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You mean the Night Watch ;) (Yes, I really, REALLY liked B5!)

Oops....

I'm currently re-watching B5; I'm early in season 2, so the Night Watch stuff will be coming right up, IIRC.

Nope. But “Diversity is strength” is a sort of Orwellian liberal mantra and those sort of things tend catch my attention, esp. when show up in my favorite show.

From what I remember of the overall meta-plot he didn't have a choice but to stress the diversity angle, given his circumstances. I'll be on the lookout for it as I watch the rest of the series.

Sorry, but in a situation like that you don't “Celebrate Diversity.” You emphasize your unity of purpose. Otherwise you get leaders running off in different directions on missions of self-aggrandizement (even more so than they normally do... think “de Gaulle” but even worse..).
Eisenhower didn't “celebrate the diversity” of Allied troops (Brits, Scots, Irish, Canadians, Indians, Aussies, New Zealanders, Gurkhas, Yanks, French, Africans, etc.) landing in Normandy. He emphasized their united purpose: “The Liberation of Europe has begun!”
That's called Leadership.
I know its silly to pay attention to such things, but, IMHO, the diversity line in B5 was just a pure liberal mind-*.
In any case, even with crap like that, B5 has not been equaled in story telling. The five year arc was WONDERFUL! One of these days I'm going get the entire boxed set.