The most BLATANT product placement in HISTORY, and yet they blended it into the lore to PERFECTION! I love it so much! LOL. In fact, I think seeing this episode was the first time I ever wanted a motorcycle.
@@pleappleappleap Yes right? He absolutely deserves better... and Delenn too (if thats now him and Delenn ending up together, him, Delenn and Sheridan being poly, or just him and Delenn actually talking things out...). And he totally is adorkable.
I always figured this would come up later in the series... "we need to get to the other side of the station FAST" garabaldi "I have just the thing............."
@@strenifstrecs2551 He didn't go to Mars until after they launched the campaign to liberate Earth. Thirdspace was shortly after Clark instituted the blockade. He had resigned by then though, so there really just wasn't anything for his character to be doing.
@FATEd Pondera oh dear god no. save us from PC'ed up reboots. there are plenty of other babylon 5 stories. tell those. show us the dilgar war and deathwalker.
@FATEd Pondera IDK seeing a Londo that isn't Peter Jurassik or a G'Kar that isn't Andreas Katsulas would be pretty bad imo Also kind of doesn't do the memory of the older actors well I'd have just remade Crusade but then have an older Boxleitner talk about how the Drakh Plague has effectively quarantined Earth Or the alternative is Sheridan gets captured by a Minbari/Technomage sect and stasis frozen to be of use in a different time (move forward to the time period where there's the future evil Earth Alliance)
I had a technical manual for this show, and there was an easter egg saying that he got a ticket for speeding, and that he went so fast inside b5 he slightly slowed down the rotation of the entire station
From a pure technical point of view no matter what speed he went he would affect how fast the rotation. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
@@DavidPruitt the station slowing would be the opposite reaction if he were to drive in the correct direction. The tires would be pushing against the station to move the bike forward thus also pushing the station as well in the opposite direction of travel. That said there is no way the bike would have the mass needed to even effect the station so it is a moot point.
Given the law of conservation of momentum, whatever rotational energy he extracted by driving fast would be given back when he hit the brakes. The net rotational difference would be zero.
They think things through so little for a technical manual? The accelerated mass of that bike is tiny. If that caused the rotation to slow a little, that would be a bad sign for the station's capabilities. But OK, maybe they were really stingy in the efficiency department there. - But still: Imagine the correctional thrusters of a space station vs. a motorcycle engine, even if beefed up.
"The last gasoline powered motorcycle was produced in 2035" . That line is probably not very far from the truth. I have already seen some quite stunning electric motorcycles recently.
I was thinking the same, a lot of country's are moving towards getting rid of petrol and diesel driven vehicles, this prediction may not be that far off the mark
I want to believe they restricted the corridor there. It would have been far too dangerous otherwise. ... Also the acceleration curve seemed very unrealistic. The animation team bungled that a bit there.
@@Dowlphin i think the acceleration curve makes sense if you remember they’re not going uphill. gravity is consistently “down” relative to the bike. so there’d be a climbing acceleration, wouldn’t there?
@@tonoornottono Dude, they were making an instant insane acceleration boost! They'd have either flipped backwards or the wheels would have squealed hard.
A none-too-subtle nod to the heavy influence of Japanese culture on the Minbari. Though their caste system is borrowed from Indian culture, much of their philosophy, dress, customs and martial spirit seem based on Feudal Japan.
I like how Lennier immediately figured out the printing order for a typical Japanese instruction booklet would be right-to-left; nice little detail on the acting.
It is an example of what we have lost in today's sci fi shows. Writing has gone so far downhill. When script writing is taught they should dissect some of these old shows for what made them great and teach those elements to a new generation of writers. One of those elements would be character development.
This is quite easily one of my favorite scenes from Babylon 5. Its’s scenes like these and many others that make B5 stand head and shoulders Ab the rest. JMS and his creative team were genius!
It's not surprising that Lennier could fix the bike. After all, he was always repairing the Class M-3 Model B9 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot.
This is how you build a world. There is absolutely no need for this episode to have this series of scenes but having it add so much weight to the characters and world building..B5 is always special
I love how these subplot stories were weaved into the timeframes and acutally added additional character depth and relationship revelation. Lanier didn't quite understand how assembling a relic that in now way could be used where it was in the time presented would be a pleasurable thing. But Garibaldi provided the example of the satisfaction that comes from taking desperate parts learning old things and accomplishing a seemingly impossible but useless task just for the sake of doing it. Lanier finally understood how he robbed this at the end but the "adjustment' was worth it. Often, the journey is the destination. There's a lot of subtle meaning in this little tidbit.
