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• Daffy Duck: Twentieth-century cartoon character. Security Chief Garibaldi loves Daffy’s cartoons, particularly "Duck Dodgers in the 24th and 1/2 Century." [BAB5]
• Daggair: One of Ambassador Mollari’s three wives. While she had little time for Londo, Daggair was happy to play the dutiful and loving wife, as it helped her social-climbing. When Londo was given permission to divorce two of his three wives in 2259, Daggair was willing to do anything to keep her title and share of his money. Despite her efforts, Londo could see right through the pretense and divorced her. (Played by Lois Nettleson.) (MATES) [BAB5]
• Dagool: A Brakiri thug, Dagool was caught by Security Chief Garibaldi stealing credits trhee times in one month. (Played by Mark Ginther.) (SURVIVORS) [BAB5]
• Da’Kal: Ambassador G’Kar’s mate. Da’Kal and G’Kar have an open relationship and consequently have different lovers. Unsurprisingly, therefore, Da’Kal offered no objection when G’Kar told her he might have to mate with Lyta Alexander in order to create Narn’s first telepath (GATHERING). Prior to the Narn-Centauri War, Da’Kal lived in Hebka (BLOOD). [BAB5]
• Damocles Sector: The rare poison florazyne is found exclusively in this sector. Caroline Sykes visited the Damocles Sector before arriving on Babylon 5 in 2257, thus allowing Ambassador G’Kar to claim that she provided Commander Sinclair with the florazyne used in the assassination attempt on Ambassador Kosh. (GATHERING) [BAB5]
• Darabuto, Xavier: Shopkeeper who had criticized new import regulations in 2259 and had his shop closed by the Nightwatch as a result. (FALL) [BAB5]
• D’arc: A Tuchanq ambassador, D’arc was revealed to be a mass murderer and sentenced to death by President Clark while visiting Babylon 5 in 2259. As she evaded arrest, D’arc was effectively brainwiped during an accident and lost all knowledge of her crimes. Her execution was later faked by Captain Sheridan. (LAW) [BAB5]
• Dark Star: Seedy dance club aboard Babylon 5. Unsurprisingly, it is one of Ambassador Mollari’s favorite haunts. The Centauri met the dancer Adira Tyree at the Dark Star (PURPLE) and also took Lennier there to teach him about dancers and poker. When Mollari was caught cheating during a card game, it led to a massive brawl in the club. The station’s security subsequently arrested 30 humans and aliens, including the ambassador and Lennier (MERCY). [BAB5]
• data crystals: The most common means of information storage used on Babylon 5. The Minbari provid a great many of them to other races. They utilize a holographic-based three-dimensional system. (BLOOD) [BAB5]
• "Datya": Term used by Shonto to describe his father. (BELIEVERS) [BAB5]
• Davo: Planet in the Centauri Republic. The homeworld of Adira Tyree, Davo is famous for its starlaces. (PURPLE) [BAB5]
• defense grid: Babylon 5’s in-built defense system comprising laser cannons and guns as well as a tracking device. Revamped in 2259 with the very latest weapons from Earthforce Research and Development, including pulse cannons, interceptors, and a tracking system which was three times faster than the original. With the new defense grid, Babylon 5 was capable of defending itself against a warship. (GROPOS) [BAB5]
• Deeron: Kalain’s first officer aboard the Trigati. At the beginning of 2259, Deeron led the ship’s final, suicidal assault on Babylon 5, prior to its destruction at the hands of the Minbari. (Played by Jennifer Gatti.) (DEPARTURE) [BAB5]
• "De farhurst": A Minbari phrase which means, "I yield to your authority." When Sheridan was attacked by the Minbari Lovell, he claimed the Minbari had shouted "death first." However, the sole witness, Ashan, claimed Lovell had said "De farhurst." It was later discovered Ashan was lying. (HONOR) [BAB5]
• Delenn, Ambasador: The Minbari ambassador aboard Babylon 5 and a former member of the Grey Council. Delenn was raised as a member of the religious caste. When she was young, she was visiting the city with her family when she became separated from her parents. She was afraid until she found herself in an old temple. Inside the temple she felt safe, and decided to stay there until her parents arrived for her. After a while, she fell asleep for a few hours, and when she woke up she saw the vision of a figure, possibly Valen, standing over her, smiling. He told Delenn she would be alright and if she believed her parents would come, they would. Shortly after, her parents arrived. Ever since then, Delenn has believed "faith manages." (CONFESSIONS) Delenn was appointed as a member of the Grey