Smits

General Smits was a protagonist who appeared on the Babylon 5 episode Point of No Return. He was portrayed by the late Lewis Arquette.
Shortly after Earth Alliance President Clark instituted martial law throughout the alliance, Smits contacted John Sheridan and Michael Garibaldi to remind them of the need to respect the chain of command. Smits then informed them that Clark's civilian political office had issued orders for Nightwatch to take over Babylon 5 security. Knowing that Clark's people were watching him as well, Smits included a hidden message to Sheridan reminding Sheridan that the chain of command meant military orders had to come from the President, through the Joint Chiefs, and then down the ranks.
This hidden message helped Sheridan realize there was a perfectly legal way to neutralize Nightwatch for the time being. Clark had not directly issued the orders himself, but his minions did directly to Nightwatch, bypassing the military chain of command entirely. Constructing a ruse with Zack Allen that a ship of Narns were coming in to replace the local Nightwatch forces, Nightwatch took the bait. The B5 command staff trapped Nightwatch in a secure docking bay and arrested the whole lot of them for mutiny. Meanwhile, the local Narn population was brought in to replace the Nightwatch security officers. 
Through his actions, Smits helped ensure that Nightwatch could not interfere in B5's declaration of independence against Clark.
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