I'm sure there must be Minbari religious rites where the doing is more important than the accomplishment. I think he just misunderstood Garibaldi's wish to make progress on his project as wishing it was finished.
Lennir is the weeb of the Mimbari. He has as much respect and adoration for human culture as American anime fans have of Japanese culture. That's why he is one of my favorite characters in the early part of the series.
@@DinkLink Yeah I know it's weird replying to an old comment, but in case... (spoiler alert too) Lennier gets very jealous of Sheridan's relationship with Delenn and ultimately (Major Spoiler alert).......... Tries to kill Sheridan
He is great indeed, but then all the characters in BB5 are amazingly well written and fleshed out, not to mention well acted to. Unlike most the awful drama written today.
That was one of the things that really got under my skin in that new "Babylon 5: The Road Home" animated movie. At the beginning, Sheridan was inaugurating a new power source on the Minbari homeworld that had cleaner emissions - it was already established that the Minbari power sources were clean and efficient.
Same here. That felt like it was just checking off the climate change activism box. I bet even Human power sources in the B5 universe are relatively clean and efficient.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin I had a lot of mixed feelings about that movie, in general. I mean I'm glad they got the surviving cast members together to do the voices and everything, but I didn't like the redesign of the Shadow vessels, and the fact they didn't scream as they passed over. Also, they show the Shadows, themselves, boarding the station and the Shadows never directly attacked - they used their dark servants, such as the Drahk, for direct combat. They also totally retconned the final standoff - Garibaldi told Sinclair to get out and that he had rigged the fusion reactor; now Garibaldi and Sinclair were at the last stand, and Sheridan goes to rig the fusion reactor? And they made the computer have a sense of humor about it? Same with the scene on Z'ha'dum - the Shadows didn't come out and overtake the crew of the Icarus, they encountered them underground. I could keep going on, but there were just so many inconsistencies with the TV show, I was very disappointed with a lot of it.
@@mysticwolf75 Agreed on all counts. A couple of other things that bothered me was that one Starfury pilot destroying a Shadow fighter by grappling it and dragging it along the station. I'm willing to bet the engines of a Shadow vessel could easily overpower those of a Starfury, and that maneuver would also cause damage to the station. Also, when the Starfuries launched, they started their thrusters in the bay and used them to launch. The fact that they used the force from the station's rotation to launch without thrusters was one of the coolest things about the show, but they couldn't even get that right. Definitely didn't do anything to easy my concerns about a reboot.
They did his character wrong: first the way he "betrayed" Sheridan. Then how he ran away. As a member of the Religious Caste he probably knew all about atonement for wrongs. And it was all because they foreshadowed him not being around in 20 years in a season 4 episode.
I really missed "This" garabaldi in the later part of the series and lenier, this simple goofy garabaldi who isn't a spymaster or a master hacker or a weird future sleuth and lenier being a somewhat awkward and socially inept genius with a heart of gold
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin I would agree with you these are moment's to be treasured. I miss this series so much. However even though there's been talks about Babylon 5 returning. I kind of hope that the series is more saved in a library. Preserved by the fandom. Kept alive by books as well. If brought in this time I don't know if it would be as appreciated.
I also ride a bike and consider myself to have passable knowledge about them, but I have to admit that I only follow about half of what he lists off there. :)
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin Garibaldi didnt mention it. The Mimbari guy states later that he was "about to explore the mysteries of the fuel injection system". Either way, it was an awesome show. God, I miss the 90's!!
There was a fuel injection conversion kit available in the US & Canada, so it is possible. Obviously that wouldn't have been mentioned in Garibaldi's manual.
@@christopherbradley5575 Well he also claimed mint condition. Yet one minute later says he scrounged parts all over the place in a period of time. Of course if the English spoken in the show is future English and not our English, we might not understand it all, as meaning of words shift.
Honestly, lennir was always the "little brother" archetype. He is so naive and shy, but also very curious and friendly, also fun. His relationships with the rest of the cast were always fun and cute, this one especially, since B5 tackles cultural differences incredibly well, like the "get out of here!" Of garibaldi being taken seriously by a minbari, instesd of us humans understanding that its actually a way to say:"wow dude, thats awesome!". I swear to god if the reboot ruins the characters i will be first to pop some heads
Man, what a trip down memory lane. This is one of the best moments that stuck in my mind from Babylon 5. Wish I could travel back to that time. This will always be one of the best bro moments in tv history to me.