Council and witnessed firsthand the death of the Minbari leader Dukhat in 2242. She also helped save him from a Soul Hunter assigned to steal his spirit. (SOUL) Delenn was with the Grey Council during the Battle of the Line and suggested they bring one of the human fighters aboard their warcruiser to learn more about Earth’s defenses and the human race. When she was asked to pick a subject, she chose Jeffrey Sinclair’s Starfury. Delenn was shocked when examinations showed Sinclair had a Minbari soul and that Minbari souls had been reborn, either in part or in full, into humans. As a result, she supported the decision to surrender. (DEPARTURE) In 2256, she was assigned to Babylon 5 to study the human race and determine whether they were the race referred to by Valen in an important prophecy (SQUARED). She decided she could perform her mission better if she kept her position on the Council a secret (SOUL). In order to learn more about humanity, Delenn joined Garibaldi to watch a 20th-century cartoon, "Duck Dodgers in the 24th and 1/2 Century," and learned one of the security chief’s limericks (MIDNIGHT, GATHERING). Delenn felt humans were a mass of contradictions but, with time, one could learn to live with them (VOICE I, PRAYER). She also believed only humans would have built Babylon 5 because, unlike all other races, they build communities, even out of diverse and sometimes hostile people. She claimed if the Narns or Centauri had built the station, it would not be open to all aliens (WORD). When summoned before the Grey Council in 2258, Delenn told them humans had a unique capacity to fight against impossible odds and their passions propelled them to the stars and toward their destiny. She then claimed humanity’s main weakness was they did not appreciate their own strength and nobility. Delenn then concluded that the human race represented the future and the Minbari could learn a great deal from them. (SQUARED) Delenn enjoyed a close relationship with Commander Sinclair. In 2256, she gave him classified Minbari information on the Vorlon Empire and details of the Minbari assassin who attempted to poison Ambassador Kosh (GATHERING). Two years later, Delenn avoided telling the commander that her old friend and mentor Draal intended to become custodian of Epsilon 3, because she was convinced Sinclair wouldn’t allow Draal to sacrifice himself to the machine but would do it himself (VOICE II). However, she was under orders to kill the commander if he remembered the secret of his missing 24 hours during the Battle of the Line (SKY). After Sinclair was interrogated in a virtual reality cybernet, Delenn suspected he knew at least some of the events that occurred (CHRYSALIS). When Sinclair asked Delenn why she visited the Zen Garden almost every other day, she told him that nothing expresses the idea that one mind can change the universe more clearly than a Japanese stone garden (GATHERING). Delenn has always sought to keep otu the circle of hatred between the Centauri and Narns. She has always refused to consider a military alliance with either power, and once used a special ring to inflict potentially bone-crushing gravities against Ambassador G’Kar until he swore never to mock or even mention the Grey Council again (GATHERING). When Neroon ignored Branmer’s wishes for a quiet funeral and widely displayed his body as a monument to war, Delenn felt obliged to steal Branmer’s body and, as per his instructions, had it cremated and his ashes scattered in Minbari space near Minbar. When Sinclair and Neroon began a heated discussion about the Earth-Minbari War, she said debating old wars should be left to historians and is not a fit topic of discussion for their participants (LEGACIES). Delenn told Shall Mayan she sometimes regretted some of the decisions she made during the course of her life, and was outraged when the poet was the victim of a Homeguard attack aboard Babylon 5 (PRAYER). When Delenn and Draal needed to travel to the surface of Epsilon 3 to avert the planet’s destruction in 2258, she enlisted the help of Ambassador Mollari. Once they returned to Babylon 5, Delenn told him she owed him a favor. Two years later, Delenn repaid the debt when she arranged for the Centauri diplomatic attaché Vir Kotto to be reassigned to Minbar (STRIFE). Delenn had her first direct encounter with the Shadows when the mysterious human emissary, Morden, met with the ambassador to ask her what she wanted. Within minutes of their meeting, she sensed he was an agent of darkness and a triangle on her head suddenly appeared without explanation. (SIGNS) Of all the