Musings of a Babylon Lurker » mythology http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog Science, technology and science fiction/Fantasy Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:18:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 B5 Quote “Mars ……” http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2009/12/20/b5-quote-mars/ http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2009/12/20/b5-quote-mars/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:07:06 +0000 lurker http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/?p=295 One of my favourite quotes from Babylon 5 comes from the ISN news item where President Clark has declared Martial Law and the Mars colony does not follow suit.

“Mars has rejected Martial Law”

It has always amused me in the midst of all the seriousness of the situation, if you do not know why – think of what is the origin of the term Martial Law.

It refers to the Roman God of War – yes Mars, Martial, so it becomes a sort of a contradictory sentence.

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