Someone else watches B-5. With the green and purple, wouldn't she be at war with her self?
Actually, no. Take what was shown in "The Geometry of Shadows". When Ivanova took a sash from a purple Drazi and placed in on a green Drazi, and immediately fighting broke out, however, the double-sashed Drazi didn't seem to be in conflict with himself. He seemed more taken aback, actually. (When Ivanova wears the sashes of both green leader and purple leader, that's different, as those are the leader sashes.)
Anyway, it's all a moot point, anyway. The conflict occurs every five years (I'm assuming Drazi years, as it was not specified) and lasts for one Drazi year, which was specified as being equal to 1.2 earth years. As "Geometry" was the third episode of season two, the events in it almost certainly fell within the first month a half of 2259. Given a start of conflict in January to mid-February 2259, we can carry that back to determine that the most recent conflict would have started at the beginning of 2007 and ended in the last month and a half or so (at least to what precision we have).
So, with the latest conflict ended, would green and purple fins be acceptable? In "The Ragged Edge", halfway through 2262...
There's one other reconciliation visible in this episode that I don't know if anyone watching has ever noticed. When the Drazi makes his appearance in scene fifty, he's wearing a purple and green sash. This was a subtle reference to the Drazi wars seen years earlier in Babylon 5. My assumption was that the Drazi flag, and most Drazi official insignia, contained both purple and green elements. Even the police lights are purple and green. When the time comes for the Drazi to war against each other, the purple and green flags are put away to be replaced by purple flags and green flags, purple sashes and green sashes. Then, when the war's done, bang, they go back to purple and green again.
I just figured folks looking on might like to know that the Drazi was back home was over, and that they were getting along as well as the Drazi can ever get along with one another, which is not terribly well. But random acts of disorder are always better than when they get organized and efficient about it.
(Incidentally, if you have *any* interest in
Babylon 5, science fiction, television in general, scriptwriting, how studios work, or just about anything related to it, I *implore* you to go to
http://www.babylon5scripts.com/ in the next 90 days or so. You can order the entire collection of jms script books, which come with all the scripts he wrote and a *ton* of astoundingly cool information. In a few months, however, they will go out of print, and they will never be printed again (we have jms' word on that, and that's better than gold to me, at least). I'm tempted to get a second copy to hand down.
)
I am realy revealing my dorkieness now.
Um... I guess *I'd* better not comment, eh?
(At least I didn't do this all from memory. I had to pull my script books *and* use the
Lurker's Guide.)