it never happens."
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"What I needed was to do better"
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"And after a while, you know, that really starts to annoy me!"
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"Your system was traumatized, you can't blame yourself"
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"Why can't we ever go anyplace nice?"
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"Faster… Got to go faster!"
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More coffee?
Franklin:
“More coffee? It’ll make you feel better.”
Sheridan:
“Love to!”
Londo Mollari
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"Kill me?"
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"I Think I'll stick my head in the station's fusion reactor"
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"Love…PAH! Overrated!"
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"Oh, I love doing that to him."
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"It is good to have friends, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi?"
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"Mr. Garibaldi."
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"Vir" 1
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"Vir Cotto, my attaché"
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"What do you want, you moon-faced assasin of joy?"
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"Do you want to leave? Is that it? I can arrange it."
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"I will have to kill you. What are friends for?"
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"You have what the Earthers call a 'negative personality.'"
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"I want to sleep."
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"Get me a drink."
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"Keep your threats to yourself"
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"This is absurd!"
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"Madness. Total and complete madness!"
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"You realize, of course, that you are quite mad for even considering this, hmmm?"
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"Ahhhh, for a moment I was thinking women, drinking, and debauchery"
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"Your timing, as always, is quite exceptional"
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"I feel happy"
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"Conspiracies require more than one person"
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"No, I do not like the sound of this at all"
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"I want you here as fast as possible"
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"Start packing"
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"We have much to do"
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"You did as I asked? Excellent."
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"My place is at your side"
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"Why are you still here? Go, Go!"
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"I have to go and check on some arrangements"
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"Aaah, I see they dragged you out of bed too, hmmm?"
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"I owe you a favor"
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"You will simply have to wait your turn"
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"For a moment there I thought I was dead"
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"All's well that ends well, huh?"
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"Whatever it is… it can't be that bad"
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"What a wonderful idea"
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"I need to find a real job"
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"You will be tortured for a very long time"
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You will be tortured…
Londo:
“You will be tortured for a very long time.
I have seen them prolong suffering.”
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Cold
Londo:
“When I said my quarters were cold, I did not mean:
‘Ooh, I think it’s a little chilly in here.
Perhaps I’ll throw a blanket on the bed.’
No, I said it was cold! As in:
‘oh, look, my left arm has snapped off like an icicle
and shattered on the floor!’”
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Figure it out
Londo:
“I’m afraid that if I try to go back and figure it out,
I will start bleeding from my ears”
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Hideous truth
Londo:
“But still, the hideous truth is…
you are the closest thing I have to a friend.
I’m as shocked and dismayed at this at this as you are,
but there it is.”
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Terrible truth
Londo:
“There’s a terrible truth, that as one accumulates power one looses friends.
One only has those who wish to use you and those you wish to use.
And yet, in all of this, you have somehow managed to walk through
the corridors of power and not be touched.
I can only assume you have not been paying attention!”
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Something wrong?
Vir:
“Is something wrong?”
Londo:
“Something? No.
Everything? Yes.”
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Go away
Londo:
“We have danced our last little dance.
Now it is time for you… to go away.”
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Nibbled to death
Londo:
“This is like being nibbled to death by uh…
what are those Earth creatures called?
Feathers, long bill, webbed feet, go ‘quack’”
Vir:
“Cats.”
Londo:
“Cats… like being nibbled to death by cats.”
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Late
G’Kar:
“You’re late!”
Londo:
“No, no, no, no, no… you’re early”
G'Kar
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"My warning is sincere. Ignore it at your own peril."
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"The future isn't what it used to be"
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"Whenever these bizarre and odd things occur it gives me pain--right here."
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"Enough! This ends now!"
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"Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957… and they must walk there… alone."
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"Mr. Garabaldi"
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"Goodnight"
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"Eventually, I will figure it out"
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"I'll just continue making inquiries on my own"
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"I'll let you know what I find"
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"It is an imperfect universe"
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"I find this most appealing (ha ha ha)"
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"I would much rather see you dead"
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"What must happen, will happen"
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"We stand at a moment of transition"
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"Do not thump the book of G'Kwan. It is disrespectful."
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"I'm delirious with joy!"
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"Why does the universe hate me?"
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Worried every moment
G’Kar:
“If you’re going to be worried every time the universe doesn’t make sense
you’re going to be worried every moment of every day for the rest of your natural life.”
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Two important questions
G’Kar:
“No one as yet has answered two very important questions:
Where is Mr. Garabaldi, and
What happened to Captain Sheridan at Z’ha’dum.”
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The future is all around us
G’Kar:
“The future is all around us--
waiting, in moments of transition,
to be born, in moments of revelation.
No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us.
We know only that it is always born… in pain.”
Delenn
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"What I have… is at your disposal"
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"Summoned, I take the place that's been prepared for me."
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"The greatest nightmare of our time is waiting for you."
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"Something has gone your way today."
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"If I fall, another will take my place"
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"What kind of monster would do such a thing?"
