"The Quality of Mercy" is an episode from the first season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5. The title is from a quote from the beginning of Portia's oration in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Act IV, scene one.
In the A-story, Dr. Franklin investigates an alien healing machine being used by a physician in Downbelow. A murderer is convicted and sentenced to the "death of personality."
The B-story has Londo being told by one of...
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"The Quality of Mercy" is an episode from the first season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5. The title is from a quote from the beginning of Portia's oration in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Act IV, scene one.
In the A-story, Dr. Franklin investigates an alien healing machine being used by a physician in Downbelow. A murderer is convicted and sentenced to the "death of personality."
The B-story has Londo being told by one of the Centauri senators to make more efforts with other species, as their support may be useful. Shortly after this he meets Lennier, and offers to show him more details of Babylon 5.
A resident of the station, Mueller, is found guilty of three murders and is sentenced to "death of personality", an alternative to capital punishment in 2250s Earth Alliance which involves "brain wiping" the condemned's existing personality and replacing it with one programmed to serve the community for the rest of his natural life.
Ivanova finds Franklin is...
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