@@mhordijk0871 I would have bought these iconic and timeless sci-fi shows like B5 and STTNG if it wasn't such an extremely frustrating PITA to try and get them in the NTSC original here in Germany. (If they are available at all, they tend to be extremely expensive.) As a video conversion buff I just cannot tolerate the PAL speedup. Well, at least many STTNG episodes can be watched on tjwparso's channel now, including discussing it, but also the occasional thoughtless spoiler comment.
This was the episode that hooked me in! Sci-fi shows never had motorcycles, let alone one that was still on showroom floors. Unfortunately, this was all we ever saw of the big ZX-11. How many of you would have liked to have seen someone pushing it into one of the craft leaving B5 after JMS turned out the lights?
In my last re-watch, I was wondering why we never saw it displayed in his quarters just like there was almost always a bowl of oranges in Sheridan's quarters and/or office. The bike probably belonged to a member of the cast or crew making it difficult to have around for simple background shots.
Such a great scene. It compels me to finish restoring my black 2004 Kawasaki Concours which is the Ninja's more sedate brother built for touring. I don't think I want to wait till 2258.
Yeah. As amazing as the rest of the series is, this felt so cheap - as if to quickly get him out of the way because he treatens the oh so perfect canon relationship
this episode was really wonderful, because it was bringing back a kind of old school in the future time, same so like the episode with Garibaldi's revolver (with Robert Englund as a guest star)
Fun fact, the European Union has just announced a ban on all combusting engine in 2035. Babylon 5 was spot on! Makes me wonder what else they were right about..
As someone who assembled a BenofKent Proton Pack kit, I fully understand Garabaldi's reaction. Assembling it and knowing you have the knowledge on how to assemble it are 90% of the reason why you buy a kit. 10% is just a red herring of wearing/riding your kit build.
@@matts1166 Wikipedia has quite a list of nations that are planning the petroleum phase-out on vehicles. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehicles
Not the last time the exclamation “Yoo hoo!” Would be relevant to the show. Amusing that Lennier was witness to both instances. “Sexual prowess” indeed. 😉😁
@5:05 And then they both died in a horrific motorcycle crash. It was such a trope too. A woman with a babycart was crossing the hallway in Green 3 and they tried to dodge them at over 300Kph. The Funerals will be held next week at 1500 hours. As per Garabaldi' last wishes in his will, he dictates his wake be "Resplendent with all the foods of his homeland." So expect a lot of Gabagool.
This is so me! I am obsessive compulsive about finishing projects. I buy old junk gadgets at garage sales. Some of them are children's toys. I tale them apart and discover what was jamming the gears. Now they work.
I had a souped up Yamaha 50cc scooter once. It did about 110 km/h (~68 mph) or so on a good day. Maybe with a Minbari power source it could go beyond that.
The funny thing is, Lennier probably build the whole thing, realized that he couldnt use any gasoline, and then had to rebuild the whole engine and basically turn it into an E-Bike :p
I bet you some smart people have already figured it out by now, but they are shut down or bought out by people who still make money of Gasoline and diesel …
I like how they both have similar head designs despite being two different species I like to imagine the pattern for the non-human is it's species equivalent of going bald
Babylon 5 generates "gravity" by the station spinning. Unless those elevator shafts follow the curve of the station, as soon as they start moving up or down, the people inside should start floating.
In the B5 universe, the last gasoline-powered motorcycle was built in 2135. With the popularity of lithium-ion battery powered vehicles on the rise, that prediction may not be that far off.
Funny how Lenir first listening to description of internal combustion engine, it cites the last internal combustion engine was produced in 2035. Odd how the greenies call for 2035 as the end of oil use.
I like how having a alien an a human riding a motorbike on the station is considered normal.
Probably makes a change from races arguing about crew quarters or noise levels .
As long as things aren't blowing up inside or outside the Station.
@@thomas.parnell7365 It has low noise level as Lenier installed there a minbari engine instead of original gas powered.
@@MykhasV the delegates will appreciate I'm sure till they start complaining about the Temperature
Its these little moment that make it so great
This is one of those mixes of character building, story telling, looking back at history and just plain fun that only Babylon 5 could get right.
The most BLATANT product placement in HISTORY, and yet they blended it into the lore to PERFECTION! I love it so much! LOL.
