G'Kar
G'Kar is a male extraterrestrial television character who features in Babylon 5.
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G'Kar
He and his family lived in the city of G'Kamazad during the first Centauri occupation of the Narn homeworld. (Episode: And Now For a Word)
In that time, the family had no choice but to remain in the city as his mother was unwell to travel and escape through the underground. To survive, his father came to work as a slave to a wealthy Centauri household to maintain his family. One day, his father accidentally spilled a drink on the mistress of the house and in anger she ordered him to be killed. This saw G'Kar's father being beaten and strung up by his hands to a Jalwah tree in the yard where he was left there to die. On the third day, G'Kar decided to visit his father despite his mother's orders and found him near death. His last words to his son was to plead for G'Kar to remember him and honour his name. On that night, G'Kar then ran away from his home and killed his first Centauri. (Episode: And Now For a Word)
In time, his activities came to be known by some members of the Dilgar. (Episode: Deathwalker) As such, G'Kar became a noted survivor in the war for independence on his homeworld. At some point, he encountered Councilor Du'Rog in the Kha'Ri and succeeded in humiliating him as well as his family. This led to the pair being enemies of one another with the nature of this incident being such that the true revelations of the event would show G'Kar's time on the council that would affect his position. G'Kar would later survive being on the leadership council of his government where he survived two assassination attempts on his life. (Episode: The Parliament of Dreams) During the Earth-Minbari War, G'kar was the one to broker the deal for humans to buy weapons many of which were of Centauri design. He was also approached to help mediate a desperate peace negotiation between the two sides as G'Kar had become fluent in a Minbari language at this point. A Narn cruiser brought G'Kar, and Earth Alliance officers John Sheridan and Stephen Franklin to an abandoned listening post in the Epsilon System to meet Lenonn, a Minbari Ranger. However, before the negotiations could take place, the Narn ship was destroyed and Lenonn was killed when their location was fired upon. Both sides believed a renegade faction from the other was responsible, thus ending any chance at peace. G'Kar was briefly detained by the Minbari before being released to return to Narn. (Movie: In the Beginning...)
In 2256, he came to be appointed as the Narn Ambassador to the new diplomatic space station Babylon 5. During this time, he arranged a meeting with the human telepath Lyta Alexander and proposed a breeding project to introduce the telepathy gene into the Narn population. He offered her financial compensation for her participation though Lyta would turn down his offer. Ambassador G'Kar also had a meeting with Minbari ambassador Delenn in order to elicit aid from her people and use them to enact his revenge against the Centauri but she aggressively refused his suggested alliance. During this time, he was also secretly involved in a plot to discredit Babylon 5 commander Jeffrey Sinclair. This involved smuggling a changeling net on-board with this being provided to a Minbari assassin who planned to frame Commander Sinclair for the apparent assassination of the Vorlon ambassador Kosh Naranek upon his arrival at the station. To ensure Sinclair's fall, G'Kar also blackmailed Centauri ambassador Londo Mollari to vote against the Commander so that he would be taken to the Vorlon homeworld to stand trial for the murder. Despite the resolution going forward, Sinclair managed to exonerate himself and saved Kosh's life with the assassin being killed in the process. Sinclair also has some revenge against G'Kar. While lacking any real proof of G'Kar's involvement, Sinclair tricks the Narn into believing he has ingested a series of nanites that would allow the station to track G'Kar anywhere on the station. Sinclair later tells Michael Garibaldi that the Narns will spend countless hours painfully subjecting G'Kar to a vain search for the nanites. (Episode: The Gathering)
He then had negotiations with the Gaim ambassador for powerful thermonuclear warheads that were normally undetectable. After delivering them to Ivanova, the station command's crew intended to use them in the next battle against the Shadows. Afterwards, Babylon 5 was targeted for a direct strike against the Shadows with G'Kar informing Ivanova that two of the warheads were missing. This was because Sheridan had secretly taken the two warheads on-board the White Star as he visited Z'ha'dum and detonated them in a direct strike on the Shadows. (Episode: Z'ha'dum)
In the aftermath, there seemed to had been a lull in the fighting as the Shadows had retreated from all fronts. However, G'Kar knew that this was only a temporary event as he believed the enemy were likely re-grouping before they recommenced their attacks. Despite that, he came to notice that morale had dropped with the command staff of Babylon 5 being in a daze with the loss of Sheridan. In addition, the League of Non-Aligned Worlds had pulled their forces back as they believed the war was over and that they had to strengthen their own respective homeworlds. This was despite the terms of the Babylon Treaty that stated that signatories were to contribute ships to the station's deence. G'Kar was among those that attempted to rally the other races but they refused to heed their words. In this time, G'Kar felt that everyone's grief over the loss of Sheridan meant that no one was paying attention to the missing Mr. Garibaldi. G'Kar came to enter Garibaldi in an attempt to find inspiration there where he met Zac Allen and was resolved in finding the missing security chief. (Episode: The Hour of the Wolf)
Overview
Personality and attributes
He was noted to had developed a reputed fascination with Earth women. (Episode: The Parliament of Dreams)
G'Kar took pride in the fact that he fought his own battles. (Episode: The Parliament of Dreams)
Powers and abilities
In his rage, G'Kar was known to be able to lift a fully grown Narn and throw them. (Episode: The Parliament of Dreams)
By the time of the Earth-Minbari War, he had been fluent in the Minbari language. (Movie: In the Beginning...)
He once had gill implants placed on his neck that allowed him to breath in other atmospheres. It was said that they were painful to use yet were effective with them meaning that he did not need a breather mask. (Episode: The Gathering)
Notes
- G'Kar was portrayed by actor Andreas Katsulas where he featured in the setting of Babylon 5 universe.
Appearances
- Babylon 5: "The Parliament of Dreams"
- Babylon 5: "The Legend of the Rangers"
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