It covers an attempt to assassinate the Narn ambassador G'Kar, and the station crew's hosting of a week-long festival of religious traditions of different races, organized by the Earth Alliance.
The Babylon 5 makeup team won an Emmy Award for the special alien prosthetic design for this episode.
A paranoid G'Kar first suspects his new diplomatic attache, Na'Toth, but learns too late that the true assassin is the courier himself, the Thenta Makur member Tu'Pari.
Na'Toth discovers the assassin and intervenes, beating G'Kar in order to appear allied with Tu'Pari, but in actuality, deactivating the torture-inducing binds.
G'Kar then easily captures Tu'Pari and then arranges for him to remain unconscious until his commission's deadline has passed, and depositing a large sum of money in his account to make it look like he was bribed into violating his commitment.
Jeffrey Sinclair meets an old flame, Catherine Sakai, and rekindles their on-off romantic relationship, before hosting a celebration of Earth religion in which he introduces the major station personnel to a line of people, all of different faiths (starting with an atheist)—the line extends some distance all the way to the final credits.
Following the departure from the series of Mary Woronov – the actress who had played G'Kar's previous aide, Ko'Dath – Susan Kellermann had been cast as Na'Toth.
[7] The final scene where Sinclair introduces a long line of Earth people, followers of different religions, was filmed with 160 extras on October 16, 1993.
We had some people from PTEN and a film crew for a behind-the-scenes piece on hand, and they all commented on how only this show would do this shot ... and how significant it is.
[1] Makeup for the series was provided by Optic Nerve Studios, a company founded by John Vulich and Everett Burrell, in a garage in Granada Hills, California, in 1989.
[8] Vulich and Burrell got together a team and set about re-making some of the alien characters, beginning with Kosh, G'Kar, Londo and Delenn.
We all truly loved the opportunity we were given to do a great science fiction show and paid homage to Star Trek, UFO and Space 1999.
[10] The makeup team's schedule included custom make-ups for each episode, and producing face casts of actors for prosthetics which needed to be on camera in three days.
[9]Burrell recalls finding out about their Emmy Award win: We were non-union and Star Trek had won seven years in a row.
So I, John Vulich, Mary Kay Morse, Ron Pipes and Greg Funk were all nominated and went to the big show.
[14] The song which G'Kar sings in his quarters, while preparing his meal before the assassin Tu'Pari arrives, was specifically written by Franke for this episode.
[16]Kaiser writes that the final scene where Commander Sinclair introduces the alien ambassadors to hundreds of representatives of different Earth religions, is another demonstration of this transcendence and mystery, labelling it as "one of the most memorable of the series.
"[16] Elias Rosner, writing in Multiversity Comics, singles out Julie Caitlin Brown's performance as Na'Toth.
He writes, "From the second she's on screen, is a breath of fresh air and Julie Caitlin Brown absolutely nails it ...