members of the Grey Council, Delenn has traveled the most, and has visited many worlds and encountered many life-forms. As a result, she was offered the role of Minbari leader in 2258. Delenn became the first Minbari ever to decline the position when she told the Council she had to stay on Babylon 5 because she had a part to play in the upcoming events which had been prophesied. The offer was then withdrawn and the Council was forced to choose another leader. (SQUARED) At the end of 2258, Delenn asked Ambassador Kosh (via Lennier) whether the Shadows had returned to Z’ha’dum. The Vorlon replied, "Yes" (CHRYSALIS, Z’HA’DUM). She then went to Kosh and told him she had her doubts and needed to be sure about her course of action. When the Vorlon left his encounter suit to reveal his true self, Delenn told him she would keep her promise and entered a chrysalis in which she began a radical and extremly-painful transformation (CHRYSALIS). Delenn subsequently emergeged from her cocoon as a half-human, half-Minbari hybrid and told the Babylon 5 Advisory Council she had undergone her transformation to become a bridge of understanding between humans and Minbari, so the two races would never fight each other again. She then began the long process of trying to understand what it is to be human. Delenn began to dress more like a human and had to learn about hair care and the facts of female life from Ivanova (MATES). She had many problems trying to master the human art of swearing (TWILIGHT). Despite her good intentions, Delenn found her transformation was criticized by both humans and Minbari alike. The Minbari aboard the station began to question her authority as their ambassador, while many bigoted humans perceived her actions as an affront to manking (WORD). Delenn felt increasingly alone and began to question her own actions when she was removed from the Grey Council and replaced by Neroon. The fact she was allowed to continue to serve as the Minbari ambassador aboard Babylon 5 offered little consolation (ALONE). Delenn became close friends with Captain Sheridan and comforted him when he questioned his worth as the commander of Babylon 5. She told him the universe makes sure everyone is in the right place at the right time because they are "star-stuff": Part of the universe made flesh (DISTANT). A few weeks later, she asked Sheridan to dinner wearing a dress that, she had been told, would "turn heads" (RACE). When Sheridan was accused of murdering an innocent Minbari, she refused to believe he would commit such a crime (HONOR). Their relationship became more intense when Delenn asked him to allow her into the Markab isolation zone to help those dying of Drafa. Before she left for the zone, she told him if she caught the disease she hoped to see Sheridan in another place where "shadows do not fall." The captain then told her to call him "John" when they next met (CONFESSIONS). In September 2259, Delenn was reluctantly interviewed for the ISN documentary "36 Hours Aboard Babylon 5." After the interview, she started to read Universe Today and found the "Eye on Minbari" section to be particularly interesting because it often included a lot of information about her people she had not been told. (DIVIDED) Delenn first learned the Army of Light known as the Rangers had been re-formed during a message from Ambassador Sinclair. Following the end of the Narn-Centauri War, Delenn gave Sheridan joint authority as leader of all Rangers in the area. (TWILIGHT) As the year drew to a close, Delenn faced Sebastian, an inquisitor summoned by Ambassador Kosh. She was tortured and humiliated, but passed the test when she showed she was willing to give her life for another, alone and uncelebrated. As a result, the test helped Delenn believe in herself and her destiny once again. (INQUISITOR) When Delenn was shown footage of a Shadow ship in 2260, she recognized it from the descriptions from the last Great War. However, when she was asked about the vessel by Earthforce Special Intelligence’s Agent David Endawi, she could not give him any information and later explained to Sheridan that their only chance of survival was to allow the Shadows to believe no one knew anything about them or what they were doing. Delenn didn’t believe that a Shadow ship could be defeated until Sheridan destroyed one using the Bonehead Maneuver. (MATTERS) (Played by Mira Furlan.) [BAB5]
• Delta Gamma Nine: United Spaceways transport upon which Lyta Alexander first arrived on Babylon 5 in 2257. (GATHERING) [BAB5]
• Delta Squad: One of Babylon 5’s Starfury squadrons. Also known as Delta Wing.