In fact, I think seeing this episode was the first time I ever wanted a motorcycle.
Lennier is the definition of adorkable
Yes, yes! Lennier deserved better & he's #A1Adorkable!
@@MelissaHash I don't believe *for a second* that he would *ever* have done what he did at the end of the series.
@@pleappleappleap Yes right? He absolutely deserves better... and Delenn too (if thats now him and Delenn ending up together, him, Delenn and Sheridan being poly, or just him and Delenn actually talking things out...).
And he totally is adorkable.
As someone who is autistic likeable alien characters that don't understand social norms is a soft spot of mine
@@freyamiles3718 as a fellow autistic I totally agree!!
I always figured this would come up later in the series...
"we need to get to the other side of the station FAST"
garabaldi "I have just the thing............."
That would have worked in the "Thirdspace" movie when the station was losing power to the gate. Except Garibaldi wasn't even in that one. :(
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin I think he was on Mars at that time in the show.
@@strenifstrecs2551 He didn't go to Mars until after they launched the campaign to liberate Earth. Thirdspace was shortly after Clark instituted the blockade.
He had resigned by then though, so there really just wasn't anything for his character to be doing.
@FATEd Pondera oh dear god no. save us from PC'ed up reboots. there are plenty of other babylon 5 stories. tell those. show us the dilgar war and deathwalker.
@FATEd Pondera IDK seeing a Londo that isn't Peter Jurassik or a G'Kar that isn't Andreas Katsulas would be pretty bad imo
Also kind of doesn't do the memory of the older actors well
I'd have just remade Crusade but then have an older Boxleitner talk about how the Drakh Plague has effectively quarantined Earth
Or the alternative is Sheridan gets captured by a Minbari/Technomage sect and stasis frozen to be of use in a different time (move forward to the time period where there's the future evil Earth Alliance)
I had a technical manual for this show, and there was an easter egg saying that he got a ticket for speeding, and that he went so fast inside b5 he slightly slowed down the rotation of the entire station
I'd never heard about that before! Thanks for sharing!
From a pure technical point of view no matter what speed he went he would affect how fast the rotation. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
@@DavidPruitt the station slowing would be the opposite reaction if he were to drive in the correct direction. The tires would be pushing against the station to move the bike forward thus also pushing the station as well in the opposite direction of travel. That said there is no way the bike would have the mass needed to even effect the station so it is a moot point.
Given the law of conservation of momentum, whatever rotational energy he extracted by driving fast would be given back when he hit the brakes. The net rotational difference would be zero.
They think things through so little for a technical manual? The accelerated mass of that bike is tiny. If that caused the rotation to slow a little, that would be a bad sign for the station's capabilities. But OK, maybe they were really stingy in the efficiency department there. - But still: Imagine the correctional thrusters of a space station vs. a motorcycle engine, even if beefed up.
"The last gasoline powered motorcycle was produced in 2035" .
That line is probably not very far from the truth.
I have already seen some quite stunning electric motorcycles recently.
Meh. Too quiet. No feel.
Low mileage, high center of gravity with too high weight. With the current technology i dont think they will win against regular bikes.
@@SeF001 The feel of a real internal combustion engine in a car or a bike is part of the charm. Without it, it's cold and dead.
Given the progress I’ve seen in my lifetime, going from milk floats to Zoes and Leafs, I can only imagine what that can do by 2035
I was thinking the same, a lot of country's are moving towards getting rid of petrol and diesel driven vehicles, this prediction may not be that far off the mark
It's good how Garibaldi also developed the superhuman reactions necessary to control the bike at hyperspeed.....
Michael was a beast.
I want to believe they restricted the corridor there. It would have been far too dangerous otherwise. ... Also the acceleration curve seemed very unrealistic. The animation team bungled that a bit there.
@@Dowlphin i think the acceleration curve makes sense if you remember they’re not going uphill. gravity is consistently “down” relative to the bike. so there’d be a climbing acceleration, wouldn’t there?
@@tonoornottono Dude, they were making an instant insane acceleration boost! They'd have either flipped backwards or the wheels would have squealed hard.
A none-too-subtle nod to the heavy influence of Japanese culture on the Minbari. Though their caste system is borrowed from Indian culture, much of their philosophy, dress, customs and martial spirit seem based on Feudal Japan.
He spoke Japanese to him.. He actually learned Japanese to read the manual...It's taken me 5 years to learn a sentence...