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"If you value your lives, be somewhere else"
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"You have lost much, endured much, sacrificed greatly"
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"I did not expect this"
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"This was not part of the plan"
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"Want to? No. Have to? Yes."
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"No wonder you are cranky"
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"History awaits"
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"Let us get this over with"
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"If someone doesn't begin making sense here, I'm going to become most annoyed"
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Why do your people ask
Delenn:
“Why do your people always ask if someone is ready
right before you’re going to do something massively unwise?”
Sinclair:
“Tradition.”
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What are you afraid of?
Delenn:
“What are you afraid of?”
Marcus:
“Nothing. Well, spiders.”
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I Am Grey
Delenn:
“I am grey. I stand between the candle and the star.
We are grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.”
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All life is transitory
Delenn:
“All life is transitory; a dream.
We all come together in the same place at the end of time.”
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I will see you in a little while
Delenn:
“If I don’t see you again here,
I will see you in a little while
in the place where no shadows fall.”
Vir Cotto
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"For a moment, I thought I'd entered an alternate universe"
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"I'm here to pick up some women"
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"I know you don't listen to me, but I'm asking you just this one time--don't DO this!"
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"Don't DO this!"
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"Don't do that again"
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"Why do you ask me questions when you already know the answers?"
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"Same time tomorrow?"
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"Are you deliberately trying to drive me insane?"
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"Well… that could have gone better"
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"I'm gonna remember that. Thank you! Thank you!"
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Head on a pike
“I’d like to live just long enough to be there
when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike
as a warning to the next ten generations,
that some favors come with too high a price.
I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave, like this…”
Lennier
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"Where you walk, I will walk. I've sworn myself to your side."
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"I will do penance… later"
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"Nothing ever prepared me for… this sort of experience!"
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"Initiating 'Getting the hell out of here' maneuver"
Kosh Naranek
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"If you go to Z'ha'dum, you will die."
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"Yes"
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"No"
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"Perhaps"
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"Good"
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"Why?"
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"Incorrect" (zap)
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"We are not prepared yet"
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"It is not our time"
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"It is yours"
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"You do not understand. But you will."
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"I will do as you ask"
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"Leave! Now!"
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"Understanding is a three-edged sword"
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"Listen to the music, not the song"
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"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."
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"We are all Kosh"
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"Do not interfere"
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"A human?"
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"Intolerable!"
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"Show me!"
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"Your work for now is done here. Go. Sleep."
Lyta Alexander
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"I have the password"
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"I said I'd be back."
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"If you're going to do something, do it now"
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"May I speak with you?"
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"I Can't do that"
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"I can't do this"
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"Are you out of your mind?"
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"I'd sooner put a bullet in my brain"
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"Why?!"
Marcus Cole
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"Hello"
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"I can see you're busy, so I'll let you go"
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"If you go, I'll miss you… and I hate that feeling"
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"Mr. Garabaldi"
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"You stupid machine!"
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"I missed it--overslept"
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"Oh, that's right, I was ill. Wanted to go… couldn't."
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"Love to--can't really. Next time."
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"You're right"
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"I was just resting my eyes"
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"Engines online!"
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"Is that a good idea?"
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"We got them"
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"Rangers never bluff"
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Did we win?
Marcus:
“Did we just win?”
Ivonova:
“Don’t jinx it.”
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Delusions
Ivonova:
“You’re having delusions of grandeur again.”
Marcus:
“Well, if you’re going to have delusions,
you may as well go for the really satisfying ones.”
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What can happen
Marcus:
“You know what can happen in a few seconds--
Boom, Crash, Burn.”
Zack Allen
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"Well, it's not a job. It's more like an adventure."
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"You ever have one of those days?"
Bester
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"You won't do that"
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"There's dangers all around us"
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"I'm here to save your butts! Next time, show a little gratitude."
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"Thank you! That makes me feel… much better."
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"He has a better sense of humor than I thought"
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"Your war… is now my war"
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"I received your signal"
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"I do have a life that doesn't involve 'Babylon 5'"
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"I've had a nice day"
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Desperate for money
Bester:
“I imagine you must be getting desperate for money by now,
or you wouldn’t be doing this”
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That’s a lie
Bester:
“That’s a lie”
Sinclair:
“Yes it is. What’s your point?”
Draal
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"Exciting! Isn't it?"
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"It gives me 'the screaming willies'"
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"A normal human mind shouldn't have been able to do that"
Zathras
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"Zathras knew you would come"
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"Cannot say. Saying, I would know. Do not know, so cannot say."
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"You never heard that"
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"Zathras cannot have anything nice"
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"Go! Please! Go for Zathrus!"
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"NO nooooo, no-no-no, no-no"
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Beast of burden
Zathras:
“Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people’s needs.
Very sad life. Will probably have very sad death.
But at least there’s symmetry”
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Running out of time
Ivonava:
“We’re running out of time!”
Zathras:
“Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time.
