The Parliament of Dreams

"The Parliament of Dreams" is an episode from the first season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. The Earth Alliance arranges a week-long festival of religious and cultural exchange on the station. The Centauri celebrate with a lavish party, commemorating the victory of the Centauri over the other sentient life on their world, the Xon. After the war, they will look around and count how many of them survived and they celebrate the... more

"The Parliament of Dreams" is an episode from the first season of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5. The Earth Alliance arranges a week-long festival of religious and cultural exchange on the station. The Centauri celebrate with a lavish party, commemorating the victory of the Centauri over the other sentient life on their world, the Xon. After the war, they will look around and count how many of them survived and they celebrate their good fortune (rather than mourn those who have been killed, an unusually positive outlook in life which perhaps describes the Centauri, in contrast to the bitter and perpetually angry Narns). In the party Londo Mollari gets extremely drunk and passes out. The Minbari host a session of prayers, a rebirth ceremony wherein the "old" self is "killed" and a new and better one is reborn. (This is mirrored some two years later when Delenn hosts another ritual in "Ceremonies of Light and Dark".) G'Kar's enjoyment of the festival is tempered when a... less