I can't help but feel like this whole Minbari builds a bike plot is just an extended reference to "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Never made that connection before, but you’re right!
OMG 2 other people that read that book, I am amazed. OH and yes it was immediately what I though of.
That was an AWESOME book! 👍💪
I like how Lennier immediately figured out the printing order for a typical Japanese instruction booklet would be right-to-left; nice little detail on the acting.
I would say a great scene between two of my favorite characters, but how do you pick favorite characters out of a cast that was this awesome?
I gave up trying to pick a favorite character. Each time I tried, I wound up remembering reasons why I loved the others just as much.
Lmao I just tried. You actually can't.
It is an example of what we have lost in today's sci fi shows. Writing has gone so far downhill. When script writing is taught they should dissect some of these old shows for what made them great and teach those elements to a new generation of writers.
One of those elements would be character development.
He finished putting it together and not a grease stain in sight.
Lennier obviously felt safe, and comfortable around Garibaldi. Anyone else would have lost a hand the instant it touched him
Its Garibaldi making the engine sound that sells the scene
This is quite easily one of my favorite scenes from Babylon 5. Its’s scenes like these and many others that make B5 stand head and shoulders Ab the rest. JMS and his creative team were genius!
how does a Minbari power source work with an internal combustion engine make you wonder how that works dose it not?
@@raven4k998well i say the answer is in the sound of the engin... It sound like a electric engin at worse and best a hybrid engin.
@@srg08 and to make it worse it was made in china🤣🤣🤣
It's not surprising that Lennier could fix the bike. After all, he was always repairing the Class M-3 Model B9 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot.
HA! I see what you did there! :D
lmao. danger will robinson.
@@samuelatwood9924 Said the Class M-3 Model B9 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot.
This is how you build a world. There is absolutely no need for this episode to have this series of scenes but having it add so much weight to the characters and world building..B5 is always special
This is what made B5 so awesome.
I love how these subplot stories were weaved into the timeframes and acutally added additional character depth and relationship revelation.
Lanier didn't quite understand how assembling a relic that in now way could be used where it was in the time presented would be a pleasurable thing.
But Garibaldi provided the example of the satisfaction that comes from taking desperate parts learning old things and accomplishing a seemingly impossible but useless task just for the sake of doing it.
Lanier finally understood how he robbed this at the end but the "adjustment' was worth it.
Often, the journey is the destination.
There's a lot of subtle meaning in this little tidbit.
I'm sure there must be Minbari religious rites where the doing is more important than the accomplishment. I think he just misunderstood Garibaldi's wish to make progress on his project as wishing it was finished.
Lennir is the weeb of the Mimbari. He has as much respect and adoration for human culture as American anime fans have of Japanese culture. That's why he is one of my favorite characters in the early part of the series.
As someone who hasn't seen this show, why specifically in the early part?
The irony is that Minbari are very much reminiscint of traditional Japanese culture; I've got to wonder if that was intentional
@@DinkLink Yeah I know it's weird replying to an old comment, but in case... (spoiler alert too) Lennier gets very jealous of Sheridan's relationship with Delenn and ultimately (Major Spoiler alert)..........
Tries to kill Sheridan
@@allthatisgoodhappy2927 Not weird at all. Thanks for the answer!
He is great indeed, but then all the characters in BB5 are amazingly well written and fleshed out, not to mention well acted to. Unlike most the awful drama written today.
That was one of the things that really got under my skin in that new "Babylon 5: The Road Home" animated movie. At the beginning, Sheridan was inaugurating a new power source on the Minbari homeworld that had cleaner emissions - it was already established that the Minbari power sources were clean and efficient.
Same here. That felt like it was just checking off the climate change activism box. I bet even Human power sources in the B5 universe are relatively clean and efficient.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin I had a lot of mixed feelings about that movie, in general. I mean I'm glad they got the surviving cast members together to do the voices and everything, but I didn't like the redesign of the Shadow vessels, and the fact they didn't scream as they passed over. Also, they show the Shadows, themselves, boarding the station and the Shadows never directly attacked - they used their dark servants, such as the Drahk, for direct combat. They also totally retconned the final standoff - Garibaldi told Sinclair to get out and that he had rigged the fusion reactor; now Garibaldi and Sinclair were at the last stand, and Sheridan goes to rig the fusion reactor? And they made the computer have a sense of humor about it? Same with the scene on Z'ha'dum - the Shadows didn't come out and overtake the crew of the Icarus, they encountered them underground. I could keep going on, but there were just so many inconsistencies with the TV show, I was very disappointed with a lot of it.