• Delta Wing: See Delta Squad. [BAB5]
• Delvientos, Alberto: Dock worker killed in 2258 when the Talquith was destroyed in bay as the result of a computer malfunction. The brother of Eduardo. (MEANS) [BAB5]
• Delvientos, Eduardo: A senior foreman in Babylon 5’s docks, Eduardo Delvientos had worked in space docks for 40 years and came from a family of dockers. Eduardo claimed to have worked in all of Babylon 5’s worst locations. Following the death of his brother, Alberto, in 2258, Eduardo became a keen advocate of strike action -- at any cost. Although he was not a violent man, he felt workers had suffered more than enough and threw the first punch against Security Chief Garibaldi when the Rush Act was invoked (MEANS). Delvientos was pleased with the peaceful resolution to the dockers’ strike and was interviewed for the ISN documentary "36 Hours Aboard Babylon 5" in 2259 (WORD). (Played by Jose Rey.) [BAB5]
• Deneb Sector: Sector of space surveyed by Catherine Sakai, following her reconciliation with Commander Sinclair in 2259. (PARLIAMENT) [BAB5]
• Deuce: A vicious extortionist aboard Babylon 5, Deuce brought a Na’ka’leen feeder aboard the station to brainwipe his opponents, including Miriam Runningdear. He pretended the feeder was actually Ambassador Kosh to make people believe the all-powerful Vorlons worked for him. When Deuce attempted to feed his "pet" with Ombuds Wellington and Aldous Gajic, his lair was stormed by a Security team. During the ensuing shoot-out, Deuce shot Gajic, who sacrified his life to save Jordan. The killer was then brought to justice. Deuce’s real name was Desmond Mosechenko. (Played by William Sanderson.) (GRAIL) [BAB5]
• devalera: Drug used to revive people in cardiac arrest. If it fails, a cardial stimulator might be required. (LONG) [BAB5]
• Devereaux: Operative of the movement responsible for the assassination of Earth Alliance President Santiago. In mid-December 2258, Devereaux hired a number of lurkers, including Stephen Petrov, to load an unspecified cargo. Two weeks later, Garibaldi investigated Petrov’s mysterious death and discovered Devereaux’s cargo consisted of transmitters set to jam all communication to the president’s personal cruiser, Earthforce 1. When the security chief arrested Devereaux and his two associates, he found their PPGs were unmarked, thus suggesting they were Earthforce special agents. Shortly after, the three men were freed by their associate, Jack, who then shot his superior, Garibaldi, in the back. Devereaux and his associates were subsequently attacked and killed by Jack. (Played by Edward Conery.) (CHRYSALIS) [BAB5]
• DHD: The Dial Home Device, or DHD, functions as both a power source and as a means of controlling the stargate. From its 38 symbols, a gate address is dialed by pressing a sequence of six symbols to identify a point in space, followed by a point of origin. Dialing seven symbols chosen from a pool of 38 non-repeating candidates results in about 63 billion possible stargate addresses. See correlative update. [SG, SG1, SGA]
• DHD, Egyptian: The Egyptian DHD was discovered by the Germans in 1906, and therefore was missing from the original dig at Giza in 1928. It was confiscated by the Russians following World War II, and later loaned to the SGC and accidentally destroyed. The energy source of the Antarctic DHD was depleted shortly after its recovery. There is currently no functioning DHD on Earth. [SG1]
• Dial Home Device: See DHD. [SG, SG1, SGA]
• dialing computer: Although the stargate was designed to use the DHD as a power source and control mechanism, it is possible to activate the gate using an alternate dialing system. Because the Giza stargate had been recovered without a DHD, it took 15 years and three supercomputers to MacGyver an alternate system to control the gate on Earth. The SGC now uses an elaborate dialing computer to control the stargate and to initiate additional security protocols. [SG, SG1]
