So I decided on a whim to re-watch the first (post-pilot) episode of #Babylon5 this evening: Midnight on the Firing Line.
And gosh does it do some interesting character work with the Centauri right from the very start.
The episode - running on the assumption you may not have seen the pilot - opens with a (somewhat) unprovoked attack on a Centauri civilian outpost, while on Babylon 5 itself, the Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari deals with the political fallout of the strike.
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