@@mysticwolf75 Agreed on all counts. A couple of other things that bothered me was that one Starfury pilot destroying a Shadow fighter by grappling it and dragging it along the station. I'm willing to bet the engines of a Shadow vessel could easily overpower those of a Starfury, and that maneuver would also cause damage to the station.
Also, when the Starfuries launched, they started their thrusters in the bay and used them to launch. The fact that they used the force from the station's rotation to launch without thrusters was one of the coolest things about the show, but they couldn't even get that right.
Definitely didn't do anything to easy my concerns about a reboot.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin I'm still hoping the reboot doesn't happen. It's just never going to be as good as the original.
My head canon is after Lennier ran away at the end of the series, he decided to get a motorcycle and ride around it as a symbol of him being a rebel
They did his character wrong: first the way he "betrayed" Sheridan. Then how he ran away. As a member of the Religious Caste he probably knew all about atonement for wrongs. And it was all because they foreshadowed him not being around in 20 years in a season 4 episode.
I really missed "This" garabaldi in the later part of the series and lenier, this simple goofy garabaldi who isn't a spymaster or a master hacker or a weird future sleuth and lenier being a somewhat awkward and socially inept genius with a heart of gold
Season 1 Garibaldi is my favorite version of Garibaldi!
My late husband Tim would have loved Babylon 5, and especially this episode because he loved motorcycles!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA~! 🤣
Oh, my God! I remember these scenes, and after all this time they're even more hilarious now. Thanks a ton for the upload!
It's moments such as these that gave the show so much depth and made it feel more real.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin Amen to that! Something criminally missing from most shows nowadays.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin I would agree with you these are moment's to be treasured.
I miss this series so much. However even though there's been talks about Babylon 5 returning.
I kind of hope that the series is more saved in a library. Preserved by the fandom. Kept alive by books as well. If brought in this time I don't know if it would be as appreciated.
Fun fact: Minbari power sources can power anything. Even combustion engines.
One of my favorite side stores of the show.
I loved Babylon 5 but I also love motorcycles and the 92 ZX11 didn't have fuel injection. It had 4 Keihin carburetors. I believe they were 40mm.
I also ride a bike and consider myself to have passable knowledge about them, but I have to admit that I only follow about half of what he lists off there. :)
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin Garibaldi didnt mention it. The Mimbari guy states later that he was "about to explore the mysteries of the fuel injection system". Either way, it was an awesome show. God, I miss the 90's!!
remember this was also 200 years in the future the info might have gotten a little scrambled over time and translation
There was a fuel injection conversion kit available in the US & Canada, so it is possible. Obviously that wouldn't have been mentioned in Garibaldi's manual.
@@christopherbradley5575 Well he also claimed mint condition. Yet one minute later says he scrounged parts all over the place in a period of time. Of course if the English spoken in the show is future English and not our English, we might not understand it all, as meaning of words shift.
Honestly, lennir was always the "little brother" archetype.
He is so naive and shy, but also very curious and friendly, also fun.
His relationships with the rest of the cast were always fun and cute, this one especially, since B5 tackles cultural differences incredibly well, like the "get out of here!" Of garibaldi being taken seriously by a minbari, instesd of us humans understanding that its actually a way to say:"wow dude, thats awesome!".
I swear to god if the reboot ruins the characters i will be first to pop some heads
On earth, there are many people like Lennier. They are called 'autists'. I think he'd get along great with them.
Yes, that is why his betrayal to Sheriden was such a shock to me.
@@lenrek oh yeah... that happened... but it was still a good moment because of its impact... then poor lennir dies redeeming himself
@@michelecastellotti9172 Yes...
Let's be honest, the reboot will suck. They should leave the series alone.
You know having Lennier as a friend would be awesome. I have never seen someone so interested in a subject like that.
Man, what a trip down memory lane. This is one of the best moments that stuck in my mind from Babylon 5. Wish I could travel back to that time. This will always be one of the best bro moments in tv history to me.
Almost as good as his adventure with Londo. Shame what happened to him in season 5.
1:56
I think we all knew who Lennier was thinking about that precise moment!
And she was SO impressed!
Probably his wanton nature of a certain ambassador of his planet!
And latter, the Minbari become addicted to anime and manga...
took the sci-fi genre to levels way ahead, and in this case way before it's time. Always a joy to watch. Miss those characters!