• dialing manually: It is possible to dial the stargate manually by using an external power source and spinning the inside wheel by hand. SG-1 has dialed the gate manually in emergency situations when no DHD was available, relying on such power sources as lightning, cold fusion, or two truck batteries. [SG1]
• dialing safety protocols: When connected to a DHD, the stargate uses up to 400 safety protocols during a dialing sequence. A stargate cannot engage when it is buried, although it can activate when under water, in outerspace, and when a closed iris is placed at least 3 microns from the event horizon, allowing a wormhole to form. A wormhole will not connect to a stargate that is already active, and similarly, an incoming wormhole prevents a gate from dialing out. A wormhole will remain active as long as any kind of matter or wave energy is passing through the event horizon, up to a maximum of 38 minutes under normal circumstances. Frequency dampeners and modifciations have corrected early problems with vibration, freezing temperatures, and rough transit. [SG1, SGA]
• Dilgar: An extinct and brutal race which attacked and conquered the non-aligned worlds in 2230. The Dilgar were defeated two years later by a coalition of the Earth Alliance and non-aligned worlds. All its war leaders were caught and tried for war crimes with the exception of Jha’dur, who disappeared without a trace. Both the Centauri and the Narn are believed to have collaborated with the Dilgar. Almost all of the Dilgar who survived the war were killed a few years later when their homeworld’s sun went nova, destroying the planet in the process. When Jha’dur boarded Babylon 5 in 2258, she was believed to be the last surviving member of her race. As she left the station, her ship was destroyed by the Vorlons. (DEATHWALKER) [BAB5]
• Dilgar Invasion: The shortened form for the Dilgar invasion of the non-aligned worlds in 2230. (DEATHWALKER) [BAB5]
• Dockers’ Guild: Trade union which represents Earth Alliance’s dock workers. Neeoma Connally is the Guild’s leading representative aboard Babylon 5 and speaks for the stations, 1,500 dockers. During the station’s first two years of operation, the Dockers’ Guild argued that its members were overworked, underpaid, and ill-equipped. When computer failure led to the death of a docker, Alberto Delvientos, the Guild led its members into industrial action. Although the Senate claimed the dockers were bound by government contract and could neither quit nor strike, the Guild continued with the legitimate dispute. When the Senate invoked the Rush Act, the Guild was pleasantly surprised when Commander Sinclair offered to use 1.3 million credits from Babylon 5’s military budget to meet the dock workers’ demands. (MEANS) [BAB5]
• Dodger, Private: A GROPOS with the 356the squadron, Elizabeth Durman was known to everyone around her as Dodger. Her Earthforce serial number was 56927. During her time aboard Babylon 5, Dodger defended Ambassador Delenn from a racist attack by Private Kleist and was attracted to the sation’s security chief, Garibaldi. She thought he had a "nice butt" and offered him a no-strings-attached night of passion. He explained he would prefer to take things more slowly and arranged to have a drink when she next visited the station. Unfortunately for both of them, shortly after leaving Babylon 5 Dodger was killed during Operation: Sudden Death. (Played by Marie Marshall.) (GROPOS) [BAB5]
• Down Below: Name of the station’s undeveloped areas and home of lurkers. Security Chief Garibaldi believes Down Below accounts for nine-tenths of the station’s crime (GRAIL). Down Below mainly operates through barter (RACE). [BAB5]
