2.18 "Confessions and Lamentations" Quiz

Answer: 4 Markabs in 3 days

Dr. Lazarenn, a Markab doctor, and Franklin eamine at dead Markab and wonder what it wrong, wince this is the fourth Markab in three days that has died of natural causes on Babylon 5.

Answer: Searching for the ship he saw in hyperspace

Ivanova recalls Keffer from his search so that she can send Zeta Squadron out to search for the missing Markab ship. The ship was 10 hours overdue for its arrival.

Answer: Flarn

Delenn describes the preparation for the meal: "For a meal with such an honored guest, there are rituals and traditions. The food must be sanctified during each of the 15 stages of cooking. For instance, the spices must be blessed and a specific prayer spoken when they are used, each spice can only be used once, of course, and in the correct order. If an error is made, the entire meal must be abandoned and you must begin again from scratch."

Answer: Drafa Plague

Drafa Plague is one hundred percent contagious and one hundred percent terminal. The disease was believed to only infect those who led immoral lives, so infections were kept quiet due to shame. The first new case was reported nearly a year ago, and has spread to every Markab colony.

Answer: 1 day

Dr. Franklin tells his command staff that the plague is invisible during its incubation period, which usually runs around 1 week. Death follows one day after symptoms appear. The disease is airborne and therefore can infect anyone on Babylon 5 through the ventilation system. To make matters worse, it appears that the disease has jumped species into the Pak'ma'ra population.

Answer: Delenn

As Delenn and Lennier go to enter the isolation area, Delenn says to Sheridan: "Don't look away, Captain. All life is transitory, a dream. We all come together in the same place at the end of time. If I don't see you again here, I will see you, in a little while, in a place where no shadows fall."

Answer: stims

This is the second time that we see Franklin using stims to keep awake, the first was in "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum." It is important to note that Dr. Lazarenn comments on the use of stims. This problem doesn't go away, but instead increases to a daily abuse of stims, which leads to him resigning his position in order to go through detox.

Answer: I don't snore

As Sheridan wakes up after a brief nap during a meditation period he says: "What?" Delenn: "You were... sleeping." Sheridan: "No, no, I was not. I... I was meditating." Lennier: "The sound you were making is part of human meditation?" Sheridan: "I don't snore."

Answer: Franklin

Franklin says this when he is investigating the cause of death of the Markabs.

Answer: planetary redecorating

An ISN reporter says "Medical ships dispatched to the Markab homeworld have confirmed the death toll. The entire planetary population has been wiped out by the plague. Over two billion dead, in addition to another two or three million on other colonies and outposts. Although it is expected that some Markabs may have survived on isolated colonies, for all intents and purposes, the Markab civilization has been destroyed." Franklin listens to the report as the bartender cracks the joke. He gets up to leave and says:
"Nothing changes."