I really wish the motorcycle had come up again in the show.
This show, was so well made, I've watched it many times
On tv, from dvd and a few times from the hdd i ripped them to, from those dvd's.
Plus the movies.
@@mhordijk0871 I would have bought these iconic and timeless sci-fi shows like B5 and STTNG if it wasn't such an extremely frustrating PITA to try and get them in the NTSC original here in Germany. (If they are available at all, they tend to be extremely expensive.) As a video conversion buff I just cannot tolerate the PAL speedup.
Well, at least many STTNG episodes can be watched on tjwparso's channel now, including discussing it, but also the occasional thoughtless spoiler comment.
As a ZX-11 owner, I approve of this video!!!
Too bad you can't get your hands on a Minbari power supply. The bike looked really fast.
I love the sound of it too...and never needing gas of course 😆😎
@@behindbarsmototouring898 Geez, dude, you don't deserve the bike. 😏
ZZR-1100 in the UK. Great bikes.
Not fuel-injected, though. Bank of 4 carbs.
Ivanova : "It's good to have things back to normal"..... for Babylon 5 levels of Normal
This was the episode that hooked me in! Sci-fi shows never had motorcycles, let alone one that was still on showroom floors. Unfortunately, this was all we ever saw of the big ZX-11.
How many of you would have liked to have seen someone pushing it into one of the craft leaving B5 after JMS turned out the lights?
In my last re-watch, I was wondering why we never saw it displayed in his quarters just like there was almost always a bowl of oranges in Sheridan's quarters and/or office.
The bike probably belonged to a member of the cast or crew making it difficult to have around for simple background shots.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin imagine by then garabaldi would have shipped to mars or donated to museum I doubt be many places could use it on mars .
That bike probably has more power then a star fury
"If I kill him, it would start a war" ...I love Garibaldi's look when he says " come back after 12 hundred" :D
Most wholesome scene of the series
Billy Mumy. Upgrading motorcycles, and sending people to the cornfield.
Yep. Mess with his bike and you know where you're going.
Get me one of those fuel cells for my bike😀😀
Such a great scene. It compels me to finish restoring my black 2004 Kawasaki Concours which is the Ninja's more sedate brother built for touring. I don't think I want to wait till 2258.
Just find yourself a Minbari to help you.
"The last gasoline-powered motorcycle was built in 2035" Looks like it's going to be like that for real!
At least we will see if we are lucky. At least I will.
Absolutely not true.
Gas is still best. It will dominste until it runs out.
@@F40PH-2CAT That's just your opinion. Luckily that has no weight in important matters.
Two friends with differing passions, meet and create so much joy. I love this bit of B5. I miss these guys so much!
Great Writing, Great Show.
Misread the title, thought it said 'A Human, a mini-bar and a bike' so I'm somewhat disappointed :D
This was one of my fave episodes
To this day, I hate what they did with Lenier - I really liked him.
Yeah. As amazing as the rest of the series is, this felt so cheap - as if to quickly get him out of the way because he treatens the oh so perfect canon relationship
Season 5 was a travesty. Best to forget it.
this episode was really wonderful, because it was bringing back a kind of old school in the future time, same so like the episode with Garibaldi's revolver (with Robert Englund as a guest star)
thank you, the title of this episode is "Grey 17 is missing", Season 3, Episode 19
Fun fact, the European Union has just announced a ban on all combusting engine in 2035. Babylon 5 was spot on! Makes me wonder what else they were right about..
It will never take place.
Someone in the EU hierarchy is a B5 fan.
B5 always had stories within stories.
Thank you for posting all the clips together
I wonder if this was product placement for Kawasaki? They sure did go into the bike specs in detail. lol
I had forgotten about this side story. Wonder what other thing I've yet to rediscover.
Last gas powered motorcycle built in 2035 ...
I think we are on schedule.
Loved this show spending time on this. No plot, no specific purpose. Just entertaining the audience.
As someone who assembled a BenofKent Proton Pack kit, I fully understand Garabaldi's reaction. Assembling it and knowing you have the knowledge on how to assemble it are 90% of the reason why you buy a kit. 10% is just a red herring of wearing/riding your kit build.
Awesome scene between two amazing actors.
Riding in the station one thing, but riding out in the country is something else. Vast difference between the vehicle and the bike.
Nice touch at the end with "woo hoo" only a real fan will giggle with glee!!!!!
