Neroon
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| Neroon | |
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| Affiliated with | Minbari Federation, Warrior Caste |
| Race | Minbari |
| Home planet | Minbar |
| First appearance | Legacies |
| Last appearance | Moments of Transition |
| Portrayed by | John Vickery |
In the television science fiction series Babylon 5, Neroon was a Minbari, a member of the Warrior Caste from the Star Riders clan. He is a recurring guest character throughout the series.
During the Earth-Minbari War, Neroon fought against the humans and eventually became Alyt (second in command)of a Minbari warship under the command of Shai Alyt Bramner, a Minbari of mixed-caste parentage who was so incensed by what he perceived as the humans' unprovoked murder of the leader of the Grey Council, Dukhat, that he defied tradition and took up his father's caste, the Warrior caste. Neroon came to idolise Dukhat but gained a distinct hatred and distrust of both humans and the Religious caste. After Bramner's death, Neroon accompanied his body on a tour of Minbari-occupied space and was ready to start the war again when it suddenly went missing.
After the transformation of Delenn in 2260, he replaced her on the Grey Council, creating for the first time an imbalance of power between the castes.
He was not impressed by the revelation of the Grey Council's secret and was angry at the years their leaders had been concealing the truth about the end of the war from the Minbari people. He blamed, or appeared to blame, the religious caste for this at that time, referring somewhat later to "the usual fanaticism we've come to expect from the religious caste". It took Delenn's honesty and willingness for self-sacrifice for the good of their people, and the revelation of the corruption rampant amongst his own caste's leadership, to make him change his mind.
Neroon died in 2261 after saving Delenn from being consumed by the Starfire Wheel at the end of the Minbari Civil War. In his last moments of life, he converted to the Religious Caste.
Neroon was a complex character, a person of principle and courage who was deeply affected by his war service, a person of deep loyalties who was nonetheless eventually capable of seeing beyond these. Who came to realise that the greatest courage is to admit when one is wrong, and to do whatever is necessary to make up for it, no matter the personal cost.
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