• Downtown: Captain Sheridan’s nickname for the area between the hull and the water reclamation system, downtown is said to be the most unpleasant area in Babylon 5, except for the methane toilets. Situated in Levels 50 and 51 between the Blue and Gray Sectors, downtown is full of machinery, lead walls, and pipes. It was welded shut when the station went on-line. During the search for Dr. Everett Jacobs in 2259, Sheridan advised Earthforce Special Agent Cranston to search downtown for the fugitive physician. Cranston’s team had to burn through 49 pressure doors to gain access to the area, including two big doors on either side of the waste recycling plant. Naturally, the only thing his staff found in downtown was an unpleasant smell. (HUNTER) [BAB5]
• Draal: Delenn’s mentor and close personal friend, Draal lived his entire life on Minbar until 2258, when he decided his life no longer had meaning. Draal felt Minbar was changing for the worse and his people had lost direction in the years since the death of Dukhat, and sensed growing dissatisfaction and selfishness. Consequently, he visited Delenn on Babylon 5 to say goodbye to his old friend. (VOICE I) While aboard the station, Draal heard someone calling for his help and later discovered it was Varn, the dying custodian of Epsilon 3. Draal realized Varn was looking for a successor and decided to take his place to save the lives of all those aboard Babylon 5. In doing so, Draal found a new purpose in life. Draal then told the crew of Babylon 5 he would not show his face again until the time was right and warned that anyone who attempted to land on Epsilon 3 would be destroyed. (VOICE II) When Draal reappeared to Captain Sheridan in 2259, he explained that the machine has revitalized him. Delenn said he looked 30 years younger. Draal then offered Sheridan an alliance and placed Epsilon 3’s impressive power at his disposal. (TWILIGHT) Draal revealed he was not alone inside the surface of Epsilon. His colleagues include Zathras (TWILIGHT). He also once told Ambassador Mollari that he liked the Hokey-Pokey (VOICE I). (Played by Louis Turenne (VOICE I and II) and John Schuck (TWILIGHT).) [BAB5]
• Drafa: A terminal and highly-contagious disease which wiped out the Markab race in 2259. Drafa was named after the island the disease was first found on, centuries before it eradicated the Markab race. The island was noted for its excesses and immorality, so when its entire population was wiped out by a plague, most Markabs believed it was a punishment from God. Over the years, the island’s story became the stuff of legend; Markab children were warned if they were immoral, the Dark Angel of Drafa would bring them disease and death. When Drafa claimed a new victim in 2258, the family lied about it to avoid a scandal. They were convinced they couldn’t contract the disease because they were moral, so they happily went into the population, spreading Drafa wherever they went. Each case was hushed up by the Markab authorities, who did not want to be blamed for allowing the spread of immorality which supposedly caused Drafa. As word of the disease began to spread, many Markabs tried to leave the homeworld for outer colonies, including Babylon 5. Instead of leaving Draf behind them, however, they merely took the disease with them to Markab outposts. The incubation period of Drafa lasts between a week and a few days and its symptoms included chronic dizziness, acute sore throat, swelling lymph and surface glands, and low blood pressure. Once a patient develops the symptoms, death is guaranteed within 24 hours. While trying to find a cure, Doctors Franklin and Lazarenn discovered Drafa is an airborne disease which attacks the yellow cells in Markabs as well as the green cells in Pak’ma’ra. It slowly erodes the synaptic gaps, which eventually shuts down heart activity and respiration. Although Dr. Franklin discovered a cure for the disease, it was too late for the Markabs. (CONFESSIONS) [BAB5]