Awesome way to add a sponsor...just make an entire episode around it! Now i want one WITH the Membari power source
I love Babylon 5!!
Interesting the date...2035, last gas powered motorcycle...probably not too far off...
was thinking the same thing....
Great stuff! The last gasoline powered bike was built in 2035....So that is now only 14 years away now....I doubt that one will be true.
Not with the world's obsession with fossil fuels.
Canada made it law, no gas/diesel vehicles after 2035. Seriously.
Ya I doubt we won't be making them at all by then but it's actually on the nose as far as alot of the legislation is concerned...
General Motors has claimed to be producing zero emission vehicles only by 2035… so…
@@matts1166 Wikipedia has quite a list of nations that are planning the petroleum phase-out on vehicles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_vehicles
Not the last time the exclamation “Yoo hoo!” Would be relevant to the show.
Amusing that Lennier was witness to both instances. “Sexual prowess” indeed. 😉😁
@5:05 And then they both died in a horrific motorcycle crash. It was such a trope too. A woman with a babycart was crossing the hallway in Green 3 and they tried to dodge them at over 300Kph. The Funerals will be held next week at 1500 hours. As per Garabaldi' last wishes in his will, he dictates his wake be "Resplendent with all the foods of his homeland." So expect a lot of Gabagool.
😅
The show was ahead of its time.
They HD it on Amazon...
@@JustSumGuy01 what? I didn't see it, F*CK
3:10 "Domo arigato", because obviously he's gone so hard into this he's learned japanese as well
This is so me! I am obsessive compulsive about finishing projects. I buy old junk gadgets at garage sales. Some of them are children's toys. I tale them apart and discover what was jamming the gears. Now they work.
Minbari translation for Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
It's good to have things back to normal.
They did Lennier so dirty in the end. The character deserved better.
I love this scene and the little bonding moments between characters. Scifi doesnt always have to be deadly serious and the end of the world.
...my bike has scifi fame!
I had a souped up Yamaha 50cc scooter once. It did about 110 km/h (~68 mph) or so on a good day. Maybe with a Minbari power source it could go beyond that.
I had a ZX-11. They are drastically cool. Cool enough, an Enthusiast in the future would be restoring them.
I rode a ZX 1100 in 94 that belonged to a friend of mine.
Faster than a meteor but a real pig in the turns.
Minbari powered Ninja zx 11. Sign me up. This was such a great scene in knitting the crew toghether.
I wish this bike came back. Maybe them just riding inn the background for funsies or Garibaldi using it to get on scene quickly.
The funny thing is, Lennier probably build the whole thing, realized that he couldnt use any gasoline, and then had to rebuild the whole engine and basically turn it into an E-Bike :p
Lennier learned Japanese with ease :) Love that character!
Theory: If Lennier had ridden this bike, Delenn would have chosen him over Sheridan.
5:03 Woo Hoo?
Lenier was as big a weeb as he was a troll :p
Character had his issues but so much of his writing was fantastic.
A real bike brought back to life in that era? Life is good.
Wouldn't it be funny if the last gasoline powered motorbike actually WAS produced in 2035?!
We got 14 years to figure it out!
Canada has legislated that there is to be no more Gas/Diesel vehicles sold by 2035.
I bet you some smart people have already figured it out by now, but they are shut down or bought out by people who still make money of Gasoline and diesel …
@@kompissanu1983 Like they did in the Simpsons. "Does this stuff really work"?
Under UK law petrol powered cars and bikes must be phased out by 2030.... soooooo yay! (ok not yay)
I love this story.
I like how they both have similar head designs despite being two different species
I like to imagine the pattern for the non-human is it's species equivalent of going bald
...walk into a bar?
this series and star trek deep space 9 was the only scfi show i watch at the time
I personally wonder what happened to it since we only saw it in this epsiode.
Great fun scene and yes i have a mint zzr1100 d6
Babylon 5 generates "gravity" by the station spinning. Unless those elevator shafts follow the curve of the station, as soon as they start moving up or down, the people inside should start floating.
me as a kid "oh cool they're talk about the present as history" me now "Did I just watch a hidden add in the show?".
In the B5 universe, the last gasoline-powered motorcycle was built in 2135. With the popularity of lithium-ion battery powered vehicles on the rise, that prediction may not be that far off.
Funny how Lenir first listening to description of internal combustion engine, it cites the last internal combustion engine was produced in 2035. Odd how the greenies call for 2035 as the end of oil use.