“If we focus solely on survival, if we shut down everything else to achieve that one goal—then they win. Because our bodies may survive, but what’s in them—we won’t be ourselves, any more. We’ll be who they turned us into. Who we let them turn us into. They will have killed us as a people, as a culture, just as surely as if they’d blown the whole planet to pieces. And we’ll have helped them do it.”

I'm not sure I agree with this idea, but it's making me think why or why not, and what I do think about survival and cultural survival, and hey! that's good! cause good writing does that. And this is good.

I really like G'Kar's reaction (Centaurian debauchery, indeed!) and the rotation in his point of view. Perhaps the beginning of the beginning of his eventual epiphany?