• Drake, Nelson: As Dr. Vance Hencricks’ ruthless assistant, Nelson Drake killed a customs guard using a cardial stimulator to bring an Ikaaran artifact aboard Babylon 5. The relic was, in fact, a bio-organic weapon which transformed him into a living killing machine programmed to kill anything that wasn’t pure Ikaaran. When Sinclair made the machine’s personality matrix realize Ikaara 7 had been destroyed by others of its own kind, it released Nelson Drak. (Played by Marshall Teague.) (INFECTION) [BAB5]
• Drazi: Alien race aboard Babylon 5 and a leading member of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, Drazi prefer to fight first and think later. A Drazi cycle refers to a Drazi year, which is the equivalent of 1.2 human years. Every five human years, the Drazi divide into two groups -- one green and one purple -- by randomly choosing a colored sash from a barrel. The Drazi who chooses the leader’s sash becomes the group’s leader. The green and purple Drazi then attempt to beat each other into surrender. The group that wins the fight by the end of the cycle then becomes dominant until the next struggle. In 2259, the struggle escalated when green Drazi started killing their purple opponents. On Babylon 5, Commander Ivanova resolved the crisis when she unintentionally became the leader of the greens and made them dye their sashes purple. One of her subordinates explained the Drazi leadership were still in the process of changing the rules so aliens wearing the leader’s sash could not command the group. (GEOMETRY) [BAB5]
• Droshalla: A Drazi higher being which is said to "light the way" (MATTERS). Ambassador Kosh appeared to all nearby Drazi as Droshalla when he left his encounter suit to rescue Captain Sheridan (FALL). [BAB5]
• Drozac: Drazi ranger killed while helping Marcus Cole escape from the Centauri blockade of Zagros 7 in 2260. (MATTERS) [BAB5]
• Dubai: An alien race aboard Babylon 5. Swapped quarters with the Tukati, who didn’t like being quartered next to the Pak’ma’ra. (DISTANT) [BAB5]
• Ducats: Centauri currency. Also known as "ducks." (SURVIVORS) [BAB5]
• "Duck Dodgers in the 24th and 1/2 Century": A classic Daffy Duck cartoon and Security Chief Garibaldi’s "second favorite thing" in the whole universe. (MIDNIGHT) [BAB5]
• Dug Out: Sports bar aboard Babylon 5, situated near the Zocalo. Its specialities include Zoon Burgers, Jovian Tubers and Attraxion Ale. (TKO) [BAB5]
• Dukhat: The former Minbari leader, Dukhat was killed in 2242 when an Earth ship, the Amundsen, misunderstood the Minbari’s intentions and opened fire. Dukhat’s death provided the basis of the Earth-Minbari War. A Soul Hunter attempted to steal Dukhat’s soul, but was prevented by the other Minbari on the ship, including Satai Delenn. (SOUL) [BAB5]
• Dune: See Arrakis. [DUNE]
• Du’Rog: An old enemy of G’Kar who claimed the ambassador had ruined his family name and humiliated him in front of the Kha’Ri. When he learned he was dying, Du’Rog spent all of his remaining funds on hiring an assassin from the Thenta Makur to terrify and then kill G’Kar. G’Kar suspected Na’Toth was the assassin, but she pointed out she had never met the Narn. (PARLIAMENT) Du’Rog died leaving a wife, Ka’Het, a son, T’Kog, and a daughter, Mi’Ra. When they learned the assassin had failed in his talk, Du’Rog’s family took a Chon-Kar against G’Kar. They subsequently abandoned it when the ambassador financially compensated the family and they received evidence which cleared Du’Rog’s name. (BLOOD) (Played by Mark Hendrickson.) [BAB5]
• duridium: A chemical by-product of Quantium 40. (MIND) [BAB5]
• duridium nitrate: A concentrated explosive, available from several commercial manufacturers. Each batch of duridium nitrate has a molecular coding system which can be traced. (CONVICTIONS) [BAB5]
• Durman, Elizabeth: See Dodger. [BAB5]
• Durza: Arguably a giant of Centauri opera, Durza was one of Ambassador Mollari’s favorite singers. (KNIVES) [BAB5]
• Dust: An illegal drug which allows the user to enter the minds of others and relive memories of the past. (DUST) [BAB5]

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