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The fifth-season episode ‘Fall of Centauri Prime’ is a particularly memorable one for a variety of reasons. It contains some great drama of course, most notably with regard to the non-human lead characters, Londo, G’Kar, Delenn and Lennier.
But it also wraps up one of the major arcs of the fifth season, the seemingly random attacks by Centauri ships on Interstellar Alliance ships. In turn this sets up the next set of problems our heroes will have to face, the machinations of the Drakh and their manipulation of the now-isolated Centauri.
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