You are finite. Zathras is finite. This… is wrong tool.” (thunk)
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Psi Cop: "You're not helping the situation"
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Narn: "Now we send a message of our own"
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Lt. Corwin (C&C): "We've got an energy spike!"
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Arthur: "You shall be known as sir G'Kar"
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Centari: "Do you think it will take you very long to love me?"
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Security: "This is the post office. This could get us into real trouble"
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Anna: "Don't you want to know what it's all about?"
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Anna: "I can do that"
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Justin: "The only thing that's standing in our way now is you"
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Emperor Cartagia: "I find these thoughts of yours… most disturbing"
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Lorien: "I did the best I could"
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Minbari: "And what message do you bring for us today?"
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Interrogator: "The level of discomfort you experience will be entirely up to you."
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Na'Toth: "I will not be denied this!"
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Naroon: "You talk like a Minbari."
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You don’t know the rules
Interrogator:
“It’s certainly strange, you don’t seem to know the rules.
Perhaps I should explain them in case you’ve forgotten.”
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Pulled our shorts
Earth Force commander:
“In case you didn’t notice, the enemy just pulled our shorts over our heads
and tied them in a knot.”
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I don't watch TV
Guard:
“I don’t watch TV.
It’s a cultural waste-land filled with inappropriate metaphors
in an unrealistic portrayal of life
created by the liberal media elite.”
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The big picture
Emperor Cartagia:
“‘The big picture!’ They don’t see the big picture.
But you and I see the big picture.”
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You can’t do this
Morden:
“You can’t do this”
Sheridan:
“Watch me”
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"Orders?"
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"Command"
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"Acknowleged"
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"Commencing"
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"Standby"
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"Online"
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"Confirmed"
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"Please input proper code and password"
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"Unable to comply. Password required for access."
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"Negative on password. Unable to deliver."
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"Password confirmed. Standby."
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"Authorizations confirmed"
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"Authorization needed to deliver time-delayed message. Do you accept?"
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"Commencing Interweb link"
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"Thermal Fusion System armed for detonation"
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"Transfer will take 1.4 hours"
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"End of recording"
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"Anomaly discovered"
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"Gold channel opened"
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Season 1 introduction
Sinclair:
“It was the dawn of the third age of mankind,
ten years after the Earth-Minbari war.
The Babylon Project was a dream given form.
Its goal: To prevent another war by creating a place
where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully.
It’s a port of call. Home-away-from-home
for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers.
Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, 500 thousand tons of metal…
all alone in the night.
It can be a dangerous place, but it’s our last, best hope for peace.
This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations.
The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5.”
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Season 2 introduction
Sheridan:
“The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.
A self-contained world 5 miles long, located in neutral territory.
A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a million humans and aliens.
A shining beacon in space--all alone in the night.
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind,
the year the great war came upon us all.
This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations.
The year is 2259. The name of the place is Babylon 5.”
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Season 3 introduction
Ivonava:
“The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.
It failed.
But in the year of the shadow war, it became something greater:
Our last, best hope… for victory.
The year is 2260. The place: Babylon 5.”
-
Season 3 ending music
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Season 4 introduction
Lennier:
“It was the year of fire…”
Zack:
“the year of destruction…”
G’Kar:
“the year we took back what was ours.”
Lyta:
“It was the year of rebirth…”
Vir:
“the year of great sadness…”
Marcus:
“the year of pain…”
Delenn:
“and the year of joy.”
Londo:
“It was a new age.”
Dr. Franklin:
“It was the end of history.”
Ivanova:
“It was the year everything changed.”
Garabaldi:
“The year is 2261.”
Sheridan:
“The place: Babylon 5”
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Season 4 end speech
Delenn:
“It was the end of the Earth year 2261.
and it was the dawn of a new age for all of us.
It was the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.
The next 20 years would see great changes.
Great joy and great sorrow.
The telepath war, and the Drahk war.
The new alliance would waver and crack,
but in the end it would hold.
Because what is built, endures.
And what is loved, endures.
And Babylon 5…
Babylon 5… endures.”
-
Season 5 introduction
2258
“And so it begins…”
“There is a hole in your mind”
“What do you want?”
“No one here is exactly what he appears”
“Nothing’s the same anymore”
“Commander Sinclair is being reassigned”
“Why don’t you eliminate the entire Narn Homeworld while you’re at it.”
“I see a great hand, reaching out of the sky”
“Who are you?”
“President Clark has signed a decree today declaring martial law.”
“These orders have forced us to declare independence.”
“…your people get off their encounter-suited butts and do something!”
“You are the one who was.”
“If you go to Z’ha’dum, you will die.”
“Why are you here. Do you have anything worth living for.”
“I think of my beautiful city in flames…”
“Giants in the playground.”
“Now get the hell out of our galaxy!”
“We are here to place President Clark under arrest.”
2259
2260
2261
2262
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Some character graphics were borrowed from “The lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5” web site. Also visit the TNT Babylon 5 web site.
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